Reviews

This definitely reminded me of a Wes Anderson type film with lots of bizarre characters taking place around 1900. It starts off black and white and switches to color halfway through to signify the main character discovering sex or something like that. The best part of the film for me was the sets, they were absolutely wild and detailed, floor to ceiling. I realize they are trying to make some kind of artsy statement with this film, but it was tedious to watch. We prefer films with some kind of a normal plot without so many freakish characters. A few of them is interesting, but everyone in a movie shouldn't be some kind a strange weirdo. And once the movie switches to color, there is a LOT of sex, in case you are thinking of watching this with your mom or something, don't do it! If you want to watch an off-beat comedy, we much prefer a Farrelly movie.

Do not expect any new ground here. Statham plays a retired unstoppable CIA badass who decides to take out the evil corporation who drove his neighbor over the edge. Anyone who challenges him is dismantled in a variety of tricky ways, while he gets barely a scratch. Just don't spend too much time thinking about the details of the plot, but it does have a few twists. I'm sure those who are actually in the FBI hate this movie and anyone in the Secret Service would REALLY hate it, they are all shown to be such lame nincompoops who have no clue how to protect a threat target. Probably the lamest plot line is about gang of men that look like they came directly from Burning Man armed with automatic weapons wandering around a party at the private mansion where POTUS is currently located, doing whatever they want, talk about idiotic. Watch it for the action, some great fight scenes, just don't expect any sort of realistic plot.

The entire movie is an extremely underwhelming story about a very meek court stenographer. Not really anything impressive, here is a list of SOME of the major problems, not extensive by any means. The writing seems like it was someone's first screenplay, especially the dialog, really stiff. The characters and relationships are a joke, not sure what Hirsch is going for with his portrayal. It appeared to me that several of the minor roles were played by people on their first acting job. After brain tumor surgery he still has all his hair and an ace bandage wrapped around his head twice, that's it? That is some soap opera level lameness. Every single drink in this movie is warm liquor in a glass. The oven revenge killing has a guy literally holding his own head down on the burner inside the oven, they couldn't even be bothered to make it look like he was restrained somehow. Walkden has a bunch of file boxes in his house labeled Guilty and Not Guilty that he just tosses his stenographer tapes into, what? They would be filed by case number, not just tossed in a box. This film is at the level of a high school project, don't waste your time.

I understand this is based on a true story, but this film needed a lot of tightening up. First the good stuff. Representing the early 20s was flawlessly done from sets to costumes to hairstyles. The acting is well done, as you might expect. Now for the stuff that detracted from the film. Why were people still wearing WWI uniforms in the 20s when the war had been over for 2 years? They obviously didn't just get back from the war. It wasn't clear why they kept killing all the Native Americans, jealousy? They made sure to emphasize that the tribe members were getting rich from the oil on their land, and robbing them would make basic sense, but why kill them? And the plot that they would murder 4 members of a family while being married to the last surviving member to get their money is tenuous at best. One second DeNiro is killing people, the next he is super religious, and back and forth, makes no sense.

While I appreciate them making all the effort to stage a full blown live band and actors fake radio drama to provide an epilogue for the resulting jail sentences etc. But it seems really forced and the movie is already WAY too long to drag it out, just give us a few text screens to read.. It was also kind of strange to see Jack White in that radio show scene. So technically a very well done movie, but not worth over 3 hours of my time.

Nick Cage got to break out his "crazy guy" character again for this one. They did not have much of a budget for this one, about half the movie takes place in and around the car with the two main characters. The "twist" ending is not the biggest surprise. Afterwards I thought about him shooting two cops at the end it was really pointless. Most of the time you don't know what Cage is going to do next, so that is entertaining. People who know Vegas will laugh at him "in a hurry" to get to the hospital driving down The Strip, that is not the fastest was to anywhere besides The Strip hotels. And The Strip was almost empty, they must've filmed it at 4am. Not a bad watch, but comes across as an indie film. Kind of bare bones.

I'm blown away by all the hate spewed for Adam Devine in these reviews, wow. He plays his typical character, the lovable, but dopey guy. Don't go into this expecting a wry Woody Allen comedy. Being a Workaholics fan, I expected what I got. I would call it silly adult humor, meant to be brash and over the top. We laughed out loud at the nuttiness many times. The plot is not going to surprise you too much, but still a fun ride. And they did not cheap out on locations or stunts. I've never seen a car chase straight through a cemetery before, that was wild. There are a few running jokes that are dumb, like that Devine is super jumpy when he gets his butt slapped, not sure the point of that one. This definitely is a Happy Madison movie, if you don't like his style of comedy, skip it. But if you enjoyed Happy Gilmore or Little Nicky or Benchwarmers, you will like it. Definitely better than Billy Madison or Grown Ups or Zohan.

I do not understand the latest trend in Hollywood to spend huge money to make a period piece about early LA and not bother to have a script that makes any sense at all. I'm looking at you, Babylon and Marlowe. What a couple of stinkers. This film has great actors, sets, costumes, cars and the plot is nonsensical garbage. It was impossible to follow, made no sense, and put us both to sleep several times during the long, dopey, pointless, drawn out dialog sessions. A statue that, it turns out, is supposedly made of drugs gets dropped into a fish tank, why? So many annoying things about this dopey movie, Marlowe goes into spy so a cop holds his hat for him outside and then immediately returns it when he comes out, what was the point of that? All of a sudden there is some kind of hidden sex club at the private club with a back room full of dead bodies and guys tied up and beaten? For what? Truly pointless, just like Babylon, don't waste your time.

The film does keep your interest throughout. It is kind of a cute and original idea, a kid finds a ghost in his new house and befriends him after recording video of him. Of course the video gets out and all kinds of mayhem ensues and the teenager tries to help him remember what happened to him to put him in this situation. I imagine this is meant to be a family film, so much of the plot is pretty basic "govt bad" and too much slapstick, juvenile jokes as well as really badly done car chases. I was most disappointed in them continuing to repeatedly call him the wrong name after his true identity was discovered. If I wrote this script, I would've had him change his appearance, which it was already established he can do at will, to correct his name on his shirt to be correct and have everyone refer to him using his name for the remainder of the film, just my two cents. There are other plot holes if you think about it. The family claims to be "broke", yet the high school son drives a brand new $50K+ car? A 50ish women who is supposed to be a ghost expert runs and dives out a window when she sees the ghost? That was painfully dumb.

Warning, I'm giving away the entire "plot", if you can call it that. This starts out as maybe a passable "foreign vacation gone wrong" type of movie, but it quickly devolves into complete nonsense. I cannot see why anyone would give this more than 2 stars, it is such a pile of trash. I do appreciate them inventing a fictitious country, complete with it's own alphabet, yet everyone speaks perfect English, that makes sense, right? And this poor backwards country has the ability to make perfect clones of people in minutes over and over? And the purpose of this is to kill the clones for the original person's crime and charge that person a bunch of money? What? Wouldn't it make more sense just to charge them a huge fine in the first place? And there are a few couples who come back to the resort every year to repeat this idiocy? Don't even try to make sense out of this thing; there is sex, then gory violence, then sex, then some trippy video, then more gore, just random whatever. Even the ending is beyond stupid, avoid at all costs.

Not a great combo, dick jokes and such but delivered at a 3rd grade level. They should've decided if this was supposed to be for adults or for families and adjusted the script accordingly. Two Hollywood comedy standard actors, no real chemistry between them, even with all the hugging during the movie. Not a great premise, unbelievable situations are manufactured and there are no big surprises. There is the occasional funny moment, mostly slapstick stuff. So if you're in the mood to kill 90 minutes with a formulaic comedy and have a few laughs for free, this might work for you. This will not be on our recommended list, but it's harmless for adults and should be skipped by the kiddies.

This movie did keep me watching, probably because the acting and characters were pretty good and the plot is decent, so long as you don't really consider how dopey it actually is overall. Morgan Freeman was great as usual. It does a bit woke preaching plus the name of the movie makes no sense to the subject matter. If you think that forcing an active OTR trucker to user her 18 wheel rig to participate in delivering ONE child out to the middle of nowhere in between regular runs makes sense, then this movie is for you. If you think a tiny 12 yr old girl can fire a slug from a sawed off shotgun and hit a guy 50 feet away on the first try, then have at it. And they take an actor who is known solely for his action movies and put him in a role where basically all he does is talk, seems like a big waste to me. All of the plot twists are very predictable as well. After it was over we both looked at each other and said "that was actually a pretty dumb plot", but we've seen a lot worse.

I know they feature lots of latinos and other minorities in this movie and portray them as honest, hardworking people. That being said, why are all of them working hourly and only white folks have all the high paying jobs? Also the latino characters are quirky and not very bright. It is a fluffy rom-com, but I could tell that our Puerto Rican friends were a little insulted by the characters. Their comment was that is was "kind of dumb", but I knew what they really meant. It was funnier and more touching than I expected, so I gave it slightly above average rating.

Pros, well done technically, you really feel uncomfortable in your seat from what they are going through on the screen. Cons, the plot makes almost no sense. They mention something about things in the world going bad, but they are super vague about everything, so write your own plot about that I guess. They find literally a ton of gold in the middle of the desert and they have to leave one of them behind to guard it? Why? Knock off a couple hundred pounds, bury it, both of you drive out together, cash it in, you can buy all the equipment you need including a big PLANE, fly out and get the rest, pretty simple. Not a fan of the ending either, it was different, but kind of ended with a twist and then a thud. Efron looked like he really suffered for his art on this one lol.

This was technically well done, but the plot was dopey and pointless. A guy marries a hot younger girl, just so she can whore around, just so he can kill those guys? And then he admits it, but no one notices? Except for the one older character actor who plays a weasel in every film he makes. And he does it in the pool with a house full of people but no one notices? And the title makes no sense either, nothing is deep, especially the water he dumps a body into. Really lame. Don't bother.