Let's Kill some Floor!

Advantages: An awsome game...
Disadvantages: So few...

...I have never been that serious a gamer. Only casually playing things like Age of Empires, Grand Theft Auto on the computer, and a few games on the Nintendo Wii. My friend, Jam, however, has always been rather heavily into his games, and always had a good number installed on his custom built PC. It wasn?t until I played this one game on his computer, that I got hooked. Killing Floor. It was an instant hit with me, and after a while, he brought me a copy (so he could play it against someone he knew). The Basics of the Game Killing Floor is an online, co-op horror survival, first person shooter game, which means that you control the character that is shooting ? typically viewing the two arms of the character. The aim of the game, is to kill specimens, which are different types of ?zombie?. ?set in the devastated cities...

obscuredbykep 21.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Killing Floor (PC)

Making a Killing

Advantages: Good performances, solid writing.
Disadvantages: The direction can be uninspired.

...Frank is a hit man for a Polish-American gang. But his drinking gets in the way of his work. After he sleeps through a planned hit, his boss sends him to San Francisco to straighten out. Once there he gets a job as a mortician's assistant and begrudgingly starts going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. There he meets Tom, who offers to be his sponsor and through his work, he meets Laurel, an equally dysfunctional but strangely supportive woman that Frank might just be able to open up to? Director John Dahl's background is mainly in television, with a few forays into big screen movies (including the character-driven "Rounders" and the truly dreadful stalk-and-slash "Road Kill"). But he appears to back on form with this low key comedy. Visually it is nothing special. It feels like pretty much any other low-budget independent production...

afy9mab 19.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of You Kill Me (DVD)

Drink-driving kills

Advantages: Good performances, interesting story
Disadvantages: Nothing special about it

...Please note: I am reviewing the 1984 film about a drink-driving case and not Licence (with a c) To Kill, the James Bond one! Lynne Peterson is a talented teenager; having done brilliantly at school, she is about to go away to college. Then one day her life is tragically ended following a car accident caused by a drunk driver. Her parents and sister are devastated; her mother goes to bed and refuses to get up and her father copes by trying to find out as much about the case as possible. But after many stops and starts, the court case seems doomed to failure and it seems that the driver will get off scot-free. Can lawyer Martin Sawyer ensure that justice is done? James Farentino plays Mr Peterson and, on the whole, does a quality job. Losing a child is one of the most difficult things a parent can face, and Farentino is certainly...

sunmeilan 26.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of License to Kill (DVD)

Metallica - Kill 'em All

Advantages: Pretty much created thrash metal
Disadvantages: The band is very inexperienced

...The album ?Kill ?em all? originally titled ?Metal up your ass? was the debut album of American thrash metal band known as Metallica. The band intended to call it Metal up your ass with the album cover featuring a very unpleasant looking dagger coming out of a toilet but due to the producing company refusing to produce something out standing like this, they settled on the name we know now, which was inspired by a pissed off Cliff Burton saying how they should ?kill ?em all?. This being Metallica?s first album was said to be the birth of thrash metal with its cross between Metal and Punk. Too punk to be metal and too metal to be punk. Released in 1983 and sold just 7000-10000 copies in the first couple of months, less than half set to be sold but it is now a multi-million selling product and that?s just in the U.S. Americas biggest Metal...

s-gilly 17.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Kill 'Em All - Metallica

Kill For me is to die for

Advantages: Well written, gripping
Disadvantages: None

...Kill For Me is the latest book by Karen Rose, it follows straight on from Scream For Me, her previous novel. And when I say straight on, I mean that literally, if you haven't read Scream For Me you will have no chance of understanding the plot of Kill For Me. In fact I had to read the last third of Scream For Me in order to refresh myself as to the plot, since it had been a while ago when I read it. It' s a bit hard therefore to put a plot synopsis in the review, as anything I write about the beginning of this book will be a spoiler for the end of her last book. So I'll separate the plot off in the box below, so that it's easy for anyone to skip over. ************************************************* *********** So at the end of Scream For Me, we left Daniel Vartanian fighting for his life after being ambushed. At the beginning...

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Review of Kill for Me - Karen Rose

Who Do You Want To Kill?

Advantages: Excellently directed
Disadvantages: Slow at times, very brutal

...When former assassin Black Mamba (Uma Thurman) is viciously attacked at her wedding, her fiancé is killed and she is put into a coma resulting in her losing her baby. The coma continues for a further 4 years but luckily her memory is still intact when she wakes up. Immediately subsequent to waking up, The Bride goes out to avenge her fiancé?s and unborn child?s death by brutally murdering everyone who was involved in the incident. The four Deadly Vipers are those responsible for almost killing her and at the head of the operation is her former lover and boss, Bill. She then vows that she will kill Bill? Kill Bill is a film that you?ll either love or you?ll hate simply because this movie is so extreme and outrageous. I better just say for the record that I?m by no means a fan of Quentin Tarantino?s work, I find most of his films to...

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Review of Kill Bill Vol.1 (DVD)

  Kill Bill Will Thrill

Advantages: Bloody, violent, action-fest
Disadvantages: Limited plot, part 1 of 2 films

...etched in The Bride’s mind. She knows what she has to do. Armed with a blade fabricated from the finest Japanese steel and led by the need to avenge the death of her unborn baby, The Bride sets about the task in hand. Quite simply, she intends to Kill Bill. I’m not a fan of Quentin Tarantino films. For me, Pulp Fiction was grossly over-rated and Reservoir Dogs bored me senseless. You can imagine my surprise, therefore, when his 4th film, Kill Bill, entertained me more than any film I can recall in the last twelve months and beyond. I don’t think that Kill Bill could purport to be a masterpiece, but it does come pretty damn close and I have to say that I absolutely loved this film. The idea for Kill Bill apparently came from a conversation between Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman (The Bride) on the set of the last...

LostWitness 27.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of Kill Bill Vol.1 (DVD)

A time to Kill

Advantages: read opp
Disadvantages: none

...This review is on the 1996 feature film a time to Kill, adapted from John Grisham's 1989 novel of the same name. Ill be honest like most people I actually didn't no the film was based on a book, however after watching the film I kind of felt obliged to read the book to see if it was any better than the film. I must applaud the book and the film because they both do justice to one another, they took such a relevant and strong topic and made their viewers and readers feel the emotion the characters in the film felt. Now ive said a dozen times I have many films that I really consider to be in my list of all time greats and this one really should be included. It's a film that makes you think and act, its not action and its certainly not comedy, but if you really want a perspective of what Mississippi was like during the racial times...

jaygami1986 07.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of A Time To Kill (DVD)

The Killing Bore

Advantages: Better than being mauled by a bear......
Disadvantages: But not by much.

...of movie is usually no bad thing. But with this particular film, I felt that it needed ?something? to give it a little more pzazz, and I would have been more than happy had the director chosen to throw in a few explosions or perhaps a small car chase, if only to break the monotony of bad acting, bad plot and bad directing. Conclusion The Killing Floor is one of those films which will pass, unnoticed, from the ?New Release? shelf to the ?Budget Buy? section of any local DVD retailer, without ever making its mark on the rental or sales charts. Its fall will be swift and its stay in the bargain basement will be long, before it finally slips into oblivion without anyone to mourn it. It has just been pointed out to me that I reviewed this product as a DVD, not as a FILM format. This wasn't something that had escaped my attention, however, it...

Darktime 11.08.2007 (12.08.2007) · Read review
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Review of The Killing Floor (DVD)

Generation Kill - stunning drama and shocking reality

Advantages: Great writing, superb performances, ground breaking approach
Disadvantages: Brutal, no holds barred

...Generation Kill is a 7 part American mini-series, that has just finished showing on the FX channel, which follows an elite group of Marines from the First Recon Battalion through the first 40 days of the assault on Iraq. The credentials for Generation Kill made it essential viewing in our house. It is the latest offering to hit the UK TV network from HBO, the US TV production company who brought us The Sopranos, Six Feet Under and The Wire. HBO have been lauded by many as moving television into a new realm, where it competes on an equal footing with high quality cinema. Generation Kill was written by David Simon and Ed Burns, the team behind The Wire, a stunning series that followed the drugs in Baltimore from the highest level of politics, through the ranks of the police, to the barons, the dealers and the addicts. Generation Kill...

sonic0209 10.03.2009 · Read review
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