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God's Not Dead: In God We Trust (2024)
Why make religion political?
So 9 minutes into watching I had to press the pause button, because I could not refrain myself from making a contribution. So, not having watched the whole move, yet, I decided to post a comment.
This is the fifth installment of the God's Not Dead franchise I believe. Now the first two installments I found extremely interesting and as I am a Christian I thoroughly enjoyed them.
But from then on I have noticed the franchise has gotten more political in its narrative.
Now I am a moderate conservative, and I dislike a lot of the new far left ideologies and views, especially on encouraging children in schools to express themselves what gender they are, and gender transitioning and the use of school bathrooms and locker rooms, all of which I vehemently disagree on.
But to me this government conspiracy to erradicate religion theme that the franchise has adopted makes me really uncomfortable.
I am going back to watching the rest of the movie which I already dislike after watching only 9 minutes.
China O'Brien (1990)
LOL
I cannot believe that back when I first saw this thrity-four years ago I thought it was a very cool movie.
Out of boredom I decided to stream this after all these years. I could not stop laughing from start to finish. The acting is so ammateurish it is unbelieveable. The dialogue is so corny it's like an 18 certificate scooby doo!
The aufio is terrible. The music is even worse. I also cannot believe the same guy who directed the great Enter the Dragon also directed this.
Having said all of the above I must point out Cynthia's martial arts skills were truly amazing. Her famous scorpion kick which is her signature move was a delight. Cynthia's moves were about the only highlights of this below average martial arts movie.
Jackpot! (2024)
Real bag of fun!
I don't know where to start! I thoroughly enjoyed this action packed comedy that starred John Cena and Awkwafina. Cena needs no introductions I have seen countless number of his movies, and I must reiterate I am not at all a wrestling fan. I just like his movies like I like Dwayne Johnson and his movies.
Awkwafina I really do not know much about but I have seen her in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, Renfield and Jumanji: the Next Level. I find her absolutely funny with lots of talent.
The story line was pretty much crazy and daft but I was sold. I found it to be very funny. All the cast performed very well, and SPOILER ALERT: the long teaser at the end while the end credits were running was just the icing on this fun-packed cake.
It was nice to see Seann Scott Thomas again. I confess I had not seen him in anything for a good number of years. Well, from what I have watched. Other cast members who stood out for me were Holmes aka Constance the Ride Share Driver and Ayden Mayeri aka Shadi among a number of others.
I will not spoil the movie by giving a rundown of the plot, suffice to say I recommend this totally daft but really funny movie!
Line of Duty (2019)
Flawed is an understatement
This is beyond a far-fetched concept. In real life cops would not allow film crew following them around (unless cleared by mayor or police chief for reality tv) let alone allow a nosey teenage citizen journalist follow them around in life and death situations and livestream.
The main cast, Eckhart, Meyer and Esposito, in spite of being good veteran actors could not save this disaster of a movie. Like I said the story was beyond unbelievable. Just an average entertainment for kids 13 to 16 age range.
The most annoying character was nosey Nancy Drew aka Ava. By the way Ava directly got those cops killed. Why? Because of her livestream which was picked up by a tv news channel and was being broadcast, the second kidnapper knew their location and got there and started shooting. If you have not seen this yet you have not missed much, and you can survive with giving it a miss!
Echoes (2022)
Absolute rubbish!
This has to be one of the stupidest dumbest things I've ever watched. The plot is confusing from beginning to the end.
Basically my take from the whole thing was that it was about identical bordering on lesbian incest twins, who were sick and kinky and kept swapping their lives, their husbands in other words. It seems like the husbands knew about the whole swap thing and quite enjoyed it too, well seems like Gina's husband Charles did anyway.
All the characters were drab and mediocre at best, and the most annoying of them all was the sheriff. I have no idea what was going through Michelle's mind taking part in this. I'm sure she must have read the script and if that did not confuse her then I do not know what did.
I cannot believe I wasted five something hours of my life watching this. There was no mystery, there were no twists, there were no holes in the plot, the whole plot was a big hole itself. I found Twin Peaks easier to follow than this, and that says a lot!!!
Out of Death (2021)
Actually Lala Kent (female cop) was very good
One contributor heavily criticized Lala Kent and her performance. I actually disagree. I think Lala Kent is a good actress. I have seen her in a number of other Bruce Willis movies and her acting is very convincing.
I liked the storyline. All the characters performed well in their roles. Jamie King was very good.
In this movie, sadly one can notice Bruce Willis change in demeaner. In some scenes his lines are slow and dragged on. I think this was the early stages of his disease. Nevertheless he was still very good, considering that he did all his scenes in one day because of COVID-19, and that is impressive.
So it's a thumbs up from me.
Reptile (2023)
Superb!
This is one of the best movies of the 2020s I've seen to-date. The plot and continuity were spot on. Another movie I can compare it to is Copland, which had a common denominator with this one: corrupt cops!
Del Toro is a unique actor. He is in a league of his own and no one else could play his role in the movies he has been in. He was superb in Sicario and its sequel Sicario: Day of the Soldado. All the rest of the cast, which included several well known veteran names, were also spot on. Alicia Silverstone was on top form, and it was nice to see Eric Bogosian, whom I had not seen or watched anything of in years.
There was suspense throughout the movie. To some it might have seemed that the pace was too slow and it dragged on to get to the point, but I disagree, it was very well done.
The soundtrack was also very good with really good song choices. I highly recommend this movie, and as I have said on several occasions I usually do not rate movies unless they catch my eye and I really like them, and this is one of them and gets all the stars from me!
Unsung Hero (2024)
Superb!
This is the second movie with Joel Smallbone that I have seen. The other one is Priceless (2016), with him in the lead and also stars Amber Midhunter. That too was an excellent movie with a great soundtrack, the main song played by For King and Country..
Now I will admit Joel is not an outstanding actor, nonetheless he is convincing enough, and I cannot blame him at all since he is a singer and musician first and foremost.
Joel and his brother Luke's band For King and Country is a Christian band. Their sister Rebecca St. James is a solo artist and also a Christian singer.
I loved this movie because it gave an insight of the life of this Australian family, their struggles, their faith and their amazing bond.
Priceless was also an excellent movie, which highlighted women's exploitation. The movie inspired Joel to start a movement in support of exploited and abused women.
Father of the Bride Part II (1995)
No improvement to the first movie!
This one is as bad as the first one if not worse! Annie continues to be annoying and selfish, with wanting to take up a promotion and move acros the country to Boston. Oh and Martin Short is extremely cringy as he was in the first one. And that stupid accent of his which was beyond ridiculous. The extreme fakeness of it. Can't call it a French, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish or Slavic accent, just a stupid made up accent.
It seems like the Banks family have banks of money and resources (pun intended). He sells the house, buys it back with extra 100K payment. Throws a lavish baby shower. Remodels the house.
Steve Martin has always been one of my favourite comedians and he has shined in countless number of other comedies but in the first movie and this sequel he wasn't very good. I blame the script and story lines.
Oddly enough out of all the actors I thought Kieran Culkin was the better performer in both movies. As in the first movie from seeing them both originally all those years ago and watching them again in 2024 I changed my mind about liking them. They are both horrible entertainment if you can call them that.
Father of the Bride (1991)
Sorry to be a sour puss!
Having watched this originally 33 years ago, I liked it at the time, even better than the Spencer Tracy original. But having watched it all these years later I actually was not impressed and didn't like it. I guess I have turned into a grumpy old man a lot of people would say.
But here's my take. The Banks are a happy upper middle class family living in the nice suburbs. Their daughter Annie is away studying in Europe and she is returning home on a school break. George the father is ecstatic and gets off work early and rushes home to greet his beloved daughter.
While having dinner Annie drops a huge bomb by telling them she met someone and they are in love and want to get married. Things soon spiral out of control when everyone else seems to decide how to go with the wedding, from wedding planner to cake to wedding dress, venue, food and even live swans yes, live swans.
George helplessly is being taken by the current without having a say in the matter, only to be accosted when he does make a suggestion. The parents meet Brian the groom's parents only to find out that they are very rich.
When George goes to get his wedding present he notices out the window Brian's parents have driven up in an expensive sports car as a gift for the couple. Rightfully he feels bad and tries to hide the present, which is a cappuccino maker.
Annie is nothing but a spoilt immature and entitled brat and the proof in the pudding is when she decides to call off the wedding over something so stupid and trivial. Anyway I am sorry to say but I did not like it this time round.
Zero Hour (2023)
The talentless Justin!
All I can say is what were Mikaela and Sarah thinking? This is one of the dumbest movies I have ever had the displeasure of watching. I mean what kind of a plot was that?! He fakes his own murder? No body? No cops?
I suspected this was going to be a terrible movie, even for an Indie, as soon as I saw the opening credits. Writer, director, executive producer, casting director and story writer, and last but not least actor being none other than this Justin Groetsch. Who? Exactly!
The opening credits dragged on for eternity. Too many pointless aerial drone shots. The video/audio was diabolical. I literally had to pause and get my nose almost to the LCD screen to make out the text messages!
I looked up this Justin fella's IMDb. He's been in a few well-known movies but only as additional crew! I was tricked into watching this disaster because I saw Mikaela Hoover and Sarah Dumont, both of whom I like and seen them in a number of movies. I am really disappointed in both of them for agreeing to be cast in this nonethriller joke of a movie!
DO NOT BOTHER WATCHING THIS!
Mystery Island (2023)
Terrible
Oh where to start! I iknow it's a Hallmark movie and therefore the story would be pretty simple and everything, but this was a total disaster.
The amateur sleuthing by the doctor and her dolaly sidekick Jjaniie was beyong ridiculous.
The chemistry/attraction bewteen the detective and the doctor was extremely cringe.
Overall it was so bad that I would not recommend it to anyone, even if they are bored stiff and need to do something with their time. Trust me there are lots of things you can do when you are bored, but watching this is definitely not one of them.
The acting was bordering on pretty bad too!
Sick (2022)
Nothiing memorable
This was just a mediocre slasher movie with hardly any edge-of-the-seat moments. It was another COVID themed movie. I've seen a couple of others but they were quarantine themed.
Once in a while I come across a movie where I despised the protagonist and felt no sympathy towards them whatsoever. This was another one of those movies.
In this instance it was Parker that I despised. She was careless, promiscuous and very much self-centred. I felt sorry for Miri who suffered simply for being there with Parker. I felt sorry for DJ and Mr. Lyons who basically died because of Parker.
I felt sorry for Pamela and her husband and could understand why they were doing what they did. Simple revenge for their son's death because of COVID which they believed Parker was the one that infected their son at the party.
Anyway this was just an average movie which is surprising for Blumhouse because they usually produce some really decent movies.
Wildflower (2014)
Disappointing!
As a Christian I like watching Christian faith-based movies. So naturally this one caught my eye. Suffice to say I was extremely disappointed is an understatement.
The plot moved at a snail's pace. The acting was soulless and drab. The plot was all over the place. Was it a murder mystery, or a supernatural thriller, or a faith movie? I would say none of the aforementioned.
The issues the two main characters, Chloe and Josh, were battling with were not portrayed in a broader way, just enough for us to guess both their predicaments.
Like I said I like faith-based movies, especially if they are true stories such as Miracles from Heaven, Heaven is for Real etc. But this one fell short for me.
Squeaky Clean Mysteries: Hazardous Duty (2022)
Diabolical!
I don't know about the book series because I have not read any of them. But from what I observed watching this TV movie, I found the characters extremely cheesy and mostly stupid.
The detective was totally clueless, and miraculously an ordinary crime scene cleaner happened to be an excellent amateur sleuth, and her neighbor/romantic interest happened to be a lawyer who suddenly became her Batman's Robin.
Oh yes before I forget, the neighbor/romantic interest Mr. Riley Icringe crringe) was absolutely annoying. I don't know if it is his natural personality in real life also, but I have seen in another TV Lifetime Movie where he plays a fireman who also in that movie creeps into the protagonist's life.
Anyway this was one of the worst if not the worst whodunnit TV movies I have ever seen!
The Past Comes Knocking (2024)
WARNING: do not watch this! You'll regret it if you do!
It must be a record for me how quickly I figured out who the killer is. The creepy professor with the thick French accent was annoying to the level of crawling under the skin! They tried to deflect the story by throwing a red herring so we would think we know who the killer is.
The dinner date with Thomas was full of nauseating cheesy dialogue. Oh heck while we're at it, the acting was abysmal on all counts, well with the exception of Autumn the daughter. I that's because she didn't have a longer time in front of the camera.
Thomas continued to be cringy. Gosh I am running out of things to day I hope I made the six-hundred characters, to get this posted.
Mind Over Murder (2005)
Tori at her best being the worst as always!
The only reason Tori Spelling is ever hired is because of her father's name. She has zero talent and creativity, and most of the time she seems to get the roles of sl-tty women with zero moral compass.
To prove my point in this movie she is an assistant DA who is having an affair with a married criminal defense attorney, and early in the movie she loses a murder trial to her lover and his client. I am no law expert, especially American law, but I am pretty sure that this is a case for disbarment of both on grounds of conflict of interest.
Now the movie itself. It starts off like any other crime/thriller movie but it soon spirals out of control and turns into a psychic mind-reading investigator story, with her suddenly getting supernatural powers after a traffic accident.
She is supposed to be this savvy prosecutor and yet she is carrying on with a slimy married lawyer, meeting him in hotel rooms for sex.
To cut a long story short, the storyline was awful, the actors were terrible. Not worth wasting electricity for 90 minutes!
Night of the Hunted (2023)
Terrible!
I honestly do not know what the filmmaker's objective was here. Alice is the supposed protagonist who apparently is trapped by a trigger happy psycho (who served in the military) on a killing rampage and somehow is fixated on Alice and wants to kill her.
I almost immediately disliked Alice when it was revealed early on she was having an affair with a coworker. Even as she gave her sop story about being told what to do by her dad, her husband and her boss, and her diabolical explanation about why she was having an affair and I quote: "I'm not having an affair because I'm in love, I'm having an affair because I'm in pain" failed to get empathy from me or convince me that somehow she is damaged goods.
The killer seemed to know a lot about Alice. She did her best to refute his allegations/ assumptions, but again, that did not convince me.
The movie failed to entertain me on all levels some of which I highlighted above. The little girl at the end was pretty weird. After Alice told her to run she just lingered on and took a really good look at Alice killing the killer and dying herself before she burst into a run followed by end credits, where I had a massive what the hell moment.
For a really good thriller which is gas station themed I highly recommend Open 24 Hours starring the talented Vanessa Grasse and Emily Tennant.
Air Force One Down (2024)
OK-ish...
This could have been a much better movie if a tiny bit of realism had been applied. There is no way on earth that the pilot of Air Force one would not have a Secret Service detail posted at his house and himself.
There is no way on earth that with just one phone call (calling in sick) a replacement pilot would be put on the flight without rigorous Secret Service checks and double and triple checks before clearance.
There is no way on earth so many weapons could be smuggled onto Air Force One, even if the terrorists had someone very close to the POTUS.
Other than that, the movie was ok I suppose. I generally like movies with female butt-kicking leads.
The Marvels (2023)
One more bad review!
One hour and forty-five minutes too long! Absolutely stupid movie with a stupid plot. Captain Marvel was far better than this diatribe. The only characters who were still consistently good were Brie, Samuel and Tessa, all the rest were rubbish. Kamala and Spiderman are in a strong tie for the worst and most annoying Marvel characters!
The music selection was absolutely terrible and at points really really annoying especially 17:55 to 21:00 range in the fighting scenes.
For a minute I thought it was a Bollywood movie, with all the singing and dancing which was nonsensical. The other two MCU movies which were made at the same time, the new Thor and Guardians of the Galaxy movies were far better than this rubbish! I don't know what DaCosta was thinking to be honest!
And yes it is ridiculous how Monica the daughter is two months older than Mary the mother in real life! Was there really a shortage of actresses to play Monica? Really? One more bad review!
On the Line (2022)
Total disaster!
Another example of a Hollywood star well past his/her use-by-date, in this case none other than Mel Gibson. Aside from the Lethal Weapon installments, he had proven himself in other works such as Gallipoli, Ransom, Fatman, Blood Father, the Beaver, Edge of Darkness, Payback, the Man Without a Face. I was not very keen on the Mad Max installments.
The story was a rip off of the superb Michael Douglas and Shaun Penn movie the Game. That movie was superbly done and in a league of its own. This movie looked like a high school kid wrote its script. There was no complexities or real plot twists. Towards the end everything just piled on each other in a very rushed way.
I honestly cannot even say the premise was good but the actual movie was not. The premise was quite diabolical actually. WARNING SPOILER: the practical joker gets his own medicine dished out to him. Nothing shocking.
Don't bother with this one!
Black Adam (2022)
DCverse is getting worse and worse
WW84 and now this! Two back to back crap movies. Oh and now we have a new Batman, Mr. Twilight himself! WTF is going on here?
Anyway Black Adam was absolutely stupid and meaningless. The.kid Amon was annoying from beginning to end. He just didn't know how to shut up! Terrible acting. You could tell he was really excited to be in a real Hollywood movie with big names! It showed in his acting. Karim, Adrianna's brother was also very annoying.
Dwane was just being Dwane and I cannot say anything negative about him
I am a lttile bit confused about this ficticious country. Was it in Africa? Was it an Arab country? Or was it in South America? We have a character named Adrianna Tomaz which is a very Hispanic name, who has a brother called Karim, which is a very Arabic name.
The psycho ruthless killer Waller (Viola Davis) is also in this DC movie. Why can't anyone take down this evil version of Marvel's Fury?
Trunk (2023)
Emmmmm stoopid!
This had all the elements and potential to be a good thriller, but it failed abysmally especially towards the end. It was a little bit similar to Halle Berry's 2012 movie the Caller in some ways.
The concept was pretty good in parts but it got pretty confusing. So she is a doctor and we find out that she made a mistake with a patient and the patient died of kidney failure. And her dad paid off the kid's parents (the Gabriels) so they would not sue his daughter Malina, the main protagonist.
What I do not understand is why and who took Malina's kidney? Apparently the Gabriels had nothing to do with her kidnapping so we can rule them out. And the story got lamer when it is revealed that her boyfriend Enno was involved in the kidnapping plot and apparently he showed no remorse or even inclination to help free Malina even after she begged him and told him she could get more money from her dad and she loved him. He only had a change of heart when Malina sent her sister Mona's ultrasound to him and told him she was pregnant. Only then did he do something but alas the kidnapper killed him and dumped him in the trunk beside Malina.
The melodrama in the trunk with Malina and Enno's corpse did not impress me one bit. Oh and on a final note what the hell was that stupid 1970s style pop song with the end credits?
Laced (2023)
What a mess!
The three reviews posted here are so vague and misleading that when I watched the whole movie it confirmed to me that the reviews were just all over the place.
I despised Molly and especially Victoria from the beginning. Even if allegedly Charlie had done what he had done, murdering him was way over the top. Watching the movie it was pretty much clear to me that Victoria was a total manipulator and control freak. I am sure it was her who put the idea to murder Charlie into her head. Molly came across as naïve and weak and easily manipulated.
Then there is Austin, Molly's brother who is the sensible guy and tries to save Molly from the horrific mess that she has been put into.
I did not like the ending the way Victoria just drives off, but I am hoping that with the cigarette that Austin stuffed into Charlie's mouth, the cops would eventually catch up with Victoria and throw the book at her. Or I would have liked a better ending like Molly killing Victoria as revenge for killing her brother, instead of killing herself by overdosing.
One other thing, I think the little flashback at the end involving Molly Austin and Charlie seemed very pointless to me. It did not answer any unanswered questions for me.
Zoe Gone (2014)
Despicable Jennifer!
If this movie's intention was for the audience to empathise with the Jennifer character, well guess what? It failed miserably. I despised Jennifer from the get go. She was immature, selfish and entitled. The last straw for me was when she said to her baby: "thanks for ruining my life." Emmm, excuse me but who was the one who ruined Jennifer's life in the first place? It was none other than Jennifer herself.
I am writing this review as I am watching the movie. Thirty minutes into the movie I still do not like Jennifer. I cannot blame her mother for the way she confronted her in the park when Zoe was abducted. She was telling the truth after all. Jennifer never wanted the baby and she did leave the baby to her own devices and went off to a party got smashed and she even said she didn't want to go home and wanted to stay at the part a bit longer. It was her friend who was trying to talk her into going home to take care of Zoe.
But seriously the story was so stupid. I mean how quickly Jennifer changed and suddenly became the caring mother desperately trying to find her baby was just silly. And her little prayer to God while holding the little fluffy toy, sorry but it did nothing to make me change my mind on how despicable Jennifer was.
The acting left a lot to be desired. I like Jean Louisa Kelly because she impressed me in Uncle Buck. Oh and I recognized Jeff Branson's voice from somewhere and when I checked his IMDb profile I was not surprised, he was in I Spit on Your Grave opposite Sarah Butler.
The bizarre twist at the end was just stupid. After everything she went through to get Zoe back, she decides to put her up for adoption, her reason being: "what's best for Zoe." Oh really? You don't have to lie. You got what you wanted, your freedom back, no baby to tie you down. Who knows, this might be a lesson for your to keep your legs firmly closed! -10 stars!