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Nope (2022)
I think the HYPE killed this for me.
Okay,... so I've seen numerous videos talking about how "Nope is a perfect movie" or "Nope is a masterpiece". I have to say,.... I'm completely let down. I don't know if it was the hype or the movie just wasn't my cup of tea, but it was a snooze fest.
There were a few times where the movie was INTERESTING, and then the direction of the film changed and it became rather boring and honestly just felt,.... too long.
Saw another reviewer talking about how it's an incompetent alien failing to kill four people. I have to agree with him. Adding into the fact that the movie is too long in this regard. Why did the alien leave the ranch home in one piece, when later in the movie it destroys the house Em is in to suck her up (also unsuccessfully).
The beginning where it was dark and creepy with an almost ethereal effect, was where I loved this movie. The fear, tension and unsuspecting was amazing. Then,.... aliens. Not JUST aliens,... but alien CREATURE. Not JUST THAT though,.... creature that was apparently attempting to be tamed.
This whole concept was just mind numbing. It took a damn near 6-7 star movie and plummeted it due to the lack of thought process.
Watch it,... draw your own conclusions,.... then ignore it for the rest of your life.
PS - I GET what they were attempting to tell with the whole altering storylines and such,.... but the whole Gordy scenario could've been removed from the movie and it wouldn't affect a dang thing.
People seem to be massively over glorifying this scene as setting the pace for the rest of the movie, with Jupe feeling he can tame the untamable and causing the creation of Jean Jacket (wtf is with that name btw). But this movie seems to pointedly IGNORE,.. WHERE and HOW Jupe even came to possess knowledge of said creature, how he initially "tamed" it,... and how he kept it completely under wraps. It just feels amateurishly thought out.
The Ice Road (2021)
Turn your brain off, and enjoy this comedic tragedy of a movie
So,... I remember the day when Liam and Laurence used to be in movies of at MINIMUM standard quality. I don't know what happened to those days, and I am feeling old now that I've seen this movie.
The acting, is as you guessed it, cheesy, and in some parts just FORCED.
The CG was 'okay' if you're used to B movies with a sub budget.
The plot was LAUGHABLE. They somehow turned a trucking movie into a two hour long "action" movie. I'll get to this a bit later.
The props were rather disappointing as even I knew that half of this stuff would be impossible at those temperatures.
Now getting to the crux of the matter. If you turn off your brain, the movie itself is hilarious. Laurence dies to his leg being trapped in between that "hard steel" rope. The ice, which was VERY thin at the part where they ALL stopped, magically stayed whole for the entire death scene too. Despite Tantoo saying that stopping on the ice is basically a death trap.
The fight scenes in this movie are horrendous. This was like scooby doo villain methodology going on. There can be no gunshots, we're going to wave them around and shoot sometimes but no one will die from the bullets. Because apparently that's a big "no no".
And Gurty and Liam getting stuck in the cab. That was hilarious. We're going to pick up this 300 lb piece of machinery and use it to ram open a heating unit. I mean,.... what? They could barely lift that thing, so there was no way in hell they'd get enough momentum to do that. And the TNT on the ice? Let's throw that three feet away, that'll definitely blow up nicely and not cause issues!
The moment when Liam's character "figures out" that it was a doomed mission from the start had me absolutely rolling. Like,... it was pointedly obvious that the guy was baiting and playing sides to turn you against each other. But sure,... believe the guy you just met over the woman you just met. Why? Who knows! Of course she sabotaged Laurence's truck, because reasons!
They did Gurty dirty too. Why shut that flimsy gate, when he could've done the traction pads. You know,... the thing the one armed chick managed to get out of the vehicle, set up, and pull away from barely touching the fence to do?
Turn off your brain and you might have a good time. It got 3 from me because Liam, made me laugh and it killed two hours.
As a serious movie though? Fails miserably. False tension, unnecessary drama, evil villain which makes little to no sense. Felt like I was watching Army of the Dead again with how bad the plot was spit together.
Army of the Dead (2021)
Don't waste your time
Okay so first of all, I will preface this with the fact that I generally love all zombie movies. There're few of them that I can't watch due to either horrendous scripts, or horrendous actors. That being said,... this was BARELY watchable. That was mostly due to the fact that I had nothing else to do.
The plot - I'd love to give you a plot,... except it was basically "Hey, there's a bank with chump change to me, but you might want it. Go get it. Oh, a plan? I'm sure you'll think of something. The crew? Oh that's up to you!"
There was literally nothing to say more than this. It was a "heist" (very loosely worded) of missing money insurance already paid out to a billionaire. Nothing about it made sense, even with the addition of the David Hasselhoff wannabe (seriously, he looked like a young Hasselhoff to me), and attempting to make a zombie army.
The Characters - This is where it honestly annoyed me the most. Such a rag tag group of nobodies thrown together, given a crap backstory and a "medal of honor" for their duties. We are supposed to want them to succeed with the plan and live happily ever after. But to be completely honest,.... I was routing for them all to die because they're so FREAKING ANNOYING. Batista's character is so dense and monotone that it felt like a chore listening to him act it out. Geeta was somebody that the movie honestly could've gone completely without, ergo also removing the daughter. That would've saved us 20 minutes of stupidity. Cumming's could've been removed from the entire movie, because his sole purpose was to be a BARTER item. Question for you,... what was the plan BEFORE he wandered into the equation. What were we trading then?!?
About the only ones I decently liked was Dieter and. Vanderohe, and that was just because of the comedic acts between the two. Which, was horrendously out of place in this style of movie.
Then you have the big 'baddie' of zombies. Yikes,.... tell me you're trying to make Planet of the Zombies. Intelligent alpha's controlling the minors to do their bidding. A 'love' story between two zombies which makes ZERO sense at all. And a revenge ending John Wick style because they cut off his dog's(female love interests) head. It was horrible!
The Music - This was an obvious attempt at playing into the popularity of Day of the Dead and Shaun of the dead. Random music mix's that made light of situations and or attempted to make them feel more epic than they were.
The slow motion - WHY are we doing slow motion in a zombie movie?!? It just makes the FLAWS that much more obvious. And this movie abused the slow motion more than any college co-ed movie did (you know the ones). Especially during the opening scenes, the slow motion was so painful to watch with guns not being aimed where heads are being blown up. Character faces being frozen in weird expressions. Gore which was obviously thrown in to appease the "gore" trope.
The Plot holes - Okay,.... I honestly can't be bothered to point all of these out. But the glaring ones for me were the following; (no order, just how I remember them)
1) At the end, they take off in a Helicopter toward the Olympus. They lead the big baddie on the rooftop while they fly away. Cut the next scene of them arriving at the Olympus, and the big baddie ALREADY ARRIVED ON A DEAD HORSE. Talk about beating a dead horse.
2) Like every good C-rated movie,... you need to stop and stare at the enemies and have someone die before you react. Case in point, let's stop and stare at the elevator full of zombies, let the SUDDEN (and I mean sudden) love interest get her head twisted. THEN wait another couple seconds to react.
This will be the final one, because honestly I feel like a book writer right now with how bad this movie turned out.
3) The scene where they leave Chambers for dead,... despite there only being two zombies holding her down. That scene INFURIATED ME. Why even add her to the roster if you were just going to sit around and watch her die, pretending to give a hoot. Then,.... the movie goes on as if she never existed. Guz obviously noticed something was amiss, even blamed The Hasselhoff impersonator, and then seemed to completely forget everything that happened.
Okay one more. I was going to ignore this one, but it was just annoying me...
4) The heist,...... the entire point and basis of this movie? Pointless. The whole objective of Tanaka was supposedly the blood of the zombies to create an army. You're telling me that he couldn't just get inside with his own team, take one, and get out within 20 minutes? He had to mess around, make a dastardly plan and try and bribe some ex-heroes to do it? And the Government obviously knew about it, since there's a scene where Tanaka is sitting with Military personnel. They could've gotten the clearance just as easily!
The movie,... didn't have to exist. At all. Just let that sink in, while you try and try to defend and justify the $70m-$90m budget of this movie. What. A. Waste. Of. Money. And to hear they're attempting to push for a TV series from this garbage,... laughable. Honestly,.... don't waste your time here.
Boss Level (2020)
If you turn off your brain, it's entertaining until,...
The movie itself,... I had no expectations going in as I've never heard of the movie until I was browsing Hulu looking for a time killer. And I found it,... this movie was,.. entertaining to a point. The plot was very drab, the acting subpar but the action (unless you have them swords, then yuck that was bad) was okay to sit there and chuckle while you dribble down your chin.
Yes as I'm sure you've heard, this movie offers ZERO new things to movies everywhere. It's literally edge of tomorrow (a fixed reset based on an outside influence) meets John Wick (guns go BrrrrRRr), and a mix of Groundhogs Day (MC uses resets to learn about himself and make the perfect day happen or change to how he wants)
Like I said,... zero new things.
Honestly the weird thing is I had NEXT vibes from the movie and not quite sure why, but it wasn't a good reason.
A lot, and I mean a LOT has you entering conspiracy and history hating territory though. And it's honestly weird. Hitlers gun, time travel to bring about a better future, dental tracking devices suddenly discovered. Just a lot of weird reaches that they want you to fully believe in to make a lick of sense in the movie.
That's another thing, the "comedy" deaths were super weird and random. Being shot/stabbed in the nuts, elderly church goers trampling on a bleeding body, and the hillbilly assassin? Also the damn body double assassin? What the hell was that about.
Then you brainlessly get to the end and,.. that's it. He's done it over 200 times and he's made MANY mistakes, even with the timing on those speed run resets,... but he just steps in the spindle and it's credits? What the holy hell were they thinking with that ending. They flooded us with crappy "comedy" resets but couldn't give the movie a proper ending?
The only reason it got 3 instead of lower was because it was okay as a time killer. Not the worse and not even remotely b tier.
Da pen ti (2020)
Well worth a watch,...
To be honest, I'm with Chanaka. I don't get the low ratings on this movie. Sure it wasn't THE BEST movie. But for what it was, it's pretty damn solid. If you go into the movie expecting AAA acting, AAA CGI scenes and choreographed fights, then you will be disappointed.
Up until you ending scene I had intense Kung Fu Hustle vibes with the training scenes and the interactions between the MC's. The ending, while sad, felt a bit rushed as well.
At times you knew what was coming, and at times you were surprised with either one thing or another. I definitely felt that I got my monies worth out of watching this film, and enjoyed it thoroughly. I just wish it ended SLIGHTLY different with more of a action sequence instead of a snippet of One Punch Man. I also expected some kind of epilogue after the way it just fades to black for some reason,... but it's still a good watch.
Monster Hunter (2020)
Swing and a miss,....
To start with,.... I know nothing of the Monster Hunter world other than hunt, scrap, incorporate and hunt harder. Which was the base premise of the games.
What I do know, is that EIGHT minutes into the movie I'm already sick of being riddled with cliche one liners and false sentiments such as the man looking at the photo of his family. All of this is supposed to mean something, but since you JUST "met" (still don't know who they are) these characters, the attachment isn't there. And just leads me to believe he isn't going to live right away.
Then there's the person putting their tag on their boot "so they know who I am if my head gets blown off". Uhh,... I know it's a thing,... but what if you lose the boot that is so loosely tied.
Then you have Milla Jovovich's character putting a ring into a box. MEANS NOTHING TO US AT THIS POINT. So you can assume that someone either died close to her, or was part of "bravo team".
I know I am biased toward this film already, because in my opinion Milla Jovovich can't act worth a damn. The first RE movie is where I believe she peaked, then it went downhill RAPIDLY. Her acting is so FORCED, especially so in this movie.
The cinematic's were pretty good when the film wasn't so dark you couldn't tell what was going on, or shaking so bad that you felt like the cameraman had Parkinson's (low blow I know, but it truly felt like that at times).
The end was an absolute joke,... and to be frank this whole movie could've been done in 40ish minutes and instead was dragged out over a hour and a half that made it FEEL like three plus hours. I can't count the times that I kept checking the clock expecting more time to have passed.
They should have kept the movie in the MH world and left the RL concept of it out and the movie might've had a better chance.
I wanted to like this movie because the trailers looked amazing. Then the movie looked so bizarrely out of place. 3 stars, 1 for the CG, 1 for the concept and finally one for the pity.
#Saraitda (2020)
A decent watch for your time
I'll be the first to admit that the movie felt a bit,... short. Or at the very least lacking that SOMETHING that we want in most zombie flicks.
The build up of the characters were fine, and the acting was decent for what they were trying to portray, but there were a few,.... issues with how they handled situations in one scene, then complete 180 in another.
The woman is afraid of heights, but there was zero hesitation to jump out of a seven story building using a rolled magazine as an anchor point, and landed perfectly fine in the middle of zombies within seconds. There is zero fear there, no tension at all. It felt like it was purely put there to make the character seem experienced in survival.
Then there's a camera change to the Male lead,... who was watching the entire time and has ZERO experience suddenly being on the ground assisting her out of a tight spot. There was so little time between the frames that he would damn near have done the same thing as her!
Then there's the issues with the cell phones that was thrown in your face often. Service issues, but for the longest time in the beginning he was playing games no issues. So he never once attempted to communicate using the internet? He focused on video games?
I don't know. It was a good watch, and a good attempt at something that was more than just gore and blood. But it just falls short of being a must see like Train to Busan.
Also,... doesn't he know that alcohol will dehydrate the body quicker? Wasn't a smart move at all when you have no access to water. The male lead was REALLY stupid,....
Ultimate Tag (2020)
Has it REALLY come to,... this?
Good lord,... who looked at the "sport" of tag and thought,.... Let's make THIS a television show! I'm sure nothing can go wrong....
I'm going to preface this with something simple. I lasted TEN minutes into this show,... and during that ten minutes there were two complete rounds. Now,... let's look a bit deeper. The rounds were maybe one or two minutes long. The rest of that time was showcasing individuals who,.... wanted to play tag.
I swear that this was attempting to be something akin to American Gladiators, but they lost budget before they started and someone just went "Hey,.... I know we're busy, but do you guys want to play tag?".
The announcers are absolutely cringeworthy in their talks, saying things such as "This might be the fastest tag in the history of the show!!!" IN THE FIRST EPISODE. Of freaking course it might be,.... since there was MAYBE one other tag before it.
I'm not saying that any reviewer that gives over 4 stars is being paid to,.... but that's quite the score to give something so little effort was put into.
Alien Warfare (2019)
Since you can't give lower than 1....
So,... I wanted to attempt at some movie similar to Battle Los Angeles and the like. I saw Alien Warfare, and I saw the two "U.S. Marines" on the cover, so I expected something like it.
Oh boy was I NOT ready for what was shoved into my eye holes.Within the first ten minutes I knew that this movie was going to be absolutely dismal. What I thought was first a training location for Marines,... turned out that it was supposed to be taken seriously. I am absolutely amazed that they thought this was worth putting in a movie. It looks like someone took a B movie, took it's budget and gave it to a homeless person, then gave the director some pocket change instead.
Don't even give this "movie" the time of day unless you're a glutton for punishment, or you regret ever seeing a good movie in your life and want to know what it's like to watch your parents make love with your cousins in the room filming it.
Legion (2010)
Perfectly acceptable watch, though,... don't expect a lot.
So to start out with, I read some of the reviews on here. And while some bring decent points, there are some 1 starts on here that are silly in their thought process. One in particular touches on killing Howard then bringing him back just to kill him off again, but not being explained, which is blatantly weird since Michael mentioned before hand. This was a test of weakness,.... the woman was weak to wanting her husband back,.... of course they would use this in a fashion to kill some if not all of them.
The baby being "with no injuries whatsoever" was NEVER actually mentioned in the movie. Jeep asked Charlie "The baby--?" "Alive" is all the info you get on their well-being.
Enough about that,... I merely mentioned them because some of the gripes of the movie were ACTUALLY explained,... but people didn't pay attention and just wanted to "hate" on it.
The plot is a decent twist on ANGELS being the "bad guys" instead of the normal trend of it being the typical demons. A new birth on the night of the apocalypse brings a new set of hope in the eyes of god. At least, that is just an interpretation of it.
Acting was adequate,... although "Jeep"'s accent was GOD awful.
Graphics were find for what they were. CGI done neatly when needed, and over the top when it got messy. As one would expect in this type of movie to be honest.
Ending..... yeah I'll agree that the ending could've been pushed back another 20-25 minutes to flesh it out. But it looks like the ending was banking on a sequel to continue the story of raising the child.
Like the score shows,... not good, not awful,... it just IS. It's a decent watch, and a decent revisit once in a blue moon. But by no means worth gushing over.
Code 8 (2019)
Well worth the initial watch....
I will admit that I had high hopes for this movie after watching the trailer nearly four years ago. However,... I was saddened that the trailer almost seemed BETTER in some ways. I know that when it comes to full releases, sometimes things get lost from the initial interest,... but I don't know.
The person I saw in the trailer seemed more,... INTERESTING,...
That being said. The movie itself is definitely worth a watch. It is a real down to earth powers movie. Powerful people and yet it's not ALL about the powers. Sure the ending was significantly lackluster, and honestly rather expected, but it was a crowdfunded movie. You're not getting Hollywood here.
The actors though,... I have a small problem with. I didn't even remember half of them short of "mute guy, pyro chick, healy girl (even though they tried to ram her down your throat), bulletproof monk and touchy feely guy. They just aren't memorable. Then there were scenes in the trailer that made the cut to the final release,... including a scene in which I could understand in which Connor loses control of his power at the death of his friend Freddy.
I remember a character from the trailer over half of the actual movie characters. There was just a better "connection" to the plot.
Give it a go, and make your own observations. I will state that the last ten minutes are rather confusing and sad in their execution in an otherwise great use of a hour and a half.
Time Trap (2017)
It's hit and/or miss tbh....
Okay,.... I've seen TONS of B-movies these past few weeks. While this is definitely a b-movie,... it's not nearly as bad as people are making it out to be. Is it mindless and semi-cliche? Of course,... it's a b-movie!
I don't know why people are expecting something AAA from b-movies,... this movie DEFINITELY didn't deserve the amount of 1 stars,.... but in the same form that it DEFINITELY doesn't deserve the 10's. Everyone has their opinions,... but for me neither are right. 5 is a good stand point.
Plot - Fountain of youth in design of a cave system that stops all time for it's inhabitants, while the outside moves forward at a super accelerated pace. Sounds interesting,... but it was rarely touched upon in terms of potential. It was more of a focus point for why they were seeing random cave men, and toward the end, randomly soldiers from a war. If that time trap was slowly moving like they suggested,... why was there a bullet behind the cavemen chasing his sister who ran into said time trap... It just doesn't add up to the way they want it to. So some small plot holes,... but time "travel" this movie is not. This is more time stagnation, so it really doesn't belong to the same rules/rhyme as most time travel movies (Back to The Future for example,... completely different ball game).
Acting - While not bad,... the actors felt like they weren't of the best sort. But they were chosen because they were the best of those who showed up. They had an old school power rangers feel to their acting. Cheesy, but still entertaining at times. The professor was a bit wonky and felt like he smoked a bit of his mother's stash before giving his lines :/
Visuals - For a b-movie? Not that bad tbh. Maybe like 6/10. I've seen some pretty bad CG's in this genre, but these were tolerable.
Overall - Worth the money I didn't spend on a movie ticket. Watching on Netflix, I felt it was a worthwhile time trap,.... so to speak. If you just enjoy the movie for what it is,... and not what it should be. You should have a decent time.
Ending - Although,.... I do wish they expanded on why the teenagers were so popular,.... they were just kids who went missing. As far as we know, nothing ever came of this. It was never because of their finding the fountain of youth, as hundreds/thousands of years had past,... so who would remember them. Just a rather Disney happy ending :/
The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
Not,.... what I was expecting.
After hearing rants and raves of how good this movie was as a Zombie movie (spoiler,.... it's NOT really a zombie movie imo). I felt I had to give it a watch. I was entertained for the first hour, but I'm sure you will be shocked to hear (since NO ONE is talking about the ending,.... j/k) that the ending was rather garbage.
The Girl with All the Gifts started out as a movie showcasing a world overrun by "hungries" (even their own movie doesn't call them Zombies). Surviving humans are testing on children who ate their way out of the womb apparently. A morbid thought to be honest. So these children are a mix of human and 'hungry', which apparently is all of the pros and none of the cons.
As in most typical zombie movies,.... the base is overrun and they're forced out into the wild. Surrounded by enemies they must come to rely on Melanie (the only surviving child from the base) as a scout. After quite a few scenes which didn't honestly need to be there, of Melanie eating living creatures, including cats and pigeons. This,.... I wish I could say there was more to the movie. But this goes on for quite some time with the survivors attempting to get back to a supposed camp Beacon. Which you come to find out is also overrun and evacuating. Then for some reason the Lost Boys from Peter Pan make an appearance,... but that's short lived as a VERY sheltered Melanie assumes command by beating the lead Lost Boy up,... and (as close captioning called it) fiercely growling at the other Lost Boys. Thus saving the survivors, because that's Melanie's food source,.... or something.
To be honest,... the ending was extremely disappointing. This had the possibility to be something NEW to the franchise,... But as mentioned by others, literally uses the plot of the video game Last of Us to end the movie. Something that didn't make a lick of sense in the first hour of footage as it was never mentioned a single time.
If you have time, give it a watch. If you get it for free even better. But I'd honestly just watch the first hour and then turn it off.....
El hoyo (2019)
Overall an interesting watch,.... but horrendous ending makes it fall flat.
Okay, so I'm sure you've by now heard that the ending was horrible. And that the film itself is a testament to the rich above the poor and the needs of many are always wanting.
But let's talk more about the ending. Up until there was around fifteen minutes in the movie,... I would've given it a 7-8 stars. But this ending,... oh god this horrendous crap on your time ending.
So they make it to the bottom floor, and the table stops. Okay, fine sure. But apparently somehow a little girl was the only person there, not another person and nor a body nor blood marks. Weird since EVER floor since has been two people to a floor. Then we look at the little girl they find. Completely clean,... I mean pretty much spotless like she was JUST put there today. She doesn't talk, and she doesn't comprehend the give and take of the floor she was at,... which just leaves more questions. Like why didn't Miharu ever find her since she's gone down the floors MANY times,.... did she just give up around floor 200 because,... even more reasons we'll never know?
Now,... they stay and the food is given to the girl. Which until that point would cause the room to kill it's inhabitants,.... but somehow doesn't now.
OFC Baharat randomly dies off camera in such a lackluster way that it makes you want to forget the fact that he gave up his floor 6 privileges to follow some random white dude down 200+ floors,.... to ration out food. Because,... reasons I guess.
Now, to add FURTHER annoyance to the end. You sat there and watched this huge build up of the final half hour of the movie, expecting some big revelation or changes to be had. Only to be given the mother of all middle fingers in the form of a self-sacrifice of the MC. Because once more,.. reasons.
Now to point out something small that's just a mind bender. That table is FLYING upwards at super high speeds,..... how did they know it wouldn't just come to a complete stop at the end and send the contents slamming into the ceiling. There's literally no knowledge here. They could've just killed that little girl for a "message".
In the end,.... the ending itself just makes you draw your own conclusions and cops out it's ending. It could've been a great movie if not for this.
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
Passable for what you'd expect to be a terrible shark movie.
Okay, so to be fair I didn't expect much from this movie. So the title should clue you in as to why I gave it only 3 stars.
First,... you DEFINITELY have to turn your brain off for this movie. There's so much missing logic in this movie that it's astounding. Most of the 'jump scares' that the people are talking about, are often exactly where you'd expect them to be. The actors get progressively more stupid the further into the 'crisis' they go. Sometimes though,.... there's a rare 180 in character emotion and conduct that it will make you snort in laughter. "Oh god we're going to die!" "Wait guys we can just swim out!" stuff like this.
Then there's the fact that they made OBVIOUS claims that they evolved in the darkness,.... yet scream every two seconds. Then the sharks apparently wait in small caves for the off chance that something swims by, so they can attack and then somehow swim backwards while dragging a wildly thrashing prey into said tiny cave.
I'm also sure that by now you've read other reviews which make mention of how clear their voices are for being underwater and not having their ears covered. Just another thing you have to have your brain off for, for it to make sense.
After all of this,... the movie probably would have been a 5 star if it wasn't for the awful ending. Already the bully theme was silly,... but the VERY end was over the top. By sheer "coincidence" they're saved by the same boat they ditched,... even though this should have been HOURS after it started. Just so the main 'actress' could come face to face with her bully to show her superiority. by ignoring the fact that she was bit by a shark and stare her down. The slow down Hollywood ending,.... could be removed from the movie tbh. The sea is a VAST place,... so the chances of them coming out of a 'lost' city entrance and finding the exact boat they were originally supposed to ride are stupidly small.
Odd Thomas (2013)
Really shocking how good it is.
First off, I need to say that I didn't expect to like this movie. I came into it just looking for something to pass the time. Imagine my surprise when this movie not only caught my attention, but it actually pulled it away from the work I was doing at the time. The story isn't something over complicated, but the mystery it creates as it tells said story, is engaging.
The characters are actually well done, leading with Oddie,... who lives up to his namesake. The actor who played him, really nailed it.
This movie actually had a reminiscent feeling of Shaun of the Dead with a little twist of The Mist of all things. The ending,... was a really nice twist, and really worth the wait.
So far, one of my long term favorites.
Radius (2017)
Better than Expected - Potential spoiler for those who can piece things together.
While I can't say that this movie would win any awards. I will say that it surprised me how interested I found the movie. Sure the ending was half predictable, but the twist right before was well worth the watch.
The acting was pretty well done, even if some scenes felt,... silly in how the actors meshed with each other. I will say that at times the flashbacks/memory recaps were annoying and confusing. Sometimes making you wonder at times which you were watching, past or present.
The ending,.... while half decent and expected from the pace of the movie,... feels DRY and leaving you wanting.
For all this though, I feel the movie was worth a single watch. Probably will never watch it again, unless I forget, but still a good movie by itself.
Power Rangers (2017)
A complete and udder (but NOT!) let down. Avoid it.
I will be completely honest here. This movie,... I went into with little to no hope for. I've seen the trailers, seen the leaks and heard friends who saw it in theaters. This movie was garbage. Going into it expecting the awesome rangers I grew up with, was my own fault, I will freely admit that.
But let's start it out with how they started the movie. Within the first five minutes there's an implied moment where a GENIUS of a friend to Jason "milked" a male "cow". Let's go ahead and ignore that the supposed leader of the power rangers was committing a crime. Then proceeds to follow up said crime by running from the cops in a twisting camera of nausea. He then avoids the police and gets into a car accident, and proceeds to blame the freaking world over his issues by,.... BEING ANGST FILLED.
To be honest, around this time I wanted to turn it off. The acting was pretty poor in terms of quality, and the interactions if you could call it that, were few and far definitely meant only to try to make a sense of teamwork that wasn't there.
I could go on and on to nit pick this whole movie apart with how poop filled it was. But I'll simply leave it with these points.
Action 1.5/5 - Few and far between. There's maybe two action scenes,... one in the "pit" (a safe place for the teens to train against things that would otherwise KILL them), and the end of the movie where it's painful to even watch. The CG of this fight is cringe worthy for 2017, and their one liners are completely ridiculous.
Comedy 1.5/5 - This movie tried to make humor in EVERY situation it could. Which lead to some seriously bad timing in terms of lead up. Such as fighting for the life of the universe. It was unnecessary considering it TRIED to make itself super dark in terms of the movie.
Plot 2.5/5 - Typical plot, not good or bad, it's power rangers.
Overall, a complete avoid. I'm kind of upset I paid $4 for this movie, and it isn't a rental so I can't get rid of it from my digital library.