"24 Hours To Live" verses "Realive"

We've got another "Movie Verses" and it will be the first featured on my Facebook page Mo VT ie Critic for those who wish to follow my page. This time its action verses science fiction drama where life and death are the subject of the films. How we choose to live or how we choose to die making the difference in the world around us.

Up first, we find Ethan Hawke playing Travis Conrad, a former Marine turned assassin for a company called Red Mountain. When he is hired to kill a whistle-blower Keith Zera (Tyrone Keogh) he tracks his whereabouts to a source named Lin (Qing Xu) who is in charge of protecting him, but when she discovers his intentions, she takes him out before he can reveal the location. Suddenly Travis finds himself waking up in an unknown lab where Dr. Helen (Nathalie Boltt) has used a procedure that Red Mountain has been perfecting to bring him back to life, only to learn its a temporary fix and that he has twenty-four hours to live before he dies again. Feeling betrayed, he decides to go against Red Mountain and rescues Keith and Lin before they can be assassinated while struggling with the hallucinations of seeing his dead wife and son. Yet when Lin's son Christopher (Jeremy Yong) is taken in retaliation, Travis decides to help Lin and take down Wetzler (Liam Cunningham) the head of Red Mountain and his former fellow Marine now a fellow assassin Jim Morrow (Paul Anderson) in an effort for some redemption before his time is up.

Next we have Tom Hughes in "Realive" playing Marc Jarvis, an artist living in the early years of the twenty-first century. At only 32, he discovers he has a tumor that even with treatment will kill him in a year's time. Even though his long-time love interest Naomi (Oona Chaplin) is now with him and is willing to stay with him until the end of his life, Marc decides to go into a new scientific experiment where he frozen in the hopes he can be brought back from what they describe as a way of "immortality". Nearly sixty years later in the year 2084, he awakes to find himself in a new world where he is under the care of his nurse Elizabeth (Charlotte Le Bon) and Dr. West (Barry Ward) as he describes his "New Mother and Father" Marc soon finds that there is limitations to his "immortality" his body is frail and he is limited to where he can go and how he can live. In time, his memories of his life before are becoming hazy and hard to remember, which start to take a mental toll on him and make him regret his decision, but can he let himself die twice or will the life he has now refuse to let him go?

Both of these films were compelling with their drama. They each looked back into the lives they had before piecing together who these characters were and how they came to be where they are and the emotional toll they go through during their journey in the time they have now. 24 had the action that made you want to hold on until the end whereas Realive had you wondering which way the story was going to go until the final moments. While both were great stories and well shot, there can only be one winner. While Realive had a futuristic dramatic portrayal, there were times where it would run slow and you wished it would tell the story straight and not with so many flashbacks to various points of Marc's life. A three G.M.Star performance that well earned.

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"24 Hours to Live" had great suspense, action-packed drama and a main character with great depth that made you see the best and worst in him, yet you wanted to root for him the whole way through. Ethan Hawke gave a stellar performance as a man once lost and now seeking some redemption for his sins which has earned an extra G.M.Star over "Realive" giving them four to shine proudly.

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