I know most of you have seen Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels from Guy Ritchie, but this steps it up a notch. I can’t list all of the big name cast, there’s too many. Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Jeremy Piven, and hell, even Ludacris.

The plot doesn’t focus on a certain group over overall situation. That situation is a Russian mob boss trying to build a building in the UK. The top mob boss is the one that can make this happen. But due to unforseen events, things unfold not as they plan.

I definitely recommend this movie if you like the UK crime/action type movie. Top notch!

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RocknRolla (Special Edition)

Warner Bros. 2008, DVD, $8.99

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RocknRolla [Blu-ray]

Warner Home Video 2008, Blu-ray, $11.99

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RocknRolla (Single-Disc Edition)

Guy Ritchie (Producer). Warner Home Video 2008, DVD, $3.50

I had no idea what was going on in this one. True David Lynch style. The basic premise is that these people are making a movie. They didn’t know it had been tried to be made before and has since been called cursed due to bad luck or whatever.

That’s where  I left because it was boring. From IMDB: “An actress’s perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.” AKA COMPLETE MIND FUCK. Didn’t have any idea what was going on in the beginning.

Now Lynch has written and made a lot of cool films, and even this is ranked a 7.1 on IMDB, but this film was too boring for even me. That does say something. Unless you have a bit of time to kill and are absolutely bored, I’d skip this movie.

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David Lynch’s Inland Empire (Limited Edition Two-Disc Set)

Absurda / Rhino 2006, DVD, $15.14

Ryan Phillippe stars in this mind twisting movie, along with Piper Perabo and Sarah Polley. Thinking about it, it’s almost like The Butterfly Effect, but not. Anyway, it’s about a guy (Phillippe) who wakes up in a hospital with amnesia and can’t remember the last two years of his life or how he got there.

As his memory comes back he finds himself traveling in time between two points in time where he attempts to try and change what cannot be changed.

Overall, it was a good movie as long as you like mindfuck movies (if you didn’t why are you here?). If you liked the idea of The Butterfly Effect I think you’d like this, at least I enjoyed it. Easy enough to watch and not require a lot of brain cells, but maybe just a bit too much for the general audience.

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The I Inside

Andreas Grosch (Producer). Dimension 2004, DVD, $5.48

What a crazy movie. I guess the term is existential. The film is about an eco-friendly guy (played by Jason Schwartzman) that meets on three occasions the same guy. He wonders what the meaning of this coincidence is and stumbles upon a company that calls themselves existential detectives.

There’s such a high power cast, I didn’t know what to expect. Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jude Law, Mark Wahlberg, Naomi Watts, Kevin Dunn. Not a cast you’d think would end up on wtflicks. They pulled it off though. Discussing the big question, what’s life about, who am I, why am I doing this, etc. in a sorta of comedy and half serious way. Entertaining movie, but didn’t really get me thinking, just hit the surface of the thinking aspect, my guess is that’s on purpose. I think they wanted more average movie watchers to watch this one.

All in all, decent movie, if you’re bored with the usual, check this fun loving comedy out.

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I Heart Huckabees

David O. Russell (Producer). 20th Century Fox 2004, DVD, $5.94

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I Heart Huckabees (Two-Disc Special Edition)

David O. Russell (Producer). 20th Century Fox 2004, DVD, $11.85