Re: What movies have you seen recently? Part 1
To finish off the Dirty Harry series I watched Dead Pool last night. Visually, it is probably the best of the series on blu-ray, but thats about the only thing it has going for it. The whole movie is like a self-mockery, riddled with cop-action movie cliches and interesting characters that are under-utilized. The whole movie just moves from one ridiculous thing to another, whether it be an action sequence, dialogue, or some random plot development, but yet therein lies the source of enjoyment of watching this film in the series. Clint Eastwood is barely there, but there's so much ridiculous **** going on around him it doesn't really matter.
Anyway, not to get too indepth but these things are what bothered me the most:
1) the real killer - I hate when a film tries to stay ahead of the audience and add a twist for the reveal and this just came off as melodramatic to me. When the killer and his motives are explained, basically in passing, with one or two sentences it makes him seem irrelevant to the whole movie. At least make it somebody we had seen on screen before.
2) RC Car Chase - The level of ridiculous of this scene is just mind-blowing, but in the right context it could have actually worked. Without any warning or really any explaination, the killer just happens to be an expert at bomb and RC car making. Not only that, but he can drive two separate cars at the same time in the same car chase. This sequence is actually pretty good though, just came out of nowhere.
3) Harpoon - really?
4) Idiotic henchmen - I don't know why, but it seems like in a lot of bad/decent action movies, the henchmen are complete noobs. This combined with the RC car chase makes me wonder why the bad guys feel like they have to put themselves in a corner from the get go, perhaps they like the odds stacked ridiculously high against them.
I will probably watch this film again. A young Jim Carrey singing GnR is a treat (even if is ridiculous), and Liam Neeson is great (but severely underutilized) in his role. It is still fun in its light-hearted, big-gun shooting, killing every bad guy kind of way. Plus, the car chase is pretty trippy.
To finish off the Dirty Harry series I watched Dead Pool last night. Visually, it is probably the best of the series on blu-ray, but thats about the only thing it has going for it. The whole movie is like a self-mockery, riddled with cop-action movie cliches and interesting characters that are under-utilized. The whole movie just moves from one ridiculous thing to another, whether it be an action sequence, dialogue, or some random plot development, but yet therein lies the source of enjoyment of watching this film in the series. Clint Eastwood is barely there, but there's so much ridiculous **** going on around him it doesn't really matter.
Anyway, not to get too indepth but these things are what bothered me the most:
1) the real killer - I hate when a film tries to stay ahead of the audience and add a twist for the reveal and this just came off as melodramatic to me. When the killer and his motives are explained, basically in passing, with one or two sentences it makes him seem irrelevant to the whole movie. At least make it somebody we had seen on screen before.
2) RC Car Chase - The level of ridiculous of this scene is just mind-blowing, but in the right context it could have actually worked. Without any warning or really any explaination, the killer just happens to be an expert at bomb and RC car making. Not only that, but he can drive two separate cars at the same time in the same car chase. This sequence is actually pretty good though, just came out of nowhere.
3) Harpoon - really?
4) Idiotic henchmen - I don't know why, but it seems like in a lot of bad/decent action movies, the henchmen are complete noobs. This combined with the RC car chase makes me wonder why the bad guys feel like they have to put themselves in a corner from the get go, perhaps they like the odds stacked ridiculously high against them.
I will probably watch this film again. A young Jim Carrey singing GnR is a treat (even if is ridiculous), and Liam Neeson is great (but severely underutilized) in his role. It is still fun in its light-hearted, big-gun shooting, killing every bad guy kind of way. Plus, the car chase is pretty trippy.
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