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Better than the first film. Has a more cohesive plot and character development.

It starts off interesting but falls apart towards the end. The conspiracy is way more interesting than the eventual reveal and explanation as to what is happening. There are worse films out there but I wouldn't recommend this unless you have absolutely nothing better to watch.

This is probably the Austin Powers movie that everyone thinks of when Austin Powers is mentioned in a conversation. It's a lot of fun to watch even today. They're literally not allowed to make them like this anymore.

A solid horror film but perhaps not really a good Resident Evil film. There's some elements of the Resident Evil games in this movie, but they're limited and some things have been changed (infected run now and they focus more on the tentacle monsters from the later games). Yet I don't think this script would have worked without it having been based on an existing franchise. A lot of the explanation as to why there was an outbreak would have been too rushed and silly otherwise. My only other complaint was that the main character is annoying, but I get the feeling that was intentional. It felt like he was playing the role of a streamer over reacting to everything. Making comments about everything. It died down in the second half of the film, but it was a bit annoying in the first half. Overall this is a good zombie horror film and worth watching even if you don't know the Resi franchise.

One of those films that despite being really cheesy as of the time of release, has lasted the test of time well. I can say that I enjoyed rewatching it, a lot more than I have enjoyed watching a lot of modern film releases. It's a strange blend of a medieval drama, mixed with an 80's plot and the UK/European football (soccer) culture. Strangely this all works because the plot is simple and engaging enough. It's a lot of fun to watch. I doubt Hollywood could write something this simplistic but fun these days.

Not as good as the first movie, despite the plot being more streamlines and the martial arts being better. I think it comes down to it not telling an origin story and it building on what was already there after the first film. Regardless it's still a really good film and well worth watching. It's crazy how they just can't make them like this any more.

This might have been the last big buddy cop franchise and it's a pity since the formula really worked in this film (and it's sequels). It's entertaining to watch even today. The only reason I'm not giving a 10 is because it can be goofier than other buddy cop films like lethal weapon or Beverly hill cop.

It's an ok film but I can see why no Ted 3 was made after this movie. A lot of the jokes are something you could have heard in Seth Macfarlane's other work Family Guy. Some hit, other completely miss. The ones that hit are more often due to shock factor rather than being anything clever or by being a well led up to joke. For example I don't think any one will find the throwing apples at joggers funny, but jokes like the "internet search" joke will get a chuckle. The plot isn't great either. Half of the plot revolving around John finding love is pretty much recycled from the first film, just this time it's Amanda Seyfried that's the new love interest. I also didn't particularly like the drawn out comic con segment. It feels really fake. When was the last time you saw both babes at an event like that?

I haven't read the books, but I can see that Part 1 was the setup and part 2 is the payoff. I enjoyed part 2 a lot more than part 1. It was a lot more eventful and there was a lot more character evolution. It was so good I might actually pay to see part 3 in the cinema.

A movie without any clear plot goal or message to the viewer. If I had to describe it, it's a 16 episode season of the walking dead compressed into a 2 hour movie but without the zombies. There's a lot of different scenes in this film, some of which like their time at the grand terminal are completely rushed. Other things don't really make much sense when you think about it, like why are there skin head gangs who've lost the ability to speak whilst everyone else is ok or how do they have electricity. The script writer couldn't even decide on if he wanted the film to be a message that in a post apocalyptic world being antagonistic or welcoming to others is the correct move, which felt like that was the theme for the first third of the movie. If there's one thing to take from the dog stars, it's that the name Ridley Scott doesn't mean much anymore. He hasn't made a good film in a very long time. Not since his brother died, who did a lot of work on his movies.

Great acting with a great script. Everything a film should be. The twist holds up well even today, after more films, video games and books copy it (or the original book this was based on).

2025's equivalent to gone girl, but not nearly as good. It shares a lot of similarities with that film not just in terms of plot but also in social messaging. It's a film of two halves, one the lead up to the twist and then the second half is the outcome of the twist. A lot of the twists I did see coming and I'm sure many people will also see them coming. It's also much more a film for women than it is for men. Men of course will be able to sit through it for Sydney Sweeny, but they will notice the heavy handed social messaging that really didn't need to be there and could easily have been fixed by making some small changes. For example changing the police officer at the end into a man and cutting the final scene of the film out entirely would have really helpped not sell a message of all men are evil. There's also a lot of plot logic flaws as well in the second half. "I want a pretty wife, so do something that will leave permanent scars" and "Here's a tool to escape you're current predicament, hope you're not smart enough to notice that you can use it".

It's not bad and worth watching if you're a fan of Sword Art Online, but it feels like a completely pointless film. It's set in the middle of the first arc of season 1 of the anime and the anime has finished at this point. So it's basically a filler episode. It's still entertaining enough to watch but it's pointless in the grand scheme of the Sword Art's plot and since it wasn't covered by the original tv anime series, you can easily skip it and miss nothing. It's one of those it's worth a rental of this movie don't buy it, type situations.

Boyfriends/Husbands and men in general were probably bored to sleep when this came out. As a film, it's a bit of a mess. It's written in a way that's very clearly meant for teenage girls and it does feature a tough subject of cancer and dying. So it's not going to have much appeal to people who don't fit within it's target audience. So is it a bad film? Well yes just due to the way it's been written. It's very much Augusts throws himself at Hazel in a very unrealistic way and there's a ton of cancer jokes that are not unlike those in Thor love and thunder that feel crude and out of place. It's a very difficult film to recommend to anyone who doesn't meet its slim target audience.

The best Godzilla film in years and surprisingly not made by Hollywood. Most of why it's great is due to a very streamlined plot. No pointless side stories or character development that goes nowhere or is completely unneeded. Crazy to think this was all made for less than 10 million, especially with how good the CGI is. My only complaint was how "Japanese" the solution to eliminate Godzilla was. It was just a bit silly, but still fun to watch play out.

Low budgeted and quite boring. It's still watchable, but there's a lot of better low budget horror out there.

It's a good enough horror film and it holds up well enough 20 years later. It takes some very obvious inspiration from better horror films like the shinning. It's made worse by the fact they used Ryan Reynolds, since he basically plays the same character in every films he's in and it just feels out of place in a horror.

This film is pointless and I say that as a fan of the original cartoon. It offers nothing new and is lacking any real plot or purpose. The firelord is gone, so there's no threat or purpose to this film. It's a cashgrab (or would have been if this film wasn't released on streaming due to being hacked and released online). I also really don't like the new voice actors. I don't see why they needed to replace the older ones.

It should really have been called Christopher Nolan's: The Odyssey" and not The Odyssey. Nolan makes a lot of changes to the original plot of The Odyssey to the point where it's not the same plot anymore. The ending is completely changed, entire plot scenarios are left out and characters are both completely changed personality wise or even switched out with other unrelated characters. The reason I say all of this as a negative is that due to Europe and the USA's poor education systems, most people will now think they know the plot of The Odyssey, when this film isn't even close. Odysseus is completely different to how he is in the books, in the books he's charming and a bit cocky. In this film he's remorseful and regrets Troy. That's not even close to being the same character. The worse part of this film is the mix of worldwide accents. There's all sorts here, American, Canadian, English all using modern wording. It just doesn't work and they even drop the f bomb in this movie. There's a scene where a man of Indian decent with a Canadian accent says "we're Greeks from Ithaca" and I and a few others actually laughed out loud in the cinema. It broke the immersion that much. There's just so many other pointless changes that come from Nolan's lack of commitment to a direction. Nolan refused to use an orchestra because it didn't exist and insisted on filing in the ocean to be realistic, but then he goes and uses a Viking long ship (not invented in the age this would be set), has costumes that look nothing like what they would have ben wearing during this time period and the land scenes don't look Mediterranean. Note that I haven't even mentioned any of the culture war issues with this film. They're all there but they're the minor issues with the film. I think the thing to take a way from obvious race swaps is that they're early warning signed that the film/show/game are likely to have much bigger issues than this.

Disappointing and I say this as a big fan of Evil Dead Rise. It's probably done a lot of damage to the franchise. It feels like whoever wrote this movie didn't understand why the last one was a sleeper hit. They didn't understand that it had a very sleek but bare minimum plot that didn't overstay it's welcome and just worked. It gave you a likable character to root for (Beth) and didn't give you too many emersion breaking scenes. This film has none of that. It has the gory horror scenes and it can be good at creating the eerie atmosphere but the plot and lack of any interesting or likeable characters let it down. The only likleable character is killed pretty early on, there were times where I was rooting for the demons and and there's a really stupid scene where a character even tries to partner up with them. I can't understate how much immersion breaking some of the plot is and I found myself questioning things I wouldn't have questioned in the previous film such as "how exactly do the demons posses someone? Is it blood, spit, physical contact or just random because in the last 2 films we've seen all of these." "Why did the people at the end of the film randomly turn up?". "Why do some things kill the demons but other things won't and how exactly could they become multi limbed monsters in the last film but they're so easy to kill here?". The entire last act could have been scrapped and it would have been a better film for it. It also very obviously steels a lot from the video game Resident Evil 7. Did they think no one who watches this movie would notice? The dinner scene, the fight scenes around the dinner table later on, the fact the the demons are unkillable like the family in RE7, Capcom could probably try and sue for this.

Weaker than volume 1. You can tell by the pacing that vol 1 and 2 were at one point supposed to have been one film. After the crazy 88 ending to volume 1, everything in volume 2 feels slower paced and slightly underwhelming. It's still not a bad film, it's just shown up by it's predecessor. That said, it's a very Tarantino film and it feels a bit odd watching this in 2026 where the filming style was very 2006.

A brilliant surreal comedy sci-fi. It's really funny and has a entertaining plot. It's one of those films where you can watch it with someone who doesn't really like sci-fi and they'll likely still have found it have been worth watching. It's also a film that shows that Michelle Yeoh and James Hong have been underutilised by Hollywood. It's a pity that's too late to have been changed now...

Completely different to the later films and better off for it. No over the top stunts, just a decent plot. Its' very 2001 with the obsession teens and those in their 20's had with muscle and sport cars. Also very little CGI was used in this movie, which is refreshing in 2026.

Not as good as volume 1. Partly because it's a conclusion to the previous film and it closes off the previous plot, so it's less about the jokes and the wackiness of the world. Partly because it took 4 year to produce volume 2 and it's clear there wasn't really any idea on where to take the existing plotlines next. Don't get me wrong, it's still worth watching and there were some really good jokes and attractive naked ladies in this film. It's just not as good as volume 1, despite having full frontal nudity this time.

An ok but forgettable take on the Sherlock Holms story, just following his little sister instead. Millie Bobby Brown does some decent acting, but Henry Cavil is seriously under used in this film. It's all let down by a lacklustre script and plot, which you won't remember in a months time.

A pretty good John Wick spin off. It's not as good as John wick and has more issues than the John Wick trilogy but the action scenes and the plot are pretty good. It's not really a girl-boss film since most of the time guns are used but there are some times where Eve overpowers men and those scenes do look silly. They address this early on in the plot but they don't really do anything about it later on where its an issue. Other than that, the scenes in the snowy village were brilliant.

I found this movie incredibly boring. Nothing interesting actually happens in this movie. It reminds me a lot of the film tenet. If you don't get the overly complicated plot where characters have to stop what they're doing to explain to the audience what's actually going on, then you'll likely be turning it off around the halfway point.

Nowhere near as good as any of the original Peter Sellers films. The writing is worse. Steve Martin tries his best but he's never going to be able to match the original. Castin Beyonce in this film was probably its biggest mistake. She's was cast for publicity reasons, not because she's a good actress.

An interesting film that raises a lot of relevant questions about AI, especially today in 2026. Some of which aren't asked enough. There's a lot of good acting in this film and it is a very well compacted script.

Revolutionary for it's time and despite the bad critic reviews it did well and has kind of become a well known mid 2000's film. That said it's a film you can only watch once. Once you know the twist you'll never be able to watch it in the same way again. It's from an era when M night shyamalan didn't have such a bad reputation and is filmed in a really 2000's filming style, something you notice today. The downside is that it's not really a horror film or even a psychological thriller. There just isn't enough of either in the movie. It's a 90 minute drama that happens to hint at some monsters.

Weaker than the previous entries and exists solely to setup the final movie. The AI villain whilst sudo believable in todays climate, is a bit goofy especially how in the previous films the villains where more believable secret spy rings and the Russians. The action scenes where pretty cool though especially the train and bike ones.

It will entertain your kids, which is probably the most important part. Adult fans of SpongeBob will also at least enjoy this movie as well. But there's no denying that it's a film of two halves. The first cartoon based half is great, it plays out like an extended episode of the tv show. It's fun, has some great jokes and I was genuinely interested in the plot. I personally think the first half as a stand alone film would have been better than the first SpongeBob movie. The second half is a blatant cash grab, the whole premise is to establish SpongeBob super hero toys to sell to children. As such the logic of the plot goes completely out the window, along with the jokes and plot logic.

A fulfilling end to the franchise but I can't help but think that the AI being the enemy is just a bit too silly. I did think it was a good idea to have all the worlds nuclear powers taking aim at each other, I just think the AI being the cause was a bit too over the top even though that is a genuine thing that could happen in the future. The stunts and tension scenes felt reduced in this film. There's basically the plane set piece you've probably seen in the trailer and a submarine bit, that's pretty much it. There's also a few scenes where realism went out the windows. Hacking does not work the same way as it does in this film, even if an AI is doing it. The bit with the submarine would have killed him within the first 2 minutes because they forgot about how Sonar messes up the body when you're close to the source.

A lot of fun for children and their parents (assuming you're also a SpongeBob fan). It's a lot closer to an extended episode of the cartoon than it is the character driven first SpongeBob film (In retrospect it crazy realising how charecter based the first film was). There's a lot of jokes that were aimed at adults and there were times where I was genuinely laughing out loud. The move from drawn to CGI takes some getting use to, but the jokes and the plot help cover that. I personally found it better than the first movie. It was just funnier and more entertaining.

It's not as bad as I've heard critics and youtubers make it out to be. That said it's not very good either. It's just not very memorable, doesn't have the soul of the original 80's film and has a terrible ending. Glen Powell was pretty good as Ben Richards, but his character literally has no development. He starts off as an angry man who take is anger out on the dystopian world he lives in. He finishes the film as an angry man who took out his aggression on the rich network who controls everything. That's it. The Amelia Williams character could have been completely removed from the film. She literally served no purpose. The ending feels forced like they didn't know how he could still "win" but also stick it to the network. It just doesn't feel like a good ending. I did like the dystopian sy-fi sets based around the sy-fi films from the 80's e.g. big CRT televisions mixed in with holograms. But I also think the 80's film was more fun, even if it was more unfaithful to the book. So in short watch that one instead.

This was way better than I thought it'd be and I'm really glad that I ended up seeing it. I haven't watched any masters of the universe cartoons since the 90's, but there were lots of moments where I was like "oh yeah there was a guy with triangles for eyes with an extendable neck" or "there was a skull castle and a snake castle". It's written quite well. There's enough jokes in there for adults, some that reference how stupid the names of characters where in the toy line and they do mostly land. I did really enjoy how this was the opposite to the messaging in most children's films today. It was very anti-HR culture. What Adam learned in the end was that you can't always talk your way through problems and that some people are just evil (they're not turned evil by power or greed, they just are evil). The fight scenes were pretty good, the CGI was mostly really good with the only exception being the forest chase scene. Jared Leto was really good in this film. Turns out all you had to do was have him play a character that's completely CGI and run his voice through a modulator so you can't tall it's him! It is however a pitty that they killed the romance off between Adam and Tella, I don't say this often in children's films but it would have worked plot wise. It's a pity this likely won't get a sequel (there was only 2 others in the cinema when I watched it) as it was really good.

It's over the top, unrealistic and sometimes cheesy. But boy is it a lot of fun to watch! It's not supposed to be taken seriously. Angelina Jolie plays the original Lara very well. The action scenes are also fun to watch.

It's an enjoyable enough film on its own, but it's a really bad adaptation of the 2013 Tomb raider reboot video game. If you haven't played the game then you'll likely think it's good enough. So much is removed from what was in the game. All the supernatural elements and Lara's colleagues for example, but they did add in a brand new character for Daniel Wu to play for some reason. This probably should have been a TV show with a faithful adaptation. That could have been really good.

I missed watching this when it came out and having seen it now, I do regret that. It's fun to watch and almost all of the jokes land. It's literally a film that couldn't be made today since there's too many jokes/plot points in it that would be considered too controversial as of the time of writing this review and that is a bad thing that shows how backwards Hollywood has gone. The only reason I'm not giving it a higher score is because the fake trailers at the beginning feel out of place, I just think they could have worked that into the film itself instead of just dumping that on you at the beginning.

A really good espionage action thriller. It's one of those films you have too see. The only downside is that you have to have watched the last 3 MI films in order to understand the setup and who some of the characters are, else you won't get the most out of this film.

A decent crime romance drama. It starts off as a crime film but ends up as a romance drama for the second half. I don't know who much of it was based on the real events or how sympathetic we should really be to Jeffrey, but I'm guessing that at least some of it was made up to make him a more compelling and pitiable character. There's some decent acting from actors you likely forgot about until now. It can be difficult to watch towards the end especially since you know that Jeffrey is making the a choice that won't play out in his favour.

I'm no stranger to biographical dramas based on real events of companies. I liked Air and BlackBerry and thought they were interesting enough. Unfortunately this film doesn't have the same appeal despite covering more important topics than those previously mentioned films. There just isn't enough here to make it interesting. The side characters the film follows are boring and uninteresting. I don't know who they thought would care about Riri and Harmony's relationship or the hints that they were cam girling, their story was completely unrelated to the rest of the film. The film glosses over a lot of events too like how it was clear that some senators didn't get how trading works or why the GameStop event was a big deal. I guess that's a sign of a bad writer. Also it's really frustraighting to see the makers of this film tame down r/WallStreetBets. Edgelord and offensive humour was much more a thing during the GameStop event.

It has almost nothing to do with the video game, but it's a lot of over the top fun. The acting is so bad it's good, the plot is ridiculous yet I still was engaged and watched it to the end. It's a classic and it's fun to watch even today.

A decent horror film. The first half is a psychological horror and the second half is more classic horror. There's some great acting from Antony Starr and Lizzy Caplan. They pretty much hold this film together with their solid acting. It doesn't exactly do anything new, but it is interesting enough to spend 90 minutes on.

As a video game movie, it's great. A solid 8 out of 10. To be fair to this film, it knows what it wants to be and that is a video game movie adaptation. As a stand alone movie, it's got its problems and would be a 7 out of 10. You have to have seen the first film to understand this one. The first film was very much the setup for this film. You do get to see the tournament and there's an adventure towards the end to resolve the threat of Outworld. It's one for fans of the video games and martial arts film fans. They've brought the gore from the games over to the film this time. I'm surprised this didn't have an 18/adults only rating! There's references to stages, moves and mechanics from the games. It's really fun to see that. As a film though it has it's problems. They try to do too much in a short amount of time. A main character from the last film is relegated to being a side character in this one. They also bring back other characters into this movie (despite them being dead) for specific fight scenes. They don't really add anything into the film itself and could have been left out. Also the first fight between Katana and Jade had some very terrible chorography.

What a mess and a complete waste of time. It's like a knock off of Star Wars from the early 2000's but was made with a budget of more than the entire GDP of some African nations. It's written poorly and has way too many characters, most of which could be removed from the film and you'd loose nothing. Do yourself a favour and watch something else.

A poor imitation of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez grindhouse films by a writer/director who clearly doesn't understand what makes a good grindhouse film. It's a really bad film staring TV actors you probably know. It's written and directed by Sophie Tabet, who they for some reason try and advertise like that's a big feature, when in reality I and most people have no idea who that is. It's biggest flaw is that it's written and casted incredibly badly. There's a montage scene that at best would last half a day, where afterwards Fox is suddenly a capable fighter that can throw 300-pound men around. Frankie and her brother turn up halfway through the film, have no real character development or reason to be involved and are core to the resolution of the plot. Frankie’s brother is the only good guy man in the entire film and he’s pretty much the comic relief character. All the other men are portrait as villains. They also gender swap roles that would typically be played by men, Goldie the drug lord and Officer Corbett the by the book cop. It just doesn’t work, it’s jarring and the script suffers for it. It also changes a lot of the dynamics of the other characters like Goldie’s arm candy. They’re introduced like they’re bad a** enforces, but they’re not that in the film. They’re just there in the film with no purpose. I assume they’re some sort of harem for Goldie, but it’s never explained and doesn’t make much sense.

I'd give this a 7.5 if I could. I really like the premise but I think the execution wasn't as good as it could have been. The idea of someone being possessed to be in love with someone else has been done as a horror in books and visual novels before (I've read a few of them), so perhaps I had too high an expectation for this film. But I do think some of the plot could have been better written. Nikki's actions sometimes go beyond "obsessive love" to just being weird, like the scenes with the food in the lunch box and what she does on only that one occasion when Bear goes to work. These could have been replaced with scenes that made her madness more consistent like her putting her hair in the sandwich. It's one of those things you notice after you've watched the film and think about all the events that happened in it, I just think the film just could have been made better with some consistency to her madness. Regardless I still think this film is worth seeing, especially in the cinema since the audio was very obviously made with surround sound in mind (you'll notice it if you see this in a cinema) and the acting was pretty good.

Surprisingly good. It's not really a gangster/crime movie. It's more a story of revenge set within a crime family. But it's done in subtle and interesting way (not at all like say the last of us part 2). The acting was pretty good as well, despite non of the actors being well known.

It's a pretty bad film and was the start of Channing Tatum's downfall from mainstream Hollywood. It's written incredibly poorly., like a budget avengers film with characters no one has ever heard of. The script is terrible and it's just one action scene after the other from start to finish. There's some impressive CGI but there just isn't any time to breathe between scenes. It makes for a bad film. On top of that it's a military action film aimed at kids. There's just not enough realism for adults or anyone over the age of 14. We do at least get scarlet to look at though.