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Tommy Lee Jones must chase Benicio Del Toro as a renegade assassin that was filmed in Portland so it might be worth seeing it for our exciting bridges.

This was another movie on my family's Worst Movies to Watch on Thanksgiving. For those that don't know, my family has a Thanksgiving tradition of trying to find the perfect bad movie. It started out whatever year Bad Girls came out on video. Ok, that was 1994. We actually used to just watch movies on Thanksgiving. Anything to get my dad not to watch football. Then that year came and we decided that was the worst movie we had ever seen. The next year, my dad said "Do you think we can find a worse movie than Bad Girls?" so we try to top it each year.

We didn't get to see the end of this movie since we started watching it the same night that we ate at Melting Pot, which was a bad idea because I fell asleep 20 minutes into it. Then we watched it again the morning we were leaving. We had to stop it when we left for the airport. I have no idea how much of the movie was left.

In the parts I saw the movie shows you why Benicio's character kinda went cuckoo and is killing random people in this movie, but you don't really care. If this movie wasn't shot in Oregon, it would be just one boring long chase movie with no point. Maybe Tommy Lee Jones catches him or maybe he doesn't but whatever!

If you do happen to live in Portland though, I would say catch it on cable because it is funny. When they drag Benicio into the FBI building in Portland, it is the library downtown. When they take him out a secret side door it is the Schnitzer hall. Benicio escapes out a neighborhood that is in NE or SE Portland, turns a corner and he's in downtown. Tommy Lee Jones is in the waterfall park area near Keller Auditorium at one point and looks across the street into the skate park under Burnside. It's hilarious! If you aren't from here then the movie would probably not be that funny.

I might regrade this if I ever see the end of it, but until then…

Rating: C

The bland, boring cop from The Fast and the Furious moves to Miami where he once again is going to take down a bad guy who just happens to enjoy racing cars. What are the chances? The only good thing about this movie is the song by Kinky in the trailers. May y mas y mas!

This was another movie on my family's Worst Movies to Watch on Thanksgiving. For those that don't know, my family has a Thanksgiving tradition of trying to find the perfect bad movie. It started out whatever year Bad Girls came out on video. Ok, that was 1994. We actually used to just watch movies on Thanksgiving. Anything to get my dad not to watch football. Then that year came and we decided that was the worst movie we had ever seen. The next year, my dad said "Do you think we can find a worse movie than Bad Girls?" so we try to top it each year.

I didn't seem to get the complete plot according to the website since what I wrote up there isn't completely true. I actually enjoyed this movie more than the first one. Probably because Vin Diesel bugs the crap out of me. He thinks he is a tad too special. The bland, boring cop guy is still totally bland and boring and talks like a complete dork. Why would any girl pay attention to him? Ick! Model turned actor guy, uhhh, don't know his name had more personality than boring dork.

This movie was filled with racing and racing and more racing but it was supposed to. I was glad that squishy girl from the commercials wasn't in it more because I didn't want to see her squishy face. Ludacris once had his hair out in a big afro and it frightened me.

Rating: C+

Eddie Murphy is one of three guys who gets laid off after the economy goes downhill. They decide to star a day-care center out of their house which drives their main competitor, Angelica Huston, crazy.

When I arrived in Arizona for Thanksgiving weekend, my niece wanted to do a sleepover at my parent's house to hang out with me. She had Finding Nemo. I said I wanted to see that. Then my sister-in-law convinced my niece that she wanted to watch this movie instead. Joy! Well, with all the talking and other stuff that happened during this movie it was probably good that I'll see Finding Nemo later.

I kinda saw this movie. It was on but I also had to read three books during it. That's okay, I still followed the plot! It was more amusing than I thought it would be. I couldn't help but I laughed everytime a grown man was in the broccoli or carrot outfit that they were wearing at various spots in the movie. Typical kid movie that won't completely bore adults that have to watch it, especially if you have to read stories in the middle of it.

Rating: C