Trouble Man: So you've got Mr. T who is hired by to find out who's knocking over floating craps games and keep a gang war from breaking out.  And then that leads to some murders in a pool hall and a frame-up by crooked cops.  And it all ends in a big shoot-out in the rented out top floors of a luxury hotel which are all offices and a swanky ( Read more... )

I haven't seen all the movies in the franchise, but I have to wonder.  In ANY of them does Ethan Hunt NOT get disavowed, declared a traitor, hunted by his own allies, etc etc?  Anyway, fun action movie.  None of the big sequences matches the last movies tower sequence, not even the underwater computer hacking.  But I'm pretty certain, unlike the ( Read more... )

Q: What was awesome in this movie?
A: Everything.  Especially motorcycle sniper grammas and dude with a flamethrower guitar.

Q: What was missing form this movie?
A: I don't know.  A monkey maybe?

Positives: Opening fight sequence.  Snarkiness off the scale of the Sarcasamater.  Wakanda.  Infinity Stones.  "I have a bow and arrow.  None of this makes sense ( Read more... )

Honestly the movie is worth it just to watch Colin Firth berserker-murder what is totally not a branch of the Westboro Baptist Church shit-heads.  The rest of the movie is pretty enjoyable in a over-the-top super-spy kind of way.  And dude who is the lead is pretty charming and he and Firth play well off each other...

John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a retired action bad-ass.  Like Liam Neeson plays in 90% of his current movies.  But this retired action bad-ass used to work for the Russian mob.  But he got out because of Love.  Love for his wife, the attorney daughter from Blue Bloods who just died of the movie cancers.  But before that she sent her retired action ( Read more... )

I kind of feel like I shouldn't be counting Springbreakers or Don Jon as watched movies.  Since I didn't get very far into either.  I didn't even get to the spree crime bit of the former.  It was just sooooooo dull watching three college ladies try to find the money to party thru Spring Break.  Gave up well before James Franco shows up.  And as for ( Read more... )

Zero Dark Thirty: Killing Osama Bin Laden, good.  Finding him by torturing people, probably bad?  Maybe?  I don't know this movie is like 8 million hours long and none of it really dwells on the ethics of torturing prisoners for intel...

Here Comes the Boom: If you cut out the half-dozen sub-plots (or at least pare them way the fuck down) then you ( Read more... )

The Campaign: Beyond Will Ferrel punching a baby I wasn't expecting to find this funny. But it was and touching at times. I was honestly pleasantly surprised by this. Plus Will Ferrel does punch a baby. Also a puppy...

The Long Good Friday: Bob Hoskins is a London crime boss having a weekend party to convince some American investors to help ( Read more... )

Silly and fun action movie.  I mean as silly as something with piles of dead bodies.  The body count for Helen Mirren ALONE in this.  But fun madcap Anthony Hopkins.  I mean how often can you see that?  Sure the plotting is pretty thin, just enough to get the gang from one locale to another.  And Byung-hun Lee is a fantastic fight scene dude.  ( Read more... )