If you are into fast cars, drag racing, street racing and babes then The Race-ist is the movie for you. The Race-ist is the South African version of Fast and Furious filled with classic South African Humor.
Check out the review of The Race-ist now showing in cinemas.
Director: Andrew Wilmot Cast: Craig Palm, Jonathan Pienaar, Ian Roberts, Nicole Smart Time: 85min Age Restriction: 10M
Genre:
Action/Drama
Summary Review:
The Race-ist is a cheesy piece of South African film about what really matters in life, wrapped up in classic local humour.
Synopsis:
The Race-ist focuses on Lukas van der Merwe, a coloured young man who works at a roadhouse serving burgers and milkshakes. Lukas’ father is South Africa’s best racing driver, who abandoned Lukas and his mother, because they had the wrong colour skin. Lukas’ greatest dream is to get a car and become an even better racer than his father.
Fillus and Cummef are two scientists who have developed a bio-fuel from cow dung. Now they just need someone dumb and desperate enough to test it out for them. Needless to say they meet Lukas and you can guess what happens next.
The Race-ist is not the greatest film to have come out of South Africa and the acting and holey script is not up to the standard you would except from a movie at the cinema. Having said that, however, The Race-ist does have its moments and the jokes are thick and fast, in that familairly daft, screwball South African style.
South Africa’s answer to Fast & Furious and Transformers, there are many scenes in The Race-ist that seem almost 100% improvised. It gives a look into the country’s underground racing scene, with many pimped out cars, South African poppies and macho rivalry.
The Race-ist also features many of South Africa’s stand-up comedians, not to mention DJ Fresh, Kurt Darren, Bad Brad from Big Brother and Nicole Smart as our very own Megan Fox.
If you’re just keen for a laugh with a bunch of mates, The Race-ist will do.
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Director: Kathryn Bigelow Screenplay: Mark Boal Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo Time: 131min Age Restriction: 16LV
Genre:
Action
Summary Review:
The Hurt Locker is a tension-filled action film that shows the dehumanising effects of war on the participants.
Synopsis:
Sgt J.T. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty) are members of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit deployed in Iraq. Twenty-eight days before their year-long rotation of duty ends, their team leader is blown up in a bomb explosion.
Their new team leader is William James (Jeremy Renner), a cocky, reckless daredevil. Tensions mount as he repeatedly endangers the lives of the entire team and their daily harrowing ordeals wear away at their courage and sense of purpose.
The Hurt Locker is an edgy, tightly-produced film that objectively showcases the life of soldiers and civilians in war-ravaged surroundings.
With its charged accounts of violence and battle, The Hurt Locker reveals the self-doubt of men who come face-to-face with death on a daily basis and how an adrenaline-addiction becomes the only way to cope. Ironically, this is what escalates and prolongs the thirst for war.
