21 Jump Street ★★★★
Remake of an 80s American TV series I never saw.
Two policemen go undercover into a school posing as students.
Different from the vast majority of mainstream successful comedies in that although it's full of completely predictable characters and an absolutely formulaic story it is actually funny.
Friday, 22 June 2012
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Titanic (not)
Wrath of the Titans ★
Of all the seven sins to chose from, they went with wrath. Yeth wrath.
Sloth or greed might have been a bit more appropriate at this is a lazy sequel existing solely to milk out a bit more cash.
Terrible. Nonsensical story involving an actual titan this time (Chronus) depicted as a giant lava monster fighting Sam Worthington who on reading the script must have decided it wasn't good enough to even pretend to be anything but Australian or to bother acting at all.
If only shit was a sin - although 'Shit of the Titans' would have deserved an extra star just for the title.
Of all the seven sins to chose from, they went with wrath. Yeth wrath.
Sloth or greed might have been a bit more appropriate at this is a lazy sequel existing solely to milk out a bit more cash.
Terrible. Nonsensical story involving an actual titan this time (Chronus) depicted as a giant lava monster fighting Sam Worthington who on reading the script must have decided it wasn't good enough to even pretend to be anything but Australian or to bother acting at all.
If only shit was a sin - although 'Shit of the Titans' would have deserved an extra star just for the title.
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Rusted
Iron Sky ★★
Finnish-German-Australian 'sci-fi comedy' that tries far too hard to be a cult and ends up only two letters away.
Although some of the effects are well executed, the script just isn't good enough, the jokes are poor, some of the acting is terrible and not in the 'so bad it's good' way they were aiming for, just bad.
Finnish-German-Australian 'sci-fi comedy' that tries far too hard to be a cult and ends up only two letters away.
Although some of the effects are well executed, the script just isn't good enough, the jokes are poor, some of the acting is terrible and not in the 'so bad it's good' way they were aiming for, just bad.
Serbuan maut
The Raid: Redemption ★★★
Indonesian martial arts film about a disastrous police raid on a tower block.
You know where you are with a description like that - there will be hammers and machetes and large amounts of the ultraviolence.
This is well done, high quality ultraviolence, energetic, skillfully choreographed and quite good fun.
Indonesian martial arts film about a disastrous police raid on a tower block.
You know where you are with a description like that - there will be hammers and machetes and large amounts of the ultraviolence.
This is well done, high quality ultraviolence, energetic, skillfully choreographed and quite good fun.
Number Two
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island ★★
Maybe the grammatically incoherent title should have been all the clue that was needed but I still had some hope that this would be fairly enjoyable update of those 70s adventure films usually staring Doug McClure.
But it wasn't.
Although it does have Michael Caine riding a giant bee.
Everyone involved should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves
Maybe the grammatically incoherent title should have been all the clue that was needed but I still had some hope that this would be fairly enjoyable update of those 70s adventure films usually staring Doug McClure.
But it wasn't.
Although it does have Michael Caine riding a giant bee.
Everyone involved should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves
Mibiii
Men In Black III ★★★
Slight improvement over previous one.
Less retreading of the same jokes but not a lot of new ones.
Fairly inoffensive, poorly thought out time travel, unnecessarily sentimental ending and weird face melting.
Slight improvement over previous one.
Less retreading of the same jokes but not a lot of new ones.
Fairly inoffensive, poorly thought out time travel, unnecessarily sentimental ending and weird face melting.
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