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Southpaw [Review]

It is one of the best boxing movies I've ever watched.  While the movie "The Fighter" by Mark Wahlberg was great, there is nothing in comparison to Southpaw. JAKE GYLLENHAAL IS ON A ROLL He has been very good in his previous movies like Nightcrawler, Enemy and Prisoners. Definitely one of those actors that deserve to win some award. Although it hasn't materialize, his continuous impressive role seems to suggest the awards will come some day. Maybe for Southpaw? Well, firstly, it was impressive to see his physics, especially this was a movie done after his Nightcrawler role, where he lost a lot of weight to look very skinny. But in Southpaw, Jake Gyllenhaal has transformed himself into a jacked, ripped beast, gaining 15 pounds of pure muscle. Jake Gyllenhaal as Billy Hope His body showed the amount of effort and time he spent in the gym but Southpaw is more than just a boxing match. The scars, tattoos and slurred voice doesn't even do justice to the e...

[Review] Taken 3

Ex-government operative Bryan Mills starting to show his age in this third installment of the Taken series - I can swear that I heard his panting almost every breath taking scene, which makes the acting by Liam Neeson real. In this series, Bryan Mills is hoping to reconcile with his ex-wife, Lenore St. John who is said to be not happy with her current husband. The reconciliation however cut short when she was brutally murdered. Bryan Mills was frame for the murder of Lenore and consumed with rage, he go on hiding to evade the CIA, FBI and the police and he intended to track down the murderer on his own with his skills. It doesn't take long before he realized that the murderer is from the group of Russians, which then leads him to his ex-wife husband - and he interrogates him until he told how he was forced to cooperate with the Russians which might target Bryan's daughter, Kim. So, in order to protect his daughter while he revenge, he gets help from his friends to bri...