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Cine Blog is a personal movie review archive where film and television programs are reviewed in depth.
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- FILM REVIEW OF ''COMMANDOS'' (ITALIAN-1968) on Nov 27, 2009 in World War II combat movie North Africa Nazis oasis Lee Van Cleef
"Autopsy" director Armando Crispino's historically inaccurate but nevertheless gripping World War II behind-enemy-lines, secret-mission thriller "Commandos" (***1/2 out of ****) qualifies as a rugged, gritty, suspenseful combat epic. This cynical Ita...
- FILM REVIEW OF ''ONLY THE VALIANT'' (1951) on Nov 14, 2009 in black and white photography cavalry western Apaches
“Only the Valiant” (***1/2 out of ****) qualifies as a gritty good western. This Gregory Peck cavalry versus the Indians oater is a solemn suicide mission without a trace of humor. Veteran director Gordon Douglas has helmed a grim, harrowing ou...
- FILM REVIEW OF ''MR. MAJESTYK" (1974) on Nov 2, 2009 in guns Charles Bronson truck chases crime watermelons rural setting
Charles Bronson’s cougar-like presence, Elmore Leonard’s clever dialogue, and Richard Fleischer’s straight-faced helming makes “Mr. Majestyk” (**** out of ****) an entertaining, sometimes brutal knuckle-buster with some “3:10 to Yuma” t...
- FILM REVIEW OF ''FORREST GUMP" (1994) on Nov 2, 2009 in Tom Hanks mentally challenged individuals comedy Vietnam War running
“Back to the Future” trilogy director Robert Zemeckis surpassed himself in ways that he probably never imagined when he made “Forrest Gump.” Clocking in at two hours and forty minutes, this bittersweet PG-13 rated comedy about the epic misad...
- FILM REVIEW OF ''ASTRO BOY" (2009) on Oct 29, 2009 in crime science-fiction androids intolerance anime
“Flushed Away” co-director David Bowers makes his stand-alone directing debut on the $65-million, Summit Entertainment, big-screen remake of “Astro Boy,” (**** ot of ****) the first example of anime that Japanese television broadcast in 1963.
- FILM REVIEW OF ''LAW ABIDING CITIZEN" (2009) on Oct 27, 2009 in Prison movies perfect crime cold-blooded murder
“Set It Up” director F. Gary Gray’s sophisticated but far-fetched law and order thriller “Law Abiding Citizen” (**** out of ****)ranks as the one of best mediations about our flawed justice system in the guise of a popcorn movie. Good movi...
- FILM REVIEW OF ''A TASTE OF HELL'' (1973) on Oct 15, 2009 in World War II combat movie explosions the Phillipines. machine guns
"A Taste of Hell" (* out of ****)has little taste and is hell to watch. This thoroughly ordinary World War II melodrama takes place in the Philippines during 1942after General Douglas MacArthur had left the country to the Japanese and their usual sad...
