where: EDWARDS FAIRFIELD STADIUM 16 & I-MAX in Fairfield, CA
when: Friday, January 20th, 2012
show: 2:20 p.m.
costs: $8.00 Ticket + $4.75 small Mango Smoothie + $9.80 lunch @ Inay Pilipino Fast Food Restaurant in the shopping mall's food court = $22.55
auditorium: 6
seat: 3rd row, 8ht column
synopsis/overview: Mallory Kane ( Gina Carano ), a deadly agent for a government security contractor, finds herself double-crossed and must do everything in her power to clear her name and go after those who want her dead.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Cafe & grocery; 2.) "That's actually real"; 3.) Barcelona story; 4.) "Eye candy"; 5.) SIM card reader; 6.) "That guy just recognized me"; 7.) GPS tracker; 8.) Storage room; 9.) Hotel room fight; 10.) "Is the divorce final"; 11.) "What your 6 [ i.e. back ]"; 12.) Tracking device; 13.) Disguise; 14.) "I wouldn't go outside until I call you back"; 15.) Roadblock; 16.) "Who's L.E.O."; 17.) "Jesus Christ, you're a great driver"; 18.) Killers; 19.) "Where's the due diligence"; 20.) "I'm not gonna run anymore"; 21.) False report; 22.) "She's here"; 23.) Photo; 24.) "Halo effect"; 25.) "He's not available"; 26.) Beach fight; 27.) Set-up plan; and 28.) Majorca.
audience reaction: The audience was amused by certain scenes.
recommendation: This is definitely a Chick Flick Action Movie. What I mean is, even though it's an Action Movie, there is too much talking going on! Not to sound sexist, but most women just love to talk Ad Nauseam! And because of it, even at only one-and-a-half hours long, I was painfully made aware of the fact that my bladder needed emptying and the action scenes were too far and few in-between to keep me sufficiently distracted. Thankfully, I was able to hold it in until after the movie ended. Whew, that was a close call! But I squirmed too much in my seat that I probably wore-out its cushion. Go see this if you like to listen to too much talking in an action movie.
spoiler alert! Why didn't she disable the other guy's car at the cafe & grocery? I would have. The man's car just got walked on yet he didn't get out to complain angrily about the incident; instead, he just drove off--what a wimp! Couldn't they also have provided Paul ( Michael Fassbender ) with a photo of her, too? She knew what was about to happen in the hotel room yet she allowed herself to get hit from behind. When Mallory got Paul in a headlock using her legs, why didn't Paul bite her in the crotch? I would have! Ha, ha, ha. In the Beach Fight scene, there were plenty of chances for either combatant to use sand to visually-impair the other. Mallory said in an earlier scene that she doesn't "... like to leave loose ends." Yet, this movie ended without her going after Studer ( Mathieu Kassovitz ). Maybe she did, though, but the scene just ended-up on the cutting room floor because in it she just bored him to death with her unnecessary exposition! Ahh ... Mallory, that's Execution, not exposition.
And this movie had some funny dialogues. But I don't know if they were all intentional or if some of them were just unintentionally funny!
fyi: Gina Carano is a former MMA artist ranked 3rd in the whole world in her division.
She can tie me up to her bedposts any time and "bitch-slap" me around a bit. But gently, of course, because I'm not into BDSM ( bondage-domination/sado-masochism )!
word of advice: Tie loose ends.
One of the Cardinal Rules of Movie-making, especially as it applies to Action Movies is this: Show, don't tell!
tidbits: After watching UNDERWORLD AWAKENING and before seeing this movie, I had enough time to walk around in the shopping mall and to grab a bite to eat.
I was gonna have lunch at the Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant. But I decided to walk further down to check-out the mall's new food court. That was where I noticed Inay ( pronounced: Eee-Nigh; Tagalog for Mother ), a Pilipino fast-food restaurant.
Since I had never been to one--and didn't know that there was such an one, I decided to have lunch there. I chose the two-entree lunch with Sinigang ( pronounced: Cine-gang; Pilipino Garlic Fried Rice ) and a Dalandan ( pronounced: Da-lan-dan; Citrus Aurantium in English ) citrus soda. For the two entrees, I had Barbecue Chicken on a stick and Bicol Express ( Pork stewed in Coconut Milk w/ Jalapeno Peppers ) since my mother was from the Bicol region of the Northern Philippines.
And I don't know if this is true or not, but a cousin's husband once told me that any Pilipino dish made with Coconut Milk and/or Cream is a Bicol dish. Because that is the Bicolanos' culinary "signature".
The Food Court restrooms are nearby. So, I decided to check out the men's room. It has waterless urinals in place. But what really struck me as odd is the design of their lavatory sinks--highly impractical:
Do you notice how angled the bottom of each lavatory sink is? Well, when you put your hands under the motion-activated faucet, they touch the bottom of the sink! Whichever idiot came up with the design for this "piece of crap" seriously needs to get repeatedly slapped in the face. And I mean it!!!
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In the Hotel Room Fight scene when Paul looked like he groped at Mallory's crotch and when she wrapped her legs around his head, some woman in the back of the auditorium laughed-out loudly. What's Erotic to a man is Funny to a woman, I guess---Or maybe some women are just too damn Ticklish! Ha, ha, ha--snort!
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