Writing Feedback / All I knew was that I was safe; creative writing piece [3]

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Me and my friends had been out all night clubbing in Manchester and were having a blast.
We staggered in and out of various bright, inviting clubs and bars. As the night began to end me and my friends went our separate ways and I walked back to my apartment in the suburbs. As I walked down the street the lights fluttered on and off and I could see shadows everywhere. I picked up the pace but I still felt I was being followed. I was hot now, and was at a running speed, I thought I could get home quicker by running down a dark alleyway. This was a mistake.

As I turned the corner, I was frozen to the spot. A dark figure stood at the end of the street. I slowly edged back towards the road but the figure broke into a ferocious sprint. I ran back around the corner and bolted down the road. I'd never run so fast before and I didn't stop, I carried on down the road and into an abandoned flat complex. I stopped in the centre and span around anxiously hoping that my assailant had fallen behind. But he hadn't.

He walked in to the complex and stared directly into my eyes. I trembled with fear. I turned to my right and then my left looking for an escape. The figure edged closer and as I thought all hope was gone I noticed a ladder leading to the roof of the flats. I ran over and pulled myself up the ladder as fast as I could, my follower still hot on my heels. I was sweating and panting like a dog. I leap up the ladder as fast as my body would allow and the figure was still following me, though he was gaining on me by every second. I reached a fire escape at the top of the flats and sprinted across the building top and round the flat compounds roof. It was so dark, I couldn't see a thing. All I could hear was my heart beating. It felt like a drum in my chest, filling my ears my noise. Before I could catch my breath I saw the shadow again. I was frozen again, hoping and praying he wouldn't see me. I knew though, that if I didn't move he would see me, so I ran.

I shot over the rooftops jumping over various objects strewn along the floor and the thought dawned on me that the roof would soon end. Thoughts began rushing through my head. Did I jump down and try and land in a bush or do I try and run around to the ladder again. I didn't know, but I didn't get chance to decide before my assailant closed the gap and was reaching out to grab me, I couldn't let him so I approached the edge and readied to jump. I'd rather die that let the shadow catch me, but before I could jump the figure tripped behind me and fell into my back, he then span towards the edge and grabbed my ankle. I was slipping down and only just managed to hold onto a pipeline. But the figure was still holding on to me ankle, but he was slipping. I felt him clawing at me to try and regain a strong hold, but I continued to wriggle and I felt my shoe come off. He wasn't holding on. He had fallen.

I scampered my way up and stood looking down at the body on the floor. All I knew was that I was safe.

Writing Feedback / Film review on MEN IN BLACK - A-list stars, an excellent production team [8]

Men in Black take it back....in time
We revisit the action in the Men in Black franchise with another smash hit full to the brim of A-list stars, an excellent production team and a whole host of aliens, once again threatening to destroy the Earth. With a budget of $225,000,000 this is truly packed with great talent. We are joined once more by the two previous main characters Will Smith, who since the last instalment has thoroughly established his Hollywood star credentials in hits such as Hitch, I am Legend and Hancock, and Tommy Lee Jones Agent K. in this film Jones plays much a smaller role as the cast go back in time where we meet the younger Agent K, Josh Brolin.

The main hope of this new role is that he gels well with will smith and they make the same funny and exciting partnership as the previous films, and to review it they work very well together and Josh Brolin looks strangely like a young tommy lee jones. He has the same humorous dead pan approach and straight faced expression which we have loved over the past 2 films.

In this film the budget is used well and we can tell this by the dazzling array of special effects, music and obviously the cast and crew. We see a whole host of crazy aliens in this film and they are all made to look as spectacular as possible with the craziest faces and amazing scenes of spaceships.

The film begins by us seeing Nicole Scherzinger, a famous pop star, taking a cake to an inmate in a prison, Boris the Animal, a bogladite alien played by actor Jemaine Clement. However unknown to the guards inside the cake is a hidden part of Boris which is key to him escaping from prison. Until the cakes inner secret is revealed we see Boris as just a normal prisoner but we then realise he is an alien, and we soon find he has a past with Agent K, who 30 years ago shot of his arm. Boris breaks out of the prison and we then find that he has been imprisoned on the moon. Now he's out, and he's back for revenge.

Throughout the film there are dangerous times where Agents J and K both come close to death or being lost in time forever, but of course the shrug them off with ease until we reach the final stages of the film where the main fight takes place. But of course I don't want to spoil it so no spoilers.

To conclude this review I think that after a long 10 years since the last Men in Black this is a worthy film, filled with great stuff to satisfy the fan boy geeks to the normal cinema goers in one sublime swoop. It's definitely worth the watch and it certainly will take a Neuralyzer to wipe this film from my memory.