Boring, forgettable. This movie assumes that you can relate to one of the overdramatized characters. There's good actors in it, but the movie just goes in circles, and it's entirely predictable.
If you're going to do a sequel, go all out, and this did! It's incredibly quirky, but it's good to see returning characters, including M3GAN obviously. It seems totally superficial on the surface, but there's some deep themes here. It utilizes a lot of lessons from SyFy with similar premises, but gives it levity. Think of this as a the Mega Man X to the original Mega Man.
Danny Boyle is an incredibly good director. This story, however, is only slighter better than the overly praised "The Witch" & "Hereditary". At least Danny can put some life and some levity into his films.
Originally, I considered this movie to be a 5 1/2 or a 6, but watch it more than once. Pay attention to the details. Paul Mezcal is a terrific actor, and he's the highlight of the movie. This is NOT the same movie as the first, and that's a good thing. Joaquin Phoenix really stole the show in the first film, and that was nearly impossible to top, but it doesn't mean this movie doesn't have its merits. The stakes and the moral of the film are on a very different level here. Peter Mensah & Pedro Pascal are very welcome additions to this movie.
April O'Neil. Donatello. Raphael. Michelangelo. Splinter. Why is it that these characters become more extreme, with each iteration? Sarcastic Raphael is still more interesting than enraged Raph. Donatello doesn't need glasses to be the smartest of the bunch. Michelangelo doesn't need to be a baby to be funny. Splinter has become useless mostly, and when he's not, he's a blatant Yoda ripoff, instead of being his own character, as he was in the first few iterations. And then, there's April. She went from a go-getem, adult redhead to a chunky, teenager, socially awkward as Hell. There used to be some eye candy on-screen, now it's a bunch of poorly-drawn/animated slapsticks.
We all know that Kyle Katarn stole the plans to the Death Star. Krennic is obnoxious, uninteresting, Andor the same. This film has terrible music (tries to copycat John Williams, terribly!), and it's full of throwaway characters. There's some bright spots, like Chirrut, K2-SO, but the need to continually tell us what planet we're looking at; that just shows how piecemeal and unintuitive this film is.
This is where it's at; there was never a need for a remake. This isn't something David would have normally created, but it's such a bizarre science fiction anyhow, one that can easily bore most people. When you add the amount of color and craziness that Lynch brings, it makes for a better experience!
The only good thing about this movie is Kyle MacLachlan, and his character was poorly written. If you're looking for a fresh, new Fletch movie, this ain't it.
This film slogged along, never becoming interesting. If this is horror, then Ghostbusters is a romantic drama.There's little engaging about this movie. I watched the film, just waiting and waiting for something interesting to happen. As it turns out, a movie about speculation isn't all that interesting.
There's one raw, pure emotion that I took away from this film, and that's my undeniable faith in Christ, in God. Even before I experienced what my friends and I called a miracle, I chose to believe. No one in my family EVER pushed religion on me. Of course Jesus would seem like a threat. The best part is that He got the last laugh, yet he forgave and prayed for some of the most evil humans in the history of this planet.
Harrison Ford proves that, at 77 (Indy Jones years) can still keep up with the best of them, just like my grandfather did, until he was 86. Anyone who suggests that he should retire the character itself is ageist, which is the new, acceptable form of prejudice, and it's downright ridiculous. The story was incredible, the acting superb, and really, what else is needed from an Indiana Jones movie?
This is better than Temple of Doom, by a mile, but it falls very short of the perfect Last Crusade. It's an interesting start. It's a shame that Temple of Doom had to ruin it. The series would be fine without the second film.
Every time I watch this, it somehow gets worse! It's just a bunch of gross-out crap and close calls, like just about every 80s action/horror/adventure movie. The story is uninteresting, the characters, boring, and it's not funny in the least. Indiana Jones starts to get good during The Last Crusade.
A parody of a biopic? Eh, it was funny for about five minutes, and then it just became another movie focusing on 80s nostalgia, of which the film and TV industry has had enough! At least we got to see some Colombians die!
Ripoff Friday the 13th Part V and Scream and BAM, you've got Halloween 13. I actually felt bad for Michael in this film, which is weird, because he's not a sympathetic character, in the least. The ending was bizarre, especially considering how he's supposedly indestructible. So basically, the first 3/4 of the movie was a mashup of Friday the 13th: A New Beginning/Scream, and the last bit was Friday the 13th Part IX.
