Sunday, May 8, 2011

Fast Five

For all those who just think that this is another installment in the Fast and the Furious well think again because it shows a whole other side to the life of a "professional runner". Brian O'Conner and Dominic Toretto have returned in this action packed chase scene from Rio de Janeiro to hopefully regain a life that they had left back in the United States. For some action movie fans out there, the much awaited arrival of The Rock vs. Vin Diesel comes as an excitement to see if those two fight it out.

Fast Five basically leaves off with what happened at the end of Fast and Furious and shows movie goers what happens with the break out attempt to hatch Dom out of a prison transport. The beginning of the movie finds Brian O'Conner and Mia Toretto in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil visiting an old friend and former runner with the Toretto Family, Vince, played by Matt Schulze. A whole slew of characters from the first four movies have made their way back into the movie, these characters include Roman Pearce, Tej Parker, Han Lue, and Gisele Harabo

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson plays hard-nosed federal agent Luke Hobbs who was assigned to the task of bringing in Dom, Brian, and Mia. This jam packed action film has an entire team of "runners" going after about a $100 million job with the world's best bounty hunter on their tail as well as an ending that will show all the fans that life for all these fugitives may have gotten a whole lot better.

However, after the ending credits, viewers are greeted with the face of someone absolutely no one would expect to have ever seen again. So don’t worry Fast and Furious fans because there will be more movies coming, or at least one more because this scene certainly opens a whole new can of worms for the main characters.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Supernatural

Alright so in this weeks installment of Supernatural Sam and Dean Winchester along with their father figure Bobby Singer, who just so happens to be the name of one of the executive producers of the show Robert Singer, along with their Angel sidekick Castiel go to a small town. Eve, as she is more appropriately called in the series is shacked up in a small town in Oregon where she is creating new monsters to roam the Earth but is coming up with problems with everyone she turns. The reason for Sam, Dean, Bobby, and Castiel going to this town is too attempt to kill Eve aka "The Mother of All" because of all the evil she is responsible for and since Sam and Dean helped stop the Apocalypse, they don't want a chance for another one to pop up and ruin the world.

The problem with this creature is that she can change her form into anything she wants, including Sam and Dean's mother which makes vanquishing her a very difficult task to accomplish. Because Eve is so incredibly old, she has powers that are able to create a wall between an angel such as Castiel and his powers, so the fact that the boys have an angel on their side during all those doesn't really amount to much when Castiel is in the presence of Eve because he becomes just normal.

In a previous episode, Castiel sends Sam and Dean back in time to get what is called Phoenix Ash and is said to be able to kill Eve. So in this episode of Supernatural, Sam and Dean along with Bobby and Castiel use what they can of the Phoenix Ash to kill Eve and in doing so, save the world. In an unconventional manner, well at least in Supernaturals standards, Dean takes a shot of Whiskey with some Phoenix Ash in it counting on the fact that Eve was going to bite him and ingest the ash that was in Dean's bloodstream. After doing this, Eve is vanquished and Castiel can use his power to save Sam, Dean, and Bobby from all the evil that is still lurking around this small town. Although I have said a lot in relation to last weeks episode, for all those viewers who have not seen it yet, do not be mad at me because there is still lots to see in the episode and regardless of what I've told you, this episode is just another killer installment in the Supernatural Series.