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Civil War (2024)
What a waste of a story.
No back story, no fleshing out of the characters - that would take away explosion and soldier time. I was really looking forward to this movie. I can't say the acting was bad, because the actors weren't given anything to work with. If anything, Wagner Mora carried this film. The brilliance that can be Jessie Plemons was totally wasted. Kirsten Dunst was fairly wooden saddled with awful lines as she was. I won't even mention the wide-eyed youngster, who didn't come off as her character, at all.
If you can see it free, fine. Don't waste any cash on this film. So much more could have been done with this. Is A24 already resting on their laurels?
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
5 stars for the monsters. 0 stars for everything else.
Technically, zero stars for the plot and the acting. Good God, I wanted to reach into the screen, put a dunce cap on that little girl, and make her stand in the corner for the rest of her life. Petulant little punk who basically ruined the movie for me completely.
Great monster CGI, though. Outstanding
Chappie (2015)
Raise your hand if you were paid to provide a thumbs up!
I had high anticipations for this movie. The trailer could've won a trailer Oscar. After it was over I was so angry that I wished I could terminate everyone involved with this horrible movie. What a waste of time and money. Everybody should be ashamed of their involvement. No plot development, putrid acting performances - hey, Hugh, tone down the roid rage or skip the gym a couple days a week! The villains were laughable, offering wooden recitation of terrible dialog. The plot was so full of logic holes that the focus for me became how anybody would have thought the script was well-written and deserved funding. Somebody - but certainly not the right person - is taking one the hard way for this mess. I'm no Roger Ebert so pardon the lack of cinematic dissertation, but it's not needed. This movie sucks, plain and simple, and the parties responsible should be stripped of their profits and made to watch it repeatedly for a month. It IS that bad.
This guy nailed it better than I did so I'm going to give him a shout out - Jeremy Jobe, USA - and try this: "I have no words for how bad it was. I was thinking of crafting a heated letter to Hugh Jackman and demanding he reimburse me for 2 hours of my life. It was so bad that I used to like District 9, but my consciousness has traveled back in time and now hates it for reminding me of Chappie. It was my personal Vietnam set to film. Terrible plot, combined with every single actor simultaneously putting on the worst acting performances of their respective careers. I just ate some cheesecake to try and take this day down a notch.
I don't want to hate the reviewers that posted positive ratings before me, but a small part of me truly does. Why, WHY would you play this cruel joke on your fellow IMDBers? There is no way anyone actually went to this movie and walked out thinking "That was pretty good!" How, how, please God, why are there 10/10 reviews all over this page? When I am 80 years old and on my death bed, I will look back and wonder what I might have been able to do with the 2 hours that I once squandered watching Chappie."
Children of Men (2006)
Very disappointed
Normally I would windbag a whopping negative review of a film that let me down this much. There's nothing I hate more than investing over an hour in something that leaves me saying "WTF?" over and over again.
This film has a sort of "continuity of incontinuity" - it rambles for it's entire length and yet follows a ruggedly linear path to its conclusion, right down to the long threads of hand-held style camera work. But the story just does not hold up. Julianne Moore's character is completely thrown away, almost a travesty of a credit for her, I would say (i.e. mailing it in).
This movie drains without inspiring. I give it a 3 only because it's not a bad action movie, but the story is so thin it is transparent.
The Librarians (2003)
Worn-out actors never die; they just show up in films like these!
I'm not going to bother mentioning any of the plot - this is strictly a B movie on its way to obscurity. The shock to me, though, is seeing what has become of some of the actors in this film. Erika Eleniak, never anything you'd call a thespian anyway, seems to have morphed into Anna Nicole Smith (in her Big period). Daniel Bernhardt - I almost shed a tear. He's always been a favorite of mine because of his martial arts prowess, as seen in the Bloodsport series (also B movies but, if you like martial arts, eminently watchable). Here, he is a shell of his former self - sure, he's older, but doing the mercenary thing and not even looking interested ... I just don't get it. Don't these people invest? William Forsythe is another "heavy" that I've always liked, but his last several roles are what you would call "mailing it in". I'm not going to even mention Mr. Reynolds - his gig here amounts to a throwaway, nothing more. The only winner is Andrew Divoff, as usual a creepy, evil, pockmarked villain with a sandpaper voice that can curdle milk - the best kind! This is a movie you watch for laughs. There's nothing else to it.