Mike’s Movie Blog

Movie Plot Summary: In the far west, a cynical, opportunistic hustler named Valente Manso (Jaime Moreno) find a dying priest who has been attacked by heartless thieves. The priest confuses him with a newly arrived priest and begs him to go the town of San Isidro and help its people from the bandids commanded by the evil Jimmy Rojas that terrorises the little town. Valente moved by the plea of the dying man promises that he will go to San Isidro and he will be the new spiritual guide of the town but a new priest is the last thing that San Isidro needs…

Movie Plot Summary: A lift begins displaying some erratic behavior, like trapping some party goers and nearly suffocating them, and decapitating a security guard. Felix, the technician from the lift company, can’t find anything wrong with the circuitry. When he and a nosy reporter begin asking questions of the lift company’s electronics partner (Rising Sun Electronics) his boss puts him on a leave of absence. A subsequent visit to a professor leads them to believe that some evil experiments are being conducted with MICROCHIPS.

Movie Plot Summary: Thousands of years ago in ancient China, a love struck sword hero fights against his destiny. He wants another chance to be reunited with his loved one and he gets that chance, in a far away place and a far away time, in the cold north, in modern Finland. Jade Warrior is set in ancient China early iron age and present day Finland. The past is feeding the story in present day, slowly revealing our warrior his real origin, his superior skills and his destiny. Jade Warrior – the first Finnish Kung Fu film – combines Finnish and Chinese mythologies into one film. Jade Warrior is an homage to Kung Fu genre strongly spiced with a truly original approach to Finnish national epic Kalevala. Like Kalevala Jade Warrior is a pure melodrama. A story of Kalevala´s greatest hero.

Movie Plot Summary: Dong-woo is released from prison after a short time following his failed attempt to rob a watch shop. He decides to follow in his brother’s footsteps and become a singer. His popularity soon eclipses his brother’s, however, leading to unexpected jealousy and family problems

Movie Plot Summary: Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. His first lead is the agent’s fetching sister, Victoria, whom he trails to Mexico City. After charming his way into her confidence, Steve helps Vicki unravel the mystery.

Movie Plot Summary: An awkward and fat woman live in the suburb with her husband. She becomes a monster who wants to revenge that her husband was seduced by an authoress who writes trash fictions.

Movie Plot Summary: 4-cylinder cars with rusted frames, duct-taped bodies, and cheap spray-paint aren’t exactly the stuff stock cars are made of. But on Friday nights at Wisconsin’s Lake Geneva Raceway, that’s exactly what they become. This is stock car racing’s lowest rung…Basic International Cars.

Movie Plot Summary: Jen, a woman kept awake by the nightly sexual exploits of an upstairs neighbor, begins to unravel. She tries desperately to get her boyfriend, Sam, to take charge of the situation, but the ensuing power struggle reveals a deeper problem involving control in the relationship.

Movie Plot Summary: The action takes place during the socialist period in Bulgaria. The central character, nicknamed the Cock is an artistic personality, a man of strong character known as the king of the pickpockets. His keen sense of personal freedom comes up against the universally accepted norms of behavior. The Cock likes a game, adventure and danger, while socialist society needs obedience. The Cock makes a stand against this order; he does not want to play his games according to rules. He is telling his story of two decades: his imprisonment, his love affairs. To him love is a fateful meeting of two persons and has nothing to do with Philistinism. The Cock is an amiable chap though being an adventurer, trickster, and an artist by nature, irresponsible and asocial. In the mean time he wastes his gift on virtuoso thefts and monumental banquets which regularly land him in jail. In the jail the imperfect correctional methods and the chaos reigning in his own soul induce him to betray his fellow inmates. In the end the filmmakers allow him to die a dignified death. During an escape attempt before dying he saves the life of a child. His dream of life comes to an absurd end.

Movie Plot Summary: At Stanlio’s urging, Ollio foists himself off as the dread singing bandit Fra Diavolo and unknowingly attempts to rob the notorious brigand himself. As punishment, Diavolo orders Stanlio to hang Ollio, but gives them a second chance when Stanlio bungles the job. Taking them on as his retainers, Diavolo travels to the Tavern de Cucu in his guise as the foppish Marquis de San Marco to rob the rich, aged Lord Rocburg and woo beauteous Lady Pamela. Stanlio drives Ollio and the innkeeper to distraction by playing earsie kneesie nosie and finger wiggle, and gets drunk helping Ollio fill tankards of wine, sending him into an uncontrollable laughing fit. The boys plot to capture Diavolo but wind up with him in front of a firing squad.