While this follow-up to last year's original film has a more interesting story premise, the film suffers from a distinct lack of intensity. I appreciate the filmmaker's restraint when it comes to gratuitous violence and the decision to leave more to our imagination. But for the most part you never feel much of a connection to the characters nor do you feel much concern for their ultimate safety. I believe a big mistake was made in combining what could have…
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Transformers: Age of Extinction 2014
This is the live-action Transformers movie I've wanted to see. By no means a great movie, it was an enjoyable experience. I loved the grand way the film was shot, almost making the film feel IMAX in scope while being projected on a standard size screen. Unlike past installments, I found the robots themselves to be better developed and more identifiable characters with more distinct appearances. Mark Wahlberg was Mark Wahlberg and, very fortunately, Stanley Tucci was Stanley Tucci. Tucci,…
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X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014
This is my favorite X-Men film. Aside from being a great X-Men film, I found it to be an outstanding film, period. I thought the story was well crafted and did a terrific job of posing and answering questions throughout. The film had a freshness to it that you would never expect from the seventh film in a series. The 1973 setting of the film was well realized, particularly with regard to news and other film/video footage used.
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The Last Step 2012
Really liked this film aside from one or two technical problems, such as the lead actor/writer/director breathing somewhat heavily in his scene as a corpse. Ignoring those moments, I really loved watching the puzzle pieces of the story come together.
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