Judgment Night
|
List Price: Our Price: $5.32 You Save: $4.63 (46%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $3.10 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of Judgment Night
Movie Review: judgment night
Summary: 5 Stars
judgment night is a story about 4 guys on their way to a boxing fight when they end up in the wrong area i love this movie its a great thriller the cast is great and the music is cool rent or buy this movie its one of my favorties 10/10Movie Review: Judgment Night
Summary: 5 Stars
Very good movie, Dennis Leary pulls off a good bad guy roll, Emilio is his stubby typical bad ass character, love this movie!Movie Review: Run Frank Run
Summary: 5 Stars
Highly recommned this movie. Keeps you on the edge of your seat and sitting in suspense.Movie Review: Degenerate souls crawling down degenerate places...
Summary: 4 Stars
From the cold, ruin-filled wastelands of Andrei Tarkovski's "Stalker", to the chiaroscuro-lit sewers in Carol Reed's filmnoir "The third man", to the chilly, rainy streets of post-World War Two Berlin in Wim Wenders' etherical fantasy "Wings of desire"... backgrounds with piles of dust and bricks, abandoned houses and closed-down abattoirs have always been attractive to filmmakers, and for that matter, to filmviewers.
It's these scenes of destruction and suburban alienation as decor in which even so mentally degenerate characters plow their way through - it's the decor of a nightmare, a nightmarish existence, in which the viewer is trapped as well.
Going down the serial killer's basement in "The Silence of the Lambs", Jodie Foster went down some deep steps in her soul as well. The team of workers who are tearing down an abandonned insane asylum in the haunting "Session 9" are slowly tearing each other up as much. The two victims in "Saw" meet each other and possibly their doom in a big worn-down toilet. In "The bone collector" Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington crawl down empty sewers, steam pipes, old slaughterhouses and stuffy libraries to find the necessary clues to catch a bloodthirsty madman. Angelina does this crawling physically, Denzel only mentally, but both are bound the restrictions of their own personal confinements.
In "Se7en" not-so-clean-shaven Brad Pitt enters a house that is filled with cockroaches and the stench of death with a flinch of unease that warns him (and the viewer) of more gruwesome things to come.
In many ways it reflects the viewers own dark side, which he keeps very much hidden for the outside world, but which he does care to share in the cinema. As if we open up our own Pandora's Box as soon as the theatre lights go out and the desolate landscapes fill the screen. Watching movies is a form of escapism, but at the same time we tend to throw ourselves in the basements, stairways and pits, because deep down we know that at the end the theatre will be filled with light again, and we can assure ourselves that we're really not that much down the drain as we might thought two hours ago.
This whole thing gives these movies some kind of extentialism in their guts and reason for some meditation. That is, if you're looking for more than just entertainment of course - no filmmaker should force the viewer into spirituallity or cinematic Buddhism. It's up to the audience to do so or not.
And tonight we have the underrated action thriller "Judgment night" in which Emilio Esteves and his friends get lost in a remote part of town and find themselves prey of a nasty gang, lead by howling hound Denis Leary.
Project buildings, high walls, empty trains and burning car wrecks surround our buddies on every corner and they close in to almost claustrophobic proportions. This makes the scenery another part of the nasty gang, when it works against our small-time heroes' escape - but then, a few moments later, when the wind suddenly changes direction, it becomes a partner and gives our heroes shelter for a moment or two.
Because sometimes, just sometimes, our nightmares work against the monsters they seem so eager to produce.
Movie Review: You be the judge
Summary: 4 Stars
Dont buy this if you haven't already seen it. Rent it first and then buy it if you like it. So if you have seen it you have probably made up your mind if you are going to add this collection or not already. But here is my 10 cents worth anyway.
The reason I ever saw this movie in the first place was for two reasons. a)the soundtrack which featured the top heavy metal and hip hop acts around at the time and fused them together. And b)Denis Leary, who I liked as a stand up comic and was curious to see him acting in a serious role playing your typical "bad guy" role.
I wasn't disappointed in either case. The music provides a great backdrop to the mood of the whole movie. And Denis was great in the role of Fallon, a drug-dealing no-nonsense bad guy in control of a whole neighbourhood.
So I didn't hesitate to buy this when it was finally released on DVD. It was a good movie back in its day and still is today in my opinion. The all star cast is a bonus as well, although I am not a particular fan of Jeremy Piven, he was quite good in this role. Peter Greene is once again very appealing in his bad guy role as Fallons right hand man.
It definitely wasn't Emilio Esteves' best movie and I think Cuba Gooding Jnr was out of place as his best friend, but still a worthwhile purchase for any fans of theirs.
Special features include a trailer and that's it. Would have been good to get a commentary from the director but overall I give it 3.5 stars and Ill round that up to 4.