An action comedy buddy whodunnit heist with a fairly amusing Denzil Washington and Mark Wahlberg.
The two form a hip duo who perform a heist with a much bigger booty than anticipated. For the rest of the film, the two seem to be trying to skim off a part of the booty while the ‘whodunnit’ question keeps shifting. Are they the good guys or the bad guys?
Quite funny.
An action comedy with Idris Alba. I was curious if he would be funny. Well, “Heads Of State” is not a hilarious action comedy, rather an action film with some jokes. Alba does not get to make a lot of those.
The veteran prime minister of the UK (Alba) and the newly elected actor prime minister of the USA (Will Derringer) do not get along well. Still they agree to share the Air Force One for a visit to Poland.
During the flight, terrorists take down Air Force One, but the heads of state survive. They have to try to find their way to a safehouse in Poland. Of course this becomes a cock-fight turning into a buddies type of film with a lot of action and a few jokes.
Not boring, not great.
Of the director of the brilliant “Hardcore Henry” by the way.
The entire film I have wondered if I had not seen it before. Even my girlfriend thought so. Did I dislike it so much that I did not review it, did I just forget to review it or do I mix it up with another film?
In a bit of a “Matrix” type story, Max Wahlberg plays Evan McCouley who is seen as some sort of hero while he does not understand why. Apparently there are people remembering all their previous lives and having maintainted their skills too. McCouley supposedly is one of them, but he does not remember a thing.
The film opens with gigantic action scenes, while McCouley has to flee the enemy that he does not remember. Later he is taken to a place to fresh up his memory.
The action is spectacular, the story not all that bad, but the result is stil but an average action science fiction.
Living in a strange facility, Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) and Jordan Two Delta (Scarlett Johanson) manage to escape. Of course they are chased by the strong arm of the facility that they used to live in. When they manage to make it to LA, they decide to go back and release their fellow inmates.
The underlying theme of the film is somewhat interesting and there are implications that are still valid. Then there is the usual action, shooting, etc. and the friendship/romance of the two main characters.
What would James Gunn’s take on superman be? Well, some action, sure, but not the spectacle I expected/feared.
Superman suffers from a social media slandering campaign. His alien nature is used against him and fake news is used to discredit him. Of course there is a bad guy with bad plans for the world that needs to be overcome.
Drama, spectacle, American patriotism, everything you expect from a Hollywood action film is here. The result is ….well… perhaps not boring, but not great either. Especially the over use of CGI is quite annoying.
I remember liking the original, but apparently I do not remember much of it. I had to get into “Tron: Ares”, but I highly enjoyed it once I did.
We watch the battle between two computer game giants, one of which built a “grid” that is protected by the application Ares. I mostly had to get used to the applications being portrayed as people.
The son of the family behind one of the companies, has the power he wields rise to his head. A sort of 3D printing technique was created to put things in the software and the other way around, pieces from the software in the real world.
Ares starts to rebel against his creator and while given the order to find a woman from the other camp who found some super-code, he concocts his own plan.
The result is quite the scifi spectacle, but most interesting are the (1980’ies) computer like environments and the music giving a vibe of the same era. And indeed, when you know the original, you will see many references. Perhaps I will watch the old one again some time. That one I rated four starts in 2011. This time I come to the same rating.
Mark Wahlberg (“Parker”) is a thief who wants to pull off a big heist. When this goes wrong, he is out for revenge on a team mate who wanted everything for herself, but Parker will only get his revenge if he does one more job with her.
“Play Dirty” is an alright action heist with a few jokes.
Is this the first MI that I review? I thought I also saw (some of) the rest. Perhaps never an entire film, or just parts on TV? Well, after “The Final Reckoning” I might never watch the rest of the franchise… This final film is fairly weak.
Tom Cruise is of course Ethan Hunt, who is both lauded and despised by his (former) employer, the secret service. He is again retired, but hired, because he is the only one who can prevent a world catastrophe.
That catastrophe is fairly dull. Some AI virus has taken over the world wide web and plans to use the nuclear arsenal to wipe out humanity. Hunt flies over the world to try to prevent that. The story, the acting and several of the scenes are quite unconvincing…
Quite like Pierce Brosnan in “Fast Charlie“, a very amusing Christoph Waltz gets to play an over aged contract killer who wants to show that he still has it.
Danny Dolinsky (Waltz) works for “London”, some crime syndicate, to do the dirty work. He is forced to train a young and upcoming prodigy, which of course means replacement. After a few mistakes, Dolinsky steals the show.
A fairly amusing action comedy.
Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) is in need of money and comes up with a plan to rob the local race track. He consults his brother (an amusing Adam Driver) and recruits Joe Bang (an even more amusing Daniel Graig) to pull off their elaborate plan.
The plan is to use the mine where Jimmy used to work to access the safe of the race track. Together with a few extras, the three set out to complete this massive heist.
The film has a bit of a Red Neck Wester Virginia humour with funny dialogues. The robery is planned and executed with a few problems. Too bad that all the way at the end Soderbergh felt the need to explain why things were even more complex as it already seemed.