Plot Summary: In 2028 Detroit, when Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) - a loving husband, father and good cop - is critically injured in the line of duty, the multinational conglomerate OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer.
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Plot Summary:
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
My Review:
WOW!!
Plot Summary: When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
Another must watch!!
In the year 2154 two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn't stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that if successful will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.
Yes!! Vin Diesel is back as Riddick in the 3rd movie of the franchise. In the film, the infamous Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless. Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he’s encountered. The only way off is for Riddick to activate an emergency beacon and alert mercenaries who rapidly descend to the planet in search of their bounty.
Book Description:
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.
The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce--and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.
Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.
John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine--and what he will become is far stranger.
Review:
This was one of the easiest books I've read in a long time. Easy in the sense that once you pick it up, it's hard to put down until you finish it. Mainly because the writing style is so laid back and uncomplicated, the characters are not hard to figure out and even though it's a science fiction story, the futuristic concepts and technology used in the book don't overwhelm you with their complexity. But that doesn't mean that the tech isn't cool! Another thing that I loved about this book is the way it brings up certain questions that are associated with the themes used in the book and attempts to answer it through the points of view of the different characters in the book. For instance, at one point during the story the morality behind certain laws is questioned and you see how each of the characters affected by that law come to terms with it. One thing I had against it though was that I wasn't able to connect emotionally with the main character. Though he went through periods of joy and pain, it looked like he was just passing through those emotions and not actually experiencing them. All in all, a fascinating read that by the time I had finished it, left me wondering why it had taken me so long to read this books even though it had been in my sights for years now. John Scalzi definitely knows how to tell a captivating story. My next course of action is to find everything else he has written see if the Old Man's War was just a fluke.
My Rating: 8/10