Tag: Movie Reviews
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Mission: Impossible III (’06 review)
4 outta 5 The start of Mission Impossible III, with Philip Seymour Hoffman taunting and threatening a simmering, raging Tom Cruise to an explosive conclusion, is one of those grab-you-by-the-throat openers that automatically commands your attention. With an inventive script and direction by TV wonderkid J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost) MI:III manages to match that opening…
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
4 outta 5 There’s a weird release pattern to the (now five) Indiana Jones movies. The Steven Spielberg directed trilogy ran through the 1980s, and then almost two decades for the 4th movie Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and then another long gap until this fifth and apparently final movie, Indiana Jones and the Dial…
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (’08 review)
5 out of 5 The excitement of summer movie season has become diluted with every lame Batman sequel or annoying Speed Racer. Happily, director Steven Spielberg, writer/producer George Lucas, and star Harrison Ford have rejoined to make summer movies awesome again with the fourth Indy adventure, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. …
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Extraction 2
3 outta 5 Extraction 2 certainly delivers some large-scale chaos, which comes in lots of different and incredibly messy forms. There’s prisoner riots, rampaging trains, and buckets of nails to the face. No normal human could survive the amount of punishment that is inflicted here on the main character, but no normal human would be…
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The Flash
4 outta 5 The Flash arrives on a wave of behind-the-scenes thespian controversy and unreasonable hype after Warner Bros studio executives in advance proclaimed it one of the greatest superhero movies ever made. Also, 2023 had genuinely great superhero movies like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and just two weeks ago, Spider-Man: Across the…
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Black Adam (’22 review)
3 outta 5 Black Adam, the latest DC superhero movie in the DC Extended Universe, is more of Shazam! sequel than the marketing admits. However, it is somewhat irritating that the Wizard Shazam is here, the magic transformation word “Shazam!” is said a whole bunch but Shazam himself isn’t mentioned or appears. The movie closely…
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The Suicide Squad (’21 review)
5 outta 5 Writer/director James Gunn delved into the Marvel universe with Guardians of the Galaxy and now he crosses the street to the DC Universe with The Suicide Squad. The result is engaging, messy, hilarious, and oddly kind of joyous war movie crossed with comic book superheroes. With a sprawling cast of characters, each…
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League (’21 review)
3 outta 5 Zack Snyder may be credited as the director of 2017’s Justice League but for him that movie remained unfinished. Snyder suffered a personal tragedy and was fending off studio interference from Warner Brothers so he left the movie which was completed with multiple reshoots by Avengers director Joss Whedon. Years later, Snyder’s…
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Wonder Woman 1984 (’21 review)
3 out of 5 Wonder Woman 1984 is a lot a movie but a lot doesn’t mean bad. At worst it is an ambitious mess. Although there is definitely a bit too much in here that doesn’t quite sustain its way too long two and a half hour running time. WW84’s failure is sequel bloat…
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Birds of Prey (’20 review)
4 outta 5 Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn was a striking character in Suicide Squad and she has gotten her own spin off movie in Birds of Prey And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn. Yes, that is the full title. It may want to be a team up movie but the real star of…
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