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6-Headed Shark Attack (2018)
Like Seriously?
One question on my mind: Who comes up with these utterly ridiculous ideas? A shark with...(wait! Let me count) 1, 2 --4--6 HEADS? Uhh! (collapses).
You wanna make a movie, make something we can at least believe or relate to, either with the CGI or with relatable characters and storylines. Otherwise, just tell us you're making a cartoon. I'd gladly walk into a theatre knowing I'm going to watch a cartoon, than tagging it a monster movie, and seeing a cartoon instead. We can watch cartoons because they are...cartoons. The plots and characters are silly and goofy. You'd have to turn your brain off to enjoy it. And yes, that's what 6-Headed Shark Attack is. Flat characters, insipid plots, lacklustre CGI, and...wait! What's that? It's a shark "walking" on the beach with its heads! UuuH! (collapses again).
42 (2013)
Worth Every Penny!
I decided to see this movie because of Chadwick Boseman. And boy, did I make the right choice! He nailed his performance as black-American Jackie Robinson. Second, baseball's my favorite sport, so I guess even if there were flaws, I might have overlooked them. The final home run score (oh, I mean, music score) was spot on, coupled with Wendell's words, ". . .rounds third, and heads for home, sweet home."
Hey, why do I feel like the end was a bit rushed?
Clash of the Titans (2010)
It's a Remake, Not a Sequel
There is that difference between the remake of a movie, and it's sequel. This is a remake of the 1981 Clash of the Titans; and when you remake movies, you have to stick to the original's thematic elements. This movie didn't quite do that.
For me, the cons slightly outweigh its pros, hence the 4 of 10. Lots of action to enjoy in the movie; and the updated computer imagery adds more fascination to it including the beautiful, super-fast, serpentine gorgon, Medusa (as opposed to the first movie). But, you can't substitute a good storyline with what I've mentioned. Having seen the first film, I thought this would replicate it with updated stuff. The introduction of mysterious, annoying, guardian angel Io, and the djinns; absence of any romantic whatever between Perseus and Andromeda; and change of theme (first movie, love; second, revenge) and much more all made me dislike the movie. Calibos is more aggressive but if he had a lot more to do, it might have helped matters.
The Delta Force (1986)
1980s Classic!
There are some movies you don't know what to say because they're so bad; but I don't know what to say because this is so good! The action theme music, and the ending music that saw the death of McCoy's best friend, composed on a minor key alone snatched all 10 stars in the rating. So, where do I rate the excellent dialogue, "See you when I see you", "Sleep tight, sucker!" flawless acting, and superb editing. Even if the movie has flaws, I can't see them. The music tracks alone, I reiterate, make my day. This is one of Chuck Norris' classics and one I will forever remember him by! Cast and crew were beyond excellent!
Enough writing already. Just go see it for yourself!
5-Headed Shark Attack (2017)
A Scooby Doo Tale
Spoiler Alert!
Let's be frank: there are movies we watch to get a good laugh, and this is one of them for me. Not because of the punch lines in dialogue or scripted humor in the acting, but a number of mistakes beginning with a release poster that's lying, and the overall idea of filming a 5-headed shark terror, (probably) the 5th sequel to the 1999 movie, Shark Attack that already failed to please it's audience; Shark Attack 2 never did, Shark Attack 3 never did, 2-headed Shark Attack was junk, 3-headed Shark Attack was garbage, and 5-headed Shark Attack is crap.
The beautiful scene with the humpback whale (before it was attacked) and the presence of other one-headed sharks, which were about the only things I liked in the movie made up only about 5 minutes of the whole movie. It was easily cancelled out by 115 minutes of poor directing, bad acting, lack of suspense, laughable plot and unrealistic graphic elements.
I didn't get the story quite well, but I get the fact that a 4-headed water predator (the 5th head was practically useless; I'll come to that) was lurking around the waters of Puerto Rico. Shark movies like Deep Blue Sea provide us with believable reasons for the sharks' intelligence, aggression and rampage. This movie simply rules it out as being "new species" that goes about eating everything it can find, including helicopters. I also understand that this is science-fiction, but that's not what I see here. SyFys take us out of what we see everyday, out of planet Earth to other worlds of mutants, giants, myths and monsters, and try to persuade us that what we see happened, by means of illusions and realism (not the illusion on the release poster). SyFys by default are horror and thriller-oriented, but for this....*yawn! It looks like fiction we might likely see on The Scooby Doo Show. Hey, give us reason to believe your story.
The cinematography and CGI were below standard for a 2017 movie. Many of the human-shark contacts especially outside water were unrelated and way too unreal. Sometimes while you think a shark is right behind somebody, in the next shot, it seems they have out-swum the shark to a great distance. Tons of repeated scenes with the shark and the boat propellers, even after viewers complained about the same thing in the prequel. Look, if you're going to repeat scenes (it's quite normal in animations), space them out as distant on the timeline as possible such that we won't even remember seeing it before.
For the first few minutes, I thought I was watching the wrong movie when I saw a 4-headed shark in a movie titled 5 Headed Shark Attack. I thought one of the heads would be severed and have 2 grow in its place, like in the previous movie. Only to have my hopes dashed and plunged below disappointment, when the shark's tail morphed into a head without cause (or was it the arrow?) That was the crapiest piece of crap in Craptown. I'm sure none of the cast nor crew know anything about marine biology outside this movie, or they'd have known that the build of a shark's tail fin is what aids the shark's speed and motion. So, its absence should rather render the shark immobile, let alone swim at high speeds. The large body of the shark will also require a larger tail fin if it must maintain stability and relative speed.
Adding to these, I just heard of the 2018 sequel, 6 Headed Shark Attack. We might as well have 7 Headed Shark Attack by 2020, and 10 Headed Shark Attack by 2025. Call the cops! I'm outta here!
0 of 10, if I could.
Hard Target 2 (2016)
Don't Hunt What You Can't Kill
Scott Adkins has definitely taken after Jean-Claude Van Damme after a few movies together like Universal Soldier (2012), and The Shepherd. I'm one of his behind-the-scenes fans.
I'm quite impressed that so many features and themes of the first firm are played out in the second: the opening chase scene; the lead actor meets a girl who tags along; the single-load gun wielded by both lead villains, and the human hunt theme. Here, Aldrich and his corrupt minions pick on a 'piece of meat' they can't chew.
I like recurrent the hand-to-hand fights, and the idea of Adkins' survival with little or no use of weapons, it retains Van Damme's style of fighting, including having a favorite (finisher) kick. This is a movie about hunting humans, so I think the villains could do with a little more of gruesome deaths, like Sofia's (remember how Arnold Vosloo was killed in the first film).
I saw Thriller as one of this movie's genres, but frankly it's far from thrilling. The plot was quite predictable. For me the actors are not really to blame for any lags in the plot. The actors were great, but Reiné overlooked certain unrealistic scenarios. The minefield, for instance. The time between Baylor shooting at Tobias Zimling and his getting to a safe distance from the explosion is unrealistic for me. I also think with all the hunters' expertise, high-tech weapons and escorts, they shoulda hit Baylor at least once, that would raise the thriller scale.
It's just another movie by another director on the human hunt theme. I wouldnt dabble into which is better, this or the first movie. Roel Reiné did a fine job nonetheless.
Ben 10 (2016)
This is an Outrage! lol....
I cannot compare Ben 10 to Power-Puff Girls, nor Gumball, nor Teen Titans Go! 'cos it's much more superior than they all, even put together. I can't stop watching it either, even if it's reduced all the way down to pixel art, 'cos I'm super-addicted. But, all I do now is watch the reboot with a feeling of. . .'inaccomplishment.'
It's been my favorite cartoon franchise since it debuted in 2005. Mehn, I could miss school to see this show. I fell in love with it. In 2008, it got better with Ben 10: Alien Force; and even better with Ben 10: Ultimate Alien in 2010. But, hold it! I couldn't follow up with Omniverse and I think that's where I fell out of the story. Reason? Made juvenile with a ridiculous timeline that I couldn't just put up with. I lost track of researching the aliens in the codon stream. And now, announcing a reboot that I fear may have crashed the series.
I think this franchise climaxed at Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. After that has been nothing more than a downward plunge in its maturity and animations. Is there a storyline attached to this? cos'I might have been a little too busy re-watching the previous series to notice. I think CN is obsessed with trying to keep the series timeless with this garbage, but even if the franchise ended at Omniverse, or even Ultimate Alien, such a good show (until then) had already left indelible evidences of its superiority in the fans' minds, and enough is there in the previous series to always go back and re-watch. A good show that ends well is better than another that spirals into the ground trying to be immortalized.
Oh, my G**! What have they done to Stinkfly, and Cannonbolt, and, XLR8?? Azmuth hasn't yet explained why the aliens keep 'devolving' from their originals (at least that's what they seem to me) since the transition to the Omniverse series. I have a huge collection of what I may call favorite aliens: they've all been mutilated. Stink-fly? Nuts! More like a winged robot!
Please bring back Kevin Levin, Big Chill, Spider Monkey, the ultimates, and the original aliens: Four Arms, Wild Mutt....! They were super-cool! Let them, just the way they are.
God's Not Dead (2014)
It's a Good Movie
This movie is great with some inspirational lines in its script. I believe different people have different perspectives to this movie - it's only natural atheists and the like would likely support Radisson and rate the movie as implicative of writing off people who don't believe in God; whilst Christians would see this movie as an apologia.
On the bright side of my 8/10 rating, the message of the plot is simple and clear: a lone Christian student defending his faith in God against his atheist lecturer and in the presence of others who, perhaps are halting between opinions of the existence, or otherwise nonexistence of God. It's symbolic of very few true and faithful Christians in the world today ready to give up their lives for the gospel.
The actors did a good job
On the other hand, the movie's short of my 2-star rating, firstly because of some unrelated, perhaps unfinished subplots. What happened to Ayisha who converted to Christianity after being disowned? Or, the lady with cancer: was she healed, or did she die like the professor? Speaking of the professor, I totally disagree with his demise in the movie. It's more like a tragedy to me because he died, and for it, I was almost indifferent for the remainder of the movie. There are other situations that could lead to his conversion but by an accident and resulting death. The healing of Amy after she was written off as slowly ebbing away can do it, in addition to the convicting impact already made by the freshman.
Thirdly, I disagree with the flat-out compliance by 99.9% of the class to renounce their faith for cheap passmark. Unless that city is a hometown of atheists, I don't understand why there was nobody else to stand by Wheaton in not writing the "god is dead" thing, even if they don't voice it out.
Beyond these minor flaws, it is a great movie. I bet the producers don't realize the how convicting some lines in the script were. One of my favorite was: "Sometimes the devil allows people to live a life free of trouble because he doesn't want them turning to God" by Mina's mother. It includes some great points for the defense of Christianity.
Johnny English Reborn (2011)
Annoying Comedy!
Despite my addiction to his movies, I'm quite disappointed by this. Great casting, but rather undesirable acting. The movie was funny, but there was so much of overemphasized comedy, which left me staring at the screen if something funnier would happen. Some of the supposedly unnecessary funny scenes could have done with a little improvement, and made less juvenile. Two things tend to make me mad at this movie, and questions arise from them which are yet unanswered in my mind, the foremost of which is why Johnny would be able to resist a super hypnotic drug whilst the Mozambican dude couldn't. Fine, he recalled his mind adventures in Tibet, but that's a lame reason because I'm sure the drug washed off his mind and reason. Then we have the scene where Johnny was "kissed back to life." Really? Is this a Disney fairy-tale or an Arabian Nights folklore?
The movie had its many funny moments, including Atkinson's cat-and-mouse chase with the Hong Kong assassin all the way down to Pegasus' house, and Atkinson's meeting with the MI7 board. But these moments seemed to consistently decline as the movie progressed till comedy nearly turned to mere drama. You could start this movie laughing hysterically, but end up feeling indifferent. Quite unexpected from my comic hero, Atkinson. The first movie was okay for me, a sequel wasn't necessary unless it would be, at least, as good as the first. Watch if you're a Rowan Atkinson fan, you might find it interesting enough.
Barely Lethal (2015)
A great movie, nonetheless
I believe this movie has a nice story line: a teenage girl missing out on the trends of adolescence and wants to be a part of it; and great casting: Hailee Steinfeld, Jason Drucker, Dove Cameron and Thomas Mann to name a few who did a fine job. I expected funny moments, and there were funny moments, actually funnier than I expected, and such as are peculiar to high school.
Megan (Steinfeld) thought she could eventually be the best student at Newton High School as she was at Prescott, but realizes it's not as easy adjusting to it's highs and lows in just a few days or weeks. Jason Drucker, I'd say was my favorite character. He already likes Megan even before she arrived "from Canada", and throughout the movie, kept me giggling anytime he was on screen. He always looked like he wished he could say more than he was given. Cameron was splendid. I could feel her initial dislike for a totally inexperienced newbie at high school; and Thomas Mann played his nerdy role brilliantly. Sophie did good being a second-best, less preferred agent, envious of 83. Jackson played a fatherly (sort-of) role: serious minded, and looking out for his Prescotts. Although I do not perfectly understand Jessica's role, but so far she did well.
It's really a good movie. The cast and crew were excellent.