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Movie Reviews By Bruce Kantor. The Expendables | The Switch

The Expendables Movie Review

The Expendables starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Terry Crews, Let Li, Randy Couture, Dolph Lundgren, “Stone Cole” Steve Austin, Eric Roberts with cameos from Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. A group of mercenaries are hired to take out the president of an opium producing island. The [...]

Bruce Kantor's Movie Reviews | Charlie St. Cloud | The Other Guys

Charlie St. Cloud Movie Review

Charlie St. Cloud stars teen heart throb handsome Zac Efron in the title role. A high school senior with a passion for sailing and good grades, he graduates with a full ride sailing scholarship to Stanford. He lives in a sea coast town in Massachusetts. He [...]

Ballantyne Scoop Movie Reviews | Grownups | Toy Story 3

Grownups Movie Review

A group of five men, friends since elementary school, get together with their families at a large lake house following the funeral of their middle school basketball coach. Adam Sandler co wrote the film as a family story minus a lot of the inane humor and language of his previous [...]

Ballantyne Scoop Movie Reviews | Karate Kid | Splice

Karate Kid Movie Review

Dre Parker played by Jaden Smith is a 12 year old who finds himself in Beijing China when his mother is suddenly transferred from Detroit. The first day in a strange city he is confronted by bullies who, by using kung fu, beat him up. The bullying [...]

Movie Review | Letters To Juliet

Letters to Juliet Movie Review

Letters to Juliet: Stars Amanda Seyfield, Chris Egan, Gael Garcia Bernal and Venessa Redgrave.

Sophie (Amanda) is engaged to Victor (Gael) She works as a fact checker at New Yorker Magazine and he is working on opening an Italian Restaurant in New York City. They decide to take [...]

Ballantyne Scoop Movie Reviews | Robin Hood

Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe, Kate Blanchette and William Hurt. This is at least the fifth time this classic story has been on the big screen. If you have seen the previous films you will not recognize most of the story. Robin Hood turns outlaw to oppose the tyranny of the [...]

Movie Reviews By Bruce Kantor: Bounty Hunter | How To Train Dragons

Bounty Hunter Movie Review

Stars Jennifer Anniston and real life boy friend Gerard Butler. Jennifer plays a reporter tracking down a hot lead. She inadvertently jumps bail for a traffic violation to chase the lead. The funny part is she bumped a police horse and was freed on $50,000 bond. It is hard to [...]

Movie Reviews | Green Zone | She’s Out Of My League

Green Zone

Matt Damon and Greg Kinear. A soldier in 2003 is looking for weapons of mass destruction. The intel he has from the CIA and the Pentagon appears to be faulty. This film has non stop action and takes the actual facts and molds them to an entertaining action film.

Matt [...]

Brooklyn’s Finest | Movie Review By Bruce Kantor

Brooklyn’s Finest Movie Review

Brooklyn’s Finest stars Richard Gere, Ethan Hawk and Don Cheatle. This movie was created by the same folks who gave us Training Days, the film that earned Denzel Washington his first Oscar.

The film follows the same path as Training Days with violence and profanity. It is the story [...]

Scoop Network Movie Reviews By Bruce Kantor

Edge Of Darkness

Mel Gibson plays a Boston police detective. His daughter, an MIT graduate and a nuclear engineer, comes to visit. She is deathly ill. The cop decides to take her to the emergency room and when they open the front door of the house, a car passes by and shoots her with [...]

Shutter Island | Movie Reviews By Bruce Kantor

Shutter island

Two US Marshalls played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo go to a hospital for the criminally insane to investigate the disappearance of an inmate. The story which takes place in 1954 shows horrendous living conditions. As the story progresses the two are unable to leave.

Leonardo is [...]

Movie Reviews By Bruce Kantor

Tooth Fairy

Dwayne Johnson, aka “The Rock” is past his prime minor league hockey player. His girlfriend played by Ashley Judd has a seven year old girl who lost a tooth. He starts to tell her that the tooth fairy is a myth and is stopped. The real tooth fairy contacts him and he [...]

From Paris With Love | A Movie Review By Bruce Kantor

From Paris With Love

From Paris with Love stars John Travolta and Jonathan Ryes-Myers. Set in Paris and shot on location, this film is a comic shoot um up. James Reece, Rhys-Meyers, is the assistant to the American Ambassador and has a part time job working as a low lever operative for the CIA. [...]

Movie Reviews With Bruce Kantor

Extraordinary Measures

Extraordinary Measures stars Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell. Parents of two children handicapped by a genetic orphan disease called Pompe Disease seek the help of a doctor scientist working on a cure. The father, Fraser, travels to the University of Nebraska to convince the doctor, an introverted curmudgeon played by [...]

Caroline's Movie Review | The Blindside