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<title><![CDATA[Nikita - Nr. 9 TV Movie Action Collection]]></title>
<link>http://isinesunshine.wordpress.com/?p=746</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>isinesunshine</dc:creator>
<guid>http://isinesunshine.de.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/nikita-nr-9-tv-movie-action-collection/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nikita ist in mehreren vielen Versionen erhältlich; als Steelbook, als normale DVD im Amaray-Case u]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Nikita</strong> ist in mehreren vielen Versionen erhältlich; als Steelbook, als normale DVD im Amaray-Case und als Digipack aus der <a href="http://isinesunshine.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/tv-movie-action-collection/" target="_blank">TV Movie Action Collection</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Front<br />
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Back<br />
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>schrittweise aufgeklappt<br />
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</strong><img class="aligncenter" src="http://blufiles.storage.live.com/y1prmVc9jc-NPYUXbjpZnqlNoWOos2YdtUPNA5P6w096z-b10uiOhtYnq_w_qiVRWRo" alt="" width="600" height="203" /><strong>Fazit:</strong><br />
Wer beabsichtigt, sich die TV Movie Action Collection ins Regal zu stellen, der sollte auf jeden Fall zu sieder Version greifen. Liebhaber von Metall, sprich Steelbooks, sind mit der entsprechenden anderen Hülle besser bedient. Auch Fans des Films sollten zu dieser metallenen Version greifen, da es sich um eine Doppel-DVD voll mit Extras handelt, die in keiner der anderen Versionen zu finden ist. Wer einfach nur den Film schauen möchte, dem sollte das Amaray-Case genügen.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Paris Ghetto Film Fest ]]></title>
<link>http://se7enthirty.com/?p=2915</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rocky</dc:creator>
<guid>http://se7enthirty.com/2008/10/08/paris-ghetto-film-fest/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  

 Each year, French film director Luc Besson organizes an open air film festival in several Paris]]></description>
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 Each year, French film director Luc Besson organizes an open air film festival in several Parisian suburbs, places which are generally considered no-go areas, where cars are set on fire and ambulances get attacked... Last year Luc Besson convinced directors at the Cannes Festival to send him a copy of their brand new movies to screen them in the suburbs. Tarantino, Brad Pitt and others agreed. The people from the suburbs were incredibly happy to have those movies screened for free on the same day as the premiere in Cannes.<br />
Journalists covering this festival were not allowed to collect pictures of burning cars, but had to ask people about the newest cinema releases... the event was a surprisingly strong political stament comming from a commercial movie producer as well as a huge success with over 60.000 spectators. </p>
<p>This year, the festival is held again in a slightly modified version and it's supposed to be even bigger...VC2 producer Philip Mayrhoffer will talk to Luc Besson and spectators to cover the event. </p></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Carga Explosiva]]></title>
<link>http://serakipresta.wordpress.com/?p=622</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lucas</dc:creator>
<guid>http://serakipresta.de.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/carga-explosiva/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Transporter - 2002
Direção: Corey Yuen
Roteiro: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Elenco: Jason St]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4315633/The_Transporter%5B2002%5DDvDrip%5BEng%5D-NikonXp" target="_blank"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-623 alignleft" title="carga" src="http://serakipresta.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/carga.jpg?w=68" alt="" width="80" height="114" /></a><strong><a href="http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4315633/The_Transporter%5B2002%5DDvDrip%5BEng%5D-NikonXp" target="_blank">The Transporter</a> - 2002</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Direção: </strong><strong>Corey Yuen</strong><strong></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Roteiro: </strong><strong>Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen</strong><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Elenco: </strong><strong>Jason Statham, Qi Shu, Matt Schulze, François Berléand, Ric Young</strong></p>
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<p>Depois de aparecer (muito bem por sinal) em Jogos, Trapaças e dois canos fumegantes e em Snatch, Jason Statham teve pela primeira vez a chance de demonstrar suas habilidades em artes marciais em <em>"Carga Explosiva"</em> e a partir dai virou uma das novas estrelas de filmes de ação.</p>
<p>Obviamente assistir a um filme desses é se desligar completamente da existência de roteiros e outras qualidades tecnicas e prestar a atenção nas cenas de briga, nas perseguições de carro e nas explosões. As cenas de briga são por sinal o ponto forte do filme, muito bem coreografadas por Corey Yuen, que trabalhou em muitos filmes com Jet Li. As cenas de ação em geral são um tanto quanto exageradas, com saltos de fazer inveja ao Diego Hipolito e explosões simplesmente porque um carro bateu no outro. Uma sequência bem interessante é quando Frank Martin (Jason Statham) está em um deposito lutando contra 500 mil rivais, os socos e pontapés são bem interessantes, mas o banho de gasolina é ridículo.</p>
<p>Frank Martin é um ex-soldado americano que mora na França fazendo um serviço especial de entregas. Ele transporta qualquer tipo de carga para bandidos e mafiosos com muita eficiência, tendo sempre três regras como base de seu trabalho: sem nomes, não abrir o pacote e não mudar os termos do contrato. Seguindo sempre essas regras Frank leva a sua vida entre os transportes e sua bela casa de frente ao mar. A única preocupação é Tarconi (François Berléand), um policial local que suspeita das atividades de Frank.</p>
<p>Quando esta fazendo um transporte de um pacote, o pneu de sua BMW fura, forçando Frank a parar para trocá-lo. Ao abrir o porta-malas, ele percebe que o pacote está se mexendo e saca de cara que tem uma pessoa ali, quebrando uma de suas regras, Frank abre o pacote e descobre que a pessoa é uma mulher, Lai (Qi Shu). Frank faz a entrega para Wall Street (Matt Schulze) e quando faz uma paradinha para um lanchinho seu carro explode. Puto com seus contratantes, ele volta a casa aonde fez a entrega e senta a porrada em todos os seguranças e rouba um Mercedes que estava na garagem, mas no meio do caminho descobre que Lai estava se escondendo dentro do carro.</p>
<p>Frank a leva para sua casa e no dia seguinte recebe a visita dos homens de Wall Street que detonam a casa do cara, com direito explosões e tudo mais. Fugindo pelo mar, Frank e Lai escapam ilesos. Depois de uma visitinha a delegacia para prestar alguns esclarecimentos, Lai convence Frank a ajudá-la, já que quem a raptou está envolvido com o transporte ilegal de imigrantes. Pensando com a cabeça de baixo, Frank entra na jogada e só se dá mal, primeiro porque o pai de Lai é o chefe do bando e segundo porque acaba de ser preso pela polícia.</p>
<p>Com a ajuda de Tarconi, Frank foge da delegacia e sai a caça dos sequestradores e é ai que vem as cenas mais bacanas do filme, as boas cenas de porrada e as perseguições de carro, caminhão e até de avião. Presta.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Le mariage du siècle : Luc Besson et Christophe Lambert accouchent de Blue]]></title>
<link>http://lerenedoja.wordpress.com/?p=32</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lerenedoja</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lerenedoja.de.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/le-mariage-du-siecle-luc-besson-et-christophe-lambert-accouchent-de-blue/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Quand un publicitaire passé au Sarkozysme rencontre un producteur réalisateur de films américains]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quand un publicitaire passé au Sarkozysme rencontre un producteur réalisateur de films américains en français, ça donne un beau mariage, celui du cinéma (entertainment) et de la publicité (advertising) : l'advertainement (SIC, CQFD). Imaginez un peu : tous les films seraient comme James Bond ou Sex in the City mais en pire, que des marques glissées dans tous les plans, et même pas de façon subliminale puisque là on ne se cache plus, on communique sur ce mariage de la carpe et du lapin. Imaginez encore mieux : un film dans lequel un acteur allumant une cigarette Marlboro, commande à un barman un Jack Daniels et faisant claquer sa Rolex sur le comptoir, il attend sa conquête d'un soir juchée sur des talons Jimmy Choo et moulée dans sa robe Chloé pour aller dîner chez Costes au volant de son coupé BMW... Quel cauchemard non ? Et non, c'est ça la société du spectacle et c'est beaucoup d'argent donc on est prié de continuer à aller au cinéma et à acheter / louer / télécharger légalement les DVD ou les Blueray.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[crítica implacável para busca implacável]]></title>
<link>http://ouiouioui.wordpress.com/?p=1528</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bia  villarinho</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ouiouioui.de.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/critica-implacavel-para-busca-implacavel/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[O trailler&#8230;

A crítica&#8230;
Thriller francês impessoal copia fórmula norte-americana
Liam]]></description>
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<p>A crítica...</p>
<p><span style="font-size:large;"><strong>Thriller francês impessoal copia fórmula norte-americana</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Liam Neeson é um agente secreto aposentado na produção de Luc Besson</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrad/fq0310200816.htm" target="_blank"><strong>CÁSSIO STARLING CARLOS</strong></a><br />
<span> CRÍTICO DA <strong>FOLHA</strong> </span></p>
<p>"Não pisem no meu  rabo que eu não  mordo." Com este  lema, Brian Mills, um agente  secreto aposentado, segue sua  vida pós-aposentadoria. Até  que uns malvados raptam sua  filha e... o resto todos sabem.<br />
A máquina de fazer filmes  sempre esteve associada a  Hollywood, com seus métodos  impessoais de gestão e eficácia  como qualquer outro negócio.<br />
Então, por que não copiar tudo  isso quando se pretende realizar um produto de puro entretenimento? É o raciocínio que  alimenta "Busca Implacável".<br />
Com a impessoalidade do  thriller à moda americana, o filme é uma produção francesa  que emula os códigos da matriz  sem esquecer de incluir a truculência como força-motriz.<br />
Por trás da idéia só podia estar Luc Besson, que produz e assina o roteiro. Desde "O Quinto Elemento" (97) havia ficado óbvia a inspiração de Besson na fórmula hollywoodiana do espetáculo, o que o levou a abandonar em definitivo as tentativas de soar original que marcavam seus primeiros filmes.<br />
"Busca Implacável" busca um  lugar ao sol no mercado global.<br />
O mimetismo se estende ao  elenco, encabeçado por Liam  Neeson. O ator passou, de modo  arriscado, a se atrelar a papéis  que exigem mais esforço físico  do que atuação. Em torno dele,  os mais reconhecíveis vêm de  seriados de TV.<br />
Para tocar o longa, Besson  convocou Pierre Morel, técnico  experiente como diretor de fotografia e câmera, capaz de decidir rápido e com eficiência como filmar correrias, explosões e  perseguições de carros pelas  ruas parisienses.<br />
O jogo de gato e rato entre o  protagonista e os raptores de  sua filha busca atualização em  temas como a máfia do Leste  Europeu e a paranóia xenófoba  dos americanos. De um lado,  Neeson exercita sua musculatura para eliminar tudo que se  interponha entre seus ideais e a  segurança da filha. De outro,  uma legião de estrangeiros  constituem o pacote de vilões.<br />
A aparição diluída de atores  cujas faces são mais reconhecíveis pelos espectadores de TV  leva a supor que "Busca..." seja  uma exploração do filão "24  Horas", com um pai na pele de  super-herói infalível e uma família ameaçada, projeções simbólicas de um país tomado pelo  medo depois de 2001.<br />
Mas até Jack Bauer projeta  nuances e significados menos  óbvios, como a sucessão de inimigos internos e traições que  mantêm a série de TV. "Busca...", ao contrário, elege os  americanos como heróis impolutos e a despachar todo o resto  do mundo para o inferno.</p>
<hr size="1" noshade="noshade" /><span> <strong>BUSCA IMPLACÁVEL</strong><br />
<strong>Produção:</strong> França, 2008<br />
<strong>Direção:</strong> Pierre Morel<br />
<strong>Com:</strong> Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace<br />
<strong>Onde:</strong> estréia hoje nos cines Eldorado,  Jardim Sul e circuito<br />
<strong>Classificação indicativa:</strong> não recomendado para menores de 16 anos<br />
<strong>Avaliação:</strong> ruim</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[A Love to Bleed]]></title>
<link>http://karode.wordpress.com/?p=231</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>karode</dc:creator>
<guid>http://karode.de.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/a-love-to-bleed/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I love Friday night and I love movies! So we regularly go to the movies on Friday nights and tonight]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;">I love Friday night and I love movies! So we regularly go to the movies on Friday nights and tonight was one of these Friday nights: we went to see <strong><em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0936501/">Taken</a></em></strong>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;">It is not a Great Movie with a capital G and a Capital M but it was exactly what I needed: action, violence and the good guys win but best of all it is a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000108/"><strong>Luc Besson’s</strong> </a>film and I LOVE his work, from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090095/"><strong><em>Subway</em></strong> </a>to <strong><em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095250/">The Big Blue</a></em></strong> and <strong><em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/">The 5<sup>th</sup> Element</a></em></strong> without forgetting <strong><em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473753/">Angel A</a></em></strong> , <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271027/"><strong><em>Kiss of the Dragon</em></strong> </a>and even <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414852/"><strong><em>Banlieue 13</em></strong> </a>(a glorified Parkour video clip really) or <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338095/"><strong><em>Haute tension</em></strong> </a>(a very cleverly crafted Horror film) I could name many more but you may as well click here and check his work if you wanted to... </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;">I love Besson’s sense of pace and the music he often chooses to use in his films and above all I love the actors he chooses to direct for his films. Christophe Lambert was fantastic in <strong><em>Subway</em></strong> and like any 15 years old at the time I had a big crush on him but then I saw <strong><em>The Big Blue, Nikkita, Leon</em></strong> all with Jean Reno and they work so well together. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;">So tonight I was slightly disappointed not to see Jean Reno as one of the French characters in the film… I also felt let down by something else tonight… a I sat in the cinema waiting for the main feature, enduring the dreadful adverts I was looking forwards to see the trailer for <strong><em>Quantum of Solace</em></strong> but it never came!! How could they?? We are the 2<sup>nd</sup> of October and I have been waiting for this film for a while now… since I saw a trailer for the first time and I can’t believe we still have to wait 29 days… this month is going to be so long until the 31<sup>st</sup>! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Verdana;">In the meantime to keep me busy I have a few reports to write (check), a School Podcast to produce (check), an episode of Sending A Wave podcast to record (check) and a 5 days trip to Paris with 30 kids (check)… I can’t wait to be able to sit down in a cinema to relax and watch Daniel Craig being Bond again… I guess I will have to make do with this below until then… </span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Uprowadzona]]></title>
<link>http://brzozaw.wordpress.com/?p=155</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>brzozaw</dc:creator>
<guid>http://brzozaw.de.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/uprowadzona/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Filmy akcji mają to do siebie, że ciężko je ocenić. Problem powstaje w momencie, gdy stwierdzam]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.worstpreviews.com/images/posters/taken/taken1_large.jpg"><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.worstpreviews.com/images/posters/taken/taken1_large.jpg" alt="" width="143" height="190" /></a><strong>F</strong>ilmy akcji mają to do siebie, że ciężko je ocenić. Problem powstaje w momencie, gdy stwierdzamy, że akcja była świetna, a fabuła słaba, bądź realistyczność niestała na zbyt wysokim poziomie. Takie odczucia miotają mną po obejrzeniu „Taken”.</p>
<p><strong>O</strong>braz zaczyna się dosyć standardowo. W role głównego bohatera wcielił się Liam Neeson(m.in. Lista Schindlera, Batman: Początek, czy Gangi Nowego Jorku). Graną przez niego postać poznajemy podczas przyjęcia urodzinowego jego córki. Od razu w oczy rzuca się to, że ojciec nie spędzał z nią w przeszłości zbyt dużo czasu. Bryan wręcza jej maszynę do karaoke, bowiem chce ona zostać piosenkarką w przyszłości. Dziewczyna jest zadowolona z prezentu, lecz gdy zauważa, że dostała konia od bogatego ojczyma – szybko ucieka od taty i cieszy się z podarunku. Ojciec jest emerytowanym szpiegiem i dorabia sobie ochraniając gwiazdy popu. 17 – letnia córka otrzymuje od koleżanki propozycję lotu do Francji...</p>
<p><strong>F</strong>ilm od początku pokazuje, że będzie dobrą rozrywką dla kinomanów. Mamy wartką akcję i nie ma czasu na nudy. Może niektóre sytuacje da się przewidzieć, ale generalnie dobrze się bawimy. Liam Neeson gra przekonująco i nie można mu niczego zarzucić. Resztę aktorów ciężko zmieścić w jakiejkolwiek ocenie, ponieważ film koncentruje się tylko na córce i ojcu.<br />
Muzyki nie uświadczymy dużo, a jeśli już występuje to jest dostosowana do sytuacji.<br />
Obraz zawiera dobry klimat. Ciekawie ogląda się film na temat czegoś co często się zdarza.<br />
Tak naprawdę wszystko jest na poziomie, ale dzieło Pierre Morel’a zawiera jedną poważną kichę.<br />
Sceny walk są totalnie nierealistyczne. Leciwy, stary Bryan kładzie większą ilość osób niż wybuch bomby atomowej. Wygląda to nienaturalnie i co do tego nie ma wątpliwości. Nie raz, nie dwa zdarzyło nam(bo oglądałem z Rivem) się wybuchnąć potężnym śmiechem. Chyba tego nie oczekuje się od filmu akcji z elementami thrillera. Jestem w stanie zrozumieć, że Bryan to były szpieg, ale tak to nawet Heihachi w Tekkenie nie potrafił napierdzielać za mojej kadencji. Scenariusz napisał Luc Besson i wyszło mu to dobrze, więc mały plus. Historia opowiadana jest jednak nie zawsze tak, jakbyśmy chcieli. Można odnieść wrażenie, że wszystko bohaterowi wychodzi zbyt łatwo. Na pewno nie bez znaczenia jest czas trwania obrazu. Podejrzewam, że gdyby byłby 15-25min. dłuższy – można byłoby ciekawiej przedstawić sceny z życia bohaterów.</p>
<p><strong>C</strong>o czeka na odbiorców? Na pewno kino z dużą dozą emocji, dobry Neeson i zgrabnie opowiedziana historia. Po seansie możemy jednak zadać sobie pytanie: czemu autorzy filmu nie wyciągnęli z niego więcej? Czemu Bryan jest takim koksem? I w końcu najważniejsze:<br />
Czemu film dostanie 7, choć miał predyspozycję nawet na 8,5?</p>
<h2><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Ocena 7/10 !</span></strong></h2>
<p><em>Ps. Dodałem z boku skalę ocen, bo niektórzy mieli problem...</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Mark your calendars for From Paris With Love]]></title>
<link>http://themovieplanet.wordpress.com/?p=681</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mr Hollywood</dc:creator>
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Director Pierre Morel (Taken) has recently started shooting From Paris With Love, a thriller starr]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Director Pierre Morel (<em>Taken</em>) has recently started shooting <em>From Paris With Love</em>, a thriller starring John Travolta (<em>Hairspray</em>) and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (<em>The Children Of Huang Shi</em>). Written by producer Luc Besson (<em>Taken</em>) and Adi Hasak (<em>Shadow Conspiracy</em>), the story follows a young US Embassy employee who teams up with an American secret agent on a dangerous mission.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Pierre Morel's first film <em>District B13</em> (original title <em>Banlieue 13</em>) was all badass action and no plot, but <em>Taken</em>, which you should really check out, turned out to be one of the year's best surprises, so if he continues in that vein, I'm quite looking forward to <em>From Paris With Love</em>, which should premiere in France by the end of 2009.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18432362.html" target="_blank">Source</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cinema | Busca Implacável (Taken – França – 2008)]]></title>
<link>http://filmescasalsemfilhos.wordpress.com/?p=127</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Edson Scorcelli |www.casalsemfilhos.com|</dc:creator>
<guid>http://filmescasalsemfilhos.de.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/cinema-busca-implacavel-taken-%e2%80%93-franca-%e2%80%93-2008/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Com : LIAM NEESON, MAGGIE GRACE, LELAND ORSER
Direção : Pierre Morel
 
Falta ainda algum tempo par]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://filmescasalsemfilhos.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/taken-poster-big2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-128" title="taken-poster-big2" src="http://filmescasalsemfilhos.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/taken-poster-big2.jpg?w=202" alt="" width="202" height="300" /></a><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-US">Com : LIAM NEESON, MAGGIE GRACE, LELAND ORSER</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-US">Direção : Pierre Morel</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Falta ainda algum tempo para o fim do ano, mas pode-se dizer agora que não haverá filme de ação como este até o ano que vem. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-US">A surpresa é que não se trata de uma produção americana (especialista no gênero), mas sim francesa. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-US">Um ex-agente do governo, Bryan Mills (Neeson), desistiu de trabalhar para o governo para estar ao lado de sua filha Kim, que mora com sua ex-mulher, Lenore, e seu novo marido, nos EUA. Os temores de Bryan com a segurança da filha são enormes e se confirmam quando Kim e a amiga desaparecem em Paris. Para resgatá-la, ele terá de usar todos os conhecimentos adquiridos em sua carreira de agente e lidar com os piores pesadelos que um pai pode enfrentar.</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-US">Pierre Morel, fotógrafo de filmes de ação como Carga explosiva (2002) e Cão de Briga (2005), se aventura como diretor pela segunda vez (a primeira foi em 2004 com Banlieue 13, outra produção francesa). Com roteiro esperto do consagrado roteirista e diretor Luc Besson (de Joana D’Arc), o filme é uma aula de como fazer um filme de ação.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-US">Mesclando com sabedoria a violência com a psicologia dos personagens, o filme ganha um vigor raramente visto nas produções do gênero, graças a um conjunto harmônico entre roteiro, direção, fotografia, trilha sonora e mais a atuação espetacular de Liam Neeson que, já na faixa dos 50, mostra que está em plena forma e também a diferença que um ator do primeiro time pode fazer no resultado de uma obra cinematográfica. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-US">O filme aproveita para denunciar um problema que aflige todos os países ricos da Europa: a presença cada vez de imigrantes, que trazem o aumento da pobreza e violência. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-US">Os Casais sem Filhos vão sair do cinema sensibilizados com as aflições por que passam os casais com filhos. Filme altamente recomendado. Não perca.</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Tema stöld]]></title>
<link>http://118mariatorget.wordpress.com/?p=471</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>118mariatorget</dc:creator>
<guid>http://118mariatorget.de.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/tema-stold/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Igår kväll spontantittade jag på Nikita, fastän det egentligen bara var meningen att jag skulle ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:left;"><img class="alignleft" src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjU5NjMxNDM1Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwODAwNzk5._V1._SX281_SY399_.jpg" alt="" width="179" height="255" />Igår kväll spontantittade jag på Nikita, fastän det egentligen bara var meningen att jag skulle få en sneakpreview. Nyfiken i en strut kunde inte låta bli att titta klart dock.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Den var riktigt bra! Anledningen till att jag ville se den var för att jag upptäckte att det var samma regissör som gjort Léon (vilket fortfarande kanske får stå som min favoritfilm), Luc Besson.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Jag ska inte avslöja något men jag tänker definitivt se den igen.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Busca implacável]]></title>
<link>http://superoito.wordpress.com/?p=1457</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tiago Superoito</dc:creator>
<guid>http://superoito.de.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/busca-implacavel/</guid>
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Taken, 2008. De Pierre Morel. Com Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace e Leland Orser. 93min. *
Busca implacá]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><font color="#7e2217">Taken, 2008. De Pierre Morel. Com Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace e Leland Orser. 93min. *</font></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Busca implacável</em> é como um episódio rejeitado de <em>24 horas</em> produzido por Luc Besson. Liam Neeson interpreta um experiente agente secreto que - nas palavras dele! - destruiria até a Torre Eiffel para salvar a filha adolescente das garras de traficantes albaneses.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">A guria, talvez não por coincidência, se chama Kim.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">É o tipo de filme a que assisto por obrigação e que recebe comentários maldosos até das assessoras de imprensa da Fox. "Achei o Jack Bauer um pouquinho caído", comentaram ao fim da sessão.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Mas vamos supor que Besson tenha produzido (e co-escrito) uma espécie de paródia à européia da série de tevê. Nem assim ficará mais fácil digerir esse thriller de segunda mão que, nos melhores momentos, parece ter algo a dizer sobre a vida de celebridades da música pop. "Depois que acaba o glamour, é só aeroporto e quarto de hotel", confessa a cantora superfamosa protegida por Neeson. Depois disso, ela é abduzida da trama.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Na longa seqüência de tortura (à Jack Bauer, claro), comecei a desconfiar das intenções do filme. Mas aí inventam de encenar o clímax num iate com decoração à Mil e uma noites com um sultão safado à espera de virgens norte-americanas vestidas de branco e... tá, não é engraçada, mas saquei a piada.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cinema Review: Taken]]></title>
<link>http://cinemascream.wordpress.com/?p=416</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cinemascream</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cinemascream.de.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/cinema-review-taken/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you let my daughter go now, that&#8217;ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I wil]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" style="border:5px solid black;margin:10px;" src="http://images.play.com/covers/5430024m.jpg" alt="" width="117" height="178" />"<em>If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.</em>"</p>
<p>...so says a father (Liam Neeson) to an anonymous kidnapper on the other end of a mobile phone and so, with simplistic logic, you know exactly where this film is going.</p>
<p><em>Taken</em> is a violent rescue mission that sees Neeson play an ex-government operative who cuts, punches and shoots his way through a Parisian underground populated entirely by nefarious foreigners.  The action is brutal and the politics suspect but the single-mindedness of the central character has enough momentum to paper over any such cracks.</p>
<p>Typically for an actioner written and produced by the comic book leaning Luc Besson and directed by Pierre Morel (<em>District 13</em>), <em>Taken</em> is short, sharp and to the point which sometimes is all that is required to make a successful movie - even if, when looking back, it becomes more and more of a guilty pleasure.</p>
<p><a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nyBQVpODvDw&#38;feature=related" target="_blank">Trailer</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0936501/" target="_blank">Cast &#38; Crew Info</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[24 things you learned while watching ‘hitman’]]></title>
<link>http://mfacts.wordpress.com/?p=108</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mFacts - useless movie facts</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mfacts.de.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/24-things-you-learned-while-watching-%e2%80%98hitman%e2%80%99/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Name: Hitman (2007)

Imdb page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465494/
Rotten Tomatoes page: http://ww]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Name:</strong> Hitman (2007)</p>
<p><img src="http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2161/inbrugespostermedjp4.jpg" alt="http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2161/inbrugespostermedjp4.jpg" /></p>
<p><strong>Imdb page:</strong> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465494/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465494/</a><br />
<strong>Rotten Tomatoes page:</strong> <a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hitman/">http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hitman/</a><br />
<strong>Trailer:</strong> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh2fYGssoFI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh2fYGssoFI</a></p>
<p><strong>mFacts:</strong></p>
<p>01. Rigging your door to blow up your room while you're inside of it should somebody try to break in is a great idea that works out perfectly.<br />
02. Wearing tons of body armor doesn't actually protect you from bullets at all.<br />
03. In Russia officers walk around outside a crime scene carrying AK-47s to let the public know they're safe.<br />
04. Multiple assassins who have been sent to kill you will for some reason also pull guns on each other before you convince them to fight with small katanas you were also carrying.<br />
05. When you're shot in the forehead the brain/skull/teeth whatever that explode out the back of your head is known as "Arterial Spray" and can be used to determine if a man is actually a double.<br />
06. Having a barcode tattooed on the bald skulls of all the members of your hitman organization WON'T attract police attention.<br />
07. Assassins love magazine ads.<br />
08. NEVER give 47 any empty gun whatsoever, he may have ammo for it.<br />
09. Wearing a suit doesn't restrict your movement. In fact, you seem to shoot better.<br />
10. No Shoes means service when 47 comes to buy a suit!<br />
11. Hiding your guns in an ice station at a hotel is a smart idea and nobody going to get ice is going to discover it.<br />
12. Threatening your computer is a good way of getting it to respond.<br />
13. Standing in an open emergency exit to a SWAT-filled elevator is a good idea and they won't turn around and discover you unless you start shooting at them.<br />
14. You won't die if you jump from the 6th story of a hotel into a lake.<br />
15. "You'll lose your life" is a much more effective way of telling someone they'll die than "I'll kill you".<br />
16. Despite there being no prior evidence of their existance or practical reason for them being there, two machete's will appear on an agents back whenever they are needed.<br />
17. When you've been a sexslave and you've been abused for quite some time, the first thing you want to do when you're in a room with a cranky bald assasin is to have sex with him.<br />
18. When a gorgeous Russian prostitute wearing nothing but a thong gets out of bed and stands on an outdoor balcony of a hotel room in the Middle East, it's *not* polite to stare.<br />
19. The goggles on Russian special forces gas masks glow red.<br />
20. After a sniper hit you should blow up the case with your rifle in immediately so that the security forces know exactly where you are.<br />
21. As soon as the assassin jumps out of the hotel there is no need to lock down the immediate area and continue the search, just admit defeat and give up.<br />
22. For some reason, one particular secret assassin is incredibly better trained and more competant than all of the others.<br />
23. Conspicuous, bald assassins never need to wear wigs or hats to disguise themselves.<br />
24. Russian prostitutes do not mind if you knock them out while they try to put the moves on you.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Fifth Element (Remastered) [Blu-ray]]]></title>
<link>http://marketoutthere.wordpress.com/B000QTD368</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>whatskool</dc:creator>
<guid>http://whatskool.de.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/the-fifth-element-remastered-blu-ray/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
Sony Pictures The Fifth Element (Blu-ray)New York cab driverKorben Dallas didn&#8217;t mean to be a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#38;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FFifth-Element-Remastered-Blu-ray%2Fdp%2FB000QTD368&#38;tag=sepp-20&#38;linkCode=ur2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=9325"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517PoG17%2BuL._SL200_.jpg" border="0" align="right" /></a><br><br>Sony Pictures The Fifth Element (Blu-ray)<br />New York cab driverKorben Dallas didn't mean to be a hero. But he just picked up the kind of fare that only comes along every five thousand years a perfect beauty, a perfect being, a perfect weapon. Now, together, theymust save the world. Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, and Gary Oldman star in acclaimed director Luc Besson's outrageous sci-fi adventure, an extravagantly styled tale of good against evil set in an unbelievable twenty-third century world. <br>  <br> Ancient curses, all-powerful monsters, shape-changing assassins, scantily-clad stewardesses, laser battles, huge explosions, a perfect woman, a malcontent hero--what more can you ask of a big-budget science fiction movie? Luc Besson's high-octane film incorporates presidents, rock stars, and cab drivers into its peculiar plot, traversing worlds and encountering some pretty wild aliens. Bruce Willis stars as a down-and-out cabbie who must win the love of Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) to save Earth from destruction by Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman) and a dark, unearthly force that makes Darth Vader look like an Ewok. <i>--Geoff Riley</i>  Ancient curses, all-powerful monsters, shape-changing assassins, scantily-clad stewardesses, laser battles, huge explosions, a perfect woman, a malcontent hero--what more can you ask of a big-budget science fiction movie? Luc Besson's high-octane film incorporates presidents, rock stars, and cab drivers into its peculiar plot, traversing worlds and encountering some pretty wild aliens. Bruce Willis stars as a down-and-out cabbie who must win the love of Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) to save Earth from destruction by Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman) and a dark, unearthly force that makes Darth Vader look like an Ewok. <i>--Geoff Riley</i></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Conheça o DJ Agoria, atração do Skol Beats]]></title>
<link>http://aeiouu.wordpress.com/?p=481</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aeiouu</dc:creator>
<guid>http://aeiouu.de.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/conheca-o-dj-agoria-atracao-do-skol-beats/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Skol Beats: Só vai ter gente legal! Uhuul!
O DJ francês Agoria, cujo verdadeiro nome é Sebastien ]]></description>
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<p>O DJ francês Agoria, cujo verdadeiro nome é Sebastien Devaud, vem ao Skol Beats. Ele começou a tocar em 1993, quando passou a ouvir techno. Quem já ouviu o som dele, sabe como o cara consegue misturar sua música eletrônica, que é bem atual, com vários outros tipos de som, como o jazz. Saca só o <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPtYxOFc7KY">vídeo</a> de <em>Spinachgirl</em> no final do post.</p>
<p>Bem famoso na cena underground francesa, Agoria acumulou no currículo trilhas de alguns filmes – acabou de terminar a de <em>Go Faster</em>, produzido por Luc Besson, por exemplo. O DJ já lançou dois álbuns, <em>Blossom</em>, de 2003, e <em>The Green Armchair</em>, de 2006. Confira o MySpace dele <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thegreenarmchair">aqui</a>.</p>
<p>O cara foi escolhido pela organização e pelo público para participar da nona edição do Skol Beats, um dos maiores eventos de música eletrônica do país. Agoria vai estar na Tenda Skol Beats a partir das 22h, no dia 27 de setembro, no Sambódromo do Anhembi em São Paulo.</p>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Nick Plowman</dc:creator>
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<p>“Taken” is the kind of film where what you see is what you get, and you get what you pay for. Simple, but mostly effective, this traditional action-thriller directed by “The Transporter” cinematographer Pierre Morel is as engrossing as they come. This is mostly because of the considerable talent brought to the table by the cast and the throwback vibe it gives off with its lack of special effects or traces of technological enhancement. It offers absolutely nothing revolutionary, but the briskly paced revengeful confrontations and wanton violence is succinct and brutal, which, if I am not mistaken, is the sole reason to see an CGI-less action film in this day and age.<br />
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Liam Neeson takes his first major action role and runs with it. Playing a former CIA spy Bryan, who gave up it all up to be closer to his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) when his marriage to Lenore (Famke Janssen) disintegrated, his paternal focus makes for a relatively engaging, credible vigilante. His restrained personality takes the back seat when Kim heads off to Paris for the first time and is abducted a group of Albanian sex traffickers who prey on naïve, unsuspecting female tourists. The action transfers to a typically breathtaking Parisian setting as Bryan uses his dusty connections and tools of the trade to find his daughter and get her home safely within a 96 hour period before it is too late.</p>
<p>Screenwriter Luc Besson does a good job of penning films that have an inherent level of realism despite the fact that they are mostly mundane works that function to the point where they are watchable, but nothing more. Thematically similar to his finest film to date “Léon,” he takes a rather flat, by-the-book approach here. A common trap that befalls films of this genre is that it very often seems as though the human focus is crafted in such a way that it compliments the high-octane action instead of the other way around.</p>
<p>Besson attempts to steer away from that here, although he fails. Tacky dialogue, two-dimensional characters, unoriginal and uninteresting villains are just a few examples of this. Not to mention that the compelling nature of the sex-slave underworld is almost unexplored and is instead looked at from a bleak, blink and you’ll miss it but still infuriating vantage point. Perhaps expecting an eye-opening look into such a world is asking a bit much because the finer details are not the focal point here.</p>
<p>Neeson gives a controlled transition from a respectable, restrained leading man to a bona-fide action star along the lines of Mel Gibson in “Ransom.” Despite his age, he handles the action sequences with surprising athleticism and is not above displaying the injuries that come with a man past his prime taking part in bare-fisted combat. What is more, the screenplay actually embraces that too. His presence is more effective than his performance, as he is not required to give much in the way of range but he does a commendable job of conveying a less than obvious sense of vulnerability behind his badass exterior nonetheless.</p>
<p>With Neeson’s Bryan being the only truly fleshed out character, everyone else are undeveloped set pieces that fill the screen with varying degrees of credibility. Grace and Janssen, who looks exactly the same here as she did in “The Wackness” although she gets to show off a little more emotion here, get limited screen time but offer depictions I would like to call nuanced, but that would be over exaggerating. Grace, for the most part, is at once annoyingly childish but her initial buoyancy is why we latch onto the prospect of her father finding her almost as much as he does, which is the driving force of the entire film.</p>
<p>Fans of the action-thriller genre sit up and take note, “Taken” is just about the most consistently entertaining example of a middle of the road action flick produced in quite some time. Morel makes the most of a solid storyline with an actual beating heart hidden deep underneath the highly polished layers of well-choreographed fight sequences and neatly dodged questions of moral repercussion. In short, “Taken” does what it is meant to do; keep you on the edge of your seat and more or less entertained from start to finish.</p>
<h3>Fatac Rating: ***</h3>
<p><strong>Taken</strong>. Directed by Pierre Morel. Written by Luc Bessopn and Robert Mark Kamen. Cinematography by Michel Abramowitz. Editing by Frederic Thoraval. Music by Nathaniel Mechaly. Starring: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Xander Berkeley, Katie Cassidy and Holly Valance. Running Time: 93 minutes. Age Restriction: 16 SLV. Year: 2008, USA 2009. Rating: 3 out of 5 stars. [<strong>C</strong>]</p>
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<dc:creator>Your Moral Leader</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Taken, Búsqueda Implacable ó Bourne meets 24]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gvn2fly</dc:creator>
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Tal vez el título de este post no hable muy bien de la que acabo de ver, pero no se dejen engañar]]></description>
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<p>Tal vez el título de este post no hable muy bien de la que acabo de ver, pero no se dejen engañar por que está muy muy entretenida y palomera, es de esas películas de intriga/acción que cumplen su objetivo por que te mantienen inmerso en la historia y además deseando que al bueno le salgan las cosas por que la neta... está cabrón!</p>
<p>Esta es la historia de un agente retirado de la CIA, quien hace lo posible por matenerse cerca de su hija por que... sí exacto el wey es divorciado por que su mujer no pudo con la vida que llevaba ya que nunca estaba en casa y esas ondas. Total que la chavita esta (es decir, su hija) lo convence de que la deje viajar con una amiga suya por Europa inventándole la historia de que quiere pasar el verano visitando museos, ahá si claaaro, para que llegando a Paris la secuestren por las pendejadas de su amiga, una chava reventada idiota que todavía cree en Santa Claus. Todo esto suena a lo mismo de siempre pero debemos tomar en cuenta que en el guión participó Luc Besson creador ni más ni menos que de El quinto elemento, La Femme Nikita, Taxi, The Transporter, The Kiss of the Dragon etc, etc.</p>
<p>Se avienta historias de acción y aventura bien chingonas pues y en esta se rifó como es su costumbre (bueno no siempre, algunas de sus películas no están taaaan buenas pero a mi parecer tiene grandes aciertos y soy su fan, je) Lo que sucede acá es que Liam Neeson, que es nuestro héroe, se da tinta de que secuestraron a su hija y se lanza de volada a Paris para rescatarla, me gustó mucho cómo se va desarrollando la película por que van presentándonos a los personajes para que los vayamos identificando y nos involucremos con ellos, de manera que cuando las cosas malas pasan uno comienza a preocuparse y acaba viviendo la película y sufirendo con las situaciones cada vez más difíciles a las que este wey se tiene que enfrentar, eso sí con unos huevotototes y una decisión inquebrantable que aunada a un entrenamiento marca C.I.A pues la neta le dan todas las herramientas necesarias para salir adelante y cumplir lo que promete, darle cuello a todos los secuestradores. Tiene un par de momentos que nos hicieron reir, como el del tubo vengador ó la escena en que un líder de los "malos" le dice por radio a sus guardaespaldas "Tenemos un intruso, mátenlo" y chispita dice "... mátenlo, o denle un arma, lo que suceda primero!" JAJAJA!</p>
<p>Imagino que al escribir un guión de estos llegas al punto en el que tienes que enfrentar al héroe a una situación de esas sin salida y te metes en el graaaan problema de sacarlo de ahí haciendo uso de tu imaginación nomás que no se te ocurre nada más que un gran milagro para salvarlo, lo que explica al tubo vengador, pero no importa por que a pesar de eso la película se salva y nos deja con un sabor de "A huevo! ganamooooos!"</p>
<p>Cuando salimos, nos veníamos riendo de nuestras bromas y ya sin mofarnos de la película llegamos a la conclusión de que Taken es justo lo que hubiera sucedido si a Jack Bauer lo entrenaran re chido pa los madrazos onda Jason Bourne (la neta no es bueno para eso, aceptémoslo) y entonces le secuestraran a Kim en París y el wey tuviera 96 horas para salvarla.</p>
<p>Seguro se llamaría "96, Paris will Bourne", pero está bien chingona, véanla.</p>
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<link>http://lukeisback.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/angel-a-2005-from-director-luc-besson/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Your Moral Leader</dc:creator>
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<dc:creator>Your Moral Leader</dc:creator>
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