Soul Plane
My Score
6.5/10
Soul Plane was your basic black comedy. Tom Arnold, Ryan Pinkston, Snoop Dogg, and Method Man are hilarious. I gave this movie a 6.5 because the plot wasn’t really that great. I liked the Punk'd reference in there by Tom Arnold and Ryan Pinkston, considering they both have worked for Punk'd. The part with the Arab guy was good too. It was basically about this guy who starts his own airline.
MoViE ZoNe Review
The movie starts where Nashawn Wade (Kevin Hart) is getting on an airline, at first he can't being his dog on board, then they run out of chicken, then his ass is sucked into the toilet, and lastly, his dog takes a ride through the propellers, so he sues the airline company and ends up getting 100 million dollars. With this money he opens his own airline, NWA. The piglet is Captain Mack (Snoop Dogg), a man who learned how to fly in prison (with the Taliban, LOL!), is afraid of heights, and has never flown a plane before. Nashawn's cousin, Muggsy (Method Man) is the one who hired him. Elvis Hunkee (Tom Arnold) and his family are the only white people on the plane. His daughter is about to turn 18 and basically tells her father she's gonna be a slut, his son, who early in the movie dressed and wanted to be like his father, is now decked out in gangster gear and his girlfriend hurts her vocal cords with this other guy, I'll leave it at that. Well on the plane is Nashawn's old girlfriend, Giselle (K.D. Aubert), who's engaged now. He spends most of the time trying to talk to her. The scenes in the cockpit are by far the best. Anyway, Elvis makes up with his daughter and Captain Mack ends up dieing because he eats African mushrooms so Nashawn, Giselle, Elvis, Mugs, the hot Spanish stuartist and Jamiqua (Mo'Nique) one of the security woman have to figure out how to land the plane, which they do a good job of.
It was a pretty funny movie. The best parts of the movie was in the cockpit, as stated earlier, with Snoop Dogg and his African co-pilot, hilarious stuff. Now there can definitely be a sequel, but apparently this one didn't do too great in theatres so who knows.
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Gayman: *under his breath* Sh*t, I should be flying this plane, in Africa I was captain of the airlines, ‘dis motherf*cker doesn’t know how to fly.
Captain Mack: *getting dreads put in* Man, shut the f*ck up, I here you over there ‘I was captain of blah blah blah” whatever man.
The Punisher
My Score
8/10
It's your basic revenge story. The action was awesome, and they did The Punisher character perfectly. John Travolta and Tom Jane were awesome. His GTO is great and his neighbors supply the humor in the movie.
MoViE ZoNe Review
The movie started at a boatyard, where a weapons deal was going to happen, the deal went bad and the police showed up. Now the guy selling the weapons happened to be an undercover cop named Frank Castle (Tom Jane). One of the two guys buying the weapons was Howard Saint's (John Travolta) son, he was killed in a gunfight that followed. Castle retires after this and goes to a family reunion in Puerto Rico. Saint's pissed that his son is dead and finds out what happened then orders Frank and his entire family killed, so Saint's guys go down to Puerto Rico and shoot everything up. They run over Frank's wife and son and leave Frank for dead, but wouldn't you know it, he doesn't die. He rests up then becomes The Punisher. He threatens Saint's lackey Mick (the other guy who was buying the guns), Mick hates the Saints and decides to help Frank. So the first thing Frank does is watch everyone, he takes his tombstone and puts it in a golf course that Howard Saint goes to, so they know he's alive. Frank then goes on to steal and give out a lot of Saint's money, then kill two of the guys that killed his family. After this Saint sends a couple of hitman after Frank, first some guy that has a guitar, Frank kills him with a knife to the throat, then a big Russian guy (played by wrestling's Kevin Nash). The Russian guy gives Frank his best fight, but Frank ends up scolding the guy's face and knocking him down a flight of stairs, killing him. After this Frank plans and comes up with a way for Howard Saint to kill his wife Livia (Laura Harring), who was actually the person who wanted Frank's family killed, and his best friend, so Frank frames them into sleeping with each other and Howard finds out and kills them both. Now Howard gets a bunch of guys in his house and tells them that they get 50 grand and 50 more when they kill Frank, Frank crashes the party and kills everyone, including Howard and his other son. Frank then is about to kill himself but decides he is going to be a vigilante called The Punisher.
Now I've never seen the original or read the comics, so I didn't really know what was gonna happen. The action scenes were awesome, the ending had a whole bunch of explosions which were great, and the fact that he gets back at all of the guys that killed his family is awesome. There could definitely be a sequel to this one. The thing that I liked most about this movie was The Punisher's arsenal and attitude. If you like action movies or movies based on comic books, you'll like this one.
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Frank Castle: This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid move, it’s an emotional response……No, not vengeance………..punishment.
My Score
7/10
The thing that I liked about this movie was Marlon Wayans, he was hilarious. Other then that, the movie was decent, I thought the ending sucked. Tom Hanks was awesome in this movie, is character is great. Marlon Wayans and J.K. Simmons play off each other perfectly.
MoViE ZoNe Review
The movie starts with Professor G. H. Dor (Tom Hanks) acquires Marva Munson’s (Irma P. Hall) spare bedroom and starts plotting to rob a casino. His group consist of the inside guy, the foul mouthed Gawain (Marlon Wayans), along with a former general (Tzi Ma), a football oaf named Lump (Ryan Hurst), and Pancake (J.K. Simmons), an explosives ‘expert.’ They’re cover is that they’re a band. They’re first drag is when Gawain gets fired and there is a rock in their way, they easily overcome these obstacles and soon obtain 1.6 million dollars, at the cost of Pancake’s finger, which is carried away by Marva’s pet cat Pickles, who has been watching the men most of the time. Marva finds out about it and tells them t decide, either they give up the money and go to church, or they go to jail. So they plan to kill her, first Gawain tries to kill her, but she reminds him of his mother. He gets into a fight with Pancake and Gawain ends up getting shot and dies. Then Pancake tries to escape with the money, so The General kills him. Then The General tries to kill the old lady but trips on the stairs and dies. So all that’s left is The Professor and Lump. Lump turns on The Professor and goes to shoot him with a gun that was just given to him by The Professor. The first shot is blank, so Lump raises the gun to his face and looks down the chamber to find that there is a bullet in the gun. So now all that’s left is The Professor, and while he’s looking off the bridge, a statue breaks and falls on his head, knocking him over the river. The Sheriff doesn’t believe Marva that she has the stolen money so he tells her to keep it, so she donates it all away. At the end, the cat drops Pancake’s finger off the bridge.
So, as you can see, it sucks that they all die and all their hard work goes to waste, and I like the thing about the cat, either saying it played a role in their downfall or that it learned something from them. I was really bummed when Marlon died, that kind of killed the comedy in the movie. If your looking for a decent comedy, you might be able to find it in The Ladykillers.
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Gawain: He gone done brought his b*tch to the Waffle Hut!