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Wrath of the Titans (2012)
Gods are like Santa when you stop wishing they DIE!!!
Wrath of the Titans is directed by Jonathan Lebesman, you know the guy who made that god awful 'Battle L.A', Lebesmen has seemed to of caught Transformers syndrome where in the recipe to make a movie he seems to have forgotten the all too important part..a STORY, which since i last checked is quite a important part of a movie.
This movie only seems to exist because the directors thought since they already made a first movie with character development,interactions and relationships that they could skip that and go straight to the action. The only problem with this is that the first movie was completely forgettable, ask anyone what they remember from the first movie and they will say "uurrrm RELEASE THE KRAKEN, and they f-ing killed the kraken to bloody fast", and that's all. The whole movie is based on the fact that when people stop praying to gods they lose their power, and that kind of reminded me of all those bad Santa movies were when children stop believing he would lose his power. Anyways, the story revolves around Sam Werthington's character Perseus, which luckily enough happens to live in a small fishing village just outside where all the action happens. Zeus played once again by Liam Neeson, requests Perseus to help him, because the gods are having a cry that people don't believe in them. As a result of this, Hades (Ralph Fiennes), attempts to steal Zeus' power which for some reason would waken kronos. The only way to stop this from happening YOU GUESSED IT, is to go on a quest to find three fragments that when put together would could stop Kronos, and that's about all I could get before my brain stopped functioning properly.
The movie plays out much like a video game going from one set peace to another, only changing after Sam Werthington has killed something big and loud. He is joined by Toby Kebbell's character Agenor who is there only as comic relief BUT ISN'T FUNNY, and .... okay let me just rant about this for a bit, Rosamund Pike, the only female character in this movie, for no f-ing reason is the leader of a large army, she only exists as a love interest for Perseus, she apart from that contributes nothing to this movie her acting is terrible, and he character is ill- written. And for her army They are merely things to kill for the various monsters that Sam and his merry men happen to bump into on there quest.
Some action sequences are cool I guess, but with no real understanding of why any of this is happening kinda feel deflated. As i watched the movie i began too realise, how much alike this movie is with the 'Immortals' (story wise), and how much I liked the 'Immortals'. The acting was solid, the story while no God Father was decent and the action scenes were so over the top, bloody, balls-to-the-walls fun that even a 90 year old philosophy teacher would shed a smile.
Too summaries, if you want to go watch this movie i suggest going to the store and buying Immortals. It is just superior in every way, thanks for reading.
The Darkest Hour (2011)
Good, until the aliens attacked...
Yes you read right, the movie begins (no spoilers this all happens within the first 10 minutes, and the movies bad anyways) with two young men trying to promote/sell their website/business idea to a bunch of business men in Russia. They get undercut by a suave yet arrogant 'douche bag' character played by Joel Kinnaman. Crushed by defeat they go to a local bar and meet not only two girls that come from America and have been following their 'blog' but the suave 'douche bag'. This could of been an interesting dynamic as the two struggle with their friendship to try and reclaim what was their's, in an unknown and strange location BUT NO.
The movie turns to utter crap, totally leaving behind any character relations or interactions that had been setup in the first 20 minutes almost like two movies badly glued together. The aliens power seems SO inconstant in one scene an alien is wiping hundreds of people at a time, and through out the movie scenes depict them as unintelligent and weak out smarted by a couple of stupid teenagers, a Russian riding a horse and a 10 year old girl. Who i can only guess is in this movie because they need another reason to make the movie 10 or 20 minutes longer or just because the directors through their arms in the air and said "f#%$ it".
So to summaries PLEASE PLEASE don't pay money to see this movie to not support this in any way if you are curious or just want to see how to make a bad movie get this through other less legal means.
Drive (2011)
Not like the trailer...which is a good thing!
People who believe every thing they see on TV will not like this movie, the trailer makes it look like a stupid fast and furious rip-off, a type of movie for people that applaud at the end of the movie and laugh at stupid jokes or dog whistle when an attractive women walks on the screen BUT THANK THE MOVIE GODS its not. People going to a movie because there was action in the trailers only to be disappointed by a movie that was actually really good... does that remind you of anything? well for me it reminded me of fight club, stupid people coming back from the cinemas saying the movie was bad because Brad Pitt wasn't beating on someone for every waking minute of the movie.
So to summaries "Driver" is very good, Ryan Goslings best.. so far, and people who come to you and say "that movie was boring, Ryan Gosling wasn't racing around everywhere having sex with things and shooting people" are idiots.