Hello!
damn, it's been dead on here for the last few days, what gives?
oh right, i haven't been doing much on here. Well that's about to change!
MOVIE REVIEW: RED 2
Pros: the cast did a very good job with what little they had to do, Willis used his normal charm, Malkovich was as stoned as ever, but Anthony Hopkins was great as the schizophrenic/amnesiac/good/bad/insane/i lost count of personality changes bad guy he ended up being. the movie had some fun action, though it defied the laws of everything, physics, common sense, logic, international laws, everything. the movie assumes that we aren't thinking at all. which i guess makes it mindless fun?
I like Byung Hun-lee. he should make more movies...and better movies
Cons:
well, it was mindless as shit. as a filmmaker and a writer i just couldn't believe how often things went against the laws of common sense...For example, early in the movie there's a scene...
Willis has a guy in his arms at gunpoint (meat-shield). a guy is advancing on him, claiming it's 7 against 1. the guy shoots the meat shield and Willis runs into a room. so there's 7 guys outside, and Willis inside. 1 of the guys goes into the room, there's a scuffle, guy dies, 6 on 1 now. 3 more guys are sent in, they search through a room full of filing cabinets and shelves. they find the first guy, roll him over, reveal an unpinned Grenade, big boom, 3 guys dead (Willis is hanging out the window). so now its 3 on 1.
this is where the scene collapses....4 more guys enter....not including the boss who's part of the original 7. so somehow they grew 2 new people, whatever...the 4 enter the room, all the shelves are still up after the grenade went off...Willis kills one and steals his machine gun, 3 left, he kicks a safe off of a shelf, killing another, 2 on 1. next hes seen above the 2 on a shelf. he kills the both with a handgun.
all dead right?
wrong, another guy starts shooting at Willis (a black guy, all of the guys earlier were white) he's shooting at Willis and out of a random ass hole int he wall Malkovich shows up with a shotgun. OK, guys dead, boss comes in to find them gone and his 9 guys dead.
its shit like that that makes me question the intelligence of filmmakers sometime.
did i mention the layout of the room? here it is...
Logistically what wall does Malkovich break through? seriously? is the Boss a moron? well i know he cant count, but damn, is he blind too.
aside from that the characters always seem to act out of characters for purpose of story-line. the girlfriend randomly kisses people just cause, then will shoot someone later with no emotional ramifications.
the writing just felt like they wanted to go off in random directions for barely any reason.
anyway, moving on
Locations:
China, Russia, France, and Great Britain only have one city in them. and this movie visits them all, just to blow shit up with no consequences then move on.
when they were in Paris they passed right by the same location used in Midnight in pairs where the car picks him up.
London had the same locations that you see in Sherlock. or Dr. who. i wanted aliens to attack, just to add something unexpected
And Moscow has the Kremlin and bombs, kinda sounds like mission impossible ghost protocol. except you can break in through a papa johns basement..i shit you not.
Hong Kong had rice walls, origami, a Korean and male nudity....so, its just...Asian
Action:
the saving grace of the movie, it had some fun action throughout. Hun-lee had some really fun fights and there was some cool gun-play, but it wasn't enough to crawl over the wreck that was the rest of the movie.
Final Verdict: 34
had some fun moments but was horribly written and was just dumb
anyway, that's that. I'm now watching Batman and Robin, i don't know why. i'll find another movie to review in a bit, maybe Ruby Sparks
damn, it's been dead on here for the last few days, what gives?
oh right, i haven't been doing much on here. Well that's about to change!
MOVIE REVIEW: RED 2
Pros: the cast did a very good job with what little they had to do, Willis used his normal charm, Malkovich was as stoned as ever, but Anthony Hopkins was great as the schizophrenic/amnesiac/good/bad/insane/i lost count of personality changes bad guy he ended up being. the movie had some fun action, though it defied the laws of everything, physics, common sense, logic, international laws, everything. the movie assumes that we aren't thinking at all. which i guess makes it mindless fun?
I like Byung Hun-lee. he should make more movies...and better movies
Cons:
well, it was mindless as shit. as a filmmaker and a writer i just couldn't believe how often things went against the laws of common sense...For example, early in the movie there's a scene...
Willis has a guy in his arms at gunpoint (meat-shield). a guy is advancing on him, claiming it's 7 against 1. the guy shoots the meat shield and Willis runs into a room. so there's 7 guys outside, and Willis inside. 1 of the guys goes into the room, there's a scuffle, guy dies, 6 on 1 now. 3 more guys are sent in, they search through a room full of filing cabinets and shelves. they find the first guy, roll him over, reveal an unpinned Grenade, big boom, 3 guys dead (Willis is hanging out the window). so now its 3 on 1.
this is where the scene collapses....4 more guys enter....not including the boss who's part of the original 7. so somehow they grew 2 new people, whatever...the 4 enter the room, all the shelves are still up after the grenade went off...Willis kills one and steals his machine gun, 3 left, he kicks a safe off of a shelf, killing another, 2 on 1. next hes seen above the 2 on a shelf. he kills the both with a handgun.
all dead right?
wrong, another guy starts shooting at Willis (a black guy, all of the guys earlier were white) he's shooting at Willis and out of a random ass hole int he wall Malkovich shows up with a shotgun. OK, guys dead, boss comes in to find them gone and his 9 guys dead.
its shit like that that makes me question the intelligence of filmmakers sometime.
did i mention the layout of the room? here it is...
Logistically what wall does Malkovich break through? seriously? is the Boss a moron? well i know he cant count, but damn, is he blind too.
aside from that the characters always seem to act out of characters for purpose of story-line. the girlfriend randomly kisses people just cause, then will shoot someone later with no emotional ramifications.
the writing just felt like they wanted to go off in random directions for barely any reason.
anyway, moving on
Locations:
China, Russia, France, and Great Britain only have one city in them. and this movie visits them all, just to blow shit up with no consequences then move on.
when they were in Paris they passed right by the same location used in Midnight in pairs where the car picks him up.
London had the same locations that you see in Sherlock. or Dr. who. i wanted aliens to attack, just to add something unexpected
And Moscow has the Kremlin and bombs, kinda sounds like mission impossible ghost protocol. except you can break in through a papa johns basement..i shit you not.
Hong Kong had rice walls, origami, a Korean and male nudity....so, its just...Asian
Action:
the saving grace of the movie, it had some fun action throughout. Hun-lee had some really fun fights and there was some cool gun-play, but it wasn't enough to crawl over the wreck that was the rest of the movie.
Final Verdict: 34
had some fun moments but was horribly written and was just dumb
anyway, that's that. I'm now watching Batman and Robin, i don't know why. i'll find another movie to review in a bit, maybe Ruby Sparks
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