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15,305 | [
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15,307 | [
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15,308 | [
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15,309 | [
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15,310 | [
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15,312 | [
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15,313 | [
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15,314 | [
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15,315 | [
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15,319 | [
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15,320 | [
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15,322 | [
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15,323 | [
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15,324 | [
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15,325 | [
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15,326 | [
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15,327 | [
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15,328 | [
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15,330 | [
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15,331 | [
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15,332 | [
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15,333 | [
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15,334 | [
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15,337 | [
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15,338 | [
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15,339 | [
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15,340 | [
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] | 376 | 465 | Having been interested in Akhenaton for many years I was surprised to learn about this film via E-bay and bought a copy on DVD for 99p. I enjoyed the film, the twists and turns in the plot and that the file was mainly about the main character Sinuhe makes it more of a "family saga" rather than an action film. The costu... | 1 |
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15,345 | [
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15,346 | [
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] | 333 | 421 | ...as valuable as King Tut's tomb! (OK, maybe not THAT valuable, but worth hunting down if you can). I notice no one has commented on this movie for some years, and I hope a fresh post will spark some new comments. This is a film that I remembered only snippets of from childhood, and only saw recently when I tired of w... | 1 |
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15,348 | [
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15,349 | [
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15,351 | [
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15,352 | [
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15,355 | [
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15,357 | [
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15,358 | [
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15,360 | [
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15,362 | [
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15,363 | [
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15,365 | [
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15,366 | [
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15,367 | [
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15,368 | [
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15,369 | [
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15,370 | [
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15,371 | [
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15,372 | [
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15,373 | [
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15,374 | [
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15,375 | [
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15,377 | [
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15,378 | [
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15,379 | [
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] | 236 | 284 | So the WWE has done it. They have poured over into film;their first one being See No Evil, starring their very own Kane. I caught this movie and went in not expecting it to be a great film...It just seemed to cliché and looked like nothing new. To my surprise it actually wasn't half bad. A viewer stated above that it i... | 1 |
15,383 | [
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] | 130 | 160 | A dangerous psychopathic killer Jacob Goodnight is holed up in the abandoned and rotting Blackwell Hotel,alone with his nightmares until eight teenage delinquents show up for community service duty along with the cop who wounded Jacob four years ago.When one of their own is kidnapped by the killer and her fate uncertai... | 1 |
15,384 | [
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] | 228 | 310 | Well, I'm a few days late but what the hell....! Anyways, the word that best describes my reaction to "See No Evil" was....SURPRISE. The film is actually pretty good. There is definitely an ample amount of blood, gore & action in the film with a modest amount of suspense. It hearkens back to the good ole' slasher days ... | 1 |
15,385 | [
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] | 344 | 404 | See No Evil is the first film from WWE films. Yes WWE, Word Wrestling Entertainment, pro wrestling. Of course being that it's a WWE film a wrestler has to star in it, the wrestler being Glenn Jacobs aka Kane. Which is not really important as if you didn't know Kane or what WWE stood for you would never know it had anyt... | 1 |
15,386 | [
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] | 180 | 199 | This Horror movie is definitely one of the best ones I have seen in my life and there are many reasons why. The storyline is really good it has lots of action and great horror sequences in it The actors are not very good but there are not that bad but Kane is definitely the best actor in this but he was always a good a... | 1 |
15,387 | [
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] | 137 | 156 | Finally a true horror movie. This is the first time in years that I had to cover my eyes. I am a horror buff and I recommend this movie but it is quite gory. I am not a big wrestling fan but Kane really pulled the whole monster thing off. I have to admit that I didn't want to see this movie, my 17 year old dragged me t... | 1 |
15,388 | [
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15,389 | [
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] | 134 | 158 | Kane is a killer named Jacob Goodnight, he lives in this burned down old hotel, where eight teen convicts go to do some cleaning. Most of them die except for 3 of them. In my case it wasn't the best writing or the best ever. I still thought that the killing scenes were really well done. Like when the one girl go eaten ... | 1 |
15,390 | [
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] | 106 | 131 | See No Evil With Kane. The Movie Has a great storyline But it just wasn't a Hide my eye's, Scream Out Loud Horror Flick I thought it was going to be from watching the WWE Superstars on Monday Night Raw When The Movie First Came To Theaters. I Did ENJOY The Movie Though I Loved The Story It Played Out.<br /><br />GREAT ... | 1 |
15,391 | [
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] | 150 | 171 | This is one of the best horror movies i've seen in a while. An eerie abandon house, interesting characters, gore and a twisted plot. Who could ask for anything more in a horror movie? It is pretty predictable for the most part but then again most horrors you can figure out within the first 10 minutes so I won't hold th... | 1 |
15,392 | [
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] | 114 | 140 | I liked this a lot. <br /><br />The camera angles are cool, it's not all jumpy like a Blair Witch. And I thought they did a great job with the Sound when we see things from Kane's point of view. Lots of fun. Plenty of people were shouting at the screen! <br /><br />Kane did a great job with his various psycho emotions.... | 1 |
15,393 | [
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15,394 | [
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] | 336 | 400 | I didn't know a lot about this film going into it but I did find out that Kane was a wrestler, which didn't exactly thrill me but hey, I liked "Santa's Slay" and that had a wrestler in it, so what the hell. The story begins very strangely and promisingly but after a while becomes not much more than your typical teen te... | 1 |
15,395 | [
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15,396 | [
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] | 670 | 829 | My taste in films continues to astound me and probably infuriate readers of my reviews but to each their own and I have a weak spot for crazy horror, slasher flicks and See No Evil happens to be exactly that and more!! I think that the biggest mistake made by producers and film makers of this film is that they hype it ... | 1 |
15,397 | [
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] | 175 | 206 | Honestly, when I went to see this movie at the Rave theater in Plainfield Indiana, I did not expect much. I went to this movie only because I figured hey, it's a WWE movie it'll be good for a laugh. Then I sat down and watched it and saw why they chose Glen Jacobs (Kane) to play Jacob Goodnight. He is probably one of t... | 1 |
15,398 | [
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15,399 | [
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] | 208 | 242 | Nurse Betty is really an interesting movie. I guess we all know someone who is so convinced that the characters in a soap opera are real, that you can't explain them with any means that these are just actors and not real persons.<br /><br />'Nurse Betty' isn't a nurse at all. In real life she is an ordinary housewife w... | 1 |
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