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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
This is a very good-looking movie. The sets all look just right, the cinematography is good, and the lighting is excellent in every scene. The cast is good, featuring Maggie Q, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, and Robert Patrick. Jackson and especially Patrick are showing their years, but Keaton has an unnatural vitality and Maggie looks outstanding for her age. Keaton is especially charming in this movie, and I never even liked him until Spider-man: Homecoming, where he was even better. The dialogue is often cliched in this movie, but comes to life in the scenes with both Maggie and Michael. There is a lot of action, and the fight choreography is good.
However, the overall story is a bit small and meaningless. Despite an international scope, this story boils down to some grudges between a relatively small number of key players. They are all bad people, to varying degrees, so it was difficult for me to care about any of them. While much of the action is plausible, there are occasional lapses, including one scene where a normal handgun enacts an absurd amount of knockback on a human target, who is lifted and flung several feet back into a wall from taking a few shots to the torso. That is the opposite of how bullets work (and I know that I am preaching to the choir here). The point of the bullet is not to spread out damage all over to move the target, it is to hit the target hard in a single spot in order to penetrate far enough into tissue to do some serious damage.
Taken all together, The Protégé is a reasonable way to pass some time, especially if you are able to suspend disbelief. But there are quite a few better action movies out there that are more worthy of your time if you haven't seen them yet.
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Army of Darkness - This thing is such goofy fun. It's so weird. It's like Looney Tunes meets Ray Harryhausen meets Dawn of the Dead. I don't love it as much as many, but I feel like I'm smiling the entire time.
Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers - A spiritual sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which I consider a masterpiece. This one doesn't approach that level, but it has its moments. John Mulhaney and Andy Samberg are great in the main roles, and there are sooo many sight gags that you almost need to watch it with your thumb on the pause button. Plus, Ugly Sonic! It drags a little in the second half, but it's much better than you would ever expect it to be.
Heavy Metal 2000 - Oof. So bad. A nearly incomprehensible plot, poor animation, and even worse music. It lacks any of the art or humor of the original. But hey, cartoon boobies, I guess.
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Alas, Austin Powers kinda killed the classic Bond formula but I think that now the world is ready for a slightly less chauvinistic Bond with an aggressive take charge attitude who isn't a mopey reactive dope always ready to quit. Henry Cavill could totally revitalize the genre though I suspect Tom Cruise is gonna stomp any Bond aspirations into the dust with M:I 8 & 9 starting next year.
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As for Cavil, by the time they get the next script ready, he'll be too old - he's 39 now, so unless they are willing to hire him for only a couple movies, its a non starter. Same for Tom Hardy, Idris Elba and many others who fans throw out as options to replace Craig.
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DarthJoJo wrote: In fairness, it’s a lot more reasonable if you pull Roger Moore’s films. I’m also surprised Brosnan was that old.
Actors age a lot more gracefully ( albeit often with artificial help ) than they used to. A lot of actors back in the early days smoked which didn't help the aging process.
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I also caught a film that was new to me... Babylon A.D. This one is a Vin Diesel sci-fi action film, with some help from the much better ass-kicker, Michele Yeoh. It's decent enough, but the ending is atrocious. Currently on HBO.
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We won’t even mention his Asian “disguise” in YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE or the double entendre names like Pussy Galore or Holly Goodhead.
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This stea...err borrows heavily from Under Siege. It stars Elsa Patak..something or other, a wisp of a lady that definitely hit the gym with her hubby, Chris Hemsworth. Much like Arnold or Van Damm, she gets the one obligatory line to explain her very thick accent and it is off to the races. This film could very easily have starred Wesley Snipes, Cynthia Rothrock, Jeff Speakman, or any number of these folks. Elsa holds her own with the fight choreography, hampered a little by the fact she is maybe 5 feet tall fighting some guys that look like Steve Austin. Still, the simple plot, a budget that understands it's own limitations, fun fights, and the classic bombastic villain really holds it together.
Definitely worth a watch if you groove on cheesy action films. It has some more modern sensibilities with a #metoo B-plot but nothing interrupts the flow much and it all works pretty well. Hemsworth as a cameo in the film and you can tell everyone is having a blast. Plus the end crisis is solved with...crossfit, something I've rarely seen in a film before
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Peeps, I watched Morbius. I'm a huge fan of the character and I knew this was probably going to suck. I was not prepared for the level of suck that occurred. They took everything about Morbius that makes him unique and interesting and turned him into a crappy Hulk. It was an abomination. So bad. Watched over two nights with copious amounts of Devil's Lettuce and it still wasn't enough.
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First half hour is nostalgia for the first film, when it hit the flashback scene at the bar I was real worried.
Plot offers no surprises and why does it rip off Star Wars? Kept waiting for a voice to say "Use the force, Rooster"
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