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Fast & Furious 7 (2015)
Errr... a bit hard to review
Recently, I don't know why but I have read a lot of things about the late Paul Walker... I could tell that I had dreamed about his death repeatedly, and I have decided to watch his last film to know who he really was... but this movie did not let me think I would buy this movie.
The Story: A bit confusing, actually. Deckard want to avenge Dominic's crew for his brother's damages, but why he burned the building while the monitor showed the brother has heartbeat? Then Dominic's crew are persuaded into getting God's Eye, and freeing a hacker along the way. Then they go to Abu Dhabi to get a USB to boot that device and spot Deckard before being ambushed. They Then return to Los Angeles to fight with Shaw and the evil man on helicopter. A missile shoot on Deckard, I felt confusing in there. And finally Deckard have got into the carpark ruins and Dominic and his crew finish all evil guys. Deckard is caged and the remaining crew decided to send off Brian. The ending is emotional and have a lot of heart into the tribute, but the overall story, especially there are more than one group of enemies and supports really let me being confused as a result.
The Visuals: I would say the Visuals are pretty good from 2 different ways. 1. All action scenes are really clear and looks thrilling. I enjoyed the action scene involving and I thought the direction of James Wan is still good. The explosion, fighting scenes and especially the tower escape, really brought me think these scenes are above average. 2. They animated Paul Walker very well. I did not spot a scene to differentiate if it was finished by CGI or not until the send off, where I spotted the tattoo on his hand is no more, which is obvious since it was a plan B after the tragic incident of Paul Walker. Overall the visuals are probably above industrial average, over the top scenes are good as long as there is some image differences.
Characters: This is the department where it disappointed me. I had high hopes with characters and every actor portrayed their character like the past across the whole movie, which is outstanding since they are still grieving on Paul Walker's passing. However, each characters in this is written with problems. Starting from Deckard: his motivation: revenge for his brother, is better than the Professor from Big Hero 6, and his action scenes is good, but he is still kind of limited during the film. I don't really think he is a threat enough for Dominic's crew. Secondly, the helicopter guy and the Thai star. I thought they are just one-dimensional and they really don't treat Deckard as a teammate, which is logical but felt confusing. The crew: Dominic started to feel boring and uninteresting for me to follow, because he could survive a falling height of the car park, and I started to feel less thrilling from him, and he isn't really memorable in this film-i forgot every one-liner he said. Letty feels weird and kind of uninteresting for her memory loss from last episode. Mia got shredded into a side character, and is no longer interesting to watch her because of her underutilzation. Hobbs also suffered from the same issue, although he helped defeat the villain in the climax, but he is a bit dull in this film. Tej and Roman suffered from deterioration of character since the last installment as comic reliefs. I started to feel their jokes had worn out so fast and started to become annoying, especially in the party scenes. I gave them 2/10 on both as a result. The last, and actually the least matched to my expectations, is Brian. I thought ever since the fifth installment, the character started to feel more boring than the first and fourth installment. I also felt he is underutilized in this film. Although I understand that the actor did not finish this film and the production team wished to reduce his screen time to reduce the time and cost of production and avoid CGI problems from The Last Airbender, I still hope to have more for this character's performance, especially for half of the film dedicating to Walker himself.
Verdict: The visuals are outstanding, especially for recreation of Walker's faces. I also felt that every remaining crew members had put their heart and soul into the remaining half of this film to pay respect to one of their crew and friend's unfortunate passing. However, the film story was not good at the very start, and the characters started to feel bored in this installment, and it is not a good sign on the franchise, especially after one of the actor passed away. The ultimate decision if this is a good tribute to Paul Walker is himself, for where he goes, and I thought he would be glad at the other place. Unfortunately, for me, I was not fully convinced that this is a good movie.
Story:34/100 , Visuals: 95/100 characters:34/100 overall feeling:196/400
Rarity:C+
P. S: As I am typing this on a bus, I think Paul Walker himself is watching me commenting on this, and I have something to tell him. Rest in peace, bro. I really appreciate your work during lifetime and accompanied me during my start of university, but I think it is the best for you to be a spiritual guard back to your own family and your friends, as I only have known you almost 11 years after you tragically passed away. I don't want this words to disrespect you, but it is the best for me to move on and would not imagine how you died that day. However, if you would want to find me, just welcome anytime.
Surf's Up 2: WaveMania (2016)
Very below par
I have yet to watch the first movie, but I could tell I felt bored during the whole movie. It brought 1 second less than 84 minutes of nothing to me, which is disappointing.
The story: Not only was it boring, but it also bring me a huge cringe. When I watched this film in 2019, I had to walk to another room while watching Cody knocking the chicken off and the WWE surfers blame him, because it was so cringe. I have never experienced this situation before for cringiness, not even the emoji movie and open season 2 had brought me this kind of embarrassment. Sure , those two also fall below average, but the emoji movie is just boring only, while open season 2 is more boring and annoying, but I did not walk out during climax and came back to watch while the DVD player did not stop.
The Visuals : Still look bright, but the motion and mockumantary style is lost, and the lava and water is below average. It is definitely not on par with normal sony standards. I thought open season 2 had done worse, but this movie is still lacking.
The Characters: Even I have yet to watch the first film, I could already tell that these characters had faced huge flanderizations. Cody should not be reset after first film, it makes him more annoying and cringe. The WWE wrestlers, while look great, it is definitely weaker than big Z, which this film didn't utilized him. Other penguins and chicken is just boring and failed to be utilized. I have never been such boring and far from established characters occupied much of the characters.
Verdict: this is temporarily my least favorite film I have ever seen. This is also my least favorite experience gotten from Sony pictures animation. At least the emoji movie and open season 2 did not let me felt embarrassed and walked out, this film really was not the case. I thought it could be better b just make Cody learned the lesson of the first film and just do exchange with WWE wrestlers to learn self defense instead of surfing with them.
Score: Story :9/100 , visuals 40/100, characters: 7/100 overall feeling: 60/400 Grade:F+