John Carter

John Carter is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.

This is a decent/watchable movie.  It is REALLY sci-fi. Probably a little too much.  It would have been better if he wasn't a civil war veteran that randomly gets sent to Mars . . . . . like maybe just have it take place on Mars.  The mix of the two didn't really work for me.  The action and effects were cool but I actually think that this movie was held back from being something much better by being waaaaaaay too over the top across the board. 

I would somewhat recommend people checking this out.  Again - it's not a bad movie but it could have been so much better if it wasn't overly produced in every way.

Good Deeds

A successful, wealthy businessman, Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry) has always done what's expected of him, whether it's assuming the helm of his father's company, tolerating his brother's misbehavior at the office or planning to marry his beautiful but restless fiance, Natalie (Gabrielle Union). But Wesley is jolted out of his predictable routine when he meets Lindsey (Thandie Newton), a down-on-her-luck single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building. When he offers to help her get back on her feet, the chance encounter with someone so far outside his usual circle ignites something in Wesley. This one good deed may finally spark his courage to exchange the life that's expected of him for the life he's always really wanted.

This is pretty much just another one of Tyler Perry's non-Madea movies.  A lot of hardship and personal drama and characters working through it all.  I know that I sound blah saying that, but I don't mean it that way at all.  It's just that they are all pretty formula and melodramatic, but I also find them pretty watchable.  I enjoyed this movie.  Not in a way that I would say it's a must see, but just that it wasn't painful to have on while getting stuff done around the house and what not.

I would lukewarmly recommend people checking this out.  It's not a must see again by any means, but there are much crappier things you could waste your time watching.

Act Of Valor

When a mission to recover a kidnapped CIA operative unexpectedly results in the discovery of an imminent, terrifying global threat, an elite team of highly trained Navy SEALs must immediately embark on a heart-stopping secret operation, the outcome of which will determine the fate of us all.

This movie is pretty much nothing more than a movie version of a video game.  They decided to try and capitalize on the XBOX Live thing with the Call Of Duty series.  That's really it.  There is a borderline story, with no actors and some cool action stuff.  Again - that's really it.  I was pretty much non-interested the whole time.

I would only recommend this to those of you that are addicted to Call Of Duty/Xbox Live.  Outside of that, there is no reason for any of you to waste your time with this.

The Lorax

The Lorax is an adaptation of the classic tale of a forest creature who shares the enduring power of hope. The animated adventure follows the journey of a 12-year-old as he searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.

This is kind of tough one to review.  It wasn't necessarily a bad movie because the animation was really good and there were laughs in there.  However, it might be the longest hour and half movie I have ever seen and to be quite honest I was bored out of mind for massive portions of the movie.  It ended up being a really long ad for taking care of the environment. 

I don't really know that I would recommend this movie.  At least not for adults I guess.  My niece that saw it with us loved it and I that is ultimately what matters with movies like this.  Sadly, this is one of those animated movies that really ends up being for the kids and the adults just kind of sit through it.  Ah . . . . .the joys of parenting.

Project X

Project X follows three seemingly anonymous high school seniors as they attempt to finally make a name for themselves. Their idea is innocent enough: let's throw a party that no one will forget... but nothing could prepare them for this party. Word spreads quickly as dreams are ruined, records are blemished and legends are born. Project X is a warning to parents and police everywhere.

This movie was essentially a home video camera version of Superbad.  The kid that lived in the house that the party was at was Michael Cera, his loud mouth friend was Jonah Hill and the fat sidekick was fat McLovin.  The movie itself was decent.  I liked the parts where the friends were riffing on each other and the parts of the story where the party was continuing to spiral out of control.  However, at least half of this movie was a music video with kids jumping up and down.  They literally did a part of the movie, you would get in to and laugh and what not and then there would be a 2-3 minute music video segment.  It kind of ruined the flow of the movie for me. 

I would somewhat recommend people checking this out.  I did like the party careening out of control but it was a little too repetitive/choppy for me.  I also would prefer movies like this not get made simply because having four kids I don't need stuff like this putting insane ideas in their heads.  Never leaving the house again.

Wanderlust

George (Rudd) and Linda (Aniston) are an overextended, stressed out Manhattan couple. After George is downsized out of his job, they find themselves with only one option: to move in with George's awful brother in Atlanta.  On the way there, George and Linda stumble upon Elysium, an idyllic community populated by colorful characters who embrace a different way of looking at things. Money? It can't buy happiness. Careers? Who needs them? Clothes? Only if you want them.  Is Elysium the fresh start George and Linda need? Or will the change of perspective cause more problems than it solves?  

I am shocked at how hilarious I found this movie.  I went in with pretty much zero expectations and laughed my a$$ off.  It's definitely a rated R movie since there is a ton of nudity - mostly male and a lot of the comedy was built on absurd sight gags and uncomfortable scenes going on for too long.  However, the delivery of Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux was also great.  I'm sure that it helps that I am a huge fan of Paul Rudd. 

I would definitely recommend people checking this out for a good laugh.  This was easily the funniest movie I've seen in a while.

Gone

In the thriller Gone, Jill Parrish (Amanda Seyfried) comes home from a night shift to discover her sister Molly has been abducted. Jill, having escaped from a kidnapping a year before, is convinced that the same serial killer has come back and taken Molly. Since the killer leaves no trace, the police don't have any evidence and can't help her. Afraid that Molly will be dead by sunrise, Jill sets out alone on a nail-biting chase to come face-to-face with the killer. Will she have enough time to find and outwit him, expose his secrets and save her sister?

Ugh. This was like going to a movie theater to watch one of those lame made for tv movies on lifetime or some other random cable network. The story is dull. Everyone overacts. You know how it's going to play out and you really don't care at all before the first twenty minutes are over.

I wouldn't recommend anyone wasting their time with this like I did. It's pretty much a big pointless turd.

Coriolanus

 Caius Martius 'Coriolanus' (Ralph Fiennes), a revered and feared Roman General is at odds with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens. Pushed by his controlling and ambitious mother Volumnia (Vanessa Redgrave) to seek the exalted and powerful position of Consul, he is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses whose votes he needs in order to secure the office. When the public refuses to support him, Coriolanus's anger prompts a riot that culminates in his expulsion from Rome. The banished hero then allies himself with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler) to take his revenge on the city.

This movie was absolutely awesome at the beginning.  I was completely not understanding how this got a quiet and limited release.  The action was great.  There was awesome tension build up between the two main guys.  And then all of a sudden they started talking.  And it was like really long, ancient Roman speeches with big words and seemed to go on forever kind of like this sentence.  It pretty much destroyed the movie for me.  Either have it be an Ancient Rome movie or have these two generals battle it out in modern times.  Doing a mashup of the two - not so good.

I wouldn't really recommend that anyone bother watching this.  I honestly couldn't take it anymore and pulled the plug halfway through.

Goon

Goon is the story of Doug Glatt (Scott), a dumb but loveable bar bouncer plucked from obscurity to be the enforcer for a minor league hockey team. In the tradition of great sports comedies like Slapshot, Goon delivers bone crunching action and laughs in equal measure.

This was a simple and funny sports movie.  I've never really been a big hockey fan but this was still enjoyable.  The pacing was good, the characters were a little over the top but still funny and as always in sports movies you get to root for the underdog.

I would somewhat recommend people checking this out.  It's not a must see by any means but a decent watch if it opens up in your area. 

Intruders

Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow (Clive Owen) after Farrow's beloved 13-year-old daughter Mia (Ella Purnell) is assaulted in their home. The line between the real and the imaginary blurs as fissures start to open within the family unit. It seems that no security measure can keep Hollow Face out.

A surprisingly watchable creeper with the whole psychological twist.  I had called it pretty early on but it was still well played out and it wasn't overly long.  Although Clive Owen was supposed to be the acting that carried the movie, I actually really liked the daughter.  She had to carry at least the first half plus of the movie and did a really admirable job. 

This movie is only opening limited so I don't know how many people will actually get a chance to see this, but it is kind of worth it for those of you looking for a good scare flick. 

This Means War

The world's deadliest CIA operatives are inseparable partners and best friends until they fall for the same woman. Having once helped bring down entire enemy nations, they are now employing their incomparable skills and an endless array of high-tech gadgetry against their greatest nemesis ever - each other.

This was a really fun movie.  It was short and tightly paced.  The three characters played awesomely off of each other.  The action was good.  The laughs were huge.  Chelsea Handler's one liners were perfect with the supporting friend character she played to Reese Witherspoon and both Chris Pine and Tom Hardy continue to get better with every role they are in. 

I would definitely recommend people watching this movie.  It's a fun, simple, forumla movie with great characters and banter.

Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance

Nicolas Cage reprises his role as Johnny Blaze in Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance. In this gritty new vision for the character, Johnny is still struggling with his curse as the devil's bounty hunter - but he may risk everything as he teams up with the leader of a group of rebel monks (Idris Elba) to save a young boy from the devil... and possibly rid himself of his curse forever.

Dearest lord in heaven this was awful. I wasn't expecting much. The first Ghost Rider took care of that. I loved this comic book when I was younger and was hoping that maybe they would make it better the second time around. At least the flaming skull effects looked better in the trailer. I was beyond wrong. About halfway through the movie, Stinka and I were BEGGING WW to leave. It just got worse and worse and she finally relented after they showed Ghost Rider peeing fire. I mean really? What in the blue hell made anyone think that was necessary?

This is pretty much a lock for Bottom 10 of 2012. Nobody should see this. Ever. Spare yourselves. And Hollywood - I am officially begging you now. Stop putting Nicolas Cage in movies. No good can come of doing this.

The Secret World Of Arriety

Arrietty (voice of Bridgit Mendler), a tiny, but tenacious 14-year-old, lives with her parents (voices of Will Arnett and Amy Poehler) in the recesses of a suburban garden home, unbeknownst to the homeowner and her housekeeper (voice of Carol Burnett). Like all little people, Arrietty (AIR-ee-ett-ee) remains hidden from view, except during occasional covert ventures beyond the floorboards to "borrow" scrap supplies like sugar cubes from her human hosts. But when 12-year-old Shawn (voice of David Henrie), a human boy who comes to stay in the home, discovers his mysterious housemate one evening, a secret friendship blossoms. If discovered, their relationship could drive Arrietty's family from the home and straight into danger.

This was a pretty enjoyable movie. Sure, it was Japanese animation which isn't really everyone's cup of tea. Yes, the voices were not completely in line with the mouth movements of the characters throughout the film. But the bottom line for me was that it was a good story - reminded me alot of the cartoon Monchichis from when I was a kid. You care about the characters and are invested enough to want to see how it plays out. 

I would somewhat recommend people checking this out. It's not a must see by any means but it was a pretty enjoyable watch for me.

Safe House

Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds star in the action-thriller  Safe House. Washington plays the most dangerous renegade from the CIA, who comes back onto the grid after a decade on the run. When the South African safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative (Reynolds) escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants them dead.

Now these kind of political suspense/intrigue movies I like.  As long as there is enough action (as well as not too many talky talky suits) to keep a story moving - I'm all in.  I like both actors regardless and they played surprisingly well off of each other.  At no point did I feel myself bored or not caring about where it was going to go.  This was a nice breath of fresh movie going after an atrocious month of January.

I would definitely recommend people checking this movie out.  It's a fun watch.

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

In this follow-up to Journey to the Center of the Earth, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island begins when 17-year-old Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson) receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist. It's a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather, Hank (Dwayne Johnson), joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter (Vanessa Hudgens), they set out to find the island, rescue its lone inhabitant and escape before seismic shockwaves force the island under the sea and bury its treasures forever.

This movie is exactly what you thought it would be.  A quick, no real story, creature effects heavy movie for young teens.  However, they put The Rock in it.  Therefore, it was much more watchable.  I absolutely love this guy and his going back and forth with Michael Caine and Luis Guzman was vintage stuff from his WWE days.  In terms of continuity - there really is none from the first movie.  I don't remember any explanation as to why Brandon Fraser wasn't in this or what happened post Journey 1, but I didn't care because The Rock was in it.

I would somewhat recommend this movie to anyone that was interested in it.  There are some scenes that might be a little too scary for little kids and it's overall a pretty cheesy movie.  However, The Rock is in it so that always makes everything better.

The Vow

Paige and Leo (Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum) are a happy newlywed couple whose lives are changed by a car accident that puts Paige in a coma. Waking up with severe memory loss, Paige has no memory of Leo, a confusing relationship with her parents (Sam Neill and Jessica Lange), and an ex-fiance (Scott Speedman) she may still have feelings for. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.

This movie was not nearly the massive waa-waa tear jerker that I thought it would be.  Honestly, I don't think that anyone got choked up at any point.  It was more of a character drama that is textbook predictable and somewhat watchable.  Wasn't great . . . . wasn't bad . . . . . it was decent and watchable - mostly because I like Rachel McAdams I guess in these types of roles.

I would somewhat recommend people checking this out.  It's a decent watch but nowhere near the level of must see stature of other chick flicks like The Notebook.

Chronicle

Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to them developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities, and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.

This was a surprisingly entertaining movie.  I say surprisingly because most of these catchy/home video camera type movies end up being great trailers and then garbage movies.  This movie definitely delievered.  It was super short, had a super simple story and the effects were awesome because of - again - how simple they were.  Imagine an X-Men movie without the crazy over the top explosions.  I really enjoyed it.

I would definitely recommend people checking this out.  It's a surprisingly fresh and short take on "superpower" movies.

The Woman In Black

The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe), who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client's papers. As he works alone in the client's isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true intent.

This was pretty good for one of those PG-13 creepy movies.  It took a little while to get there and the ending was a little bit eh, but the part with all the fright/creeps was more than good enough for me to enjoy the movie.  And it needs to be said how completely weird it is watching Harry Potter not play Harry Potter.  I give him kudos for picking a role to completely break out of that typecast, but it's going to take awhile. 

I would definitely recommend this movie to people into creepy/scary movies like this.  It has a decent story and the scares are good.

One For The Money

A proud, born-and-bred Jersey girl, Stephanie Plum's got plenty of attitude, even if she's been out of work for the last six months and just lost her car to a debt collector. Desperate for some fast cash, Stephanie turns to her last resort: convincing her sleazy cousin to give her a job at his bail bonding company... as a recovery agent. True, she doesn't even own a pair of handcuffs and her weapon of choice is pepper spray, but that doesn't stop Stephanie from taking on Vinny's biggest bail-jumper: former vice cop and murder suspect Joe Morelli - yup, the same sexy, irresistible Joe Morelli who seduced and dumped her back in high school.  Nabbing Morelli would be satisfying payback - and a hefty payday - but as Stephanie learns the ins and outs of becoming a recovery agent from Ranger, a hunky colleague who's the best in the business, she also realizes the case against Morelli isn't airtight. Add to the mix her meddling family, a potentially homicidal boxer, witnesses who keep dying and the problem of all those flying sparks when she finds Morelli himself... well, suddenly Stephanie's new job isn't nearly as easy as she thought.

This was a pretty crappy movie. I didn't expect much but I thought that the characters wouldn't be this cliche. I mean it was like drowning in lame dialogue and puns. And the slow pacing just made it that much mire painful. This is just another log on the fire of Katherine Heigl sucking.

I wouldn't recommend anyone bothering with the movies. I never read any of the books but I can't imagine them being this lame/cliche across the board.

Man On A Ledge

In the thriller, Man on a Ledge, Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) makes a desperate and life-threatening move to prove his innocence after he is framed for the theft of a rare, prized diamond. Recently escaped from prison and with nowhere else to go, Nick climbs onto the ledge of a towering skyscraper, inviting the eyes of New York City to anxiously watch as one wrong step could mean plunging to his death. But as one police negotiator soon learns, Nick's daredevil stunt, captivating the eyes of the public and media, masks a dangerous ploy to reveal the truth about his tarnished name.With the help of his brother and with time running out, Nick's intricate plan must work perfectly, but when you're on the 25th floor ledge of a building, going down takes on an entirely more hair-raising meaning. 

I really enjoyed this movie. Sure, you really need to shut off your brain to enjoy it because they pretty much tossed reality out the window. But the characters were interesting, the pacing was great, and the story played out well.

I would reccomend people checking this out. It's not a must see at all but was the most enjoyable movie I've seen in the movie release cesspool that is January.

The Grey

In The Grey, Liam Neeson leads an unruly group of oil-rig roughnecks when their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Battling mortal injuries and merciless weather, the survivors have only a few days to escape the icy elements and a vicious pack of rogue wolves on the hunt before their time runs out.

This movie was a pretty decent watch.  I have to be honest.  This is one of the most overadvertised movies I can ever remember and I'm so relieved that it's finally in theaters.  I feel like I have seen the trailer for this movie before every movie I've seen in the last 2-3 months.  As you can tell from the blog - that's ALOT of trailer views.  There were many, many times throughout the movie where I felt like I had already seen it because of how many times I viewed the trailer.  And the fact that it was one of those "you see the trailer - you've seen the movie" type of movies didn't really help either.  Regardless of my rant, the movie was definitely watchable from that struggling to survive type of mentality.  It was too melodramatic though and way too long.  If they could have cut this down to 90 minutes and more tension instead of the day dreaming stuff, I probably would have liked it a lot more. 

I would somewhat recommend this movie.  Again, it wasn't a necessarily bad watch, but if you've see the ads - you have seen the movie.

Joyful Noise

Joyful Noise is a story of music, hope, love and renewal. The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill (Latifah), stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, while the fiery G.G. Sparrow (Parton) thinks tried-and-true translates to tired-and-old. Shaking things up even more is the arrival of G.G.'s rebellious grandson, Randy (Jeremy Jordan). Randy has an ear for music, but he also has an eye for Vi Rose's beautiful and talented daughter, Olivia (Keke Palmer), and the sparks between the two teenagers are causing even more friction between G.G. and Vi Rose. If these two strong-willed women can put aside their differences for the good of the people in their town, they--and their choir--may make the most joyful noise of all.

This movie is the dictionary definition of just there.  I can't even really say it was terrible or ok because I honestly didn't care.  The version I saw had the last 20 minutes cut off and again - I didn't care.  I'm sure it all works out in the end since the movie was textbook from beginning to the end part I saw.  The only thing that I kep saying was Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah in a movie together?  Really?

I wouldn't recommend anyone wasting their time with this movie.  It's another pointless January release.

Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a story that unfolds from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in his deceased father's belongings sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open. A year after his father died in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls "The Worst Day," he is determined to keep his vital connection to the man who playfully cajoled him into confronting his wildest fears. Now, as Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs in quest of the missing lock - encountering an eclectic assortment of people who are each survivors in their own way - he begins to uncover unseen links to the father he misses, to the mother who seems so far away from him and to the whole noisy, dangerous, discombobulating world around him.

I still don't know what to think of this movie.  I loved the story as gut wrenching as it was.  I loved the journey of the kid and the different people he met and effected.  I loved the coming together towards the end with the kid and the mother.  However, I hated the kid.  I feel horrible saying that because A - he's a kid and B - look at what he went through in the context of the movie.  But - this was seriously one of the most annoying kids I've ever seen.  Did they have to make him so quirky?  If this is just a random kid doing this, this movie could have made my top ten.  Unfortunately, the weirdness of this kid made me want to punch someone in the face and definitely took away from the movie for me. 

I don't know that I would recommend people checking this out.  I'm baffled by the Best Picture nomination too.  Again - the story is great, but easily the most annoying child I've ever seen.

The Artist

Hollywood 1927. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. The Artist tells the story of their interlinked destinies.

This was a great throwback to silent movies.  I was not frustrated by the not talking at all and it kept my interest throughout.  However, I feel like that was the pull of the movie.  If this was a talking movie - it's poop.  It managed to cash in on it's one trick hook well enough for it to be an enjoyable movie.  I am having a problem though with how gaa-gaa people are for it.  Is this what we've come to?  Best picture nominations based on making a movie like they used to 80-90 years ago?  This really was a rough year I guess. 

I would definitely recommend people checking this one out.  Don't get me wrong. It is a very entertaining movie with the silent factor added in and I definitely enjoyed it.  I just am thrown off by the very high critical praise for it.

Red Tails

1944. World War II rages and the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. Meanwhile the black pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program are courageously waging two wars at once � one against enemies overseas, and the other against discrimination within the military and back home. Racial prejudices have long held ace airman Martin "Easy" Julian (Nate Parker) and his black pilots back at base - leaving them with little to do but further hone their flying skills - while their white counterparts are shipped out to combat after a mere three months of training. Mistakenly deemed inferior and assigned only second-rate planes and missions, the pilots of Tuskegee have mastered the skies with ease but have not been granted the opportunity to truly spread their wings. Until now.  As the war in Europe continues to take its dire toll on Allied forces, Pentagon brass has no recourse but to reconsider these under-utilized pilots for combat duty. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, Col. A.J. Bullard (Terrence Howard) awards them the ultimate chance to prove their mettle high above. Undaunted by the prospect of providing safe escort to bombers in broad daylight - a mission so dangerous that the RAF has refused it and the white fighter groups have sustained substantial losses - Easy's pilots at last join the fiery aerial fray. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies in a heroic endeavor to combat the enemy and the discrimination that has kept them down for so long.

Did you see how long winded that synopsis was?  The movie was equally long winded.  For something that was as simple as this movie basically is - there was no need for it to be 2 plus hours long.  They put so much time in to character development but there was not a single character that I cared about at all.  This was basically a chance for George Lucas to have actual planes in action scenes instead of the flying machines of the Star Wars universe.  And he's "been working on this for years".  Really?  Because the plane fight scenes seems to have the exact soundtrack as any space battle in Star Wars.  The bad guys sounded just like Tie fighters from the Empire.  I was basically waiting for the Red Tails leader to yell "Keep on target.  Stay on target". 

No - you should not see this.  Just like you pretty much shouldn't see any movie that is released in the month of January.  It was poop.  It was a very long poop. 

Haywire

In Haywire, a female covert ops specialist (Carano), who works in the deadly world of international operatives, strikes back after discovering she's been double-crossed by someone close to her in the agency.

I was very excited to see this movie.  There was a lot of good buzz about it and the trailer made it look pretty kick ass.  Maybe my heightened level of anticipation ruined it.  Maybe the game of hilarious commentary with me and my two friends ruined it.  Or maybe the movie actually was that bad.  I don't know why everyone loves Steven Soderbergh so much.  It's like because the cast of Ocean's 11 loves him so much, everyone wants to work with him.  There really is no reason for Michael Fassbender, Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas and even Channing Tatum to be in this movie.  It's pretty much a direct to dvd quality of movie.  The timeline was ridiculously choppy and pretty much destroyed any ability to really get in to the movie.  The fight scenes were supposed to be very genuine/real.  Well, apprantly I need to see some special effects in fighting because the fight scenes were boring as hell and seemed to be in slow motion.  And for my final rant - what is the deal with Soderbergh loving yellow tint.  He does this in almost all of his movies.  It's as if he either has a sheet of yellow cellophane over the camera lens or has actually peed on the lens and is shooting throught it after.  Everything is tinted.  It got to a point where I started pointing it out the whole time.  I was literally pointing at the screen non-stop.

No - you absolutely should not see this.  It's garbage and a total waste of time.  Unless you are a huge fan of the color yellow.  If that is the case - this is the greatest movie of all time.

Underworld: Awakening

Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species.

This movie is nothing more than another entry in a franchise that has made it's entire existence during the month of January because they know that there is nothing else out there.  The funniest part of this movie is that they had to do a "previously on" type of segment to remind us viewers what the story was from parts 1 and 2 since the last entry had nothing to do with it at all.  Like I said - it's just more of the same.  There are vampires.  There are Lycans (aka - werewolves).  They fight each other and the humans.  The end.

If you like the first two entries - this is just as watchable.   If you didn't or didn't see them - why in the world would you start watching these now?

The Descendants

From Alexander Payne, set in Hawaii, The Descendants is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King (George Clooney) an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.

This was a really great movie.  The performances were awesome and it all felt very genuine on an emotional level.  As twisted as it got sometimes, you believed in the character's decisions and ability to move past situations even with the feelings attached to them.  Would this be a favorite for Best Picture in any other year?  Probably not.  Can I see it being one this particular lame year?  Yes. 

I would definitely recommend people checking this movie out.  It's very well done across the board and is a deserving favorite for most of the year end awards.

Contraband

Chris Farraday (Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best--running contraband--to settle Andy's debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian (Ben Foster), to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills.  Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to successfully navigate a treacherous criminal network of brutal drug lords, cops and hit men before his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target.

I am still not sure how to feel about this movie. It was definitely a decent watch but I felt disappointed because of the amount of action that was advertised. The movie was more of a drama/intrigue type of movie than an action movie. Yet there really were not any curves you don't see coming so that kind of took away from that.

I would lukewarmly recommend this movie. It is a decent watch and I still can't wrap my head around Mark Wahlberg having become a legit actor. But I think I had higher expectations for it.

The Iron Lady

The Iron Lady is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.

This is one of those great autobiographical performanes. Meryl Streep is great as Margaret Thatcher. However, there isn't much more substance besides that. At least there wasn't for me. Maybe history buffs would be much more in to it. What I watched was a prominent historical figure going over the events of her life while trying to come to grips with her husband no longer being alive.

I would lukewarmly recommend this movie to people solely for Meryl Streep's performance. Outside of that, the movie is just kind of there.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The time is 1973. The Cold War of the mid-20th Century continues to damage international relations. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other countries' espionage efforts and to keep the U.K. secure. The head of the Circus, known as Control (John Hurt), personally sends dedicated operative Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) into Hungary. But Jim's mission goes bloodily awry, and Control is forced out of the Circus, as is his top lieutenant, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a career spy with razor-sharp senses.  Estranged from his absent wife Ann, Smiley is soon called in to see undersecretary Oliver Lacon (Simon McBurney); he is to be rehired in secret at the government's behest, as there is a gnawing fear that the Circus has long been compromised by a double agent, or mole, working for the Soviets and jeopardizing England. Supported by younger agent Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch), Smiley parses Circus activities past and present. In trying to track and identify the mole, Smiley is haunted by his decades-earlier interaction with the shadowy Russian spy master Karla.  The mole's trail remains cold until maverick field agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) unexpectedly contacts Lacon. While undercover in Turkey, Ricki has fallen for a betrayed married woman, Irina (Svetlana Khodchenkova), who claims to possess crucial intelligence. Separately, Smiley learns that Control narrowed down the list of mole suspects to five men. They are the ambitious Percy Alleline (Toby Jones), whom he had code-named Tinker; suavely confident Bill Haydon (Colin Firth), dubbed Tailor; stalwart Roy Bland (Ciar'n Hinds), called Soldier; officious Toby Esterhase (David Dencik), dubbed Poor Man; and Smiley himself.  Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on the players enmeshed in the deadly international spy game will escalate.

Was that summary confusing enough for you?  I am not going to lie. I didn't even finish watching this movie because I was so bored and had no clue what was going on. This kind of movie is so not my cup of tea. It's one of those political espionage movies with no action and it was just a whole lot of talky talky. These are second only to old english period pieces as far as killing my attention span.

My recommendation of this movie shouldn't matter. I'm sure that this is a good movie with good performances but I just didn't care at all.

The Devil Inside

In 1989, emergency responders received a 9-1-1 call from Maria Rossi (Suzan Crowley) confessing that she had brutally killed three people. 20 years later, her daughter Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) seeks to understand the truth about what happened that night. She travels to the Centrino Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Italy where her mother has been locked away to determine if her mother is mentally ill or demonically possessed. When she recruits two young exorcists (Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth) to cure her mom using unconventional methods combining both science and religion, they come face-to-face with pure evil in the form of four powerful demons possessing Maria.

This movie was not what was advertised. It was not a Paranormal Activity of exorcist movies. It wanted to be. It was advertised (very creepily well) as being so. But it absolutely was not. It was pretty much garbage. It was three creepy or exorcist scenes - which were all in the trailer - and a couple of people running around with a camera. There was pieces of a story thrown in there but they pretty much stopped following that after a while. And the movie just sort of ends. The theater I saw it in was packed and I can't remember the last time that an audience was so out loud pissed at a movie. I've never been happier to not be working at a theater anymore than being able to not deal with the backlash from people dropping money on this.

I wouldn't recommend anyone wasting 90 minutes of thier life on this. Ever. The crowd was near rioting at the end of this. That's how bad it was.

Young Adult

Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn't quite gotten over high school, either.

This is one of those movies where you hear so much about how great it was, especially the acting performance, and you watch it saying - Really?   I'm not saying the movie was terrible.  It was decent.  But Charlize Theron got all these rave reviews for playing a egomaniacal high school prom queen who never really moved on.  That doesn't seem like it would be too much of a stretch for any actress.  I actually liked Patton Oswalt a lot more than her in this movie. 

I would somewhat recommend people checking this movie out.  It's not a must see by any means.  There are much worse things out there than this decent character drama.  And it's super short. 

The Ten Best Movies Of 2011

Honorable Mention - Just Go With It

This movie had everything going against it.  I don't like Jennifer Aniston at all.  Adam Sandler movies are all the same.  Worst pairing of a couple ever in the two of them.  However, I was wrong on all counts and this movie had me laughing my a$$ off.  I thought maybe I was just surprised by really low expectations so I watched it again and still loved it just as much.  It's my favorite comedy of a year where there were a lot of high profile ones that failed to meet expectations for me.

10.  Insidious

This movie terrified me.  The movie wasn't gory.  The movie wasn't too hokey.  It used old school fear tactics and it paid off tremndously for the first 4/5 of the movie.  Then it was completely off the wall creepy for the last 1/5 of the movie.  Lost sleep after this one.

9.  Super 8

This movie felt like such a throwback to the movies when I was a kid that Stephen Spielberg used to churn out all the time.  Those adventure movies, usually with a cast of teenagers, against crazy odds and what not.  It's a shame that I've had to wait as long as I did for a movie like this and I still feel that it didn't get the respect that it deserved. 

8.  Fast Five

Nobody is more shocked than me that this movie is on my top ten list.  I'm basing this on adrenaline alone and this movie was just pure, fun, badass, adrenaline on film.  I've enjoyed the Fast & Furious franchise for the most part but bringing in The Rock with Vin Diesel was amazing.  I can't remember the last time that I sat in a theater where the whole audience was cheering throughout the movie like that.

7.  The Adjustment Bureau

I don't know why I loved this movie as much as I did.  I've watched it a ton of times and I still can't really explain it.  It really made me think about my beliefs in a higher power and what not and that we ultimately do control our own destinies no matter what.  Too deep?  Sorry.  Like I said - this movie has some ridiculous spot with me.

6.  The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

I loved the books and this was probably the second most looked forward movie for me this year because of the combination of the story and director David Fincher.  This guy is phenomenal across the board and this movie was no different.  His attention to detail brought the character of Lisbeth Salander (one of the most complicated characters ever) to the screen perfectly.  The second and third installments of this movie are going to be awesome.

5.  The Muppets

This was by far my most anticipated movie of the year.  I have always been a HUGE fan of the Muppets and have no idea how they fell out of the spotlight for so long.  I was thrilled just to see them back and the fact that movie was actually incredibly well written that they were mocking the whole situation of them not being as famous anymore was brilliant. 

4.  Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows - Part 2

My favorite two movie franchises are Star Wars (only the original trilogy) and Lord Of The Rings.  However, Harry Potter is easily the best 8 movie franchise ever.  Think about how good these movies have been throughout and this was one of the better entries.  They stuck to the book which was great and this was literally a big ride.  This was the most action packed one and I am so lost knowing that it's over. 

3.  X-Men: First Class

Of all the high profile summer movies that came out this year, this was probably the one that I expected the least from.  I figured it would be on par with the Wolverine movie and just be a popcorn type action movie.  What I got instead was easily the best "prequel" of all time.  Why can't all the other ones or the numerous relaunches be half as good as this one.  The story was awesome, tied directly in to actual history and the character development was some of the best ever. 

2.  The Help

This movie should go on to win Best Picture this year.  The acting was top notch across the board.  The story was great with all the different classes and exploring their lines of thinking regarding racism.  What made this movie the most enjoyable was that even with the serious tone and drama thoughout, there were some of the biggest laughs in this movie at the same time.  That balance really made this an amazing watch.

1.  Warrior

I know, right?  What?  Has anyone even heard of this movie?  Well, you should!!!  I only went to see this based on a shocking recommendation from a friend of mine.  I went based solely on his word and am so glad that I did since I really only had like 10 days to see it in theaters.  This movie was so well written, directed, and acted.  I was torn in all different directions.  I felt equally bad and rooting for both brothers as the movie built towards such an awesome conclusion.  I'm sure that this movie will not be on most other's lists or any critics.  It will get no end of year recognition, but this is my favorite movie of 2011 by far.

The Ten Worst Movies Of 2011

Dishonorable Mention - Footloose

The only thing that kept this from being legitamitely in the Bottom 10 is that it also happened to be the most fun movie going experience of the year.  If it wasn't for the friends that we saw this with and ragging on the movie throughout - I probably would have walked out on possibly the worst remake of an iconic classic.

10.  The Darkest Hour

Had my list all made and then saw this absurd downward spiral of a movie about some sort of an electric end of the world assault.  It was watchable for the first half but then had people who somehow turned their houses in to farraday cages in 5 days, cats with wired suits and army guys wearing key vests.  I wish that I was kidding about all of this.

9.  30 Seconds Or Less

This is going to be on that list of horrible post Oscar nomination career choices.  How does someone come off of The Social Network to star in this?   And how does something with this much comedic talent in the cast end up like a really bad tv pilot that would have trouble getting picked up by any network?

8.  Sanctum

This was the most boring "action" movie I've ever seen.  These people are stuck in a cave trying to get out and I was fighting off falling asleep. 

7.  The Tree Of Life

This snoozefest keeps showing up on most critics Top 10 lists and is alot of their number one overall.  I don't get it.  I don't get why critics love Terrance Mallick so much.  This guy could put a 7 year old hopped up on Red Bull to sleep with his boring ass movies.  He literally films blades of grass blowing back and forth for like 10 minutes.  I can't stand this guy's movies.

6.  Apollo 18

When movies get pushed back over and over again there is usually a reason why.  I'm pretty sure that this movie was originally supposed to come out in 2010.  Got pushed to February 2011, then April 2011 and then September (the biggest wasteland of movie releases) 2011.  This was total garbage.  I liked the premise and it might have been okay if they followed the specific camera shots like the Paranormal Activity franchise.  But the random camera shots popping up just made it sillier and sillier.

5.  Shark Night

You can't just have sharks attack people anymore?  Even absurdly in a lake?  No - they had to have a bunch of hillbillies that groom the sharks and lure people there for them to kill . . . . . to put on the internet.  Oh - and tehy made it in 3D.  Total garbage.

4.  Sucker Punch

I was hoping that this would be one of the better wannabe 300 movies.  I was wrong.  The whole movie was all imaginary.  All the kick ass fighting and what not was in their heads while the girl danced the guards in to some kind of a hypnotized state.  Again - wish I was kidding here. It was so grossly overacted.  All we did was make fun of it from beginning to end. 

3.  A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas

This is really a 3 movie franchise at this point?  A franchise with a Christmas entry AND 3D effects?  Unreal.  Do I really need to go in to detail of what garbage this was? 

2.  Spy Kids: All The Time In The World

This is really a 4 movie franchise at this point?  And 3D isn't enough . . . . they needed to try and bring back scratch and sniff too?  Just watch the first 10 minutes of the movie.  I dare you.  If you can make it through Jessica Alba being pregnant and fighting off a bunch of bad guys, you are a more patient person than me.  This being a kids franchise does not excuse something this horrible.

1.  Nicolas Cage in . . . . . . . . (Drive Angry/Season Of The Witch/Trespass)

What is the f'n deal with this guy!?!  Does he purposely look for the worst possible movies.  I sat through all three of these movies (well - 2 1/2 because I couldn't make it past the first 1/3 of Drive Angry) with a look of disgust on my face from beginning to end.  The only good Nicolas Cage thing that came out of this year was catcing SNL making fun of him on one of their episodes. 

War Horse

From director Steven Spielberg comes War Horse.  Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, War Horse begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land.

This was a really great, emotional ride of a movie. It sounds ridiculous to say this – but the horse (Joey) performed so well that you pretty much find yourself rooting and caring for him from beginning to end. Honestly, I cared more about the horse than the humans. There was a scene in here with the horse in such physical peril that I thought I was going to puke and could barely watch. Any animal lover will identify with this story and love it as much as I did. If you don’t – you have no heart!!!

I would definitely recommend people checking this out. I was beyond pleasantly surprised and enjoyed it from beginning to end.

We Bought A Zoo

Cameron Crowe directs this true story about a single dad who decides his family needs a fresh start, so he and his two children move to the most unlikely of places: a zoo. With the help of an eclectic staff, and with many misadventures along the way, the family works to return the dilapidated zoo to its former wonder and glory.

This was a fun movie. Granted, it was the definition of heartstring pulling, but I expected that going in and was able to enjoy it. The dynamics between the dad and the two kids were very realistic and you find yourself caring about their journey enough to be okay with the purposeful emotional punches. 

I would recommend people checking this out. It’s actually a really good, non-animated family movie at the best time of year for something like that.

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

This is not just another mission.  The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated and Ethan Hunt and his rogue new team must go undercover to clear their organization's name. No help, no contact, off the grid. You have never seen a mission grittier and more intense than this.

This was a very entertaining popcorn movie.  Lots of action.  Lots of build up.  Fun characters.  Cool technology.  There really isn't too much to go in to detail here.  The movie's goal was to entertain and I was pretty much entertained from beginning to end even though I find Tom Cruise pretty annoying.  Mission accomplished . . . . . . pun intended.

I would definitely recommend people checking this out.  Movies like this are why action movies were started.  Its just a fun ride.

The Darkest Hour

The Darkest Hour is the story of five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.

Holy giant turd!!!  This started out like a somewhat decent alien attack type movie with one cool effect.  I repeat - ONE - cool effect.  It was somewhat watchable.  However, about halfway through instead of just having the people get killed off one by one as they try to find an escape, they decided to add new characters as the movie went along.  Words do no justice to how more off the wall these people got.  First there was a Russian girl whose only point in the movie was to be angry when she was called a kid.  Then there was the mad scientist who somehow during the five days that had past since the alien invasion managed to turn his apartment into a farraday coge surrounding it with metal wiring and what not and created a microwave gun that looked a hell of a lot like the guns from Ghostbusters.  After those guys they ran in to the metal shielded army led by General Key Vest.  No joke - it was all keys.  This guy had a vest that was pretty much made of 7,000 keys.  That's like extreme janitoring.  The movie just downward spiralled in to a giant mess that the only source of enjoyment was making fun of how bad it was.

I wouldn't recommend even someone I hate seeing this.  It's absolutely horrible.  Unless you love the new Key Vest style from Russia.  Then it's awesome.

Alvin & The Chipmunks - Chipwrecked

The vacationing Chipmunks and Chipettes are turning a luxury cruise liner into their personal playground, until they become 'chipwrecked' on a remote island. As the 'Munks and Chipettes try various schemes to find their way home, they accidentally discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.

Not going to sugarcoat this.  It was pretty painful to sit through this movie.  At this point it's nothing more than a chipmunk voiced showing of Glee where the only goal is to sell soundtracks along with taking parents' money at the theater.  The only positive thing that I can say is that the movie is super short.  Outside of that - it was pretty much poop.  Don't get me wrong - littler kids will love it but not the adults stuck taking them.

If you have little kids - you really don't have a choice in the matter.  However, I really wouldn't recommend anyone bothering their time with this movie.

The Sitter

The irreverent comedy follows a college student, suspended for the semester and living back at home with his single mom, who has a night to remember when he gets talked into baby-sitting the eccentric kids next door -- two boys and a wild 8-year-old girl.

This movie is essentially Adventures In Babysitting with a guy babysitter.  The movie was super short and there were more than enough laughs to keep me entertained although I've never been a really big fan of Jonah Hill.  The silly thing with this movie is that they could have toned down or cut 1-2 scenes and this would have been a PG-13 movie and probably much more successful. 

I would lukewarmly recommend people checking this out.  It's not a must see but it is kind of funny.  And you don't feel like you are wasting your time because of the hour and 20 minute run time.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film in Columbia Pictures' three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson's literary blockbuster "The Millennium Trilogy." Directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, the film is based on the first novel in the trilogy, which altogether have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries and become a worldwide phenomenon.

This was one of the movies I was looking forward to more than any other this year.  I read all three books and loved them.  As if that wasn't exciting enough - David Fincher was directing it.  Him and Christopher Nolan's are pretty much the two golden Gods of filmmaking right now.  This movie did not disappoint.  Fincher did a great job of translating the movie to the screen.  He managed to play out the investigative part of the movie in an intriguing fashion while still putting maximum effort in to developing one of the most tortured characters I've ever read or seen in film.  Lisbeth Salander is one of my favorite characters ever.  She is such a dysfunctional badass and it was just as painful watching her plight as it was reading it.  You can't help but root for her even though she is not the type of person that you would be rooting for on sight.  The story ultimately becomes all about her and this movie was tough at many points to watch because Fincher really didn't hold back too much. 

I loved this movie and would fully recommend it to everyone.  I also very much so recommend the books.  You don't have to read the books to be able to enjoy the movie because Fincher is amazing at what he does, but it definitely makes it more enjoyable.  Side note - this movie is a super strong R movie.  There are 3-4 scenes of intense uncomfortability.  Ye have been warned.

The Adventures Of TinTin

The Adventures of Tintin is directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish. Starring Jamie Bell as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig   as the nefarious Red Rackham.

This was an enjoyable movie but it was like an animated version of Indiana Jones on speed. There was so much ups and downs and the pacing was way too fast. If this were paced a little better with some more downtime it would have been much better. It's a shame because the animation and action were great but it was like a script with a.d.d.

I would lukewarmly recommend people seeing this. It's not a must see and could have been much better, but you could do worse.

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve  celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in the intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year.

This was literally the same thing as the movie Valentine's Day from a couple years ago. Most of the cast is the same too. It's a bunch of seperate somewhat interesting stories that culminate together on the titled holiday.

I would lukewarmly recommend this movie. It's not great. It's not bad. It's just sort of there. Watchable but not a must see by any means.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows

Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) has always been the smartest man in the room... until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris) and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective. When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder, a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by Professor Moriarty. The cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead of Holmes as he spins a web of death and destruction, all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history.

I really enjoyed this movie. I think I liked it even more than the first one. Downey Jr was great again with all his silly quirks but then amazing fighting. Jude Law played perfectly off of him again. I thought the Dr Moriarity villain was great and the movie was perfectly paced.

I would definitely recommend everyone checking this out. It's a very fun and enjoyable ride that won't disappoint.