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The main point of this relatively fresh film, released in 2012 Spring, is to parody the Nazis. They have built the ’Fourth Reich’ on the dark side of the Moon, after being defeated in 1945. The movie itself is set in 2018.

The movie is quite international: both German and English are spoken, since the film is done in co-operation with German, Finland and Australia. The protagonist Renate, along with James are the two main characters. Renate is at first an obedient nazi born in the Moon, but this changes after she visits the Earth. On the other hand, James is a black person visiting the Moon, where he is captured by the nazis and experimented. Both of them evolve during the film, at the end falling in love.

The genre is funnily science fiction, featuring lots of action and a few comic puns. The nazis have a super weapon, flying saucers and mindblowing headquarters. When these Moon nazis are finally discovered, massive warfare begins in the space, fitting for an action film. Overall the film and characters are very aesthetically pleasing, no sign of low-budget. Not so much for the plot and manuscript.

The film can be described as a trainwreck. What happens between the beginning and end of the film is largely irrelevant. Some plot twists serve no purpose at all, or are just plain stupid. Towards the end, Iron Sky becomes much more unrealistic, crazy and messy. To illustrate my point, the antagonist Klaus’ plan to conquer the world by spouting Nazi-like propaganda for The US presidents re-election campaign, is presumably meant to be smart, but I never saw any point in it. Klaus forgets this plan, kills a few people, suddenly becoming the new Führer. Ultimately the nations, who at first were allies, engage in an international nuclear war because of a dispute between a valuable resource on the Mo0n.

Iron Sky is somewhat entertaining way to spend time. It saddens me to see much greater characters and scenery to be shadowed by such an awful manuscript.

Sources:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Sky

The Hangover -movie is released on June 2009. It is produced by Todd Phillips and Daniel Goldberg. The movie is comedy movie. The main characters are Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Doug (Justin Bartha).

The movie is telling about four friends who organized the bachelor party in Las Vegas to one of their friend. It is enough that in the group is one a little bit weirdo person who buy accidentally a knockout drops and no one could not remember anything about what happened in the bachelor party. In the next morning when they woke up and saw that the fiancé was lost and they did not have any idea where he could be, they started to recall what they remember of last night. The night has been a lot of different than they could even remember. They found a baby from the closet, real tiger was in hotels bathroom, stolen police car and a huge win from poker game. Even one of them was get married.

I think that the best character was Zach Galifianakis who acted Alan. He was the “stupid one” who caused everything. His whole essence is perfect for the role. His appearances were awesome and they way how he even speaks make me laugh every time. He has so much talent to act the funny person in movies.

The best part of movie was definitely when Alan was going to bathroom in the morning and he saw that tiger was laying on the floor. The boys tried to get the tiger out of the bathroom and give it back to Mike Tyson, who own it.

I would recommend the film to people who like watch comedy movies and laugh a lot and often.
The movie will always cheer up if you are mad or just want to relax and laugh a lot.

The name of the movie: Napapiirin sankarit

Director: Thomas ” Dome” Karukoski

Movie`s main character is Janne. Janne has got a common-law wife called Inari. He loves Inari. Janne is an unemployed and that is why he has no money. Janne has got a two friends with whom he spends a lot of time. Kapu is an unembloyed bachelor, who is from time to time very depressed. Räihänen is also unembloyed bachelor, but he is also very simple minded. Janne, Kapu and Räihänen are friends and together they have always very funny and they take care of each other in every situation. They also drink often. The characters seem real and they grow and develop during the movie. They understand what friendship and honesty means.

The story begins when Inari is giving money to Janne and asks him to buy a digibox. The sum of money goes on drinking for example. Inari says that she should leave Janne if she didn`t get a digibox by tomorrow morning. Janne and his friends must go to Rovaniemi to buy a digibox because there is Inari`s father`s electronics shop. They have only a one big problem. They don`t have money. They have to earn it somehow. They wash cars windscreens and they butcher one reindeer for example. They have many difficulties.

The setting of this movie is Northern Finland. The friends spend their time in the car, in the gas statioin etc. The landscape is very beautiful in Rovaniemi for example. The friends trip takes only a one day. The story begins Janne´s home and ends there too, when Janne gives the digibox to Inari in a special way. On the trip Janne butchered the reindeer to the Russians, but they didn`t pay it to Janne. Finally The Russians bring the digibox to Janne by helicopter.

The narrator in the story is Kapu and the main theme of this novel is friendship and love. Movie`s message is that you can`t leave your frinds when she or he is in trouble.

The best part in the story is the event when Janne, Kapu and Räihänen are running outdoors and they are dressing up car`s seats jackets. The whole movie is very entertaining and funny. For that reason I recommend it to everybody.

I write this film-review from the movie savages. The movie is released on July 2012.

Savages is an American crime thriller film. It was directed by Oliver stone. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Don Winslow. Leading actors are Taylor Kitsch (Chon), Blake Lively (Ophelia),Aaron Taylor-Johnson(Ben) and Salma Hayek(Elena).

In the movie characters have many problems. Two men who sell marijuana to medical use loves same person, Ophelia. A Mexican drug-cartel kidnaps Ophelia because Chon and Ben didn`t want to participate in drug selling operations. The reason why the cartel wanted to co-operate with Ben and Chon was that their marijuana was the best in the world.  The boys would do anything to save Ophelia from the cartel. Very violent criminal “Lado” who is working under the drug-cartel boss Elena, tries to hurt Ophelia but Elena starts pitying her and she gives Ophelia better place to sleep and eat.

The movie was filmed Laguna Beach, California. Ben and Chon differs much from each other. Ben is calm and Chon is wild soldier who has been peacekeeper in Afghanistan. Ophelia is beautiful and gentle. Elena is sad because her daughter doesn`t want keep in touch with her. Elena`s husband was killed so Elena had to take the lead at the cartel, which her daughter is mad at her for and that is why she doesn`t keep in touch.

When I saw this movie for the first time, I was really surprised from all the violence. But the same time movie was a beautiful love story. Salma and Blake`s characters were extremely good and they played their role perfectly.

My favorite part at the movie was absolutely lop off, were Elena, Lado, Chon and Ben meets face to face and agree switch between Elena`s daughter and Ophelia. Lop off was done suspenseful and characters act very well.

The movie is definitely one of my favorite, but maybe some most violent scenes would cut off. Story tells bluntly nowday`s drug- business but also it`s instructive story about love and friendship. Though the movie is violent it also include humor and fun scenes, which is always good. It`s difficult to make same scene fun and violent but in this movie it`s successfully passing well.

The atmosphere was all the time exciting and movie is easy to watch, you stay about story line easily. I promise that this movie is a good choice to people who likes that the movie which include  action, humor and drama.

The plot

Catch me if you can is a movie based on the life of Frank Abagnale. Frank was from a quite wealthy family , but after his dad got busted for tax avoidance the whole family started to fall apart. They moved to a new smaller house and later on Frank’s mom and dad got divorced. Frank had to make a decision of which parent he would start living with. He ran away and started to live like his dad, faking and lying his way success. He started with making fake checks and faking himself to be a pilot. Later he was also faking to be a lawyer and a doctor. He already had noticed that he was chased by FBI agent Carl Hanratty. Frank always managed to escape FBI by lying and faking of course. When Frank was making millions by fake check, he got caught  Hanratty, who cheated him and Frank got to taste his own medicine. Frank had a choise of going to long term jail or working for FBI. He decided to work for FBI and later became a really honoured worker.

Characters

Leonardo Di Caprio as Frank Abagnale is main actor. He was a young fake who was really charismatic person and handsome ladies man, which made it easy to form himself a fake careers.

Tom Hanks as Carl Hanratty is a FBI agent whose life was all about work and chasing fakes like Abagnale. He used to have a family but his wife left him and his daughter too so he had no other life than work. First Hanratty was not successful  chasing Abagnele because he believed all the lies he told because he was a good man.

Chritopher Walken as Frank Abagnale Sr. (Frank Abagnele’s Dad). He was also a fake and was really interested in his sons faking career and was cheering him to do it. He was proud of it.

Soundtrack

Music of the movie was very well fitted in the movie and it played along with the scenes. It made movie more exciting. Musics were made by John Williams who got awarded with Oscar for best music.

Genre

Catch me if you can is a crime drama movie is full of  action and thrilling moments.

Three weeks ago I went to the movie-theather to watch a film called The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and that is the movie that I’m going to talk about, but I still think the book is better. The movie was published in Finland 20th of November 2013 and was directed by Francis Lawrence. This movie is a sequel to the Hunger Games movie series.

The Hunger Games saga is sci-fi and tells about the future in North-America. It’s been divided into 12 districts and every year one man and woman is chosen from them to go to the Capitol to participate to the game and fight for their lives until only one life remains. The heroine Katniss Everdeen had irritated President Snow in the last movie, and because of that in the Catching Fire all the previous champions are forced to enter the hunger games once again. One 12th districts winner Peeta Mellark has to go to that game too. Katnis and Peeta had pretended to be lovers in the previous movie but in this movie they fall in love for real. Katniss in struggling between two men because she also likes Gale who is waiting for her back home in the 12th district. When the game begins, some of the players die in the arena. At one point Katniss breaks the arenas forcefield. Some of the alive tributes are saved but others are captured by the Capitol. Katniss was saved but Peeta was caught. That is were Catching Fire ends.

I think the movie was a little bit confusing. Jennifer Lawrence acts skilfully of the brave and determined Katniss Everdeen. Also I payed a lot of attention to the brilliant acting performance of Sam Claffing and Woody Harrelson. My favourite part was when the old lady Mags sacrificed herself for Peeta by walking to the deadly fog. I think this scene was very touching. The atmosphere was sad because people were killed and were forced to do against their own will. Many people lost their homes and family members because of the Capitols actions. In addition to Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss) the leading actors of the film are Josh Hutcherson (Peeta) and Liam Hemsworth (Gale). Willow Shields, who acts Katnissis little sister Prim, is one of the most important persons in the beginning of the movie. I would recommend this movie to anyone who has liked movie series like Harry Potter or Lord Of The Rings.