"Bullet Train" is an action-comedy that takes a talented cast and capable director and turns it into an obnoxious mess that earns every trainwreck pun it gets.
Indignation is the story of a complex young man that is beyond his years. Marcus, played by Logan Lerman, is dynamic in this role. When you experience the narrow views back in the 1950s, it’s difficult to imagine how different the world used to be having known only today’s socially acceptable views of tolerance in sexuality and religion. Young Marcus attends university in Ohio. Having ...[Read More]
Fury is a film about an American tanker unit during the last stretch of WWII in 1945. The Allies are well into Germany at this point and only the real fanatics, primarily the SS units, are the major problem. However, being fanatics the fighting is particularly intense as it is the phase of the war where the German soldiers are protecting the fatherland itself. Fierce resistance is an understatemen...[Read More]
I think the critique of this film is best said as follows: If Rick Riordan’s prequel, Percy Jackson: Lightning Thief is given a rating of good to fair, then Riordan’s Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters would be classified somewhere between fair to poor. Maybe three years between films is too long. I had some high hopes for this adventure/fantasy, but was fairly disappointed by the mediocre special eff...[Read More]
Early on in The Three Musketeers, a guard smirks at a captured Porthos (Ray Stevenson) and says, “For a man of your reputation, I expected better.” I guess, by now, it’s sort of a waste to say the same of Paul W.S. Anderson. His first major studio effort, Mortal Kombat (his first actual film was the low-budget Shopping with a then-mostly unknown Jude Law), though based on a video game, was a surpr...[Read More]