Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

Genre: Drama

Running Time: 146 min

Plot: Harry drops out of Hogwarts on a race against time to seek and destroy the Horcruxes, while discovering the three most powerful objects in the wizarding world. Ron and Hermione join Harry in part one of the finale to the highest selling saga of all time.

Review: I can't help but compare The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 to LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring. The movie is centered around traveling all over the place but not really getting anywhere. Just like the Fellowship, a close group of heroes sacrifice their safety to destroy the tools of the most evil entity known in their world. Part 1 like the Fellowship is only there to set up the plot and build up the drama that will happen in the real finale.

Even though Part 1 is only a "filler" movie, it still builds on the great story of Harry Potter and will leave you wanting more. If you are a stuck up Harry Potter book fan who always complains about the movies... don't watch them because you ruin it for everyone else who doesn't care about the things that they changed just for the movie.

This is a must see if you are a movie fan.

Quote you might say after watching this: "I can't wait to see the real finale... I bet one of the Horcruxes is going to be in Mt. Doom! "

Bottled Youth Movie Review Rating: 8.5/10 bottles

Saw 3D (2010)

Genre: Horror

Running Time: 90 min

Plot: The "last chapter" of the Saw saga centers around the support group for Jigsaw survivors and the entourage that created the group. As the Police still frantically search for the apprentice of Jigsaw, the creators of the support group find themselves thrown into a brutal Jigsaw test.

Review: The first thing I will say is if you like the Saw saga, then you will enjoy this chapter. They say that this is the last movie but that's like Brett Favre saying that he is going to retire. Instead of ending the story they expand the plot line and leave it wide open for another movie.

The first three quarters of the movie are very entertaining just like the others in the saga. New and creative ways to torture with the intention of making the victims better people. It was on it's way to being one of the better movies but then it all unraveled for me at the end. The new puzzle that the leader of the support group has to fight through is very creative and is worth watching, but they tried way too hard to tie it into the first movie with the re-introduction of Cary Elwes. It turns out that Elwes character who was the doctor in the first movie learned a life lesson from his encounter with Jigsaw and helps aide in other puzzles. It was good to see Cary in another "As you wish" role!

There is absolutely no reason to see this movie in 3D... but it is still worth watching and might make you never want to go the the dentist again.

Quote you might say after watching this: "The next chapter of Saw is going to take place in the Fire Swamp, where the victims have to fight through the flame spurts, lightning sand, and Rodents of Unusual Size."

Bottled Youth Movie Review Rating: 6.5/10 bottles

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

Genre: Action

Running Time: 97 min

Plot: Loosely based on Resident Evil 5 for the gamers out there... If you haven't played the game it is the continuation of the story of Resident Evil: Extinction. Alice is her usual self by kicking everything's ass if it gets in her way, as she fights the Umbrella Corporation who is responsible for the zombie epidemic.

Alice meets up with old and new friends as they try and make their way to a sanctuary (that is zombie free) from a high-security prison in California. Most people die along the way just like all the other Resident Evil movies with a few upgraded enemies that are more difficult to kill.

Review: I am a huge fan of the Resident Evil series and find them good examples of "brainless" entertainment... Besides the first movie, the remaining of the saga is relatively the same movie with a few different enemies and outrageous upgrades to Alice. This episode, Alice starts off like a scene from The Matrix where she is taken over by Mr. Smith and f's some Umbrella workers up in Tokyo. She is successful at killing everyone except the Neo of the Corporation who ends up taking away all of her ridiculous powers.... thank you!

The rest of the movie takes place in a prison where the survivors try and make a plan to get to the ship in the ocean. I know if I wanted to make a movie like this work I would have to cast Michael Scofield from Prison Break who knows everything about the prison.... check!

The movie is full of fun action, horrible stereotypes, a juggernaut zombie, and two very beautiful women that we all love. Definitely a good movie to watch only if you have seen the others in the series and you want to sit and veg out for about 90 minutes.

Quote you might say after watching this: "I love how Resident Evil became the love child of The Matrix and Prison Break.... and the baby was born a zombie."

Bottled Youth Movie Review Rating: 6/10 Bottles