stee_nolan
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When I heard about Kick-Ass, I thought: "Ah, just another Cheap flick from the expired taste of the Scary Movie Crew." However when I saw the crew who were behind it (SuperBad, Knocked Up) I ate my words and kept chewing until the opening night.
It was on that night when my friends and I went into view Kick Ass, expectations at a medium and pessimism at an all time high having suffered the multiple messes brought about by recent superhero movies (ala Spiderman 3 and Gi Joe). We certainly did not expect the hilarity that was to come!
Now, I'm not going to talk about any background regarding the brilliantly casted characters or the more than fun story line, however what I will tell you is that Kick Ass is worth the expensive ticket. Believe the reviews. It's just brilliant!
Combine the humour of Superbad with an irregular Superhero plot and watch in pleasure as Kick Ass is born. Lets just put it this way, there's a reason why IMDb rating reads: 8.8/10. You should not be disappointed!
Overall rating
10/10
It was on that night when my friends and I went into view Kick Ass, expectations at a medium and pessimism at an all time high having suffered the multiple messes brought about by recent superhero movies (ala Spiderman 3 and Gi Joe). We certainly did not expect the hilarity that was to come!
Now, I'm not going to talk about any background regarding the brilliantly casted characters or the more than fun story line, however what I will tell you is that Kick Ass is worth the expensive ticket. Believe the reviews. It's just brilliant!
Combine the humour of Superbad with an irregular Superhero plot and watch in pleasure as Kick Ass is born. Lets just put it this way, there's a reason why IMDb rating reads: 8.8/10. You should not be disappointed!
Overall rating
10/10
People call it cheesy, people call it unbelievable and weak. People criticize it's story line. But do these apparent "professional" reviewers know what they're watching at all? I'll be hopefully the one of many to tell them that it's Transformers for god sakes! The last thing that I would expect out of an action thriller involving robots/vehicles coinciding with humans to help the planet for the greater good is a deep meaning or moral at the climax of all the CGI special effects! People striving for Oscars strive for a good strong story, not an action/thriller! I mean at the end of the day, it's Transformers we're watching, a former kids TV show. I would hardly expect to find a massive deep, strengthened story line after it's history of childish, cartoon programming. So what I'm getting at Is, is that this movie did what it was supposed to do. It lived up to the action category!i Drama needs solid story lines far more than anything else in the movie business, so those who judge Transformers on plot are sadly mislead. Transformers (like every movie) needs a structure. It had one. Maybe a bit of a cheesy one, but, to the fools who analyze and criticize it based on plot, remember what your watching.
I mean, dear God! I paid a couple of bucks to see what I hoped to be a thriller that performed to it's genre from start to finish, and let me tell you, it did just that (and over achieved on top of everything else). Transformers was marinaded by non stop thrills and adrenaline kicks of pure action! And the CGI was impeccable! So smooth to watch brawling robots in such crisp detail with the sound effects off the scales in terms of perfection.
It didn't need a strong story line to keep it together. Transformers 2 was the whole package and should only be judged on the category that it performed so fantastically to!
Don't over analyze it and you'll enjoy the show!
Overall rating 8/10
I mean, dear God! I paid a couple of bucks to see what I hoped to be a thriller that performed to it's genre from start to finish, and let me tell you, it did just that (and over achieved on top of everything else). Transformers was marinaded by non stop thrills and adrenaline kicks of pure action! And the CGI was impeccable! So smooth to watch brawling robots in such crisp detail with the sound effects off the scales in terms of perfection.
It didn't need a strong story line to keep it together. Transformers 2 was the whole package and should only be judged on the category that it performed so fantastically to!
Don't over analyze it and you'll enjoy the show!
Overall rating 8/10
Max Payne surprised me. I struggle to watch movies based on video games. Doom and Resident Evil are prime examples of failures and Halo doesn't look so promising. Max Payne delivered as competently as Ed Norton's version of the Incredible Hulk. It's dark gloomy theme reminded me so much of the video game that I was almost about to jump up and grab my old PS2 and hook it up to the system.
Mark Wahlberg cut the ice in his portrayal of Max Payne when I really honestly did not expect him to. He slipped out of character quite noticeably from time to time, but hey, it's never easy to play such a consistently mysterious character on a consistent basis.
I plainly do not understand how people have analyzed this movie down to the point of where they come out with the opinion that it's embarrassing to watch. In a whole, this film is most definitely not a mortifying experience. It does not set a landmark in movie making but really, nowadays, does any movie do that? Max Payne more or less fulfills the fantastic experience that I personally had with the Video Game. So what if it's a bit of a cheesy movie... wasn't the video game a bit cheesy?
Now I don't want to fly into an argumentative state of play but what does this movie not have that the video game has? Perhaps your reaching for a controller to play the movie but Mark Wahlberg isn't quite doing what you tell him? This movie will probably remain unsung due to it's negative publicity but I will applaud it and will welcome the sequel with open arms.
Overall Rating:
A solid, positive 8/10
Mark Wahlberg cut the ice in his portrayal of Max Payne when I really honestly did not expect him to. He slipped out of character quite noticeably from time to time, but hey, it's never easy to play such a consistently mysterious character on a consistent basis.
I plainly do not understand how people have analyzed this movie down to the point of where they come out with the opinion that it's embarrassing to watch. In a whole, this film is most definitely not a mortifying experience. It does not set a landmark in movie making but really, nowadays, does any movie do that? Max Payne more or less fulfills the fantastic experience that I personally had with the Video Game. So what if it's a bit of a cheesy movie... wasn't the video game a bit cheesy?
Now I don't want to fly into an argumentative state of play but what does this movie not have that the video game has? Perhaps your reaching for a controller to play the movie but Mark Wahlberg isn't quite doing what you tell him? This movie will probably remain unsung due to it's negative publicity but I will applaud it and will welcome the sequel with open arms.
Overall Rating:
A solid, positive 8/10