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The second Blinky Productions feature film that is a wild and mind grinding film. Within the movie, the main characters are a group of five women that have combined their talents and use methods from films (bank robbery movies) to rob banks throughout New Jersey, however, after a cop finds them their trust between each other fades leading into a Mexican Stand-Off. From the start of the film you are introduce to the gang's leader Fox (Mandy Evans) who is going to her hot-shot team member who has gone to far in Fox's plan. Fox is a character who has a goal and has no interest in diverging from the plan, her methods are simple but with any sign of disinterest or advance from the plan, she will count as a betrayal and have her teammate killed. Even though she may seem harsh, it isn't a pleasure of hers like the Joker, she has a bond with her friends/ team and when its time for a ex-player, she will kill the person with a heartbreak and tear. When it comes to the middle of the film when the cop is caught and the stand off begins, you are then stuck right in the middle of the questioning of who might have done it. The positive is that the story gives the audience enough evidence to put yourself in the chair of who might have done it. Was it the Rookie? The van driver, where the tracer was found? Or was it the long time founding member of the Executives? For a good half-hour this is played off. Now to many this can be too long and some will be saying, "Come on tell us already," but stories need this type of story telling and then when it is revealed you are instantly in a state of, "wow." The problem is that once the stand-off is coming to a close and the suspects are winding down, the person is beginning to be presented more obvious and the end plan is... Okay.

In my personal opinion, the film is a good film if you are into long played out film. I like to look over every questionable moment and think to myself who might have done it. I began to look over this film and saw the character development unrole and thought of the words from the film's director, Chris R. Notarile - "... Write male characters and have women read the roles." This is a though I have thought of sense then (from 2012), and whenever I see a movie from then where the female characters are shown, they are complete stereotypical women with their breast out and being the background pretty face, I am thrown off the movie's story and think to myself, "why?". Now in this instance when the females are lead characters, they are treated properly. They aren't ladies with the wide-open eyes to death and screaming at the top of their lungs, they are power women that have their goals and aren't afraid to kill to live. They are complete opposites from Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (2013), where she is innocent turned bad-ass, they are bad- ass from the start to finish and this is a good factor... even though I like Lara too.

If you don't know already, the story revolves around Carrie White (Chloe Grace Moretz) who is a shy awkward teenage girl who gets her period for the first time and is scared. She is teased/ tortured by the other girls in gym class, which is where it first occurs, and is soon told it is a natural thing by her kind gym teacher, Ms. Desjardin (Judy Greer). Carrie then has to ask her abusive, over-protective, paranoid mother (Julianne Moore), who believes that Carrie's period is caused by the sinful lust, why her mother didn't tell Carrie about her changes. As an effort to try and keep Carrie in line, Carrie's mother forces Carrie to pray for forgiveness, but as Carrie discovers that she is becoming a woman, she discovers she has telekinetic powers. In my opinion, I thought the film was good for a remake. The actors were very good, and the story tells a great tale of a teenage girl in a modern day setting. I honestly never compared how surprised how Chloe played the butt kicking Hit-Girl once, but the two are very different, which is a good thing for a teenage actress. The special effects are good and don't play too big of a distraction when they look CGIish. For the negative things, I have to say is the teenagers' sense of humor. Okay, I know how high school is, and there are some sick people, but overall, as a movie that is to telling this specific story, it gets my vote. Hopefully any other horror remakes can play off like this. I would advise you BUY this and watch it with your friends.

The movie is about Henry "Sharp" Razor (Sylvester Stallone) and Billy "The Kid" McDonnen (Robert De Niro), two boxers who were arch enemies in their prime, then Razor announcement his retirement from boxing which makes McDonnen enrage. 30 years later, the thought of a rematch is asked by the son of the two's previous promoter's son Dante Slate, Jr. (Kevin Hart). McDonnen is all for it, but Razor is not due to his own personal reason (which is said in the film). At the end though the two boxers duke it out but both go home a winner. Personally I thought the movie was amazingly entertaining. Like I said before, it is basically a Rocky Balboa film, as I said as the movie was coming out,"It may have originally been Rocky 7." However the film is a comedy and it has a good amount of laughs within it. If you are a fan of sports films, boxing fan, Kevin Hart, or Sylvester Stallone fan go watch the movie. My biggest grip with the film is the amount of language. I understand that these types of characters would speak this much, and the fact that the movie is PG-13, but there really is an amount of times you can say $H!% and getting annoying/ tired some. I don't know its probably a personal thing. Overall the movie is a great watch, and I will definitely add this to my Rocky collection (even though it isn't a Rocky movie).