David’s Ramblings

Whoops, one more review. I’ve had a lot of movie watching lately.

Taxi is a mediocre comedy about a taxi driver that drives so fast that she can solve crimes on her lunch break. Even if you can believe Queen Latifah could manage that bike ride in the beginning of the movie, and even if you could believe her ultra sweet Taxi modifications, this movie still comes out short on the laughs. It was decent, but that was all it managed to be. 3.1π

My final mini-review to post for the night (man have I seen a lot of movies lately), this movie features a very politically correct team of pilots that find out their wing mate is going to be an AI construction.

Of course, as all AI do, this plane gets hit by lightning and starts thinking differently from its original programming. Thus comes the basic plot of the movie – how do you beat a plane that has reflexes a billion times quicker and a brain a billion times smarter?

If that was all that happened, I would have been disappointed by the formulaic feel to it, but they managed to throw in a twist or two to keep it interesting.

Final Score: 4.2π

You have to see the first Bill and Ted to get the complete storyline of this movie. This movie features God, the Devil, and Death, as well as time travelers planning on dominating the world by changing the past with killer robots. Both this and the movie preceding it are excellent movies and get 4.6π in my books, but you must understand that these have a certain brand of humor to them you may not ascribe to.

This movie features Samuel Jackson as a big time coach that wants to help the school he attended. It’s the typical ghetto high-school and the kids all think they’re gang members and all that. He comes in and turns them around and gives them some discipline. An MTV film through and through, it is nevertheless a generally good film I would recommend to anyone. 4.5π out of 900º

This movie stars Bruce Willis as a washed-out hostage negotiator. Even though he thinks he’s gotten away from the problems of his past job, he soon finds himself in another hostage situation in his small town. And then he finds himself personally involved when his family is held hostage in an interesting plot twist.

This movie was pretty well done. It kept the suspense well enough, and I rather enjoyed how good the acting was and such. My aunt did mention that every Bruce Willis movie is the same story with a different kid, and though that may be true, I still think this is a unique and well portrayed story. 4.3π out of 900º