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Heya movie fans.

While there seems to be no end to the great list of forthcoming movies coming our way, there is one flick that I have to say really appeals to me, and that is Harry Brown.

You may be asking what the heck is Harry Brown. Indeed I hadn’t even heard about it until fairly recently. Basically it fits into the whole vigilante/revenge genre, which has been so popular lately. First we had Taken with Liam Neeson, which was actually pretty awesome (I actually hired it twice, which I seem to seldom do these days) and more recently Mel Gibson movie called Edge of Darkness…which was moderate to south westerly.

But now it is time for the legendary Michael Caine to take up the role of vengeful 70 (odd) year old pensioner Harry Brown, who has simply had enough and exacts his revenge in a most bloody fashion!

Basically Harry Brown is good dude. He is a retired ex-marine who fulfils his day by sitting by his dying wife’s bedside and playing the odd game of chess with his old buddy Leonard in the local pub.
Unfortunately things are not all peachy. They live on a dilapidated old council estate that is run by a bunch of drug dealing ruffian scum bags who make life hell for the residents and randomly beat whoever they want…without reprisals from the community or the police.
Harry’s buddy Leonard decides he will try and do something about it and starts carrying a bayonet around with him, unfortunately a few days later he winds up dead…and let me tell you Harry is not happy. From this point on Harry Brown is a man of the mission and all the deadly training from his former days in the army emerge as he seeks to exact his revenge on the gang.

*** SPOILER ALERT*** Just in case

So finally I managed to get around to watching the new Ironman 2 movie.
I have to say I had my doubts. The first Iron Man movie was actually pretty good and I take my hat off to Robert Downey Jnr. for pulling off a wicked cool Tony Stark. However there were few dodgy pieces to the story and there was the problem of the man who was playing James Rhodes…the now infamous (with the comic fans) Terrence Howard. Luckily when things didn’t work out and Terrence was to be replaced, Don Cheadle stepped in and totally owned the role.

Yes indeed the Iron Man 2 movie was in many ways saved by Don Cheadle. I’ve seen Cheadle in various movies and always thought he was pretty talented, but after watching how he took on the role of Rhodey I have a new found respect for the man. Next up is the ever impressive Mickey Rourke who likewise made a pretty awesome villain as Whiplash. The only little issue with the Whiplash character was that it seemed like a hybrid of another character from the Iron man comics, who was like a Russian version of Iron man himself. Even with this small bit of annoyance Mickey did a great job and really pulled off a super cool Whiplash character who gave the “Man of Iron” a good run for his money.