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MOVIE RATING: Not With The Kids, Please
TWO weeks ago, my friend and I went to watch a movie at 1 Utama shopping complex.
The title of the movie was Death Race and it was rated “18SG”. To my surprise, I found a couple with their 4-year-old daughter in the same cinema watching the movie.
My question is, how can the cinema management allow a child to watch an adult movie? My second question is, which parent in his right mind would bring a 4-year-old child to watch such a movie?
It’s a disgrace and I believe that these people are not fit to be parents.
Frankly, the movie was good but it’s an adult movie and shouldn’t be watched by children.
New Straits Times
‘Burn’ Blazes To Top Of North American Box Office
LOS ANGELES: “Burn After Reading,” the newest dark comedy by sibling directors Ethan and Joel Coen, was the top weekend movie draw in the United States and Canada, preliminary industry figures showed Sunday.
The film, starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, debuted with US$19.4 million in North American ticket sales, according to industry tracking company Exhibitor Relations.
In second place was the melodrama “The Family that Preys” by playwright-turned-filmmaker Tyler Perry with US$18 million, followed by police drama “Righteous Kill” starring Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino, with US$16.5 million.
The modern update of the classic film “The Women,” starring Hollywood sweetheart Meg Ryan, was in fourth place with US$10 million.
In fifth was “The House Bunny,” about an ousted Playboy bunny who becomes a college sorority house mother, with US$4.3 million.
The spoof “Tropic Thunder” - Ben Stiller’s movie-within-a-movie about filming a war flick in the middle of a real-life conflict zone - came in sixth place with US$4.1 million in receipts.
“Batman” sequel “The Dark Knight” was seventh with US$4 million. The blockbuster film also claimed the title of second all-time box office champion with US$512 million in ticket sales since its release.
Last week’s box office winner “Bangkok Dangerous,” starring Nicolas Cage as a ruthless hitman on assignment in Thailand, fell to eighth this week with just US$2.4 million in sales.
“Traitor,” a war-on-terror epic featuring Don Cheadle as a former US Special Ops officer and potential international conspirator, was ninth, pocketing US$2.4 million.
In 10th place was “Death Race,” an action-adventure flick about an ex-convict competing against prison inmates in a freedom-or-death car race, with US$2 million in ticket sales.
- AFP/yb
Channel News Asia
Cinema: Burning Rubber And Fate
Death Race: Not your average wheels.
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DEATH RACE
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
Starring Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, Natalie Martinez
Jensen Ames (Statham) and his sexy navigator, Case (Natalie Martinez).
WHEN I heard that Jason Statham (The Italian Job) is the lead in this action thriller, I knew it was going to be an awesome movie.
The story is dark yet fun, also violent and sexy.
Director and producer Paul W. S. Anderson couldn’t have done better in this re-working of Roger Corman’s 1975’s classic Death Race 2000. The fight and race scenes are superb! And the cars! Let’s just say they aren’t the regular Nascar sort.
The story begins in the year 2012, when extreme sports and reality competitions have grown into reality TV bloodlust. The most extreme racing competition has emerged, and its contestants are murderous prisoners.
Everybody tunes in to watch convicts kill themselves in their cars and tear around the racetrack.
Three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames (Statham), who is also an ex-con framed for murder, is sent to Terminal Island, a place for hardcore prisoners. The Death Race takes place here.
The rules are simple: Win five races and you’re set free. Lose, and you’re road-kill splashed across the Internet.
Forced to don the mask of the mythical Frankenstein, a Death Race crowd favourite that seems impossible to kill, Ames is told by Terminal Island’s ruthless Warden Hennessey to suit up and drive or never see his little girl again.
To win, Ames must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals - including nemesis Machine Gun Joe (Tyrese Gibson).
The racing scenes are tremendous as video game elements are incorporated.
Tony Award winner and three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen (The Bourne series) plays Warden Claire Hennessey, a well-tailored jailer who has all the power on Terminal Island.
Truth be told, I am not used to seeing Allen in a movie like this. The character is like no one she has played before: an extremely pious sociopath who only sees Death Race as a show people really want to watch.
Statham does a wonderful job in portraying the cool and husky-voiced Ames with a sense of mystery and danger.
Thumbs-up for Statham as the cool and husky-voiced Ames! He has had a string of action movies under his belt, and does a wonderful job here too. This movie will take you on a ride you’ll never forget.
New Straits Times