13 Tzameti

Sweating Bullets!

Sebastien, a Georgian immigrant is living in

France and working construction to support his poor family. When the man that hires him to help fix his house dies, his widow informs Sebastien that she cannot pay him. Before he leaves, he overhears the widow talking to her husbands friend on the phone about a "secret job" that pays a lot of money and that all the info for the job is in an envelope at the train station. Sebastien steals the envelope before anyone gets their hands on it and thus begins his scavenger hunt to hell! I'm not giving away the rest, lets just say that shit will have you on the edge of your seat. I bet a buck, you'll be sweating by the end of the film.

This is a great debut from the young Georgian film director Gela Babluani, that's Georgian as in near Russia. He won the Sundance Film Festival for this film and it's easy to see why. The film is just one hell of a ride and wherever you expect the film to go, trust me it's going surpass anything you can think of. I also like the fact that the movie plays on your human nature of being nosey, and the trouble you can get into.

The world is never what it seems and this film proves that if you look hard enough you'll find out there's people out here that live in a world beyond our wildest dreams or nightmares. Four words sum up the whole movie, "mind your fucking business"!

Tony Rome

The Chairman!

Frank Sinatra brings that Rack Pack swagger to the big screen in this hard-boiled detective story. Sinatra stars as Tony Rome, an ex-cop turned private eye who's also a compulsive gambler. He lives on a houseboat in Miami that he won in a dice game, how cool is that!

Tony's former partner, a slimeball motel security guard, pays him to return the daughter of a rich construction baron back home to her father because she's unconscious and drunk in the sleazy motel he works for. The father pays Tony to find out why she's been acting out of character and this is when the story gets a little light.

This is still your typical hard-boiled detective movie, nothing special about the story, but Sinatra's slick lingo and tough guy aura make the movie very watchable. This is not his best movie by far but it does prove that you can hand him any script, let him flash the baby blues, give him a suit and pretty co-star and I'll bet the house that he'll deliver an entertaining movie regardless of the story.

Coffy

Foxy Brown Coffy!!!

Pam Grier plays Coffy, a nurse that goes undercover as a prositute/dope fiend, to kill the drug dealers that turned her sister into a fiend and gave her police friend brain damage.

Pam Grier is legendary! She was the spark that started it all. Women in action movies really didn't exist in american cinema until her movies hit the screen. As far as sex appeal, she oozes it. In my opinion there was nobody back then and only one woman now that matches her sex appeal on camera and that's Italy's Monica Bellucci.