Reviews

This was the first time I was truly excited for a movie of this magnitude. The trailers misled but I was okay with it because in the end, this movie delivers!

This movie felt like an Avengers movie and the ending was a very nice surprise

I loved this movie and it was a great start to a cinematic universe. I truly believe this is next in line after the MCU

No matter how I was feeling, I could always sit down and watch this show and have a big smile on my face. I loved every second of it!

If I had to think of a single show that had 15 season s, great actors and amazing story telling, I’d only have one word…Supernatural!

This took a long time to finally sit down and watch but when I did, it was awesome!

What a great show this was to watch. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I was watching this, all I could say was “oh my god”!

Loved the story that was told, very engaging and fun to watch

Enjoyed the movie overall but didn’t care for the ending as much.

He gets resurrected by lightning Frankenstein style. This movie rocks

Great B movie, I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Slo mo Jason gets me every time. Still shocked that two movies in he still doesn't have that hockey mask. Guess I have to keep watching

A lighthearted romantic comedy

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this movie is very good. I like it

I really wanted more from Shane Black. This has almost none of the personality of his other films, and it screams direct-to-streaming with it's flat, shiny look. The best part of this was the title sequence. I need Shane to go back to broken action heroes, because the unstoppable badass is just not it here

I find it hilarious how Keanu Reeves, the man who played John Wick and Neo himself, has never been seriously injured in any of his movies, until he was in GOOD FORTUNE, a comedy about economic inequality. Hey, comedy is hard. He plays a low-level guardian angel named Gabriel, who is responsible for saving people who are texting and driving (pretty busy job). Having the urge to do more, he tries to help Arj (Aziz Ansari), whose life is falling apart financially. Trying to teach Arj that money won’t solve all of his problems, he swaps his life with Jeff (Seth Rogen), a very rich investor. Well, the plan backfires spectacularly. This movie is so fun! This is Ansari’s feature directorial debut, using his experience from writing, directing, and acting in his own Netflix series MASTER OF NONE. Each character has an arc, less so for Elena (Keke Palmer), the love interest. The humour is great, having room for some slightly deeper messaging. I’m a huge fan of Keanu, so it was fun seeing something different from him. The ending is good, but a little rushed. Ansari wanted to write about things that everybody deals with, but nobody talks about. Struggling with life itself is very relatable. The city of Los Angeles is a character itself here, featuring themes of gentrification, homelessness, the propagation of food delivery robots, and the gig economy. People these days need more than one job to live comfortably in society. Overall, GOOD FORTUNE is a somewhat light comedy that’s about more than I thought it would be. Comedies are rarely made these days, so I recommend supporting them when they’re good!

Phenomenal.

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Doesn’t punch particularly hard, nor does it deviate from the typical biopic formula substantially enough to be qualified as a knockout. But Benny Safdie’s incredibly stylish voice, Dwayne Johnson’s impressive performance, and Emily Blunt’s always-delightful (though slightly underutilized) presence make the film worth watching even in spite of its shortcomings.
Simple though they may be, the tropes and structure of the sports genre never fail to keep me entertained, and this was no exception. The story did start to get a little repetitive toward the end (domestic argument, fight, introspection, domestic argument, fight, introspection…), but Safdie and his stars always keep things vibrant and compelling enough that I could never stop caring about these characters.
But let’s not kid ourselves: The main draw of The Smashing Machine was always going to be the star vehicle for Dwayne Johnson. The film never hides its agenda: To provide its lead with yet another one of his many career reinventions, this time asserting him as a “serious actor.” In that sense, I have mostly conflicted feelings. On the one hand, Johnson delivers a performance that I could have never guessed he had in him. It’s not particularly flashy, but that’s particularly where its strength lies: in its quieter moments, in simple expressions, in subtle eye movements. He doesn’t exactly disappear into the role, but he makes it his entirely.
In that latter part lies my main gripe with the performance, though. Smashing Machine so often feels like a Dwayne Johnson career move that the story of Mark Kerr always seems to come in second. Sadly, great though The Rock might be in this film, his presence works to the detriment of the story and of its subject. There’s not much sincerity here—every big emotional moment feels like Johnson just trying to get his big Oscar nomination clip—, and that’s the worst that could possibly happen to a biopic. Maybe I’m being cynical, but I couldn’t help but feel this way.
Even still, the film is both compelling and entertaining. No, it doesn’t reinvent the formula or even have any surprises in store, but it delivers on virtually everything it promises: the acting is solid, the directing is great, the fight scenes are brutally raw, and the emotional beats are satisfying. It’s a very good movie, but I wish it had been more.