LAST VEGAS

CBS Films

Rated PG-13

Running time: 105 Minutes


















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In CBS Films Last Vegas, three sixty-something lifelong friends of 50 years from Brooklyn, New York, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline travel to Las Vegas in order to throw a bachelor party in for their single pal Michael Douglas who is going to marry Bre Blair - a woman half his age.

Directed by Jon Turteltaub, Last Vegas is a comedic senior version of The Hangover. I loved the relationships between all of the characters, with the relationship between De Niro and Douglas being especially intense with their unresolved issues. Lounge singer Mary Steenburgen makes their way into their lives as she shows them around Vegas as the guys get into all kinds of trouble.

I liked the juxtaposition between seniors De Niro, Freeman, Kline, and Douglas and their younger selves RJ Fattori, Aaron Bantum, Phillip Wampler, and Noah Harden. This was also the first time that De Niro, Freeman, Kline and Douglas ever appeared together. Actually of the seniors, I was surprised at how old Kline got. I think the last time I saw Kline in a movie was in the movie Dave, which was done in 1993.

Although the movie is rated PG-13, Jon Turteltaub convinced the MPAA - Motion Picture Association of America - to bring the movie down from an initial R rating, so audiences should be prepared for the movie because of the sexual situations.

Rapper 50 Cent, credited under his real name as Curtis Jackson, makes a cameo. This was a delight, when the guys wound up with a celebrity suite at their casino hotel.

Rated PG-13 for violence, language, and sexual situations. Running time: 105 Minutes.

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MACHETE KILLS

Open Road Films

Rated R

Running time: 107 Minutes


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In Open Road Films Machete Kills,  ex-federale Machete, Danny Trejo, is recruited by U.S. President Carlos Estevez to stop insane revolutionary Demian Birchir from south of the border from launching a nuclear missile targeted at the White House.

Written, Directed, and Produced by Robert Rodriguez, this is the third of the Grindhouse fake trailers made into movies. I have always liked Trejo's character, ever since Spy Kids. This is the first non Spy Kids movie that Trejo, Alexa Vega, Antonio Banderas, and Robert Rodriquez have collaborated on - although this is an adult role for Vega, who I think is hot.

I have always been a fan of Trejo, and it is nice to see a little development to his character after the lost of an uncredited Jessica Alba and of Trejo's relationship with his one-eyed associate Michelle Rodriguez as well as his handler Amber Heard - and that Trejo tells Rodriguez that the problem of the nuclear weapon and who is behind it is not just for the Mexican people, but for the whole world. And of course you can not have a character named Machete without Trejo using machetes. I also liked the armoured car Trejo used to run the Mexican border wall.

One of the things I liked about this movie, man-hating madmousille Sofia Vergera goes especially crazy - after the lost of her escort daughter Vanessa Hudgens - with Vergera's machine-gun breasts.

This is Lady Gaga's film debut, who - along with Walton Goggins, Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Antonio Banderas - plays the chameleon hit man El Camaleon. This is also Mel Gibson's first bad guy role. I also liked the fact that the film introduced Carlos Estevez as the President - Charlie Sheen's first credited role under his birth name due to the film's Hispanic theme.

Since this is a Robert Rodriguez low-budget film - the violence is bloodily graphic, almost humorous. I miss the low-budget entertainment factor that is missing from the big budget star films.

At the beginning and the end of the film there is a low-quality scratched up prevue of coming attractions, of the style of the Grindhouse trailers, of the movie sequel - Machete Kills Again... in Space. Since there is a listing for this movie sequel in developement on IMDB, I am looking forward to having fun seeing Machete Kills Again... in Space. Maybe they will show the Star Wars landspeeder car again like they did in this movie.

Rated R for graphic violence, language, sexual content. Running time: 107 Minutes.

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