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Grizzly Rage (2007 TV Movie)
1/10
Dumb like really mega dumb
31 October 2024
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How movies like this get made is really beyond me. Having your audience have to deal with the most dumb ass stupid teenagers to ever be in a horror movie is too much to ask of any film goer.

This had to have been a high school project. It is bad all the way around from the writing to the directing, the editing, and finally the acting.

The best actor was the bear and he was so embarrassed to be associated with this trash that he didn't even show up to the premier. He has since stipulated in his contract to never again work with anyone that was involved with this monstrosity.

I was glad the bear won because the world doesn't need people that stupid walking around. Please don't watch this movie. You'll feel dumb if you do. You've been warned.
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Halloween II (2009)
1/10
It totally sucked
5 October 2024
As an actor, writer, director, and all the way down to the extras, none of them should ever admit they were associated with this dribble. Keep it off the resume'.

Laurie Strode and Sam Loomis went from being likeable characters to complete jerks that you wanted Michael to kill them off. The sheriff's very annoying daughter - kudos to Michael for ending her incessant annoyance.

I thought the first one went a little over the top with the screaming - way too much of it. In this movie they went too far with all the F bombs.

If you're going to do a Halloween marathon just skip this one. It is such a waste of time. I even fast forward through some of it. So many unlikeable characters. The only surprise was seeing Octavia Spencer early in the movie as a nurse. Hope she keeps this one off her resume'.
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Better Watch Out (II) (2016)
8/10
Loved It!
19 September 2024
I love when I watch a movie I've never heard of and it turns out to be a very pleasant surprise. I am so glad I took the chance.

I don't want to reveal any spoilers so just take my advice, don't read any reviews that have spoilers and just give it a watch. At first I thought it was going to be a horror comedy but then ... let me just say " I didn't see that coming. "

The acting all around was very good which doesn't often happen in horror movies. It's the genre that every wanna be actor, writer, director goes to get their feet wet. Kudos as well for the writing and directing.

I'm also glad that this movie avoided the dreaded teens always making stupid decisions. It's well worth the watch.
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2/10
Grave waste of time
13 September 2024
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When a movie is this predictable it's not scary. Too much of it is the same as the first. Both movies have very unlikeable characters but this movie spends an inordinate amount of time making this group even more unlikeable. With the exception of the hot chick which was the second person to die, I wanted all of them dead after that.

The evil doctor experimenting on patients, the pentagram, etc... seems stolen from The House On Haunted Hill. What really blew this movie into forgetfulness is them escaping, driving back to their hotel, and then getting in the hotel elevator only to have it transport them back to the asylum. This makes absolutely no sense at all. What little credibility existed vanished with that.

To make matters worse they bring back the most annoying character from the first movie. He's been there nine years eating rats but he still has all his teeth. Don't get me started on the stupidity of the red door.

I belong in an asylum for even rating it a two.
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2/10
Bad doggy, baaad doggy
14 August 2024
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Why an American werewolf in Paris? They already had a whole clan of them right there. They could have just done a story around all of that and just called it The Werewolves Of Paris.

Ok, the CGI werewolf transformations are horrible but that isn't what ruined this movie. The opening showed promise. The bungee jump off the Eiffle Tower was a bit of a rush but after that it's downhill.

The protaganist, played by Thomas Everett Scott, has no redeeming qualities. There is nothing appealing about his character. The actor himself has no screen presence. He uttered his lines as if it were a table read. How many times do we need to see him run off in his boxer shorts? That's just bad writing.

To be fair to him, none of the other actors were that good either. You didn't care at all what happened to them.

I gave it a two... one for each of Julie Delpy's breasts.
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The Rig (2010)
1/10
Bad in every direction
20 July 2024
There's hope for wannabe actors, writers, directors, and editors. Just watch this mess and you'll know you can do better. How anyone put up the money to make this is a mystery Sherlock Holmes couldn't figure out.

Whenever I see bad acting in a horror movie and I mean really bad because in most horror movies, well you get the idea. I side with the creature, boogeyman, whatever, and hope they all die.

William Forsyth must have needed a paycheck or he lost a bet. He's probably happy he was killed off early. The character played by Scott Martin had the same stupid expression throughout the entire movie. Any decent director would never let an actor look that bad. Steven Seagal or Chuck Norris, two of the most wooden actors ever would have done a better job. He's a shoe-in if he's offered a role playing a statue.

Save your time on this one because you'll never get it back.
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1/10
It gets a 1 because I can't go any lower
11 July 2024
What a piece of crap. This one by far is the worst of all the Halloween movies. How can they justify making such garbage?

Not one single character is likeable. I was actually hoping Michael Myers would kill them all particularly the two that actually survived. I wanted them to die because of their pathetic acting. Bianca Kajlich is being stalked by the most famous serial killer in that neck of the woods and her reactions are so slow and bland.

When she came out of hiding with a chainsaw already roaring totally did me in. I mean who wouldn't hear her cranking it up? At that point I was all in on Michael killing her in the worst way.

This movie was so dumb that I feel like I got dumber for sitting through it. Don't waste your time. It's too precious to give even a second to this mess.
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The Shallows (2016)
6/10
Not bad but....
10 July 2024
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Okay, Blake Lively is most definitely eye candy and as a result I have to assume the shark is a male. The set up is good, there are some nice surfing visuals, and it is suspenseful which is what keeps you watching.

Here's the problem. You definitely have to suspend reality. A shark that has a whole whale carcass to itself isn't going to bother going after anything else. She clearly would have had time to get out of the water.

If you believe Matt Hooper from Jaws, sharks have a slow digestive system so after pigging out on the whale the shark would not be hungry.

The shark makes three successful kills, all males but can't bring down the girl that it had a hold of. Well, we wouldn't have a movie had it succeeded.

It's not the best shark movie ever but it's far from the worst. It's worth a watch and I rated it a 6 on the suspense.
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It Waits (2005)
2/10
It Waits so I Waited...
30 June 2024
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For something worthwhile to happen. The only thing that could have given this movie another star is if Cerina Vincent were to take off her top.

If you're going to wait, no pun intended, to show us the creature until the end of the movie at least build some suspense. Cerina at first showed a bit of sex appeal but that all went out the door when she started acting. No Oscar here.

Then the credibility started falling apart all over the place. She has a high powered rifle with no kickback and she doesn't even take aim. She does all this physical stuff like lots of walking, running, burying three bodies, and absolutely no sweat on her person.

Her boss shows up and sees that she's got a major injury to her leg but deems it more important to check out the dam. Out of nowhere the last Mohican shows up and he knows just about everything regarding the creature except that it likes shoving a big stick up your ass.

Save your time and pick something else. It Waits will definitely keep you waiting for absolutely nothing.
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1/10
Should be rated a minus 1
28 June 2024
What happens when you have a budget of about 100 dollars? You get the worst werewolf movie I have ever seen.

The werewolf costume looked like someone just threw on an oversized bear rug. The writing was so atrocious one has to ask why anyone even took the time to write something so bad and then think it was good enough to make into a movie.

The acting was god awful. I wonder if either lead was embarrassed seeing themselves in this mess. I wouldn't even want this on my resume'. I would outright deny it was me in the movie claiming it must be a lookalike. Neither character had any redeeming qualities and you just want them both to die not for being stupid but to end the horrific acting.

Anyone with aspirations of making it as a writer, director, or an actor need only watch this because by midway you'll know you can do much better.
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3/10
Nope - pass on it
23 June 2024
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Fright Night meets The Girl Next Door except none of the girls can hold a candle to Elisha Cuthbert. The acting is atrocious in many scenes but that could also be because the horrible writing gave them nothing to work with.

The characters of Victoria, the vampire next door and Martin the dweeb were very unlikeable especially Martin. Someone should tell these actors that if you play a character so unlikeable it negatively affects your future viewership. The fans won't like you.

I hate the modern day vampire where now they can live in daylight and that they're not vulnerable to anything. There's no hint of how to kill these creatures except that they can kill each other. Of course they had to satisfy the LGTBQ community by making them lesbian vampire as if anyone gives a fart.

More could be said but I already wasted enough of my time by watching the movie.
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Tamara (2005)
1/10
The horror is how horrible this is
22 June 2024
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It started off okay but when the stupidity started it never stopped. How come in a school setting you don't see any other teachers? How come the hospital looks like hardly anyone is there especially with two killers on the loose? How come the English teacher's wife is still in her own clothes and not wearing standard hospital blues? I guess the miniscule budget for the movie didn't allow for some authenticity.

How come the English teacher didn't just throw Tamara off the roof? How come the English teacher's wife after just seeing her husband die doesn't even shed a tear?

Want to be just as stupid and waste 90 plus minutes of your life? The watch this movie.
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Under Paris (2024)
4/10
Entertaining but...
14 June 2024
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From the very beginning I'm asking myself why is there a mile long trail of plastic and nobody's cleaning it up? Then the protagonist named Sophia, dives in the water to try and save her husband, she's already held her breath for a long time, and gets dragged further into the deep. She's screaming underwater thereby letting out oxygen and we're supposed to believe she didn't drown?

Is it entertaining? Yes but, don't try and figure things out. It's filled with the typical shark movie cliches and dumb ass stupid people who deserve to be entree's.

I know longer question how certain movies get funded after Sharknado and trust me, there are more shark movies out there that are way worse than this such a Meg 2.
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Blood Diamond (2006)
8/10
Fabulous
9 June 2024
There's no such thing as a perfect movie though some come awfully close and this is one of them. The flaws are so few that they're not worth mentioning.

From the writing, to the cinematography, to the directing, it's all spectacular but it's the performances that are absolutely stellar.

Leonardo DiCaprio continues to put out great performances giving the movie goer their money's worth. Now with the hopefully not permanent retirement of Daniel Day Lewis, DiCaprio has moved to the front of today's best actor. He had that accent down pat. He lost the Oscar to Forrest Whitaker who I can't argue was very deserving.

On the other hand, Djimon Hounsou got ripped off. Alan Arkin who won for Little Miss Sunshine can't even compare. Hounsou's role was so much larger and way way more demanding. The only reason I can suspect for Hounsou not winning the Oscar is that he is hardly known compared to Arkin plus the Academy is bias toward their own and to the elderly who may not get another crack at the award but again, it's bias. The award is suppose to go to the best performance.

This movie is very much worth watching and I believe it speaks the truth about an industry filled and manipulated by greed.
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Tarot (I) (2024)
1/10
Bad just plain bad
4 June 2024
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If you were to do a tarot reading about this movie it would tell you to not watch it. It's derivative, it's cliched, it's predictable, and you hope there will never be a sequel.

This is Final Destination with Tarot cards - period. It's virtually that same thing. We were stupid enough to open a portal where we're all dying one by one. Finally a couple of people figure it out now let's see if we can cheat death. Oh, here's someone who survived it before, let's go see how she did it. And the incredible coincidence that she just so happens to live nearby. Need I go on?

How these movies get financed and get distribution is beyond me but for all of you wanna be film makers, actors, and writers, there's hope for you. Just do better than this.
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The Fall Guy (2024)
1/10
Just plain bad
26 May 2024
This is the worst movie I've seen in a long time. It's a snooze fest, totally boring. Deceptive marketing lures you in by showing you almost all the action in the previews. After the first sixty minutes I almost stopped watching but out of respect for Ryan and Emily I thought, "Maybe the second half is better." WRONG!

There was maybe six minutes of action in the first hour. In the second hour I stopped caring. I kept fast forwarding it bit by bit to see if anything worthwhile would happen.

The best part were the credits. I was glad that they gave the real Fall Guy, Lee Majors a cameo and Heather Thomas as well.

One thing is absolutely certain, I won't ever watch this movie again.
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3/10
Mediocre at best
26 May 2024
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This movie is a sign that these monster movies are going the way of many of the MCU movies after End Game, which means they're not very good.

All that Iwi stuff seems contrived. The way too human traits given to the apes is absolutely ridiculous. The Dan Stevens character as a veterinarian whose training just happened to include dentistry on a giant ape and he just so happened to have a giant tooth on hand is beyond silly. In addition to that, he travels to hollow earth in the same ship as everyone else but when Kong needs medical attention again, his vet vehicle just happens to be down there where a giant mechanical glove probably a prototype when Tony Stark was designing Veronica, coincidentally is also down there.

Brian Tyree Henry's character is there for comedic relief and nothing else. This was a poorly written movie and if they should do another one it better be a lot better than this mess or they're going to lose their fan base but if that should happen they'll probably just reboot the whole damn thing.
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3/10
Huh?
25 May 2024
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Where do I begin? Horrible writing for one. Randall Wallace attempted to many times to be overly sentimental that it turned out to be embarrassingly mushy. Some of the lines made me cringe particularly when DiCaprio as Louis was trying to impress Christine.

This is my least favorite of DiCaprio's performances. He was miscast. Who in their right mind is going to believe that after wearing an iron mask for 6 years your face which hasn't been cleaned in 6 years has absolutely no blemishes and hardly any beard growth? Come on, at least give us some pimples.

Gabriel Byrne is the only one who did a fine job with what he was given but it's not the fault of the other actors that they were given so little to work with. Jeremy Irons as Aramis was ok until the scene to break out Phillipe from prison. Who's going to believe that he actually had a full grown man underneath his clothing? Not realistic at all. It didn't even look right.

I love the Three Musketeers but don't wait until the last 10 minutes to give me swordplay. That's what they were known for.

The best line in the whole movie was uttered by Edward Atterton who played Lieutenant Andre when he said " Magnificent valor. " He said even more with his eyes while saying that line.

I need to go watch a real Three Musketeers movie to cleanse me from this mess.
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6/10
Not bad at all
20 April 2024
I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Well written, it has you guessing all the time. The comedy is a bit over the top but I think that was intentional, it's campy.

Every role was played to perfection. No one was miscast. The comedic timing was on point by all the actors. The one that surprised me the most was Milana. She was the only one I was familiar with because of the AT&T commercials. She was so cute. I hope she gets offered more roles. She definitely has some comedic chops.

All n all it was a nice twist on the werewolf genre. I knew nothing going in. I was expecting a true werewolf horror movie and got a very entertaining horror/comedy. I hope they make a sequel or prequel. It deserves one.
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I Kill Giants (2017)
7/10
Better than expected
9 April 2024
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I thought I would be watching a full on fantasy flick about killing giants only to discover it ain't that. It is a good movie reminding us of how fragile some of us are when the going gets tough. Some of us have a hard time coping and like so many we invent a world where we come out on top, winners, and heroes.

I'm not familiar with the comics but I read where the comics teach young kids how to deal with tragedy. Even adults need to learn this because for a lot of adults, drifting off into fantasy is replaced with drugs and alcohol or we just try to mentally run away from our problems and hope they'll go away on their own so we won't have to confront them.

This movie is worth the watch and Madison Wolfe did a fantastic job as Barbara. The only question I have is since it's Barbara's fantasy world where only she sees the giants then why does her friend Sophia notice what is quite clearly the humungous footprint of a giant in the forest?

Go ahead and give it a try. It may even bring a tear to your eye.
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7/10
Worth Your Time
28 March 2024
This was a very good installment to the Bourne franchise. Jeremy Renner is always good in anything he does and so is Rachel Weisz. The supporting cast rounds out nicely.

The story apparently happens around the time of the last Bourne movie which explains more or less what happened to Pamela Landy which I was wondering about after watching Jason Bourne. They make it seem as if Ezra Kramer and Noah Vosen actually got away with it while completely discrediting Pamela Landy. One must assume that in their efforts to wipe the slate clean that something will eventually happen to all personnel even remotely connected to Blackbriar and Treadstone.

This is a very good movie and the fight scenes are top notch. Aaron Cross would make a perfect successor to Jason Bourne. It's a shame there won't be any more Aaron Cross movies. At least not with Jeremy Renner. His accident and the fact that 12 years have gone by render him probably incapable of handling the physicality of the role.
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Noah (2014)
2/10
Just plain bad
8 March 2024
Worst Russell Crowe movie ever and I'm sure the other actors wish they could take this one off their resume's as well. What was their source material because it certainly wasn't the bible?

I understand taking some creative/literary license but this went way too far. If you're going to make a biblical movie then you must know that the majority of your audience are going to be Christians. You know, the church going bible reading kind that know truth from fiction. This movie disappoints on every level.

According to Noah those in the ark are the last of mankind and when the youngest dies that's it. Well then what was the point in even saving them? Ham and Japheth have no wives, Tubal Cain who murdered Noah's father when Noah was just a boy, sneaks onto the ark and doesn't appear any older looking than Noah.

There are way too many discrepancies to mention and they aren't really worth the time to write about and neither is watching this travesty.
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The Marvels (2023)
2/10
Don't waste your time...
8 February 2024
... with this dribble. It wasn't anything like any of the other marvel movies. It lacked excitement, it lack suspense, just plain bad all the way around. I blame the writing and the director.

When hiring actors make sure there is at least some measure of chemistry between them. Brie Larson looked uninterested and it wouldn't surprise me if she declines to continue the role. Samuel Jackson was a shadow of the tough authoritative Nick Fury were accustomed too. The other actors were so bad they don't deserve to be mentioned by name. I will say that Zawe Ashton was down right pathetic. In her defense it was probably like the others a gross miscasting.

If this wasn't the worst Marvel movie to date it's definitely top 3.
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5/10
Should Have Been Better
7 February 2024
The DC universe just can't compete with the MCU and I don't know why. As a kid in the sixties, the two most popular super heroes were Superman and Batman and maybe that's why the other super heroes just aren't taken to serious.

Jason Momoa is a good Aquaman but give him more to seek his teeth into instead of cheesy one liners thrown in with CGI action. The brotherly love at the end was very predictable. Even I could figure out that a cheeseburger was going to be in there somewhere.

I don't know. Maybe these comic book stories have reached there limit but if they don't start putting out better stuff the losses will be huge at the box office. Aquaman would have been better off placing a call to his Justice League buddy Superman and everything would have been resolved in no time at all.
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Bullet Train (2022)
7/10
Tangerine and Lemon...
5 December 2023
...steal the show in this one. Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry are absolutely sublime in this movie. Every character is perfectly cast and everyone played their part beautifully yet Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry stand out above the others. I'm hoping someone will write a prequel for Tangerine and Lemon.

They have such wonderful chemistry. I don't know if Taylor-Johnson speaks naturally with a cockney accent or not but if he doesn't then his accent is spot on.

It's not very often that I will watch a movie again because of a particular character but this is one of those movies for me.

It's obvious that they're worth the price of the ticket but so is everyone else to be honest. It's a fun movie, never boring, with a bunch of little twists and turns that keep you engaged.
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