6.01.2009

Transformers Revived

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Poster from comingsoon.net

Sam Witwicky and Optimus Prime are back, but a resurrected Decepticon leader will hunt them again with the backing of The Fallen!

Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Benjamin Hickey, Ramon Rodriguez, Isabel Lucas and John Turturro

Director: Michael Bay

Related links:
Official website

5.08.2009

Clawless Wolverine


Read some reviews from movie critics that smashed Wolverine's claws:

David Denby
In the noisy "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," two warring mutant brothers, Liev Schreiber, a morose sadist with fangs, and Hugh Jackman, unhappy but ripped, fly at each other again and again, grappling, punching, slashing. Alas, there’s nothing quite memorable here: much of the combat is just a whirl of movement photographed up close. As the "X-Men" series has progressed, the startling poetic extravagances of the first film have given way to flesh-pounding clumsiness; the men might be two Humvees at war.
Read more > Hard Knocks

Michael Harrison
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a shining example of how to take one of the coolest, most beloved and bad-ass comic book characters of all time and turn him into a boring, emo half-naked joke of a loser.
Read more > Wolverine Flick Falls Flat

Carey Norris
Wolverine always worked best as a mysterious, wisecracking badass, and Jackman played him beautifully as such in the previous X-Men movies. Here, the writers try to give Wolverine the full-on, massively tragic background, but the script drops the ball pretty thoroughly, and the brooding, wounded-romantic version of Wolverine we see here, despite Jackman’s best efforts, isn't all that interesting.
Read more > Wolverine fails to put the human in superhuman

Ben Child
Jackman's Wolverine, for me, was never an iconic superhero screen presence, and has deteriorated with this latest solo effort.
Read more > Has Wolverine skewered the intelligent superhero movie?

Bob Mondello
The most terrifying thing about the movie, really, is that plural: Originsssss. So many mutants, so much time. Thank God we can leave that for another summer.
Read more > 'Wolverine': Look Out, It's The Beastly Boys


Related links:
Official website
Official International Release Dates
Official Video Game Site
Wolverine at Marvel.com