Reviews

The actual first part of this movie isn't bad at all. I'm usually a big fan of the series. The last half of this movie is absurd. There's an old saying in Hollywood when a show or movie completely loses it's way, it's called "Jumping the Shark". That refers to the Happy Days show where The Fonz jumped his motorcycle over a shark tank. This was the beginning of the end for Happy Days. Well Fast & Furious "Jumped the Shark" with this movie. There are outlandish wrecks that no one could have lived through,that they walk away from without a scratch. They even launch a Pontiac Fiero with a jet engine strapped on the top into outer space to take out a satellite. Not to mention that they are wearing 1920s scuba gear in outer space. I've never seen a second half of a movie fly so far off the rails. I'm sure this is one of the last movies in the set. You can't get more ridiculous.

This Dredd film is much better by far than the Stallone version. Karl Urban did a fantastic job as Judge Dredd. The story in this film is much more interesting and believable. The first film was like a comic book rather than a graphic novel. This film is much darker. Lots of violence and gore.

Set in the mega cities of a dystopian future, where millions of people live in giant apartment buildings, violence and drugs rule. Dredd is assigned a psychic rookie on her first day. They get a call about a triple murder. It turns out it is the work of one of the drug dealing gangs called MaMa. She is a former prostitute turned ultra violent gang leader. As they investigate her number one guy is taken into custody. She can't let her secrets get out, so she locks down the building and chaos ensues. If you love action and gore, you will love this one.

Cole Hauser was amazing in his lead role as one of three brothers that are reunited for the youngest to get married. Houser is a vet with bad PTSD, and an attitude issue, but really makes his role the most realistic. Bruce Willis,who was given top billing,was only in a minor role and looked like he could care less. I later found out he was on set for one day only and they worked around his prefilmed lines.

The bachelor party and bachelorette party is where the story takes a turn as two drug dealers try to sell the bride to be some laced drugs. She kicks them to the curb ,and they are offended so they grab her while she takes a break outside the club. Turns out they are also human trafficking.

I won't spoil the rest, but this is a well paced,well acted revenge,action thriller. Good storyline and keeps you interested.

This is in my opinion,one of those rare films where the sequel is better than the original. The first French Connection was a good but bland story that pretty much followed the lead up to a big drug bust. It had basically two sets. And the story stayed on point with no added subplots. Noe don't get me wrong it was a very good film, but not as good as I expected. The sequel is set in France and Detective Doyle comes to try to find the mastermind from major drug busts. The French police aren't exactly happy to help. This film has several subplots as Doyle has major communication problems as he doesn't speak French. The drug dealers wind up kidnapping Doyle and getting him addicted to Heroin while they have him. Gene Hackman left a great performance here as his acting was much deeper than part 1. Both films are very interesting and a good watch,but part 2 is slightly better.

This one is not a retelling of the original movie. In fact the main character is a second generation survivor of Russ Thorne(The Driller Killer). The majority of the movie happens in present day. The mother of the main character is a survivor from 1993, even though the original movie came out in 1982. This movie has intentional humor and takes shots at traditional slasher film standards. This first film had humor but I'm not sure it was intentional...lol. This movie is a rare case of a remake-reboot being as good or better than the source material. I know some feel it's a feminist type film but all slashers are exploitation films, I really don't think it matters what gender is being exploited. Also this film was interesting story wise & very well acted for a horror film. Syfy usually has horrible original productions. This was possibly one of their best efforts.

Orphan is a very well acted thriller that keeps your attention from start to end. Isabelle Furhman did an excellent job of portraying a Russian orphan that was adopted by a young family that had been traumatized by a stillborn birth. Vera Farmiga plays the mother who lost her child to perfection. Also she is a recovering alcoholic and intertwined both aspects very well.

There is immediately an undertone that something isn't right with the young girl. She is overtly sexual for a supposed 9 year old. She doesn't get along or act like any of the other children and is immediately bullied because of this. There are several suspicious deaths that we know are the fault of the orphan & the mother suspects this,but the other adults are suspicious of the mother,thinking she is jealous of the new girl.

The big plot twist comes to light near the end, as it turns out the orphan isn't who she claims to be. In fact she isn't even Russian,she is Estonian. And is not 9 years old, but a grown woman with a rare glandular disorder. Nice plot twist that explains a lot of questions associated with her.

My only real gripe is there is a big build up for the ending but it never delivered any answers. We never find out for sure if the husband or the son are actually dead. Also the orphan while being left to drown is also not confirmed. I guess they were trying to leave it open for a sequel. But instead this year, they have announced a prequel instead.

This film was filmed entirely during the isolation period during the COVID period. Most of it was shot on webcam sessions with the actors in several countries. First off the movie is complex and a lot of the subject matter was over my head, and I'm a college graduate. I'm not a physicist and don't understand dark matter,time travel possibilities or quantum physics. All that being said, the actors did an excellent job with a very confusing script. Anthony Hopkins can make any role better.

The film effects that were added to make it look more like webcam footage did get annoying. Lots of flickers added for effects. The story itself was interesting and the mystery of a story was suspenseful. I really did enjoy the film overall.

This isn't exactly a Dracula movie as you find out in a plot twist. The twist was well hidden and made this even a more interesting premise on vampire movies. Gerard Butler, Christopher Plummer & Justine Waddell all did great in their roles. The story is interesting and keeps you watching. The gore is top notch. I like the fact it has the Van Helsing family connection. I know Wes Craven didn't direct this film but he was an executive producer and the film has his style about it. The sequels are progressively worse,but are also watchable. Good trilogy to watch on a rainy day. The fact that Wes Craven thought enough of this story to attach his name to it should tell you all you need to know.

I really enjoyed this anti hero, superhero-horror film. I was expecting it to be just ok after reading reviews. I don't know what some of these reviewers were expecting. It is what it is. A action filled gore fest that was enjoyable and kept you interested all the way through. It's kind of an evil Superman type story, with our main character being an alien baby that lands on earth. The deaths are rather inventive, so it feels much more like a horror movie than a superhero movie. Well acted, well written & well directed.

It's awful hard to make a boring zombie movie. The zombie comedy is even easier to succeed with, because you can come at the film from two directions. This film failed on both counts. It has a fantastic cast and pretty good acting. The problem is the movie is just a mess of a script and pretty damn boring. A lot of zombie standards are not used correctly and the story never really reveals everything behind the zombie uprising. The twist with the alien ship at the end just really doesn't make sense. I feel like I wasted almost 2hours on an unresolved story. Could have been much,much better.

The first 20min of this movie was basically the first movie but with different actors. Then it took a turn into confusing territory with rooms running in alternative realities. With actors running into themselves at different realities. It got a little hard to follow. Then the ending didn't completely finish the story. I guess to leave room for another sequel. Overall it was still entertaining, suspenseful,and well acted.

This movie is 90% perfect. I mean it was a 9 or 10 until the last 5 minutes of the movie. I think the story was a perfect tension filled build up. The story slowly boils and keeps you wondering what will happen next. It fooled me several times with minor plot twists. I actually thought the girl was more than likely ask Angel, but turns out she was actually a demon. But after that huge plot turn, boom nothing!! It was lazy writing in the ending. It was revealed how to open the ninth gate & we see Johnny Depp walking back toward the castle as the gate of the castle opens. The END? Wait i watched 2 and a half hours of build up for a 5 minute ending that really explained nothing. Really messed up a great film.