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Gassed Up (2023)
How many things can you get wrong in a movie lol
Anyone who manages to get to the end, your patience is that of a saint!!
The acting in this isn't what's at fault here, but the storyline and the plot holes of each character is what is.
A motley crew of phone thieves on mopeds who you can't feel sorry for or even root for due to the catalogue of bad decisions. The lead who is just not ready for this role has presence but not quite enough charisma to pull this off has a lot on his plate but doesn't build enough rapport with the audience to actually give 2 hoots about.
As it's a urban movie, so there's a lot of mandem, innit, bruvs and sub par dialogue which detracts from this movie a lot and doesn't build up any more dimension to this genre and plot holes galore as main characters abruptly dissapear with just a mere mention in the next scene is a little bit jarring.
It's a movie that's thrown together with little to no pacing and this just doesn't give the crescendo that the audience deserves. You neither feel happy nor fulfilled at the end for the main character. Can't work out whether he needed to fail for his bad choices or walk away the winner or beat the antagonists at their own game.
Had the potential to be a a lot better but the director fumbled it and the actors all apart from Zazz the Albanian ringleader who has screen presence. The main actor could do with having a bit more range if he's to hit that A lists. I like urban movies and wanted to really like this movie.
"One day" is still the film to beat in this Genre
Mizu Rahman.
The Flash (2023)
Flash is an awesome movie
This was an absolute delight to watch, the story was well written and had all the action to keep your attention throughout and not one minute was wasted to get you up to speed (no pun intended).
Ezra and co were given their fair share of screen time to assert their roles and give justice, but the award for MVP has to go to Michael Keaton's Batman and he really shines when he Dons the unmistakable Tim burton suit to which kicked off the caped crusader series when I was growing up. Definitely brought a warm fuzzy feeling over.
Loosely based around the flashpoint paradox storyline but had to be changed once it got to the big screen, wouldn't say it's not as good as the animated one but "definitely different" would be more fitting and they handled the multiverse and timeline perfectly and in a refreshing way to say the least. You actually wanted it to work but what happens is inevitable and has to be the way the final act ends and what an ending. The crescendo made the film a balanced and well thought out story.
With all the reviews that are so polarised you have to watch it yourself to make your own mind up to which camp you belong to, but I would happily watch this again to just to take in the full visual onslaught that I think I missed. The CGI could've been better especially in this day and age but it is something you can let slide as it manages to pay homage to the heroes of our yesteryear.
Solid movie and if the new DCEU has this to kickstart the new direction I'm all for it.
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023)
High octane Action from the get go
Another guy Ritchie win!! I liked the moved and the pacing, a proper cat and mouse with hunter getting hunted flip flopping all the way through and everyone playing their part spot on.
Tense action with thrills and statham does his stathism & delivers on his promise even if it means going gung Ho, plays out like Lady Luck and just enough plausibility along the way.
Don't believe all the bad reviews, if you're going for ultimate world domination and a change in world order with questionable bad guys and a team to pull it off then I'd like to think this quasi bad asses are in the midst of it. Enjoyed it throughout.!
Give it a go.
Rocky IV (1985)
I must break you.... one of the all time greatest lines
This movie will have you pumped throughout and it does not let up. One of the best films of the series that will draw you in to Rocky's mind and the loss he feels was his fault for not throwing in the towel when he had the chance to save his friend Apollo Creed at the hands of Drago played very well by Dolph Lundgren. This sets the backdrop of Rocky's journey and the severely ill matchup likened to that of David vs Goliath in this epic battle. As futile as it seems the plausibility comes in the form of pure determination and the backdrop of the Cold War and the hostile crowd that slowly thaws as these two pugilists go toe to toe with the ever presence of that amazing soundtrack. These montages make this film!! And have gone to make many a training session great. Created during a particular tense era of the Cold War, producer Robert chartoff Saw Drago as the indomitable enemy. Personifying everything we fear about the Soviet Union. If there had been a conflict, this is what he would've had to face. Dolph Lundgren meanwhile said he felt sympathy for Drago who he understood as an exploited tool of scheming politicians and military opportunitists looking to advance their own interests through him. This is probably the turning point in the fight where crowds starts chanting "Rocky" and where the Cold War starts to be dismantled.
If there ever was a film that brought down the iron curtain and especially the Cold War this is it and it goes on to make a mends. This is a must watch for anybody who loves the Rocky series and definitely my favourite in the series.
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Taika Waititi, just killed the Thor franchise
What a POS. Taika Waititi is for killing the Thor franchise, too many flat jokes and overly use of trying to play the joke out when it's already dead.
All they had to do was use storyline and remove all the jokes and humour and it would've worked 10x better. But Waititi just wants his mark everywhere. From the direction, the narration film screen time. It was just way too much infact piss poor usage.
The only saving grace was Christian Bale who could only work with the material he had but worked his cotton socks off, as for Zeus what a lame attempt to use Russell crow in his worst performance as a kebab shop owner and also in a fat suit and honestly embarrassing to put his name to that.
Love the marvel franchises but this one is a miss for me.
Boss Level (2020)
I am Mizu..... and Mizu Wrote This!!
What a good enjoyable movie, just about all the right ingredients to make it work. Thoroughly enjoyed all the characters and their individual scenes as well as the right amount of action and time to think what you would've done differently.
Frank grillo to Mel Gibson etc all can pat themselves on their backs. ππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½ππ½Smashed it!!!
Upgrade (2018)
A real gem of a movie on a limited budget
What a rare gem of a movie. This is a movie you don't read reviews nor the background to get into the zone.
But what a good fast paced action/sci-fi movie and my ghosh you will be rewarded with a visual treat.
Set in the future the characters are all played by relatively unknown actors who are all believable and play their parts impeccably with a low budget but don't let that fool you as they make up for it with their gusto, Hollywood needs to take note of this recipe to making movies where everything is in equal measure.
Not original by a long shot but definitely takes a fresh approach to artificial intelligence fused inside the human body and psyche and how far we are willing to push the boundaries of what is acceptable.
Worthy of your time.
Doom Patrol (2019)
Spoiler alert
A bunch of misfits with super powers that are not the typical outwardly heroic type are nurtured by a doctor/professor at the doom manor similarly to that of professor Xavier of the Xmen with infinitely less tech and finances. Each have a story to tell that spans different decades with pretty much all social problems affecting each one differently. All the while their teacher and mentor dr Niles getting sucked into a portal. This spawns a common goal amongst the 2 bit heroes to form an alliance to go find him.
There is a particular member of this team who will test anyone's patience watching this and is constantly and unnecessarily angry yet there's 64 personalities which seems to be stuck on the constantly angry annoying personality who just swears for the sake of swearing. Not at all sympathise with her if she was in it or not and the producers for some reason made her more important than any other member. In fact in Episode 7 the entire team have a therapy session and tell her no one actually likes her and her acting's so bad that rather than garnering sympathy from that bombshell she walks out swearing which puts her even more further from saving grace.
Annoying as the show can be it's worth a watch.