76. Flight of the Dragons

                  Ok. I know that maybe every single person that reads this will have never heard of Flight of the Dragons. In fact until 2 years ago I have never heard of FOTD. FOTD is what all the cool, inside fans call it.  But FOTD is an animated film from 1982 starring the voices of John Ritter and James Earl Jones. Yes, the voice of Darth Vader as a wizard.

                    FOTD is actually really hard to follow and I can’t imagine how children keep it all straight. But from what I can gather it is about a guy named Peter who writes a book about dragons. The book is all about how magic is being erased from the world because people are believing science more than magic. And that the 5 great wizard brother s must conquer evil in order to solve this. Little does Peter know that his book is a true! Therefore he is sucked into the magic world and helps save it from science.  The movie is hard to follow, the plot is confusing, the one thing is funny is the performance by Earl Jones as the evil wizard. 

Final Verdict: Good luck even finding a copy of it. If you do find a copy, don’t buy it.

57. Takers

                 While the concept behind a move like Takers may be strong.--kind of like a modern, hip hop version of Ocean’s Eleven. The execution was lacking some.  It goes to show you again that Musicians/Rappers/Athletes etc should not be Actors and really vice versa.

           Takers is about a group of professionals whose sole job is to rob. They plan one job a year. SO basically every year they found a bank, jewelry store etc and “Take” from them.  The story base is set up when one of the crew that was imprisoned gets out and comes to the rest of the group with a “job” he found on the inside.  They take this job even though they know that it’s only been two days since their last job. If they were as smart as we are supposed to be taking this job makes no sense.

                The movie does star Hayden Christensen, of Darth Vader fame, as one of team’s explosives experts.  Hayden gets a nice scene where he goes all Anakin after his mom dies on a group of guys trying to do him wrong. This movie would just be a waste and not remembered if it wasn’t for one outstanding sequence in which the cops try to chase down one of the crew members who is an expert at Parkour or street running. That whole sequence is amazing and THE highlight to the film. 

Final Verdict: Maybe if the entire movie was all parkour I would own it.