Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)
It’s Die Hard…
in a mall.
Is the main character an average Joe?
Yes. Even worse, he seems to be totally incompetent. He’s an overweight Mall Cop with a blood disease that requires him to eat something with sugar on a regular basis or else he will go unconscious
Sidekick?
Just his trusted Segway. Oh and he does receive some outside help from Pahud, a boy who put a GPS device in his (ex-)girlfriends cellphone that Paul is using.
Any personal problems?
Plenty: He lives with his mom together with his daughter out of a Green Card marriage. He’s in love with a girl who runs a kiosk in the mall but doesn’t really know how to approach her. He is overweight and has the already mentioned blood disease which is one of the reasons he never graduated and became a State Trooper.
Is the lead character there by coincidence?
He is at work so no. He even got out of the mall after it was under attack when he decided to go back in to save the girl of his dreams.
Are there any friends or family in danger?
Yes, the girl he fancies, and later on his daughter is also held hostage.
What’s at stake and why aren’t the authorities doing anything?
The criminals are just after money, and as leverage they have hostages. The authorities can’t go in because of the hostages even though they are on the scene.
Any charismatic villains?
Keir O’Donnell plays Veck Sims, a man who seems to be some kind of trailer park guy and a trainee Mall Cop turning out to be a criminal mastermind. He has some fun scenes in the movie.
Is it any good?
It’s OK for a spoof/comedy. Nothing groundbreaking is going on here but there are some nice winks back to some other action films like First Blood. You can read my review here.
They are planning a remake, I would go for Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, Joe Manganiello, Milo Ventimiglia, Tom Welling, Chris Evans, Chris Pine, Chadwick Boseman, Anthony Mackie, Jeremy Runner, Derek Theler, or D.J. Cotrona as Gabe Walker; and Billy Zane, Kevin Spacey, Dominic Pace, Alec Baldwin, Gil Banks, Hugo Weaving, Robert Knepper, Brian Van Holt, Travis Fine, Skeet Ulrich, or Dash Mihok as Qualen.
I think there is a way to improve The Taking of Beverly Hills, like instead an undercover Fed helped crippled a militia group and imprisoned many members including their leader. But the leader’s brother and a few members of the group plant bombs all over Beverly Hills, and threaten to set them off if the leader is not released, and the undercover fed seeks out the bombs while his partners buy him time.
Blast is good, but it would be worthwhile to note that, Agent Lisa Reed (Vivica A. Fox) finds out that Michael Kittridge (Vinnie Jones) is actually a mercenary named Skyler Talbot and had killed the real Kittridge and stole his identity to throw off authorities.
I would like to see Christmas Rush. Anyone know where to find it?
There are some sites that list it as streamable, but I don’t know how legit they are. If you own an XBMC player I would advise you to look on that network.
What is an XBMC Player? I have never heard of one.
In most cases they are mediaplayers running Android. Because they run Android they can download an app named XBMC from Google’s Play Store. XBMC allows you to search and stream movies
Don’t forget the other scenarios like Terminal Rush, Interceptor, Crash Dive, Counter Measures, 12 Rounds: Reloaded, 12 Rounds: Lockdown, Project: Shadow Chaser, Command Performance, Demolition University, Cyberjack/Virtual Assassin, Final Voyage, and Air Rage.
For Speed 2: Cruise Control, it should have been Direct to Video, and not a sequel to Speed. The lead villain should have been a pirate instead of soft ware designer turned mad bomber trying to blow up a ship.
Every time I see “Air Force One” I remember that in the Tom Clancy novels, the character of Jack Ryan becomes president. This film could have been part of the saga starring Harrison Ford, if he had continued it.