Change Your Image
cameron3673
Ratings
Most Recently Rated
Reviews
The Family Law (2016)
Brilliant and heart warming.
The Family Law tells the story of young Ben's family going through some family breakdowns, welcoming new members into the family and Ben's development into a young man. The story is told with great compassion and great heart.
The Family Law is well written and well performed. The comedy is interspersed in such a way that the emotion of each episode is enhanced and supported. The Law family casting was amazing and the interaction between the actors appears to be a real family, their performances are stellar. The casting director really did an amazing job finding the family. The ensemble cast are also exceptionally well chosen and their performances are also excellent. One of my favourite characters has to be Melissa performed by Bethany Whitmore. Her characterisation was outstanding and hilarious where required.
Finally the script writing was exceptional. A fun, enjoyable and touching story so well constructed. I particularly enjoyed the double entendres hidden in so many of the lines.
If you are looking for a show to enjoy with the family this is it. Just don't binge watch because you will be disappointed with how fast you get through it and will be left wanting more episodes.
The Walking Dead: New Best Friends (2017)
This IS the walking dead
The Walking Dead had such potential when it started and had some genuinely interesting and engaging episodes. This episode is however not anything like that. We get introduced to an hilariously awful character, Jadis, who is so badly performed she seems to be about to break out in an impression of Yoda that she is impossible to take seriously. Is it bad direction, bad acting, lack of new ideas or a combination? The episode also makes use of some laughable matte paintings most specifically the dreadful 'up and up' (the apocalypse hasn't been going for that long that language has changed to sound that stupid). Overall another boring and pointless episode that spends more time introducing new characters and not doing anything. Just wait patiently until the next lead character gets killed and it may be interesting again.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
Fun to watch but very ridiculous.
Despite the negative reviews this movie is actually not that bad. It is disappointing that the movie is rated so highly as the target audience would be far better suited at 15 year old boys.
There are some negative aspects such as some poor acting and some unusual editing choices such as some badly cut sequences where we have a strange flashback and you only know we are flashing back due to some makeup cues. Another aspect is that you need to know a little bit of Abe's history to make sense of some of the story. Thank goodness for the Simpsons so that non-Americans have some idea of what is going on.
The action sequences are entertaining while bordering on the completely ridiculous and occasionally cause a laugh at the completely unbelievable nature of how characters can survive being thrown across a room and smash walls to pieces and still walk away or keep fighting.
One major annoying aspect of this film is that Abe can suddenly be this amazing fighting hunter with only ten minutes of training in the woods. A little more training than telling yourself the truth would have been a great addition to the film. This training is one of the negative aspects of the film.
This movie is worth seeing and a lot of fun but you need to take into mind that the movie is ridiculous, the action scenes over rely on CG with no practical performances and it has very limited historical accuracy.
Dark Shadows (2012)
Dark Shadows would be better without a globe in the projector!
Unfortunately for fans of Johnny Depp and Chloe Moretz this would have to be one of the worst pieces that they have made. Hopefully fans will forget quickly. The film had me wishing that I had bought a bigger popcorn. That way after about the first ten minutes I would have something to do. The scenery was excellent and gave the film a great Gothic feel that it needed. The ruins of the mansion looked spectacular. Unfortunately the wooden acting and the manner in which each sub plot was written and resolved like a weekly TV drama made it difficult to have any real reaction when something happened. The comedy aspects that this film is supposed to have must have been playing in the cinema next door. I didn't find any comedy in this film except for the abysmal performance of Eva Green. Yet again another movie where the ending is so obvious and embarrassing when it is finally revealed you sit cringing in your chair hoping that they really don't make the second movie. If you want to see this film wait for it to be on TV so you don't have to pay for it.