Good lord this movie was a stinker.
Everything you know about who this alien species is, just throw it out the windows.
The Predator is a almost non-verbal, ice cold violent killing machine.
Trachtenberg has simply thrown all that away and madethe Predator a wimp.. Sort of.. While it still is a calculated killing machine, it seems like he develops feeling for his counterpart.. good lord.
And it speaks.. way to much.
On top of this, this is a movie filled up with clichés in bundles. Easy predictable buddy-baddie movie you already will know the end of.
All totally wrapped in CGI.. Prey was great. It was the Predator vs. primitive man. Almost in vein with the original Predator with Arnold. It was watchable glorious fun.
This movie is simply not.
What does this movie want to be?
To me its was more stupid comedy than an action movie. I don't watch superhero movies because they are frankly "Super dumb". Just happened to have to watch it.
I could not finish it. Totally lost interest half way in.
The story line is tragic dumb Hollywood drivel cookedby the worst.
The plot is dumb as you can get it, and the characters dumber than the dinosaurs themselves.
The boss Dino is not really a dinosaur. It's just a freak show mixup of an alien and a bull. Im pretty sure, by the next installment, they have cooked up Godzilla and thus completes the circle on how HE was made.
Scientists should have learned their lessons and mistakes and moved on since first movie.. maybe second one.
But no.. here we are what, 7th or 8th movie in, and they still make the dinosaurs bigger, nastier and freakier than the last one.
Complete utter garbage.
Why do people compare this movie to John Wick..
Ever heard of John Woo?
He made some Hong Kong classics back in late 80s and early 90s with Chow Jun Fat with a strict one clip per bad guy.
The movie was over the top fun. Slow start, but once the trigger is pulled, its a ultra violent murder fest.
Fun movie though.
A middle of the tree kinda movie.
Obviously, the casting is pretty wrong. Druckmann loves to miscast his stuff. Just like Last Of Us TV show. Completely mis-cast.
Holland is a little turd, and Wahlberg goes around telling everybody to "Say Hello to your mother from me".
What it does havegot right is the adventure side of it. Mystic places, secrets, puzzles and exotic locations. Its all there.. Should have cast Nathan Fillon instead. But with the cast, its just not Uncharted really..
They don't even have the theme song in it.
Pretty flat movie.
Have to say, the Churchill character must to date, be the most cringe inducing performance i have seen. Worst acting i have seen, and the attempt to adapt Churchill's voice was awful.
Not very related to the original Road House with Patric Swayze (RIP). But the basic premise is the same. Just brings it up to date with throwing in UFC contenders that did not exist in 1989.
Jake Gyllenhall carries this movie on his own shoulder sadly. Much of the the co-actors around him deliver flat performances and is nothing to write home about.
Connor McGregor should never be allowed in front of a camera. His character was waaaay over the top acted. Connor walks around stuffed of Testosterone and PCP with a prance and a stare aimed to walk straight trough people (which he does though) with a always presenting grin on his face. He seems to have a good time though.
The story is marginally thin, but if you accept this movie as a nice Sunday romp with a bucket of Popcorn, its safe to disengage all anchors to sense and sensibility and logic and just tag along for a ride.
The setting is lovely though. Fight scenes brutal enough. But a movie you should not look for deeper meaning of.
Fair movie.. Fun movie..
To everyone who ask for "The Story Plot". You have completely went to see this movie for the wrong reason.
The movie is to set you mind in motion to provoke thoughts. Its a grim "fictional" future that CAN happen again.
I went to the cinema knowing exactly what this movie was trying to tell. Too bad so many people did not have the capacity to get it the same way. It is grim, violent, brutal and bloody. The real thing is the same. Nothing glory about any type of war.
Absolute rubbish story that does not grip at any time.
As usual, top-name cast. Wes-style with weird scenes, over-saturated color.
I think at this point, Wes has Wessed himself too much.
This is a re-run of the third movie, that was a re-run of the 2nd, that was a re-run of the 1st.
This movie is just so over the top that its ridiculous. Even if this is set in real cities, it feels like a Gotham-esque "The Purge" setting just without the police. They are not seen ONCE within all the carnage happening. It all feels like a surreal fantasy. Bullets only kill you when you take 3-4 slugs in the head. Your body is pretty much bulletproof seems like, Bulletproof suit fabric. Sure.. Stabs and 40 feet fall from a window is no issue. John Wick should be dead 20 times over.
All the bad guys are pretty lousy shooters too. Could not hit a train if it was an inch in front of them..
One scene i had to laugh a little at was the club scene where Wick does a whole gun fight right in the middle of the dance floor and no one reacts to bullets flying around.
I found this movie laughable at best. This makes 80´s John Woo movies look like a over-realistic reality show in comparison.
Ridiculously over the top. No man can withstand such beating and live. It is pretty gory fun though. Like a excessively violent version of Valhalla Rising and John Wick.
Felt like a simplified and stripped version of Zodiac from 2007 which was a masterpiece of film making. It follows the same vein. Even the principle photography copies it down. If you seen Zodiac stop me if it feels familiar.. -We are following the eyes of a newspaper and two reporters working the case.
-One of the reporters is working in a different department, Gets the bug for the case and wants a go at it..
- Reporter tries to question a creepy character.
- Someone calls the reporter with heavy breathing on the other end.
- The marriage of said reporter is falling apart slowly during working the case. Keira does a decent job and there is plenty scratching the surface, but very little depth. Characters are slightly flat to be honest.
I felt very dull about it to the end.
Oh dear heavens no. Back in the 80´s, this movie was probably a fantastic view i am sure together with many other fantasy classics.
But it has aged horribly for today´s audience. I know that Jennifer Connelly who hot stuff in her young teens, but her acting skills was pretty naff back then.
The practical effects are very much on level with Muppetshow, but poorly executed.
Only David Bowie is the only one who could hold this movie just about together. But even the musical number are slightly flat from Bowies classics from the 70´s.
This movie can easily be left alone to the glorious 80´s, but should not be the first movie you have in mind 40 years later.
This is a brilliant work of art. I do not throw 10´s around easily.
I bought it on VHS in 1996 (i think) with english voiceover, but i must since then have seen it so many times i could recite it by heart.
It has a stunning atmosphere and visuals. Much of it partly inspired by Bladerunner at times (though never documented)
The soundtrack is a huge key factor to set the movie to the timeless era of the 90s in a cluster of great anime´s.
Masterpiece and essential..
My only gripe is it is too short. But
Another movie panned by critics but loved by the people.
I thought the movie was touching in many ways. The sense of isolation reminded it of myself.
It is a movie that i wont forget in a hurry. Only David Strathairn was the only known face here but the performance of everyone is brilliant.
Austin Butler did a great job portraying Elvis.
But its ruined with mixing in modern r'n'b electronic music garbage with old 50´s rock n roll. What was that about?
Luhrman was the wrong choice for this one. Tons of montage and kitchy moments overflushed with backdrop music and trippy segments.
It could have been great. But 20 min. in i just wanted to puke in a bucket because of million things going on at the screen at once.
Wes Anderson style is getting tired out. He has done a few movies now with his artistic stylistic style with voice-over storytelling. A style that he pretty much decided to use himself after he saw "Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain". But its getting stale and predictable by now and he should change direction and find new actors to work with.
Nonsensical incoherent movie. Hard to watch, and i turned it off after 30 min.
It clearly written with a good amount of shock value, but the only shock i got my finger to press "off" button.
Cronenberg has made some good body horror in the past, but this was just rubbish.
Between the awful horror movies that is spewed out these days, This movie actually ranks well over them in quality.
Far from Nick Cage´s best performance. But it is visually something to marvel.
This movie is hilarious watching it in 2022. It is the epitaph of 80´s Over the top action movies.
If Chuck Norris fact is based on one of his movies, This IS IT!!!
Norris never gets touched, scratched or injured ONCE.
Plot is super thin. Some Russian whacko decides to invade USA because "he can". No background story needed.
Apparently he has a horn in the side for Chuck Norris character which he tries to kill off in the beginning, but with no success.
Russian whacko invades Miami USA with four landing craft boats full of terrorist. Chuck is in pursuit goes after him with 2 Uzi submachine guns as his preferred weapon. He just drives around Miami looking for trouble. Some terrorist opens fire somewhere, Chuck comes around to have fun with them.
There is so many outrageous scenes in this movie with a non-existent script.
The US Army eventually shows up with a dozen tanks and boatloads of troops and firepower, but seems to have trouble to wipe out a small squadron of vigilante terrorists in the last stand-off.. Hilarious
The terrorists pulls up to Suburb homes with single-use bazookas that seems to have 5 rockets in them and randomly kills families and kids. shopping mall and a bus loaded with children are victim of bombs. Random drive by spray and pray on innocent people.. Its brutal and violent with no sense of plot what so ever.. Haha.
Luckily, Chuck is often there to save the day.
It is a comedy, not an action movie. I laughed the whole way trough.
LEGENDARY Norris movie..
Boring..
Pretty done with Ryan Reynolds acting by now. Guy has no range at all and plays the same dude as in Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place. Story was.. zzzz. lame.. predictable.. zzzzzz
Almost fell asleep and was scrubbing the last 30 min.
The is a real colourful oddball of a movie.
From start to finish we are instantly thrown into Alana´s journey and are taken trough a series of strange situations.
There is no pre-development, little to be told about the main characters history. The movie is a moment-to-moment story of love and its ups and downs. However i enjoyed the little humour moments in it and i had to giggle at times.
Catches the 70´s mighty good. I movie i felt weird and awkward but loved nevertheless.
All the woke idiots (Anita Sarkeesian) taking to social media because of a 25 year old interacting with a 15 year old can be ignored. They deserve to burn.
Enjoy the film.
Not a terrible movie. But ruined by the typical jump scare tactics. There is too many of them.
Jump scare is a short lived effect. You seen a couple of films with these and they do not bite you anymore. Predictable.
The ending was a bit dumb. It disappointed me.
The movie started out so well.
But eventually it was caught up by so many movie cliche´s that my eyes got sticky.
The Kids seems like they have a MIT Degree top of the class. And yet they live poorly in the suburbs.
This movie will get a very split audience. Critics will hate it, but i loved it. Even if you dislike this movie you will somehow agree with it.
The point that the main subject of the movie is an asteroid on its way to obliterate earth is one thing.
But what it really is rubbing hardest again is actually human intelligence. It is a black, head-on satire on modern society that we live in today, and you know it is not very far of the mark. Human beings have become so estranged in social media and self-publicity that any major world event will be ridiculed.
We saw it when Covid emerged. No one cared until it was on our doorstep.
I had great laughs trough out this film. Highly enjoyed this dark comedy with good performances from most of the cast. Shame it got panned. I think it is the most significant movie in a long time regarding us people as a "intelligent" species.
This movie is terrible.
two of the most over exposed actors in Hollywood goes head to head. Reynolds does his usual witty exposé as he always has done the last 20 years. All complete with an advertising package of his Aviation Gin product placement. (It is becoming a cliché by this point)
Do i need to tell you about Dwayne Johnson how he acts? Or that he tries to act?
Gal Gadot. This is probably the first movie i have seen her in, she does a cringeworthy performance.
But all three performances are awful. None of the characters gives you any incentive to care about them. All bundled together with a script that shows us everything what is wrong with Hollywood.
This movie is a $160 million pile of turd. But you know what?
Hollywood is gonna make them as long as you and me watch them.
I love Winstead, but was awful to watch her jump the bandwagon of the latest crappy feminist action movie that has been dumped to streaming platforms this year.
A mixture of Crank and John Wick in a very unrealistic outcome.
Winstead´s presentation as an assassin is awful. Who texts confirmation messages to her next hit the day before the hit? Her tactics is also very amateur, Taking a sniper shot from kneling position is way worse than a prone position when she has the opportunity to do so.
The car chase scene in this movie is also dreadfully bad, totally sped up and fake AF. It is entirely CGI and a very bad rendered one at that.
Woody Harrelson has a central, but not so present role. But he can not rescue this movie one bit.
Overall, this movie left me with a bad taste metal in my mouth..
There are more cigarettes lit up in this movie than bullets fired.
But its a great flick, despite the story is a little fragmented and all over the place.
The action scenes in the second half is pretty excellent and not far from classic John Woo movies.
A very close to B-grade movie. I expected a more high value production but was surprised it was even French.
Very flat writing on the humour sense. Did not find this that funny really. Casting could have been way better, but hey, this is french comedy.
Van Damme looks rough on his exterior. You can see that he is 60, but he can still throw some great splits and kicks, despite the movie is not all that action packed with any grand explosive scenes.
On the contrary. Don´t look for any artful visuals, blistering acting and cinema magic.
This movie actually works. Although dumb enough, but i never went in to take it seriously. I'ts always fun to watch Ryan Reynolds getting his butt kicked. The humour is not really that bad either compared to other cash-in titles. Salma Hayek delivers with her foul mouth and rampant Latina personality. (I was married to a Latina once, trust me, Hayek nails it)
This movie does its job what it is made to do. Entertain.
If this gets a DVD release, it should be 2-Disc version. Disc 1 for this documentary.
And crucially a Disc 2 for the whole concert. Missing more from Simone´s blasting performance like her dynamite version of "I Got Life"
I was disappointed that much of the festival was left out. Instead it was stuffed with anti-racist material..
So please.. Full festival please..
Thought it was poor. Failed totally to interest me because it offered nothing new that has not been done before.
The story was awfully weak. I did not understand the importance of that little girl. Did i miss something?
Beside from the weak writing and poor attempt at humour (was there any funny scenes?) Only the three librarians had any charisma to them. but they are just side characters.
The fight scenes was so flat and dull. Karen Gillan was stiff and wooden in her fight moves. Other than that, she just spent all her time moving trough her scenes with a cold stare on her face trying to portray that stone-cold-killer as best as she could, but she came out more cute than intimidating..
A very bad John Wick copycat.. Not even a worthy Popcorn flick filler.
See Atomic Blonde instead if you have not already.. Had way more spunk in it than this rubbish..
Over the top, Hollywood garbage with no logic. Patriotism rocks you hard with tearjerker scenes by the dozen all backed up by heroic-heavy and overwhelming orchestra.
Chris Pratt could not save this one one bit. Every scene is Michael Bay-ism loaded to the max. So much that you will have rolled your eyes to the back of your brain. Avoid!
i liked the first. Plenty of spacious scenes that played with the absence of music score and let quiet suspense work the viewers.
Part II starts off good with a look into the origin of the arrival of the hunters. Story wise it moves slowly after that. We already established the characters with an introduction of Cillian Murphy whom i think carried most of this movie with a great performance.
With an hour and a half to bring the story forward, it walks slowly.
The kids in the movie do their upmost to make as much noise and mess as they can. They are ignorant and literally not that smart in their choices. Especially that kid. The deaf daughter gives zero F's and wanders out of her own.
Basically the movie establish little new in terms of a package to provide for a developing experience and ends pretty much in the same way as the first by rigging itself for a part 3 (apparently already confirmed by Krasinski)
Minor disappointed with this one, but still it maintains suspense like the first one.
This is like Woody Allen on mushrooms.
Typical talkie movie trying to emulate works like said Allen and some David Lynch. No sense..
Kaufman has a twisted mind..
A movie that establishes little and concludes nothing. Part movie / part documentary in execution.
McDormand trods along the desolate US highways in a beat up van which is her home while struggling to get money to keep it rolling.
I would skip this and see "Into The Wild" from 2007 if you have not already. It draws similarities but focuses less on chasing money but more on digging deeper into the characters, and is much better in my opinion.
Frances McDormand has been going strong lately, but she is being awfully typecast. She seems to be hired to play old, grumpy women with a distaste for society (Three Billboards, Olive Kitteridge etc)
Was expecting much but was left mildly disappointed.
