Sean’s movie thoughts

I liked the latest Sniper movie. This time Beckett and Zero have joined a task force in Costa Verde. It was a bit less jokey than the previous film in the series and a character from the last few films is absent. Hopefully this is not the last movie in the series.  Kickboxer Armageddon is still happening. For a while I thought it wasn't going to happen. The previous films in this series have been pretty good. Alain Moussi is not Jean Claude Van Damme but Moussi is a likable screen presence. Hallmark continues to make movies. Some are corny but occasionally I have liked a few. Maybe all of them are corny. I hope the new Superman movie is good.

 I liked a Complete Unknown. It had good performances, was not too long, and only covered a few years of Dylan’s life. I think that was a wise choice. This is a drama with music, not a musical. Bob Dylan rises to fame in the early 1960s in this film. He meets and befriends Pete Seeger  and Woody Guthrie, famous folk singers. He also meets singer/songwriter writer Joan Baez. I am not sure how true the movie is to life, maybe a few details were fudged to make a compelling story. I think the performances were good. Timothee Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan. I thought he was good and so were the other actors. Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez was good, and I liked Edward Norton as Pete Singer.  I guess it was a wise move not to bring Joaquin Phoenix to play Johnny Cash. Reportedly the director James Mangold considered it. Phoenix might have been too old for the part. Dylan is not always likeable in the movie. He is not evil but he might be self-centered.  I thought it was a bit lon...

 Werewolves was decent. This is basically the Purge with Werewolves. It might not have rewatch value.  Frank Grillo stars as a research scientist. (Yeah, he might not be my choice for a scientist either.)  A super-moon has caused millions of people to become werewolves. Scientists are working to discover a cure. Chaos ensures when test subjects transform. The werewolves look good. Practical effects were used.  Lou Diamond Philips is barely in this film. It is nice to see him though.  Maybe I expected too much from this film.

Take Cover is good. This is another direct to video action movie with Scott Adkins. He tries to retire from his black ops job. His employees don't accept this and he and his partner are trapped in a hotel room and under attack. Two women, hired as massage artists, are trapped in the room too. This is good. It has a small cast and a limited location but I think it works. Adkins is good. I liked his partner. I did not recognize that actor. There is less hand to hand action than in some of Adkins other films. That kind of goes a long with the set-up. This might be worth re-watching.  It is not as good as One Shot or One More Shot.

 Do Charlie Sheen and Keifer Sutherland seem French to you? No, they don’t but this is a good movie. Oliver Platt doesn’t seem French but he was not a star of Young Guns, so perhaps he seems a bit more French than the other two. The Cardinal Richelau is plotting against the young king. The Musketeers have been disbanded but three Musketeers have not surrendered. They met a young man named D’Artagnan (Chris O’Donnell) who wants to be a musketeer. He manages to offend them all in separate meetings and he has duels scheduled with them all. The Cardinal’s guards interrupt the duel. Sheen is Aramis, who studied to be a priest before becoming a musketeer, and Sutherland is Athos, a former nobleman. Platt is Porthos, who seems to enjoy life a bit more than his friends. In hindsight Sheen playing a character who studied to become a priest is a bit funny.  Michael Wincott stars as the Cardinal’s henchmen. He was also in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves as Guy of Gisbourne. Tim Curry is the...

 Maybe I am over Deadpool and the breaking the fourth wall jokes. I did not hate this film and I did finish it. That at least is something. The action was fine. It was nice to see Hugh Jackman as Wolverine again. I liked one of the two major villains.  As I said I feel over the breaking the fourth wall jokes or maybe some of those jokes were not that good this time around. Also the cherry or upbeat song being used for background music during a fight scene might have been done one time too often. I am keeping the plot details vague. I liked one of the two major villains but the other one I did not find interesting at all. Problem is that the villain I liked was the second villain. The second villain did not appear for maybe thirty minutes. I might not watch this again but I am keeping that option open. If this is better than Green Lantern, which I am sure of, it is not that much better. Maybe the Green Lantern film had a few issues but it is not as bad as Reynolds has made it o...