ksgillihan

Ok so I'm an adult with kids so this isn't exactly the perfect movie for my demographic. However, I have played a good amount of Minecraft myself. Having said that, this movie felt nothing like the game to me. It was like artificial grape flavor trying to convince you it tastes like grapes. Sure it's purple and kind of sour but that's about all the two have in common. I get that it's not supposed to really be taken seriously but this film is just a bright and loud mess.

Minecraft is a sandbox game. That means you can do whatever you want within the confines of the game world. Basically, you can make it whatever you want it to be. So the aspect of giving Steve a backstory and an arch nemesis is a weird way to go. But I get it, the movie has to have a story. And this one technically did. I did like the way the world looked and that part I did enjoy a lot. But the praise ends there. The characters were all useless and just kind of thrown in for structure. None of them were interesting or added much to the movie.

Jack Black has always been an actor who throws himself into his part with the same over the top charisma he always does and this movie is no exception. However, the lines for his character were kind of strange and didn't really fit in the movie. Jason Momoa's character was by far the weirdest one and was just distracting to me. As was the interaction between his character and Steve. There was some uncomfortable and slightly not-straight feeling moments between the two. Not that there's anything wrong with that but it just felt very strange in this movie. Overall, it was semi-entertaining but really failed at being what it should have been about and was just a loud mess.

One of the best war-themed movies I've ever seen. Gritty and realistic following the grim Vietnam war. A struggling former soldier is put back in the real world following the atrocities he saw and participated in during his service time as a Green Beret in Vietnam. Shot in the Pacific Northwest, it gives a surreal feeling to the desperation Rambo feels being back in the real world and trying to figure out what to do with his life now that he's all alone.

All the actors give fine performances here especially Dennehy and Stallone. I think that this is the finest acting that Stallone has ever done in his career. He shows an effective portrayal of a man at the end of his rope who is pushed into a situation that he never wanted to be in. Stallone doesn't have a lot of lines in the movie but when he does, he delivers. Especially near the end when he shows the damage that war has done to him as a person. A fantastic action movie with a lot of heart as well.