“Captain America: The Winter Soldier”

                                               Reviewed by Nancy Snipper

***1/2/out of five

Great action with awesome plot

Captain America and Black Widow team up with Falcon. Steve Rogers is the big Captain. When the head SHIELD contact is attacked, things turn from confusing to world catastrophic chaos. Captain America, Black Widow and Falcon – a new guy on the block team up to solve some compelling riddles and ultimately save all humans from a horrid weapon, called Winter Soldier. Marvel Studios has concocted a great story in this original film that creates horror devoid of any humdrum “seen-that” before experience. Never trust anyone is the motto in this film; good guys are not as they seem.

This film was viewed, compliments of Le SuperClub Vidéotron, 5000, rue Wellington Verdun, QC.

 Ce film a été visionné, avec les compliments de Le SuperClub Vidéotron, 5000, rue Wellington Verdun, QC.

 

 

“The Railway Man”

An indelible masterpiece of history

Reviewed by Nancy Snipper

Rarely does a film come along that captures so poignantly a piece of horrific history with editing so artful that we are left to pick up the pieces and calm our emotions.  Ingeniously colliding the past and the present, the film’s director, Jonathan Teplizky has brilliantly woven together the severe breakdown and recovery of our hero, Lomax (Colin Firth). Based on a true story, the film dramatically reveals this brave man’s agony as he reconciles the past with the present while living in denial and then finally dealing with what he suffered as a prisoner of war at the barbaric hands of the Japanese – in particular one sicko while in captivity during WWII. 

Flashbacks and his present life are equally horrific as he relives unspeakable torture – all while he was one of the ‘slaves’ building the railway in the Far East. Friendship has no boundaries – as we learn at the resolution of this film and the reuniting of torturer with victim.

This film was viewed, compliments of Le SuperClub Vidéotron, 5000, rue Wellington Verdun, QC.

 Ce film a été visionné, avec les compliments de Le SuperClub Vidéotron, 5000, rue Wellington Verdun, QC.

“Divergent”

Reviewed by Nancy Snipper

Frightening science fiction… or is it?

There are five factions that make up future society to serve people against the beyond land where war-torn Chicago rests.

Beatrice belongs to the faction of her parents – Abnegation – a faction of goodly generous folk who help others. However, when time comes to choose which faction she wishes to join, she chooses Dauntless, a faction of basically mercenaries, posing as police, as she finds out later on; they are a terror to reckon with. Training for the Dauntless group is gruelling; after all, they are the watch dogs – the protectors. But it turns out Beatrice is a Divergent – and Divergents are a threat to all factions, as they think out of the box. They are killed. The film is full of suspense and human behaviour that puts into question the fate of Mankind. A great film that exceeds “The Hunger Games”.

This film was viewed, compliments of Le SuperClub Vidéotron, 5000, rue Wellington Verdun, QC.

 Ce film a été visionné, avec les compliments de Le SuperClub Vidéotron, 5000, rue Wellington Verdun, QC.

“Rage”

Reviewed by Nancy Snipper

 

A real gripper of a furious film

Paul Maguire (Nicolas Cage) is a respectable business man and loving father and husband, but he used to be killer when he was in his teens. His gang of buddies must reunite with him to source out who killed his teenage daughter one night while he Paul is out. The search leads him to the Russian Mafia, but he is mistaken when he thinks they are the culprits who killed his daughter. In fact, the killer can be found right in his own neighbourhood and in his own home the night her life was taken. A true twist of plot suspense with great casting. But there is one glitch: Danny Glover plays the chief detective, and he looks worn out. Too many cop parts for the law-abiding enforcer/actor. Directed by Paco Cabezas, the film has an edgy Latino feel for sure, even though it’s about Irish guys and Russians.

This film was viewed, compliments of Le SuperClub Vidéotron, 5000, rue Wellington Verdun, QC.

 Ce film a été visionné, avec les compliments de Le SuperClub Vidéotron, 5000, rue Wellington Verdun, QC.