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As the captain of Real Madrid and the Spanish Football team Sergio Ramos is arguably the most important Spanish footballer of the last five years.Sergio Ramos has come to the top of his career and has achieved may things that the rest of us could only dream of.

The series tries its best to show Sergio Ramos as a family guy and a hardworker, and I have no problem with that. But my problem lies with Sergio Ramos the footballer. A guy that lecture us on how important it is to set an example to others is laughable at least. See, if you're not a football supporter or Real Madrid fan, let me explain to you just this: Sergio Ramos is in a nutshell, as against the game of football as Trump is against the protection of the environment. Sergio Ramos as a defender has always played at the limit of the rules. He's not just a tough guy that wants to inspire fear in his adversaries, he's the guy that will consistently break the game to his team benefit. A guy that laughs with the referee after breaking Salah's arm in the Champions League clearly shows what kind of man Sergio Ramos is.

So if you're able to endure the marketing ad that this series seems to be, you will not only gain valuable lessons from Sergio Ramos the leader, but also from Sergio Ramos the unquestionable man, Sergio Ramos the family guy (with philosophical conversations with his wife), Sergio Ramos the man with very well-thought marketing one-liners ("Being Andalusian comes from within").

If you appreciate art, no matter where you stand in the political spectrum because you will appreciate this film if you are looking for something special. It is so daring in its execution, like Cheney himself, with twists in the form and narration, that have become so rare nowadays in mainstream film-making that makes it all the more refreshing.

And here we come to the hot topic: Politics. So many people are biased by their political views when watching this movie. The political discussion is served, but no one should make the mistake of taking this movie as a stream of sheer verified facts. On my side after watching it, I could only ask myself, is this the real Cheney? Was he so apathic? To what extent did he really hold the reins of power? If he was like this, why was he so? Would he be clinically diagnosed as a sociopath? a psycopath?

To all of this, Dick Cheney might claim to be the first vicepresident to be featured in a Hollywood movie as the main character, and here lies the contradiction, by exposing some already known-facts of Cheney's dark upper hand in US politics during the Bush Administration, the movie sometimes inadvertently helps build the image of an obscure, albeit grand Cheney, that the real person in life might even find pleasing. We don't know whether Cheney sleeps with a sentiment of remorse at night but it's difficult to imagine him uneased when viewing this film. But everything can happen, who knows. We can only speculate here.

What can be said about this movie apart from what can be inferred from the summary? You can't except anything from it if you don't watch it with a bunch of friends on a late Friday night. Its not so unintentional humour is at times off the scales. The acting isn't great, only John Voigt's performance delivers, at times it's even awkward, the storyline doesn't make any sense at all and the characters are for most of the part pathetic. All of this doesn't really matter because this lack of seriousness is taken to the max in many scenes with hilarious comedy. A fine example of what producers can come up to between big pictures filming not just only for the bucks but for the fun. Don't try to understand this, just enjoy it. Not to be overlooked.

Difficult as it is to make a decent prequel to classic summer blockbusters as were "Predator" and "Predator 2" movies, it's just unthinkable how low this prequel has fallen. If you think AVP2 was the worst installment in the Predator series, think again.

Predators, directed by unknown director Nimrod Antal, is a film with little ambition, even less pretension, that rips off scenes and dialogs from other movies of the genre, without being able to produce any memorable quotes of its own. If you've seen the trailer, I'll let you know that the dialogs and plot won't go deeper than that. How come no script writer is able to write a decent script? or is it that Robert Rodriguez think we're all dumb and stupid, and just enjoy watching blood and gore and silly drama? Sure, RR thinks enjoyment and intelligence are incompatible, but what is true for him doesn't mean it has to be the same for the rest of us.

Having come to this point, little can be said for the actors, quite lost in all this non-sense, and director, who just fitted the job as well as he could. Adrien Brody as the lead actor was, in my humble opinion, a nice surprise, still, he won't be remembered for his performance on this film.

No plot nor twist, bad dialogs, bad characterization, average acting and directing, this movie has still got some entertainment value if you don't mind for the rest. There are some good action sequences and thrilling scenes, but don't except them to be breathtaking or out of the ordinary.

Little remark: In the trailer you get to see Adrien Brody been targeted by multiple Predators with red spots pointing at his chest. Don't fall for this one because it doesn't happen in the movie. How lame. Shame on you Robert Rodriguez.

AS I finished watching this film I just felt teared apart into two halves. The first half of mine was just thrilled with the action and the graphic (really graphic) violence this movie punches at you (just think that some scenes considered too violent had to be deleted). And the other half? Well, I was a bit disappointed, maybe because I was expecting something more filmy and less video-gamish, not story depth or character development,it's an action flick after all, but just a not all that bad story and a bit of variety. Maybe I was pushing this movie too much over the edge.

Just think about Resident Evil with all its violence, story and characters, mixed up with 2001:A Space Odissey, and that's what you'll get, taking out the depth and plot and classical music score of the latter. Sometimes even, you'll forget this movie is taking place on Mars, and not on Earth, as many reviewers have pointed out, because it's all interiors, corridors, labs and sewers. Some characters even just seem to vanish into thin air, you just have to assume they're dead or have been converted into demon-like monsters.

Surprisingly enough there is no plot in this movie. But this is just something to expect coming from a video-game. The good thing is that if you're eager for action, horror, insane madness and forgettable lines this is your movie. But if you expect this flick to deliver something else such as a compelling story or at least a bearable ending and a reasonable plot, this is just not the kind of film you'd like to watch.

John Rambo is a piece of controversial art in the manner 'Apocalytica' or 'Saving private Ryan' are with brutal and shocking footage and gory scenes. For here, Sylvester Stallone reopens the debate about how far must an artist go to impact and in the same way respect his audience. But where is the limit to it?

The old Rambo has died to give birth to anew hero, more sinister, merciless, coarser and bolder than ever. The John James Rambo looking for an opportunity in life among his fellow men is no more. And with him have disappeared the funny quotes, pioneering clichés and a straight play from Stallone which brought him fans from all over the world including myself.

But even if the new Rambo only takes life when he kills more than 5 Burmese soldiers in a row, this film runs away from the fancy-like situations of it's prequels and shows us what war really is and how it goes in many parts of the world at this very moment. It's admirable that one of the most charismatic and famous personalities of the Hollywood industry can come up with a film that reaps apart any big business convention of how films should be, to be at least bearable for all the happy consuming blockbuster families across the globe.

As orgasmic must be the blast of blood and gore for the fans of the genre the morality here is that war sucks, and that war heroes are ugly and grim men, nothing knew under the sun, but Rambo had to say it.

A simple film with brilliant effects, ad hoc dialogs, and well produced in overall. Yet, the fate of Rambo remains unclear (as always). Not for the faint of heart.

7/10

This sequel (or should it be prequel?) to the Terminator series is the worst of them all. And I don't write worst because it's bad, because the film in itself is nearly great, I write bad because it doesn't live up to it's predecessors ambitions and that is what it's all about in an x-installment of a series specially so challenging and defiant as Terminator.

Director McG mostly known for his appearances in the film industry as a producer (Charlie's Angels) is given, in my opinion, an overwhelming task, to make a great action flick related at some level with the Terminator franchise. But at what level? Because this postapocalyptic scenario with merciless indestructible robots and desperate on the break of extinction humans just isn't there. Here everything is more settled, with human beings roaming over the Earth just being careful not to cross paths with a Terminator and battles in which you come to ask yourself how can Skynet be so bad at annihilating the human race with all the resources and technology at her disposal. Even in one scene it's the own robots that are escaping from humans chased by a couple of prewar A-10s! Yeah, we are truly super-humans, bright and strong, went it comes to do with desperate suicidal situations. But well, everything here can be forgiven for the main cause, the action (ACTION! ACTION! ACTION!) and that is what McG is so good at if you can forget about the story. MCG as truly shown to everybody that he can do great action. He's really good at it. The problem is he is not all that good in all.

Then comes the plot, who said the story isn't important in action films? Excuse me sir, but this is not just a mid-summer night evasion, it's THE action-sci-fi series. Through the series we came to see compelling characters and heart touching moments alongside with intelligent issues to discuss of when coming out of the cinema. Yet everything here has changed. The two first introductory scenes starring Sam Worthington are truly revealing charged with beautiful Christian symbols, though i'm not Christian, implying the arrival of a savior in an apocalytical era. And from here, everything goes loose, specially the characters as there is no real story apart the one you're thinking out in your head, trying to figure how it will end up while watching the film, that will be surely better than the original one.

Is John Connor (Christian Bale) there? In some sort. He does all the shouting and tries of his best to save the day. Impressive. Thanks a lot and remember John, you are the Resistance, don't forget those words as you will seem as a mute without them. Is Kate Connor there? Yeah but she's pregnant so she won't boder a lot with the action. She's just pregnant and that's it, it's the only thing you need to know even if she appears more than usual in front of the camera. And who's Barnes? Oh yeah, that's the wanna-be lieutenant always stucked to Connor who will give is life for him but not in a biblical sense. Cool hum? Oh, and the hot girl, Blair Williams so charming and yet so cold, she seems even to be brighter and more fully realized than the rest. Sam Worthington – Marcus Wright – is maybe the most interesting character of the whole, but not because the script writer had a bit of imagination left but just because he is supposed to be the key to everything. And yet he fails, and that is what makes fail the story, if there is at least one or two characters that make advance the story with a touching ending this movie could have been easily much better than what it is right now.

I'm terribly sorry if this review as exceeded itself a bit, but hey, it's Terminator, you can write about it in one paragraph. Thanks a lot for you interest and watch the film with an open mind, it's reasonably good, really.

In an imaginary dialog referred by H. Kahnwailer, Pablo Picasso explained to Delacroix: "You took a Rubens and the result was a Delacroix. In the same way, I think of you and do something completely different."

Well here, Paul Verhoeven didn't only do something absolutely different but also killed Heinlein and ripped apart savagely his novel. How can Heinlein resist such an adaptation of his novel with such a film contradicting nearly every point of the book and satirizing the main themes? For all that the novel was criticized for, the film makes account and delivers an everlasting stream of satire with caricature-like characters who evolve strictly in a military sense and horrible merciless insects supposed to be "the bad ones" (the racism theme Heinlein was so much critized for and so many reviewers don't seem to understand and who makes them miss the whole point of the story). Once in a while the films produces a sort of Nazi-propaganda video which seems to have an answer to all the character's (and therefore spectator's) questions with quotes such as "Why we fight?" which doesn't state the real reasons why humans are at war with bugs or death sentences broadcasting and military service propaganda with a subtle "do you want to know more?". War makes a fascist of each one of us, and even if it seems wrong, it seems to be our undeniable nature.

I don't dislike Heinlein more than any other author and take his novel as the result of the period he lived in and as the war veteran he was, even if he never was engaged in any battle. The Forever War was a result of another generation marked by Vietnam. More in accordance with the latter Verhoeven show us an up-to-date view of war and propaganda and how the particular and cunning views of a few can imprison us all in an utopian society.

What makes a true piece of art is the different views it can have and this is what makes, both the novel and the film, critized nearly in the same way, so great. So read the book, then watch the film, or vice versa, don't pay attention to what I said and write your own thoughts and get involved in this fabulous argument.

I can't remember a story starting so well and getting to what it is right now (fifth season). It was believed (at leas by myself) to be The Series from which future wanna-be scriptwriters, directors or producers should look upon when starting a new project. But now, it must be seen as what exactly you don't have to do if you want to create a compelling story or at least a bearable plot.

As the title implies, the story has come to a non-sense, making meet bizarre phenomenons that characters try to explain with huge answers which turn out to be… other unsolved mysteries, and so the story has been going forth and back until the latest episodes.

Another aspect of the show that has become really irritating are the characters'attitudes. Sure, they are lost, and the situations are extreme, but this way of dealing with matters killing each other trying to find answers to unrelated questions with the main plot, really gets on my nerves. But still, since one of character who has the answer or is looking for it dies the issue remains inconclusive, and the unsolved mystery stays at stake for the next episode, where more revenge will be fulfill. And all this just because Jack was told by the invisible man that is true father was… (wait for this one) …himself because he left pregnant his own mother when he traveled through time and met her at the Hilton Hotel resort, just on the other side of the island, but wait, he still hasn't done it, he can still change the future and annihilate himself by letting the aliens abducting him for the time being… This is the style of Lost, everyone can complicate the story by adding new characters and stories, but can the scriptwriters give it a true end that will save, at least a bit, the series?

And at last but not least, the actors are really great. The production owes them so much. They are the ones who really keep the show alive and me seeing it.