Based on the lauded Swedish film "En man som heter Ove" (A Man Called Ove).
As a kid I used to love this movie! I remember laughing throughout the entire movie and watching it over and over again. Now I've rewatched it and must say times have changed. It a decent action/comedy, maybe even better than most recent Hollywood efforts, but it's nothing more than that. If anything; it's a great look into the 80's. The theme music is legendary, Eddie Murphy's fast trashtalk, laughing and movements are iconic, and the whole interaction and atmosphere breathes 80's. Unfortunately the 80's are more than 20 years ago and this movie feels just as oldfashioned as Madonna's (then) revolutionary videoclips from that same time.. The rebel behaviour is not so rebel anymore, the jokes are rather lame, times have changed..
I still enjoyed it, but wouldn't recommend this as a great action/comedy, but more as a great example of a general 80's movie, just like Ferris Bueller and The Breakfast Club.
Full of cliche and bad dialogues, the one liners are what you expect cheesy as hell but nevertheless this is one entertaining 90s action movie.
Twenty years ago they could make a movie about a black boxer who was put in jail with fabricated evidence for reason that were clearly racist. But they could do it without slapping it into your face every ten minutes and drilling in a message with a sledgehammer.
This is a great movie and Denzel's performance was Oscar worthy.
Say hello if you have watched this classic one more time in preparation to the 2022 sequel
If rock is not your choice of music, skip this movie... but if you grew up in the 80s, you should appreciate the music, fun and experience portrayed in this movie.
This movie rocked!
Oh Royal Rumble 2014....I don't think I ever heard as much booing on a single PPV in my entire life and honestly for all the good reasons for most of the time.
The PPV actually got off on a very strong start. We had ourselves a wonderful 20 minute match of Daniel Bryan VS Bray Wyatt. It was easily one of the best matches of Brey's carrier as well as the greatest match of the night. The crowd was on fire mostly because of their love for Daneil Bryan and it added to an already greatly choreographed match. Sadly this could be the only truly good match of the entire PPV
Brock Lesnar vs Big Show was a fluke. Big Show was injured going into the match so we did not get much wrestling at all. The actuall match lasted around 2 minutes. The rest of the time we had to look Brock Lesnar beating on Big Show with multiple chairs. I disliked the booking on this thing to be frank. Not a single good thing came out of this excuse for a feud.
Randy Orton vs Cena was when the booing of the night really started and it is hard to blame the fans. People have seen Orton Vs Cena more times than WWE cares to admit. This feud needs to die and be forgotten once and for all. To top it off the match itself was certinly not among the best in Cena vs Orton library. To tell you the truth the fans chanting stuff like: "Boo", "We Want Divas", "Daniel Bryan", "Insert Wrestler's name they would rather see", "This is Awful" actually made this match more bareble. At least Orton knew how to work with it and got some legitimate heel heet. Still the match was a wreck.
Then there was the cherry on top of the cake that was the FU to the fans - The Royal Rumble match.Now the first half was actually really good. The booking was smart, we had a return from Kevin Nash, the wrestling itself was good for a royal rumble match. Still somewhere in the middle fans got tired of waiting for Daniel Bryan to show up....little did they know. The longer match went on the more negative the crowd became. Finaly when the 30th participant was revealed to be Rey Mysterio, the fans started booing their lungs out. I mean poor Rey got more booing in this match than he ever had in his entire career. With fans being rightfuly angry WWE decided to do even more spitting in our face. The one person that people did not want to win royal rumble was Batista. If WWE would have went for Dolph Ziggler, Romany Reigns (which they did the next year and the push failed miserably because of the wrong timing) or even Sheamus, the fans would not have been so angry. I mean who wanted to see Randy Orton VS Batista at main event at Wrestlemania? Still Batista won to much outrage.
Excluding the exellent opening match this PPV was a trainwreck through and through. The most booing you will ever hear in one PPV and a huge spit in the face of the fans. To tell you the truth the only thing that makes me want to give this PPV a good rating is the first match but one match is not enough by far especially because this PPV is not just bad or boring, it is outright offencive with WWE throwing a middle finger to the fans in the worst possible way. For this reason I can not for the life of me give this PPV more than a 3 and even 3 is kind of pushing it when only 20 minutes of a 2 hour and 45 minute PPV are worth watching.
With this movie, the Bourne Trilogy went instant classic. One of the best chase scenes I know of, a much deeper view on the identity of Bourne himself and the memorable 'magazine weapon' fight scene. Worth of a longer review, but I am too lazy today.
Why cant parodies be done like this now?
So many gags, the choice of actors is fantastic, its hard to believe now that this was Leslie Neilson's first ever comic role, but all the actors here were chosen because they always played it straight and that just adds to the comedy. Simply one of the best comedies of all time.
The chemistry between Favreau, Leguizamo and Emjay Anthony is amazing; just so natural.
It's the best thing Leguizamo, who I generally run hot and cold on, has done in a very long time. Perfect casting of a fantastic film.
Crank up the wonderful soundtrack, get in the kitchen and cook something!
I totally did not expect this movie to be so awesome. As an added bonus it has a great soundtrack!
You should not watch it on an empty stomach though :)
i was expecting to be stupid but not that much. just avoid it
Much more relatable than the book was, and even more charming and funnier. Mae Whitman actually makes the main character likable, where in the book she was kind of a b****
Loved it!
just lol, where is the horror?