This movie is a delectable ‘90s action thriller that is criminally overlooked compared to its peers. It has solid action and great tension, everything an action movie needs. The ensemble cast has great chemistry and some of the surprises are downright outstanding.
Closest comparison: It’s like The Rock by way of Air Force One.
Setting: Action
Plot: Action
Tone: Thriller
This movie is truly ‘woke’, in that it has fallen asleep and has nothing good to say. Its worldbuilding is extremely lacking, much more what we’ve come to expect from Disney animation studios rather than Pixar’s exceptional record. The songs are immediately forgettable, and although the art direction is colorful it’s mostly uninspired. The magical powers are a mixed bag of standard, interesting, and bafflingly ill-conceived. The movie pays lip-service to the idea of helping the community but predictably plays out in oblivious narcissism.
Closest comparison: It’s the over-the-top feminist Disney/pixar movie.
Setting: Family Drama
Plot: Super Hero
Tone: Family Comedy
The second season of The Mandalorian keeps introducing great characters, moments, and setpieces like the first season, it sprinkles in painfully terrible characters, dialogue, and character choices. The action is often good, though sometimes absolutely terrible, and Amy Sedaris, Sasha Banks, Katee Sackhoff, and even occasionally Rosario Dawson are painfully grating every instant they are on screen. Boba Fett gets many outstanding moments that fans will appreciate, though he gets Worf’ed in another pointless and irritating scene. Overall it’s like nice dinner of filet mignon and lobster tail with a diarrhea gravy; the wonderful things in this show get completely ruined by the vomit-inducing parts. If you can ignore the bad and enjoy the good, or just have selective memory, then it’s worth a watch.
Closest comparison: This is the Shanghai Nights of the Star Wars saga.
Setting: Sci-Fi
Plot: Western
Tone: Adventure
This movie is a good example of what happens when a thriller gets bogged down with exposition. The tension loses its snap, the action is too little and too spaced out to be a main draw, and the unsubstantive characters make the main plot twist equally uninteresting. It has a good idea at the base of it, which makes it all the more disappointing when the delivery is botched.
Closest comparison: It’s like Pineapple Express by way of the Borne Identity.
Setting: Rural Drama
Plot: Secret Agent
Tone: Tragedy
It does so many things right. Great action flick with amazing choreography and one of the best performances from Keanu Reeves ever. At the end of the third act the pace drops and there isn't a clear motivation as to why the last fight takes place. The two main combatants have only moderate motivation that's been set up beforehand as to why they're fighting, since they could have fought before but chose not to. But that's light criticism, all things considered.
