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This has been in the “to watch” pile seemingly FOREVER, and I’m so glad I got around to it (thanks, COVID!) because it was a great little tale. Screaming out for a sequel (unless I’ve misunderstood the storytelling mode), and yes there’s plot holes – but the world’s a rich one for both content and…
Not a great deal to say for this one – when you’ve got Covid 19 and are off work, you watch films. A trilogy of ludicrous, perfectly-executed masterpieces. 👍👍
This film was basically the same concept as The Hitman’s Bodyguard: that is to say, take a couple of fun-to-watch actors, then loosely give them a plot to hang from as they fanny about being over the top & ridiculous at each other. I’m SURE it’s a total coincidence Ryan Reynolds was involved in both. …
And then they went to a glamorous place, to find someone. Then there was loads of shooting, and they found the name of someone else, so they went to another glamorous place to find them. And then there was loads of shooting. Etc. It delivered everything visually/viscerally I’d expect from a Bond film – whilst…
Bond For Workgroups 7.0 or something, right? I didn’t remember exactly what the last of the M:I franchise I saw was although I do recall wondering when they dropped from quasi-decent action/thrillers into complete farce. Seems that with this instalment they’ve brought it back around to form, at least. Of course now one second-guesses which…
It’s the third… aaaaah, OK then. You can go into tedious detail about Jackson taking licence with Tolkien’s magnum opus, but there’s no denying that this trilogy is a masterpiece of ambition and scale, and that there’d never been anything quite like it – and I’m hard pressed to think of anything since. It’s gotten…
It’s the second bit of Lord of the Rings… what do you want me to say? 👍
Heheh, NOW we’re talking. Basically this film’s just an excuse to team Ryan Reynolds, Salma Hayek, and Samuel L. Jackson up again – does it really MATTER what it’s about? With Michael Bryce (Reynolds) having lost his AAA rating he’s desperate to prove himself and get back into the accredited bodyguard scene, and gets hired…
No idea how we stumbled on this one – must’ve been streaming-service promotion? Active shooter situation in a US high school, centred around a plucky underdog heroine. It’s interesting that the “school siege” scenario’s now such a commonplace notion that there are now listicles entitled “20 Great Movies About School Shootings”, etc. – and this…
I think I watched this after Liz went to bed, because I was curious about what had prompted the ire of the North Korean Government and a globally-famous computer hack. I mean, if it HADn’t been for that bit of world politics you could’ve completely bypassed this Seth Rogen by-the-numbers “goofy fuckup lands in a…