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Rating: 3/5 Review: "The Zodiac Mystery movie review" The posters look visually interesting and the story sounds good. However the movie is not as good as it looks. Sure, it is well-shot for a movie from China, the story is muddled. There is a sense of mystery but it is not enough to sustain throughout the entire movie. The story: The movie opens confusingly. It does not tell you anything except seven people dressed in red being trapped in a dark room. Each of them has a different zodiac. A ghost appears. Chasing ensues. The scene ends. What follows after could have been a thrill ride but it becomes a muddled story with nothing to do with the zodiac. A book, indicating the deaths of the seven people, which has a writer's name is published. However the writer has nothing to do it. She has to unravel the mystery of who wrote it. One by one, each character dies but the movie has not make much progress reaching near the end. At the end, somehow it just jumps in con
Rating: 3.8/5 Review: "A good day to die hard movie review" The fifth installment in the hit franchise. This movie centers on John's son, Jack while the previous movie focuses on John's daughter. This time, the movie goes overseas and centers on Moscow. I was a little hesitant when John Moore was announced to the director. Sure, his Max Payne is entertaining but the question is whether he can handle a big budget action movie. His filmography does not look good. Most critics and audience panned his works. However that to say, he did a fine job in directing mayhem and slo-mo action in this movie. The story: It is fairly simple. John's son, Jack is arrested in Moscow. John goes to Moscow in search for him. Meanwhile there is trouble brewing. The bad guys have one clear intention in the beginning of the movie and that is to get a man in prison who is in court with Jack. The first attack is blow up the court and get him. However Jack protects him and that ens