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Inside Out (2011)
Boring, Paint By Numbers...Typical of WWE Films
I must be a masochist, or perhaps an optimist because I have seen most of the WWE Films movies and none of them are any good. Perhaps, deep in my subconscious I think "this one will be different, this one will surprise me" but this has yet to actually happen. Inside Out fails in ways that past WWE vehicles have: there is not a hint of originality, you can predict what will happen next as you watch it, the wrestler (in this case Paul "Triple H" Levesque) is not very good and the supporting cast phones it in.
Inside out is quite frankly boring. The plot lulls you into a coma and you'll forget about the film as you watch it. There is nothing here that hasn't been done before and better. HHH is getting out of prison, wants to live the clean life but gets sucked in by his friend that was the cause of his prison stint, the friend has married HHH's love and they have a daughter that is really HHH's...blah blah blah. As I watched this I began to question whether or not I suffer from ADD because I found it difficult to focus on.
If you want to watch a good movie with a wrestler in a starring role watch They Live with Roddy Piper and please: don't be like me. If you see "WWE Films" pop up on the screen don't waste your time.
The Encounter (2010)
Preachy Christian Movie With No Depth
I did not go into viewing The Encounter thinking it had the potential to be a cinematic masterpiece; in fact I was thinking the exact opposite. In that regard I was definitely not disappointed. To say that the characters in this film are one-dimensional is an overstatement: we are dealing with bland stereotypes that barely fill out a dimension. We have the rich jerk (played by wrestler Sting), the attractive young woman who wants to marry her boyfriend, the married couple about to split up with a spineless, henpecked husband and overbearing wife and a young runaway who comes from an abusive, drug-addled home. Oh, we also have Jesus as a diner owner and The Devil/Satan as a cop.
These five people find themselves in Jesus' diner and the Big J informs them all that he wants them to follow Him and go to Heaven in lieu of the alternative. The only insight into any of these characters that we get is told to us by Jesus with the exception of I believe three short flashback scenes. We are really not given any reason whatsoever to care what happens to these people.
Questions, and good ones arise through the film, such as why would an all-powerful, all-loving being order the ancient Jews to commit genocide against the Canaanites or for that matter allow a drunken step-father to molest his wife's child. The answers provided by Jesus, who comes off as creepy in this film in a serial killer way, leave a lot to be desired.
At one of more ridiculous moments in the movie Officer DeVille (the Devil, duh) comes in and tells the patrons the road is safe while Jesus tells them it is not. Jesus and DeVille start to argue and at one point JC channels his inner Darth Vader and uses his Jedi Powers to choke DeVille. I wish I was joking.
The acting is poor, the plot is paper thin and the dialog is uber preachy. 90 minutes pass by like 90 hours and I would encourage anyone, be they Christian or not, to avoid this dreck.