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The crown jewel of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival (James McAvoy) to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.
Charlize Theron was one bad ass mofo in this movie. She was perfectly cast as a female Jason Bourne type. The action was great. The spy stuff was great. The pacing was great. This movie was a very fun ride and the 80s soundtrack was awesomely worked in to the different moods on screen at that time.
I would definitely recommend peeps checking this out. It was a very enjoyable watch and a hell of a ride of action.
Hidden within the messaging app is Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favorite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone’s user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression – except for Gene (T.J. Miller), an exuberant emoji who was born without a filter and is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become “normal” like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 (James Corden) and the notorious code breaker emoji Jailbreak (Anna Faris). Together, they embark on an epic “app-venture” through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the Code that will fix Gene. But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it’s deleted forever.
The unfortunate thing for this movie is that animated movies have stepped up their game so much with Pixar & Dreamworks pretty much leading the way that adults enjoy them just as much (if not more) than the kids. That being said - we can sometimes lose sight of the general idea that these movies are technically for kids. This movie has been the worst reviewed movie of the year. And it very much was a mess of a movie in every way . . . . . For adults. Thats the part that a lot of these critics shot right past. Kids will most likely love or at the very least enjoy this movie. The parents that take them and will want to go to sleep for the movie. I did for a chunk of it. But just grin and take it for the children, it will be over soon enough and they will be glad they saw it.
The movie was definitely garbage but . . . . I didnt think it was as bad as hyped and the kids still liked it. That's really all that is supposed to matter with this. Adults seeing it without kids? You should hard pass on that!
A typical afternoon in the park turns into a nightmare for single mom Karla Dyson (Academy Award winner Halle Berry) when her son suddenly disappears. Without a cell phone and knowing she has no time to wait for police help, Karla jumps in her own car and sets off in pursuit of the kidnappers. A relentless, edge-of-your seat chase ensues, where Karla must risk everything to not lose sight of her son.
How was this a full length movie? Better question - how the hell has Halle Berry fallen this far? It wasn't too long ago that she was a top actress in Hollywood, right? Now she is in what should be straight to DVD movie or an extended Criminal Minds episode. This is pretty much a giant waste of time and you have pretty much seen it by watching the commercial.
I wouldn't recommend anyone bother with this. Really don't understand how this was made at all.
In War for the Planet of the Apes, the third chapter of the critically acclaimed blockbuster franchise, Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
This movie was great just like the other ones. It really is amazing how they make the apes seem like such fluid and normal characters. And the fact that they develop the apes over the course of the franchise like they are legit actors is even more impressive. You feel for this apes that you have been watching for three movies now and you get excited about new additions - especially Bad Ape. That one had me laughing out loud so many times during this movie. The only knock I'll make against this movie is that in the grand scheme of things it just felt like a long isolated battle. It didn't feel like another chapter in this progressing story as much as the other two did. It just kind of felt like well let's fight this group of humans now. Not sure if that makes sense or not but it just seemed to be lacking a little bit of a hook that the other movies had. It was also way too long considering what I just said above. Sorry - that was two knocks.
I would still recommend people check this movie out - especially if you are fans of the franchise. It is a very enjoyable watch even if it kind of lacked as much substance as the others.
Dunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.
Wow! This was one hell of an intense war movie from beginning to end. And it was done in such an engulfing your senses way that you feel like you are there through all the chaos. No time for a "story" or for character development. Honestly, I don't even remember a single characters name. And it didn't matter. You were just there with these soldiers trying so desperately to survive through three different stories/vantage points that all eventually converge. Christopher Nolan truly is the genius filmmaker of this generation.
I would absolutely recommend that everyone check this out. It's easily the best war movie I've seen since Saving Private Ryan and is a lock for one of the best movies of the year.
In the 28th century, Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha—an ever-expanding metropolis where species from all over the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence and cultures with each other. There is a mystery at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.
Yikes. I had given this movie the benefit of the doubt hoping that it would be somewhat like The Fifth Element - a totally off the wall movie from years ago that I will still watch all the time as one of the ultimate guilty pleasure movies. It was ridiculously bad though. I pulled the plug halfway through because of how not enjoyable this movie was in every way. Characters - poop. Story - poop. Pacing - poop. Even the visual spectacle of it which should have been enough to carry the movie by itself? Poop.
I would not recommend anyone bother wasting their time or money on this one. This will end up being one of the worst movies of the year I'm pretty sure.
In the latest thriller from the director of Annabelle, 17-year-old Clare Shannon (Joey King) is barely surviving the hell that is high school, along with her friends Meredith (Sydney Park) and June (Shannon Purser). So when her dad (Ryan Phillippe) gifts her an old music box with an inscription that promises to grant the owner's wishes, she thinks there is nothing to lose. Clare makes her first wish and, to her surprise, it comes true. Before long, she finally has it all: money, popularity and her dream boy. Everything seems perfect - until the people closest to her begin dying in gruesome and twisted ways. Now, with blood on her hands, Clare has to get rid of the box, before it costs her and everyone she loves the ultimate price.
This movie was beyond formula. If you see the trailer you have pretty much seen the movie. That being said - it was still kind of enjoyable. It was like a Final Destination kind of twist with the way that they teased the deaths to come and the story was told quickly and easily enough that it didn't drag and get boring like a lot of recent horror movies like this.
I would kind of recommend peeps checking this out. It's a pretty decent watch even though you know every little thing that is going to happen from beginning to end.
A young Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tom Holland), who made his sensational debut in Captain America: Civil War, begins to navigate his newfound identity as the web-slinging super hero in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, Peter returns home, where he lives with his Aunt May (Marisa Tomei), under the watchful eye of his new mentor Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.). Peter tries to fall back into his normal daily routine – distracted by thoughts of proving himself to be more than just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man – but when the Vulture (Michael Keaton) emerges as a new villain, everything that Peter holds most important will be threatened.
This was easily the best Spider-Man movie to date. It easily knocked Spider-Man 2 (the one with Doc Ock) out of the top spot. They didn't insult us with the third take on the origin since we have already sat through that twice in the last 15 years pretty much. They picked right up where Captain America: Civil War left off and tied it in to that in a truly hilarious way. Tom Holland is beyond perfectly cast as Peter Parker. Michael Keaton was awesome as the villain. All side characters were given a good amount of development time and have a ton of room to grow as this franchise continues. The writing was funny as hell and combined with the excellent direction made the movie play out so well that in the modern day where spoilers and plot points are given out months in advance this movie actually made me yell out HOLY $HIT twice by catching me off guard along with the rest of the audience. Cannot do justice to how impressive that was to me.
I recommend that everyone check this movie out. I've always been a huge Spidey fan and this met and far exceeded all expectations of it. This again is the best Spidey movie so far and definitely a top 5 - if not top 3 - Marvel movie to date.
The Beguiled is an atmospheric thriller from acclaimed writer/director Sofia Coppola. The story unfolds during the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school. Its sheltered young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.
What a snoozer. It was advertised as this creepy build up kind of movie but the payoff was beyond weak. And honestly, the build up to it was nothing that you had not seen in the trailer. Honestly, I felt like I had seen the entire movie already just by watching the commercial. This is just another log on the fire of Sophia Coppola being so loved by critics and me not understanding why whatsoever.
I would not recommend anyone waste their time checking this out. There really is no reason this was made or no point for you to take the 90 minutes to watch it.
Based on the real-life courtship: Pakistan-born comedian Kumail and grad student Emily fall in love, but they struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail must navigate the crisis with her parents and the emotional tug-of-war between his family and his heart.
I did not know until the end that this was based on a real-life couple. Even before finding that out, this was one of the most real feeling movies I have seen in a while. You get hooked by all the chemistry between the characters and with all the movies that try so hard to be all out comedies - this one didn't but was easily one of the funnier movies of the year. Just the awkwardness of some of the conversations and being honest about them had me belly laughing at so many points.
I would absolutely recommend people checking this one out. It was a very enjoyable watch with a great story and family dynamics.
