Cool effects in both sound and visual, decent acting for a jarhead movie, but sadly zero thoughts were given to the authenticity of the action. The moments bullets start flying or stuff explodes the movie enters nonsensical anime territory with unbreakable tires or soldiers hanging out the door to fire their AR-15 at an alien machine that literally survived crashing on Earth. This makes friendly losses feel stupid and worthless rather than galvanizing.
So much "toxic masculinity"! I love it! Not super original, but a well-executed plot twist with actual men doing their job thanks to some awesome female supporting characters.
Not the worst Nia DaCosta crime against good cinema (The Marvels got that covered), but average at best. Strong characters pull the Bone Temple out of the muck, but overall its held back by the absolutely abysmal prequel.
Easily the best horror movie coming out in recent years. Not a high bar by any means, but 'Weapons' took it with ease. I really enjoyed the well-paced built up suspense with a gloriously satisfying finish.
A Jack Black movie starring Jack Black as Jack Black. That's really all there is to it. You've seen one Jack Black movie with Jack Black playing Jack Black, you've seen all Jack Black movies with Jack Black playing as himself. Jack Black.
Its another James Cameron screensaver with a plot thinner than ice in the desert. Back in the day the first movie was a cinematic experience, but today all the fancy CGI phases no one anymore. Bring some energy drinks if you wish to stay awake throughout the entire movie.
Two of the most insufferable "actresses" of our time singing together is pure agony and should be shown in Guantanamo, not our cinemas. All they accomplish here is to ruin a favorite story from my childhood.
More of a comedy than a horror film. There were a few moments in the tunnels that had the right mix of claustrophobia and dread, but they were few. The dude is more like a comedy relief character than an actual person.
This movie knowsexactly what it is, a bloody zombie film with lots of great martial arts action and a brooding protagonist on a mission to rescue his future wife. Fun twist, the apocalypse already happened, long before the zombies arrive. A fresh new take on an old genre from Thailand (!) that proves once again why the collapse of Hollywood is irrelevant.
Ok, I get it, its a BDSM chick flick, but they played that theme so well that I actually watched the whole trilogy in one day as a straight guy. And they didn't disappoint, because the whole damn thing ends like a Jason Bourne movie. Haters gonna hate, but Dakota Johnson peaked in this movie, and Mr. Grey, whom I hated in the first film, evolved into a likeable character. Its the classic "I can fix him"-story, but its done well and deserves recognition.
I'm a guy and I skipped out on these movies because of all the bad PR it got, but I was wrong. It's actually a fun ride most of the time. Dakota Johnson is absolutely stunning in her performance, switching seamlessly from innocent wallflower to badass negotiator. She is also one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Tastes are a very personal matter, of course, but the way she carries herself in all the explicit scenes really wants you to rush in there and kick Mr. Grey's ass. And not because of the BDSM scenario, that's fine, but Christian Grey is just a really badly written character. A loser, who earned nothing himself and lived as some older woman's **** for 8 years. Now he takes it out on young college students. 15 before Ana, by his counting. Considering that he just got out of his **** status a short while ago, he must have abused them on a conveyor belt to rack up that number. So yeah, I kept watching because of Dakota Johnson's performance, but Mr. Grey is just a paperdoll with a message printed on it.
One of the better game adaptations with two very good main actors giving everything in their roles. It passes the time and leaves you with a satisfying ending, even though the whole Russian plot feels very cheesy.
This film is the definition of "meh". It doesn't do anything wrong, but it doesn't try anything interesting either. A run-of-the-mill superhero flick that you've seen a dozen times before.
I see Jack Black, I usually run the other way, but I'm a big fan of Jason Momoa ever since Stargate Atlantis. Or rather, I was a big fan of Jason Momoa. No idea how much they paid him, but I hope it was enough to retire. The guy is dead to me now.
Okay disaster flick with a good cast and decent production values, held back by the diabetic kid serving as a cheap and predictable emotional attachment.
First time I heard people talk about proper pronouns in a movie and didn't cringe! Freaky is quite predictable, but exceptionally well acted. A joy to watch from start to finish.
Please keep hiring the insufferable Mark Ruffalo, the male version of Rachel Zegler. It saves me a lot of money over time. You also thought the elections would go the other way, didn't you?
An impressive monster movie with a serious plot its peers are often lacking. The special effects are top notch for its budget and put Hollywood to shame. However, the occasional overacting and the strange reason for nobody coming to Japan's aid soured the experience for me slightly. The ending made up for almost all of it though.
Ah, poor Daisy. You started so high and then fell so low. And now you're dragging Clive Owen down with you, whom I've been a big fan of since Privateer 2. Cleaner is yet another feminist power fantasy trying to copy an original male hero, in this case Bruce Willis from Die Hard. And just like so many that came before Cleaner, it failed on every level.
Interesting premise ruined by a lackluster script and terrible production values, that even the A-lister cast couldn't save. I love Natalie Dormer since The Tudors, and she acted her heart out here, but couldn't fix the bad writing.
For the longest time this movie feels like a "Scary Movie" knock-off, but it develops some charme thanks to Jenna Ortega and a once again stunning Emily Alyn Lind. Don't come here expecting high-brow entertainment and you won't be disappointed.
A confusing mess of flashbacks and new actors having a hard time adapting to their role, accompanied by even less horror. It's the Disney+ sequel of the first movie. If James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain can't save your script, its just a really bad script.
Its basically a less violent, less suspenseful, less interesting and more cringe version of Stranger Things. I've never read any of Stephen King's books, but if this is close to them, I don't understand the hype. I did like that the fat kid got to kiss the girl, though.
Not the worst Alien movie ever, Covenant can rest easy and keep that well-deserved rank at the bottom of the barrel. I liked the attention to set detail, creating a believable world between the first and second Alien movie. Using a bunch of kids with a chip on their shoulders feels odd at first, but they aren't nearly as hormonal or immature as I feared. The ridiculous amount of memberberries got annoying real fast tho, and was a major source of cringe for me. Overall, however, I enjoyed this film version of Alien: Isolation. The quality bar on Alien movies isn't very high, hence Alien: Romulus takes it with ease, but leaves room for improvement.
Mulan begins as a girlboss and ends as a girlboss. No hero's journey, no learning the art of fighting or growing as a person. The message is clear: "You are perfect the way you were born." Way to teach young girls that ambition is a pointless trait, Disney. I also find it hard to accept that a western multi-billion dollar company can thank chinese concentration camps for their assistance in film production and not face the consequences. I'm not asking for the communist purges of the 60's, but this is just ridiculous.
A story thinner than the moon's athmosphere, characters as interesting as week-old bread, some pretty but boring vistas and final proof of creative bankruptcy of a formerly well-respected director.
The movie takes established lore as a suggestion at best, but still manages to create a colorful fantasy adventure with interesting characters, impressive setpieces and some good humor. As a Warcraft fan since the first RTS game, I enjoyed it.
A terrifying film with an unapologetic take on the foolishness of religion and superstition. Anya Taylor-Joy is a joy to watch (no pun intended), but Ralph Ineson takes the crown with his incredible voice. You may know him from the Diablo 4 trailer.
This movie is a happy accident in the otherwise abysmal reign of Disney Star Wars under Kathleen Kennedy. It perfectly links the prequels to the original trilogy, filling the giant plot hole of "just hit the exhaust port, Luke" as best as possible. Jyn Erso and Cassian make for a great lead couple, supported by a fantastic side cast, immortalized by an epic finale like no other. If only all of Disney Star Wars were like this.
Chris Hemsworth stealing the show of an already stunning Anya Taylor-Joy in a fun ride through Miller's Wasteland, even though he somehow managed to get his wife two roles in the same movie. Maybe they needed the money. Anyway, nobody asked for a Mad Max that "no longer needs Mad Max", as IGN foolishly put it, years after the Fury Road hype died off. The CGI was also overused and severely lacking in quality. It is no surprise that Furiosa will go down in history as one of the best flops of cinema history.
A very realistic display of the horrors religion has cast upon humanity for millenia in the name of imaginary friends, with a stunning performance by Sydney Sweeny, but a rather weak side cast.
I don't even know what this film is trying to show. It certainly isn't a civil war or a collapsing society. The empty cities are from the Walking Dead and the deserted "refugee camps" that looked more like relaxed camping sites with weed and booze. Watch Children of Men instead.
Not as good as 'Train to Busan', but those are hard shoes to fill. The bad guys were the lowest point and seemed like typical western film style caricatures of evil.
The pregnant lady didn't go into labour five minutes into the apocalypse. I didn't know that was possible. Every western zombie flick taught us otherwise.
Boring and full of cliché characters, half of which ended up in The Walking Dead. It's one of those movies in which noone has ever seen a horror film and therefore they all act against their own interests. It's an old 'rule' for mediocre writers, to dumb down their characters so the audience feels elevated.
