47. Clear And Present Danger

I love this film! Harrison Ford is just soooooo good as Jack Ryan. He bring that extra bit of humanity, humour and all round star quality to an exciting tale of Team USA vs. The Drug Barons.

It's all so brilliantly put together by Phillip Noyce, with an excellent cast including Willem Dafoe,as the Spec Ops Boss, Joaquim de Almeida as the greasy drug-based Iago type 'Felix Cortez' and Darth Vader as his terminally ill mentor.

This is the way to make a serious, hard hitting, espionage thriller without cutting the corners and still making it a 12 certificate. Awesome!

46. Gone Baby Gone

Gone Baby Gone feels like about 3 films in one. The first one is pretty much excellent, the second is a B-Movie crappathon and the third is quite thought provoking...

As a whole it feels a bit messy- It's a bit like a movie equivalent of a mash up. There are strong central performances from all the major players, particularly the enjoyably shouty Ed Harris and snappy mouthed Casey Affleck.

It's directed by Ben Affleck and just when you think he's pulled it off he manages blow it in the third act. Although I think it is still worth seeing...

Strange.

45. Dredd 3D

Phew! Dredd 3D is great! Not amazing or genre defining, but most definitely a lot of fun along with a brilliant central performance by Karl Urban as JD himself.

The tight focus is an asset as it centres on the Dredd and Anderson's relationship - it's really Anderson's movie as Dredd is just the blunt instrument dispensing LAW (with added violence) while she is trying to learn the ropes.

On the downside I was expecting some tighter dialogue (it's all 'fucks' and no 'drokks', AD fans) and perhaps some more carefully choreographed actions sequences rather than the 'lets fire lots of big guns into the walls they are behind' style sections. To be honest though, this does only happen once (although it does go on a bit).

Overall though it is the Dredd film you've been waiting for! Now I'm off to buy one these.

44. District 9

I wanted to revisit this as a precursor to watching Dredd (both are shot in JoBerg and apparently share various aesthetic qualities). If this is the case then I am more excited about seeing Dredd than ever!

District 9 is a high quality, well organised tale that delivers far more to the geek audience than I expected. The production design is awesome and the alien tech is wicked in every sense of the word.

BRAZILLIANT!