Mike Vilensky's Mini-Movie Reviews

Resident Evil : Extincton
Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe sojourn across the Nevada Desert to try and find safety in Alaska. Tough chick Alice, played by Milla Jovovich, joins them as they fight the evil Umbrella Corporation. The movie is sort of like an apacolyptic Oregon Trail, which is a strange comparison because it's already based on a video game. Fans of Resident Evil, which there are, inexplicably, millions of, based on the success of this film's two precursors, will again be amazed by the angry epic, and not-fans of Resident Evil, apparently a minority, probably won't see it.

Good Luck Chuck
This Dane Cook romantic-but-also-sort-of-guyish comedy features a man who doesn't want to sleep with his girlfriend because he has the power to make women fall in love with other men after sleeping with them. Sounds pretty stupid.

Into The Wild
You either love or hate the book that this adventure movie is based on and I, for one, hate it. Sean Penn directs this cinematic adaptation about a college student who abandons his comfortable life for the raw basics of nature, and dies in the process (only to later achieve martyrdom through a successful autobiography and now a Hollywood movie, an aspect of the boy's after-life that is left out of the film). Filmed on location throughout the Southwest and Pacific Northwest, the film is sure to spark as many opinions and recieve as much acclaim as the controversial book that it's based on.

Sydney White
Hollywood good girl Amanda Bynes plays a sorority reject who, sick of her college's social hierarchy, bands together with a bunch of outcasts to shake things up. Promising as that may sound, it's also a bit like a university-level Mean Girls, which has already been done, and is probably better suited for high school flicks.

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