Reviews by SJMJ91

This film was really emotional and was very touching with all the characters involved. I had never heard about Johnny Cashs life until I saw this film for the first time. It is obviously a really depressing and troubled life but he got there in the end which was great. Despite of how depressing the film is, it is also a very beautiful film too about love and friendship too.


Joaquin Phoenix gives an extremely powerful and passionate performance as legendary singer Johnny Cash. Joaquin makes Johnny Cash not only a real person but also an absolutely awesome film character. It is like Joaquin makes Johnny Cash his own character but not his own person because Cash was obviously a real person. i personally think that if there is ever an Elvis Presley film about his life, I think that Joaquin would have been the perfect choice because he has that cool style and deep singing style too. It was definitely Phoenixs most powerful performance. His performance in Gladiator is still damn good though. Reese Witherspoon delivers an absolutely awesome performance aswell as June Carter. I personally think that Reese looked a lot like the real June Carter. Reese naturally has blonde hair but she looks really great with brown hair. I think she dyed it brown instead of wearing a wig. This was the first film that I saw with Reese Witherspoon in it and it started off as probably her best film too.


The direction was good but not that good and I thought the breathtaking and heartbreaking script was really good too. This film had awesome sound, costumes and an excellent script too. As I said, it is Phoenixs most powerful performance and probably Witherspoons most powerful one too even though this film is the first I have watched from Reese Witherspoon in it. This film can help people with coping and recovering from drug addiction and also about coping with a childhood tragedy. This film was as good as I had hoped it would be.


The only thing that I thought delayed it for me was that I thought that some of the scenes were a bit long and went a bit boring and was like blah-blah-blah for like 10 minutes in some scenes. Despite that, it is one of the best films of 2005 and one of the greatest biography stories of all time too about one of the greatest singers/musicians of all time. I would have rated this 3.5 but because of the extremely powerful chemistry between John and June I have to rate it up higher. It is now 4 star.

Van Helsing is a very stupid and pointless mess that wasn't filmed correctly and did pretty much everything wrong. The action scenes were mildly enjoyable. I think the mian reason why I really hated this film was because I'm not a big fan of vampire films. This was a film that I knew that I wasn't going to like very much because it just seems a bit over the top in entertainment but very sloppy regarding acting, direction and script.


What were you thinking, Hugh Jackman? Jackman is a fantastic actor but it's like he lost his balls so to speak to want to be in a film like this. I don't think he chooses very hard at what films to be involved in. A worse actor should have played Van Helsing instead. In a way I'm not that surprised that Kate Beckinsale was in this film. I think her portrayal in Underworld led to Van Helsing. She was very crap as well but she was someone I could laugh at when watching it but watching Hugh Jackman as Van Helsing was horrible because I know he can do a lot better than that.


The directing was absolutely awful! It tries to entertain but doesn't succeed in a great way. It doesn't seem very realistic when it comes to creating an interesting story about vampires. That is why I don't really like vampire films: weak stories and unrealistic characters within them. The only one I sort of liked was Twilight.


Van Helsing is a really awful film that I really didn't like at all. There are very stupid performances from both Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale. Very silly, ridiculous and pointless film that I hated. I don't regret watching it though. I am glad I gave it a try at least.

I was unsure of what to expect with 12 Monkeys. It was average because I thought the acting was awesome but the story was an absolute mess. I mean, the story was really interesting at the beginning but as it went on it got itself totally lost. I didn't even know what was going on because it was so complex. It seemed a really threatening film at the start but in middle and end, it went dull and it disappointed me.


Bruce Willis' performance was amazing! Bruce Willis was the only thing that kept me going with this film. James Cole is an extremely messed up and confused man who doesn't exactly know where he is and what he is doing. Madeleine Stowe was awesome as Dr. Kathryn Railly. She was Cole's hostage, then his accomplise and then started have deep feelings for him. Brad Pitt was awesome in this film. Just like The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, I am not used to see Brad play different kinds of characters than he usually plays. He was pretty creepy in this film.


Terry Gilliam has always directed either stupidly hilarious or bizarre films which he does have a talent for. I think he sort of lost it with this one because 12 Monkeys is absolutely mad. It is well directed but I don't think he should have directed it.


Overall, 12 Monkeys is well acted and well made but plot is so confusing. I find 12 Monkeys to be Bruce Willis' most powerful performance but not my favourite. Brad Pitt was awesome but I've seen him in better films with better performances. I have seen far better films than 12 Monkeys and I have seen far worst films too.

True Romance is a film that is really cleverly adapted together and is a really cool film with such great characters. This is a cat-and-mouse sort of film and I love films like that a lot. The story is pretty simple and just takes us on a journey through lots of different events. This film is very violent and breathtaking which is what I really like in films. True Romance is a bit like a black comedy because that is what Tarantino's crime films are like. I loved this film a hell of a lot because it was really entertaining, it was cool, it had very interesting characters and there were a lot of absolutely amazing scenes. My favourite scene is with that drug dealer and with Alabama. That is intense, graphic and very effective as well. True Romance is a film that starts in a rather bizarre way but as it carries on it just gets better and better. It didn't disappoint me in any way whatsoever. I just loved this film so much and is almost on my favourite films list. It is rare when we see a film of entertainment that is well filmed, well thought of regarding story and how they were going to film it and mixed with quite a serious cast. Watching True Romance all the way through was like it was going to have a twist or a shocking event.


The cast of True Romance is absolutely incredible. I liked Christian Slater as Clarence Worley. Clarence is a man who just goes to the cinema to watch a Sonny Chiba triple feature. It is rather weird that Clarence meets and has a one-night-stand with Alabama who is a young woman who is payed on a job. She isn't a whore, she is a woman on a job in which you will have to listen to yourself. They end up getting married and they become a really cute couple and makes them perfect for each other but they did meet in an awkward situation where Alabama 'accidentally' knocked her popcorn bag all over Clarence's lap and that leads to things in a deeper and more personal level. I couldn't believe how stunning Patricia Arquette really was as Alabama Whitman. Watching Patricia was like watching Monica Bellucci in Shoot 'Em Up. I had always had suspicions that she was really up to something very impactful and possibly heartbreaking which you might have to see yourself. Dennis Hopper was good as Clifford Worley who is the father of Clarence Worley. Other top-notch cast members Gary Oldman, Val Kilmer, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken and Samuel L. Jackson deliver all good performances. True Romances has one of the best ensemble casts of all time in my opinion.


The brother of great director Ridley Scott, Tony Scott directs True Romance like it was a piece of work that is like a dream come true. Scott would've directed this film better than Quentin Tarantino despite the fact that he wrote the script for the film. The script was absolutely fantastic which is typical of Tarantino. I find that Tarantino just taught himself how to write scripts by watching lots of films and actually thinking of the scripts himself out of the top of his head. True Romance is one of Tarantino's best written work. I loved the script in Pulp Fiction which is the best script ever written. I love his Kill Bill script as well. I would call this a Quentin Tarantino film. No, he didn't direct it but he did one of the three main jobs of the film. Saying that is like saying that The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Tim Burton even though Tim didn't direct it himself.


To me, True Romance is a really amazing kick-ass action, crime, romantic thriller that deserves to be watched every now and again. I knew I was going to like True Romance but had no clue I was going to love it as much as I did. One of the best films of 1993 definitely and it is takes an almost complete spot on my favourite films of all time list.

Wow! What an extremely intense non-stop thrill ride this film really turned out to be. Before I saw True Lies I was definitely expecting from True Lies what I actually did about it after I saw it. What I really liked about this film was that the action was non-stop. It kept to grips with you all the way through. There isn't one single scene that doesn't bring you action, romance or tension between the characters. True Lies is without a doubt one of the ultimate Saturday night chill-out nights in front of the TV with a pizza. True Lies is a damn cool film that I personally think you will love for being what it is. There have been possiblities of a True Lies sequel without Cameron as director but possibly having Arnie, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bill Paxton and Elia Dushku in it too.


Arnold Schwarzenegger proves once again that he is one of the ultimate action heroes of all time. He always looks great in an action film whether its True Lies, Predator or The Terminator trilogy. Arnie portrays Harry with a strong taste and similarity with other action characters. Harry is a spy but to his wife Helen he is just a boring computer salesman. Harry always ends up doing the dirty work and going behind his wife's back. The way Harry treats Helen is a bit like how Indy treats Marion in both Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull. Where I think he's quite similar to Indy is because there are some action sequences where they look like Harrison Ford-Indy stunts. For example, when Harry was on the horse and when he was dangling from the plane. Arnie's most famous character is obviously The Terminator but his character in True Lies is another famous character for him. When you see Arnie in action in this film, you might feel that if Sylvester Stallone was a far better actor then Arnie would have been a good John Rambo because of his body build and his attitude with killing people an deven saving people too. I loved Jamie Lee Curtis in eternal hilarious comedy A Fish Called Wanda but after seeing True Lies I love her even more now. Helen is Harry's wife and mother of his daughter Dana. She is unaware that her husband is a spy and believes he is a computer salesman. I literally drooled over the scene where Helen was forced to strip and I am not joking. True Lies made Jamie even more famous than she was already. Both her and Arnie made a good couple and on-screen partnership. Without either one of those two actors the film would have been a disaster.


True Lies is a film from a director that you would expect too much from because of the success he has given to us in the past such as the two Terminator films, Aliens and The Abyss. James Cameron goes to modern day action in this action-packed, intense thrill ride. James Cameron is a director who always gives us films that are really different but are all good. After Cameron's work on The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and True Lies I think it was a risky move in him doing a film like Titanic but that ended up being his most famous achievement. I would love to see James Cameron do more films like this because he has shown out of all the films he has done in the past that he can create a successful entertaining action film.


True Lies is one of the best action films of all time and one of the best black comedies too. True Lies isn't James Cameron's best film and it isn't his worst neither. I prefered True Lies over The Abyss and The Terminator but not as much as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Titanic and Aliens. Arnie is still amazing as the Terminator. Jamie Lee Curtis is still brilliant and hot in A Fish Called Wanda which I won't forget of course. True Lies brings together another great year for cinema that was 1994. True Lies is definitely a masterpiece of action films.

To be perfectly honest, I was unsure of what this film was going to be like. That was because I read a few reviews saying it was very flawed with over the top acting but with top-notch production design. The story and cast (apart from Orlando Bloom) seemed interesting so I stuck it on TV. When I did finish this film, I thought this film was good but I thought it was quite flawed. It was flawed because it doesn't quite bring any realistic sides to the characters and some of the acting was a bit over the top and some were miscast for their roles. I mean, it was enjoyable but it was quite disappointing. I think the action scenes were awesome and were well filmed and that is about it. Also, it was a very predictable ending because almost everyone knows what happened to Achilles. Also, I didn't think have a clue who the heroes were and who the villains were because they both do it for almost the same purpose. This film had a good ensemble cast.


Brad Pitt didn't really impress me as Achilles because I could only see him as Brad Pitt not as Achilles. I don't really see Brad as an action hero. He had the body build for the character but not really the looks involving face, hair and voice. He was miscast as Achilles. Eric Bana was good as Hector with a side to him that is in my opinion rather mysterious. Eric Bana was better in this film than Brad Pitt was. I have never really liked Orlando Bloom at all because he really irritates me and doesn't make any of his characters believable. Troy is another film that features another bad performance from Orlando. I really liked Peter O'Toole as Priam who is the ruler of Troy because he is old and seem like an old man with a lot of power.


The director did a good job with the action sequences but was rather weak with the characters. This film would have been better if it was directed by either Ridley Scott, Michael Bay or Joe Wright. The script was quite flawed as well. I liked the scene where Priam confronts Achilles in his tent and they have a heart-to-heart.


This is not my favourite Brad Pitt film. He is one of my favourite actors of all time but he wasn't good as Achilles in this film. He had a massive miscast in this one. This is a disappointment but with awesome production design, make-up and visual effects.

I wasn't that keen on this film when I first saw it but after seeing it again, I really liked it. Just like Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline, Corpse Bride is a fun family film but it can be quite scary for children. It has a few moments when body parts are missing and they sew them back together again. It is like animated comic violence. Corpse Bride is a very dark film that is awesome for adults as well as children. These kind of animated films are absolutely amazing! In fact, they are my favourite kind.


Corpse Bride is Johnny Depp's fifth collaboration with Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter's fourth with Tim Burton. Johnny provides the voice of Victor and Helena provides the voice of the Corpse Bride. Set in aa 19th century European village, Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride. Victor inadvertently married the Corpse Bride. Victor's real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living. Though life in the Land of the Dead proves to be a lot more colorful than his strict upbringing, Victor learns that there is nothing in this world ? or the next ? that can keep him away from his one true love. Victor and Corpse Bride look like Johnny and Helena but in animation. I think because of this, it inspired Tim to do drawings for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street of Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett and they look just like them.


This was the second Tim Burton film that I saw just after Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Despite, I really like both of these films, I wasn't a massive fan of Tim Burton but Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street and Edward Scissorhands changed all that. It is the same kind of animation as Nightmare Before Christmas but this time, Tim directs this one not Henry Selick. Tim Burton managed to release two films on the same year which he has never done before. I want to see Tim do another animated film. Perhaps, not like it about the living and the dead like Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride.


Corpse Bride is a very enjoyable film but isn't as good as Nightmare Before Christmas. Wallace And Gromit In The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit is the best animated film of 2005. Corpse Bride is a fun Tim Burton that is neither one of his best nor one of his worst. It is a very fun film that should be watched by everybody!

This Is England is a dark, psychological, twisted yet funny film that is absolutely typical from us British. It is a very dark story based on what England was like in the 1980s and is sometimes still like now. This Is England is a film that has tons of foul language. When the word "f***" comes into it and is said so often by one character it becomes hilarious. This film is widely compared to Trainspotting because story is quite similar and also the feelings that you have towards This Is England is similar to Trainspotting. It is also compared a lot to American History X because of the characters involved. This Is England is a brilliant film that is out to send a message to how serious lives can be affected when in that situation but unfortunately didn't send the message of what people can do about those bad things. It is a realistic side to what Britain is like now. There is a lot of racism involved like beating up Asians and black people for "taking over Britain". It is a film that showed how broken and beaten Britain is now. This Is England is quite hard to watch at times but is very enjoyable to watch. How Thomas Turgoose had the guts to be in a film like this and play such a character I have no idea. One thing I do know is that he has big guts to play this character. When I saw him kiss Smell I was surprised about his kissing towards her because he was only 14 in this film.


His acting was absolutely superb. His performance is without a doubt one of the best child performances ever! This would have been a good Danny Boyle film but he would have made it too much like Trainspotting. It is a very violent film because there are a lot of graphic racist ambushes involved especially the beating up of that black man within the group. It is quite graphic is a sexual way as well.


This Is England is a very powerful drama that some people would find quite disturbing but I think that is the basic point of the film. I loved this film so much I will definitely call as one of the best films of 2006 and also one of the best British films of all time as well.

Thelma & Louise is a fantastic adventure through crime, action and dramatic twists and turns. This film is described in one main keyword: friendship. I think it is like the Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid of the 90s and also the female version of it. Thelma & Louise is far more serious and depressing because it takes a very dark turn in the film which concludes in tragedy. It is a good film to watch because of the beauty of friendship and who your friends really are and also to experience life properly when in a trapped situation so to speak which is what both women are in before their adventure. It is hard to watch as well because it is a very moving film that has severe consequences.


Geena Davis was awesome as Thelma. Thelma is a young woman who is married to a lazy, abusive and arrogant man who treats her so badly that she's like his slave rather than his wife. Thelma is the one of the two women who goes through the most because she is almost raped by a man who was all flirty with her. When something happens to that man, the story becomes more serious and makes their adventure not only become more fun but more personal and tenser. Susan Sarandon's performance as Louise was awesome too. They both totally deserved their Oscar nominations in this film. It is very rare where two actresses are nominated at the Oscars in the same category for the same film. I can only think of Thelma & Louise and All About Eve. Both performances from Geena and Susan were fantastic but if I had to choose who was better it would be Susan. Brad Pitt was cool in this film too. It's weird because when you see Brad really young in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, he looks younger in that than he does in this one even though The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button was released 17 years later.


Ridley Scott is one of the most accomplished directors that have ever lived. Thelma & Louise is another fine example of why he is so good. Thelma & Louise is a rather different film to any other he had done at the time because he has done sci fis and a horror film previously. Thelma & Louise enters Scott's filmography of creating dramas and in a absolutely huge way. He directs Thelma & Louise like he wants to viewers to experience adventure and what the consequences are if you over do and get up to mischief which is what happens to Thelma and Louise. How this film wasn't nominated Best Picture 1991 alongside The Silence Of The Lambs and Beauty And The Beast, I have absolutely no idea in the slightest. The script was absolutely brilliant that has mixed chemistry between the characters and the genres that this film is part of.


Thelma & Louise is one of the best films of 1991 and that was a brilliant year. It is both Susan Sarandon's and Geena Davis' best performance too. It is one of the best adventure films of all time and there's no denying that. Thelma & Louise is Ridley Scott's third best film after Gladiator and Alien. Overall, Thelma & Louise is a fun and excited yet dramatic and tragic film that very much deserved all the credit it got. September 13,

When I first saw this film on DVD, I wasn't that keen on it for some reason. I don't know why this is but when I saw it for the second time, I realised what an adventurous, beautiful, funny, imaginitive and tense family film this really is. I think The Wizard Of Oz is the oldest children's live-action film and it blew me away with how well it was filmed because the visual effects stunned me. No, they aren't computer visual effects like Lord Of The Rings, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Transformers etc but it is a film from the 1930s which were the extremely early days for technology as well as for cinema. Some people have been a bit biast against this film by saying that the visual effects are awful but to be honest they are being fair because it was made such a long time ago and it was just simple visual effects which are after all part of the classics. It is a beautiful story that goes beyond words. It is a real cinematic experience as well as a life experience too because of the way Oz is and what it looks like could be what heaven's like. It is a good impression of it anyway. The Wizard Of Oz is an absolutely magical musical as well with lots of delightful songs that you could sing along to quite regularly. The classic and my favourite song of this film is "Over The Rainbow" which is definitely one of the best film songs ever made!


Judy Garland's performance as Dorothy Gale is her most famous film without a doubt and I am ever so glad it is because Garland was a very talented actress. She can quite annoying with her accent at times but it's her acting talent that I really appreciate and deeply respect her for. Judy Garland was an absolute hot star after The Wizard Of Oz and probably still is now after 40 years since she died. Judy Garland was only 16 years old when she portrayed Dorothy and she really impressed me. She is a bit like a child-star because she looked like an adult but was really only a teenager at the time. That is something that is extremely underrated. Dorothy's character is a lot like Alice in Alice In Wonderland because they both dress pretty much the same, behave the same and also seem like the same sort of people. Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr were all good as the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion. The make-up is unrealistic on the Cowardly Lion but is awesome on Scarecrow and Tin Man because that's the point. It is a classic film that is very old and it is probably the first attempt at creating top-notch make-up in a live-action color film whereas you can't really tell with a black-and-white film. We don't know how the Scarecrow and Tin Man went from men into the way they are in The Wizard Of Oz but there is a play called "Wicked" which is like a prequel to The Wizard Of Oz and it actually gets itself involved into The Wizard Of Oz. So, it tells the story in that play.


Victor Fleming directs two films in 1939 that are totally different but have two things in common: they can both be inspirations and also they are two of the best films of all time. Those two films are The Wizard Of Oz and Gone With The Wind. Fleming proves to me that he can go from the first romantic epic to a childrens fantasy musical. There was nothing that went wrong with The Wizard Of Oz in any way whatsoever. The script was adapted form the great novel which was published in 1900. The Wizard Of Oz is very similar if not the same kind of film Alice In Wonderland is.


The Wizard Of Oz is a beautiful, inspiring and hilarious classic that I could watch over and over again. I can't call this a childhood favourite of mine because I was 15 when I first saw it and I can't believe why I was that age when I saw it. Victor Fleming's best and most famous work is obviously Gone With The Wind but The Wizard Of Oz is another fine achievement to his legendary career. It is Judy Garland's best performance and most famous film of all time. The Wizard Of Oz is one of the best family adventures of all time as well as one of the best musicals and best films ever made too. Augu