A pretty decent pilot, I enjoyed the episode and was gutted when it finished, really wished they went ahead to make at least a full season.
The fact Murphy was also in it here and there as well as Judge" Reinhold at the end was a nice touch.
Sadly we didn't get a series, but hey at least we are getting a fourth movie finally next year.
Worth a watch.
Wasn't sure what to expect, been a fan of the original Twisted Metal games on PS1 to PS3, surprisingly I really enjoyed. I say surprisingly because game to screen adaptions don't always go well, that and how can you make a series out of cars just blowing up one another, happily it manages to do just that.
Always kept me wanting to watch the next episode. It does contain bloody/stylized gore to a certain extent just as a head s up.
Also Neve Campbell much love, although I miss her in the new scream movies glad to see she can turn to other roles.
I think there is enough to enjoy for fans of the series and non fans, honestly they did a good job of weaving a story together and keep the carnage coherent. I really liked Sweet Tooth, they did a really good job with him, I also loved Quiet which bonded well with johns character.
Plenty of blood/gore/car shooting mayhem (although they could have added a bit more)
An unexpected treat in an out of control Twisted Metal world.
Grab a slice of pizza and your favorite beverage kind of show.
Only able to watch via vhs, man its been a while since I've watched a vhs with the runny lines, bad sub HD look of today, and there's a good reason this hasn't made it to modern HD formats, that reason ain't good.
Stay for the intro song and leave while the goings good is my advice.
The movie while probably nostalgic if you watched it when it came out just doesn't hold water today, its all a bit too silly for its own good, aside from the odd giggle or topless girl, this is not worth the runtime, look elsewhere.
Well it was alright up until 19 mins in when The Alien space ship appeared with Aliens who were sending their kid to camp here on earth so that threw out any sense of immersion/normality etc coming off the first film which I know this only lends itself in name but still.
Best advice watch the original with Bill Murray and skip over this one, there's not really much here, I mean the outro song is catchy so you know i'm pulling at straws here, I guess if you want something on in the background this would also suffice as a passable background movie but that's it.
There were some familiar faces though like John Larroquette from Richie Rich and Paul Reubens from the likes of Dunston Checks in and Mystery Men, hey look it was 1987 and they wanted to feed a sequel what can you do?
Watched it when it came out and it wasn't a fan, haven't seen it since. Until tonight as in the lead up to Dual of Destiny a 1-4 rewatch was in order naturally. this one just doesn't cut the mustard, when you go back to back each film until 4.
Crystal skull felt a little lackluster, and it's crazy when you consider it's roughly the same length. The humor, the adventure and the action going from Temple of doom or last crusade is just lost here, although I did give marks and enjoy the fight sequence in the jungle all the way from the vehicles up to the temple and the library bike scene.
the other movies held my attention every nail biting second but this one I was looking away and doing menial things in the quiet parts.
Going back to last crusade where Nazis boards the plane looking superior and Indy throws him out the window before saying he didn't have a ticket, to which all the guests get their tickets out, then a lull before going into the airplane dogfight, like that's Indy - humour, suspense and action, none of which we get here in the same measure at least.
if I go to watch them again (which I will) I would be fairly happy watching 1-3 and just the bike and jungle sequence from this one skipping the rest.
I also feel this one didn't. have enough real filing locations to it as well and utilized more cgi, it's just a weird one. Speaking of I wasn't enthralled by the nuke sequence either, like yea being flown into the air inside a fridge.....was any of that necessary, Indy survives a nuke that just happens to be going off and survives, I don't know.
In my opinion the weakest in the collection thus far, although they have from what the trailers have shown, brought the Nazis back for Dial of destiny so, I'm hoping it's a return to form.
A Great Vampire movie overall, the music, humor and setting were all spot on, honestly I could have watched more.
A really enjoyable take on the vampire genre, "Kiefer Sutherland" was a great cast as "David" he really suited the role.
When the kids formed up to go to the vampires lair and essentially start a war with the vampires, I was thinking how on earth are they gonna pull this off, but the ending was great from the holy water pistols to the giant stakes.
My only real criticism would be that I was disappointed by the fight between David and Michael or even Michael and Max for that matter as they were pretty short, I was expecting a longer fight sequence between these characters.
A very dark and disturbing film when you burrow right down into it, especially at the end of the film you really do feel for the cable guy.
I Never got to see it when it came out, I recall the posters at one of my Blockbusters was very prominent at the time. it's worth a watch, especially if you like Jim Carrey's flavor of humor.
Also features a few familiar young faces such as Jack Black and Owen Wilson to boot. Its kind of surreal having a cable guy talking about coax cables at one point, or the over the top hi-fi you see in the film, I can see that being a bit hard to resonate with today's audiences in sch a situation, but growing up around that time you kinda get it a bit more.
A solid take on such a worked concept, taking the usual fluffy body swap with the usual comedic results and turning it into a glorified horror/thriller/comedy is a genius move.
Only a few mins in and you can tell what your in for, sure it has its gruesome moments without going too over the top, but just be advised if your a little squeamish.
Solid performances from the cast, Vince Vaughn was really funny when you get to see him throughout and it's nice to see him in a different role, the last one I saw of his was the Internship. Both Vince and Kathryn gave great performances for their characters.
Overall I recommend this one, the plot remains simple but it does not falter or detract in its path from being a fun watch.
A shallow skeleton of a farce would be my summery for this.
I found this film to be a bit underwhelming given "Dudley Moore" and "Eddie Murphy", a lot of the comedy seems to come off as quite bland. I also wasn't sure where the story was heading as it shifted between the two main actors, only at the end did I realize that it was showing "Dudley's" past events to the lead up to "Murphy's"
It is kind of strange that neither of the two characters meet or are on screen together at nay point, which does make sense in the end, however it was not what I went into the film believing.
I enjoyed the final tie up toward the end though so there's that.
All I can say is temper your expectation's for a semi-passable watch with a few chuckles thrown in.
What happened and who threw money at this?
I'll be honest I saw the original, thought it was ok nothing stellar, when my friend suggested seeing this sequel I was like eh sure, I barely remember the first, but I'll prob enjoy it. .... all I can say is It blew me away.
The first 10 mins in and I was like ok this is a step up, by the end I was singing its praises, its rare for a sequel to be better than the original but I believe this is one of those rare cases. It has on point animation, great humor and plenty of action sequences, well worth a watch.
Die-Hard Meets Home Alone, the trailer looked all kinds of crazy and David Harbour really delivered as his role as Santa Clause, I was also surprised to see Beverley D'Angelo from National Lampoon in this.
This Christmas film is as the title suggest violent as all hell, Santa Clause vs a house full of Mercenary's utilising whatever he can to survive and save the little girl on the nice list (lucky for her she is so sweet otherwise I dont think he would have stuck around) and let's just say you definitely do not want to be on Santa's Naughty list, some of these scenes may even make you wince, they don't hold back once they get going. (Looking at you bad guy making his way to catch the girl in the attic, or woman also trying to catch the girl in the attic but her head getting stuck to the floor ow)
Despite all of this, the film manages to keep the Christmas spirit just be sure the kids are in bed before you watch it.
Its different, so if you need a break from all the normal Christmas movies and need something else to play alongside Die-hard look no further, I enjoyed it for what it is David Harbour Santa kicking butt and ticking the bad guys off his naughty list, ho ho ho.
A relatively good film, there aren't many who done 'its these days aside form the newer renditions of Hercules Poirot movies, so I was eager to see this one, while it doesn't boast the same grandeur or splendour those films enjoy this was a pretty good take / homage to Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap"
The film has great styling, feel as well as some great humour every so often, what does let it down is it starts off great and then as you get further in it slows down before ramping up toward the end, still enjoyable but worth noting.
House of the Dead really does stretch the title given to it, this is not the video game adaption you are looking for.
What the F***k was with the 10 sec or so house of the dead video game clips spliced into scenes, I re-iterate what the (well you get the idea) It did not do anything, it didn't blend, it shouldn't have been there much like the plot really.
I can't say the movie was a total wash I did enjoy the sequence where there was mindless zombie blasting all the way down to the matrix style mid air weapon kills that part is definitely a guilty pleasure. Although the zombies were being killed pretty easily, the scene goes on for a little bit so you can turn off and enjoy that I guess.
To top it off 'G' Shows up at the end for like 20 seconds with a special forces team, it is clear the director had no clue of the source material. Also the characters have no real emotion to speak of, very early on in particular when the border control offficer blows away a guys girlfriend who has just turned into a zombie, he shows 0 emotion, he doesn't even try to act, he's just there waiting for his next line, like with.
Think that sums it up really a disasterous attempt at a great franchise with some funny moments even if they wern't meant to be funny.
Was a nice surprise to see Kira Clavell though.
Worth it just to admire Meg Fosters beautiful captivating pale blue eyes (your going to see them a lot)
It's an odd and yet interesting one, it's passable to watch nothing stellar.
I think the most apt comments I have read on this are the actors went on vacation in Greece and decided, "hey we have cameramen, a deserted village = let's make a movie".
It does some things well, such as the deserted setting in the isolated Greek town, at night when the wind blows it provides a nice eerie setting.
Wings Hauser does a good job of being the crazed killer, although truth be told he could have ended the film a lot sooner. The eventual cat and mouse game is good as a premise, it does fall with logic sometimes, as in "well why didn't he do that" or "why didn't she do this"
Must we have a narration from Meg during some of her alone scenes, we clearly have the facts, there's no need for reinforcement.
Also the dialogue seemed off once or twice, as though they just added it on the spur of the moment and it didn't quite fit.
Hauser does a good job of playing the crazed killer however and the end was interesting.
For someone who seems to not have fired an automatic shotgun before and also knowing she has only 4 live rounds, why did she waste 3 on what seemed like warning shots, for that matter why get rid of it afterwards, she still had one live round. Furthermore why didn't she try to search kesner's body for his handgun she clearly saw he had.
So just finished this one, spoiler free review is this is a family-friendly film which also caters to younger audience's who no doubt will enjoy, Its not a bad movie per sae there are however other alternatives you could be watching instead, as someone best described it as a lite version of a goosebumps movie.
The film has a lot going for it initially, its set in a Halloween store on Halloween, featuring Christopher Lloyd as the evil spirit with a hint of a "Stranger Thing's" feel to it now and again so it checks the boxes, it just has a lot of missed/wasted opportunities that it never fully capitalizes on, a sort of hollow misadventure.
Now for the spoiler related review of what I didn't like;
I disliked the chase through the store by Lloyd's spirit, channelling into different costumes to chase after the kids so he could possess one of them, it goes on too long and wastes too much time. At one point Lloyd has a cool evil looking character complete with a saw and a hammer but then has to go and get a more generic costume as he cant open a hatch the kids escaped down (which makes sense as he doesn't have hands, it's just wasted time though.
When Lloyd does possess the girl "Kate" only then does the store really come to life with some good visual lighting from the outside as well. It all ends too soon though, the kids just trap "Kate" who is commanding the store at this point by stringing her up with a rope foot trap, suddenly all the costumes lose their life, it's like thanks for showing up guys we need to hurry this along we're running out of film.
I liked the part where Christopher Lloyds spirit inhabits the first costume and he picks up a baseball bat and drags it along the floor menacingly, there needed to be more of that, there wasn't enough mortal danger, they could have used spiders, possessed dolls I dont know so many ideas unused.
For the most part your sitting there thinking they are trapped in a Halloween store on Halloween with a possessed and vengeful ghost, why are they not throwing the entire store at them, some more tense moments, more scares, more action, anything. I'm pretty sure the trailer showed them being chased or attacked by an evil clown which I did spot in the movie, he just didn't do anything so I might have to double check that, still again wasted potential.
The ending surprisingly touted a possible sequel which based on the mixed reviews, I'm not sure will happen, if it does I really hope it learns from this one and brings more life into the film, I'm never against seeing another Halloween themed movie or show so I do kind of hope it happens.
It's not a bad film, it's also not as great as it could have been either, it sits in the middle, think of it as more of a build up to the Halloween season, your mileage however may vary, to be honest at that point I would prob point you toward "The Curse of Bridge Hollow" instead.
Watched for the first time tonight on Halloween, after re-watching the original for the 29th time (see what I did there.) I have to say the og remains my favourite, however this does a really great job reuniting the Sanderson Sisters once more.
The witches are back, and there's hell to pay.
At first once the backstory started I was like do we really need this, it does add to the sisters backstory though and especially when it all culminates at the end it makes sense. Once the first song kicked in "The witches are back" I knew I was in for a good time, "One way or another" was also a blast to watch. Having said that I thought it a bit odd that the witch the Sandersons first meet, just gives Winifred the book and vanishes never to be heard of again, I guess its short and to the point so I can't argue that, I don't know a little more on that character and why she just hands over the book so quickly/easily would have been nice.
The story was unexpected introducing modern day witches, even allowing for more empathy for Winifred's character at the end which was surprising but very touching especially when Book tried to save her essentially from herself casting the book out until she realized, I thought was really well done. It was also nice to see them all using their powers a lot more this time around, again I would have liked more of a battle near the end however the effects were good.
I thought it was all over too soon, I could have watched more alas it was a fitting and emotional ending for the sisters (will they be back, you never know)
Overall it was great seeing the Sandersons back in action, Bette, Sarah and Kathy are a trio to be reckoned with and a joy to watch in action. The music was amazing and catchy, this is one to add to the family movie list around Halloween for sure.
Just finished watching, went in with not much of an idea how this one would turn out, glad to say I really enjoyed this one.
It had a lot of funny moments, I especially liked the scene where Rob Riggle's character Sully dresses as Rick Grimes and plants zombie statues outside his house, which then come to life that was such a great scene and a nice nod to current horror.
The film had some pretty good special effects a cool story and plenty of friendly family Halloween movie vibes.
I was surprised to see Kelly Rowland in this as well, I had no idea going in. It's also nice to have another actual family Halloween based movie that you can come back to around the Halloween season, along with the likes of Hocus Pocus, The Addams Family etc which is rare these days. As a Halloween themed movie it works, while catering to the broadest of age ranges young or old, recommended family viewing.
Just got back from seeing this, I'll get right to it, Halloween does indeed end the Michael and Laurie Strode Arc once and for all and very fittingly at the end. However The main prob with this one is, Micahel must have been hanging with Jason Voorhees or Freddy Kruger Planning their next Vs movie, so they decided to get a random guy (Corey Cunningham) and make him the main killer for pretty much 90% of the movie, all while wearing Michael's mask.
Now I don't know about you but when I walk into a cinema to see Michael Myers do his thing and end an epic saga, I don't expect to see someone essentially standing in doing the killing as it were (when killing actually starts) for the majority of screen time. To cap it off, they build up Corey's character of a killer babysitter and then do nothing with him, just kill him off in the end, so I have been sitting there for over an hour now waiting for Michael watching this play out and it doesn't go anywhere. Now if they had built this up for Corey to be the new Michael (well I would have still questioned it) but it would have made sense whey there was all this padding and filler until Michael stepped into frame, especially if you watch previous 2 before which I did, where Michael kills 12 Firemen in just once scene alone, this should have been an epic Halloween battle a crescendo of a finale but for majority its pretty hollow..
Honestly you can literally skip the first hour, hour and a half and then splice the rest onto the end of Halloween kills and bam you got your ending. The epic finale of Michael vs Laurie didn't even take that long, and even longer for them to get face to face.
Also Michael actually getting killed was kinda weird, being this iconic indestructible character actually getting killed for once, but yea it did its thing for the end of this story, he'll be back in a new iteration I have no doubt (As long as they stick with just him)
For the most part watch Halloween 2018, Halloween Kills 2021 and then last 45 mins of this one and you got your trilogy basically.
I was not disappointed, a classic 80s action adventure flick, with a great cast of character's. I for one was surprised to see Ted Shackleford from Space Precinct to get second billing to Robocop's Nancy Allen as well as Martin Landau. Was hoping for more prolonged action near the end but it left enough to be satisfied. One of those films you can just sit back and enjoy, would recommend.
A very strong surprise entry to the franchise. If you pitched me a predator movie about a predator coming to earth and facing off against a comanche warrior and her tribe with little more than bows and arrows in a nutshell etc, then i would have called you crazy, you know given the predators usual arsenal.
However I was very surprised, the movie stayed quite close and tense throughout, while giving the spin of a very early rookie predator with weapons that suited both it and the time period. the kill sequences were pretty great, the story was decent, some dialogue was a bit sketchy when the French turned up.
The predator itself was pretty menacing and really sort of reflected like an evil spirit I guess if you look at it from the tribes perspective, so I think they did a good job there.
All in all I would recommend.
The poor mans "Police Academy", the film while albeit a silly bit of 80s fun, just doesn't seem to deliver, a lot of things which would have been funny early on just didn't land I felt, I can't nail it down to the delivery or presentation, something just felt off, and that is pretty much the film, there are some moments I did laugh at mostly toward the end though despite it being a bit flat.
Absolutely abysmal film, and believe me I've seen some corkers, the difference being that they at least entertained me, even if for the wrong reasons. Honestly I tried to get through it but I lost interest about half way in and let it run in the background while doing some other tasks.
Think of it as a bunch of pre-teens who pool together enough money to hire some cameramen and props, add some actors with sub par acting and voila you have Swat Unit 867. I think things really started to get to me when the female FBI agent started throwing out every agent cliché quote in the book.
I have watched pretty much every SWAT movie (Inc Under Siege which surprised me honestly, I enjoyed that far more than I expected.) even the older 70's show (currently enjoying season 4 of the new SWAT series on Netflix) this is by far the worst.
Save yourself the pain and give this one a miss, which is a shame as I have seen at least a few of "Tom Sizemore's" roles, frankly he is wasted in this one.
