Actuarial Science Movie Reviews

The premise: Spencer Olham, a respected scientist involved in Earth's war effort against the evil aliens, the Centauri, goes on a camping trip with his wife for a weekend. When he returns to work on Monday morning, he is arrested and accused of being a synthetic replicant, a Centauri cyborg replacement for the real Spencer Olham, allegedly murdered (without his wife's knowledge) during the camping trip though nobody has a dead body to prove it. While being held he is shown a "Centauri Hit List" that has been partially decrypted... his surname is among the names on the list. He maintains his innocence to no avail, and must ultimately escape so that he can prove his own innocence.

It takes over 90 minutes to resolve this "is-he-or-isn't-he" question, while Spencer continually runs away or fights when cornered, and is thwarted every time he attempts to find evidence to prove his innocence.

The problem with this film is that, given what Hollywood is today, there are only three or four possible endings. These endings are immediately imaginable and given Hollywood's love of a twist ending, the choices are reduced further.

Most intelligent people I've discussed this film with guessed the ending before I even finished describing the premise.

So since you basically know how the film is going to end, there is absolutely ZERO suspense. Instead you are just waiting around for the "shocking revelation" that you guessed an hour ago.

*yawn* What a lead balloon.

Gary Sinise as Spencer Olham, Vincent D'Onofrio as the vicious anti-infiltration agent pursuing Olham, and Madeline Stowe as Olham's wife Mia are all great actors, and the lovely Ms. Stowe offers the added bonus of being fun to look at. But good acting and good looks cannot save this wretched movie. "Impostor" was a bad idea that should never have been made.

If you want to watch a film where the nature of the protagonist takes turns you *don't* expect, try Kevin Costner's 1987 film "No Way Out". I'm no fan of Kevin Costner, but at least that film succeeded in doing what this film utterly failed to do--surprise me.

man this movie was really annoying and was long. who cares man, just dont bother with this one. the actors dont save this one. no one can act in it. Gary Sinise has dry emotions and the others like Vincent D'Onofrio are so horrible. at the end with that big explosion is the best thing, yay, hes really an impostor and he blew him self up and all the other people. prepare yourself before watching this junk

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These movies suffer from: bad acting, bad dialogue, over the top CGI fxs, lack of emotions, and too much overall politics. I love the original trilogy but these prequels are the worst ever.

The Phantom Menace-Hated by Star Wars purists everywhere, TPM fails because it's not consistently entertaining. That's most unfortunate because the movie gets off to a hell of a rousing start, with our two heroic Jedis, Qui-Gonn Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, fending off robotic assailants. And the movie actually gets better, with some visually amazing sights, particularly the underwater cities of Naboo. The point the movie collapses is when the characters land on Tatooine and are introduced to Anakin Skywalker, played atrociously by Jake Lloyd. From the point on, the story just dwindles its potential, dragging endlessly without any relief in sight. Well, relief finally comes, almost 70 minutes later! The movie picks up significantly in the climax, with a two-on-one lightsaber battle that's simply magnificent. Call it a case of too little too late for me, but at least the film ends on a high note. TPM boasts a cast of fine actors: Liam Neeson, Ewan Mcgregor, Natalie Portman, and Samuel L. Jackson. But aside from Neeson, everyone is wooden, an oddity considering that the original Star Wars boasted almost no proven talents (at the time) but were still superior to the cast on hand here.
** 1/2/*****

Attack of the Clones-This sequel to Phantom Menace is, in the end, not really better or worse than its predecessor. The dialogue is just as awful as before and there's an insipid love story that's not the slightest bit romantic or believable. The cast is about on the same level as before, with Ewan Mcgregor impressing me a bit more with his almost dead-on Alec Guinness impression. Unfortunately, the political backdrop is boring and a little confusing, and most of the action sequences are surprisingly dull, the only true exception being the knockout colosseum battle sequence. The climactic lightsaber duel is a huge step backward from Episode I, there's no Ray Park/Darth Maul here to display versatile athleticism. The fact that Anakin Skywalker is a whiny teen doesn't bother me, that's the way he should be, but the fact that it's all noticeably acting on the part of Hayden Christensen is completely damning. Anyone under the age of fifteen will greatly enjoy the picture. Everyone else, well, that's a little tougher to tell.

What 20th Century Fox has had in commen with Paramount is that they are the two studios who have had very enduring space sagas that have caught the attention of the mass audience. Paramount having STAR TREK and 20th Century Fox has STAR WARS. They have earned the loyality and praise of their fans and have earned the envy of every other studio in Hollywood. Since then, many others have tried to copy the success of STAR TREK and STAR WARS, but all have been patheic failures. The stories given to us by George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry will still be with us, long after the other movie series have been forgotten.

This is actually a pretty disapointing turn out by Ray.
The lower budget and B-Level acting are pretty evident through out this whole picture. This might have explained why later on, Ray did his effects work movies by going to Europe, where the budgets were bigger. There were better production values there, and he turned his attention away from Atomic age monsters, to the creatures of classical mythology, where he would do his best work.
In the early 1950;s, they turned out so many B-atomic age monster pictures, but the only one that has really endured as well as it as, was a creature that came from movie studios in Japan, a creature we know as Godzilla.

This is just another in a long line of Ray Harryhausen special effects movies. Like most of the sci-fi/horror,fantasy movies he was involved with it's truly his special effects that is the true star of the movie. More so than any actor that ever appeared in any of these films. A true debt is owed to this man who gave us great effects in a time when special effects were almost non-existant. His effects were what spurred movies into the effects of today. Without Ray there would be no Star Wars or Independence Day type movies to be sure.So do yourself a favor and get a Ray Harryhausen movie today. You wont regret a minute of movie watching. Ken Frazier

"It Came From Beneath the Sea" is one of the most enjoyable of the giant monster films that dominated the science-fiction palette of the 50s. Instead of the usual animal enlarged by radiation scenario, this one concerns a giant octopus that has been disturbed in its environment deep in the Pacific Ocean by nuclear testing. It seems our cephalopod has ingested too much radiation and has changed its appetite . . . for the worse, as it has acquired a taste for humans.

Enter Our Hero - Kenneth Tobey - commander of a nuclear sub that has been molested by the monster. With the help of marine biologists Donald Curtis and Faith Domergue, he is able to identify the beast and go after it, leading to many scenes of Faith in a bathing suit that absolutely boggled my mind when I first saw this as a kid - and still has that effect today. If I could have been assured that I would meet someone like her in the field, I would have devoted my life to marine biology.

Our intrepid team finally tracks the monster to San Francisco, where it tries to come ashore at Fisherman's Wharf. Driven back by flame throwers, it takes its anger out on the Golden Gate Bridge, a scene that must have thrilled the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. (They later complained.) Finally, Tobey and Curtis dispatch the monster with the help of Tobey's nuclear sub, as if we thought we'd never see the sub again.

Sure, we know the octopus has only six arms - this fact is solidly enmeshed in film lore. And, Who Cares? The movie moves along nicely and has several chilling moments. The acting is first-rate and Harryhausen makes the octopus so effective that we hardly notice its lack of the proper amount of arms. Sam Katzman was the producer, and Sam was notoriously cut-rate; the sort of producer a studio loves as he never goes over whatever miniscule budget he is given. In earlier years Sam produced the East Side Kids movies and the Lugosi horror series for Monogram. Just be pleasantly surprised that Kaufman had enough money in the budget to afford a Harryhausen. In his later movie, "The Giant Claw," he didn't have the funds and so had to go to Mexico for cheaper special effects. Anyone who saw that movie still has aching ribs from laughing at the title monster.

Another nice touch for viewers is that the transfer is clear and sharp. No tenth-rate print, as is so often the case with the horror-sci-fi genre. Great viewing at a great price. What more need be said, besides the fact Faith Domergue is in it?

This is Barb Wire-Battlefield Earth BAD! Why do I subject myself to such BAD filmmaking? Considering the talent involved this is pathetic. If you have a choice whether to see this movie or have a finger removed, I guess see the movie. Otherwise avoid this at any cost ..I must say one last thing, Stephen Dork is overrated.

Okay, this wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't a great one, either. I think the biggest problem this movie had was the script. It just seemed pretty weak. I did like the characters, the special effects, and the actors, but I don't think they had enough to work with.

The story involves the last of the independant space truckers, Dennis Hopper, and how he's hired to take a shipment of supicious cargo to Earth which turns out to be ultra high tech killer robots that someone is planning to use to overthrow Earth's government.

Anyway, there's some mildy amusing scenes, and stuff happens which all lead up to the climatic scene at the end involving the killer robots. As I said before, the special effects look really good and it's obvious that a lot of time and effort was spent in this area. The pirate ship was really well done. And, in Stuart Gordon fashion, the pirate captain looked like something out of Re-animator or From Beyond, from his half flesh, half metal head to his pull start groin.

The script wasn't really that strong, and some of the actors almost seem embarassed to be in the movie at times, but they perform adequately with what they are given. I thought Charles Dance (Alien 3, The Golden Child, Gosford Park) played his role quite well. And it was nice to see Dennis Hopper play something other that a deranged lunatic for a change.

All in all, fun, light entertainment, just don't expect too much from this movie in terms of a good script or decent character development.

who sang and wrote the ending theme song for space truckers ?

Well Sony has now replaced Warner Brothers in the cheap DVD production market. Where as Warners is now starting to make and reissue better quality DVDs of their movies, Sony and it's related company outlets are putting out very junk style DVDs and this so called Godzilla collection of DVDs is among them. They are cheap copies of poor film prints with terrible picture and sound quality. No widescreen or bonus features, and terrible cut and paste editing. I can't watch Godzilla now because of it. Don't waste your money.

This is a fairly nice 5 disk box set of classic Godzilla movies. The quality is decent, but don't expect the crystal clear image quality of today's releases. These generally look and sound just like they did when you watched them on TV 20 years ago.

Most disappointing to me is that these films are presented in 1.33:1 pan & scan instead of the original widescreen aspect ratio. All the films are Englished dubbed, no original language sound tracks included.

I've always wondered what Godzilla films' on DVD would sound like, and look like. So many explosions and effects exploding in sharp colour, and awesome roars and the rika-tika of army machine guns on a sorround sound stereo is what I wanted. My expectations were a bit too high. First of all, the selection. Godzilla, King of the Monster. An INSTANT essential in any Godzilla collection with the word 'Ultimate' included. Godzilla vs. Mothra was a nice choice, not bad at all. Godzilla's Revenge. OK, now do not get me wrong folks, i am obsessed with all Godzilla films and love them all more than any movie, well any thing in the world. But why did they have to include this one out of all the films? I would have prefered Godzilla vs. Monster Zero, Godzilla vs. Gigan or Godzilla vs. Ebirah if we are talking in terms of the showa series. Thats alright, this is still a pretty fun film, just wondered why that one of all was included. Terror of Mechagodzilla. This is a great Godzilla flick, not a bad choice - but it is thrown in with the earlier Showa flicks which is a bit odd, since TOM is the last Showa Godzilla Film. Rodan. Rodan? Rodan. Rodan?! Why? I thought this was a Godzilla Collection! Well, Rodan is awesome as Godzilla's sidekick in his films, and Rodan is a pretty good film but I wanted them all to be Godzilla Films. Godzilla vs. Hedorah or Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla prehaps? Now that that is out of the way, on to the transfer. Godzilla King of the Monsters - The Sound Transfer is very very nice on my sorround sound, no inconvenient humming or buzzing during the quiet moments. The soundtrack transfer rocks! The Picture has been sharpened a bit, but still is a tad bit murky. Godzilla vs. Mothra - The Picture is nice and sharp, better than GKOTM. The Sound is great as well. Mothra's chirping does get annoying though, lol. Godzilla's revenge - The Picture quality is pretty much the same as my video, scratchy in places. But the sound is amazing! The jazz score the beggining kicks! Terror of Mechagodzilla - Both Picture and Sound are excellent on this transfer.Rodan - Sound is a bit musty and murky, a bit blurbed if you will - but the picture is good.
I dont know why people complained about the transfers so much - They are actually pretty good. Maybe something is wrong with their Stereo or Screen. I have a big screen and 5-piece sorround stereo set up so I notice alot of the details.
Anyway, this is a nice set. Good Transfers, All the films rock -
but the inclusion of 'Rodan' sags the rating a bit.

there are some funny ass killings in this and its stupid, my god its way crappy. Casper Van Dien has a frickin horrible southern accent and Robert Englund has always been crazy. but to call this a comedy, yes, but to call this suspense or intensely scary, no. and they made a sequel, horahh

THERE are no words to describe how corny and horrible this film is. its a complete waste of 2 hrs of ur life. u will want to turn it off after first 15 min , if u even last that long. what a disgrace of a movie this is- i cant beleive robert englund did this film. what a low budget piece of trash this is- WARNING- the python is very fake looking and not one bit scary. the whole story consists of the python escaping and killing random people. i know it sounds good but its the worst acting and corniest movie in history. wait till u see the snake. this makes lake placid ( which wasnt a good film) look like a masterpiece. STAY AWAY FROM THIS ONE.

If you've seen the movie ANACONDA, then you've seen PYTHON. The only difference is in locale and cast. The special effects in some scenes were decent, but they didn't mesh so well spliced next to the old-school special effects. The opening scene is promising, and the first twenty minutes of the film isn't all that bad either. However, after that the film quickly falls apart. The movie has a fairly large cast of actors who actually have names. However, the only reason they signed on for this piece of sewage was for the paycheck. Mindless entertainment with just a few glimmers of originality, but no taste.

This is probably the most bizarre and dark movie ever to be made. The plot is pretty weird, and the special effects are terrible. The plot: A mad scientist, Dr. Jane Tiptree (Diane Ladd, mother of Laura Dern, who was in the other dino film of the year, JURASSIC PARK) uses chicken eggs to make an army of Velociraptors and T-rexes, and she sets them loose in a quiet town. There is a lot of gore, so it's no wonder why it's rated R. The acting and music is pretty good, and the dino vision is cool. Their vision is how it looks like when you have night vision goggles on; it's a greenish color. This is overall an okay movie, watch it more than once. CARNOSAUR 2 (1995), CARNOSAUR 3: PRIMAL SPECIES (1996) and RAPTOR (2001) are it's sequels.

PLOT: A mad scientist, Dr. Jane Tiptree (Diane Ladd), has created a virus to wipe out humankind. The virus makes women give birth to carnivorous dinosaurs, who grow up quite fast and begin chomping on people. A security guard named Doc Smith (Raphael Sbarge) and a tree-hugging enviormentalist named Ann Thrush (Jennifer Runyon) find this out and try to stop Dr. Tiptree before it's too late. Color, 83 minutes, Rated R (Extremely graphic violence and language).
REVIEW: I think this was a pretty much okay dinosaur movie. Everything is pretty much good, but the dinosaur effects... well, let's just say they're no Jurassic Park (1993). Since it was made by Roger Corman, it's automatically a B-movie. Also, there is a subplot about government soldiers shooting people left and right just becuase of the virus, which I think is unneeded. Also, this movie is extremely gory, with dinosaurs ripping people to shreds. But, all the violence makes this movie sort of fun.

A mad scientist named Dr. Jane Tiptree (Diane Ladd) mixes dinosaur and chicken DNA together and hatches meat-eating dinosaurs (carnosaurs) from chicken eggs. Okay, she only hatches Velociraptors and T-rexes. She lets them loose on a Navada town, and the carnosaurs begin to eat people. She also makes a virus that makes women give birth to carnosaurs! Who can stop them? Doc Smith, a former doctor that guards construction equipment, and Ann Thrush, an enviormentalist. Okay, the special effects really, really bite. But the other stuff, plot, acting, screenplay, direction, are all fairly good. I love this movie, and I love it's sequels, too. Favorite Part: Doc and Ann battle a T-rex with bulldozers.

What was it on that fateful August afternoon, that made me choose you out of thousands of other movies about cubes. Well, mostly it was my friend Brandon, who had seen your not so distant relative "The Cube" and was midly impressed. Granted, I am no geometry wiz, but if I had a choice between cutting my balls off and seeing you again, I'd probably see you again. But only cause I like my balls, which are more eliptical than cubical. However, there are many other things that are quite unpleasent that I would do before seeing you again. For example, drinking some milk that is just past the expiration and smells a little off. If you want a solid cube movie, see Jurassic Park. I love it. Overall, Cube 2: Hypercube is the greatest movie I have ever seen. I love you hypercube. Call me.

Not nearly as good as the first Cube. There was no fear, or suspense. Pretty much a repeat of the first characters, but boring. It tries to go far graphically, but unfortunately the plot and logic of the film don't go far at all. Instead of focusing on the danger of the cube and ways to escape, most of the movie is spent trying explain theoretical math in lay terms and discussing characters viewers have never heard about...

Hypercube has some great special effects, as well as a strong anti-corporate (Izon) anti-military statement. The actors were decent, but the script gives them mediocre to poor dialogue to work with. A lot of one-line exclamations: "Jesus Christ", "What's Happening", etc. Granted this isn't meant to be a dialogue oriented film, but it could've been much better with some good character development.

The special effects are great with Salvador Dali walls, variable time speeds (the cheesy scene with the dead mannequins excepted). But what we have on the human level isn't much. The characters are all connected to an all-powerful fascist corporation called Izon, which makes weapons for the military.

I liked the ending, but the problem was it's obvious the writer tagged the ending onto it without going back over the script to make the characters consistent with it. And the reason the mastermind gives for being in the cube makes no sense. However there is some comic relief also. Like when Kate asks the senile lady, "Do you know why we're here?" and she says, "I was never good at philosophy." And of course the lovers going around and around in the room.

If anything this film makes many nods to 2001: Space Odyssey. It begins with a close-up of an eye a la 2001, has the bright white walls like the 2001 spaceships and the weird room at the end, has the time acceleration like the 2001 ending does, and the Hypercube ending is like the "Infinity and Beyond" segment.

Overall ill-conceived, but worth watching as good entertainment. The original was better though low budget, and of course the original concept is based on the Twilight Zone episode: "5 characters in search of an Exit".

THE LAWNMOWER MAN is an example of a movie that thinks it's better than it actually is. Dr. Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan), is working on a revolutionary type of virtual reality software, that he thinks will better mankind. After he fails to find success, working with animals, he finds his first human test subject. Jobe Smith (Jeff Fahey), a mentally disabled groundskeeper, who sees the tests as a game. However, the good doctor has enemies, who wish to use the technology and Jobe, to create an indestructable war machine. The film starts off with a pretty good premise, but after awhile, it seems as though the F/X are their to make us forget the plot. The director tries to make the film seem on the cutting edge, or visionary sci-fi, in doing so Brett Leonard fails to make things interesting. Brosnan seems like he is cursing his agent the whole for getting him this gig. Fahey seems to act in much the same fashion.

The commentary track has Leonard and co-producer and fellow screenwriter Gimel Everett, talk endlessly about how lucky they were to make this film (I'll say). The deleted scenes offer a better sense of the story. Too bad they were not incorporated into the movie. It might have made a difference. The storyboards, and other making of stuff don't seem like fun, if the movie isn't any good...Buyer Beware

I must admit it, I never watched The Lawnmower Man back in 1992. It wasn't untill I read reviews here that I bought it, interested to see what these 'stunning' visual effects are.

Of course, judging on a 10-year-old movie's visual effects isn't easy. But in my opinion, compared to its time visuals in Jurrasic Park, Terminator 2, Total Recall, etc.. it's nothing. Perhaps the problem is that there are TOO many visuals that it must have made them concentrate less in each scene.

The movie itself is only TRYING to do something. I felt that the director was trying to make the movie an icon in Science Fiction like '2001 : A Space Odyssey' and 'Blade Runner' but instead through artificial intelligence, through Virtual Reality. The movie revolves around the same idea of FRANKESTIEN, except that the cause of the transformation is VIRTUAL REALITY.

The movie even doesn't explain how virtual reality could achieve what the story is revolving around; increasing brain activity and unlocking humans deep potentials. All they do is put the person in Virtual Reality and through lots of images on him with a very fast speed, but is this logical?

As for the DVD itself: the video quality is fine. Of course, it's not comparable to Total Recall which was 2 years before it, but it's fairly good since this movie isn't a huge one to deserve much attention. The extras on the other side (it's double sided DVD; weird, the movie took 4.16GB on one side and the extras took 1.8GB on the other side) need no further explaination.

Most notably are the deleted scenes. Most of these scenes aren't extended scenes or scenes which explained more about the story. They're actually scenes that would've changed the story 180 degrees. Much like the alternate endings on some DVDs, except that some of these scenes provide alternate story...

As a cognitive scientist from Yale, I can say with certainty that the ideas expressed in this film are very real, and very ahead of their time. The virtual reality visuals in this movie are timeless. The acting is good, the sets are impressive, and the ideas are priceless. Enjoy the film, but don't dare watch its sequel (it is awful).

Dr WHO and the Daleks- It was altogether a good feature but the writers have changed the characters around from the original series, which really throws a Doctor Who fan off guard. It is obvious they did this to help those who had never seen Doctor Who before get in to the story. It was as if Disney had a hand in this retelling.
For starters The Doctor is now the inventor of the tardis and seems to be from earth rather than Gallifrey. Susan has regressed in age and Barbara is not her teacher but rather her sister, while Ian (also supposed to be Susans' teacher) is Barbara's clumsy slapstick boyfriend.
In my opinion the writer was either too lazy to think up an ingenious way to keep the storyline in tact, or was kept from doing so by executive types. We should all know how those guys get when profit is involved.
Aside from the fact they butchered the relationships between the Doctor and his companions the story kept true to the first meeting of the Daleks as in the original series.
After removing the thought of Barbara being the Doctors' granddaughter and constantly reminding my self that she and Ian were Susans' teachers; and Susan just looked extremely young for her age, it became quite enjoyable. However if you must see this story look for the William Hartnell, black and white version first, they are essentially the same story.
In conclusion, maybe for the family; my seven year old son preferred the Peter Cushing version, so I am led to believe it may be more enjoyable for the whole family.

Slo-o-o-o-o-o-owwwww moving, mildly campy feature film adapted from the beloved BBC-TV show. Peter Cushing takes a turn as the semi-dotty Doctor, and the Daleks are appropriately awkward and mechanical. You're better off getting your giggles from the original television episodes.

This was the first of the two big-screen adaptions of Dr. Who - with bigger and better special effects than on the show, though taking a different course as to the Dr.'s character. On the show, the Doctor is an alien - a member of an advanced race of humanoids who live extremely long lives, can regenerate their bodies under circumstances that would kill normal muggles like us, and have mastered the science of space-time travel. Carousing through the cosmos, the Doctor's ship is incredibly huge on the inside (actually limitless) but on the outside can look like an object of any size - in the Doctor's case, a London Police call box. Frequent travels brought the Doctor into conflict with the Daleks - machines housing horribly (and never seen) natives of the planet Skaro who descended from the mutated survivors of a global thermo-nuclear war. The most popular of the Doctor's TV-foes, the Daleks were the natural choice to share his leap to the big screen.

While the Daleks' story is unchanged for the film (cold conquerors of a dying world), and though this flick otherwise follows the plot of the serial in which the Daleks were introduced, the flick otherwise changes the Doctor's story. Now, instead of being a time-lord, the Doctor is a curmudgeonly human inventor (named "Doctor Who" - the characters who are his granddaughters are never mentioned by that name) who manages to construct a crude space-time machine which is bigger inside than out, and just happens to look like a Police call box on the outside. Accidentally sending the time/space ship on its way - the Doctor and crew (his two granddaughters and the older one's date) - vanish from Earth and wind up on a blasted alien world. The Doctor tricks his passengers into going out exploring - he's too much of an adventurer to pass the alien world up. When a huge (and seemingly abandoned) city looms nearby, he goes to investigate, hoping - he tells the others - to find extra mercury for a critical fluid link. Instead, when the city proves to be home to nasty sounding Daleks, they are all captured. The Doctor is then forced to learn the nature of these mechanized creatures and find a way to escape and link up with the Thals - green-skinned descendants of the Daleks' ancient enemies. Though the Thals are stubbornly peaceful, you know that the Doctor will lead them to rise up against the Daleks.

This was a great flick - not quite faithful to Who-lore, but confident in its own way. Cushing is an unforgettable Who, though he could have done with the TV incarnation's more hard edged (here he's a kindly old guy with a child's sense of adventure). Being a human inventor raises some questions, but none that get in the way of the fun, and anyway sticking to the TV-show's premise of the Doctor's being a time-lord would complicate things (the story would have to explain his origin AND the Daleks') The Daleks, on the other hand, are faithfully translated to the big-screen - their huge city, their screeching voices and their fascist-style cruelty fit them to a tee (if anything, the movie Daleks are even louder here) The flick ends on a climactic battle that won't dissappoint.