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Not one of Spielberg's better entries. It fits in that category of passion pieces missing the Mark ( 47 Ronan for Keanu Reeves , Battlefield Earth for John Travolta), it's nowhere near as bad as those movies but it feels very mediocre .
The Good
- The CGI is excellent , not a fan of Giants on CGI , I mean look how terrible Jack and the Giant Muller looked , the CGI here is a couple of notches above that, but it's also the reason this movie will bomb , CGI this good costs money.
- Ruby Barnhill , thetc actress that plays little Sophie has a thoughtful subtle traits which makes me believe she will be a good actress going forward , and Mark Rylance is able to salvage the fact that his character struggles with English and is decent in this.
The Bad
- It's very dull . It felt longer because it was pretty boring in spurts. I remember watching the Animated version of this and it's the same movie , both movies don't really inspire magic to me . Meh is my best description for this.
Yeah, I dunno about it's Best Picture nomination, but I did think it was a solid, well made movie. Definitely not "hack" work, to refer back to Ruthless's post.
This bomb is the Karma for Rylance beating out Stallone. Creed was so underrated and Stallone deserved that Oscar? Still fucking sore about that ? The only Snub I hate more is Redmayne over Keaton a couple years back , fuck The Theory of Every thing .
This has been a crappy summer movie season. I can only speak for myself, but I haven't been to the movies since Captain America. Nothing has piqued my interest at all.
Director: Chris Renaud (Despicable Me) and Yarrow Cheney
Cast: Kevin Hart, Lake Bell, Ellie Kemper, Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Albert Brooks, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Bobby Moynihan, Jenny Slate and Steve Coogan
Synopsis: Taking place in a Manhattan apartment building, Max's life as a favorite pet is turned upside down, when his owner brings home a sloppy mongrel named Duke. They have to put their quarrels behind when they find out that an adorable white bunny named Snowball is building an army of abandoned pets determined to take revenge on all happy-owned pets and their owners.
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MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES
Director: Jake Szymanski (feature film directorial debut)
Cast: Zac Efron, Adam DeVine, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Alice Wetterlund, and Stephen Root
Synopsis: Hard-partying brothers Mike (Adam Devine) and Dave (Zac Efron) place an online ad to find the perfect dates (Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza) for their sister's Hawaiian wedding. Hoping for a wild getaway, the boys instead find themselves outsmarted and out-partied by the uncontrollable duo.
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CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
Director: Matt Ross (28 Hotel Rooms)
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Frank Langella, Missi Pyle, Steve Zahn, Kathryn Hahn, Erin Moriarty, George Mackay, Annalise Basso, Ann Dowd, Samantha Isler
Synopsis: Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father (Viggo Mortensen) devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent.
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FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS
Director: Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit of Happyness, Seven Pounts)
Cast: Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul, Diane Kruger, Quvenzhané Wallis, Bruce Greenwood, Janet McTeer, Kylie Rogers, Jane Fonda, and Octavia Spencer
Synopsis: A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
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CELL
Director: Tod Williams (Paranormal Activity 2)
Cast: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Owen Teague, Clark Sarullo, Anthony Reynolds, Erin Elizabeth Burns, and Stacy Keach
Synopsis: When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after. Adapted from the 2006 Stephen King novel.
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS Hops to $5.3 Million Thursday
A herd of pets stormed the box office Thursday night as animated film The Secret Life of Pets earned a strong $5.3 million in late night shows in 3,009 theaters. Comedy Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates also began rolling into theaters with $1.6 million in 2,560 locations.
The Secret Life of Pets had Illumination Entertainment's second best opening behind Minions ($6.24M) and ahead of Despicable Me 2 ($4.7M) and Despicable Me ($590K). The film, released by Universal, is expected to have a strong debut, likely to cross $70 million for its North American opening. It will be enough to unseat the other animated film, holdover Finding Dory, from the No. 1 spot for the weekend. Disney and Pixar's hit has earned more than $400 million domestically after three weekends in theaters.
Secret Life of Pets, which played in select theaters Thursday night before opening everywhere Friday (it will screen in roughly 4,300 theaters), reveals what pets do after their human friends leave the house. Chris Rinaud (Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2) directed.
Dave and Mikes Wedding or something like that.
Really bad. Disappointing all around. Kendrick who is usually a guaranteed home run in everything was really out of her element - I blame the writing and casting.
Everybody was pretty awful. It got a couple half giggles then crickets. Left about 10' early to take a phone call.
3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:76% approval rating (93 out of 122 critics like it)
Critics Consensus: Fast-paced, funny, and blessed with a talented voice cast, The Secret Life of Pets offers a beautifully animated, cheerfully undemanding family-friendly diversion.
Entertainment Weekly - Pets has a great premise, but it’s more busy than clever. Like a dog that endlessly chases its tail in circles, Pets is amusing for a while, then it just tires itself out. B-
Newark Star-Ledger - The big chase scenes and action-movie adventures are fine. But what delights here are the small details of what happens once we close the door - the standard poodle who throws a heavy-metal party, or the dachshund who gets massages. 2.5/4
Richard Roeper - There's too much dark, even mean-spirited cynicism. And the ending isn't nearly as heartwarming as it could have been because the writers and co-directors opted not to go with a certain (and seemingly pretty obvious) dramatic choice. 2/4
Rolling Stone - An animated fluffball-a sort of Toy Story with pets- does everything to drive you crazy and ends up by being totally irresistible. 3/4
I didn’t hate this film the way I thought it would. There was much more enjoyment here than I was expecting, considering I was expecting the worst movie of the year, it isn’t saying much. Are there some good laughs here? Yes. There are some genuine moments of clever ad-libbing between characters and the story never seems to fly off the rails. As a matter of fact, the movie comes to together the best at the end when everyone realizes what assholes they all are. Plaza and Kendrick are great and Efron is serviceable. I truly feel like if DeVine was omitted for this film, I would have rated it much higher but with him comes moments of unfunny profanity-laced tirades and general cringeworthy attempts to get a laugh. It all honestly this cheap and lazy brand of comedy has seemingly run its course. Perhaps it’s time for Hollywood to smarten up from the cheap profanity drug fueled Seth Rogan brand of generic screwballs and get back to making comedies that appeals more to just millennial stoners. This film is on the lower tier in the middle section of comedies, while isn’t boring or too stupid to function, it doesn’t warrant a rush to spend your hard earned money to see it. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is a great movie to Netflix and Chill to but that’s about it. With a little more addition by subtraction this could have been one of the biggest hits of the year.
Good overall . Lot of nice funny montages and neat action sequences. The Voice cast sounded like they were having a lot of fun too. I think this is better than Minions or any of the Ice Age Movies but not as special as the better Pixar movies or Disney's recent resurgence in the CGI animation entries. I think thats because early on the 3 lead Dog Characters were pretty unlikable , it rounds out at the end , but I found the supporting characters to be more entertaining.
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS Bites Off Huge $103.2 Million Opening
Illumination Entertainment and Universal's The Secret Life of Pets debuted to a bigger-than-expected $103.2 million from 4,370 theaters at the North American box office — delivering Chris Meledandri's Illumination its first new franchise after Despicable Me/Minions and eclipsing Pixar's Inside Out ($90.4 million) to score the best start ever for an original animated property, not accounting for inflation.
It's also the No. 6 opening ever for any animated film, and Illumination's second-best start after last summer's Minions ($115.7 million). Overseas, the $75 million film took in $7.8 million from its first nine markets for an early foreign total of $42.6 million and global tally of $145.8 million.
Finding Dory, which had topped the box-office chart for three consecutive weekends, took in $20.4 million from 4,085 locations. On Friday, the animated tentpole passed fellow Disney title Captain America: Civil War ($406 million) to become the summer's top-grossing film to date in North America, finishing Sunday with $422.6 million.
Elsewhere, Fox’s R-rated comedy Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, starring Zac Efron and Adam Devine, also exceeded expectations in grossing $16.6 million from 2,982 locations, thanks to a strong turnout from younger moviegoers (50 percent of ticket buyers were under the age of 25) and a strong dose of males (48 percent).
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth, Neil Casey, Andy Garcia, Michael K. Williams, Matt Walsh, Cecily Strong, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Bill Murray, and Sigourney Weaver
Synopsis: Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) and Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) are a pair of unheralded authors who write a book positing that ghosts are real. A few years later, Gilbert lands a prestigious teaching position at Columbia University, but her book resurfaces and she is laughed out of academia. Gilbert reunites with Yates and others when ghosts invade Manhattan and she and her team have to save the world.
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INFILTRATOR
Genre: Biographical Crime Drama
Director: Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer)
Cast: Bryan Cranston, Diane Kruger, Benjamin Bratt, John Leguizamo, Amy Ryan, Said Taghmaoui, Joseph Gilgun, Juliet Aubrey, Yul Vasquez, Olympia Dukakis, and Jason Isaacs
Synopsis: DBased on a true story, Federal agent Robert "Bob" Mazur (Bryan Cranston) goes deep undercover to infiltrate Pablo Escobar’s drug trafficking scene plaguing the nation in 1986 by posing as slick, money-laundering businessman Bob Musella. Teamed with impulsive and streetwise fellow agent Emir Abreu (John Leguizamo) and rookie agent posing as his fiancé Kathy Ertz (Diane Kruger), Mazur befriends Escobar’s top lieutenant Roberto Alcaino (Benjamin Bratt).
Navigating a vicious criminal network in which the slightest slip-up could cost him his life, Mazur risks it all building a case that leads to indictments of 85 drug lords and the corrupt bankers who cleaned their dirty money, along with the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, one of the largest money-laundering banks in the world.
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CAFE SOCIETY
Director: Woody Allen (Blue Jasmine, Midnight in Paris)
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Steve Carell, Parker Posey, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, Ken Stott, Jeannie Berlin
Synopsis: Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.
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EQUALS
Genre: Science Fiction Romance Drama
Director: Drake Doremus (Like Crazy, Breathe In)
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult, Guy Pearce, Jackie Weaver, Bel Powley, and Scott Lawrence
Synopsis: In an emotionless utopia, two people fall in love when they regain their feelings from a mysterious disease, causing tensions between them and their society.
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PHANTOM BOY
Genre: Animation Fantasy Adventure
Cast: Fred Armisen, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jared Padalecki, Marcus D'Angelo, and Melissa Disney
Synopsis: Leo has a secret. A mysterious illness has transformed him into a phantom boy, able to leave the confines of his body and explore the city as a ghostly apparition. While in the hospital, he befriends Alex, a New York City cop injured while attempting to capture a nefarious gangster who has taken control of the city's power supply, throwing the metropolis into chaos. Now they must form an extraordinary duo, using Leo's phantom powers and Alex's detective work to foil the plot and save New York from destruction.
From the moment they announced that Ghostbusters was undergoing a reboot but this time with four women as the lead characters, the negative reaction was overwhelming. The negativity went into overdrive after the underwhelming first trailer debut. I still had hope that the final product would turn out well since co-writer/director Paul Feig was at the helm. Alas, my faith in the film was not justified.
I'm sure you can nitpick and over-analyze scenes propagating feminism and whatnot but I'm just going to discuss the merits of the movie only.
The story is a retread of the original, revisiting many of the narrative structure from the 1984 film. There's nothing wrong with that as the story about a bunch of lovable losers whom are ridiculed by the public ends saving the day never gets old. The problem is most of the jokes are not funny and characters often behave in an off-putting manner. The dialogue felt like they're ad-libbed and some of the scenes resembled an improv, which are the norm for a Paul Feig film, but it just fell flat in here.
Melissa Mccarthy, who usually plays a loud, obnoxious character in her other movies, turns out to be the most likable among the team. Leslie Jones thankfully didn't channel her booming, abrasive, unpleasant,predatory Saturday Night Live persona and was fairly likable in the film. Kristen Wiig was pretty decent. Kate McKinnon was the "worst" among the girls, often acting in a forced wacky manner and talking balderdash just to try to get a cheap laugh. But due to her charm and being extremely telegenic in here, she gets away with it somewhat.
Chris Hemsworth was terrible as the hunky but dumb secretary. At first his schtick was humorous but it quickly gets old and I just ended up being annoyed with the cartoonish character. They overdid it by making him to be the stupidest guy in the world. Was hoping for a redeeming moment for the character but there was none.
The VFX were great and the ghost effects were a vast improvement over the original films, naturally. The gadgets were cool. The action scenes at the finale was pretty good. The cameos by the original cast members were enjoyable but could have been written better.
Overall, Ghostbusters was disappointing since the potential was there if it was just written better. Having directed the hilarious R-rated Bridesmaids and Spy and the somewhat funny The Heat, I felt Feig lost a lot of his edge due to the PG-13 family friendly restriction in here.
Rotten Tomatoes:73% approval rating (162 out of 223 critics like it)
Critics Consensus: Ghostbusters does an impressive job of standing on its own as a freewheeling, marvelously cast supernatural comedy -- even if it can't help but pale somewhat in comparison with the classic original.
Entertainment Weekly - But with a cast as daring and quick as this one, Ghostbusters is too mild and plays it too safe. Somewhere, I bet, there’s an R-rated director’s cut of the movie where these women really let it rip. I want to see that movie. C+
Richard Roeper - Ghostbusters is a horror from start to finish, and that's not me saying it's legitimately scary. How could so many talented, well-meaning artists, who clearly loved and respected the original, produce such a raggedy-looking, thuddingly unfunny, utterly unnecessary reboot? 1/4
Rolling Stone - Slime Ghostbusters all you want for its lazy reliance on CGI gimmicks and its lapses in pacing — but there's no faulting the ladies. In a summer of macho bluster, they sure as hell know how to raise spirits. 2.5/4
James Berardinelli - This is a mediocre horror/comedy that deserves neither high praise nor disparagement. But it’s not terrible and shouldn’t be avoided just because it isn’t a continuation of an old franchise. 2.5/4
Rotten Tomatoes:65% approval rating (62 out of 95 critics like it)
Critics Consensus: The Infiltrator's compelling fact-based story and tremendously talented cast are often just enough to balance out its derivative narrative and occasionally clunky execution.
Entertainment Weekly - It sure is fun to watch Cranston at his best again, masterfully walking the tightrope between good and bad. B+
Richard Roeper - Mazur's story (and his book) is so compelling it was almost inevitable we'd see a movie one day -- and the movie we got is one of the best of the year. 3/4
Rolling Stone - Cranston changes his character from regular Joe to raging psycho - and you believe it utterly. He's extraordinary. Too bad the movie settles for being same old/same old. 2.5/4
James Berardinelli - Furman keeps a tight rein on the film's palpable, sometimes suffocating tension. It's one of The Infiltrator's assets. Another is the ensemble cast. 3/4
Rotten Tomatoes:78% approval rating (61 out of 78 critics like it)
Critics Consensus: Café Society's lovely visuals and charming performances round out a lightweight late-period Allen comedy whose genuine pleasures offset its amiable predictability.
New York Daily News - Woody Allen's easy-to-like but lightweight "Cafe Society" serves up just you'd expect from the seasoned writer and director. 3.5/5
New York Observer - Romantic, bittersweet and funny as hell, Café Society turns Hollywood inside out, rooting through the superficial tinsel to find the real tinsel. You go away gobsmacked, beaming and happy to be both. 4/4
Chicago Tribune - "Cafe Society" is a good-looking nothing, but there are times - thanks more to Allen's direction than his writing, and thanks mostly to the people acting out the masquerade - when "nothing" is sufficient. 2.5/4
Rolling Stone - Buoyed by the nuanced performances of Stewart and Eisenberg, the 80-year-old Woody Allen creates a ravishing romance shot through with humor and heartbreak. 3/4
Director: Justin Lin (Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6)
Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg, Idris Elba, and Sofia Boutella
Synopsis: The USS Enterprise crew is attacked by a powerful unstoppable wave of unknown aliens. The Enterprise is destroyed, leaving the crew stranded on a new planet where they find themselves in conflict with a new ruthless enemy.
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ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE
Director: Mike Thurmeier and Galen T. Chu
Cast: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, Jennifer Lopez, Simon Pegg, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Adam DeVine, Nick Offerman, Max Greenfield, Stephanie Beatriz, Melissa Rauch, Carlos Ponce, Michael Strahan, Jessie J, and Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Synopsis: Scrat's epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him outside of Earth, where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the planet. To save themselves from peril, Manny, Sid, Diego, and the rest of the herd leave their home and embark on a quest full of thrills and spills, high and lows, laughter and adventure while traveling to exotic new lands and encountering a host of colorful new characters as well as a new enemy who is a brother to one of their old foes.
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LIGHTS OUT
Genre: Supernatural Horror
Director: David F. Sandberg (feature film directorial debut)
Cast: Teresa Palmer, Maria Bello, Billy Burke, Alicia Vela-Bailey, Emiy Alyn Lind, Gabriel Bateman and Alexander DiPersia
Synopsis: A feature adaptation of the 2013 short film, "Lights Out" by David Sandberg, a woman is haunted by a creature that only appears when the lights go out. Rebecca (Teresa Palmer), after hearing from her younger brother Martin (Gabriel Bateman), is being stalked by a supernatural entity only visible in the dark, which she links to a failed experiment with a childhood friend that happened many years ago.
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ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mandie Fletcher (feature film directorial debut)
Cast: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Cara Delevingne, Chris Colfer, Gwendoline Christie, Rebel Wilson, Julia Sawalha, and Joan Collins
Synopsis: Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamor, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London's trendiest hot-spots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!
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DON'T THINK TWICE
Genre: Comedy Drama
Director: Mike Birbiglia (Sleepwalk With Me)
Cast: Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, Mike Birbiglia, Kate Micucci, Chris Gethard, Tami Sagher
Information: When a member of a popular New York City improv troupe gets a huge break, the rest of the group - all best friends - start to realize that not everyone is going to make it after all.
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BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE
Release: July 25 and 26 (two nights only)
Cast: Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Ray Wise, Tara Strong, John DiMaggio, Robin Atkin Downes, and Nolan North
Synopsis: Fathom Events, Warner Bros. and DC Comics invite you to a premiere event when Batman: The Killing Joke comes to select cinemas nationwide for a special one-night event including an introduction from Mark Hamill plus two never-before-seen featurettes. Based on the acclaimed DC Comics graphic novel, take a journey into the dark psyche of the Clown Prince of Crime. Now escaped from Arkham Asylum, The Joker sets out to prove that one bad day can make anyone just as insane as he is. Witness the birth of a super villain, the fortitude of a hero and the punchline that will leave you speechless!
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FIGHT VALLEY
Genre: Action Drama
Cast: Susie Celek, Miesha Tate, Holly Holm, Cris "Cyborg" Santos, Chelsea Durkalec and Erin O'Brien
Synopsis: UFC superstars Miesha Tate, Holly Holm, and Cris "Cyborg" star as three fighters involved with an underground fighting ring in the new MMA thriller Fight Valley. Twenty-two year old Tory Coro (Chelsea Durkalec) is found dead in Fight Valley, an unofficial neighborhood where fighters go to earn money. Her sister Windsor (Susie Celek) moves to town to begin her own investigation and train with Jabs (Bantamweight champ Miesha Tate). Jabs teaches Windsor how to survive in the Valley as they prepare to come face to face with Tori's killer.
Dragonlord's Review of STAR TREK BEYOND (No Spoilers)
Bottom Line: Less frenetic and more lighthearted than its predecessor, Star Trek Beyond is a pleasant, passable entry in the franchise.
While on a rescue mission, the Enterprise is attacked by a new enemy with an unstoppable swarm of ships. Forced to abandon the Enterprise, the crew is stranded on a planet where they uncover a new threat to the existence of the United Federation.
Fast & Furious director Justin Lin takes over the directing duties from J.J. Abrams while Simon Pegg does double duty playing Scotty and co-writing the script with Doug Jung. The result is a less frenetic and more lighthearted entry that allows more breathing room for camaraderie moments while providing enough satisfactory action sequences. Lin does a commendable job overall but some of his execution was lacking like the lackluster prison rescue scene.
Most of the Starship Enterprise core crew gets some quality screen time except for Sulu and Uhura who are mostly relegated in the prisoner role. Brooding that he’s one year older than his father will ever be, Kirk is more mature and considers being promoted to Vice-Admiral. Spock receives some bad news and contemplates leaving the Starfleet. Chekov gets a lot of screen time, albeit not very memorable, following Kirk around. Bones is paired up with Spock and have some amusing buddy moments. Scotty as always is the welcomed comic relief.
Unrecognizable under heavy latex makeup, Idris Elba plays the film’s main villain, Krall. Elba is wasted on Krall, who is like a Khan clone and spends most of his time searching for the MacGuffin artifact that powers his doomsday weapon. The revelation of his true identity comes way too late.
With her spunky attitude, striking yet alluring facial features, survival skills and impressive hand-to-hand fighting prowess, Jaylah (played by Kingsman breakout star Sofia Boutella) is probably the standout among the characters. There is just this one scene that bugs me though where she was soundly beaten up by her opponent but she turns the table around after her battle cry.
Here’s a few mishmash of thoughts. The massive spaceport Yorktown is a spectacular sight to behold. It’s like the space habitat in Elysium meets Inception and multiplied by ten. The swarm looks cool but the practicality and feasibility are questionable (see spoilers below). The photograph near the end was very poignant and packs the biggest emotional punch of the film.
Overall, Star Trek Beyond is a decent, enjoyable adventure paying homage to the original TV series but foiled with a Khan-like clone for a villain and a third act that rehashes the previous two Star Trek films.
Rating:6.5/10 or 7/10
* The third act is where the film loses me as it feels like a rehash of the previous two Star Trek film - villain on his way to a Federation planet/base, the heroes have to catch up to him, villain’s ship is neutered, villain gets inside the base, hero chases villain on foot and eventually fight him one-on-one.
* They looked cool and all but there were some aspects of the swarm that kinda bothered me. It didn’t really affect the quality of the film, mind you. The swarm’s primary offense is to ram themselves to their targets. Sure, the tips of the swarm ships were pointy but it doesn’t mean they’re indestructible.
* When you see the swarm in full force, it looks like they’re composed of a million small ships. These ships are not robot drones but are piloted by two beings as proven by Spock and Bones when they twice got onboard these ships by random. That means that there should be roughly 2 million soldiers piloting these ships. But back in Krall’s camp, you only see a handful of them. Plus, Krall’s base doesn’t look like it can accommodate a thousand people, let alone a million.
* The Deus Ex Machina plot device that destroyed the swarm was super convenient. Still don’t understand how come they just spontaneously combusted when the music was only meant to jam their communications and coordination.
* Kirk not finishing off or neutralizing Krall after shooting him when he had the chance was facepalm worthy.
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