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Reprisal (2018)
Very confusing
A bank manager whose bank got robbed teams up with his retired cop neighbour (Bruce Willis) to catch the robber.
Although it starts off as promising, it quickly goes downhill as it's riddled with plot holes and unbelievable situations. Also the dialogue is very quiet while the shootouts and the music is too loud, causing me to adjust the volume constantly.
Plot holes:
Why would a bank manager care to investigate the robbery himself. How did he and the retired neighbor cop manage to find the robber's hideout within a few days when a team of investigators and FBI agents couldn't, even though they've been investigating multiple robberies committed by him.
Why would a bank not have any video surveillance cameras in the parking garage where bank staff park.
The robber practiced target shooting in his warehouse with machine guns, but yet nobody reported the gun noise in the neighborhood.
When the bank manager pulled up by the robber's hideout warehouse in his Chevy Tahoe SUV, it seemed like he was the only vehicle on the street, yet the when the robber looked towards where the SUV was parked he didn't act suspicious that not only there was a SUV with open driver's window parked right in front of the warehouse, but it was a Chevy Tahoe commonly used by law enforcement.
When the bank manager found the robber's hideout, he snuck in through an unlocked door off the street. A robber with such meticulous planning would not make such a simple mistake.
During the armor car heist, the bank manager interrupted the robbery and got in a physical fight with the robber, and yet the robber didn't recognize him even though he had photos of him in his hideout and took him hostage few days earlier during the bank robbery.
How could the robber go into the hospital where the armored car girl guard was treated, and shoot the FBI agent in the room, with the door open, and no staff noticing or hearing anything. Then why was he questioning her about who interrupted his robbery, even though he fought with him (bank manager) during the robbery, and should have recognized him. Yet moments later the robber knew his (bank manager) number, and made the armored car girl call him on the phone. And when the bank manager picked up the phone, he was talking to the girl as if he knew her, even though he only met her briefly during the armored car robbery when he saved her life.
Also after the armored car heist the robber left the money in a storage cage in the parking garage at the scene, risking the fact that investigators could have found it as the whole area would have been a crime scene.
So confusing, so mamy plot holes. Nothing made sense.
An Invited Guest (1999)
One of the dumbest movies I ever watched
Unbelievable storyline, unbelievable behaviour and reactions by the characters, poor acting, predictable twists, and boring dialogue sum up the movie.
A wanted thug stops by a house in a neighborhood (which we later learned wasn't by accident), to borrow the phone. He hangs out with the couple living there, and their guests, and takes his time to leave, and in the process seduces the wife while the husband is in the house. He then turns on them and ties them up which is where the plot twists and boredom starts, along with the unbelievable premise of wanting to run away with the hostage's wife while she seriously considers the idea.
All the occupants remain unemotional and almost nonchalant to the fact that they are held hostage and witnessesd a murder, and while many chances come up for them to flee or subdue the kidnapper, they fail to due so, and instead engage in nonsensical dialogue and petty quarrels.
Not only is this movie extremely unbelievable, it's boring as well.
I almost turned it off multiple times but I just let it play to the end in the background while doing work.
Numb (2015)
Surprisingly good.
I have read some of the bad reviews and disagree with the low ratings.
A couple with lingering financial issues who are driving back from a failed out of town job interview through Canadian mountains pick up a pair of mysterious hitchhikers. The foursome stumble upon coordinates to a hidden gold stash from a bank robbery years before and decide to try and find it as it appears to be in the area they're driving through. As they set out to find the stashed gold, they run into trouble, the unbearable elements, as well as develop distrust between each other.
Yes I agree as others said that the characters made some very poor choices when heading out to get the gold, but perhaps these were due to greed taking over and the fact that it was supposed to be a fairly easy hike not too far off the beaten path to get to the gold.
Although the foursome were extremely unprepared for the conditions they were about to face, it wouldn't be out of the ordinary for anyone else to take quick advantage of such a time sensitive opportunity if it seemed fairly easy, ignoring any hazards or taking any precautions that they should have in the first place.
The film has great cinematography, good pace, and keeps tension going from start to finish between both couples. Acting is great, especially by the hitchhiking couple as it keeps you guessing about who they are and their intentions. The makeup was extremely well done too as their journey progressed, showing the horrific effects of cold exposure.
Highly recommended.
Shark Side of the Moon (2022)
Ridiculous movie.
One of the most ridiculous movies I've ever seen. It was so bad, even as a sci-fi movie, that I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be a comedy or a serious effort from whoever made it. Horrible acting, horrible story line, horrible CGI and horrible special effects.
Basically, Russian scientists created human/shark hybrids during the cold war. When these hybrids escaped the lab and went berserk, one of the scientists lured them onto a space shuttle that just happened to be stationed by the lab, that he fired up in a short 5 minutes, and knew how to fly, and flew to the moon with the shark creatures.
Fast forward to modern times and US astronauts who all wear and communicate through airpods, fly to the moon and crash land. They walk outside wearing motorcycle like helmets, and stumble upon the surviving Russian astronaut and a shark girl (human looking girl with a shark fin) who walk without oxygen masks or spacesuit, and tell the US astronauts about a colony of these shark hybrids.
Then one of the astronauts gets kidnapped by these shark hybrids and is tortured by female shark hybrids, who speak English with a Russian accent, and wear bras, to reveal the spaceship location so that the hybrid sharks can fly to Earth and colonize it.
The US astronauts team up with the surviving Russian scientists and his shark daughter to rescue the kidnapped astronaut. They get equipped with hospital type air tubes to breathe through, and mail coif (medieval chain type head caps), so that they can walk around the moon without space suits or oxygen tanks. They clash with the murderous shark hybrids, discover a lair of shark hybrid babies, and then flee back to their space ship while battling the shark hybrids with spears, which sometimes appear human size, and other times like giants, due to inconsistent CGI scaling.
They kill off a bunch of these hybrids and make it back to their ship. The Russian scientist meanwhile fires up his 40 year old crashed space shuttle, and kamikazes it into the shark city causing lava to erupt and kill the shark colony. The lava exposion propels the surviving US astronauts and shark girl in their spaceship back to earth in about 5 seconds, causing them to crash land in the sea.
When their raft inflates (about 2 seconds after crash landing) and they get on it, shark girl says that Earth is beautiful beyond her imagination, gives birth to baby sharks on the raft, out of her vagina, and then jumps into the sea to be with her babies. The end.
Unsheltered (2022)
Boring snoozefest
A group of youths trying to find shelter from an incoming hurricane (which is never shown) end up getting lost in the woods after their Jeep runs out of gas. They end up in an an abandoned airplane junkyard.
After about an hour of boring dialogue, and attempt at character building with irrelevant relationship drama, they get killed one by one by a guy with a mask.
Movie lacks any tension, fear, or jump scares, and is just a total snooze fest. Movie cuts in and out between scenes of the youths in the junkyard, and a police detective interview with the media trying to piece what happened. The interview was cheesy and poorly written as well and had the detective describing events and things that normally would not be discussed publicly during an ongoing investigation.
Then we are presented with a twist at the end with a cliche seen many times before.
The movie idea was good but everything else about the movie wasn't.
Spare yourself the boredom and skip this one.
The Girl in Cabin 13: A Psychological Horror (2021)
Boring and predictable with bad acting
Great idea but awful execution.
A young couple rent a remote cabin in the woods and are stalked by three masked men. It is revealed that they are after the girl, who is an up and coming social media influencer of some sorts, but the reason why is never explained. The movie plays out at a lazy, unsuspensful pace as the masked men try to get in to the cabin while the emotionless and bored looking couple try to come up with a plan to outsmart them. In fact most of the movie consists of scenes showing the stalkers peeking through different windows of the cabin while the couple tries to act (to put it loosely) scared.
The couple show no emotions throughout the ordeal, with a flat uninspiring dialogue from start to finish as if they're first time actors in a high school play. In fact their emotions are as fake as the highly rated reviews posted here.
One of the masked men reveals his face, surprising the boyfriend, but its unknown why and movie doesn't explain if he knows them or is somehow connected to them.
During a fight scene, the boyfriend stabs one of the stalkers laying on the ground in the face while his 2 stalker buddies are unbelievably standing by a foot away, emotionless and watching and not trying to stop him.
Movie is full of predictable scenes and cliches, bad acting, and very little suspense. Watch it if you want to be bored.
Dahmer (2002)
Incomplete story
A rather disappointing film, not due to lack of gore or violence, but due to lack of details.
I was expecting a bit more details of Dahmer's childhood, and more in depth story about his multiple victims, how he got caught, and maybe even the trial. Instead we get none of that, just a snoozer with seemingly irrelevant flashbacks of his youth, his interactions with his parents that the film fails to connect to his later actions in life, and an anti climatic ending of him walking into the forest.
Acting was great but the story line was choppy, hard to follow, and boring. Overall a bit disappointing.
No Solicitors (2015)
Great idea but overall boring
The main idea behind the movie has some potential but the execution of the story falls flat with bad acting, cheesy dialogue, bunch of torture scenes, and no suspense.
Here's a summary to save you the time: a nice looking family kidnaps door to door salespeople who knock on their door. They drug them, cut off their limbs so they can't get away, keep them tied up in the basement, harvest their organs for sale, and eat what's left of the victims. The police investigate the missing persons cases but don't get close and get pulled off the investigation due to lack of resources. Then its revealed that one of the detectives on the case is their cousin and knows about it all, and he's also a cross dressing cannibal. Then the family moves. The end.
Attack Force (2006)
One of the worst Seagal films
Very confusing plot due to the obvious rewrite after it was shot. I must have not paid attention for a few minutes halfway through the movie as I wasn't sure why the "attack force" was going to the village for the final battle. More than half of Seagal's dialogue is redubbed with an obvious different voice. Cheap special effects with people flying through cardboard thin walls during fight scenes. I watched it anyways as I'm a fan of his early movies and want to see how bad some of the later ones have become. Well this is one of his worst for bad acting, poor production, poor editing, and a confusing plot.
Driven to Kill (2009)
Reminds me of some of his first films
Although the story is decent but a bit convoluted, this one features a lot of shooting and fighting, similar to his earlier movies. Not as good as his early movies but a very good effort compared to most of the other movies he released in the past decade.
The Patriot (1998)
His first not so good movie.
I watched this when it came out being a Seagal fan after he had his streak of hits like Above The Law, Hard To Kill, Marked For Death, Out For Justice etc... I watched it again just recently and was disappointed again as I was the first time. Storyline was decent but the movie lacked any typical Seagal fighting scenes apart for a few short ones here and there even though he was still in shape and somewhat enthusiastic on camera compared to recent snoozers.
Expected a big end fight scene as in his previous movies but all we got was Seagal stabbing the bad guy with a wine glass stem while sitting at a table talking.
Consider this more of a thriller/drama with a few action scenes that just happened to have Seagal in it instead of an action movie.
A Dangerous Man (2009)
One of mire watchable recent Seagal films
Decent amount of action and fighting scenes. Decent storyline. Much better effort from Seagal compared to other ones he released recently. In the end it gets confusing as to who is fighting who but nevertheless entertaining.
End of a Gun (2016)
A snoozer
Not the worst Seagal movie but not one of his better ones. Six stars for decent storyline and the hot chick. Otherwise most of the movie consists of Seagal mumbling through unnecessary elongated scenes that serve as filler to give it a painful 88 minute run time. It could have been shortened into a 1 hour movie actually. If you're looking for typical Seagal action you'll be disappointed as there are maybe 3 or 4 very short action scenes.
Knock Knock (2015)
Decent flick, lousy ending
Spoliers: I found the movie entertaining, with a great start, great suspense build up, but a very disappointing ending and a quite a few plot holes.
It left a lot of unanswered questions like how did the girls spy on his family, why was he picked, was this something they did often to other men, and if they were ever caught in the end.
Also there were quite a few plot holes. How did they get back into his house? Why didn't the police investigate after a hung up 911 call. Why did they untie him to play hide and seek when he could have easily fought back at that point knowing his life is in danger. They left a ton of identifying evidence behind including a sex tape posted to social media, and fingerprints but yet walked away care free? They left a dead body, stole the dog, and the vandalized house, all of which they could be criminally charged for.
Good suspensful entertainment but could have ended differently.
John Henry (2020)
1 hour too long
Warning spoilers:
Good story idea but horrible execution.
A former LA gang member living a quiet life helps hide a girl he finds in his yard after she escaped a sex trafficking ring. The traffickers eventually find her location, invade the Good Samaritan's house, and leave him for dead. He avenges the attack.
This movie drags on at such a slow pace that apart from a few minutes of crucial scenes here and there, and 2 short action scenes, everything else seemed like filler material to push it to the 90 minute mark, including unnecessary flashback scenes, drawn out conversations, and a music video in the middle that had nothing to do with the characters or the plot.
The worst part was the cartoonishly unrealistic bad guy crime boss that had a silly looking exposed gold metal jaw like some comic book villian, and walked around with a propane cannister and blow torch to punish his enemies, even in broad daylight on his own front lawn in front of kids and neighbors.
Its too bad the movie sucked because I grew up on 90s hip hop music, liked Terry Crews in other films, and I enjoy mindless action movies, but this one was a total bore.
Escape Plan: The Extractors (2019)
Incohesive, confusing, and boring.
Contains Spoilers:
Apart from a few decent martial arts fight sequences, the rest of the movie sucked.
As a fan of 80s and 90s action flicks, I look forward to seeing newer movies with those action stars, but this one was truly disappointing.
The story line was incohesive and all over the place, with some parts truly unrealistic. The bad guy's goal didn't make sense. He kidnapped a Chinese business tycoon's daughter and her assistants so that he can hack into the business and take it over and "break him" as some sort of a revenge plot. Why would he also kidnap Stallone character's girlfriend at the same time as revenge as well, when that would just cause Stallone's character to come out to Latvia to look for her and possibly ruin the original plan of ruining the Chinese business tycoon.
The good guys had to break into the hellish prison, but there was no break in involved. Two ran through the front lawn that had explosives and got caught right away. The other just walked in through the sewers which they just happened to have a blueprint for on their computer (remote old prison in Latvia which likely wouldn't have digitized prison sewer blueprints).
During few scenes when the main bad guy in the prison yelled "lock them up," the locking clunk sounded like a modern automatic locking system for all cell block doors at once. But yet the cell doors were individual type that they still had to use keys for.
In one scene Bautista's character is shown walking inside the prison, but it's unclear how he got there, bypassing security and cameras.
In another scene one of the Asian heroes used a taser to start a fire from chipped stone in his prison cell. In a fight scene between the Asian hero and a bad guy, I thought the bad guy was the main bad guy, but it wasn't. They just looked alike.
Shows you how easy it is to not pay attention, and lose track to what's happening due to a poor story line. It's a big boring mess. Watch it for the cheesiness but don't get too exited.
Knowing (2009)
Great start, great idea, lousy middle and ending, plot holes.
WARNING SPOILERS! This movie starts off great but then trails off with plot holes and typical clichés with an anti-climatic ending. It tries to be all genres packed into one and it fails at most. It tries to be a bit of a horror flick, adventure, sci-fi, drama, action, disaster.
The beginning of the movie sets the tone that this will be a scary thriller/horror type movie (creepy girl scratching numbers in the door with bloody fingers). Some drama and character development is added in after when Cage tries to bond with his son and sister after his wife's death, and with some special effects thrown in for good measure (plane crash, subway scene).
Afterwards it tries to be an action movie when Cage runs around with his gun (which he doesn't use) in NY chased by cops as he's trying to stop a disaster. It goes back to being a horror flick again with Cage and the woman going to a creepy mobile home in a foggy forest after which a bunch of scary looking pale people (that appeared randomly in the movie earlier) show up looking for CAge and the woman's kids. There are loose plot holes like those black rocks that don't really mean much but are found in random places during supposedly suspenseful scenes, and when Cage's son scribbling numbers on the paper towards the end of the movie (what's he predicting when everyone will die the next day anyways)? Finally it ends with a giant spaceship coming down in the forest and taking the chosen ones with them while the rest of the world is at the mercy of the sun.
Great idea (time capsule, predictions), but poorly executed.