Madbatdan82 (341 KP) rated Nightwatch (1998) in Movies
Mar 16, 2019
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
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Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40...
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
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In the early 1950s, Eddie Mannix is busy at work trying to solve all the problems of the actors and...
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
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Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and the other Avengers join forces with the Guardians of the Galaxy...
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Erika (17788 KP) rated Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) in Movies
Jun 30, 2018
I think savage is the perfect word to describe this film. The release was probably not the best timing, but it does seem to accurately portray the coyotes.
Josh Brolin is on a roll this year, and I don't mind that this is his third film released in the span of a few months. Del Toro was excellent, yet again. Some of the plot dragged a bit at the end, but I was completely engaged the whole time.
I was glad that the last scene was so tension-filled, yet again, like in the last film. I won't say anything else about it, since it'd be a semi-spoiler.
Only The Brave (2017)
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All men are created equal… then, a few become firefighters. Only the Brave, based on the true...
Everest, Revised and Updated: Mountain Without Mercy
Broughton Coburn and Conrad Anker
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The May 1996 climbing season on Mount Everest will go down in infamy. Its story has been recounted...
Deadpool 2 (2018)
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After surviving a near fatal knee boarding accident , a disfigured guidance counsellor (Wade Wilson)...
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Jonah Hex (2010) in Movies
Feb 28, 2021
- a lot of stuff happened before that title card that it's already incoherent
- wait, Michael Fassbender is in this?
- I can't see what's happening
- ah sweet, it's the dude from Mastodon.
- wait, Will Arnett is in this?
- Megan Fox really drew the short straw on a lot of her movie projects
- is that Michael Shannon!?
- ah sweet, it's the dude from John Wick.
- wait, Jeffrey Dean Morgan is in this!?
- once again, couldn't see what the fuck was happening because of the piss poor lighting, but Jonah Hex is nearly dead again, apparently.
- Ah cool, here's a mid-runtime action heavy sequence, still can't tell what's happening.
- wait....nope, it's over.
Christ, this movie is a blurry mess that's impressively hard to follow considering its short runtime. I love the Jonah Hex comics, I tend to enjoy Josh Brolin and John Malkovich, how is this such a trainwreck?
That Mastodon soundtrack is badass though.
Lee (2222 KP) rated Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) in Movies
Jul 3, 2018
In Sicario: Day of the Solado (or just Sicario 2: Soldado here in the UK...), the brutal intensity is introduced right from the start. A suicide bomber blows himself up at the U.S. - Mexican border. Then, in a Kansas supermarket, terrorists enter and detonate two bombs, followed by a third which is detonated while a woman and child plead to be set free. It's shocking, upsetting, and sticks with you uncomfortably for a while, serving as a push to get you behind federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) as he's brought in to start a war between the Mexican drug cartels. The plan has something to do with securing the border from terrorists, which kind of doesn't make much sense, but after the events in the opening scenes, you just want somebody to get out there and kick some ass. And with the promise that he's allowed to play things "dirty", you know that Josh Brolin is more than capable. He locates and recruits Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) to help him out, with the promise of getting revenge against the family responsible for the death of his own family. They kidnap the daughter of a top gang boss, and attempt to blame it on a rival gang. But things don't go according to plan.
Like the original, there are plenty of intense, well executed scenes, but this just didn't grip me in the same way as the first movie did. Benicio Del Toro is just brilliant, but the lack of Emily Blunt was noticeable. Still a very enjoyable movie though.