Well, Last week’s post got loss somehow, so it didn’t make it in time. So, I will run through the three movies I watched last week really quickly. Monday was the secret movie, and it was The Instigators. This was a fun move to watch, but it will only be on Apple TV+ now, so if you don’t have that service, it might be hard to watch (3/5). Saturday was Cuckoo, a really strange horror movie that thankfully the trailers don’t really give the plot away. It was weird, but cool (3.5/5). Finally, Borderlands was Sunday morning, and it was awful. It isn’t the worst film I have seen so far this year, but it is close… (1/5).
This week, it is one movie in the theater, and 2 at home. That one movie isn’t Alien: Romulus though. I stay away from those movies for one reason: the facehuggers. They creep me out so much and it has to partly do with my fear of spiders. I’m sure many people will enjoy that new entry in the series without me. On to the reviews!
This was ok I guess. It is hard to really talk about it as much of what makes it worth watching. What I can say is that the movie is about a skin care expert (Elizabeth Banks), who is trying to launch her own line of products, learning a rival expert moving across the street. She is then hacked to try and destroy her, and she is sure it’s the rival. Add in Lewis Pullman as a life coach who worms his way into the proceedings, and how far things go worse and worse is kind of fun to watch. What will say as a negative is the ending just seemed to out of hand based on what happened leading up to it. Still, it was a fine time, and compared to Borderlands which I watched last, it’s a masterpiece.
4:30 p.m. – I think it was wise to make this the middle movie today. This was the longest 90 minutes for me. If it was the first movie, it would have started the day on a sour note, and if it was last, I might not have finished it. There are movies that just feel like it should have been a TV movie. Space Cadet a couple weeks ago was like that. So was this. It was boring the kid sitting a few seats over from me, and that isn’t a good sign. They ham fist the original book into this, and I guess it was the best you could do with the original material. That is the main point here: not all kids books need to be movies. Nobody was calling for this, and seeing the box office returns so far, nobody is seeing it either. If you desperately want to see this, just watch the trailer. Nearly everything he draws is in the trailer. You just miss Zooey Deschanel’s wooden acting. I’m sure Zachary Levi and Jermaine Clement got paid enough to star in this. I’m also sure if it is going to be watched by most kids, it will be on streaming where it honestly belongs.
7:30 p.m. – Smile 2 was the sixth trailer of the eight shown. Trap was puzzling movie. It was a decent tense movie that put us in the P.O.V. of a serial killer trying to escape a trap set at a concert by the FBI. Josh Hartnett was the best part of this movie. He really did a great job playing both Cooper the dad and The Butcher. There are quite a few points in the first two thirds where you see those two sides bleed into each other. M Night’s daughter Saleka was also good as Lady Raven, the superstar whose concert is the titular trap. It’s when we get to the final third where this movie starts to fall apart a bit. You know Cooper is going to get caught eventually, and for some reason Lady Raven has to be a bigger part of the story. It really starts to get dumb. That is ok though. It’s a Shyamalan film. They has to be a twist here to make this all worth it. I was ready for the wife to be Cooper’s secret accomplice. That is the problem here. There is no twist. This is just a normal thriller that doesn’t really know how to land the plane. For some directors, this would be ok. However, when go into a Shyamalan film, you o in with an expectation. When it isn’t there, it comes across as incomplete.
Deadpool’s run atop the box office will finally come to an end. The Xenomorphs will take it out.
- Alien: Romulus
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- It Ends With Us
- Twisters
- Despicable Me 4
Next week is a rare one. Only one movie to review. That is due to major other events that will take my time. I’ll get into that a little next week.
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