Sean’s movie thoughts

Early reviews of Bumblebee have surfaced. The reviews are pretty good. Maybe this will work out. Previews have looked good. I made jokes and wisecracks about this movie when it was announced. (“As you know, we all love Bumblebee.”) I guess the joke is going to be on me if this movie as good as it looks and as good as the early reviews look. I guess I can live with that.  I heard or saw rumors about this rebooting the Transformers franchise. (The franchise changes its history with each new film from I’ve heard, so I guess it is possible that the whole franchise could be rebooted.) I don’t care about the Transformers franchise but I am open to the possibility of caring about the franchise going forward.  Dylan O’Brien is the voice of Bumblebee. That is good. I am not sure this is the movie teaming him with Hailee Steinfeld I wanted but it is better than nothing.

I’d like a sequel to American Assassin. I might be in the minority in this but I am okay with that. Maybe my familiarity with the book series helped me enjoyed the movie. Dylan O’Brien stars as Mitch Rapp and after a tragedy he trains himself to fight terrorists and is pulled into the CIA. I enjoyed the film and I thought Dylan O’Brien and Michael Keaton were good in their roles. Keaton was really good as the CIA trainer. It was nice to see Scott Adkins on the big screen. I thought the training sequences were fun. I am not saying it was good as any of Daniel Craig’s James Bond movies because it is not. I think it was better than the last Bourne movie though. For some reason the last Bourne movie made enough money that a sequel seems likely for it but American Assassin did not.