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Killing Season (2013) John Travolta and Robert De Niro star in this outdoors action thriller. Travolta, a member of a Serbian mercenary group and De Niro a former US soldier who once came face to face in the Balkan war, seen here in a prologue. Now in the present day Travolta finds out De Niro is living retired in the remote Appalachian mountains in the United States, so sets out to get revenge on the man who killed the rest of his death squad. As a concept this is fine, it's major problem is that it really isn't anything special and has been previously done to far superior effect in the Tommy Lee Jones / Benicio Del Toro thriller Hunted (2003) and the John Cusack / Morgan Freeman runaround The Contract (2006). The action is at times incredibly gory - witness Travolta with an arrow through both cheeks which would make Argento squirm and De Niro hung by his calf muscle from a tree - but it's all a bit too implausible and even worse repetitive, and is lumbered with what i feel is a total let down of an ending. Whilst both De Niro and Travolta are always worth watching, Killing Season sees both heavy weight actors punching well below their weight in an outdoors thriller that is merely okay. |
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Just want to say that the first film that I will have seen at the cinema this year cough will be Under The Shadow. Saturday!!! Wish me well ahem
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Awwwwww. There's still time!!
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Honestly there is nothing on I feel compelled to go and see! Plus, cinema prices have become ridiculous and many of the small indie screens have closed meaning we're left with vapid, sticky 'Vues' showing films in smaller auditoriums (so they can cram more viewings in). Almost everything seems to be in ****ing 3D nowadays too, and the calibre of audience leaves a lot to be desired - especially evenings and weekends (which is pretty much the only time I could make a showing)... if they're not tapping on their shiny, brain dissolving gadgets they're incessantly talking or laughing with one another. Grumble, moan, get off my lawn etc. ...and I thought I was bad! |
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