The Echelon Conspiracy: Brooklyn Childhood

Official Site: echelonconspiracy.com
Director(s): Greg Marcks
Writer(s): Kevin Elders, and Michael Nitsberg
Producer(s): Alexander Leyviman , Steve Richards, and Roee Sharon
Starring: Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Sergey Gubanov, Martin Sheen, and Tamara Feldman(IMDb). Rated PG-13, 106 minutes.

As Max Peterson ( Shane West) checks in to the hotel, the attendant hands him a box. He thought it was peculiar, but he accepted the box anyway. While standing in his hotel room he opened the box, and he found a mobile device that resembled a cell phone. However this cell phone did not ring. It sent him text messages from an unknown source. These messages helped Max earn a lot of easy money in the hotel casino; the sort of money that attracted the attention of hotel security, and the FBI; but Max, the FBI, and hotel security were in for a surprise, when they began investigating the source of the text messages.

This film was not very exciting, but it was interesting, and the pace of the film kept me engaged, but while I was watching this movie, I could not understand the engaging factor because I was longing for action. While the film did have action, the action scenes were not mind blowing, but they were crafted well enough to be considered mildly exciting. The ending of the film had a satisfactory measure of suspense, and it was rational but anticlimactic. This film was Ok. I'll score it a 72. Stay tuned, movieporium.blogspot.com.

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Kaptur: Very Poignant

The International: Credit and Mayhem

Official Site: www.everybodypays.com
Director(s): Tom Tykwer
Writer(s): Eric Singer
Producer(s): Lloyd Phillips, Lloyd Phillips, and Richard Suckle

Starring: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen, Felix Solis, and
Jack McGee (IMDb). Rated-R. 118 minutes.

Louis Salinger (Owen)has been investigating the lending practices of the International Bank of Business and Credit; he realized, anyone who has been on the brink of exposing the bank's illegal activities has died. And his current efforts involving possible revelations from a high ranking executive from the bank has resulted in two deaths, the executive himself and Louis's partner. Affected by indignation, Louis is more determined than ever to expose the bank.

I was excited about seeing this film, but admittedly, I was on the precipice of boredom as I waited for a defining and poignant scene to indicate the alluring controversial aspects of banking in general. Thankfully that scene occurred during the meeting between Louis( Owen), Eleanor ( Watts), and Umberto Calvini. Although that scene was significant, however, the focus of the plot was to expose the bank's activities through Louis and Eleanor's adamant investigations of the murders connected to the bank.

Although there is some action in this film, it is not an action movie, but it certainly is a good investigative thriller with the Guggenheim scene being the most exciting part. The ending was logical but anticlimactic while being satisfactory. According to metacritic.com, the film received generally mixed reviews, and rottentomatoes.com granted the film 70 fresh tomatoes to 64 rotten ones. Good stuff, I' ll score it a 76. Stay tuned, movieporium.blogspot.com.

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Banking CEOs Feel The Heat

Friday The 13th: Whitney

Official Site: www.fridaythe13thmovie.com
Director(s): Marcus Nispel
Writer(s): Damian Shannon, and Mark Swift
Producer(s): Michael Bay, Andrew Form,

Starring: Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Amanda Righetti, Aaron Yoo,Derek Mears, Jonathan Sadowski, Julianna Guill, Ben Feldman, Arlen Escarpeta, Ryan Hansen,Willa Ford, Nick Mennell, America Olivo, and, Kyle Davis(IMDb). Rated-R. 97 minutes.

A group of young adults have disappeared in the woods where a supposed disfigured maniacal killer by the name Jason duels. Six weeks later another group of young adults visit those woods, along with a stranger named Clay Miller who is searching for his sister Whitney who was a member of the previous group that has been declared missing. Clay's search leads him to an abandoned camp called Crystal Lake where him and his new friend Jenna notice a morbid and tall figure carrying a beheaded body. In fear of being massacred, Clay and Jenna run out of the camp to avoid being killed. 

By the time they reached the rest of the group to warn them about what they saw, Jason was already on the prowl.There was an effective use of color in the scenes featuring Camp Crystal Lake. The brown and greenish layer in those scenes was incredibly useful in depicting howJason lived a filthy and marginal domestic life. Apparently, Jason does not practice hygiene, and nor does he clean his house. The use of the aforementioned colors in the production of those scenes was efficacious in arousing the audience in feeling uncomfortable about how dirty the house was.

The the dialogue in the script was average. Witty jokes entertained the mind on a mundane level while the casting was platitudinous in its typical grouping of an Asian, and African American while the remainder of the group was Caucasian. As usual the Asian and the African American are coupled in some capacity, either romantic or platonic, platonic in this case. This film was well produced, but more suspense would have benefited the film. I'll score it a 73.

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Interview:Damian Shannon/Mark Swift