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Barry Newman (204 KP) rated San Andreas (2015) in Movies
Apr 12, 2020 (Updated Apr 12, 2020)
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Movie Watch
After a successful mission in international territories, the G.I. Joes realize too late that their...
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Captain Phillips (2013)
Movie Watch
Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship...
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Law & Order
TV Show
Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and...
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1
TV Season
It's all change at the Las Vegas Crime Lab following the shooting death of Holly Gribbs ("Pilot"),...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 5
TV Season Watch
Sarah Michelle Gellar takes on the role of Buffy Summers in this TV version of "Buffy the Vampire...
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Bob Mann (459 KP) rated Central Intelligence (2016) in Movies
Sep 29, 2021
The story is pretty inconsequential, and used as a framework to build set pieces around. Kevin Hart (“Ride Along”) plays Calvin Joyner – the life and soul of his high school and the guy voted ‘Most likely to succeed’. He’s also a nice guy, sensitively covering the modesty of overweight loser Robbie Wheirdicht (a good Dwayne Johnson lookalike actually played by internet wedding-dance sensation Sione Kelepi) after he’s been ridiculed by bullies in front of the whole school.
But sometimes life doesn’t go to plan and twenty year’s later Calvin may have married his high school sweetheart Maggie (Danielle Nicolet) but has ended up in a low-level forensic accountancy job and not where he wants to be.
Robbie on the other hand has transformed his life and physique to become Bob Stone (Dwayne Johnson), a man with a ‘certain set of skills’ and, as it turns out, a rogue CIA operative. Bob is on the trail of financial codes to help identify the location of the traitorous ‘Black Badger’ who killed his long-term partner Stanton (Aaron Paul). But the Black Badger could be anyone, and the CIA lead (Amy Ryan) suspects it might actually be Stone. With the stakes rising the inept Joyner needs to make a decision on who to trust and who to fear.
The comedy lead Kevin Hart previously impressed with “Get Hard” and raises a few laughs in this one, notably with his attempt at his signature flip twenty years later than he should have attempted it! Johnson’s character is written to be just plain weird and with Johnson’s limited acting range (think Arnie in “Jingle All The Way”) it’s a performance that is on the outlandish side of bizarre. Together the duo make for a likeable pair but this is a very lightweight comedy and is generally a smile-along rather than a laugh-along. It is also uneven in tone, occasionally straying into highly un-comedic territory: a throat-ripping out scene anyone?
The director is Rawson Marshall Thurber who previously directed the better comedy “Dodgeball” and the far worse “We’re the Millers”. So that should set your expectations.
A fairly ho-hum comedy which might entertain you on a long plane flight but is not worth forking out much cash to rent.
New Expressions in Origami Art: Masterworks from 25 Leading Paper Artists
Meher McArthur and Robert J. Lang
Book
This origami art book features the work of 25 contemporary master folders who are among the most...
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BackToTheMovies (56 KP) rated Triple Threat (2019) in Movies
Jun 26, 2019
Starring an action fan’s dream team of Iko Uwais, Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White, Tony Jaa, and Tiger Chen. The various beat-downs that these guys dish out look beyond lethal. I loved the real-deal explosions and Jonathan Hall’s slick and steady cinematography which highlighted the insane choreography. Matthew Lorentz’s crisp editing wastes not a moment of the basic but hard-charging script by Joey O’Bryan, Fangjin Song, and Paul Staheli. But let’s be honest, we’re not here to experience Shakespearean-level swaths of dialogue. Triple Threat exists as an outlet for extreme thrills and near-constant mayhem.
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Nelson: Love and Fame
Book
The story of Horatio Nelson's life - his naval glory, public fame, charismatic leadership,...