Eagle Eye stars Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan as Jerry Shaw and Rachel Hollowman. The movie starts off with the government trying to decided weather or not they should kill a group of people they believe maybe terrorist. When a computer comes up with a 51% chance they are the terrorists the government acts and kills them all. Meanwhile Jerry Shaw an unsuccessful young man who works at a copy shop finds out his identical twin brother has died. You soon learn that Jerry was always in the shadow of his “perfect” brother who worked for the government.

Upon returning home to his apartment he finds boxes and containers filled with weapons, explosives, and forged documents. He then receives a phone call from an unknown woman who tells him that he has 30 seconds to get out of the apartment before the FBI get there and that he has been “activated”. While this is going on Rachel Hollowman is forced to do whatever the woman on the phone wants for fear that she will harm her son. The mysterious woman has the power to control anything electronic and helps bring the two together while getting them to do her bidding to take down the American government.  

I thought the movie was a little plain. Don’t get me wrong it had some great moments and a good mystery. But some of it was to drug out and when the mystery is finally solved you are kind of left with an “oh okay…” felling instead of a shocking twist like your expecting. Despite this I still think it’s a movie worth seeing. The unknown woman gives a god-like twist in the form that the two main characters have no choice and are merely puppets. Although you might not enjoy it if you have seen I-Robot because it is defiantly a copy of that in most aspects.  All and all I would give it a 6.5/10 not a smash hit but still something worth seeing.

Directed by acclaimed director Akira Kurosawa, it stars Toshirō Mifune as the bandit Tajōmaru; Takashi Shimura as a nameless woodcutter; Machiko Kyō as the Samurai's wife; Masayuki Mori as the murdered Samurai; and Minoru Chiaki as a budhist priest. Kurosawa worked in collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.

The film is based on two short stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. "Rashōmon" provides the setting of Rashōmon Gate, while "In a Grove" provides the characters and the plot. Rashomon is the seminal film which introduced Kurosawa and subsequently Japanese cinema to the West. Rashomon is considered to be one of Akira Kurosawa's masterpieces.

The film went on to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, an Academy Honorary Award at the 24th Academy Awards as well as numerous other awards.

Rashomon is a stunning film and included numerous groundbreaking devices at the time it was created. Since then it has become a timeless classic. Among the devices employed by Kurosawa includes filming directly into the sun and the use of black died rain to stand out better against the backdrop. It's use of human falability and subjectivity was also groundbreaking at the time.

Rashōmon Gate.

It begins with a heavy downpour, where three characters meet as they hide from the rain at the crumbling Rashōmon Gate. Here a priest and a woodcutter sit deep in their thoughts, contempating the strange story that had unfolded not long ago. They are joined by a third man, a commoner played by Kichijiro Ueda, who sensing something amiss questions them. The priest and the woodcutter then begin to recount a very strange tale.

“I've seen so many men getting killed like insects, but even I have never heard a story as horrible as this.Yes. So horrible. This time, I may finally lose my faith in the human soul.” - the priest.

The Woodcutter recounts his story, starting with how he went into the woods three days ago to collect some wood. This scene opens up to mysterious almost snake-charmer-like music that leads us through the winding journey of the woodcutter. This scene seems to take forever, so that the audience is pulled out into the world of the story and made to feel as if they have journeyed deep into the forest, far from civilization. The woodcutter finds first a hat and a veil, then cut rope lying on the ground, and finally the body of a murdered Samurai. He flees in a panic to tell the authorities.

The woodcutter finds the woman's veil.

Next the Buddhist priest tells the authorities how three days ago he was walking in the woods when he saw both the Samurai and his wife as they passed him.

The notorious brigand Tajōmaru who has been captured by the authorities then recounts his own version of the story, punctuated by his hysterical laughing. He claims that he saw the Samurai and the woman pass and was so enchanted by her that he decided he wanted her at all costs.

The bandit points to a cache of weapons.

He used his guile to trick the samurai to follow him off the mountain trail to look at a cache of valuable ancient swords he discovered and buried. In the grove he tricks the Samurai into stepping ahead of him and knocks the Samurai down from behind and ties the man to a tree.

The bandit fetching the Samurai's wife.

He fetched the woman who was waiting for her husband to return by saying that her husband had fallen ill. He claims that he tried to rape the woman, but though she initially tried to defend herself she submitted to his advances and was "seduced" by the bandit in full view of her husband. The woman, filled with shame, then begged the bandit to duel with her husband so that she can be saved from both men knowing her guilt and shame.

The bandit honorably set the samurai free and they duel. Tajōmaru recounts the fight as being fought fiercely, and skillfully, but in the end Tajōmaru gains the upper hand and killed the Samurai. The bandit claims that he crossed swords with the Samurai 23 times, and was impressed with the man's skill since no one had ever lasted more than 20 before then.

He then tells the magistrates how when he turned to look for the woman, she was gone, and supposed that she fled in fear. At the end of the story, the officials ask him about the expensive dagger owned by the Samurai's wife. He replies that, in the confusion, he surely forgot all about it, and says forgetting about it was the biggest mistake he had ever made before laughing hysterically.

The Samurai's wife, who was discovered hiding in a temple is then brought before the authorities to recount her story. She is a pathetic figure, bundled up on the ground and weeping as she tells her version of the story. After being raped by the bandit, the bandit fled laughing hysterically as he went while she lay sobbing beside her husband.

Her husband sat quietly beside her, still tied up, lost to his own thoughts. She begged him for forgiveness and was instead met by a cold, dissinterested stare. As the expression on her husband's face tore her apart, she cut the rope that tied him and begged for him to kill her. As the tension mounted, and she flew into an ever more hysterical fit, she fainted with the dagger in her hand and woke up to find that same blade plunged into her husband's chest. In her shame she tried to kill herself by throwing herself in a nearby lake, and eventually ended up at the temple.

The deceased samurai is then given the opportunity to recount his version of events, through the voice of a medium. This eerie scene unfolds as the spirit thrashes about in the medum's body and tells how he has been cast into a dark empty void. He claims that after Tajōmaru captured him and he was forced to watch the bandit rape his wife, Tajōmaru asked her to travel with him. She accepted then asked Tajōmaru to kill him so that she wouldn't feel the guilt of belonging to two men. The samurai says that such hateful words coming from his wife's mouth tore him apart inside and his world fell apart around him.

The samurai then recounts how Tajōmaru, was so shocked by this request that he grabbed the woman and threw her to the ground. Then the bandit gave the samurai the choice of letting the woman go or killing her. The Samurai tells officials; "I almost forgave the bandit," his actions in some way redeeming him from his earlier crim. The woman fled followed by Tajōmaru giving chase. Many hours pass and the Samurai is left in his own thoughts all alone in the grove. Finally Tajōmaru returned to free the Samurai, having given up chasing the woman. The samurai then killed himself with his own dagger. Before the spirit fades back to oblivion, the ghost then tells officials that somebody removed the dagger from his chest.

The Samurai contemplating the dagger he would use to kill himself.

Back to the present, as the three characters sit at Rashōmon Gate, the woodcutter is startled by the recounting of the Samurai's tale and claims that the dead is lying since he was clearly killed by a sword. The priest claims the dead don't lie.

The woodcutter then confesses to the commoner that his earlier version of events was a lie, since he didn't want to get too involved in the debaucle. Having actually witnessed events he reveals that Tajōmaru raped the samurai's wife and begged the weeping woman to marry him. She freed her husband and said it was not for her to decide, then returned to her incessant weeping.

The Samurai tels her that he refuses to die for a woman like her. Tajōmaru, hearing the words, loses interest in the samurai's wife and starts to leave. The wife cries even harder, and prompts her husband to demand that she stop. Tajōmaru repremands the Samurai calling it "unmanly" of him because women are weak and can't help but cry. This provokes the woman into an embittered tantrum about both her husband's reluctance to protect his wife and Tajōmaru's who's passionate affection having so suddenly changed.

She spurs the men to fight for her, and then appears to regret it as soon as they do. Both fight pitifully and Tajōmaru wins, mainly through luck. At the sight of her husband's death, the woman screams and runs from Tajōmaru. Unable to follow her, the bandit takes the samurai's sword and leaves the scene limping.

In the end we return to Rashōmon Gate. The commoner laughs at the woodcutter, claiming to know that the woodcutter stole the expensive dagger. As they stand talking they hear a noise nearby and then the three men find an abandoned infant tucked into a corner of the building. The commoner takes the baby's possessions and runs off claiming that all men are wicked. The priest says he has lost all faith in mankind. The woodcutter moves to take the baby and the priest snaps at him, thinking he too is going to steal from the child. Instead the woodcutter says he has six children at home and one more will not make any difference. The rain stopps and the woodcutter walks away from Rashōmon Gate with the child.

The priest protectingly holds the child.

So as the film ends we are left with what seems like a definitive version of events, and yet we are also left enturely unsure if we can believe any of them. Surely the truth lies in there somewhere, as a combination of all the seperate stories, but it is so tangled up that the thread is impossible to unravel. This exploration of human subjectivity was so expertly handled by Akira Kurosawa that the film, in the single word; Rashōmon conveys to all who have seen it the sense that we can never truly know anything and that everything is coloured by our own imperfect perception.

Films in general are full of Psychological cliches, so much so that they influence the world of Psychology in the strangest of ways. Hollywood picked up on the word Psychopath and turned it into the steriotype of deranged knife wielding killer behind the shower curtain or the killer businessman with plastic over his couch to stop the blood ruining it as he kills his unsuspecting collegues. Because of that Psychologists were forced to find an alternative word to avoid the stigma associated with Psychopath and instead turned to the word Sociopath (to highlight the social nature of the condition). As more and more films, books and games make use of the new term, eventually Psychologists may be forced to change even it.

Yet here Rashomon is a film so powerful, so profound, that psychologists are using its name as shortcut for the effect that subjectivity plays in our perception and recollection. The paper "The Rashomon Effect: When Ethnographers Disagree," by Karl G. Heider, published in American Anthropologist in March 1988 demonstrates the profoundity of the film in capturing something unique to film and something unique in understanding our own psyche.

Sixty years on and Rashomon I still highly watchable and enjoyable. Like all classics it seems to never get old. There simply aren't enough superlatives in the english language to do it justice. It is a must watch. Those who do will soon find themselves great fans of Kurosawa-san.

Note: Screenshots are in the public domain. (Due to a 2006 Japanese court ruling; all movies produced in Japan prior to 1953 are in the public domain.)

This movie was released in January, 2008.  One Missed Call is a remake of the Japanese film, Chakushin Ari which came out in 2003. 

One Missed Call was directed by Eric Valette.  Eric Valette also directed a bunch of foreign films, such as Malèfique, which came out in 2002.  The screenplay portion was written by Andrew Klavan.  This playwrighter also wrote A Shock To The System, which came out in 1990.  One Missed Call is based on a novel written by Yasushi Akimoto.  Chakushin Ari 1 and 2 were novels that Yasushi wrote. 

The tagline of this movie is, "What will it sound like when you die?"  Sure that is an eerie tagline, but it makes for an interesting plot. 

Imagine getting a phone call from someone who has already died.  They leave a voicemail with the date and time of your pending death, and if you listen closely it is your voice calling.  Between the time of the call and the time of death, you see distorted images and faces, as well as things that are peculiar and unusual.  Those that die are left with a piece of hard candy, in the color red.  The story behind the hard candy comes later on in the storyline.

The movie starts off with the mysterious death of Shelley, played by Meagan Good.  Later on, at a party, Leann (Azura Skye) gets a call on her cell phone from Shelley's number, and it dated ahead of time.  When Leann listens to the voicemail she hears herself screaming. 

Note: all phone calls leading to the deaths take place on the death holders cell phone. 

Before each of her friends died, Beth (Shannyn Sassamon) heard the noise of an inhaler.  The inhaler becomes apparent later on in the movie as well. 

After Leann, her ex boyfriend Brian (Johnny Lewis) gets the death call, followed by Taylor (Ana Claudia Talancòn).  Taylor is freaked out by the call and goes through an 'exorcism' that would be televised.  Needless to say, an exorcism could not save her. 

Then Beth herself gets the call, but by this time Detective Jack Andrews (Edward Burns) is there to help her.  They try to trace back to where the calls first started.  Jack's sister also received the call.  In fact, she is the one that called Shelley in the beginning of the movie.  This news was able to help them to trace it back to the Layton family.  While the youngest Layton daughter was in the St. Lukes Hospital, it burnt down, and Beth was concerned that this was where it all started.  The mother had abusive issues, so the detective and Beth thought that she was the one the started the calls. 

Now the question is, was the mother the one that started it all?  To find out the answer, you will have to watch the movie for yourself.  The movie is well worth the watch.  It is one of those great thrillers, that will keep you guessing till the very end, and that is a rarity in movies these days.

Sales assistant Wiley (Colin Hanks) is fed up with his life, he works in a quirky Sherlock Holmes inspired bookstore in L.A. Forced to be jaunty and in character all day the last thing that Wiley needs when he returns home is a mystery, but that is what he finds. While doing the dishes he glances down to notice on the floor a finger, who does it belong to? Where did it come from?

The best part of the movie is spent with a series of imaginary events being played out to explain the reason behinds the finger being found in the kitchen, this varies from the seedy gay drug dealers next door hacking off a non payers finger as a punishment, to two young thugs engaged in a finger tossing contest in an aim to get a finger through the window of Wiley's apartment (no explanation of how they got the fingers in the first place of course), the different scenarios get worse and worse, and funnier and funnier, although the solution to the mystery actually is available to Wiley pretty much near the start of the movie, though Wiley is far to embarrassed to laugh.

The usually clean shaven Hanks is quite hard to spot in the movie as the rough and ready (though incredibly dull Wiley), so much so that having watched the entire movie I was rather surprised when I discovered that Wiley was played by Hanks. This is a really unusual casting for the actor, but a casting that really suits him well, having watched him its quite hard to see him playing any other role without having to refer back to this movie.

The arrival of Cheryl puts a strange spin on the movie; if your familiar with the British sitcom Peep Show then Cheryl will look incredibly familiar, played by Rachel Blanchard, the actress is best known as the neurotic Nancy from the television series. In the show she causes havoc wherever she goes, and here she too has a similar style about her, causing rows and bizarre scenarios wherever she goes. When a man asks her a question in a bar she smashes a bottle on her head, and this is the most normal that you see the character behave.

Fans of TV show Monk, will find Tony Shalhoub far from his usual compulsive obsessive behaviour, living in a filthy flat, completely obnoxious, and totally unsupportive of his son Wiley. When Wiley goes to him with his problems, Mr. Roth instead chooses to laugh at him. When the finger situation is raised Roth senior takes them all on a trip to a peanut obsessed witch doctor who decides that in order to find out the truth behind the finger must first see if it floats. Roth senior is beyond the level of oddball behaviour of the movies other characters.

I won't deny there are a few times that the movie gets a little frustrating, chiefly because Wiley stumbles around the subject of the story of the finger when he encounters who is obviously the owner. There are no answers however until the very end of the movie, and yes while occasionally frustrating you can fully understand why the mystery must remain.

Rather like any rather good sitcom, Curb Your Enthusiasm is the one that springs most to mind, the movie gives you fragments of a story, that by the movies conclusion all slowly string together. Unlike a lot of comedy movies that do the rounds, this one is at times genuinely funny. Had the movie not been so "independant" to the extent that to be fair few will ever see it, some of the movies moments could very well go down in history as some of the funniest moments in movie history, a bizarre incident in a back alley between two friends, that slowly involves ones girlfriend and a semi dressed next door neighbour; this verbal fight turns into a food fight with great distances between participants, it's almost a homage to the classic Laurel & Hardy movies, of 80 years ago.

Being a low budget independent picture, seeing Careless might not be a straightforward task, but with a little time and attention, you'll find tracking down this movie is a reward, and if you're a fan of movies like After Hours, Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums then you'll find this movie a rare gem in a sea of very bland, often very similar movies.

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Ben Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) is an archaeologist treasure hunter whose family has been searching for a hidden treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers with the help of the Free Masons. A secret society consisting mostly by working class brick masons and stonemasons, but then later included members of other working class trades and some rather important American politicians. The only guides leading the way to solving this mysterious hidden treasure are puzzling clues that have been hidden on historical documents, in clever riddles and special opticals are need to reveal more keys to the puzzle.

Gates not working alone is accompanied by a wisecracking computer genius and a pretty young National Archives curator who originally become enthralled in the hunt for the treasure unwillingly. After successfully pulling off the crime of the century, Gates races against time to unravel the mystery before the FBI and his former greedy partner who originally tried to kill Gates are pursuing him on a cross-country high stakes adventure.

National Treasure puts the fun back into movies with its balance of action, humor and supercharged turn of events. Indiana Jones better watch out, because archaeologist Ben Franklin Gates is in town.

The movie “National Treasure” is worthy of (Renting: Yes - Buying: Yes)

Things kick off in Episode 5, where Hikari joins Takeru and company at their school (with a little help from Jennifer to get the transfer to go through). Initially excited at doing something new, the ever-cheerful Hikari soon learns that school isn't quite what it's cracked up to be. Then, the group kicks off the start of summer break to go camping in the mountains, with a “test of courage” that has Takeru trying to figure out what to do with Hikari. It's off to the beach next, where the girls get decked out in swimwear and more struggling with affections on the part of Takeru and Mari (this is also where the second monster fight of the whole series takes place!). Finally, we get a “slice-of-life” episode where the gang gets ready for the Bon Festival, Hikari makes a new friend in a bell cricket, life lessons are learned and new secrets and mysteries are revealed.

The series has been great to watch from the start, but now things are starting to get interesting with this new batch of episodes. It mainly has to do with the fact that more about Hikari is being revealed, in particular a “dark side” of her, which may or may not be her “true” self, that was first glimpsed in Episode 1 and now makes regular appearances throughout the episodes on this volume. We also get a new character in the form of Ioneos, a mysterious robot with a strange attitude and connection to Hikari, calling her “Mistress” and reacting to her praise and admonishment. Oh, and he seems to be Jennifer's new drinking partner, Gainax once again brining new twists to anime standards with a robot that gets drunk (never mind the fact that he's a robot, which shouldn't get drunk, or that he doesn't have a visible mouth). I can't say much about some of the other mysteries and revelations that pop up without spoiling anything, but needless to say it finally does tie into the “extinction” theme first hinted at when the first episode started and what Hikari's real role is and what part Takeru, who has sworn with his life to protect Hikari, really plays in the whole scheme. Just from learning what's revealed, you KNOW things are going to go bad for our characters just as they start to get good, which can be typical of any kind of show.

Now back to the lighter side of things, which pretty much takes up the whole series (probably why this show is only twelve episodes, there are only so many ways this could get stretched out before it gets both repetitive and boring). As mentioned before, a lot of the romantic-comedy stuff seems pretty standard, right down to the “episode types” used, but it's still fun to watch it all go down. Takeru may act like the usual idiot who struggles with how to approach his feelings, but you get the idea that he doesn't want to screw it up (something a lot of us can probably relate to) at the same time you tell him “Just go for it, you weenie!” It's also fun to watch Mari struggle with her own feelings, especially with the fact that Hikari isn't your typical romantic rival and doesn't play the “game” according to the “rules”. Throw in Sakurako and Amika playing both sides in the little love triangle (giving advice to Takeru in how to deal with Hikari and to Mari in how to snag Takeru), little Kimi's dealing with Ryo and Akari's antics and the various bits of fan service floating around (especially in Episode 6, heh heh...), and this just continues to be a fun show to watch.

But probably the best part of series, in particular these episodes, is Hikari as a character. Watching her just go about enjoying life, even the simplest things it has to offer like the feel of the wind or the smell of the ocean, you can't help but like her. She even enjoys doing what most people might find boring, like work or school. And even when she overdoes it when she tries to help Takeru (like in Episode 7 when she tries to help out), it just seems so sweet because she wants to be with Takeru. It probably helps when Hikari's darker side comes out (noticable not only by a change in attitude but in hair color, no, really), who is the complete opposite of the “regular” Hikari, that she seems more lovable as a character. Given how creepy she acts when like this, that's not a hard idea to suggest.

The English dub on the disc works the same way as the previous volume, being on par with the Japanese track except in one way. The voice of Ioneos in English actually sounds more like a robot, all hollow and metallic like you'd expect a robot to sound like. Whereas in the Japanese version, he just sounds like a normal person. Sure, there's some technical stuff behind it, but I'm of the opinion that a robot should be made to sound like a robot. At least Hikari's two sides come off well in both versions, cute and sweet for the “normal” version and creepy and mysterious for the “dark” version. And yeah, the actors are still using the same goofy aliases in place of their real names (save for Monica Rial, who voices a shy classmate in Episode 5), but it still makes for a good dub on ADV's part.

Nothing much to say about the bonus material on the disc. Much of it is the same as the previous volume, the clean opening and closing animation, the ADV trailers, and the “Translator's Notes” that explain the various cultural bits that pop up in the series. There are a couple of extra goodies to be had, though. We get a music video for “Metamorphose”, the show's opening song, performed by Yoko Takahashi. It's a nice little piece, but it's about as long as the actual opener, making you wonder if that's the way the song was written and composed in the first place. There's also a Japanese promotional video, which is basically a glorified music video of clips from the show set to the opening song, only this is the “extended” version you would've thought the music video would've been. While nothing to really brag about, you still have something to watch and enjoy when the DVD is done.

If you've been waiting for things to start moving in this series, then Volume 2 of “This Ugly Yet Beautiful World” provides nicely. The final scene, especially, will definitely make you want to watch the rest of the series to find out how it all turns out, proving it gets better as it goes.

Released by: ADV Films

Rating: Age 16+

Running time: 4 Episodes, 100 minutes

Score: 8 out of 10

How Did Gale Know?

In the beginning of the movie, there are people watching a screening for the movie “Stab”. It is about the murders that happened in Woodsboro. The audience was watching a reenactment of what happened to Casey in Scream. My problem with this is that there is no way for Gale to know what happened to Casey. The only people who know what happened to her were killed off in Scream.

Phil's Death

How did the killer know where Phil was standing in the stall in the bathroom? When the killer stabbed him through the wall of the stall, he must have developed the ability to see through walls when he stabbed Phil because his head could have been anywhere. He also didn't have to be listening to what was going on in the next stall.

The wall that the killer stabbed Phil through moved when he tried to take the knife out of it.

Maureen's Death

When the killer first stabbed Maureen, there was no blood on the knife.

CiCi Could Have Left The Sorority House

When she was on the phone with her friend, she heard a noise in the sorority house. Her friend suggested calling campus security when CiCi said she was leaving the house. Instead of going to campus security, she chose to call them. She would have been better off going to security instead of going back into the house.

CiCi Listened To The Killer

Why would she listen to the killer when he told her to set the alarm? That must have meant that he was in the house.

CiCi's Death

When CiCi was pushed off the sorority house balcony, the killer pushed her forward, but she landed on her back.

Where Was Randy's Protection? (Spoiler)

Once Maureen, Phil, and CiCi were killed, the police wanted Sidney under protection. She was given two cops to watch her. Where was Randy's protection? He was from Woodsboro too and he was actually killed. He certainly could have used police protection.

Tori Ruins The Plot of the Movie Stab

There was a joke made in the first Scream when Sidney said that Tori would end up being her character if the murders became a movie. That did actually happen in this one. Tori was talking to Nancy O'Dell from Access Hollywood about the movie Stab. She ends up giving away the plot of Stab by telling Nancy how her character's boyfriend tries to kill her and that he killed her movie the year before that. What was the point of having the killer's face covered on the poster if the star was going to give away the mystery of the movie?

Gale's Number

How did the killer get Gale's number? It's not as if she gave it out to anybody.

The Cops Were On Campus (Spoiler)

During Randy's death, you can see the cops sitting in a car not too far from the van where he was stabbed. There was no reason why they didn't see him get snatched into the van by the killer.

Dewey's Blood

When the killer stabbed Dewey, the blood on his head kept changing. It was thin one minute then thick the next.

Sidney Wanted To See The Killer

When Sidney was being taken to protective custody, the killer killed the cops who were guarding her. The killer also got in a car accident. When Sidney and Hallie had to climb out of the cop car, Sidney had the chance to see the killer's face. She reached for the mask but didn't take it off because she hit the horn. Once she and Hallie were free to go, she chose to go back to the care to see who the killer was. She should have taken the mask off when she had the chance instead of waiting until the killer was gone.

Sidney Went Back

Sidney could have been off the campus and away from the killer(s), but she chose to go back. She made this same mistake in the first movie.

When she's talking to the killer, she locks the same door in her house twice.

Where was Steve's killer?

When Casey got her question wrong, the killer killed Steve. The only problem was, the killer wasn't there when Casey turned on the light. The killer didn't have enough time to get away so she should have been able to see the killer.

Casey can be heard screaming

When Casey is running away from the killer, the killer puts a hand on her mouth. You can still hear her screaming even though her mouth is covered.

Casey had blood on her back

The killer stabbed Casey in the front (chest or shoulder area), but when she tried to call out to her mother, she had blood on the back of her sweater.

Sydney's father knocked

When Billy snuck in Sydney's room, he made a lot of noise. Her father clearly knocked on the door which was why she wanted Billy to leave, yet when she opened the door, she asked him “Can you knock?”

Reporters at school

Why were the reporters at the school when Casey and Steve were killed at Casey's house? Why did they assume that their murders were related to someone at the school. Their deaths could have been random killings.

When Sydney fought the killer

When the killer revealed himself/herself in her house, they got into a fight. You could clearly tell that Sydney was a stunt double.

Why did the killer let Sydney sleep?

Sydney fell asleep while she was waiting for her friend Tatum to pick her up at her house. Sydney walked around her house and there was no sign of life in the house. However, when the killer called her, he/she jumped out at her from the closet. My problem with this is that if he/she were already in the house, why didn't the killer get her while she was asleep?

Gale was always around

How did Gale always know to be around whenever something happened? Unless she got tipped off by the killer/killers, she shouldn't have known to be around whenever something happened.

The killer changed outfits

When Sydney was in the bathroom, the killer was in there. There was a camera shot of the killer's pants, but they weren't the same color as the paints the killer wore earlier. It was still the same day so when did the killer change?

The killer wasn't spotted

The killer was outside in broad daylight dressed in the costume, but no one saw him/her.

Stores closed for curfew

The police issued a nine o'clock curfew for the town, but the people were closing up the stores before sunset.

Dewey allowed the kids to drink

When Dewey went to the party, he saw a teenager with a beer. He jokingly told him that he was under age. Why would a cop allow teenagers to drink?

Tatum went out the cat door

When Tatum tried to escape from the killer through the cat door, a stunt double was used. Tatum's hair kept changing so you could tell it wasn't the same actress.

The batteries fell out

Just before Randy goes over the movie rules, he pauses the tape. When he picks up the remote to pause the tape, you can see red batteries fall out of the remote.

Sydney stayed on the property

The killer wasn't after her anymore while she was at Stu's house, yet she chose to stay there instead of running away from the house.

SPOILER WARNING

Sydney should have known that Randy wasn't the killer

When She's in the news van with Kenny, they see a footage of what's going on in Stu's house. Gale put a camera in the house so she and Kenny could see what was going on. Sydney saw how the killer was going after Randy so she should have known that he was innocent.

Randy's limp

Gale hit Randy on the head with her phone when he walked up to her news van. For some reason, he ended up limping when he wasn't hit in the leg.

SPOILER WARNING

Why did the killers keep stabbing each other?

When they were talking to Sydney about their plan to set up her father, they stabbed each other. How did they expect to kill Sydney and her father if they were wounded from all of the stabbing?

He's never had a true job before, until one day, a magical envelope is tucked inside his bookshelf by his mother. The letter requested him to go to an interview to become a librarian.

As he lands the job, he is not fully aware of what lay ahead of him. One piece of the Spear of Destiny gets stolen from the library, and it is up to him to save the world!

Using his knowledge of language, he breaks the code of the language of the birds. It would take a normal person a very long time to do it, but he did it in a short amount of time.

In the process of saving the world, he meets Sonya Walger, the keeper of the librarian. In this movie, three goals are met. Flynn gets a job, saves the world, and meets the girl of his dreams. It is a typical happy ending movie!

If you're me this is the best movie of the year. This is essentially number 2 film from the same people who did “Shaun of the Dead.” I didn't see SotD because I'm not a fan of horror films so I didn't think I'd get many of the gags. I'm told their were a ton of running gags that were continued from the first film. If that's true the Wright did a great job of fitting them in without disrupting this film, because I never felt like I was the only one not in on the joke.

This film out does it's self. The first half is gentle and engaging, we really learn to like the characters. The second half is hilarious, over the top action made all the more ridiculous because of the unlikely bad guys. I was reminded of the old Tim Conway film “The Detectives.” I really recommend this film.

What about the “R” Rating?

If you don't like violence in your movies or can barely tolerate violence if there is a good plot-understand that this is basically a spoof of violent action films with some other genres thrown in, including horror. The violence is turned up and made fun of.

There's some tough language too.

What if I hate Shaun of the Dead?

You'll hate this movie too.

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There is none that I saw. It's just fun.