Reviews

First off I think a lot of the reviews here have missed the point of the film or maybe it's intentional gass lighting. Who knows.

Close focuses on the extremely close relationship between best friends Leo and Remi. They do practically everything together and know each other inside out. This closeness begins to dissolve when they both start secondary school and encounter casual homophobia through comments and scrutiny on their close friendship. It's imposed that it's weird and wrong by their class mates. After experiencing this Leo begins to distance himself from Remi which leads to devistating consequences.

Close is an amazing study of what ingrained homophobia does to people and how it destroys relationships. A great film and an amazing performance from the lead.

One brilliant film, heartbreaking and enduring, you get so angry and down watching it but keep going because you want them to be safe and find a home. It exposes the hell thousands of people are going through everyday thanks to this heartless, elitist, fascist government that only pander to the greedy landlords creating this homeless crisis. The only gripe is that a couple of he kids have Dublin 4 yuppie accents, it doesn't make sense given the the the family are from the North side, it takes you out of the harsh reality of it a bit. But the film is so good you over look it. Well done Roddy Doyle, everyone should see this film.

This has to be the biggest pile of garbage I have seen in a long time. Shane Black has just killed the Predator franchise. The plot makes no sense. The tone is all over the place. A genetic scientist suddenly becomes a super soldier. A vicious alien dog becomes friends with the good guys playing fetch (I'm serious). The super predator looks like a pissed off wrestler with bad CGI. The harvesting human DNA plot is handled ridiculously. The fact that an autistic kid can read predator language and is wanted by both predators is bloody bizarre. The jokes are constant and irritating that it's more of a comedy than a sci-fi thriller, actually it doesn't knoe what it is. Ugh bloody awful, good fun if you're 7 years old I suppose. Don't go near this nonsense. AvP Requiem is a masterpiece compared to this tripe.

Range 15 Review. I sat down to watch Range 15 expecting a good laugh. I mean who could resist an action comedy with zombies. That's a sure winner right?

The film just starts immediately, with the main character (a Sean William Scott clone) and his lawyer (William Shatner, what are you doing in this?) telling him why he ended up in jail. We are immediately shown a string of funny and insane jokes in a bar from shooting fellow pals to making out with a Keisha transvestite. OK we're getting the tone now. The film then goes on to introduce the heroes friends, a bunch of army misfits that constantly slag each other and tell non- stop homophobic jokes. One of them has a blow up doll attached to him, why… never explained. Actually nothing is explained, after a few jokes that you don't get you start to think that maybe this is a sequel, I missed something. So after checking IMDb to see if the star of the film was related to Sean Scott Williams I discovered that he makes a Youtube show and you have to have been watching the Youtube show to get most of the jokes in this film. Then the bizarre happens and keeps happening. People pop up every now and then that you have no idea who they are and they're all pals with the gang of zombie killers. They crack jokes we don't get and have conversations we don't understand. Then you realize they are all army veterans and that this is a film made for army veterans, by army veterans and you have to be an American army veteran or enthusiast to get most of the jokes. So they just alienated 90% of the audience right there.

Another problem with this film is the constant homophobic jokes, one goes so far as to simulate a gay threesome and the gang fall around laughing because gay sex is hilarious and being gay makes you less than human and a laughing stock according to this film. One female character actually asks one of the team (who she constantly calls fat when he is not fat at all) does he know that 90% of what he says are infantile homophobic jokes to which he proudly responds yes and that's all you're gonna get from us, and the whole film. We can all laugh at things and ourselves every now and then but my god this film never lets up with the homophobic jokes, it's like Don't Ask Don't Tell is still in place and it's 1955.

After a bizarre scene where the team enter a town and kill some cartoon caricature gay people that are peeing on the American flag, some hipsters(?) and fitness enthusiasts, they enter a house where everyone has committed suicide with knives and house hold objects The joke here is that whiny liberal ant-gun people needed guns to kill themselves during the zombie apocalypse, no sleeping pills or other meds in the house then.

So that's basically the theme and message from the film, it's made for right wing, conservative army people and no one else. The film did have potential and some really funny scenes but was ruined by an overkill of crude offensive humour and army in jokes. The rivalry between the hero and his nemesis, a golden boy soldier that everyone loves and admires but is a complete jerk had lots of potential but only lasted a few scenes, then dissipated into nothing. This could have been the main focus of the film, his rivalry with this guy during the zombie apocalypse. There's also a very funny scene with Sean Austin flying a helicopter. One of the team is too honest when he discovers he has been bitten by a zombie.

The third act of the film dissolves into a surreal wrestling match with lots of gay and 'in' army jokes, it drags on for about fifteen minutes and Danny Trejo turns up to fight as well, but I was bored to death at that stage.

Range 15 is a bit like going out for the night and meeting your friend's drunk old buddies that tell lots of 'in' jokes and tell old stories that you know nothing about. You laugh along at first, but then they get a lot more drunk and start insulting people. You get uncomfortable and worried while they carry on the abusing people, and you have to apologize for their behavior. You can't wait for the night to end. When it does you avoid your friend like the plague and change your number.

Just back from it and honestly, it's not great. The reason Batman starts to hate Superman is too weak, make it more personal like if his wife or Robin was killed. Plus he comes across as an angry idiot, I mean he's supposed to be an amazing detective and can't even figure out what Lex Luther is up to... like why is Lex stealing alien technology? There is only one scene between Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne with a bit of tension and you've seen it in the trailer, no character or tension build up to justify the fight. Oh and what's with Robin's suit and the Joker's message? Nothing explained there, Suicide Squad I suppose.

The reason Batman and Superman stop fighting is just ridiculous.

Everyone is blaming Superman for the destruction of Metropolis but seem to forget about Zod's army and the threat of transforming the earth and wiping out the human race, that was really stupid.

Wonder Woman has no reason for being in this other than looking for a photo Lex Luther has of her... really? She just turns up out of nowhere and joins the fight, OK she's an Amazon warrior and fights for justice but she has no real connection to the characters, lazy writing. Plus other Justice League characters are thrown into it in one scene just because you know DC need to make more money than Marvel... like really fast.

Doomsday, oh my God that was a colossal mess, a GCI mess that can't even talk, this is one of Superman's worst enemies. He just goes on the rampage for no apparent reason, we get wishy washy GCI non stop explosions to the point of boredom.

Recycling the murder of Bruce's parents..... again.

Government heads of state are complete morons and are easily bought.

So that was the bad, on the up side Cavill is excellent as Superman again and you really feel for him with all the grief he is getting. He's relationship with Louis is stronger and there's great chemistry in the acting, so you care about the characters, you don't really care about Batman. Aflik stand over there with Clooney. Keaton, Kilmer and bale, stand tall. Jeremy irons is pretty good as Alfred. Eisenberg is

excellent as Luther, he's the only intelligent thing about this film, he's manic and manipulative and didn't get enough screen time.

A let down after all the excitement and build up, Marvel are laughing their heads off.