Unstoppable (2010, Runaway Train Thriller) – 6/10 movie review

Cast / crew Denzel Washington: Chris Pine: Rosario Dawson: Ethan Suplee:

Unstoppable (2010) A mistake from a yard engineer lets train 777 leave it’s yard under full power, without a driver and a quickly broken failsafe. And a hazardous volatile cargo. Just how do you stop a speeding train? 6/10 Thrilling action movie with disappointing characters but quality star charisma from Denzel Washington and Chris Pine and some great helicopter and train stunt work to provide excitement and reason to watch. The "Inspired by a True Story" title card covers the Denzel / Pine bit where they catch up to the train to try and stop it but a big mid-film train explosion (this is a Tony Scott film, after all) is unconvincing, the railway boss is predictably, boringly evil, the omnipresent media covers the entire event from beginning to end with unconvincing detail (names of employees and how the incident started) and, unsurprisingly, all these clichés are added unnecessarily as the lazy screenwriter’s comfort blanket. Even more focus on the incident and less on the tiresome, entirely invented ‘drama’ and ‘characters’ in-between would have yielded a better movie. This movie contains a mouthed sexual swear word, mild swear words and unpleasant scenes. Classified 12A by BBFC. Persons under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

T.J. Hooker 2.13 Too Late for Love (1983, Police Action Drama) – 6/10 TV review

Cast / crew William Shatner: T.J. Hooker Adrian Zmed: Officer Vince Romano Heather Locklear: Officer Stacy Sheridan Richard Herd: Captain Sheridan Barbara Stock: Amy Robbins Thom Christopher: Harry Cort Theresa Saldana: Maria Santini Supervising Producer: Rick Husky Producer: Jeffrey Hayes Writer (Series’ Creator): Rick Husky Writer: Jack V. Fogarty Director: Michael Preece Executive Producer: Aaron Spelling Executive Producer: Leonard Goldberg

T.J. Hooker 2.13 Too Late for Love (1983) When a series of fur coat robberies takes place, Romano is delighted to have a chance to reacquaint himself with his beautiful clothes model ex-girlfriend, Amy, but her appearance at the same location as the robberies is not a coincidence. 6/10 An improvement on writer Jack V. Fogarty’s previous additions to the series, this is solid entertainment and features a terrific scene where Romano punches Hooker (that’s after eulogising him earlier to a date and, to be fair, he is instantly mortified). There’s also some good action with very tidy stuntworrk in the opening chase, a more thoughtful than usual shootout mid-way and an impressive solo beat down by Romano for the climax. This T.J. Hooker episode contains violence and a long look at stacy’s bum. Classified PG by BBFC. Parental Guidance. Links Previous episode: The Fast Lane Next episode: The Decoy

The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Corporate and Political Corruption Akira Kurosawa Drama) – 7/10 movie review

Cast / crew Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka Producer: Akira Kurosawa Writer: Hideo Oguni Writer: Eijiro Hisaita Writer: Akira Kurosawa Writer: Ryuzo Kikushima Writer: Shinobu Hashimoto Toshiro Mifune: Nishi Director: Akira Kurosawa

Bad Sleep Well, The (1960) The guests at a wedding of a chief executive’s daughter are politely astonished when the party receives a cake reminding them of the suicide of a company executive five years earlier and some of his guests are arrested as part of a police investigation into high-level political and corporate corruption. 7/10 While arguably a bit too long, this eventually gripping movie delivers solid characters and a fine story rather well. It seems to take a while to get through a scene-setting and deliberately uncomfortable wedding but once Toshiro Mifune takes centre stage, the story really starts to intrigue and the remaining time flies by. The very ending will take you by surprise (SPOILER the baddie arranges himself a sweet vacation in line with the title The Bad Sleep Well, i.e., he gets away with it). Special mention for the Criterion DVD art (shown alongside) which fits in brilliantly with the movie. This movie contains mild adult dialogue and inferred substance abuse and mild violence. Classified PG by BBFC. Parental Guidance.

The Matrix: Revolutions (2003, Science Fiction Action) – 6/10 movie review

Cast / crew Writer: Andy Wachowski Writer: Larry Wachowski Director: Andy Wachowski Director: Larry Wachowski Producer: Joel Silver Executive Producer: Andy Wachowski Executive Producer: Larry Wachowski Keanu Reeves: Neo Laurence Fishburne: Morpheus Carrie-Anne Moss: Trinity Hugo Weaving: Agent Smith Jada Pinkett Smith: Niobe Mary Alice: The Oracle Harold Perrineau: Link Monica Bellucci: Persephone Harry J. Lennix: Commander Lock Lambert Wilson: Merovingian

Matrix, The: Revolutions (2003) Neo is not in a coma, but he’s not conscious either. A quick trip to the Oracle, who has been forced to change her appearance to avoid capture by the Merovingian, reveals that he is in an isolated section of The Matrix controlled by Merovingian. Meanwhile, Zion itself has less than a day to go before the machines finally breach the city dock and Loc has to prepare defenses the best he can. 6/10 A bit of a stubbed toe of a movie. It feels like The Matrix tripped and fell at the last hurdle. While the story is fine, the brothers seem to have run out of steam and energy and this is reflected in the generally clichéd script, sometimes overly frenetic, unfocused direction and a truly dismal final action sequence. Only Hugo Weaving rises above. On second viewing, however, the disappointment isn’t so severe and an entertaining and spectacular sci-fi battle movie is eventually revealed. But nothing more. This movie contains mild swear words and extreme violence, graphic violence, gory and extremely unpleasant scenes and sado-masochistic sensuality. Classified 15 by BBFC. Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over. Links Previous: The Matrix: Reloaded

The Matrix: Reloaded (2003, Science Fiction Action) – 8/10 movie review

Cast / crew Writer: Andy Wachowski Writer: Larry Wachowski Director: Andy Wachowski Director: Larry Wachowski Producer: Joel Silver Executive Producer: Andy Wachowski Executive Producer: Larry Wachowski Executive Producer: Grant Hill Executive Producer: Andrew Mason Executive Producer: Bruce Berman Keanu Reeves: Neo Laurence Fishburne: Morpheus Carrie-Anne Moss: Trinity Hugo Weaving: Agent Smith Jada Pinkett Smith: Niobe Gloria Foster: The Oracle Harold Perrineau: Link Monica Bellucci: Persephone Harry J. Lennix: Commander Lock Lambert Wilson: Merovingian Randall Duk Kim: Keymaker

Matrix, The: Reloaded (2003) Neo is troubled by dreams that appear to depict the death of Trinity and knows that only one person can help him unravel things: the Oracle. Meanwhile, the machines are boring their way inexorably toward Zion. Morpheus thinks the key to their salvation lies inside The Matrix, but may his beliefs be entirely misplaced? 8/10 Genuinely stunning but you may have no idea why what’s going on is going on. Only Revolutions would reveal the extent of the story’s coherence (the pretentious philosophical content is interesting but probably evades comprehension on first viewing) but the presentation is absolutely jaw-dropping. Every action scene is fantastic with clear choreography, technique and topography. The standout scenes are the Infinity Smith brawl and the Keymaker chateau fight and freeway chase; the latter is among the greatest action scenes ever filmed featuring, I think still uniquely, our heroine riding a motorbike full pelt the wrong way against four lanes of busy traffic. This movie contains sexual swear words and offensive gesturing and extreme fantasy violence, some graphic violence, gory and unpleasant scenes and sex scene (carrie-anne moss & keanu reeves), nudity, inferred / animated female nudity and orgasm. Classified 15 by BBFC. Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over. Links Previous: The Matrix Next: The Matrix: Revolutions

Xbox 360 vs PS3 vs PC Head-to-Head Face Off: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

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Fracture (2008, Third Person Science Fiction Action, 360) – 8/10 game review

Cast / crew Studio Director: Michael J. McDonald Director Of Engineering: Michael J. McDonald Lead Designer: Jeff Gregg

Fracture (2008) As America is physically split in two by global warming, their people are ethically split as the Pacificans go all out for genetic modification while The Alliance outlaw genetics. Wars have been started over smaller things. 8/10 Unlike the Red Faction games and their Geo-Mod technology, Fracture incorporates it’s brilliantly accomplished terrain deformation technology and makes it a completely necessary gameplay and tactical element (especially on Hardcore difficulty). You can always tell if a new weapon system is completely brilliant if you wish it would appear in other games. Half Life 2‘s Gravity Gun, Portal‘s Portal Gun, Resistance‘s Auger and everything in Ratchet and Clank games are good examples. Fracture‘s Entrencher (Terrain Deformation) gun can now be added to the list. There are problems. You can’t always see what you’re doing because the field of view feels so narrow (you can run past someone and not see them), you sprint by jogging with motion blur, and our hero seems to shoot from his dead centre meaning you have to leave cover far enough to be able to wave your privates at the enemy before you can take them down (naturally enemies don’t have this problem, they seem to be able to shoot at your aura). However, the game looks fantastic (this is arguably the best looking third-party Unreal Engine 3 game), all the novelty weapons are fun and interesting, the ponderous Basil Poledouris-alike music from Michael Giacchino, Chris Tilton and Chad Seiter is entertainingly self-important and, of course, the Terrain Deformation technology is endlessly impressive. This game contains violence. Classified 12 by BBFC. Suitable only for persons of 12 years and over. Links Unskippable Eurogamer Head-to-Head: 360

T.J. Hooker 2.12 The Fast Lane (1982, Police Action Drama) – 7/10 TV review

Cast / crew William Shatner: T.J. Hooker Adrian Zmed: [Officer Vince Romano] Heather Locklear: [Officer Stacy Sheridan] Richard Herd: Captain Sheridan Rosemary Forsyth: Irene King Ike Eisenmann: Matt King Stefan Arngrim: Luke Dana Kimmell: Susan Folsen Supervising Producer: Rick Husky Producer: Jeffrey Hayes Writer (Series’ Creator): Rick Husky Writer: Jeffrey Hayes Director: Don Chaffey Executive Producer: Aaron Spelling Executive Producer: Leonard Goldberg

T.J. Hooker 2.12 Fast Lane, The (1982) Hooker goes up against the evils of teenage alcoholism but it comes closer to Romano than they would expect. 7/10 This episode touches a convincing nerve as a parent has no idea that her teenage son has been fired from his job, is an alcoholic and is partaking in criminal activity from selling booze to minors to armed robbery. You often see people blaming the parents for this, that and the other but the truth is it is common for them to be the last to know. The remainder of the episode contains the elements you come to expect with convenient plotting, cheesy dialogue and unconvincing camaraderie but there’s a great moment when Romano stops Hooker shooting at a crim (Shatner’s furious reaction face is awesome), the climactic stunt is good (it’s a combination stunt where Hooker jumps off a truck before it overturns, all in one shot) and, as highlighted before, the stories’ core resonates strongly. This T.J. Hooker episode contains unpleasant scenes, violence. Classified PG by BBFC. Parental Guidance. Links Previous episode: The Connection Next episode: Too Late for Love

Xbox 360 vs PS3 Head-to-Head Face Off: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood

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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008, Action Movie Game, 360) – 1/10 game review

Cast / crew Director: Jon Burton Lead Designer: Arthur Parsons Lead Programmer: Chris Stanforth Designer: Jon Burton Designer: James McLoughlin Designer: Arthur Parsons Designer: Dewi Roberts

Chronicles of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) 1/10 This is one of the most interesting games ever released. It garnered negative or average reviews compared to developer Traveller’s Tales LEGO games which tend to get universally positive reviews. However, there is no gameplay difference between this and the LEGO games and little technical difference. But this game is horrible. It’s unrewarding to play. It’s not fun. The action controls are unresponsive and finickity. The camera frequently insists on placing itself behind scenery or obscuring players and points of interest. It’s one for achievement hunters only. It’s painfully, wilfully irritating. Yet it has exactly the same gameplay as all those lauded LEGO games. Fascinating. This Chronicles of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian game contains extreme blade and arrow violence, some extreme fantasy violence. Classified PG by BBFC. Parental Guidance. Links Movie review

Petulia (1968, Spousal abuse adultery drama) – 6/10 movie review

Cast / crew Director: Richard Lester Producer: Raymond Wagner Julie Christie: Petulia George C. Scott: Archie Richard Chamberlain: David Arthur Hill: Barney Shirley Knight: Polo Pippa Scott: May Kathleen Widdoes: Wilma Joseph Cotten: Mr. Danner Music Composer And Conductor: John Barry Writer (Screenplay): Lawrence B. Marcus Writer (Original Novel): John Haase Writer (Adaptation): Barbara Turner Director of Photography: Nicolas Roeg

Petulia (1968) A beautiful socialite insists on having an affair with a doctor but it’s not provoked by lust. 6/10 While certainly intriguing enough, this is typical of all Richard Lester movies: it feels a lot longer than it is. George C. Scott seems out-of-place as Julie Christie hurls herself sexually at him. She’s great and so is the equally great-looking Richard Chamberlain as her husband. With the exception of the luminous Christie and “beautiful” Chamberlain, the movie feels poorly photographed but it was clearly deliberate. The story is presented in a non-linear manner but the writers and director are way behind the audience. That said, it does feature the still-uncommon topic of spousal abuse and the nature of the affair is surprisingly convincing in it’s staccato confusion. I also liked that the hospital nuns drove a Porsche. This movie contains sexual swear words, adult dialogue and gory and unpleasant scenes and sexuality. Classified 15 by BBFC. Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over.

Xbox 360 vs PS3 vs PC Head-to-Head Face Off: Call of Duty: Black Ops

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T.J. Hooker 3.16 Hooker’s Run (1984, Police Action Drama) – 4/10 TV review

Cast / crew William Shatner: T.J. Hooker Adrian Zmed: [Officer Vince Romano] Heather Locklear: [Officer Stacy Sheridan] James Darren: Jim Corrigan Writer (Series’ Creator): Rick Husky Shanna Reed: [Angie Quine] Kaleena Kiff: [Mary Quine] Alex Rocco: [Frank Dio] Tom Atkins: [Phil Parker] Supervising Producer: Rick Husky Producer: Jeffrey Hayes Co-Producer: Simon Muntner Writer: Simon Muntner Director: Cliff Bole Executive Producer: Aaron Spelling Executive Producer: Leonard Goldberg

T.J. Hooker 3.16 Hooker’s Run (1984) A murderer’s former girlfriend could send him to prison with her testimony, but her death has been ordered and there is a leak in the department. Hooker knows he can trust Vince, Stacy and Jim but everyone else, including ex-army buddy and Detective in Charge Phil Parker, must be under suspicion. 4/10 Badly plotted and unenthusiastically, though pacily, directed. Asking James Darren to do more acting is always a bad idea as he consistently comes across as creepy, inappropriate or unconvincing. Brilliantly, he even suggests that another character get “personality lessons.” Still, his role moves aside after a while and the action is pretty tidy. There’s a good staircase chase and rooftop battle, a very good high fall, Hooker gets through another squad car and there’s an A-Team-inspired climax. Links Previous episode: Exercise in Murder Next episode: Hot Property

T.J. Hooker 3.15 Exercise in Murder (1984, Police Action Drama) – 8/10 TV review

Cast / crew William Shatner: T.J. Hooker Adrian Zmed: Officer Vince Romano Heather Locklear: Officer Stacy Sheridan James Darren: Jim Corrigan Writer (Series’ Creator): Rick Husky Judson Scott: Bobby Curtis Tracy Scoggins: Jill Newmark Robert Davi: Tom Warfield James O’Sullivan: Internal Affairs Greg Morris: Dave Reemer Supervising Producer: Rick Husky Producer: Jeffrey Hayes Co-Producer: Jack V. Fogarty Co-Producer: Simon Muntner Writer (Screenplay): Jack V. Fogarty Writer (Screenplay): Simon Muntner Writer (Story): Ed Waters Director: Phil Bondelli Executive Producer: Aaron Spelling Executive Producer: Leonard Goldberg

T.J. Hooker 3.15 Exercise in Murder (1984) Corrigan’s magically appearing girlfriend of “three or four months” (!), Jill, is inextricably involved with a gang pulling off armed jewel robberies while Hooker has to come to terms with shooting a small child. 8/10 This is classic Hooker with all the boxes ticked. The main crime plot is fine, there’s a car chase, both Hooker and Corrigan get personal stakes in the plot and an expanded role for Stacey means dancing in a leotard and a shower scene. The makers pull off a great scene early on when Hooker shoots a small child (or the technical term, as Internal Affairs later puts it, “blowing away the little sucker”). The scene is delivered without fanfare or build-up and just as any other part of the typical Hooker action sequence. They even have the kid go flying backwards into something just like if it was a bad guy. It was the perfect way to do it. I was eating cereal and it stopped me mid-munch in a did-they-just-do-that moment. This T.J. Hooker episode contains adult dialogue and violence and sexuality. Links Previous episode: The Snow Game Next episode: Hooker’s Run

Chuck Season 1 (2007, Espionage Action Comedy) – 6/10 TV review

Cast / crew Zachary Levi: Chuck Bartowski Yvonne Strahovski: Sarah Walker Joshua Gomez: Morgan Grimes Sarah Lancaster: Ellie Bartowski Adam Baldwin: Major John Casey Creator: Josh Schwartz Creator: Chris Fedak Mark Christopher Lawrence: Big Mike Bonita Friedericy: General Beckman Tony Todd: CIA Director Graham Ryan McPartlin: Captain Awesome Producer: Phil Klemmer Producer: Robert Duncan McNeill Producer: Paul Marks Co-Executive Producer: Chris Fedak Executive Producer: Josh Schwartz

Chuck Season 1 (2007) Chuck isn’t just a computer geek working for Buy More superstores: he’s also a critical CIA / NSA asset who has in his memory all the United States’ secrets. Unwittingly. By accident. Which is inconvenient. 6/10 Slight but charming spy caper.With the exception of the fairly strong, if largely bloodless and injury-free, violence, this feels like a children’s spy show. In fact, as much as I like Zachary Levi as Chuck, it would probably make more sense if Chuck was a child. The problem with the show is the premise; it never makes any sense (the whole Intersect in his brain thing and the fact that every major crim in the world parades through Los Angeles just so Chuck can identify them). However, the stars and characters are fine, Zachary Levi is terrific and the show has a simple charm that makes it nice to watch. So while it’s not exactly good, I have enjoyed it and that’s rather more important. This Chuck episode contains mild swear words, adult dialogue and occasional strong violence and occasional sexuality. Classified 15 by BBFC. Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over. Links Next: Chuck Season 2

T.J. Hooker 3.14 The Snow Game (1984, Police Action Drama) – 5/10 TV review

Cast / crew William Shatner: T.J. Hooker Adrian Zmed: Officer Vince Romano Heather Locklear: Officer Stacy Sheridan James Darren: Jim Corrigan Writer (Series’ Creator): Rick Husky Gary Lockwood: Pepe Serna: Jay Varela: Richard Herd: Captain Dennis Sheridan Supervising Producer: Rick Husky Producer: Jeffrey Hayes Writer: Fred J. McKnight Director: William Shatner Executive Producer: Aaron Spelling Executive Producer: Leonard Goldberg

T.J. Hooker 3.14 Snow Game, The (1984) When a drug bust goes fatally wrong, then Romano gets shot, Hooker, Stacy and Corrigan go undercover to bring the perpetrators and their employers down. 5/10 Po-faced episode where everyone except Hooker is unconvincingly devastated (especially Corrigan, goodness he’s bad) after a fellow cop is assassinated. For a Shatner-directed episode, though, this is quite good. Unlike James Darren and Adrian Zmed, the man himself manages to pull off the determination and emotion required by the episode. The script isn’t terribly broken and he stages some good action sequences which have pace, shape and environmental interest. For instance, there is very good use of a helicopter in the opening action – especially for the sequence’s action punchline – while the bad guy gets a spectacular exit off a ship. Links Previous episode: The Lipstick Killer Next episode: Exercise in Murder

Legendary (2008, Fantasy Action Shooter, 360) – 7/10 game review

Cast / crew Producer: John Garcia-Shelton Lead Designer: Stephen J. Skelton Lead Engineer: Ike Macoco Writer (Story): Eric Church Writer (Story): Stephen J. Skelton Writer (Screenplay): Stephen J. Skelton Writer (Screenplay): Tiffany Chu Fay Masterson: Vivian Enn Reitel: LeFey Lloyd Sherr: Lexington

Legendary (2008) Deckard, an ugly art thief, is hired to steal the contents of a box from a museum. When he attempts to open the box, it destroys the museum and New York and lets out all kinds of fantastical presumed-mythical creatures. It seems his employer left out one tiny teeny piece of ever-so-slightly critical information – the box is Pandora’s Box – and Deckard has just inadvertently unleashed the end of the world as we know it. 7/10 Every game reviewer in the world must have been on their period or something when Spark Unlimited released this but it is a spectacular shooter with terrific creature design both visually and tactically. Now it does start badly with a critical but optional prologue and an extremely ugly guy going through an extremely unpleasant cut-scene. You presume he’s a bad guy but, distressingly, he’s you. Fortunately, the game itself is much better. The fantastical creatures put up a significant challenge at all times requiring (a lot of) bullets and tactics to defeat while the human enemies provide a good change of pace. The level design is functional and urges you through the game at an entertaining pace. So why the hatefully poor reviews? Some of the elements such as shooting and jumping are a hair off just right, the artists can’t do faces, while some invisible scenery and spawning enemies provide small annoyances. At the end of the day, though, I think it was snobbishness. Legendary is a decent game with good ideas and a unique scenario but from an unfashionable developer. It never had a chance. This game contains mild swear words and extended extreme gun and axe violence, fantasy violence, extremely gory, violent and extremely unpleasant scenes. Classified 15 by BBFC. Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over.

White Knight Chronicles (2009, Fantasy RPG, PS3-exclusive) – 6/10 game review

Cast / crew Producer: Akihiro Hino Director: Yoshiaki Kusuda Event Director: Hirokazu Nagai Daniel Taylor: Leonard Kari Wahlgren: Cisna Dannah Feinglass: Yulie Charles Shaughnessy: Eldore

White Knight Chronicles (2009) The Kingdom of Balandor is about to come under attack and one of it’s most secret treasures exposed: an ancient supernatural White Knight armour stored deep below the castle. Strangely, the White Knight armour chooses to bestow it’s power upon Leonard, an ordinary labourer about to become an extraordinary hero. 6/10 White Knight Chronicles falls down on a tactics-free battle experience which you can consistently complete with an occasional finger while doing something else entirely. It’s a shame as the story, setting and characters endear themselves to you and boast some nice moments (such as a son putting more effort into producing a fake ornament for his father than it took our heroes to procure the real ornament – though that makes no sense whatsoever, of course). Oddly, the story really requires you to play as hero Leonard while your custom avatar silently accompanies him. Once the story is dealt with there is a huge free online component to explore with your custom avatar as the principle hero that is comparable in time and grind to paid MMO’s. It’s an easy-to-play game that is refreshingly enjoyable to amble through and is better than it first appears. This game contains mild swear words and fantasy violence, unpleasant scenes. Classified 16+ by PEGI. The game is only suitable for persons who have reached the age of 16 or over.. Classified Violence by PEGI. Game contains depictions of violence. Classified Drugs by PEGI. Game refers to or depicts the use of drugs. Links Unskippable Part 1 Unskippable Part 2

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Hannie Caulder (1971, Revenge Western) – 6/10 movie review

Cast / crew Raquel Welch: Hannie Caulder Robert Culp: Thomas Luther Price Ernest Borgnine: Emmett Jack Elam: Frank Strother Martin: Rufus Christopher Lee: Bailey Diana Dors: Madame Writer (Original Characters): Ian Quicke Writer (Original Characters): Bob Richardson Writer (Original Story): Peter Cooper Writer (Screenplay): Z.X. Jones Producer: Patrick Curtis Director: Burt Kennedy

Hannie Caulder (1971) After her husband is killed and she is gang-raped by three violent outlaws, Hannie Caulder teams up with bounty hunter Thomas Price and learns how to kill and avenge herself. 6/10 To say Raquel Welch is supremely hot in this movie would be doing her a disservice. While she is so stunningly beautiful here that you wish you could invent new warm, complimentary words and she gives a good performance unfortunately we have to watch her go through the wringer as she gets brutally gang-raped, violently widowed, inappropriately touched, exposed to strong graphic violence and generally mysoginised (is that a word?). Raquel’s irresistibly lovely but the nastiness of the movie is not. This movie contains mild swear words and extreme and graphic violence and strong repeated gang rape scene. Classified 15 by BBFC. Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over.