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A Sound of Chunder

A Sound of Thunder

IMDB
Year: 2005
Writer: Thomas Dean Donnelly & Joshua Oppenheimer, based on a short story by Ray Bradbury
Director: Peter Hyams
Producer: Howard Baldwin
Length: 110 min
Category: Sci-Fi
Media: DVD
Rating from MPAA: PG-13

Rating: 4 out of 5

Ben Kinglsey. SIR Ben Kingsley. He was Gandhi. The man was knighted because he’s [...]

Transported straight to the crapper

Transporter 2

IMDB
Year: 2005
Writer: Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen
Director: Louis Leterrier
Producer: Luc Besson
Length: 87
Category: Action
Media: DVD
Rating from MPAA: PG-13

Rating: 2 out of 5

I had high hopes for Transporter 2. The original Transporter was a decent, entertaining action flick that although I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy [...]

Nothing Stealthy about this Spectorqular Gem

Stealth

IMDB
Year: 2005
Writer: W.D. Richter
Director: Rob Cohen
Length: 121 min
Category: Action
Media: DVD
Studio: Sony Pictures
Rating from MPAA: PG-13

Rating: 5 out of 5

Holy crap! Run, do not walk, RUN to your nearest DVD retailer and pick yourself up a copy of this bad boy. This movie kicks ass! I expected a [...]

Lord of Bore

Lord of War

IMDB
Year: 2005
Writer: Andrew Niccol
Director: Andrew Niccol
Length: 122 min
Category: Drama
Media: DVD
Rating from MPAA: R

Rating: 1 out of 5

After a spectorqular appearance in 2004’s idiotic but fun to watch “National Treasure”, Nicolas Cage went back to his regular snoozefest material. Cage plays Yuri Orlov, a Russian kid who grew [...]

Back to the Blue with you, Nessie!

Into the Blue

IMDB
Year: 2005
Writer: Matt Johnson
Director: John Stockwell
Producer: David Zelon
Length: 110 min
Category: Action
Media: DVD
Studio: Sony Pictures
Rating from MPAA: PG-13
ID in Amazon: B000BYRCH4

Another stop on the Paul Walker hit parade, and this has all the makings of a Spectorqular classic: completely implausible yet utterly predictable story, idiotic characters, wretched dialogue, atrocious acting, and enough gratuitous [...]