In Promised Land Matt Damon (who wrote the script with co-star John Krasinski) plays Steve Butler, a nice guy who believes in what he does and who has come to the small town of McKinley, PA with his more pragmatic co-worker Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand) in order to convince the townsfolk to lease their land to a natural gas corporation.

I never got further than one lousy card trick that I kept messing up. The magicians that make up The Four Horsemen (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco) on the other hand take it to the next level in their shows  by robbing a bank in Paris while sharing the spoils onstage in Las Vegas. Is it all a trick or is the entire show part of an elaborate heist? That’s exactly what FBI agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) and professional trick exposer Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman) are trying to do in this Louis Leterrier directed flick.

Taking place somewhere toward the end of World War II, a platoon of Russian soldiers receive a distress call which sends them to an abandoned mining town. While they make their way over, we find out just enough about the different characters to be able to tell them apart. Other than that the movie is off to a pretty slow start. Thinking they’ll find some POW’s in the town, the Russkies find a whole bunch of creatures that have been assembled from human body parts and weapons and who only have one directive: kill!

One thing you should know about me before reading this review is that I don’t know the first thing about hockey. If I did, maybe I would have enjoyed this movie more. I kinda doubt it but you never know.

As with most ‘end of the world’ type movies, we don’t really get to know much about what happened to the Earth. A new ice age just kinda happened. And now the survivors are stuck living in underground colonies. As luck would have it, none other than Laurence Fishburne and Will Paxton are both living in the same colony, battling the cold, hunger and sickness together. Fishburne is Briggs, the wise fatherly type who means to do well while Mason (Paxton) is starting to lose his marbles, gunning down sick people out of fear they’ll infect the others.

Nazi zombie movies are becoming something of a genre all their own. We already had Dead Snow, War Of The Dead, Nazis At The Center Of The Earth, Iron Sky, Frankeinstein’s Army and of course, the first two installments of Outpost. And now there’s Outpost 3 : Rise of the Spetsnaz.