What film did you watch last night?

Criminal - Amazon Prime (free)

Kevin Costner , Gary Oldman , Tommy Lee Jones in a CIA thriller. Very enjoyable romp shot mostly in London. Great photography and editing , very snappy. Looked almost 4k quality and had a great surround soundtrack. 8/10

Leaving Prime on 13th April.
 
A few recently.

The Gentleman - 8.5/10 really enjoyable, with great dialogue. Great to see Hugh Grant acting too rather than playing himself.

The Raid - 9/10 i saw it when it originally came out, and rewatched it recently and it's still a brilliant action/martial arts film.

Jumanji: The Next Level - 6.5/10 Good family fun.
 
Fury. a Solid WWII film, almost as good as SPR. I never used to like Brad Pitt but after watching this, Inglorious BDs & 1oati Hollywood, I'm now of the opinion that he did deserve his Oscar after all. A 6/10 from me.
 
I haven't finished it yet (not even close, as I was too tired) but I started watching 'Under the Skin' last night, well, this morning. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1441395/

So far, even for my tastes, it does seem very odd/strange...but I am enjoying it and am intrigued to see how it will develop. I'll carry on with that tonight, or tomorrow. :)
 
Child’s Play (remake) - An interesting alternative to the original. I do like that they took into account ‘smart homes / cloud computing’ and the film was also mostly fun, but ran out of steam towards the end and ended up being a little anti-climatic. 6/10

2012 - It should be called ‘planes that almost don’t take off - the movie’. They do the same thing with a plane taking off 3 frickin’ times. Aside from the obligatory bloated run time this is pretty fun and mindless. 6/10
 
A Taxi Driver (2017).

Based on actual events starring Kang-ho Song (Parasite). This movie is what dramas should be benchmarked against. I haven't seen any movies in a lifetime that can cover all areas from humour tragedy to likeable characters so well. There are no special effects, it is pure drama.
 
Spectre - 4/10

They should probably stop making Bond films, if this one is anything to go by.

Lacked any of the charm, pacing, flow, fun, or even interest of prior Bond films. Whilst also managing to be derivative, convoluted and utterly nonsensical.

Truly a crap film.
 
21 Bridges - 7½ / 10

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this. Two guys looking to rob a drug dealer, the job goes VERY bad and Manhatten gets locked down while the Police (Chadwick Boseman) hunt them out. It's rated 6.6 on IMDb, which is probably fair, but at the same time, if you can switch off and enjoy, it's pretty good. I was close to giving it 8 out of 10.
 
Bloodshot - 4.5/10 - A fairly mindless Vin Diesel popcorn action flick which I would want to rate lower than a 4.5 if it wasn't for the fantastic VFX/CGI work which easily add an extra few points. Aside from that the acting is OK at best, the script is pretty poor most of the time and the story takes some of the best bits of Robocop, Matrix and Total Recall, throws them in a blender then dumps the results in the bin without hesitation. If you can't see the "twist" within the first 20 minutes I'd be disappointed in you :D

Oh, the actor who plays "Winston Bishop" from the TV show "New Girl" is the best part of this film. Thats not a compliment.
 
In recent days I tried to watch Spiderman:Far from home, but gave up after ten minutes; silly high-tech costume, silly teenage angst plot, and I don't find Holland convincing in the role. 0/10

I then tried to watch Mortal Engines, about the mobile cities... made it fifteen minutes, but only because I was too busy laughing to operate the remote. -3/10

I then tried Venom, because Tom Hardy's usually watchable. Made it to about half an hour before his silly inner dialogue made it too daft to bother with the rest of the already typically creaky Marvel plot. 4/10

But tonight, finally, I managed to make it all the way through something! Passengers. I wasn't sure at the start, but it was actually a pretty well crafted SF tale (ignoring the iffy science, but there was one bit of physics plotting which made up for that). 7/10
 
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