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Inspired by true events, Snitch stars Dwayne Johnson as a father whose teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years. Desperate and determined to rescue his son at all costs, he makes a deal with the U.S. Attorney to work as an undercover informant and infiltrate a drug cartel on a dangerous mission- risking everything, including his family and his own life.
This was a decent watch. I mean, how could a movie with The Rock not be, right? Seriously though, it did a good job of juggling parents, the legal system, the war on drugs, and hoodlum activity very well. And it really put a scare in to pretty much any parent watching about how one stupid move by your kids can really explode into something and how far would you be willing to go to protect your kids. It was also a big change of pace for The Rock because it's not like he went all Rock Bottom on everyone's asses. He was a scared parent trying to protect his kid. The dude had to actually act in this and he was pretty convincing.
I would recommend people checking this out. It's not a must see by any means, but it's an enjoyable and short watch that definitely hooks the viewer and keeps your attention.
Dark Skies is a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly unravels. When it becomes clear that the Barret family is being targeted by and unimaginably terrifying and deadly force, Daniel and Lacey take matters in their own hands to solve the mystery of what is after their family.
I don't know why but I thought this movie was going to be more of a ghost story than an alien thing. So I was kind of thrown off throughout the movie. There were still a bunch of points where stuff made you jump and there was a pretty good build up. Unfortunately, the movie kind of ended flat. Well, I shouldn't say that. It ended in a take what you want from it type of thing instead of a straight forward wrap up type of thing that I was expecting.
I would somewhat recommend people checking this out. I think that I was kind of disappointed because I had expectations for a very different kind of movie.
A supernatural love story set in the South, Beautiful Creatures tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers: Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), a young man longing to escape his small town, and Lena (Alice Englert), a mysterious new girl. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town.
This was a very Twilight-esque story with much more substance. I liked the story, the actors and how it was developed. Unfortunately, I feel like they kept trying to develop it after we were already good to go for the ending and what not. If this were a 90 minute movie instead of 120 minutes I probably would have liked it a lot more. The extra 30 minutes made it start to go more in to the Twilight realm with the same thing being said over and over again by the two main characters.
I would somewhat recommend people checking this out. Its not a must see by any means but if you are the type that enjoyed the Twilight series or movies like that - you would probably like this as well.
A story about a young woman's struggle to love again, Safe Haven is based on the novel from Nicholas Sparks, the best-selling author behind the hit films "The Notebook" and "Dear John." When a mysterious young woman arrives in a small North Carolina town, her reluctance to join the tight knit community raises questions about her past. Slowly, she begins putting down roots, and gains the courage to start a relationship with Alex, a widowed store owner with two young children. But dark secrets intrude on her new life with such terror that she is forced to rediscover the meaning of sacrifice and rely on the power of love in this deeply moving romantic thriller.
This was a pretty decent chick flick. It was a textbook romance story with a little Sleeping With The Enemy stuff thrown in there for drama. You care about the characters. There was good build up to the romance and they made it seem very realistic with the kids factor part of it. Surprisingly, no main characters die or struggle with a horrible disease like in pretty much all other Nicholas Sparks movies. In all honesty, he spared the audience the usual getting choked up until a reveal at the very end of the movie.
I would recommend couples going to check this out. I doubt that the ladies will be disappointed and the guys will get the bonus points for taking them. Just saying.
The animated family comedy catapults movie goers to planet Baab where admired astronaut Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser) is a national hero to the blue alien population. A master of daring rescues, Scorch pulls off astonishing feats with the quiet aid of his nerdy, by-the-rules brother, Gary (Rob Corddry), head of mission control at BASA. When BASA's no-nonsense chief Lena (Jessica Alba) informs the brothers of an SOS from a notoriously dangerous planet, Scorch rejects Gary's warnings and bounds off for yet another exciting mission. But when Scorch finds himself caught in a fiendish trap set by the evil Shanker (James Gandolfini), it's up to scrawny, risk-adverse Gary to do the real rescuing. As the interplanetary stakes rise to new heights, Gary is left to save his brother, his planet, his beloved wife Kira (Sarah Jessica Parker) and their adventure hungry son Kip.
That was way too long winded of a synopsis for a basic kids movie. This movie was just kind of there. It wasn't necessarily bad but wasn't anything that I would be pushing anyone to see. It's basically going to benefit simply because its the first kids movie that has come out in almost 2 months and has another month before anything else comes out. The movie is basically a watered down version of Mosters Vs. Aliens.
I wouldn't really recommend anyone rushing to see this. It's a somewhat decent watch for a kids movie but they could have done more with it for the adults that have to watch it with the aforementioned kids.
Since the first Die Hard in 1988, John McClane has found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, with the skills and attitude to always be the last man standing, making him enemy #1 for terrorists the world over. Now, McClane faces his greatest challenge ever, this time on an international stage, when his estranged son Jack is caught up in the daring prison escape of a rogue Russian leader, and father and son McClane must work together to keep each other alive and keep the world safe for democracy.
There are certain franchises in Hollywood that have totally run their course and I really wish that they would just stop. Die Hard is NOT one of them. I will gladly keep watching these movies if they decide to keep going. Sure Bruce Willis is getting older but I'm still buying him in these movies. Adding his son to the mix made it pretty fresh and they didn't waste time with too much of a story. It just kind of took right off and the action was great. This is a great movie for what it's supposed to be.
I would definitely recommend fans of the franchise checking this out. It's more of the same enjoyable formula that all the entries bring to the screen.
Based on a graphic novel, Bullet to the Head tells the story of a New Orleans hitman (Stallone) and a DC cop (Kang) who form an alliance to bring down the killers of their respective partners.
This was awful. Just like with Arnold's latest, they are trying to just make the same cheesy movies that they made in the 80s because of The Expendables success. However, the movies in the 80s/90s weren't even close to this cheesy and a big part of The Expendables success is that even though the action is awesome and what not they don't come close to trying to take themselves serious with the movie. Honestly - there are parts where they are almost parodying these kinds of movies. This one had a serious tone to it and it just made all the action and dialogue atrocious. Some of Stallone's lines were downright painful.
I would absolutely not recommend that anyone bother with this movie. It is total garbage and a blatant waste of everyone's time. Dude should just stick to The Expendables franchise and accept that his time has passed.
Unlimited funds have allowed Diana (McCarthy) to live it up on the outskirts of Miami, where the queen of retail buys whatever strikes her fancy. There's only one glitch: The ID she's using to finance these sprees reads "Sandy Bigelow Patterson"... and it belongs to an accounts rep (Bateman) who lives halfway across the U.S.
With only one week to hunt down the con artist before his world implodes, the real Sandy Bigelow Patterson heads south to confront the woman with an all-access pass to his life. And as he attempts to bribe, coax and wrangle her the 2,000 miles to Denver, one easy target will discover just how tough it is to get your name back.
This movie was alot of fun. Bateman and McCarthy paired like this was casting genius. Their comedic abilities are perfectly complementary. The two actors also did a great job of being equal parts caring and vicious towards the other. You couldn't help but care about the storyline of both of them as you laughed your ass off numerous times. I do wish that they would have been a little vaguer in the commercial ads and not given away so many of the laughs but there were still plenty, right up to the end.
I would absolutely recommend people checking this movie out. Totally worth the time.
Side Effects is a thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily's psychiatrist (Jude Law) – intended to treat anxiety – has unexpected side effects.
This was a really good movie with good acting across the board. There was a great build up of suspense and the whole side effects of taking these kinds of pills was a realistic concern that was tapped well. I can't say too much without giving away too much but there were good twists and the story was paced very well. Side rant . . . . . Catherine Zeta Jones has had two really bad plastic surgeries. She has something done with the end of her lips that make them pull up so she looks kind of like the Joker and her eyebrow lifts make it look like she is constantly giving The Rock's people's eyebrow. Very werid and I clearly couldn't stop focusing on that. Okay - I'm done now. Had to put that out there. Wait - there was another . . . . and it's one I've done before. Why does Steven Soderberg insist on all his movies having a yellow tint to them? It wasn't there at first and then showed up and stayed for the rest of the movie. It's as if someone peed all over the lens and it was then filmed with that stain on there. Okay. Now I'm really done. Feel much better now. Thanks.
I would definitely recommend that people check this movie out. It was a very tight and factually based story about a major issue in society with all the pill popping and how it can all be manipulated and what not.
Building on the terror of A Haunting in Connecticut, this horrifying tale traces a young family’s nightmarish descent into a centuries-old Southern hell. When Andy Wyrick moves his wife Lisa and daughter Heidi to an historic home in Georgia, they quickly discover they are not the house’s only inhabitants. Joined by Lisa’s free-spirited sister, Joyce, the family soon comes face-to-face with a bone-chilling mystery born of a deranged desire…a haunting secret rising from underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.
This movie was pretty much garbage because it has NOTHING to do with The Haunting In Connecticut. Seriously. No story connection. No ghost connection. The movie doesn't even take place there. It's in Georgia. Besides the fact that the story and the "frights" were lame as hell, I just sat there the whole time yelling "what does this have to do with The Haunting In Connecticut!?!
This movie was total garbage. I have never seen a more senseless use of the number 2 on a sequel. Unless they were just trying to warn us that this movie is a steaming pile of number 2?
Set in America in the years following World War II, a charismatic intellectual (Philip Seymour Hoffman) launches a faith-based organization and taps a young drifter (Joaquin Phoenix) as his right-hand man. But as the faith begins to gain a fervent following, the onetime vagabond finds himself questioning the belief system he has embraced, and his mentor.
What a weird, weird movie. Paul Thomas Anderson is another one of those directors that critics love no matter what he does but I end up watching his movies with that confused dog, tilted head face the whole time. Again as with most of the movies that came out in 2012 - the acting was great. I mean, outside of Daniel Day-Lewis, I don't know if there is a better actor in terms of fully engrossing himself in the character than Joaquin Phoenix. There were many times where I started to really get in to this movie and the cult following type of stuff but then it kind of swerved off track and the annoyingly over the top score ended up just turning me off from the movie that much more.
I don't know that anyone should go off of my recommendation on this one. This is one of those movies for me where you heard so much good about it that you end up watching it questioning why people would say it was so good. I wasn't a very big fan of it though.
A funny new twist on a classic love story, Warm Bodies is a tale about the power of human connection. After a zombie epidemic, R (a highly unusual zombie) encounters Julie (a human survivor), and rescues her from a zombie attack. Julie sees that R is different from the other zombies, and as the two form a special relationship in their struggle for survival, R becomes increasingly more human – setting off an exciting, romantic, and often comical chain of events that begins to transform the other zombies and maybe even the whole lifeless world.
This movie was really enjoyable simply because it was a totally different take on the constant flood of zombie movies/shows. Not that I am sick of them. I tend to like most zombie movies/shows. But this one was a much lighter take and it ended up being very entertaining simply because of it's "originality". It basically played out like a zombie version of Romeo & Juliet.
I would definitely recommend people checking this movie out. Its well paced, original and funny all at the same time.
