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StudioCanal, Silver Pictures, Anton Capital Entertainment (ACE),

Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Anson Mount, Corey Stoll, Linus Roache, Nate Parker, Jon Abrahams, Omar Metwally


Bill Marks (Liam Neeson) is a US Air Marshall on board a flight to London far out over the Atlantic, when he starts getting text from a terrorist who claims to be on the plane, and threatening that someone will die every 20 minutes until one and a half million dollars are deposited into a bank account. But not only does Bill have his share of unresolved issues, there seems to be a lot more going on that meets the eye. This is suspenseful cat and mouse game as Bill tries to convince his superiors that there is a threat, all the while trying to solve the ever changing puzzles that are in front of him.

I’m really getting to think that Liam Neeson is one of the best actors today. I can think of anyone else who can carry a suspenseful airplane drama like he can. We’ve seen a lot of dramas set inside the captive area of an airplane cabin, but none just like this. It’s “Non-stop” action and suspense all the way through. There are so many twists and turns all the way through. Julianne Moore has a smaller, but really interesting role as well, and it was a great addition to the cast. The rest of the people were also very good, so all in all it’s a good script and a very fast paced thriller. I really enjoyed this film, and I would recommend it to fans of great action and suspense.

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Movie Rentals Releasing Tuesday March 4, 2014

  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire [Click Here for Ed’s Review]
  • 12 Years a Slave
  • Cold Comes the Night
  • Girl Rising
  • The Grandmaster
  • Hours
  • The Last Days on Mars
  • Oldboy
  • Wicked Blood

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Picture

  • [WON]12 Years a Slave
  • American Hustle
  • Captain Phillips
  • Dallas Buyers Club
  • Nebraska
  • Philomena
  • Gravity
  • Her
  • The Wolf of Wall Street

Actor – in a Leading Role

  • [WON]Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
  • Christian Bale (American Hustle)
  • Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
  • Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
  • Chiwetal Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

Actress – In a Leading Role

  • [WON]Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
  • Amy Adams (American Hustle)
  • Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
  • Judi Dench ((Philomena)
  • Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

Directing

  • [WON]Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
  • David O Russell (American Hustle)
  • Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
  • 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
  • Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street

Actress – In a Supporting Role

  • [WON]Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)
  • Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
  • Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
  • Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
  • June Squibb (Nebraska)

Actor – In a Supporting Role

  • [WON]Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
  • Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
  • Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
  • Michael Fasbender (12 Years a Slave)
  • Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Animated Feature

  • [WON]Frozen
  • The Croods
  • Despicable Me 2
  • Ernestine & Celestine
  • The Wind Rises

Music – Original Score

  • [WON]Gravity (Steven Price)
  • The Book Thief (John Williams)
  • Her (William Butler and Own Pallett)
  • Philomena (Alexander Desplat)
  • Saving Mr. Banks (Thomas Newman)

Music – Original Song

  • [WON]Let It Go – Frozen
  • Happy – Despicable Me 2
  • The Moon Song – Her
  • Ordinary Love – Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

Screenplay – Adapted

  • [WON]12 Years A Slave
  • Before Midnight
  • Captain Phillips
  • Philomena
  • The Wolf of Wall Street

Screenplay – Original

  • [WON]Her
  • American Hustle
  • Blue Jasmine
  • Dallas Buyers Club
  • Nebraska
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FilmDistrict, Constantin Film Produktion, Don Carmody Productions,

Emily Browning, Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, Kiefer Sutherland, Paz Vega, Jessica Lucas, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jared Harris, Sasha Roiz, Currie Graham

Milo (Kit Harington) lost his family to the Romans when he was a child. He was captured and made a slave, but his excellent skills of fighting made him a great gladiator who was sent to the city of Pompeii to perform. While there he met Cassia (Emily Browning), the daughter of the leader of Pompeii and is instantly attracted to her. A Roman Senator, Corvus (Kiefer Sutherland) has arrived in Pompeii to make a deal with them to invest in their city and bring them into the Roman Empire, but his ultimate goal was take Cassia as his own wife. But the famous volcano, Mt. Vesuvius has other plans and the catastrophic eruption that destroyed the city of Pompeii has other ideas. This Titanic-like blockbuster is a historical drama based on the eruption of Vesuvius with the background of a romance tale.

Vesuvius is exactly what you would expect it to be. Unlike Titanic and other disaster films, I have a very, very strong suspicion that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius didn’t look like this very much! But they take lots of liberties in the scientific facts and give us instead another Pearl Harbor-like love story around the historical events. Just like those two stories, the action based upon the natural disaster provides the suspense and the intense action. The romance aspect is a bit weaker, but of course there’s a gladiator story as well, with some great battles in the arena. All in all, though it sounds like a mish-mash of so many different genre’s the story works together. The 3D effects were very good, and there was a lot of action. The special effects are superb, and the acting was not bad. I think maybe this wasn’t a huge blockbuster due to a lack of very big names, and the marketing wasn’t done very well. This movie has a lot going for it, and I was really happy I spent the bucks to see this on the big screen in 3D. It’s definitely a major motion picture, and is well worth catching. If you like the historical drama type film, this tells a lot about the Roman Empire and the life in those days. With the excitement of the epic gladiator battles and certainly the volcanic activity, the movie is very interesting. I think this movie deserved a lot more attention that it seems to be getting, and I think this will be a big hit once it gets to DVD. But if you like epic stories on the big screen, this one is epic enough!

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