Movies over Ken's Birthday Weekend Sept 19-21

Welcome to this week's review of movies.
We saw one new and 2 on DVD. It was Ken's Birthday weekend and we had a fairly full agenda so movies were not at the fore front of our activities.

At the Movies -

Lakeview Terrace - This drama-thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington and Ron Glass is somewhat suspenseful but it falls short of being a satisfying movie.
An emotionally scarred, self absorbed, egotistical Afro-American police officer will stop at nothing to make his new interracial neighbors miserable. The plot of this movie is weak and predictable and the acting is mediocre at best. The cop's psychotic behaviour is not acceptable under any circumstance.
We give Lakeview Terrace........................................2.5-stars

On DVD -

Insanitorium 2008 -

Starring Jesse Metcalfe this comedic horror-thriller is terrible. Jesse was Eva Langoria's teen aged on screen adulterous lover on Desperate Housewives. That was a more realistic role for him than that of Jack in this demented tale of a scientist who is turning his patients into flesh eating zombies after some medical trials with some sort of nanotechnology.
Jack has himself committed into a mental institution in order to save his sister who has been unjustly labeled criminally insane. The movie deals with his manipulation of the system in order to save himself and his sister. The problem is that all of the cast turn into flesh eating zombies and/or is killed and this seems to hamper the escape of the good guys.
The funniest part is at the end.
We give Insanitorium 2008 a deservedly............................................1.5-Stars

Stormship Troopers 2 -

This second installment of the franchise Stormship Troopers is tittled Hero of the Federation.
Starring a cast of unknowns with one possible exception, this sci-fi, horror thriller is not as good as the original upon which it is based.
The Hero is Captain V. J. Dax played by Richard Burgi. Most recently he has had a recurring role in Desperate Housewives (another DH alumnus). He has also appeared in many made for TV movies and TV series like 24, Judging Amy, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The District and many others. However he couldn't save this movie single handedly.
The movie was OK but I can not recommended it. I like the first one a lot better.
We give Stormship Troopers - Hero of the Federation................................2-Stars

That is all of the movies for this week.

We celebrated Ken's Birthday on Friday at Del Frisco's Steakhouse and at Disney's Pleasure Island. (Please see Restaurant Review and Trip sections in this Blog)
Sunday we had Bill and Russell over for a little party and food from Babalou's Bodacious B-B-Q and an afternoon of Settlers of Catan and Dominoes.

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