David Elliot
Occupation
Filmmaker
Kajaki Trailer
In 2006, 3 soldiers from the British Army's 3rd Battalion set out across the Kajaki Dam in Afghanistan during a patrol, but they are blindsided when one of their team accidentally steps on an unmarked landmine and loses his leg. His comrades rush to his aid, comforting him all the while, before realising their desperate position. The Taliban are no longer their only danger; they have found themselves in a minefield from the Russian invasion in the 80s making it impossible to move from their positions without imminent danger. All they can hope for is helicopter rescue, but with the sun bearing down upon them and enemies surrounding the area, they only have each other to rely on to make it through the long hours ahead.
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Catacombs Review
Bad
Here's what happens in Catacombs. Shannyn Sossamon plays Victoria, who arrives in Paris to hook up with her bratty sister Carolyn (marking inauspiciously Pink's speaking-role acting debut). After setting her down with some friends who tell her all about a kid who lives in the Paris catacombs, raised on raw meat and wearing a goat head for mask, Carolyn drags Victoria to a rave held in one of those catacombs, just like in The Matrix Reloaded only with nude, underground lake swimming.Naturally, Victoria gets separated and spends the next hour-plus running around in the catacombs in her boots (has Sossamon ever appeared in a movie in heels? just wondering), being chased by, you guessed it, a dude in a goat-head mask. He doesn't stop, no matter how injured Victoria gets or how many people she encounters get killed... until the end, when one of cinema's most absurd twist endings of all time gets sprung on you.
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