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In RED 2, the action-comedy sequel to the sleeper hit, retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. To succeed, they'll need to survive an army of relentless assassins, ruthless terrorists and power-crazed government officials, all eager to get their hands on the next-generation weapon. The mission takes Frank and his motley crew to Paris, London and Moscow. Outgunned and outmanned, they have only their cunning wits, their old-school skills, and each other to rely on as they try to save the world-and stay alive in the process.
While I must say this will be on one of the why did they make this sequel lists, it was very entertaining. Just like the first one, it was funny watching these "seniors" kicking ass. The best part was that they decided to push the comedy more than the action. All the actors definitely came through with their deliveries and there were plenty of laughs.
While I wouldn't wholeheartedly recommend anyone rushing to see this because it definitely is not a "must see", it definitely is entertaining. If you liked the first one, you will definitely like this one.
It only takes one person to start a revolution. The extraordinary story of Steve Jobs, the original innovator and ground-breaking entrepreneur who let nothing stand in the way of greatness. The film tells the epic and turbulent story of Jobs as he blazed a trail that changed technology and the world -- forever.I am not sure how I felt about this movie. It wasn't bad. It was actually kind of good for what it was. But the moment the movie was over - there was nothing to really hold on to for me to even write here. Actually, the more I think about it - they didn't even get into the Iphone or I-anything for that matter . . . . . . or his battle with cancer. It pretty much got up to the late 80s. I felt like half the story was just kind of left out there. I think that they could have sped up the process and told more of a complete story.I wouldn't really recommend anyone rushing to see this. Again - its not bad. Its a somewhat decent watch but incomplete for me.
Getaway is an action thriller in which former race car driver Brent Magna (Ethan Hawke) is pitted against the clock. Desperately trying to save the life of his kidnapped wife, Brent commandeers a custom Shelby Cobra Mustang, taking it and its unwitting owner (Selena Gomez) on a high-speed race against time, at the command of the mysterious villain holding his wife hostage.
This was one of the most pointless movies I've ever seen. I got excited at first because the movie pretty much jumped right out of the gates with the driving and I figured that they would get to the backstory later. But . . . . . . there really wasn't any backstory. It all just happened randomly. And then Selena Gomez got in the car. She has pretty much catapulted to the top of my annoying actor/actress list. Her being in a movie is pretty much a guaranteed Bottom 10 of the year spot. She was just plain awful and the movie played out like a videogame while having to watch the two of them in the car. It's really a shame that Jon Voight (or basically just his voice) was in this movie because I'm loving him so much right now in Ray Donovan (anyone not watching that tv show REALLY should be) and this movie is the type of stink that will stick to to those in it for a long time.
I wouldn't recommend anyone bothering with this. It was incredibly painful and I was begging WW to leave twenty minutes in and for the rest of the movie.
David
Burke (Jason Sudeikis) is a small-time pot dealer whose clientele includes chefs
and soccer moms, but no kids—after all, he has his scruples. So what could go
wrong? Plenty. Preferring to keep a low profile for obvious reasons, he learns
the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished when he tries to help out some
local teens and winds up getting jumped by a trio of gutter punks. Stealing his
stash and his cash, they leave him in major debt to his supplier, Brad (Ed
Helms). In order to wipe the slate clean—and maintain a clean bill of
health—David must now become a big-time drug smuggler by bringing Brad’s latest
shipment in from Mexico. Twisting the arms of his neighbors, cynical stripper
Rose (Jennifer Aniston) and wannabe customer Kenny (Will Poulter), and the
tatted-and-pierced streetwise teen Casey (Emma Roberts), he devises a foolproof
plan. One fake wife, two pretend kids and a huge, shiny RV later, the "Millers"
are headed south of the border for a Fourth of July weekend that is sure to end
with a bang.
This
movie was really funny. Great casting on all of the "family" members. And
although a lot of the humor was raunchy, it was still filled with huge laughs.
The movie kept going into heartfelt/mushy territory but kept coming back with
laughs so it stayed fresh. Jason Sudekis was great in playing off the other
four and with his delivery on many different levels. Hopefully this movie
really helps him breakout because I think he is great.
I
would definitely recommend people checking this movie out. Be warned about the
raunchy factor but its still full of tons of laughs.
For
the past 12 months, DEA agent Bobby Trench (Washington) and U.S. naval
intelligence officer Marcus Stigman (Wahlberg) have been reluctantly attached at
the hip. Working undercover as members of a narcotics syndicate, each man
distrusts his partner as much as the criminals they have both been tasked to
take down. When
their attempt to infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel and recover millions goes
haywire, Trench and Stigman are suddenly disavowed by their superiors. Now that
everyone wants them in jail or in the ground, the only person they can count on
is the other. Unfortunately for their pursuers, when good guys spend years
pretending to be bad, they pick up a few tricks along the way.
Every
once in a while a movie has such chemistry between the actors that the movie is
great simply because of that. 2 Guns is one of those movies. The chemistry
between Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg was amazing. The craziness of the
story and how many people were involved in trying to get the two of them got
turned from totally implausible to completely entertaining because of the two
actors.
I
would definitely recommend people check this out. It was a hell of a fun movie
with some of the best on screen chemistry I've seen in awhile.
Director
Edgar Wright and actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite for a third film
following the successes Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007). In The
World's End, 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends
reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again.
They are convinced to stage an encore by Gary King (Simon Pegg), a 40-year-old
man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to
their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub – The World's
End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real
struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind's. Reaching The
World's End is the least of their worries.As a whole, this movie is
beyond silly and completely pointless. However, I really like watching Simon
Pegg and Nick Frost together. They just make me laugh regardless of what is
happening in the movie or how over the top it goes. Their chemistry is
priceless and always hits me as funny. Breaking it down to
recommendation - I would say that if you feel the same way as I do about their
previous offerings - then you should check this movie out. If you never saw any
of their previous offerings there really isn't a reason to start now and if you
didn't like them - you will definitely not like this one.
From
above the world of Cars comes Planes, an action-packed animated comedy adventure
featuring Dusty (voice of Dane Cook), a plane with dreams of competing as a
high-flying air racer. But Dusty’s not exactly built for racing—and he happens
to be afraid of heights. So he turns to a seasoned naval aviator who helps Dusty
qualify to take on the defending champ of the race circuit. Dusty's courage is
put to the ultimate test as he aims to reach heights he never dreamed possible,
giving a spellbound world the inspiration to soar.This movie is basically the
"stories" of Cars and Cars 2 mushed into one and they are flying instead of
driving. That's really it. There is not much else to say about this. It was
originally going to a straight to DVD release before Disney realized that they
could make more money releasing this at the end of summer when there isn't much
other family fare out there and make a bunch of money off of 3D pricing when
parents have to take their kids to it. Pixar's name isn't even on
this.I wouldn't recommend anyone
wasting their time with this movie. It's a blatant waste of time and just for
young kids. Wait until its on dvd and put it on for them then so you don't get
stuck having to watch it.
The high stakes thriller Paranoia takes us deep behind
the scenes of global success to a deadly world of greed and deception. The two
most powerful tech billionaires in the world (Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman) are
bitter rivals with a complicated past who will stop at nothing to destroy each
other. A young superstar (Liam Hemsworth), seduced by unlimited wealth and power
falls between them, and becomes trapped in the middle of the twists and turns of
their life-and-death game of corporate espionage. By the time he realizes his
life is in danger, he is in far too deep and knows far too much for them to let
him walk away. This movie was pretty much a
giant snoozer. I actually fell asleep twice during it. Needless to say this is
very disappointing for a movie with both Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman in it.
It was a suspense type of movie with pretty much no suspense. And the Liam
Hemsworth guy pretty much brings absolutely nothing to the plate whatsoever.
I wouldn't recommend people
wasting their time with this one. It's not horrible but it not really a good
movie either.
A
young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a
young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here
to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from
annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
There are two parts to this
review. First - the movie . . . . . . I loved it. It was easily the best
Superman movie since Superman II. I thought Cavill, Shannon and Adams were
greatly cast as Superman, Zod and Lois Lane. The back and forth between present
and Clark growing up kept the pacing fresh. I did think the movie was a little
bit too sci fi overall and I was stunned by something that happened at the end
that kind of was different from everything I ever knew to be Superman. Won't
spoil it but I was definitely thrown off by it . . . . and the lack of
development on it after the fact. Maybe it will be a big part of the sequel?
I'm glad that they were finally able to pull off relaunching a character that
has always been so difficult to do for some reason. Second part - the epic
failure of DC Comics yet again. This could have easily been their Iron Man to
launch towards a Justice League and they epically failed. No mention of any of
the other players in JL. No mention of Gotham City. Hell - you could have had
Ryan Reynolds show up as Hal Jordan and just show some sort of a commitment to
it that would have been similar to The Avengers. Who cares if you are following
the same model!?! Just do it already. Do something. Now there are no other JL
related projects in the pipeline except for a sequel to this that will be years
off. This is pretty much one of the biggest ball droppings in movies as far as
I'm concerned.
I enjoyed the movie very much
and would definitely recommend people checking it out. It was a good
reinventing even with the WTF moment towards the end and the failure to connect
this to a possible JL timeline.
From
the makers of Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda, Turbo is a high-velocity comedy
about an underdog snail whose dreams kick into overdrive when he miraculously
attains the power of super-speed. But after making fast friends with a crew of
streetwise, tricked-out es-car-goes, Turbo learns that no one succeeds on their
own. So he puts his heart and shell on the line to help his pals achieve their
dreams, before Turbo-charging his own impossible dream: winning the Indy
500.
This
movie was watchable but there really wasn't much more to say about it. There
were one or two good laughs. But that was it. The movie was really lacking the
usual fun hook that Dreamworks animation has with its characters. And that was
really necessary in a movie about snails.
I
wouldn't really recommend people bothering with this. There are much better
family movies out there than this one. Go see one of them again instead.
The all-star comedy cast from Grown Ups returns for more summertime laughs. Lenny (Adam Sandler) has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school.
Wow. What a drop off. I'll be the first to admit that the original Grown Ups was not a "good" movie but for whatever reason I found it hilarious and entertaining as hell. It was one of Sandler's better movies since Big Daddy where it wasn't just the silliness of the movie but the family stuff made it fun to a broader audience. Since that movie he has made a couple of really horrible movies (except for Just Go With It). I was hoping that this would be more like the aforementioned movies and/or the original. Unfortunately, it was more like his potty humor that runs its course and ends up being more annoying than entertaining. As if that wasn't disappointing enough - there is the absence of Rob Schneider from this sequel. There is no mention of him whatsoever. Is he too busy or something? He has literally been in every Happy Madison Productions movie. That's like the extent of his career. But he couldn't be in this movie? And a major character (out of the 5 friends) gets no mention whatsoever? Strange.
I would not recommend anyone checking this out. It's pretty much a giant turd and not worth anyone's time. I'm praying the next time that I see the original - it won't be tainted by how lame the sequel was.
In White House Down, Capitol Policeman John Cale (Channing Tatum) has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx). Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.This movie was a throwback action movie with lots of silly one liners and overdramatic action. It was watchable but not really much more that I can say than that. There was NO reason for this to be over 2 hours long. They spent way to much time developing a bunch of stuff that could have taken 5 minutes. I would very lukewarmly recommend people checking this out. In the end, it really is just kind of there and formula/predictable in every way. There are much better options out there.
