Is "Punch-Out!!" a knockout?

Advantages: Pick-up & play fun, lengthy, endearing
Disadvantages: Very similar to the classics, sometimes tedious

...With help from co-developers Next Level Games, Nintendo revives a criminally neglected classic and brings us ?Punch-Out!!? for the Wii. The Story In ?Punch-Out!!? you play as Little Mac, a young New-Yorker of small stature but great ambition that aspires to become the worldwide boxing champion. The actual game has deceptively little to do with real boxing though, with the ring simply serving as the ideal setting for a fresh new gameplay idea. From the NES-era to this very day, it?s a very popular trope to comprise a video-game of a variety of levels/stages/dungeons/worlds the player has to clear on his way to the ultimate goal. Each ends with a boss fight and those "stage-bosses" might be gigantic and menacing as in Zelda and Metroid, or devious and quirky like Dr. Robotnik or the Robot Masters, but...

Magrippinho 24.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Punch-Out!! (Wii)

A hole in one?

Advantages: Full of suspense, good performance by Birch
Disadvantages: Didn't quite deliver...

...need to do much except look good and be ill. This film was made just before her role in Bend It Like Beckham, so it obviously didn't do her career any harm, but I wasn't overly impressed. Laurence Fox as Geoff was again good, but not brilliant. My problem with him as an actor is that he always seems the same and I don't really feel that he is acting. Desmond Harrington as Mike is pretty convincing. I didn't like him as a character, but I thought Harrington worked well within the role - he wasn't really supposed to be a likable character anyway. Daniel Brocklebank as Martyn only has a brief role, but it was suitably a good mixture of creepiness and intelligence - good stuff. I liked the way that the story is told. It begins with Liz's escape from the hole; we see her filthy and injured, staggering back to the school that she attends to...

sunmeilan 12.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Hole (DVD)

THE HOLE

Advantages: Good story
Disadvantages: Bit weird

...Why would four, wealthy, public school teenagers want to go and stay in an old army bunker just to avoid a field trip? I don't know, but they do and they pay for it too. Crazy. Anyway, back to the opinion. In brief, The Hole is about these four (somewhat stupid) English (but one American) teens who set up camp in this large underground hide-out. Martin, the mastermind who locked them in the bunker and made sure their parents and the school didn't find out about it and left them there. On the day he's supposed to let them out, he doesn't and they're locked in. They find things fun to start with - all that alcohol and sex but then they run out of food and the water and electricity go off... Scary! The best thing (or at least my favourite thing) about this film is that you don't find out the whole (somewhat disturbing) truth until...

annalouise 02.12.2001 · Read review
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Review of The Hole (DVD)

She's a hole lot of woman!

Advantages: Good scenes down the bunker - quite tense
Disadvantages: Not scary, a bit of ropy acting

...The Hole is a British horror / thriller from 2001, starring Thora Birch (American Beauty, Ghost World) and Keira Knightley before she got famous and started pouting. It tells the tale of four friends who decide to bunk off a field trip from their posh boarding school, and instead spend the weekend buried underground in a secret bunker. Why they would want to do that is anybody's guess; it must have been one particularly boring field trip. These kids, Liz (Birch), Frankie (Knightley), Mike (Desmond Harrington) and Geoff (Laurence Fox) are just looking for a good time, but something goes badly wrong? Anyway, the film is told with flashbacks between this fateful weekend and the present, in which a police investigation is being carried out into the deaths of three of the four students. Only Liz survived the ordeal, and she is being...

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Review of The Hole (DVD)

The Hole

Advantages: unusual story for a teen horror flick
Disadvantages: you can guess who did it pretty early on

...Oh no, another teen horror movie - but not quite. The film is based on the book After the Hole by Guy Burt and is set (unusually these days) in England. The story follows Thora Birch (from American Beauty) who is the only survivor of some horrific accident/ordeal. Most of the story is told in flashback - but don't let that put you off. Birch explains to the psychologist she is now seeing what happened in The Hole. Basically, and this isn't giving anything away, four rich American kids at British boarding school decide not to go on a geography field trip to Wales (and lets face it who can blame them!!). With the help of the quiet kid at school they lock themselves in an old WW2 bunker for the party of a lifetime. Suffice to say that Thora Birch is the only one left alive to tell what happened - ie they were locked in by...

Xcom 22.05.2001 · Read review
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Review of The Hole (DVD)

The Hole Truth

Advantages: Gripping, Interesting story, Surprising final twist to the plot
Disadvantages: It won?t appeal to everybody, especially those with delicate stomachs

...Although not the most inspiring title for a film, The Hole is far from dull. Released in cinemas on April 20th, this movie provides some welcomed relief from the hype surrounding the box office hit, Bridget Jones?s Diary. Based on the novel by Guy Burt, (?After The Hole?), this film centres on four public school teenagers who take refuge from a field trip by hiding in an wartime bunker. Convinced that they have successfully escaped a dismal stay in wet Wales, Liz, Frankie, Geoff and Mike excitedly climb down into the hole, armed with all the ingredients for the perfect party. The situation is further intensified by the fact that Liz is crazy about Mike, whilst Frankie and Geoff cannot wait to have some time to themselves. Nick Hamm?s film cleverly merges fantasy with reality, with the result that it is difficult for the viewer to...

Eudora 25.04.2001 · Read review
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Review of The Hole (DVD)

A Hole In One!

Advantages: Silly and quite enrtertaining!
Disadvantages: All the contestants work for the BBC!

...We give the world Who wants to be a Millionaire and what do we get in return? We get Hole in the Wall!! Somehow this is Saturday night TV gone mental as the fact is that I was actually hooked on this after one episode in the same way that I was with the Channel Five show Night Fever. Originating from the Japanese game show called Tonneruzu, the premise is simple. The wall accelerates towards the game zone and the contestants have to fit through the space in the wall by means of the shape that has been cut out, whether it is a stance, a position or simply a hole. If they don't then they end up in a pool of water, bottom line is they have to adopt the shape to get through the wall and win points. BBC1 broadcast the show on a Saturday night at around 5.30; this is a simple show and acts as a warm up for the evening schedule that until...

Timbo3107 24.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of BBC1 - Hole in the Wall

A hole lot of boredom

Advantages: Started off funny
Disadvantages: but then fell at the first hurdle, never to recover

...This not so original game show consist of the quiz mistress Dale Winton basically humiliating lycra clad team leaders Anton Du Beke (strictly come dancing fame) and cricketer Darren Gough, together with two other "celebrities" on each team, varying weekly. This BBC hosted show created 10 half hour episodes and began airing them in 2008. WHAT IS IT THEN..? Each team member, donned in tight fitting Lycra suits and safety hats, has to stand on the edge of a small pool of water and try to avoid getting wet by jumping through an oddly shaped hole in a wall which is hurtling towards them at break neck speed, (well not quite break neck, more snail slime speed), each round causing the wall to be more difficult and a little faster. If the member manages to jump through the hole then they are awarded points depending on style...

blissman70 22.02.2009 · Read review
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Five Finger Death Punch- Way Of The Fist

Advantages: great consistency
Disadvantages: none really

...Five Finger Death Punch: Way Of The Fist I first heard of this band on the music channel scuzz with their song The Bleeding. I was intrigued immensly and couldnt get a hold of this album finally i have it. Five Finger Death Punch are a band from Los Angeles that formed in 2005. I have spoke to many people and they all know the tracks The Bleeding and The way of the fist...They are the tracks they have videos for. Band Members Ivan "Ghost" Moody ? lead vocals Zoltan Bathory ? rhythm guitar Jason Hook ? lead guitar Matt Snell ? bass, backing vocals Jeremy Spencer ? drums Former Caleb Bingham ? lead guitar (2006?2007) Darrell Roberts ? lead guitar (2007?2009) Tracks Ashes 5/5 This track has an immense start to it, some brilliant drumming and the vocals are amazing. Ivan has a brilliant...

rockchick2k7 07.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Way Of The Fist, The - Five Finger Death Punch

  Just punch me now...

Advantages: Adam Sandler is much better than you might expect...
Disadvantages: ... but that's not really saying much

...and distract the viewer, this film is just annoying. I?ve reviewed two other offbeat movies recently here and each got raves from me, for the depth with which they portrayed their characters, and for their flashes of humour and warmth. Punch Drunk Love may be the weirdest and most confusing film you?ll see all year, but without that central sympathetic character development, it?s ultimately cold and shallow. Not recommended....

ShoppingGirl 19.02.2003 (03.04.2003) · Read review
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