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This 2 disk special edition is to be released on March 2nd. Coming soon to your DVD players. I for one loved this, with an all star cast starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Woody Harrelson and Danny Glover. Roland Emmerich the director of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow took it to the next step with this one.

This is a great movie to see at the Saturday matinee when you have a couple of hours and some time to contemplate the world and watch some crazy graphics. Emmerich this time is going to destroy the world by shifting plates under the crust of the earth. The governments of all nations are involved in hiding it all of course but it has to leak out to a few to make the story interesting.

Watching this movie made me think for movies when I was a boy made by Irwin Allen , The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno to name a couple. I must have seen them on TV or something because I was too young to see them at the cinema or maybe the second time they released it. Back then they did that before video tapes and DVDs.

I digress, I loved these kind of thriller movies when I was a kid and still do now, if you haven’t seen it do, you will want this one for your DVD collection.

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A good cast does its best to make Armored roll, but while this heist flick certainly has its moments, it’s ultimately arrested by a predictable story, cliché-ridden dialogue, and ham-fisted direction. Matt Dillon plays Mike, the leader of a sextet of guards working for an armored truck company; other members of the team are portrayed by Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno, Skeet Ulrich, and Amaury Nolasco, but the key is newcomer Ty (Columbus Short), an Iraq War veteran whose parents have both died, leaving Ty to support his troubled younger brother and somehow pay the mortgage on the home their folks left behind. When Mike and the others cook up a scheme to steal a cool $42 million on their next delivery and then claim they were hijacked, Ty is dead set against it–until he goes home and is greeted by a child-welfare official who threatens to put his brother into foster care unless Ty can prove himself capable of looking after the kid (this is but one of the handy plot conveniences designed to push the story forward). Predictability is one thing, but director Nimrod Antal and screenwriter James V. Simpson’s setups are so on-the-nose that Helen Keller could see what’s coming (“Promise me nobody gets hurt,” Ty says to Mike, which guarantees that the body count will start to mount almost instantly). Armored has some good action sequences, a gritty look, a couple of welcome surprises, and the occasional tense moment. But when the great heist movies are recalled, from Topkapi to Sexy Beast, this one is unlikely to be among them. –Sam Graham

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Everyone that has watched 24 knows that a season is really a day and each show is a one hour period. Jack Bauer is sometimes a CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) agent, sometimes working with the FBI, sometimes working for the President, but mostly he does what he thinks is best. In the first 7 seasons he is busy from stopping nukes in the US to stopping assassination attempts, he is busy saving people and even killing good people if that is the only-best choice. Jack is known for doing what it takes to get the job done, and it is taking a toll on hm. I cannot wait to see what happens in Season 8.

24 season 8 just started in January 2010 and is off to a great start. Many of the cast are new but the favorites are still there like Jack (Kiefer Sutherland in fact I him in a lot of movies too), Chloe (Mary Lynn Rajskub, and Renee Walker (Annie Wersching are all back. CTU is changed a lot and has many new faces.

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