Watch the SPOILER review on YouTube After a nearly twenty-year absence, “The Matrix” franchise returns and the film doesn’t just struggle to get out of the trilogy’s shadow, it intentionally spends a lot of time in it. The latest movie in the series is part sequel, part meta-commentary, and part love letter to the originals.… Read More: Movie Review: The Matrix Resurrections »
Watch the SPOILER review on YouTube I have never read the Dune novel, and haven’t seen the 1984 adaption since I was pretty young, so I don’t remember any details and went into this version with no expectations. A gorgeous looking film that seems to go on forever, just to put to the pieces in… Read More: Movie Review: Dune (2021) »
A fun and brutal action flick with a cool gimmick. While this allows for some cool action sequences and some humorous moments, the film rarely reaches above mediocre. The fight scenes are unique, featuring effortless dodging, elbow-blocking incoming attacks and the hero not even looking at his opponent. It’s a bit like Neo at the… Read More: Movie Review: Upgrade »
An entertaining film that lacks substance and gets by with loads of fan service. For the most part, this is a fun heist film, which actually had multiple heists. Everything moves fairly briskly, but there’s enough time for the characters to breathe and get fleshed-out a bit. The first two major action sequences are a… Read More: Movie Review: Solo: A Star Wars Story »
Despite some strong moments, an overall disappointing film. There are many similarities to this movie and “The Empire Strikes Back,” (and also a few major moments in “The Return of the Jedi.”) However, they take what you might be expecting and go a totally different direction. Sometimes this works beautifully, but more often it doesn’t.… Read More: Movie Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi »
A beautiful looking sci-fi film that starts off strong, but runs too long and starts to wear out its welcome. I have no memory of ever seeing the original “Blade Runner.” Either I never saw it, or I saw it and it made no impression on me. (I did read up on that film before… Read More: Movie Review: Blade Runner 2049 »
After a slow start, things suddenly pick up before reaching a suspenseful, but familiar, climax. With the exception of one brief harrowing sequence, the fist portion of this film moves quite slow. While this would be the ideal time for character building, it’s used more for sci-fi imagery. Spacewalks, equipment checks, and tech talk are… Read More: Movie Review: Alien: Covenant »
An entertaining, but redundant, third chapter in the new Star Trek film series. While that plot wasn’t bad, it just feels like something they’ve done to death. Kirk and crew must stop a madman bent on mass destruction…which has been the basic plot of all three new “Star Trek” films. It just feels like I’ve… Read More: Movie Review: Star Trek Beyond »
A twenty-year wait for a sequel to “Independence Day” is rewarded with a weak new chapter that attempts to hide its lack of originality by just making everything bigger. The spaceship is bigger. The alien is bigger. The swath of destruction is bigger. While some of the grand spectacle works, most of it brings nothing… Read More: Movie Review: Independence Day: Resurgence »
Very deep, breathtaking, emotional, and occasionally, boring film. This movie doesn’t hold your hand very much. You have to pick up pretty quickly on the ways of a famine-stricken, dustbowl Earth, and then take a crash course in astrophysics, the theory of relativity, wormholes and supermassive black holes. The heart of this film is the… Read More: Movie review: Interstellar »