SNITCH:
This one had Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in it which is partially why I think it attracted Brandon's eye. The movie is based on true events. It starts out with a teenage boy on Skype with his friend discussing a future party and how the friend is planning on bringing in some drugs to make money off of the other teenagers. The friend wants him to let the drugs get shipped to his house so he can bring them to the party. The teenager doesn't flat out say no, but you can tell he doesn't want to do it. Without waiting for an answer, the other boy ships the drugs anyway, and immediately the cops swarm around the house because the box had a tracker in it. The teenage boy gets arrested and upon refusal to set up other kids, he is facing a mandatory sentence of 10-30 years. One of the reasons he won't set up anyone, is because he doesn't know anyone. Just the friend that initally set him up in return for a lighter sentence. Fast forward a little ways, and you find out the teenager is being beaten up pretty bad in jail. He even ends up in the hospital for a while.
So taking it upon himself, the Rock (dad) decides he will snitch on people in place of his son. Hence the title Snitch. The Rock owns a construction company who just bought 2 new semi trucks. He finds one of his new employees that has already been arrested twice for selling drugs and convinces him to give him an introduction to some drug dealers. The meeting goes well and they agree that the semi trucks will be used to transport the drugs about 1,000 miles to another location. That's when you find out that the drug dealer that the rock is working for, actually works for someone else who is the head of the drug world. He is played by Benjamin Bratt.
Long story short, the rock, the DA and some local cops work together and bring the whole drug cartel down. At the very end of the movie, you see the son being released from jail. The employee that had been helping the rock the entire time is handed $100,000 from the cops as part of the reward money. When he asks why they're giving him some of the rock's reward money, the cop says that the rock mentioned something about having to lay him off of work. Afterwards you find out it's because the entire family will now have to go into witness protection for the rest of their lives due to the severity of the situation.
MY THOUGHTS: Overall, it was a really good movie. Not a ton of language, not a lot of drug viewing all things considering. I found it ok for my 12 year old to watch. Not that I enjoy him watching drug movies, but it was also a good opportunity to have the "see...this is what happens when you don't choose your friends wisely" talk. We all enjoyed the film.
12 ROUNDS 2: RELOADED
I immediately wanted to see this movie for two reasons. 1st, because I LOVE the first 12 Rounds movie. 2nd, because this movie stars Randy Orton. For anyone that knows me, knows I LOVE LOVE LOVE Randy Orton. So I was super excited to rent this movie.
This movie was similar to the original in the whole "12 rounds" theme. This movie opens up with Orton and his wife heading home from the movies. In front of them occurs a horrible car accident to which Orton who is a paramedic, rushes to help. He saves 2 out of 3 people, and the 3rd one dies. One year later, the game begins. There is a guy who contacts Orton and tells them that if he doesn't complete 12 rounds of a game he's created, his wife will be killed. Orton has no clue who this guy is or why he's contacted him but he's forced to play along. The rounds include finding locations within a set amount of time, finding certain people, putting together clues, etc.
Orton ends up finding a young man who is supposed to play along with him but neither of them know why. Eventually you find out the person behind this game is the husband of the lady who dies in the previous car crash. The young man that is accompanying Orton is the drunk driver that crashed into their car and killed her. Orton is being punished for saving his life, while the other man's wife died. The villain has killed every single person involved in that accident. The young man's father who was the mayor (who got him out of jail time), the man's lawyer, the judge that agreed to not send him to jail, everybody. He even killed the valet that was working at the club that gave him his car after he was drinking.
Of course the villain dies in the end and all is well for Orton and his wife.
MY THOUGHTS: This movie is NOT suitable for children. We figured since the 1st one wasn't bad, our 12 year old could watch this. WRONG. It has language, sex, and nudity. Not suitable for kids unless you're "that" type of parent. While I don't think Randy Orton will ever have a calling for being an actor, I think he did a relatively great job. The muscles didn't hurt either. He had one scene in particular that I would definitely say was his "break out" moment. It was a great scene. Overall, my husband and I enjoyed the film, but will not be letting our 12 year old watch it again.
ALEX CROSS:
Not my favorite movie. As a matter of fact, I didn't even watch the whole movie. Halfway through, Brandon fell asleep and I turned the computer on while our 12 year old finished watching it.
From what I remember of it, the movie is about Alex Cross (Tyler Perry) who is a detective who is trying to solve a serial killer murder. At one scene in the film, the serial killer is on the phone with Cross, and while they are talking, he shoots Cross' pregnant wife while she's sitting outside a restaurant waiting for Cross to finish his phone call. After that, the movie lost me and I quit watching it. I can't even tell you how they found the killer, or what the motives were.
MY THOUGHTS: I did not like this movie at all, and I can't give any details on it because I stopped paying attention. Had the wife not have been killed, I probably would have continued watching it. Although I am a big fan of Tyler Perry, I will not watch this movie again. I will definitely be sticking to Madea movies from now on.
SINISTER:
Against my better judgement, I agreed to watch this. The lady at the video store told Brandon that this was a good scary movie. Personally, I hate scary movies. I think that's why he's always trying to get me to watch them. This movie has not changed my opinion on scary movies.
This movie is about a guy who is a crime novelist. He writes books based on true crimes and tries to give the reader a perspective other than what the news and cops say. He always moves his family to whatever city the crime happened in so that he can get a better feel for the victims. This crime in particular involves a family that were hung in their own backyard. All except for the little daughter who is still missing. The main character actually moves his family into that same house, unbeknownst to his wife and kids. One day he's moving things into the attic and sees a box of home movies. Of course he plays them, and they end up being live footage of the family being hung. Then we see other footage of different crimes, all similar in the sense that all family members die except for one small child. The murders include drowning, throat slitting, getting ran over with lawnmowers, etc.
Being the crime writer that he is, he makes it his mission to solve these crimes. While this is going on, his son starts having night terrors and they find him asleep in moving boxes and in the bushes outside. Now I should mention that throughout the movie, you constantly see the ghosts of the little children that are "missing" from the murders. They follow him around the house all the time but he doesn't see them obviously.
In one scene, you find out that the ghost of the little girl who's missing, has made contact with the man's little girl. But they don't make it a huge part of the story, so you don't think much of it.
The man finally realizes that there is a problem when every night he locks up the home movies in his office, yet in the middle of the night he wakes up to find it set up and playing. He decides enough is enough and he moves his family back to their old house. When he gets home, he gets a call from the deputy in the old town that was helping him on the case. The deputy says he's figured out how the murders are related. It started when the first family was murdered. After they died, the next family that moved in, set the events in motion. After they moved out and into another house, they were the next to be murdered. Then when another family moved in and back out, that family was murdered and so on and so on. So the guy now realizes that because he was just living in the latest deceased family's house and just moved back out, his family will be next.
Then he goes into the attic to put more boxes back and he sees the box of home movies sitting in the middle of the room. Now there is an extra movie called "extended endings". It's the same movies but they last a little longer and show that each family was murdered by the little child that was "missing". I'm assuming it's because they were possessed by the devil.
The last scene of the movie shows the little girl murdering the man and the rest of the family, before joining the rest of the ghost children.
MY THOUGHTS: I hated this movie. Not because it was bad or poorly put together. All in all, it was a pretty genius film. I just hate scary movies. I might watch it again since I'll know whats going to happen, but I don't like the whole devil reference. All in all, it wasn't bad, mainly because it didn't give me nightmares afterwards. Except now my husband keeps messing with me about it.
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