Quick & Good Movie Reviews
This has cult following written all over it. It is clever, funny, engaging and emotionally satisfying. There are so many aspects to this movie It is easy to imaging the collaboration it must have taken between the crew, the writers, the CG artists, the set design artists and the director. There are some very funny scenes and many clever scenes. It is all a bit tounge in cheek and a big popcorn bucket of...
This lives up to the high standards of this franchise. Tom Cruz is doing his usual toe nail hangs and hard hitting action sequences. Roll all that together with some very clever plot twists and back door exploitations and we have another very good action packed, over the toply unrealistic adventure with Mr. Cruz. His two showcased female counter parts well provide the needed eye candy. Yes, indeed, the team is intact and ready...
This is a Summer Block Buster that delivers. It is a take off on the other two Jurassic movies and it is a stand alone, in that respect. I liked it. There are several very questionable scenes and several nail bitter scenes or should I say: Veloca Raptor biter scenes?? At any rate, if you like this sorta movie, you will love this new addition of this ongoing franchise. EXPEKT- O – METER Before...
I was shocked that Opey (Ron Howard) could not get any more LIFE out of this cast. I was not at all interested in any of them. They were flat, walking through and that made the story kind of drag along for me. For such a wonderful series, I expected far more. The Story is lack luster and a bit OK but this crop of new actors are not ready for prime time. This...
This is a great Gorillas gone wild story. Throw in a 30 foot wolf with an nasty temper and a slithering, scaly water creature that can dive through buildings and you may start to see how Dwayne Johnson was having trouble convincing the powers that be to not kill his Ape. It is about a space station experiment that went terribly wrong and ended back on Earth creating a path of destruction. It is...
This movie captures the suspense of a war torn Beirut. It has before scenes showing the city as an international and cosmopolitan place with culture. It also shows it after a significant war that reduced it to a beat up and dangerous city in the cross hairs of several factions. It takes us along as passengers into an increasingly dangerous and twisted story of recovering a captive from some unsavory characters who may or...
This It is a very fun movie with both adventure and laugh lines. It is a geeky movie but still fun for non geeks, kinda like me. Not that I do not have my own geekiness but video games has never been my interest. This movie is all about video gaming and actually getting into the game yourself with an ”Avatar” of your design. Am I scaring you away yet? I got into it...
We will be seeing more from this franchise boys and girls. There is an obvious set up at the end. I liked this. This is a wild adventure story with 100 situations that would kill any standard humanoid yet this new female action hero bounces back for more. She is a likable hero with a steely focus that gets her through the tightest of situations. I was entertained. It appeals to that “go for...
Alright, I know, I know!! I sneaked in to see a scene of this silly movie and came back the next day to see the whole thing. I was so glad I did. This is a very clever movie with a lot of laugh lines. It also has some good acting. I was drawn into it. There are scenes of a gal inhabiting a mans body that are particularly funny. Jack Black plays the...
It could have been a pretty good movie if they had cut out all that stuff in the middle and shortened it by about an hour. They missed on the relationship stuff. The acting was not great and it was all and all a bit of a yawn. Pretty good ending segment but……….Come on guys! This is Star Wars you are messing with. Please get it right. Sheesh!! The last one was pretty good...
This is the story of Charles Dickens in 1843 and all of the torment he brought to himself and his family in mining “The Christmas Carol” story from himself. It was masterfully presented. Christopher Plummer plays Scrouge who became the Dickens muse in writing the story. It is brilliantly presented. They really made the story come to life. I walked out with a greater appreciation of life and all of it’s struggles. EXPEKT –...
Jackie Chan is back.This story takes us into a complicated story that reveals itself a layer at a time. The Jackie Chan character is after justice for the tragic death of his daughter. The layers are so intricate in this story that I do not want to spoil any of if for you. The dramatic tension is expertly managed to have us leaning into the next plot point with anticipation. This is a hallmark...