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Entertaining. Unique in style. It's a story about an angel from Heaven and a fallen angel from Hell who both compete over the soul of a boxer.

Penelope's role in this film is more of a far cry than in her previous roles. Normally, she is cast as a beautiful object of desire, as in Vanilla Sky, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, All the Pretty Horses and Woman on Top. She has even been cast as a slightly less-than-attractive, but still desired woman, as in Blow and Gothika. For the first time, Penelope Cruz is actually shot in an almost undesirable way in this film - even letting herself get beat up a couple of times. She does pull it off, and the film succeeds as an off-kilter dark comedy with that Hollywood "Heaven vs. Hell" factor added in.

It is worth it, if for nothing else, to see Penelope dance around her room "Travolta style" to the song "Kung-Fu Fighting".

A cheesy, modern take on The Portrait of Dorian Gray story. The most unsettling thing is, there are supposed to be flashbacks from 20 years earlier, but they aren't the least bit convincing - it almost feels like the moments occurred on a previous day. Malcolm McDowell's character is either immortal and unaging, or the makers of this film didn't feel it was important enough to put him in makeup to make him 20 years younger for these flashback moments. It was later on that I realized that this film may have been originally shot for television, due to the fading in and out that occurs whenever possible.

The third installment of the Terminator saga, is awesome on it's own merit. Even though James Cameron wasn't on board for this one, it works well as the third film in the series. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as the Terminator sent back in time, Nick Stahl replaces Edward Furlong as the older John Connor, and new edition Claire Danes joins the ensemble. Kristanna Loken plays the T-X: a female terminator who, believe it or not, is far better than Robert Patrick's T-1000 from the previous film. Director Jonathan Mostow(U-571 and Breakdown) adds a slightly different feel to this installment, often poking fun at the franchise, and topping the previous film in special effects and action sequences. The benefit of this film is that it has been twelve years since T2 and the production technology has improved since then, so there was much more that could be done this time around. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines isn't just a summer money-maker, there are also a few valid plot lines that are now introduced, which hint the possibility of a fourth film. James Cameron may be the creator and Terminator god, but Mostow does a pretty good job of keeping the franchise alive.