Oz The Great and Powerful
James Franco sucks. Over the top performances. Cheesy expressions. It was like he was still doing his hosting job at the Oscars. Compared to Franco, the rest of the cast were pretty decent. The creation of Oz was spectacular. I don't know if it was the fact that Sam Raimi directs or not, but this really feels reminiscent to Army of Darkness. Unlike the meaningful chemistry around Dorothy and her companions, Oz is surrounded by annoying, badly written sidekicks. DECENT FLICK BUT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF ROBERT DOWNEY PLAYED OZ LIKE HE WAS SUPPOSE TO FROM THE START.
DEAD Man Down
Dead Man Down redefines the revenge, but not in a good way. This movie, although entertaining enough to bare, has the worst revenge story I've ever seen. If it wasn't for the cool opening of a gang of assassins led by Terence Howard, I don't think I would have stuck with film more than ten minutes. What's worse is that this movie doesn't just have one revenge story but two, and it's gets really dull, up until the money shot that involves a truck and house, which is the main reason for seeing this movie. After this movie, no one in film has any idea what to do with Colin Farrell. To be honest, after the one of the biggest bombs of last summer, Total Recall, which starred Farrell, I was really surprised to see this guy still getting work after his constant failures in the mainstream portion, especially when it comes to action films. He seems more fitting for the small screen. OKAY MOVIE, BUT FARRELL SHOULD QUIT WHILE HE'S BEHIND.
Olympus Has Fallen
Gerard Butler can kick some serious ass. Why isn't this guy a bigger action hero he should, instead of constantly trying to spread himself to romantic comedies, which are all terrible. 300, action, success. The Ugly Truth, rom-com garbage. Law Abiding Citizen,action, success. Playing for Keeps, rom-com, pure garbage. Can we stop with these action movies that try to relive the 90's with the pointless girlfriend component. Radha Mitchell plays Butler's wife, who's a nurse at a hospital only to have some connection to the plot. Why couldn't you just make a staff member of the President. Speaking of pointless, Ashley Judd plays the First Lady. Those enormously, goofy looking cheeks on the face of Judd was more appealing than her performance. Earlier, I would have thought this film would be the biggest misrepresentation of the Secret Service, but after recent current events, I find the absolute desolation of the Secret Service to be somewhat fitting. I didn't like the use of Aaron Eckhart, either the wrong role or just the wrong movie for him. And a couple of times I confused him for a secret service agent. ALONG WITH THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF CGI AND THE CONSTANT USE OF THE AMERICAN FLAG VERY FUN AND ENTERTAINING FLICK.
GI Joe 2
BEST OF THE MONTH OF MARCH. THE ROCK RULES. Now that I got that out of the way, Bruce Willis has done shit before, Hudson Hawk for example, but the more I think about the last Die Hard and it's ridiculousness of it's plot and title, the more I feel like I'm getting tired of ole' Bruce. Man, that's hard to admit. He just did that movie with such carelessness that it was a distraction for me to see him in this, especially being the person with thee worst written lines in this feature. If Red 2 fails, I don't know where to go from here.
