Starring Carlee Avers, Brad Ashten, Soren Bowie, Erin Consalvi & Alethea Kutscher.

Unfortunately, this seemed to be a blatant rip and I felt like I was watching another installment of the “Saw” series. While I enjoyed the movie, I still get upset when I feel someone completely stole the idea from another successful series.

In “Are You Scared”, 6 kids wake up in an abandoned factory without an idea of how they got there. Once they all find one another a voice comes across the loudspeaker telling them that they are on a reality TV show. All of them had applied earlier to be on the reality TV show called “Are You Scared” but had since forgotten about it since they never heard back from producers.

The whole point of the show is to face your deepest fears. They all had to send in videotapes explaining why they wanted to be on the show and what their worst fear was. The “producer” makes them regret sharing their fears, and they all find out rather quickly that the show isn’t on the up and up and they are being killed off in sadistic games.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores Are You Scared a 4.0 out of 10
Movie Released by Mainline Releasing

I couldn’t find the official trailer, so here is the opening segment of the movie:

Starring Tom Cruise, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames, Laurence Fishburne & Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is back for the 3rd installment of Mission Impossible. He is actually retired now from active duty and his job is to train recruits for active duty.

While throwing a party for his upcoming marriage he receives a call asking him to come back for another job. He finds it hard to resist as the job entails rescuing a young female agent that he trained and ok’d for the mission. The job is to go to Germany and rescue her from her captors.

The job goes wrong in every way possible and he finds out a man named Owen Davian (Hoffman), a large arms dealer in the black market, is responsible. He’s now in hot water with the agency for failing and not following procedure, but his instinct wants to apprehend the man responsible.

This will be the toughest job to date as he’s facing a villain who is insane, and has uncanny luck and backup in places Hunt never would of thought of.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores Mission Impossible III a 9.0 out of 10
Movie Released by Paramount Pictures

Starring Edward Furlong, Jaime Pressly, Daniel Franzese, Susan Ward & Nate Parker.

Philip Markham (Furlong) was recently on a TV reality show where he was to win the love of a beautiful woman (Pressly) against other vying men. He was in love and made it to the last 2 before he was dumped on live TV. He was sure she made a mistake, and he’s going to make sure she knows that.

He takes over the home where the show took place and has his own show by finding contestants on the internet to compete for 1 million dollars on his own reality show, which of course is for his own amusement.

He holds his own competitions and has daily eliminations, and instead of going home, the losers get to die one by one.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores Cruel World an 8.5 out of 10
Movie Released by Primetime Pictures

Starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean & Kate Beahan.

Kyle Pratt (Foster) has just lost her husband to an accident in Germany. She is flying back to the United States with her daughter, with his casket loaded in the cargo department of the plane. They move to the back of the plane where it is empty to get a little sleep, and when Kyle awakes she finds her daughter missing.

She calmly looks around but grows a bit hysterical when she cannot find her. She enlists the help of the crew to search the entire plan but they cannot find the little girl. But then she is floored when the captain (Bean) tells her that her daughter was never on the flight. In fact, her daughter had actually perished along with her husband.

She needs to be subdued by the air marshal (Sarsgaard) because she doesn’t believe what they’re telling her and knows she boarded the plane with her daughter. She must do whatever she can to find her daughter, whether those on the plane think she is delusional or not.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores Flightplan a 8.0 out of 10
Movie Released by Touchstone Pictures

Starring Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey & Laurence Fishburne.

Ben Campbell (Sturgess) leads a dual life. During the week he is a geek who gets straight A’s and is working on a project for the science fair. On the weekends he is a high roller at Las Vegas.

Ben is a student at MIT and wants badly to get into medical school at Harvard, but it will cost him $300,000 of money he doesn’t have. Professor Rosa (Spacey) takes notice of his high intelligence and invites him to join his team. His team is 4 students who go to Vegas regularly to count cards and win big money. At first Ben doesn’t want to join but as his chances of getting into Harvard dwindle he changes his mind so that he can raise the money he needs.

This is based on a true story out of MIT and how these students took Vegas for millions of dollars.

Rating:

Moviepeeker scores 21 a 6.5 out of 10
Movie Released by Michael De Luca Productions