Big Al Reviews
Movie reviews and more by Albert DeSantis
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Red One
3 outta 5 Red One is an action-comedy Christmas film, which feels a lot like the superhero FX blockbusters of the last few years, with big brawls and lots of quips. It is trying so hard to be bombastic and outsized it ends up being a bit too long, cutting out about fifteen minutes from
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Brothers
4 outta 5 Brothers is an amusingly zany movie about low rent crooks that also doubles as a dysfunctional family reunion story. It is billed as an “action comedy” but there probably isn’t a lot of action, aside from one madcap chase on a golf course, and the finale features some big mishaps involving a
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The Apprentice
4 outta 5 The Apprentice is the biographical film about the early days of Donald Trump that shows nasty events and rich people being terrible. Biographical movies come with a disclaimer that this was based on real events, but certain events and names have been fictionalized. That disclaimer is usually at the end of the
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