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187
187 - the homicide number for Brooklyn - is scrawled over teacher, Trever Garfield's textbook minutes before he is stabbed by a pupil, bitter at being failed in his class. Garfield (Samuel L Jackson) is left on the brink of death and it is years before he can return to any school to teach again. When he returns to teach as a substitute teacher, in a new school, he is hailed by his new colleages as a hero, and held as a threat by his pupils.
This gripping thriller shows the lengths this teacher will go to, to teach young people, who and whatever gets in his way and shows the full scale of gang wars in the United States. The ending is slightly predictable but this is still one of Jacksons best films.
*9* out of *10*
Directed by Kevin Reynolds |
Unbreakable
David Dunn (Bruce Willis) is the sole survivor of a horrific train crash, which prompts him to start questionnaing where his life is heading, with his marriage on the rocks and his job as a college-stadium security gaurd seemingly going nowhere. He is approached by Elijah Price, (Samuel L Jackson)an avid comic book collector with a brittle bone disorder. Price has a chilling theory as to why David survived the crash and once Elijah has explained this to him, he can't seem to stop thinking about it...
Amazing performances by both Jackson and Willis starring in a film originally tipped as the follow up to Sixth Sense, but which in my opinion, is a lot better. This film will blow you away!
*10* out of *10*
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan |
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A Time To Kill
A Time To Kill the screenplay is based on the novel by John Grisham and is set in Mississppi. Samuel L Jackson plays Carl Lee Hailey, the father of a ten year old girl, who is brutally assulted and raped by two racist white men, and then left for dead. In an act of passionate retribution Carl Lee shoots both men dead and is then put on trial for the murders, with Jake Brigance, (Matthew McConaughy)an eager young lawyer, defending him. Working to denfend Carl Lee Jake finds himself having to fight for the safety of himself and his own family also. With Ellen Roark (Sandra Bullock) a law student, and Lucien Wilbanks (Donald Sutherland) a veteran attorny, helping him along and Rufus Buckley (Kevin Spacey) as the ruthless prosecuter, Jake struggles to overcome the conflicting emotions in Mississippi and get justice for Carl Lee.
A moving story which challenges the racial divide in southern America.
*8* out of *10*
Directed by Joel Schumacher |
Fresh
Fresh (Sean Nelson) is a 12 year old drug runner for Esteban,(Giancarlo Esposito) a local drug dealer, living in a poverty stricken ghetto in America. He lives with the saintly Aunt Frances and often visits his alcoholic father (Samuel L Jackson) to play speed chess in the park, who is there to gain money for his booze.
Throughout the film, over various chess games Fresh's father teaches him how to play better chess using certain tactics which Fresh then takes and puts into practice in his life. He is an extremely intelligent boy with a cunning plan as to how to get he and his sister (a drug addict) out of their unfortunate lifestyles.
This is yet another clever film which Jackson stars in with many different strands to a story, which all pull together in the end. Samuel L Jackson puts in a brilliant performance.
*8* out of *10*
Directed by Boaz Yakin
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Juice
Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Raheem (Khalil Kain), Q (Omar Epps) and Steel (Jermaine Hopkins) are four young back males living in the ghettos of Harlem. They are good men, who are best friends and consider themselves brothers, but after they reject joining in, in the robbery of a bar, which leaves one of their friends dead after a shootout with the police, relationships in the groups start to disintegrate. Bishop is desperate for some Juice – respect from people in the neighbourhood – and he has a sure fire way of getting it. The four men hold up the store of a man who is always bothering them, but when the shopkeeper gets shot, the trouble begins. Something has happened to Bishop and he’s gone crazy, with no regard for anybody, not even his brothers…
Samuel L Jackson plays the small role as the owner of a snooker hall where the men frequently hang out while skipping school, he is an all-seeing eye and fits the roll greatly, however small it may be. This film is brilliant, if not for the storyline then for the haircuts and slang used, way back in the day (1992)…
*10* our of *10*
Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson
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