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Street Kings is not terrible

Keanu Reeves stars as a LA cop in this movie. He is effective but he leaves a lot of bodies in his wake. He could have made more of an effort to take some suspects in alive. Some, if not most, of the people he kills in the line of duty are people of color. Internal Affairs is looking into him. His ex-partner is killed in a shoot out/robbery in a liquor store but things might be more complicated than they look. I cannot believe I have never seen this before now. Reeves is really good in this movie, I don’t think I him play such an anti-hero. He beats someone with a phone book. (I don’t think I have seen that in a movie in a while.) Chris Evans is on hand as a cop who gets pulled into Reeve’s investigation. He is less jaded or dirty than Reeves. This movie came out in 2008 but I don’t think it was set in 2007. The original screenplay was written in the 1990s according to Wikipedia and there is a reference to Rodney King. There are no other real clues that I can point out. I liked t...

Avengers Endgame Thoughts

This was long but good. It wraps the Infinity Stones saga and the trailers really did not reveal much of the film.  It is kind of surprising in this day and age. (Some movies seem to have their plots revealed in their trailers.) Five years pass and Ant-man comes out of the quantum realm. He suggests that they use time time travel to get the Infinity Stones. Tony Stark has a daughter now and at first he resists taking part in the plan but he eventually solves time travel. I enjoyed this. I liked the parts where the Avengers went back in time to get the Infinity Stones. The scenes with Thor and his late mother Frigga, and Tony Stark and his late father Howard Stark were good. The part where Captain America fought his younger self was fun. The time travel goes wrong and Thanos from the past comes into the present day. He brings his army, and past versions of Gamora, and Nebula. There is a massive fight but it is done fairly well and characters get standout moments. The girl powe...