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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
" Jack Ryan : Shadow Recruit " 4 Thumbs Up for Action Lovers of Espionage
" A little slow setting up the story line, but moves quickly with great action and an espionage mystery for those that like to figure out the puzzle ". Russell & Cissy, the Peoples Movie Critics
To his friends and loved ones, young Jack Ryan (Chris Pine) appears to be an ordinary executive; however, he has secretly worked for the CIA for years. Ryan was originally brought in to crunch global data, but when he uncovers a carefully planned scheme to crash the U.S. economy and spark global chaos, he becomes the only man with the skills to stop it. Now a full operative, Ryan finds himself caught between his tight-lipped handler, his clueless fiancée and a brilliant Russian leader.
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R & C Warnings : Violence, Sequences of violence and intense action, Language (Only 3), Sexual Content Minor .
Rating: PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned Studio: Paramount Pictures, Release Date: January 17, 2014
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Grudge Match (2013)
" Grudge Martch " 4 THUMBS UP - These Two are always Great Entertainment
" Stallone and De Niro boxers from 30 years ago hate each other, and never had their 2 out of 3 grudge match. Kevin Hart and Alan Arkin provide the comedy relief. Something also happens in the ring that has never happened before in any fight. ". Russell & Cissy, the Peoples Movie Critics
Stallone's old girl friend that dumped him for De Niro shows up, and Di Nero's son that he never knew he had returns home.
Evander Holyfield, and Mike Tyson do a funny cameo with Kevin Hart in the final credits.
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R & C Warnings - sports action violence, sexual content and language (84).
Audience Emotional Responses ( Based on a near to full house ) Laughs / Chuckles 86, Ooooos 4, Awe moments 3, Sad Moments, Tears 2.
Audience Applause at the end of the picture.
PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned Warner Bros. Pictures - Release Date: December 25, 2013
A Madea Christmas (2013)
" A Madea Christmas " - 4 Thumbs Up for Christmas Laughs
" The hilarity of Larry The Cable Guy, and Tyler Perry keep this Christmas picture moving with over 115 laughs. ". Russell & Cissy
Madea (Tyler Perry) accompanies her niece, Eileen (Anna Maria Horsford), to the small town of Buck Tussel, Alabama to pay a surprise visit to Eileen's daughter, Lacey (Tika Sumpter), who has refused to come home for Christmas. The real reason Lacey is avoiding her judgmental mother is that she has secretly married Connor (Chad Michael Murray), a white classmate from college. When Eileen and Madea arrive at Lacey's farm, she tells them that Connor is an employee, but her lie soon spins out of control.
R & C Warnings: sexual references, crude humor and language (3).
Audience Emotional Responses ( Based on a near to full house ) Laughs 116, Ooooos 2, Awe moments 1.
Rating: PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned
Lions Gate Films - 1:52 - Release Date: December 13, 2013
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
" The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty " - 4 Thumbs Up with Diamonds
" Excellent entertainment and cinematography in Iceland about a ho-hum office dreamer, Ben Stiller, whose day dreams turn into reality when he is confronted to turn into an adventurer to find a missing negative left in his care for the last cover photo of the print edition of LIFE Magazine ". Russell & Cissy, the Peoples Movie Critics
Ben Stiller directs and stars in THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, a story of a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker Kristen Wiig are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.
R & C Warnings: some crude comments, action, violence, and light language (Only 2)
Audience Emotional Responses ( Based on a near to full house ) Laughs 82, Ooooos 4, Awe moments 2. Audience Applause at the end.
Rating: PG: Parental Guidance Suggested
Studio: 20th Century Fox - 1:48 - Release Date: December 25, 2013
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Homefront (2013)
" HOMEFRONT" - 4 THUMBS UP with Diamonds for Action Movies Buffs
" John Statham ( from THE TRANSPORTER movies ) kicks butt and takes names in HOMEFRONT as a retired DEA agent in rural Louisiana when his 10 year old daughter is kidnapped by the local drug Lord. " Can you smell the wood burning " ? Great action " Russell & Cissy
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R & C Warnings - strong violence, pervasive language( 170 ), drug content and brief physical naughtiness (1)
Rated R RESTRICTED Not recommended for children under 18
Open Road - 1:35 - Release Date: November 27, 2013
Frozen (2013)
" Frozen " 4 Thumbs Up with Diamonds
" Amazing 3-D animation adventure and comedy entertainment with the funniest snowman character whose dream is to live in summer, and excellent music solo's including " First Time in Forever ", and " Let It Go " ". Russell & Cissy
Disney Productions first treats you with an old Disney cartoon that goes from black and white then the screen breaks and the characters pop out in 3-D color.
Then FROZEN starts, a 3-D animated comedy adventure and laughs for kids and adults. Olaf the funniest snowman ever, meets Anna and joins forces with extreme mountain man and his crazy reindeer sidekick to find her sister Elsa, the Snow Queen, when she puts an icy spell on their kingdom that becomes trapped in perpetual winter land.
With harsh conditions and magic at every turn they bravely push onward in a race to save their kingdom from destruction.
Anna is struck by her sister and can later be only saved by an act of true love from the most unusual place.
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R & C LIGHT Warnings - some action and mild rude humor
PG: Parental Guidance Suggested
Walt Disney - 1:30 - Release Date: November 27, 2013.
Lone Survivor (2013)
" LONE SURVIVOR " Beyond 4 THUMBS UP with DIAMONDS for every Brave Soldier that chooses to PROTECT OUR FREEDOM
" A true story of four Navy SEALS sent on an ill fated mission in 2005 to capture or kill a notorious Taliban leader. Viewer discretion is advised as you will face life and death on the battlefield that our soldiers accept every day. The first 10 minutes shows actual Navy Seal training going beyond the limits of any human endurance that prepares each soldier to accept pain and continue under any circumstance never accepting defeat. The last 10 minutes is and honorary tribute with pictures of the actual people involved in Operation Red Wings. Marcus Luttrell was the only member of his team to survive.
Everyone should see this picture once to understand the realities of war and to honor our brave service men and women that put their life on the line and protect our freedom in this country every day ". Russell & Cissy
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch and Ben Foster.
R & C Warnings - strong bloody war violence and pervasive language(139) mostly the 'fancy' word..
Rated R RESTRICTED Not recommended for children under 18 Universal Studios - Release Date: January 10, 2014
Last Vegas (2013)
" LAST VEGAS " 4 THUMBS UP WITH DIAMONDS To The Funniest Picture Ever With Over 200 Laughs
" Five Academy Award®-winners Douglas, De Niro, Freeman, Kline, and Steenburgen all come together for the first time in funniest picture ever as four best buddies in their 60's get back together to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas for their last remaining single pal. I have never seen Cissy laugh so much. ". Russell & Cissy
Russell & Cissy's Entertainment Values With Spoilers Release Date: Friday, November 1, 2013 / CBS Films
PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned: Not for the kids,but over the top for the adults Run-time 1:40
R & C Advisory - Adult Language(38), Adult Situations, 209 laughs :>)
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Michael Douglas invites his three childhood friends to Las Vegas to relive their glory days as he plans his wedding with his 30 something fiancée.
Kline tired of the old folks atmosphere in Florida, Freeman tired of being told what to do by his well meaning son, and Di Nero staying in his robe all the time mourning his wife's passing, decide to join each other in Vegas for a weekend fun.
This is the funniest picture ever and audience laughs add to the entertainment.
Escape Plan (2013)
" ESCAPE PLAN " 3 THUMBS UP Entertaining
" For the first time together Stallone and Schwarzenegger are drugged and taken to a high tech facility called The Tomb. Where is it ? The most unlikely place you would ever think ". Russell & Cissy
R:Restricted: Run-time 1:55
R & C Warnings - violence and language throughout.
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Russell & Cissy's Entertainment Values With Spoilers Release Date: Friday, October 18, 2013 / Summit Entertainment
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One of the world's foremost authorities on structural security agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called "The Tomb."
Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Stallone must recruit fellow inmate Schwarzenegger to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
Romeo & Juliet (2013)
" Romeo and Juliet " 4 Thumbs For This Extraordinary Recreation On Film
Extraordinary recreation of William Shakespeare's ageless tale in accurate time period settings, language, and costuming. For those that enjoy the story, the film will be excellent entertainment ". Russell and Cissy
PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned: Run-time 1:50
R & C Warnings - some violence and thematic elements.
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Release Date: Friday, October 11, 2013 / Relativity Media
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Paul Giamatti does an excellent job as Friar Lawerence, and should be nominated as best supporting actor. I best remember Paul as Rudy in ' The Negotiator ' and as Santa Clause in ' Nick Clause '.
With an all-star cast including Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth, Paul Giamatti and Stellan Skarsgard, it affords those unfamiliar with the tale the change to put faces to the two names they've undoubtedly heard innumerable times: Romeo and Juliet.
Captain Phillips (2013)
" CAPTAIN PHILLIPS " 4 Thumbs Up
" Tom Hanks gives an Academy Award winning performance of Captain Phillips in the true story of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. cargo ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates ". Russell & Cissy
PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned: Run-time 2:03
R & C Warnings - sustained intense sequences of menace, some violence with bloody images, little language (5).
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Russell & Cissy's Entertainment Values With Spoilers Release Date: Friday, October 11, 2013 / Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Tom Hanks (two time Academy Award®-winner) plays Captain Richard Phillips, dealing with the Somali pirate captain, Muse (Barkhad Abdi), who takes him hostage.
Phillips and Muse are set on an unstoppable collision course when Muse and his crew target Phillips' unarmed ship; in the ensuing standoff, 145 miles off the Somali coast, both men will find themselves at the mercy of forces beyond their control.
Tom Hanks puts the icing on another Academy Award® Winning performance in the last 10 minutes of the movie. I could hear several audience members weeping near me. Cissy and I were misty eyed, and no doubt Tom Hanks will be nominated in February 2014 for an Academy Award for this performance.
I had the pleasure to work with Tom Hanks briefly in " From The Earth To The Moon " at Universal Studios Florida in 1998. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1455770/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Gravity (2013)
" Gravity " - 4 THUMBS UP WITH DIAMONDS - ' On The Edge Of Your Seat Entertaining "
" A quest in outer space that turns life threatening and goes from hopeful to despair to hopelessness. OUR PREDICTION FOR 2014 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST ACTRESS, SANDRA BULLOCK. " Russell & Cissy
Russell & Cissy's Entertainment Values With Spoilers R & C Warnings - intense perilous sequences, some disturbing images and brief strong language (11).
PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned : Run-time 1:35
Release Date: Friday, October 4, 2013 / Warner Brothers
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Sandra Bullock is a medical engineer on her first shuttle mission. Her commander is veteran astronaut George Clooney is on his last flight before retirement.
Then, on a routine space walk, disaster strikes and the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Bullock and Clooney stranded in deep space with no link to Earth and no hope of rescue.
As their fear turns to panic, they realize that the only way home may be to venture further into space.
Baggage Claim (2013)
" BAGGAGE CLAIM " 4 Thumbs up for Funny and Entertaining
" Funny and entertaining. A flight attendant looks for Mr. Right using customers from previous flight rewards miles. With the help of her baggage check in, ticket check in, and the hilarious security check in airline friends to advise her the locations of the next prospect. " Russell & Cissy
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Release Date: Friday, September 27, 2013 / Fox Searchlight
R & C Warnings - sexual content and little language(8).
PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned Run-time 1:35 Russell & Cissy, the Two Movie Critics rate movies based on Entertainment Value only. Follow and LIKE us on facebook at TwoMovieCritics
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As her younger sister's wedding draws near, an unmarried flight attendant (Paula Patton) embarks on a cross-country search to find a husband of her own.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
" CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 " - 4 THUMBS UP Better Than Meatballs 1
" Cute and entertaining for the kids, and adults" Russell & Cissy
Russell & Cissy's Entertainment Values With Spoilers Release Date: Friday, September 27, 2013 / Sony Pictures Entertainment
R & C Warnings - mild rude humor.
PG: Parental Guidance Suggested - Run-time 1:35
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*************************************** His genius finally recognized by his idol Chester V, inventor Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) gets to join Chester's company, where he can work full-time on technologies to help mankind.
However, Flint soon discovers that his most-famous machine, which turns water into food, is still operating but now is creating food-animal hybrids. With the fate of humanity in Flint's hands, he and his friends set out to save the world from tacodiles, shrimpanzees and other deliciously dangerous creatures.
Enough Said (2013)
" ENOUGH SAID " One Thumb Up - A Do-Dah Script
" Two great talents put in a Ho-Hum script. Save your money and catch it on Netflix ". Russell & Cissy
Russell & Cissy's Entertainment Values With Spoilers Release Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 / Fox Searchlight
R & C Warnings - crude and sexual content, comic violence, language and partial nudity.
PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned Run-time 1:32 Russell & Cissy, the Two Movie Critics rate movies based on Entertainment Value only. Follow and LIKE us at facebook at TwoMovieCritics
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A divorced and single parent, Eva (Julia Louis Dreyfus) spends her days enjoying work as a masseuse but dreading her daughter's impending departure for college.
She meets Albert (James Gandolfini)—a sweet, funny and like-minded man also facing an empty nest. As their romance struggles to blossom, Eva befriends Marianne (Catherine Keener), her new massage client. Marianne is a beautiful poet who seems "almost perfect" except for one prominent quality: she rags on her ex-husband way too much.
Rush (2013)
" Rush " 4 Thumbs Up with Diamonds - A True Ron Howard Film
" Excellent entertainment of two of the best Formula 1 race drivers, and a true Ron Howard Film " Russell & Cissy
Russell & Cissy's Entertainment Values With Spoilers Release Date: Friday, September 27, 2013 / Universal Pictures
R & C Warnings - sexual content, nudity, language (43), gestures (3) and some disturbing hospital images.
Rating: R: Restricted: Run-time 1:55
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Ron Howard's excellent eye for getting all the right shots brings the true life story of two great 1970's Formula 1 competitors English playboy James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Austrian perfectionist Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) to life on the big screen.
The theater speakers are tested to the max as the two drivers share an intense rivalry on the Formula 1 racetrack where inches can mean seconds, and you expect a certain odds of dying while trying to make a name for yourself.
Hunt and Lauda push themselves to the breaking point competing to become the World Champion Formula Driver of the year.
Their personal lives are quite different off of the track, that create stress in their marriages where the wife's can only sit and watch.
This is excellent entertainment, and would be enjoyed best on the big screen in theaters.
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wizard Of Oz 3-D IMAX 2013 - 4 Thumbs Up with Diamonds
Everyone knows the story. Our thoughts on 3-D IMAX.
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A remake and remaster of the great classic movie in 3-D IMAX with stunning detail.
It was an amazing transformation as Cissy and I were taken back in time before we both were born, August 15th, 1939 when The Wizard Of Oz opened at the Grauman's Chinese Theater.
Immediately when the movie started and the title began in eye-popping 3-D fonts with the great sound track, Cissy and I got misty eyed. Now we were seeing this movie as it was meant to be seen and that we had only seen on T.V. sets all of our lives. Seeing it on the large IMAX screen, and in 3-D was an overwhelming experience.
You see and hear things you missed all those years on TV. The detail of Glinda's ( The Good Witch's ) costume and many other costumes was amazing. The rust marks on the Tin Man's ( Jack Haley's ) body was very detailed, and later very shinny after their visit to Oz.
We also heard several adults explaining to their children some of the story line before the movie started. A new generation was being introduced to the Wizard Of Oz just as if they were at the opening in 1939.
I suggest all lovers of The Wizard Of Oz relive this classic again with their children, and grandchildren the way it was meant to be seen on the big screen.
The Family (2013)
" The Family " 4 Thumbs Up For The Mob Genre'
" Funny and bad at the same time with one powerhouse ending "
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Release Date: Friday, September 13, 2013 / Relativity Media
R & C Warnings - violence, language (59, mostly the "Fancy" word), Gestures (1) and brief sexuality.
Rating: R: Restricted: Run-time 1:52
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Robert Deniro and Tommy Lee Jones take all the laughs in this mobster spoof.
After ratting out his Mafia cohorts, Robert De Niro and his family enter the Witness Protection Program and relocate to Normandy.
Despite their handler', Tommy Lee Jones' best efforts to keep them in line, De Niro his wife,Michelle Pfeiffer, and children Dianna Agron, John D'Leo can't help but resort to doing things the "family" way.
However, their dependence on such old habits places everyone in danger from vengeful mobsters, and leads to one of the ' On the edge of your seat, power packed endings '
Getaway (2013)
" GETAWAY " 4 Thumbs Up With Diamonds on the Edge Of Your Seat Action !!
" Super action heart pounding ' don't have time to bite your fingernail ' action " Russell & Cissy
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Release Date: Friday, August 30, 2013 / Warner Brothers
R & C Warnings - intense action, violence and mayhem throughout, some rude gestures (1#), and language. (21#).
Rating: PG-13: Parental Guidance Suggested - Run-time 1:27
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This is like Steve McQueen's car chase in ' Bullitt ' on steroids for 80 minutes.
For those that love intense action, over half of the movie is 70 miles per hour and 7,000 + RPM's with breaks to avoid ' Shelby jet lag. '.
Former race car driver Ethan Hawke drives a specialty retrofitted Shelby Cobra Mustang pitted against the clock desperately trying to save the life of his kidnapped wife by a mysterious villain.
The movie starts throwing Eathan right into the soup when he arrives home to overturned furniture ..... then a phone call.
Ethan meets up with the Sheiby's unwitting owner Selena Gomez, a tech genius that pulls together with him to help bring down the villain and save his wife.
The clues are in the tasks Ethan is required to perform. Anytime I ask Cissy, ' Bad people; what is it always about ' ? She nails it with ' It's about the money '. But more than the money in this case, and you will never guess what else it is about.
Just as muscle t-shirts sales skyrocketed after Marlon Brando's " Stella " !!, I foresee the Shelby Cobra Mustang doing the same :>)
About the Shelby :
"The Shelby Super Snake is an American super car," says director-producer Courtney Solomon of the high performance muscle car that corners the action in Warner Bros. Pictures' new thriller GETAWAY. A supercharged version of the Ford Mustang originally modified by Carroll Shelby for Goodyear Tires in 1965, the Super Snake combines singular power, handling and style to make it one of the fastest and sexiest rides on the road.
The customized Shelby used in the film is a modern version of the original late '60s model, but because a limited number of Super Snakes are made each year, and the film called for a four-wheeled weapon of mass destruction, a number of modified replicas were built specifically to meet the production's array of demanding action sequences. "You can't go trashing real Shelbies every day of the week," notes Solomon, who shot all of the GETAWAY action sequences with real cars – not with visual effects. Ultimately, 13 different versions of the Shelby Super Snake were utilized and thrashed in addition to over 130 BMW's, Mercedes and Astras creating Getaway's own car junkyard. Approximately 28 cameras were mounted on the "hero" car driven by Ethan Hawke's character to create a 360 degree view of the action taking place inside and outside the vehicle.
RED 2 (2013)
" Red 2 " 4 Thumbs Up
" Red 2 " 4 THUMBS UP
" A Good Espionage Story with many twist and turns and several surprises that will keep you on your thinking toes. " Russell & Cissy
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Action Espionage - Release Date: July 19, 2013 / Summit Entertainment
R & C Warnings Minimal - Light Adult Language (1 1/2 # ), Violence, Adult Situations.
Rating: PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned - Runtime 1:47 Russell & Cissy, the Two Movie Critics rate movies based on ENTERTAINMENT VALUE only. Follow and LIKE us at facebook.com/TwoMovieCritics
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Retired CIA agent Bruce Willis, begins by attending his best friend and his old partner's funeral, John Malkovich, Bruce is then framed for having knowledge of a powerful Cold War weapon known as Nightshade. A government group allowed to torture anyone sets out to find Willis. Then his other old friends are hired to kill him; Byling Hun Lee, and ' pistol packing mama ' Hellen Miren.
With assassins hot on his trail, Bruce sets out to find the one scientist Anthony Hopkins who can unravel the mystery of Nightshade and help them save themselves -- and the world.
Anthony Hopkins is his excellent self in his role, along with a few surprises.
2 Guns (2013)
" 2 Guns " 3 Thumbs Up
" A slow moving action thriller that does not pick up speed until Act III ". Russell & Cissy
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Action - Release Date: August 2, 2013 / Universal Studios
R & C Warnings violence throughout, language (61#), gross moments (3#) and brief nudity.
Rating: R: Restricted - Runtime 1:43
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Act 1 and 2 slow moving plot with DEA agent Denzel Washington and U.S. Navy intelligence officer Mark Wahlberg have been working under cover as members of a narcotics syndicate.
Neither man knows that the other is an undercover agent. When their attempt to infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel and recover millions goes haywire, the men are disavowed by their superiors, and pursued by Bill Paxton ( Twister fame ) CIA agent with a license to kill.
Washington and Wahlberg must go on the run lest they wind up in jail or in a grave.
Act 3 becomes more exciting with action into the finale as our duo does their best to escape their dilemma alive.
The Smurfs 2 (2013)
" Smurfs 2 " 4 Thumbs Up for the Smurf Nation
" A funny and very entertaining return for the sequel of The Smurfs, and a must see for Smurf followers " Russell & Cissy
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Release Date: July 31, 2013 / Sony Entertainment
R & C Warnings Minimal - Some rude humor and action.
Rating: PG-13: Parental Guidance Suggested - Runtime 1:37
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Hank Azaria does an excellent job as the evil wizard Gargamel is at it again along with two smurf like creatures called the Naughties go out to kidnap Smurfette to get the secret formula for the magical Smurf-essence.
Papa, Clumsy, Vanity, and Grouchy Smurf return to our world and team up with Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays and go to Paris to help rescue Smurfette.
Will Smurfette who has always felt different find a new connection with the Naughties and Gargamel, or will the Smurf convince her that their love for her is True Blue ?
Planes (2013)
" Planes " 4 Thumbs Up for Disney Animators
" An entertaining story about a little plane that wants to win the annual round the world race " Russell & Cissy
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Release Date: August 9, 2013 / Walt Disney
R & C Warnings Minimal - Some rude humor and mild action.
Rating: PG: Parental Guidance Suggested - Runtime 1:37
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An entertaining and cute story of Dusty the crop dusting plane that wants to win the great around the world race. He was not designed for speed, but with the help of Dottie the mechanic ( Teri Hatcher ) and Skipper the old war bird ( Stacy Keack ), he gets in shape for the qualifying trial, and a chance to be part of his dream.
We take our hats off to the research and hard work of the Disney animators who recreated aircraft, and military locations with great detail.
There is a love story, evil a foot, and other plots within the main story, that make this a real entertaining movie.
The Heat (2013)
" The Heat " - A 4 Thumbs Up, Totally Hilarious and a See Again
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Action, Comedy Release Date : June 28, 2013
RATING WARNING pervasive language, strong crude content (289#), hand gestures(3#), some violence, profuse bleeding scene (1#)
RATED R RESTRICTED Not recommended for children under 18
20th Century Fox / Running Time 2:00
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Russell & Cissy's Preference - We will return to see it again. Totally hilarious. Did you ever laugh so hard that tears came to your eyes ? :>)
Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is an arrogant, know it all, by-the-book, standard procedure, FBI agent that pursues a drug cartel leader to gain a promotion.
Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy) is one of Boston's "finest" with excellent street smarts, and a foul mouth that is on the outs with her family when she arrested her own brother.
Sarah and Shannon who have never had a partner or friend, are reluctantly thrown together to take down the cartel. The unlikely duo put up with each others intricacies as well as watching each others back to locate the elusive leader.
There is a misty eyed moment near the end that takes me back, and this is great entertainment :>)
The great news is this is already considered a blockbuster before it opens, and the powers that be are working on " The Heat 2 "
The Lone Ranger (2013)
" The Lone Ranger " 3 Thumbs Up for the Old west
" A great recreation on the 50's TV version of The Lone Ranger " Russell & Cissy
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Western Action - Release Date: July 3, 2013 / Walt Disney
R & C Warnings Minimal - sequences of intense action and violence, and some short gross suggestive material.
Rating: PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned - Runtime 2:15
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This is a 21st century recreation of the old legends that has a few slow parts and some great entertaining moments along with unusual western action.
Armie Hammer is portrayed as The Lone Ranger, however not the perfect on top of every heroic event that Clayton Moore portrayed in the 50's TV version.
Johnny Depp does an excellent job playing Tonto as he brings a constant dry humor to the entire plot that adds a tremendous amount of entertainment value.
Our two ' western heroes ' seek justice as they pursue the bad guys that left Arnie and his brother for dead, and eventually uncover a plot of deception and stealing of the major share of the new railroad.
As the bullets fly, our heroic duo comes crashing in on the bad guys, with an excellent symphonic version of the William Tell Overture.