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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Well exceeded my expectations
Saw this last night, what a terrific movie! References the original film and storyline without relying on it.
Not a complicated plot but sucked me in properly to keep me glued to the film the whole time.
The original Top Gun was a big flick for its time and I think this will be no exception. Where everybody nowadays is running to the computer nerds to do half the movie in CGI, we had real fighter jets in the skies, which made for absolutely incredible cinematography.
Action was intense, issues based on the first movie were great, along with the spawn of a new rivalry. Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, and the rest of the cast did a great job.
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
As bad as the first one
The plot is terrible. The humor is minimal. The action was okay. Overall I thought this was their chance to redeem the first Wonder Woman movie and I was really looking forward to this movie but it was quite disappointing.
I think time to give up on Wonder Woman until they can make a decent movie and stop trying to convince that the movies are good when they're clearly just not.
Let Him Go (2020)
Insanely boring
I thought this was going to be intense and interesting. Diane Lane and Kevin Costner make a good pair but they could not save this movie. The idea/story is very decent but the execution is just miserable. Literally this whole movie goes by and nothing is happening, I was just bored out of my skull. The pace is painfully slow, and I did not feel much for the grandparents, or the grandchild being abused by the father-in-law.
If you want a good version of a movie like this, try Changeling (2008) starring Angelina Jolie. You can prob get it for free on some movie channel or something.
It's funny because we saw this movie in a huge AMC theater where there were literally only 4 attendants watching including myself. Hollywood keeps postponing the good movies due to Covid, but if this is the garbage they want us to watch in the meantime, the theater industry isn't gonna make it until next year. RIP Hollywood.
Bad Boys for Life (2020)
Bad Boys fans don't even bother
I loved the original Bad Boys. It was a modern twist on the age-old Cops vs Drugs story. Cool, fun, and funny; it' a playbook that works. Bad Boys II is a repeat of the same thing. Drug war while being cool, fun, and funny. Also a great watch.
I have really been dying for this movie to be made and to be released, and it SHOULD HAVE BEEN the same playbook, instead it went in a completely different direction.
This new movie made NO sense at all. Action was okay, but the plot was sooo stupid. It is just so hard for me to even believe the plot; even if I try to believe it, it is just so stupid and childish.
I was only happy to see that they brought back so much of the original cast but I realized they only did this for show. Overall stupid and they have set this movie up for future, additional stupidity for a potential Bad Boys IV.
Btw, it's fake reviews that gave this movie such a strong rating.
Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
Sorry I just didn't like it
So the plot is just a Mexican version of Taken. Stallone did a good job, he's still in great shape. It's not a long movie and it's not boring, but this was not a Rambo movie to me; just a guy going on a murder rampage. I feel like this did not do justice to conclude the Rambo series.
Anna (2019)
Much better than expected
Really great action, very cool plot. It was complicated without being too difficult to follow.
Very well-filmed, great cinematography. This film is a low-key great watch.
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)
Definitely pretty bad
Nice star-studded cast who all came together to produce a bad film. Reasonably boring watch, the story was idiotic, and the action was okay save for some exciting scenes at the end.
Just save this for a rental, it's not worth your hard-earned dollars. It adds nothing to the X-Men story-line and only treads negatively on the previous X-Men movies with Wolverine and Jean Grey.
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
Nice execution of a different style
Certainly a unique and engaging watch. Very decent acting all around. Not as charming as I hoped it would be, and the build-up is kind of slow. This is a gathering of stories type of movie that does not manage to bore you to death. Everybody did a good job, and the story is very original - the trailers portray a lot of action and chaos when the reality is not really the case. Character development could have been better and the ending is not as satisfying as I would have liked it to be but overall very pleasant watch but we came out with smiles.
Sorry I just don't want to say too much so as not to spoil the movie.