where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Friday, October 5th , 2012
show: 7:15 p.m.
costs: $10.50 Ticket + $3.21 lunch @ MacDonald's Restaurant before the movie + $2.37 dinner @ MacDonald's Restaurant after the movie = $16.08
auditorium: 14
seat: 4th row, 11th column
synopsis/overview: In Istanbul, Bryan Mills ( Liam Neeson ) and his wife, Lenore ( Famke Janssen ), are abducted when the father of one of the kidnappers that Bryan killed tracked them down with revenge in mind.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Cemetery; 2.) Boyfriend; 3.) GPS; 4.) Torture; 5.) Canceled reservations; 6.) Surprise; 7.) Magical; 8.) "He's in the lobby"; 9.) Followed; 10.) "I'll blow his brains out"; 11.) Instructions; 12.) Memory aid; 13.) Shooting victims; 14.) Mini-phone; 15.) Case; 16.) Grenade; 17.) Rooftop; 18.) Photos; 19.) Thirty minutes; 20.) Second grenade; 21.) Steam; 22.) Soccer game; 23.) Rooftop chase; 24. Five minutes; 25.) Van; 26.) "No, I just shot one of them"; 27.) Railroad track; 28.) US Embassy; 30.) "At least, my daughter is still alive"; 31.) 'Phone ring; 32.) "And I will kill them, too"; 33.) Gun; 34.) Department of Motor Vehicles; and 35.) "Don't shoot this one."
audience reaction: The audience liked it. And some people in the audience gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.
recommendation: I liked it, too. Go see this Action Movie.
spoiler alert! The henchmen were given the order to take them alive. Yet, in the first car chase, the henchmen shot at him like they wanted to kill him. Did Kim ( Maggie Grace ) have to go running around with her shirt mostly unbuttoned? The slash wound to the neck was not deep enough so that the victim could have prevented much blood loss simply by raising the shoulder and tilting the head toward the raised shoulder to "pinch" the wound close and give it time to get coagulated. Kim was still on a Learner's Permit as a driver and practiced driving on at least two vehicles that had an Automatic Transmission; but the taxi that she drove was a Manual Transmission that she was, somehow, able to handle without a problem---Hah! 'not happenin' in real life. When the car drove through the US Embassy gate, the soldiers didn't shoot at the sides of the car. They didn't have to call somebody to keep the soldiers from shooting at them; all they had to do was yell out loud, "Don't shoot! We're Americans." If you have a beautiful and sexy woman all tied-up and helpless, and you have a pair of scissors in your hand, you'd want to get her undressed at the very least, wouldn't you? So, imagine my disappointment upon realizing that the bad guy was too stupid to do something better with his pair of scissors! As I've said it before, you cannot titillate if you don't show a tit ( nipple )!!! In his one-on-one fight with the bad guy, if he only gouged the other guy's eyes out and/or kicked him in the balls--and there were quite a few opportunities for Bryan to do either one--the fight would have ended sooner. And why didn't they factor-in ricochets in the shoot-out scenes?
fyi: You would think that after the bombing of a US Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, back in October 23, 1983, which cost the lives of 241 American Servicemen, we Americans would have already come up with a contingency plan that would keep a runaway or speeding vehicle driven by a suicide bomber from crashing through a checkpoint so easily.
But this movie shows a US Embassy's security checkpoint so easily breached.
If I were in charged of security for that embassy, I would have installed machine gunners on either side of the driveway, have RPGs at the ready, installed pop-up tire-shredders, and I would have designed the entrance in such a way that vehicles would have to negotiate a winding path and have no easy access to a building's parking garage and/or 1st floor. It only makes sense.
tidbits: After I got off from work, I went to the Benicia Rite Aid Drugstore to get a Flu Shot for $29.99. I could have gotten it for free at my HMO, Kaiser Permanente Hospital, had I wanted to. But I need to have as many tax write-offs as possible when I go file my 2012 Income Tax Return so that I will get a bigger Income Tax Refund from Uncle Sam.
The pharmacy tech who gave me my Flu Shot was either new at the job or she was in awe of my imposing studliness because her hands were trembling as she gave me my shot in my left upper arm ( or she could just have been lusting at my manliness--or maybe she was just on a Caffeine High--whatever ... ).
After I got my Flu Shot, I drove to the Columbus Parkway MacDonald's Restaurant to have a light lunch. I ordered an Angus Snack Wrap and a large cup of Powerade Mountain Berry Blast for $3.21.
As I ate my lunch, I accessed MacDonald's Free Wi-Fi to surf the 'net and to check on my e-mails. I also bought and downloaded Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to my computer. I think that I paid $35.73 for it with my credit card.
Then, I got a refill on my drink so that I could take it to my car and fill-up my empty 32.0 oz Powerade bottle. Hey, I ain't one to pass-up on a free refill!
On my way to the theatre, I realized that I still had enough time to do a quick shopping trip at the Dollar Tree Store in the Target Shopping Center on Admiral Callaghan Lane. I bought some canned food, some napkins, some paper plates, and some 2.5 litre sodas.
Near the end of the movie, in the scene wherein Bryan saved his wife, the two guys seated to my left started giggling. I failed to see the humor in that scene.
After the movie, I went to the MacDonald's Restaurant in the Target Shopping Center to have a light dinner. I ordered a Cheeseburger and a large cup of Powerade Mountain Berry Blast for $2.37.
And I accessed their Free Wi-Fi to start my blog on this movie.
At just before closing time, I went and got a refill on my drink because I had another empty 32.0 oz Powerade bottle waiting for me in my car--hey, I'm not cheap, I'M SMART!
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