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 dictator is being manipulated by a CIA outcast. This movie is like the A Team on Steroids. Lots of testosterone, pyrotechnics blood and guts. If you like action films, you will like this. Story is so so, there is hardly any love interest but seeing these tough guys take out the bad guys was a lot of fun.
The Switch Movie Review
Kassie is a business executive in New York who is obsessed about the ticking of her biological clock. She decides to get pregnant by a sperm donor. She has a party to celebrate the impregnation to be given by donor Roland played by Patrick Wilson. Her best male friend, Wally played by Jason Bateman is a neurotic obsessive security analyst. At the party he gets drunk and while in the bathroom he examines the specimen and accidentally spills it. He replaces it with his own issue. A few weeks later Kassie moves back to Minnesota.
Seven years have past and Kassie calls Wally to say she is moving back to NYC. She tells him she has a 6 year old son, Sebastian-Thomas Robinson. When Wally visits with the child he realizes that this is his child. Kassie is starting to have a romantic relationship with Roland.
Although this is a predictable story, it is well done and a lot of fun. We felt it was an enjoyable film and in good taste. Good acting by little Thomas Robinson. We may see big things from him in the future.
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