ThE IdEs Of MaRcH (2O11 film)

The Ides of March is a 2011 American political drama thriller film directed by George Clooney from a screenplay written by Clooney, along with Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon. The film is an adaptation of Willimon's 2008 play Farragut North.

Directed by George Clooney
Produced by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Brian Oliver
Screenplay by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon
Based on Farragut North by Beau Willimon
Starring Ryan Gosling
George Clooney
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Paul Giamatti
Marisa Tomei
Jeffrey Wright
Evan Rachel Wood

Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) August 31, 2011 (Venice Film Festival), October 7, 2011 (Worldwide)
Running time 101 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $12.5 million
Box office $55,311,556 (worldwide)

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Preview

IMDB - Ratings: 7.4/10 from 15,918 users

Story

Stephen Meyers (Ryan Gosling) is the Junior Campaign Manager for Mike Morris (George Clooney), Governor of Pennsylvania and a Democratic presidential candidate, competing against Arkansas Senator Ted Pullman (Michael Mantell). The candidates are campaigning in Ohio. A win for Morris would all but guarantee him the nomination; a win for Pullman would give him vital momentum. Both campaigns are also attempting to enlist the endorsement of North Carolina Democratic Senator Franklin Thompson (Jeffrey Wright) who can give either one 356 pledged Democratic convention delegates and, ultimately, the nomination.

After a debate, Meyers is asked for a secret meeting by Pullman's Campaign Manager Tom Duffy (Paul Giamatti). Meyers calls his boss, Senior Campaign Manager Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who doesn't answer. Meyers leaves a message that something important has come up. Meyers meets with Duffy who offers him a position in Senator Pullman's campaign. Meyers refuses, and asserts that he believes in Morris. Duffy tells Meyers that his optimism won't last, and that Morris will eventually be cynical and corrupt like the other candidates. Zara calls Meyers back and asks what was important but Meyers says it was nothing to worry about.

Meyers starts a sexual relationship with Molly Stearns (Evan Rachel Wood), an intern for Morris' campaign and daughter of Jack Stearns (Gregory Itzin), the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Late one night, Meyers discovers that Morris is trying to call Molly. She and Morris had a brief sexual liaison, at a campaign stop in Iowa several weeks previously, and Molly is pregnant with Morris' baby. Meyers helps her with money for an abortion and drives her to the clinic.

Meyers admits to Zara that he met with Duffy, who told Meyers that Pullman will offer Senator Thompson the position of Secretary of State, guaranteeing his victory by bringing hundreds of delegates with him. Ida (Marisa Tomei), a reporter for the New York Times, reveals that an anonymous source leaked his encounter with Duffy to her and that she will publish unless Meyers gives her all of the information about his meeting with Thompson. Meyers comes to Zara for help. Zara reveals that he leaked the meeting to Ida and fires Meyers from the campaign for showing a "lack of loyalty" in meeting with Duffy.

Meyers offers his services to Duffy but Duffy doesn't want to hire Meyers. In a Machiavellian scheme, Duffy admits he met with Meyers in order to induce Meyers to tell Zara about the meeting. Duffy correctly predicted that this would lead Zara (in his paranoia) to remove Meyers from Morris' campaign, thus weakening Morris. Meanwhile, Molly learns that Meyers has been fired and, fearing that her secret will now be exposed once he leaves, commits apparent suicide by overdosing on pills. Meyers feels guilty about this, as he did intend to expose Morris' affair with Molly in exchange for a job on Senator Pullman's campaign.

Meyers later confronts Morris and tells him that he will expose the affair with Molly if Morris does not replace Zara with himself, as well as offer Senator Thompson the Vice Presidency guaranteeing Thompson's support. Morris relents when Meyers claims he has a suicide note which he says he stole from Molly's room. Later at Molly's funeral, Zara compliments Meyers on using his own secrets to his advantage. Having accepted Thompson's endorsement and his delegates, Morris becomes the nominee despite losing the Ohio primary to Pullman.

Now Senior Campaign Manager, Meyers attends a press conference organized by Ida. The movie ends as he takes his seat for a television interview and is asked for insight as to how the events surrounding the election unfolded.

Review - The games people play to get ahead, not necessarily in politics, but within themselves.

Audiences leaving George Clooney's latest Ides Of March will feel like they've just finished a watching a really good play.

What makes sense of this is the fact Ides Of March was adapted from a play. In a play telling an audience everything they need to know always helps, especially when the majority of it are only going to see it once. However the difference in film is the aesthetic liberties it allows its' director and I don't think in this Clooney took enough advantage of that.

There is a part to this movie where a business exchange takes place inside of an escalade parked outside of a barbershop. The words being exchanged within that escalade are left to the audience's imagination because the camera never goes inside, but stands staring at it from across the street. Ides of March could've used a lot more scenes like this, but Clooney played it safe with a conventionally linear story line. And I think Clooney put so much more into the story line than he needed to for the audience's sake.

This film didn't leave enough to the imagination of its' audience. While the actors carried out every single demand of this script, the film itself doesn't leave its' audience with enough to make them want to watch it again. The amount of telling done over this show leaves little to no replay value. It feels like the majority of the aesthetic was put into the script when I think a minimum would've been more than enough. Ides of March's script told me a lot more than I needed to know. It feels like the script told me so much that I forgot some key elements to the story. Then again the liberties he took with the script is exactly what allowed Ryan Gosling to take his character to some extremes.

In terms of acting, with names like Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Paul Giamatti, Clooney delivers an all-star studded Sega Dream-Cast. And in terms of his direction, Clooney really leaves Ides Of March to his roots in the stage. However with that said I'm afraid it all felt a little too staged for the silver screen.

For the sake of cinema I think Clooney could've taken a little more of an aesthetic liberty with this project.

DRiVe (2O11 film)

Drive is a 2011 American thriller film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling as the principal character, with Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, and Albert Brooks. Although Drive shares several characteristics with the similarly-named 1978 Walter Hill car-chase film, The Driver, it is actually adapted from the 2005 James Sallis novel of the same name, with a screenplay by Hossein Amini.

Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Produced by Michel Litvak, John Palermo, Marc Platt, Gigi Pritzker & Adam Siegel
Screenplay by Hossein Amini
Based on Drive by James Sallis
Starring Ryan Gosling
Carey Mulligan
Bryan Cranston
Christina Hendricks
Ron Perlman
Oscar Isaac
Albert Brooks

Distributed by FilmDistrict
Release date(s) May 20, 2011 (Cannes) & September 16, 2011 (United States)
Running time 100 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $13 million
Box office $67,476,620 (worldwide)

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Preview

IMDB - Ratings: 8.1/10 from 75,518 users

Story

The unnamed Driver (Ryan Gosling) lives in a low-rent apartment building and works as a mechanic, stunt driver, and getaway driver. His driving skills and precision are evident when he helps two burglars evade police and split up at the Staples Center's crowded parking garage. The Driver works anonymously, never for the same people twice, and allots them only five minutes to do their business. Shannon (Bryan Cranston) owns the garage where the Driver works and sets up his other jobs. Shannon borrows $300,000 from mobster Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks) and buys a stock car for the Driver to race. Bernie agrees to back the plan after he sees the Driver's skills. Bernie's business partner is a Jewish mobster named Nino (Ron Perlman) who once had Shannon's pelvis broken when he found out Shannon overcharged him.

The Driver helps his neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan), and her young son, Benicio (Kaden Leos), when Irene has car trouble at a local market. Later, Irene has her car towed to Shannon's garage, and the Driver gives her and Benicio a ride home. The Driver begins spending more time with Irene and Benicio and even has dinner with them after Irene's husband, Standard (Oscar Isaac), comes home from prison. Standard owes "protection money" to an Albanian gangster, who goes by the name Cook (James Biberi), dating back from his time in prison. Cook beats Standard and threatens to come after Irene and Benicio if Standard does not rob a pawn shop.

The Driver agrees to help Standard placate Cook by driving Standard to and from the pawn shop. Blanche (Christina Hendricks), a woman associated with Cook, also participates in the heist. The job goes wrong, and Standard is shot dead by the pawn shop owner as he returns to the car. The Driver leaves with Blanche and the money, but a car follows him and tries to run him off the road. The Driver eludes the other vehicle, and he and Blanche hide out in a motel room. The Driver discovers that the amount of money is much more than he expected for a pawn shop robbery. He threatens to hurt Blanche if she does not tell the truth. She tells him the car belonged to Cook, and they planned to double-cross the Driver and Standard and take the money for themselves. Suddenly, two of Cook's men attack them in the motel room, killing Blanche with a shotgun blast to the head and injuring the Driver before he kills them both.

The Driver confronts Cook in his strip club and learns that Nino has been behind the heist all along. Nino later explains to Bernie that the money from the pawn shop belonged to the East Coast Mafia. Fearing retaliation if it becomes known who was behind the robbery, Bernie stabs Cook to death and tells Nino to take care of the Driver while he takes care of Shannon. The Driver agrees to give Nino the money in exchange for Irene and Benicio's safety. However, Nino sends a hitman to their apartment building. The Driver and Irene unknowingly ride the elevator with the hitman, but the Driver notices his concealed gun. The Driver gives Irene a quick kiss before overpowering the hitman, dispatching him by repeatedly stomping on his head before a stunned Irene. Bernie finds Shannon attemping to flee town and slits Shannon's wrist in his garage with a straight razor.

The Driver follows Nino to the Pacific Coast Highway in his car and t-bones him. With Nino wounded and weakened, the Driver drowns him in the Pacific Ocean. Bernie calls the Driver, telling him to meet at a Chinese restaurant. The Driver then makes a final phone call to Irene, to tell her he was leaving and thanking her for her time with him. At the restaurant, Bernie promises Irene and Benicio's safety in exchange for the money, but not the Driver's. In the parking lot, Bernie stabs the Driver in the abdomen as he pulls the money from the trunk of his car. The Driver then stabs and kills Bernie, leaving his corpse on the ground next to the satchel of money. Later that evening, Irene knocks on the Driver's apartment door, but there is no answer. The film ends with the Driver driving through the night.

Review - A Tense and Often Beautiful Masterpiece

At the Theater- "Drive" -- This is not an Action film, this is not a "Car" movie- It's a character-driven, slow-burn thriller of the first order that features elements of some of the finer works from Directorial royalty like Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, William Friedkin, Quentin Tarantino, Walter Hill and the late Sam Peckinpah.

The film is an electric mixture of beautiful, lingering cinematography, a pulsating soundtrack, lean dialogue and short bursts of graphic, bloody violence. It's tense and involving- almost impossible not to get immersed in. Nicolas Winding Refn is a Director to definitely keep a tab on.

Ryan Gosling is the embodiment of some kind of cold fire at the heart of the matter- his "Driver" character is a well-intentioned but unstoppable force that will surely end up as a cult favorite for decades to come. Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks, Ron Perlman, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks and Oscar Issac round out an excellent cast that's pretty much in support but extremely well-utilized.

Those wanting to check out a quick and disposable, mindlessly fun popcorn flick need to steer clear- this isn't what you're looking for. This is deadly-serious film-making that's damned-near perfect.

ThE AdJusTMeNt BuReAu (2O11 film)

The Adjustment Bureau is a 2011 American romantic action thriller film loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story, "Adjustment Team". The film was written and directed by George Nolfi and stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. The cast also includes Anthony Mackie, John Slattery, Michael Kelly, and Terence Stamp. 

Directed by George Nolfi
Produced by George Nolfi ,Chris Moore, Michael Hackett, Bill Carraro, Isa Dick Hackett & Joel Viertel
Screenplay by George Nolfi
Based on "Adjustment Team" by Philip K. Dick
Starring Matt Damon
Emily Blunt

Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) March 4, 2011
Running time 99 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $50.2 million
Box office $127,869,379 (worldwide)

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IMDB - Ratings: 7.1/10 from 73,637 users

Story

In 2006, New York Congressman David Norris runs a campaign for United States Senate that ultimately collapses when photos of Norris mooning his former classmates at a drunken reunion party are splashed all over the New York newspapers. While rehearsing his concession speech in a hotel bathroom, Norris meets a woman hiding in a stall. The two share a surprisingly enjoyable conversation, ultimately leading to a kiss. She was hiding to evade hotel security men (she had dared herself to crash a wedding reception). Security men show up and chase her off before Norris can even get her name. Inspired, Norris goes off his prepared script and delivers a candid speech which is extremely well-received, making him an early favorite for the 2010 Senate race.

Thirty days later, Norris is preparing to start his first day at a new job. At a park near Norris' house, Harry Mitchell -- who had been present at many of David's campaign appearances -- receives an assignment from Richardson, his boss: Ensure that Norris spills his coffee on himself by 7:05 AM. Shortly thereafter Mitchell falls asleep while waiting and misses Norris, who boards his bus. David encounters the woman from the bathroom. Her name is Elise. She writes down her phone number on a card and gives it to Norris.

When Norris arrives at work, he finds his boss (also his childhood friend and his former campaign manager) Charlie Traynor is frozen in place in the middle of a conference room. Unfamiliar men led by Richardson, some in black combat gear, wave strange, glowing devices around Traynor's head. Richardson shouts for his men to grab Norris. David starts running and the men give chase. The chase winds through the entire office but it goes completely unnoticed by the rest of the office staff. Like Traynor, they appear to be frozen and are completely unaware of their surroundings. Eventually, Norris is incapacitated and taken to a vast, dark, and empty convention hall to meet Richardson and his men.

The repercussions of Mitchell and Richardson's botched operation are so severe that Richardson's supervisor arrives on the scene. He reminds his junior of an unrelated snafu decades earlier that was still legendary among Bureau operatives. The Bureau's attempts to fix it had been so complex, and so completely fruitless, that "In the end," he advises Richardson, "we just leveled with him."

Richardson explains to David that he and his fellow "caseworkers" are no mere men. They're from the "Adjustment Bureau." The caseworkers all appear to be normal people in plain suits and hats. They're visible to humanity and blend in seamlessly on the streets. They all have the personalities and demeanor of dedicated (but slightly weary) civil servants. But they somehow know every choice that every person makes before they make it, which Richardson quickly proves to David ("Think of a number. It's 17").

The job of the Bureau's caseworkers is to ensure that people's lives proceed as determined by "the plan", a complex document Richardson attributes to "the Chairman." If people unknowingly deviate from the plan that the Chairman has set for them, the Caseworkers can usually put them back "on plan" via subtle, conventional "adjustments" to simple events taking place around them. For instance, Mitchell's purpose in causing Norris to spill coffee on himself that morning was so that David would return to his apartment to change into a clean shirt, thus causing him to miss his bus, thus causing him to fail to reconnect with his mystery woman from the hotel bathroom.

When an "adjustment" won't suffice, the Bureau can stage a hands-on "intervention" in which the subject's brain is physically altered to shift their natural decision making pathways towards the choices defined by The Plan. This is the scene that Norris had stumbled upon earlier. Norris was supposed to have missed his bus and been ten minutes late, by which time the Bureau would have completed their intervention of Traynor inside the office and left behind no trace or memory of themselves or the intervention.

Richardson assures David that Charlie is fine and will not remember his adjustment. Norris is warned that if he talks about the Bureau, he will be "reset"—akin to being lobotomized. Finally, without really explaining the reason why, Richardson informs David that he is not meant to meet Elise again. He burns the card containing her phone number and tells David to forget her. Mitchell, who appears to be slightly more soft-hearted than Richardson, meets with David on a ferry shortly afterward and urges him to take their warnings seriously. Forget about Elise. And don't tell anybody about the Bureau.

But for the next three years, David rides that same bus downtown every day, hoping to see Elise. He finally does encounter her one day and they reconnect. Richardson and other caseworkers attempt to prevent David from building his relationship with Elise by causing him to miss the dance rehearsal that he had promised to attend; she's already suspicious about the "lost phone number" and she would never give David a third chance. When David notices Richardson onlooking his Senate announcement speech, he realizes Richardson's plan. David races across town, fighting the Bureau's abilities to "control his choices" to ensure he will meet Elise again. Things that would otherwise seem like common, petty annoyances -- his cellphone suddenly drops a call, cabs ignore him, traffic lights turn red just as he's approaching the intersection -- are actually the Bureau attempting to delay David long enough to miss Elise's rehearsal. During the chase across the city, the Bureau uses ordinary doorways to magically travel instantly to another location many blocks away. Ultimately, the caseworkers fail, and David sees Elise dance. He now feels even closer to Elise than ever before.

The importance of breaking the couple up is now so great that the case has been "kicked upstairs" and taken out of Richardson's control. Richardson discovers that David and Elise "were meant to be together in an earlier version of the plan", and Harry speculates on whether or not the plan is always correct. David and Elise spend an evening at a party, connecting when David tells her he became a politician after the loss of his mother and brother. They spend the night together, cementing their personal bond the next morning.

The Bureau has handed David's case over to Thompson, whose blunt approach has earned him the nickname "The Hammer." Thompson is far more frank and direct and is granted wider latitude in dealing with problems. He takes Norris to the same dark, empty convention center where he first learned of the Bureau. David argues that he -- and Humanity -- has the right to choose their own path. Thompson tells David that they gave humanity free will after the height of the Roman Empire, but humanity then brought the Dark Ages down upon itself. The Bureau took control again and created the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. When free will was returned around 1910 it resulted in two world wars and the near destruction of the planet with a nuclear conflict.

Thompson explains that when David lost his family during his childhood, it created an emotional void in him that as an adult, David filled by seeking the attention, approval and love of the electorate. This drive will ultimately take him to the Presidency, where David will go on to "change the world." However, Elise's impulsive nature would amplify his own and cause David to re-make the same kinds of childish mistakes that had cost him his previous election to the Senate. Thompson releases David and urges him to go catch the end of Elise's performance at her dance studio. Thompson follows, and tells David that if he stays with Elise, he will ruin Elise's future as well as his own. According to The Plan, Elise is to become one of the world's greatest choreographers and marry the man she was formerly engaged to. But if she stays with David, Elise will be limited to teaching dance to children. Thompson uses his adjustment power to cause Elise to fall and sprain her ankle. The doctors assure her that she will recover completely in a few weeks' time, but Thompson has made his point. David, not willing to rob Elise of her dreams of success and fulfillment as a dancer, chooses to abandon her at the hospital.

Eleven months later, David's Senate campaign is in its late stages and he's amassed a 16 point lead over his opponent. He seems to lack his previous enthusiasm, however. Charlie shows David an announcement of Elise's imminent wedding. David decides to take a day or two off from campaigning. Harry, feeling guilty for earlier events, contacts David via secret meetings in the rain and near water. David learns from Harry that rushing water (such as rivers or rain) hampers the caseworkers' ability to anticipate people's movements. The Chairman imposed this on the caseworkers (as well as their reliance on special hats to move freely between the doors and into and out of Bureau headquarters) as an intentional limit to their influence on Humanity. This allows Harry and David to meet without Thompson or the rest of the Bureau finding out.

Harry reveals that Thompson exaggerated the negative consequences of David and Elise's possible relationship, stating that she only fills his emotional void and he would therefore not need to seek approval in the political world. He teaches David to use the doors so he may stop Elise's wedding. He gives David his hat, empowering Norris to use the doors in exactly the same way as any member of The Bureau: turn a doorknob clockwise to pass through a different door on Earth, turn it counter-clockwise to enter headquarters. David finds Elise in the bathroom of the courthouse where she is to be wed. She appears as unenthusiastic about her imminent wedding as David was about his imminent election. Initially furious and hurt after his earlier desertion, Elise is shocked when David reveals the Bureau's existence to her and shows her how he travels through doors. They are implacably pursued across New York City. When David and Elise find themselves at the base of the Statue of Liberty, Norris decides to find the Chairman and make his case for staying with Elise, though he knows he will suffer the Bureau's ultimate sanction -- a reset of his brain -- if caught. Elise wavers briefly but then follows David across, taking the same risks.

They pass through the door to the Bureau headquarters, where the chase continues. Eventually, they are trapped on a rooftop above New York, with Bureau members closing in. They declare their love for each other and embrace in a passionate but desperate kiss, knowing that David is about to be taken away and reset. But when they let go of each other, the Bureau members are all gone. Thompson is abruptly on scene but is interrupted by Harry, who shows him a new, revised plan from the Chairman for David and Elise: a plan page, one half which shows where their paths were, heading side-by-side into a blank page starting just past their new current moment.

Harry, after commending both of them for being willing to sacrifice all for the possibility of being together, takes his hat back and tells David and Elise they are free to "take the stairs". The film concludes with David and Elise walking through the streets, holding hands, accompanied a voice-over from Harry, speculating that the Chairman's larger plan may simply be to get humanity back to a point where they can write their own plans for themselves.

Review -  Intelligence mixed with big-budget Hollywood action to form the new science fiction romance genre
David (Matt Damon) has met Elise (Emily Blunt) and based on one spontaneous kiss and one flirtatious encounter, he's determined that she's the one he's supposed to be with. They have other plans. Oh yes, the indefinable, ambiguous pronoun "they". Just to keep a sense of the intrigue afloat, I'll define "they" as the men of "The Adjustment Bureau". What they want, we don't really know. But David wants the girl—a beautiful girl—but just a girl nonetheless.

For us, questions of free will, fate, soul mates, success and pre-defined destinies abound. All running around an intricate maze of New York architecture. Although intricate might not be the best word because there's nothing here for us to figure out; the film lays everything out well in advance, and over and over again in case you missed it. At least there's intelligence to the story but unfortunately no subtlety.

"The Adjustment Bureau" has pretty city-scapes and pretty people playing more profound characters than pretty people usually play. As with most genre-mixing films, there is something for everybody. I got the intelligence that is usually sorely missing from big-budget Hollywood action films although I could have done with a bit more respect.

HauNTeRs (2O1O film)

Haunters (Hangul: 초능력자; RR: Haunters, Psychic, Hunters, Choin) is a 2010 South Korean film directed by Kim Min-suk – cowriter of The Good, the Bad, the Weird – depicts the struggle between a psychic named Cho-in (Kang Dong-won) who can control people with his mind and a man named Kyu-nam (Go Soo) who is immune to the psychic’s supernatural power.

Directed by Kim Min-Suk
Screenplay by Kim Min-Suk
Starring Kang Dong-Won
Ko Soo

Distributed by ZIP ENTERTAINMENT
Release date(s) November 10, 2010
Running time 114 minutes
Country South Korea
Language Korean

Preview
IMDB - Ratings: 6.2/10 from 256 users

Box Office
The film opened number one at the South Korean box office collecting 685,670 admissions on its opening November 12–14 weekend. The movie took the #1 spot for ticket sales for 2 weeks straight before it fell down to #3 spot during the 3rd week since opening. The film sold total of 2,017,485 tickets during the three week span.

Story
After losing his job at a scrap metal yard, Kyu-Nam (Ko Su) finds a new job at a small pawn shop named Utopia. He is immediately drawn to the family atmosphere at Utopia, working with his new boss Jung-Sik (Byeon Hie-Bong) and boss's daughter Young-Sook (Jung Eun-Chae). Unfortunately for Kyu-Nam, his moment of happiness will only be fleeting.

Cho-In (Gang Dong-Won) lived through a brutal childhood. He has had to use a prosthetic leg since an early age, grew up with an abusive father and lived with a mother who at one point attempted to kill her own son out of despair. Cho-In also possesses an awe-inspiring supernatural gift. Cho-In can control other people's minds when they are within his field of sight.

One fateful day, Cho-In walks into the Utopia pawn shop to steal whatever money exists in the safe. Not expecting much resistance, Cho-In is surprised to find one man at the Utopia pawn shop is able to break free from his mind control abilities. That man is Kyu-Nam. Cho-In then resorts to killing the owner of pawn shop to make his escape. All of this is captured on CCTV.

An epic battle will soon occur between these two people with supernatural abilities and nothing to lose.

Review - Gleefully Over-the-Top and Charming
A man who can control people's minds (as long as they are within his line of vision) encounters a person who is immune to his powers. After an unfortunate death, they square off against each other. Within the opening 15 minutes you'll know that this one is gonna be crazy. Realism is not a priority, which means that this roller-coaster ride aims simply and solely to entertain. The premise allows for some very unique sequences that are refreshingly different, shocking, and damn exciting. The psychic's victims move in a slow, methodical, creepy manner that creates an ominous mood.

I'm quickly becoming a fan of Dong-won Gang, who starred in "Woochi", "M", "Secret Reunion" and a few other films. Here he plays the villain with panache and charisma. The scriptwriting in "Haunters" could have added more character development, but it's still a lot of fun to watch. My favorite scenes are the car chase and the office balcony sequences. The premise itself is fascinating and the film did a good job in terms of executing some thrilling interaction between the protagonist and antagonist, which does get over-the-top at times but is charming so.

Some have complained that the origins of the characters' special abilities were not explained, but what kind of ridiculous explanation should we expect? Another generic biological mutation that we see in superhero movies? Sometimes it's better just to leave the exposition alone because any attempt at a scientific explanation would be flat out preposterous anyways. I think it's best to approach this film like one would approach those old school Hong Kong action flicks that throw logic into the wind while focusing on pure entertainment. Sit back with a cappuccino and relax. You'll enjoy it.

MaRGiN CaLL (2O11 film)

Margin Call is a 2011 American independent drama film, written and directed by J.C. Chandor. The film has an ensemble cast that includes Kevin Spacey, Demi Moore, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, and Penn Badgley. The film takes place over a 36-hour period at a large investment bank (loosely modeled on Lehman Brothers) and focuses on the financial crisis of 2007–2008. The film follows the actions taken by a group of employees during the financial collapse. The film was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and opened on October 21, 2011 in the United States.

Directed by J.C. Chandor
Produced by Robert Ogden Barnum, Michael Benaroya, Neal Dodson, Joe Jenckes, Corey Moosa, Zachary Quinto, Laura Rister & Cassian Elwes
Written by J.C. Chandor
Starring Kevin Spacey
Paul Bettany
Jeremy Irons
Zachary Quinto
Penn Badgley
Simon Baker
Aasif Mandvi
Mary McDonnell
Demi Moore
Stanley Tucci

Distributed by Roadside Attractions
Release date(s) January 25, 2011 (Sundance) & October 21, 2011 (United States)
Running time 109 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $3.4–3.5 million (est.)
Box office $8,694,100 (worldwide)

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Preview

IMDB - Ratings: 7.2/10 from 9,832 users

Story

Junior employees Seth Bregman (Penn Badgley), Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) and senior fixed income salesman Will Emerson (Paul Bettany) watch as a human resources team conducts mass layoffs on their trading floor. One of the fired employees is Eric Dale (Stanley Tucci), who works in risk management. Before leaving, Dale gives Peter a USB drive with a project he had been working on, telling him to "be careful." That night, Peter finishes the project, and discovers that trading will soon exceed the historical volatility levels used by the firm to calculate risk. Because of excessive leverage, if the firm's assets in mortgage backed securities decrease by 25%, the firm will suffer a loss greater than its market capitalization. Sullivan alerts Emerson, who calls head of sales Sam Rogers (Kevin Spacey).

The employees remain at the firm all night for a series of meetings with more senior executives, including head of securities Jared Cohen (Simon Baker) and head of risk Sarah Robertson (Demi Moore), and finally CEO John Tuld (Jeremy Irons). Tuld reveals that his plan is simply to sell off all of the toxic assets before the market can react to the news of their worthlessness, thereby limiting the firm's exposure. Rogers knows this will spread the risk throughout the financial sector and will destroy the firm's relationships with its counterparties, who will never trust them again. The characters finally locate Dale, who had been missing after his company phone was turned off. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Rogers, Robertson, Cohen, and Tuld were aware of the risks in the weeks leading up to the crisis. Tuld plans to offer Robertson's resignation to the board and employees as a sacrificial lamb.

Before the markets open, Rogers tells his traders they will receive seven figure bonuses if they achieve a 93% reduction in certain MBS asset classes. He admits that the traders are effectively ending their own jobs and careers by destroying their relationships with their clients. Meanwhile, Robertson and Dale sit in an office, being paid handsomely to do nothing for the day. Emerson manages to sell off his assets, but his counterparties become increasingly agitated and suspicious as the day wears on. Having successfully reached the 93% benchmark, Rogers watches the same human resources team begin another round of layoffs on his floor. He confronts Tuld, who remarks that the current crisis is really no different from other historical panics and recessions, and sharp gains and losses are simply part of the economic cycle. He wants Rogers to stay at the firm for another two years, promising that there will be a lot of money to be made from the coming crisis. Rogers sees Sullivan meeting with Cohen about his imminent promotion, while the fates of Emerson and Bregman are not mentioned.

In the final scene, Rogers digs a hole in his ex-wife's front yard to bury his cancer-ridden dog.

Throughout the film, one of the lower-tier employees constantly makes reference to pay packages and speculates about the salaries of higher-ranked members of the firm. As the crisis unfolds, junior traders wonder what it is like to be a "real person" who does not see the impending crisis, and condemn the public for their hypocrisy of blaming Wall Street in the bad times while enjoying the easy credit and benefits of financial industry that takes risks. Dale and Sullivan are both engineers, an allusion to Wall Street's practice of luring science and engineering specialists to build and run complex trading strategies. In a series of meetings, supervisors and managers betray their ignorance of the technical details of Dale/Sullivan's findings and ask them to explain as plainly as possible.

Review

Its announcement promised an inside view in the financial industry, and particularly how it could cause the recent financial crisis. And precisely this is what it did splendidly. I gave it a "very good"mark (5 out of 5) for the public prize competition when leaving the theater.

I particularly liked the way they avoided the techno babble about financial products, from which we all learned the hard way to be paper constructs only, none of these related with things in the real world. The story also clearly illustrates that higher echelons in the financial industry do not understand those technicalities either, something we assumed all along but didn't dare to ask for confirmation.

Departing from the very different purposes and backgrounds of the main characters, the story line got us involved in the attempts of each of them to cope with the situation at hand. Though their job motivations may drastically differ from yours and mine, this film had no really distinct good and bad guys.

The main characters were properly introduced in the time-line when logically needed. We got the chance to know each of them, with their own coping behavior in this volatile environmeant, yet everyone bringing along his own human characteristics. In the process we also saw the golden chains to attach each of them to the company, making it virtually impossible to cut themselves loose from this line of work. We may call it greed, but it is a fact of life that everyone gets used to incoming cash flow, however large and unnecessary it may seem in our eyes. Once being there, it is logical to buy a bigger house and to send kids to expensive schools. After that there is no easy way back, and each one smoothly grows into a life style that is difficult to escape from.

The story line as such is not that important, apart from the fact that it succeeds very well in tying all the above together. It also maintains a constant tension all the time. I consider both aspects an achievement in itself, since nothing really happens in terms of dead bodies, physical fights, and chasing cars. Only a few short scenes were shot outside, but all the rest happened in a standard office building. The final outdoor scene was a bit unexpected (I won't spoil it for you), but it shows that even bankers are human after all.

ThE LeDGe (2O11 film)

The Ledge is a 2011 thriller film written and directed by Matthew Chapman, starring Charlie Hunnam, Terrence Howard, Liv Tyler and Patrick Wilson. The film premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

Directed by Matthew Chapman
Produced by Michael Mailer, Mark Damon & Matthew Chapman
Screenplay by Matthew Chapman
Starring Charlie Hunnam
Terrence Howard
Liv Tyler
Patrick Wilson

Release date(s) January 21, 2011 (Sundance)
Country United States
Language English
Budget $10 million

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IMDB - Ratings: 6.5/10 from 4,437 users

Story
The movie opens with detective Hollis Lucetti, played by Terrence Howard, receiving the news from a doctor that he has been sterile his entire life. The film quickly switches to Gavin Nichols, an atheist played by Charlie Hunnam, standing on a ledge as if to jump. A small crowd forms below Gavin and Hollis responds to the emergency.

The movie then recounts the story of Gavin and his love for Shana, his neighbor's wife played by Liv Tyler. When the neighbor, a fundamentalist Christian named Joe, finds out that Gavin has been sleeping with his wife, he challenged Gavin to a battle of wills. This involved Gavin jumping off a building to prove his love for Shana, despite his disbelief in an afterlife.

The premise is similar to that of a short story by Stephen King, also called "The Ledge".

Review
The plot is gripping, full of pathos, and well executed. I thought the acting was excellent and the dialogue thought provoking. Charlie Hunnam and Liv Tyler delivered outstanding performances. I felt like I've met all these people in other guise in my life, and they were all very human.

Unlike most modern cinema, rather than skirting the big issues of philosophy and meaning this movie tackles the hard questions head on. It was very refreshing to see how these ideas interacted with the characters and their motivations. I really don't want to give it away. Go see it, make your own decision.

CoLoMBiAnA (2011 film)

Colombiana is a 2011 French-American action film co-written (with Robert Mark Kamen) and produced by Luc Besson and directed by Olivier Megaton. The film stars Zoë Saldana in the lead role. The film was released in France on 27 July 2011; in the USA on 26 August 2011 and in the UK on 9 September 2011.

Directed by Olivier Megaton
Produced by Luc Besson & Pierre-Ange Le Pogam
Screenplay by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen
Starring Zoë Saldana
Michael Vartan
Cliff Curtis
Lennie James
Callum Blue
Jordi Mollà

Distributed by TriStar Pictures & (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
Release date(s) 27 July 2011 (France), 26 August 2011 (USA) & 9 September 2011 (UK)
Running time 108 minutes
Country France & United States
Language English & Spanish
Budget $40 million
Box office $60,965,854

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IMDB - Ratings: 6.1/10 from 14,178 users

Story
In Bogota, Colombia, Cataleya's father, Fabio, is having a meeting with Don Luis, a drug lord, to pay off his remaining debt and leave his employment. Fabio, however, knows that Don Luis will put a hit out on him for leaving with a valuable item that he holds and Don Luis wants. Fabio rushes home and warns Alicia, his wife, that Marcos, Don Luis's capo, is coming after them. While Alicia packs, Fabio hands Cataleya a business card, which should give her entry to the U.S. embassy, in case she finds herself alone. Fabio hands Catleya the item that Don Luis wants, telling her not to lose it and to give it to the Ambassador so that she can get a U.S. passport. He also gives Cataleya the address of her uncle in Chicago, who will take care of her. He tells her to "Never forget where you (she) came from." Marcos and his thugs arrive at Fabio's residence. Fabio, Alicia, and Cataleya try to escape, but the house is surrounded. Fabio and Alicia have Cataleya sit at the kitchen table and not move no matter what. Cataleya witnesses both her parents being gunned down.

Marcos locates Cataleya and tells her that he's a good man and he killed her father because he betrayed Don Luis. Marcos knows that Cataleya knows the whereabouts of the unknown item and says Don Luis will give her whatever she wants if she gets him what he wants. Cataleya stabs Marcos in the hand with a kitchen knife and escapes her house. She runs through the streets of Bogota, pursued by thugs from all directions, and is able to slip away by hiding inside a water sewer. She then uses the business card her father gave her and goes to the Ambassador's office. Cataleya vomits out onto the Ambassador's desk the valuable information Marcos was looking for, which she swallowed while she was sitting at the kitchen table in her house. In exchange for this, they give her a passport, and she takes the first flight to America. At the airport, Department of Social Services guides Cataleya. Cataleya pretends to want to use the bathroom and escapes to take a bus to her uncle, Emilio, in Chicago. The next day, Cataleya and Emilio talk about Cataleya's dreams. Cattleya had at first wanted to be a designer or artist, but, because of her parents' death, Cataleya presents a strange request to Emilio: she wants him to help her become a killer. Emilio says he will help her but looks disturbed and enrolls her in an expensive private school.

Cataleya berates Emilio for not taking her seriously and says if he won't teach her how to be a killer, she'll find someone else to. Emilio gives Cataleya a demonstration of how to be a killer by pulling out a gun and firing at the front wheel of a random passing car. Emilio tells Catleya that if she wants to be a killer, she has to be smart, psychological, and know her surroundings, otherwise, "(she'll) end up dead within 5 years". He makes her a deal. If she goes to school, he will teach her how to be an assassin.

Fifteen years later, Cataleya works for Emilio as a hitwoman. She knows how to get in and out without being detected, has amazing fighting skills, and is good with any weapon. She leads a quiet double life with an artist boyfriend who knows almost nothing about her. One night Cataleya, seemingly intoxicated, rams her car into a police car. The officers arrest and interrogate her. They find no name in the database, along with no I.D., no license, but a library card, with the name of Valerie Phillips. The police charge her with DUI and throw her in the precinct's jail for the night. Later on that night, Genarro Rizzo, a big time gangster, is being transferred to the jail. Cataleya pretends to be asleep and when the guards leave her section of the jail, she gets up and begins undressing, donning a black bodysuit, removing the wig she had on her hair. She uses the hairpin from inside her wig to unlock her cell door. Cataleya knocks out the guard and takes his weapon. She approaches Genarro, wakes him, kills him and draws an orchid (a cataleya) on his naked stomach. She leaves the drawing of the cataleya on her victims in hopes that doing so will attract the gangster that killed her parents.
The police, hearing the gunshots, quickly pull the alarm and start searching for Genarro's killer. Cataleya makes her way back to her cell by going inside the air vent with a detour outside over the edge of the roof. Cataleya makes her way back inside the jail, gets back inside her cell, redresses, and pretends to be asleep when the guards check on her. The unconscious guard comes to, and his gun is right next to him. Next day, police release Cataleya with a court date for the DWI. When Cataleya leaves she takes off her fake hands, which are identical to skin, and throws them away.

After further assassinations, the FBI decide to release the information regarding Cataleya's calling card is revealed to the public. It is then revealed that Don Luis has been relocated to the US by making a deal with the CIA. Don Luis sends Marco to hunt down this assassin. Marco eventually tracks down Emilio and kills Cataleya's remaining family.

Cataleya, wrought with grief breaks into an FBI agent's home and tries to explain her situation to him. After threatening to kill his family if he does not cooperate, she gets the address of Don Luis from a CIA agent revealed earlier to know where Don Luis has been relocated into.
Cataleya loads an armored van with guns and her two dogs and drives to Don Luis's estate for vengeance.

After a lengthy gunfight, Cataleya confronts Marcos in the bathroom. They engage in hand-to-hand combat where Cataleya uses plastic toothbrushes as stabbing weapons. A defeated and wounded Marcos picks up his pistol and points it to Cataleya who disassembles the gun and stabs Marcos with the gun barrel, killing him. She picks up Marcos's cellphone and leaves.
Don Luis, meanwhile, sneaks away from a hiding spot and gets in a large black van. He drives away when he receives a call from Marcos. Answering the call, he finds out Cataleya has killed Marcos. He threatens Cataleya and taunts that he is where she cannot find him, but he will regroup and find her. Cataleya calmly responds he is exactly where she wants him to be. It is revealed that Cataleya's two dogs are in the back of the van, and mauls Don Luis to death when Cataleya commands the dogs to "eat".

Her artist boyfriend is held for questioning, when he receives a phone call from Cataleya where they say their goodbyes and Cataleya is seen at a gas station somewhere, getting on a bus.

Review
Colombiana stars Zoe Saldana as a girl from Bogota, Colombia who becomes an assassin after witnessing her parents' murder. That's pretty much it. There's really no more, no less. The plot is something you've seen a million times before and the ending is pretty predictable. The characters are not developed very much but that doesn't matter, much like my quibbles with the completely inaccurate shooting locations that pose as Colombia at the beginning of the movie. This is an action movie, first and foremost and the movie moves quick enough not to waste any chance at seeing a good action sequence. Saldana is good in the role and she does a good enough job anchoring the film. The rest can't be said about the rest of the movie. I can't to say it was bad. But some of the acting range was wildly uneven. Plus some of the film was downright laughable. One scene that really stood out to me was the scene where Saldana's character tells her uncle that she wants to be a killer. He tries to convince her to change her mind by taking out a gun and shooting a moving car in broad daylight! In front of other people! That scene alone should make it a eligible candidate to be included on the podcast "How Did This Get Made". Now despite my reservations with the lack of character development and the weak plot, I thought it was pretty entertaining trash. It's the type of movie where you leave your brain at the door and have a good time.

FiNaL DeSTiNaTiOn V (2O11 film)

Final Destination 5 is a 2011 supernatural horror film written by Eric Heisserer and directed by Steven Quale. It is the fifth installment in the Final Destination film franchise. The motion picture's world premiere was August 4, 2011 at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal, Canada.[3] It was released in Real D 3D and digital IMAX 3D.


Directed by Steven Quale
Produced by Craig Perry & Warren Zide
Written by Eric Heisserer
Based on Characters by Jeffrey Reddick
Starring Nicholas D'Agosto
Emma Bell
Miles Fisher
Arlen Escarpeta
David Koechner
Tony Todd

Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s) August 12, 2011
Running time 92 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $40 million
Box office $157,887,643

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IMDB - Ratings: 6.3/10 from 13,271 users

Story
A group of co-workers are gathering for a company retreat. The group includes Sam Lawton (Nicholas D'Agosto), who desires to have an apprenticeship in Paris; his best friend Peter Freidkin (Miles Fisher); Peter's girlfriend Candice Hooper (Ellen Wroe); and office assistant Olivia Castle (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood). Along for the trip are Molly Harper (Emma Bell), Sam's girlfriend, Peter's co-workers Isaac Palmer (P.J. Byrne) and Nathan Sears (Arlen Escarpeta), and their boss Dennis Lapman (David Koechner). While they cross the North Bay Bridge, Sam receives a premonition that it will collapse when their bus is still on it, killing everyone apart and except Molly. In panic, he grabs Molly and gets off the bus. Peter, Candice, Olivia, Nathan, Isaac, and Dennis follow. The bridge collapses as Sam foresaw, but this time they have been spared. Following the memorial service, local coroner William Bludworth (Tony Todd) mysteriously warns the survivors that they cheated Death. They ignore his warnings and move on with their lives.

Later, Candice goes to gymnastics practice with Peter, only to be killed when she snaps her spine after flipping off the highbars. The next day, Isaac is killed when his head is crushed by a falling Buddha statue during an acupuncture session at a Chinese spa. Bludworth, who has been present for both deaths so far, tells the remaining survivors that if they wish to cheat Death, they must each kill someone who was never meant to die on the bridge, and thereby claim their remaining lifespan. Sam and Molly suspected that Olivia is next and she's in danger, who has gone for laser eye surgery. They arrive at the clinic but are too late to see her fall to her death from a window onto a car's windshield. Later, after Sam and Molly studied Death's design, they notice that Nathan is next on Death's list.

Meanwhile, Nathan, who has returned to the plant, accidentally kills his antagonistic co-worker Roy (Brent Stait) during an argument between the two when he shoves him in the path of a hook, impaling his head. Nathan relays this information to the remaining survivors, who suggest that it means Nathan was successfully able to claim Roy's remaining lifespan and thus was skipped over. When Dennis arrives to question Nathan about the incident, he is suddenly killed when a stray wrench is launched by a belt sander and penetrated through his head.

That evening, Sam's mentor allows him to become an apprentice in Paris. He allows Sam to have the restaurant to himself for a date with Molly. Peter, who has now been driven paranoid and insane by Candice's death, interrupts the date in order to inform them that he nearly pushed a stranger in front of a truck after convincing himself that he would be able to kill someone else in order to take their lifespan; subsequently, he has decided to kill Molly and take her remaining lifespan for himself. After drawing a gun and firing shots, Sam and Molly both escape to the restaurant's kitchen. Nearby outside, Agent Block (Courtney B. Vance) overhears the shots and enters the restaurant. He arrives during the confrontation, but is shot and killed by Peter. Believing he is now safe from Death for taking Block's lifespan, he decides to kill both Molly and Sam to remove any witnesses. After some struggling, Sam kills Peter with a meat spit before he can harm Molly.

Two weeks later, Sam and Molly are boarding a plane to Paris. As they are taking their seats, a fight breaks out between two passengers, revealed to be Carter Horton and Alex Browning. As their argument irritates the other passengers being kicked out of the plane. The plane that Sam and Molly are boarding was revealed to be Flight 180 (revealing the film to be a prequel to Final Destination). The plane starts to break apart in mid-air, realizing that they are too late to save themselves, both are killed in the resulting order.

Meanwhile, at Roy's memorial, Nathan learns from a co-worker that Roy had a brain aneurysm that doctors said could have killed him at any moment. As Nathan realizes the repercussions of this information, the flaming landing gear from Flight 180 crashes through the roof of the building and crushes him.

Review
I had low expectations when I entered the theater to see the 5th installment of the FD series, because the 4th movie was such a disappointment. But after watching it, I was surprised.

First off,this movie was way,( and I mean), way better then the last two movies were. It was darker and had a lot of elements from the first movie, which I loved. I don't want to give away too much, but I do want to say that the last scene of the movie will leave you speechless. It had me thinking, "OMG, that was AMAZING how they came up with that twist."

One last thing I loved about this movie was that it was well planned out and thought of, unlike the forth movie which was a joke and in my opinion, shouldn't have never been made. The deaths weren't rushed as opposed to the deaths in the forth movie, and it gave more screen time to introduce us to the characters.

Note: I will say that there is one death scene in the movie that I didn't see coming, besides the ending.

I recommend you see this movie. It might have the same theme as the first four movies, but unlike the first four, it's on a much higher scale.

FRiGhT NiGhT (2011 film)

Fright Night is a 2011 3D comedy horror film directed by Craig Gillespie. It is a remake of the 1985 Tom Holland film of the same name. The film had its premiere at The O2 in London on August 14, 2011, and was widely released on August 19 in Real D 3D & IMAX 3D.

Directed by Craig Gillespie
Produced by Michael De Luca & Alison R. Rosenzweig
Screenplay by Marti Noxon
Story by Tom Holland
Based on Fright Night by Tom Holland
Starring Anton Yelchin
Colin Farrell
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
David Tennant
Imogen Poots
Toni Collette

Distributed by Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s) August 19, 2011
Running time 106 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $30 million
Box office $37,102,607 (worldwide)

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Ratings: 6.6/10 from 16,691 users

Story
The film opens with a vampire (Colin Farrell) systematically stalking and killing an entire family in a suburb of Las Vegas, Nevada. The film then focuses on Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin), a teenager who discovers that a new neighbor has moved in next door to him. Charley is an average teen, who has recently been accepted as one of the 'cool' kids after a nerdy adolescence. Upon arriving at school, Charley's former friend, "Evil" Ed Lee (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), informs him that many fellow students have gone missing. Charley disregards this, but Ed blackmails him into coming to an old friend's house, the same house seen at the beginning, to check if he is alright.

When Charley goes home after school, his mother (Toni Collette) introduces him to Jerry Dandrige, their new neighbor. Charley eventually remembers to meet up with Ed, who informs him that Jerry is a vampire. Charley becomes fed up with Ed and leaves. On his way home, Ed is harassed by a bully (Dave Franco). He manages to escape but is confronted by Jerry, who bites him. The next day, Charley realizes that Ed is missing and decides to go to his house to investigate.

As Jerry begins to attack more people throughout the neighborhood, Charley sneaks into Jerry's house and finds out that he keeps his victims in secret rooms. Charley manages to free one of his victims, but she burns the moment she steps into the sunlight during their escape. Charley goes to Vegas magician Peter Vincent (David Tennant), a supposed expert on vampires. Unfortunately, Vincent doesn't take him seriously, and kicks him out, leaving an angry Charley to deal with Jerry on his own.

Jerry comes to Charley's house the next night and complains to his mother, but Charley convinces her not to let him in. Reasoning that if there's no house, he does not need an invitation to enter in order to claim his victims, Jerry ignites the natural gas in the house and blows it up. Charley, his mother, and his girlfriend, Amy Peterson (Imogen Poots), barely escape with their lives, fleeing through the desert in their minivan. Jerry chases them with his truck, forcing them to crash. When their disabled car is then hit by another vehicle, Jerry kills the driver (played in cameo by Chris Sarandon). Jerry then attacks Charley, and is only stopped by being staked by Charley's mother (with a real estate sign stake). She then faints from a head injury sustained in the crash.

Charley's mother is then admitted to a hospital. At the hospital, Charley gets a call from Peter telling him to come over. Peter gives Charley advice on how to defeat Jerry, but midway through the conversation Ed (now a vampire) shows up, posing as a package delivery boy. Charley and Ed fight while Vincent hides in his panic room. Jerry, who survived the attack from Charley's mother, also arrives, and Amy manages to fight him off. Charley kills Ed, who briefly reassures Charley before dying that it's okay. With Jerry in pursuit, Charley and Amy then run into a club where they get separated in the crowd. Amy is bitten and taken by Jerry.

The next day Charley tells Peter that he is going after Jerry and he needs his help. Peter refuses and reveals that both of his parents were killed by a vampire (later revealed to be Jerry himself). He does, however, give Charley a stake that will kill Jerry and turn all of his victims back into humans. Charley goes to fight Jerry at his house where Peter decides to join him after all. The two break all of the windows to let sunlight in.

They are led into Jerry's basement where they are attacked by many of Jerry's victims, now vampires, including Amy. Charley, having outfitted himself in a flame-retardant suit, lights himself on fire in order to burn and disorient Jerry while he tries to stake him. Peter assists him by shooting a hole in the floor above to allow sunlight in which burns Jerry. Charley quickly stabs Jerry in the heart, killing him instantly and returning his victims to their human form. Afterwards, Charley's mother recovers from the hospital and goes to shop for a new house as Charley and Amy have sex in Peter's penthouse.