Space Chimps (2008)

[Movie 221 / Day 236]


I was expecting this CGI cartoon to be terrible. It exceeded my expectations, but not by a huge margin. Essentially a space probe gets pulled into a wormhole and lands on an alien planet, complete with alien life. So, a trio of chimps are sent into the wormhole to see if humans would be able to survive the trip. Obviously, the chimps are all intelligent and end up helping the aliens fight against a nasty tyrant who wants to kill them all.

My rating: 5.0 / 10
IMDB rating: 4.4 / 10
Running time: 81 mins
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Traitor (2008)

[Movie 213 / Day 227]


Above average thriller about an American citizen, born in the Middle East, who is selling explosives to terrorists while the CIA are trying to track him down and stop him.

My rating: 7.0 / 10
IMDB rating: 7.1 / 10
Running time: 114 mins
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My Favourite Martian (1999)

[Movie 190 / Day 207]


A Martian lands in America and befriends a TV reporter. Supposedly a big-screen remake of some old TV series, it's gentle family humour. And a bit rubbish. It does prove that Elizabeth Hurley can't act, however.

My rating: 4.6 / 10
IMDB rating: 4.5 / 10
Running time: 94 mins
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Speed (1994)

[Movie 74 / Day 44]


A maniac has planted a bomb on a bus in order to hold the passengers to ransom. He is also trying to exact revenge on LAPD Officer Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves). Once the bus travels above 50mph, the bomb is armed. If it drops back below 50, the bomb explodes.

Cue lots of exciting sequences featuring predicaments that would, in real life, easily knock the speed of the bus below 50. Still, it's a fun ride while it lasts - and when it came out back in 1994, it was an unusual setting for a hostage situation.

There are a couple of scenes that suffer from that horrible, horrible way of making a vehicle appear to be moving faster than it is - speeding the film up. The worst scene for this is one with a flatbed lorry in the background with lots of police officers standing on the back. The bus in the foreground is noticably sped up, but the people in the background are jerking and twitching like they're being electrocuted. There's also a long shot where the bus is moving much faster than the police car in front of it and it noticably hits the brakes.

Still, switch your mind off and just enjoy it for what it is, a no-brainer action movie, and it's all good.

My rating: 6.8 / 10
IMDB rating: 7.2 / 10
Running time: 116 mins
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