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Daniel Boyd (1066 KP) rated Central Intelligence (2016) in Movies

Aug 11, 2017

Central Intelligence (2016)

2016 | Action, Comedy

6.9

(22 Ratings)

Movie Rating

The vast majority of the jokes fall flat (1 more)

Kevin Hart

Disappointed

The trailers for this movie looked okay, I'm sick to the back teeth of Kevin Hart, but I am a big fan of The Rock and the film looked fairly humorous. It wasn't going to get me into the cinema, but it did enough to warrant me to check it out once it left the cinema. Then the movie was recommended to me by several people who had been to see it, so I stuck it on, expected to have sore sides from laughing. I'm still waiting for the hilarious movie that I was promised by the folk who recommended this.
I chuckled maybe a total of 4 times during the movies runtime and the 4 times I chuckled were during scenes that I had already seen in the trailers. I can't be the only one that is fed up with Kevin Hart doing the exact same shtick in every film he shows up in and he doesn't do anything to redeem himself here. Even The Rock, the most charismatic man in Hollywood, can't save this mess.
Give it a skip, just don't bother. Watch the trailers for a few chuckles and then go watch a funnier movie. It's not even an awful movie, it's just not funny and frankly boring at times.

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Andy K (10823 KP) rated Bone Tomahawk (2015) in Movies

Feb 25, 2018

Bone Tomahawk (2015)

2015 | Action, Horror, Western

7.4

(22 Ratings)

Movie Rating Watch

The Citizen Kane of horror westerns

First of all, any time a movie combines two of my favorite things, in this case, a western and Kurt Russell, you have a recipe for success.

Certainly not for the squeamish or faint of heart, the horribly awesome brutality in this film rivals any I have seen in my life and that's saying a lot.

The plot is your basic four men set out to find and rescue several townspeople who have been kidnapped by horrible cave-dwelling "Indians" who no one seems to know anything about. Along the way, they have to face the elements of the weather, their own injuries and the eminent threat of encountering the ferocious beats that they are always on edge.

Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins and Matthew Fox are all also wonderful as the men who set off with Russell on their rescue quest.

For what the movie sets out to do, it succeeds wholeheartedly. Thoroughly engaging throughout, I was glued to my seat the entire time and the 135 minute runtime goes by in a flash.

In reading about it afterwards, it is unbelievable to me the movie was shot in only 21 days and for only $1.8 million.

Who says creativity is dead in Hollywood? Just takes great writing. I'd watch this before Iron Man 12 anytime.

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KarenRC (6 KP) rated The Anomaly in Books

Jul 23, 2018

The Anomaly

Michael Rutger | 2018 | Science Fiction/Fantasy, Thriller

7.7

(6 Ratings)

Book Rating

Former screenwriter turned YouTuber Nolan Moore, has been leading his team and viewers on adventures to uncover mysteries in various locations, with increasingly disappointing results. His latest expedition takes them to the Grand Canyon in search of a cavern previously found by an old explorer that Nolan wants to see for himself. With his trusty team around him they head off, but after searching for two days, they start to lose hope. Just as they are about to give up and go home, they spot something high up on the canyon wall and for the first time, Nolan is convinced that he has finally uncovered an actual mystery. But what is the secret hidden in the cavern? And just how much are they going to wish that they had never found it?!
I am really excited to hear that the film rights for this book have been picked up because it is written like a Hollywood blockbuster. Not surprising really as the author is in fact a screenwriter from California! But after a bit of a slow start, the action picks up and it is then a fast-paced adventure. In the vein of Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider with some brilliant characters, especially Ken, I can definitely see this on the big screen and can't wait to see who they cast.

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David McK (3557 KP) rated The Ultimates, Volume 1: Super-Human in Books

Jan 28, 2019

I only picked this up recently out of curiosity when Marvel started doing a hard-backed comic-book collection, to see what it would be like.

Now I've read it, I have to say: I wasn't really that impressed by this. Written pre Joss-Whedon's Avengers movie (and even pre the Marvel Cinematic Universe), I found pretty much all of the characters within to be unlikeable and uninteresting: while you can get away with the former, the latter, however, is a major flaw (IMO) in any story.

I don't know whether that's because I associate the characters more with their big-screen counter-parts than with how they are presented here (both of which, incidentally, are designed to show how the team comes together), with Hank Pym, in particular, coming across as a bit of a jerk while Betty Ross (Bruce Banner's girlfriend) also comes across as, well, just not that pleasant at all.

On the plus side, I did like the (somewhat meta) panels where they were all discussing who would play themselves in the Hollywood adaptation ...

I also noticed that, unlike their movie counterparts, they are able to use the term 'mutants': a term which, I believe, Marvel are unable to use on the big (or small) screen as it is licensed to Fox instead .