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Entertainment Wrap #6

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street_fighter_the_legend_of_chun_li_xlgIf you take a second and listen you can hear the knees of young girls buckle all over the world as the Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience opens up this week.  The movie title pretty much sums up what the movie is about. The brothers sing, girls scream, rinse and repeat.  For those seeking a more engaging cinema experience this week, Street Fighter; The Legend of Chun Li opens this week also.  The movie follows the storyline of the title character in the SF universe. Perhaps the most interesting part of this film is the casting, which I don’t think anyone could have forseen these actors in the roles they are playing. Kristin Kreuk, of Smallville fame, stars as Chun Li. While I never pictured Chun Li being portrayed by Kreuk, they could have given her a role as a door in this movie and guys will still go check it out.  Sadly, I am also a part of this group.

Crossing Over is another movie opening up this week and it features a strong ensemble cast.  The movie stars Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, and Ashley Judd to name a few. The plot centers around immigrants from various countries all coming to Los Angeles and it follows their lives as they struggle to gain their legal immigration status.  Judging from the cast and the multi storyline premise, this movie looks promising.

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Righteous Kill (DVD)

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When I found out Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro would be making another movie together I was pretty excited. Their last collaboration, Michael Mann’s cops and robbers thriller “Heat”, is one of my favorite movies of all time. Not to mention the impressive film resumes of both actors, although lately poor script selection seems to have been getting the upperhand on them.  Still, I was eager to watch this movie having missed it in theaters.

In the movie, Pacino and DeNiro play veteran detectives who are also partners. A vigilante serial killer has been targeting criminals who have managed to either slip through the legal cracks or evade getting caught altogether. 

There are conflicting viewpoints as to whether the killer is actually doing the police a favor by cleaning up the streets.  Eventually the evidence leads the detectives to believe the killer is a cop, and the majority of the movie is spent determining who the killer is. While the premise of the film and the two big name leads offer so much potential for a great movie, sadly Righteous Kill falls a bit short of greatness and even dips into mediocrity.  The ideas behind the story are solid, but their execution is something else. It seems that the director was too focused on convincing the viewer of who the killer was that they unintentionally (at least I hope it was unintentionally) point to who the true killer is. Its a bit hard to describe without giving too much away about the plot, but anyone who has seen it should understand.

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