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Schindler’s List, Emotionally Draining That’s Pretty Much It

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Oh my god…. oh my god, have some tissues in fact have a whole 2 boxes of them trust me you’ll need them, never has a film emotionally drained me before oh scrap that The Notebook made me cry (not ashamed to admit it) but this film good god, this is the cake topper for most emotional film ever, for those who don’t know Schindler’s List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler a German businessman who saves thousands of Jewish workers during the Second World War by making them work in his factory.

The film as a whole is three hours long which to some people may seem boring and dull but for those who like a good historic war film give this a go, the three hours fly by and we see some pretty gruesome and horrific things during this, not to mention the infamous little girl in the red jacket scene, which just happens to be the only time the film shows any colour, the acting is amazing and John William’s soundtrack is beautiful, just give the main theme a go and tell me that the violin doesn’t bring a tear to your eye, the film also stars Ralph Fiennes as a ruthless and brutal Nazi officer who shoots people with a sniper rifle from his balcony.

Trust me his character is just the most cruel and really harsh when dealing out punishments, for instance he shoots his architect for having to tear down a building and starting from scratch, he then gets his guards to shoot her. He then drags a factory worker in to the courtyard and attempts to shoot him for not producing enough locks, some scenes are almost unwatchable like the siege at the Krakow Ghetto where the Jewish are brutally shot and killed in their homes… yeah I told you it’s not a pretty film.

This has to be up there with Steven Spielberg’s greatest films he has ever made it’s heartbreaking and emotional, especially the part at the end where you see the actual people Schindler saved next to the people who played them, final score 10/10 it’s emotionally draining as I said and believe me once them credits roll trust me you will not have a dry eye at all anyway here’s the main theme, give this a listen to oh and there’s an amazing quote said by one of the characters “whoever saves one life, saves the world entire” https://youtu.be/VorGotjeLjM

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American Made An Unbelievable True Story

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I love a film based on a true story whether it be a horror or based on someone I love them, American Made is one of those films where you have to do a double take scratch your head and say “no way this can’t be true” so let’s start off with telling the story of who this is based of off.

Barry Seal is a normal pilot who is hired by the C.I.A to take pictures of rebel bases in South America, there he meets ruthless Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar he then becomes a drug runner for the Medellin Cartel dropping off cocaine in the swamplands of Louisiana, he then starts working for the D.E.A… so to recap on things so far, this guy was working for three people the good guys the C.I.A the bad guys the Medellin Cartel and the D.E.A not to mention he was wanted by them also, what’s more unbelievable is the fact that he kept on getting arrested and after court cases after court cases was let off Scott free.

So I’m assuming you’ve kept up if you have good if you haven’t… well go see the film, the movie is action packed, there’s comedy in it as well, it’s a fun wtf film and it will leave you thinking how on earth did he get away with it so many times, like seriously Seal was arrested five maybe ten times and kept on getting let off free, every time he got arrested I thought okay he’s surly gotta go to prison now, and every time the judge said “nope your free to go” I was shocked and scratching my head.

Do yourself a favour and go see this film it’s brilliant Tome Cruise is amazing in this film as is Domnhall Gleeson who plays Schaefer the C.I.A agent who hires Barry at the start of the film, final rating 10/10 it’s funny, it’s unbelievable in some places but all in all it’s a great movie all together but until next time guys catch ya later

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Alien: Covenant Or Alien With Prometheus Tied In With It As Well

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Ah Prometheus, what was a prequel to Alien that really wasn’t and left so many unanswered questions, Ridley Scott returns to direct Alien Covenant… wait what??? A new Alien movie sign me the hell up, and then watched it at the only to realise I’d just walked out of a Prometheus sequel.

Okay let’s get one thing clear, this isn’t an Alien movie no, it’s a Prometheus sequel with Alien slabbed all over the title, and my god is this film gory, I can take gore as much as any other guy, but Alien Covenant ramps up the gore factor to a whopping ten out of ten, any way the film follows a similar plot to Prometheus meaning a new crew made up of one of the most sorry excuses of a space crew you have ever seen, they make some of the most ridiculous, god awfully bad decisions, for instance when gas is leaking in a confined space what do you do…. you search for the gas leak and switch off the gas…. ah but this crew member thinks it’s wise to shoot a bloody gun while gas is leaking, while I was repeatedly yelling at the screen yelling “you silly woman don’t shoot the gun” suddenly she shoots the gun and KABOOMMMM!!!! the spaceship blows up “insert slow clapping GIF here”

Boy this film was bad, I hated this movie for one or two reasons, one the plot went absolutely nowhere once they landed on the god forsaken planet, two the crew were possibly the most dumbest crew members I have ever had the displeasure of watching on a cinema screen, Ridley Scott hang your head in shame for this is the worst instalment of the Alien…. sorry Prometheus saga ever since Resurrection, seriously give resurrection a miss it’s really bad… final score 0/0 until next time guys catch ya later 🙂

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Patriots Day An Eye-Opening Emotional Roller Coaster Of A Film

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Peter Berg is surly becoming a favourite director of mine with his films about true life tragedies and incidents, I first saw a film he did called Lone Survivor with Mark Wahlberg about Operation Red Wings way back in 2005, definitely give that film a go if you love emotional war films.

Patriots Day does exactly the same thing and shines another light on yet another dark time in American history…. the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing, oh boy this was amazing and again Peter Berg packs an emotional punch, from us seeing the explosion by using actual footage to seeing real pictures and the survivors talk about the attack, what I loved about this film is it uses actual footage of the attack, the moment the terrorist goes to the store and even uses the actual images of the terrorists themselves, it truly was an eye opening film as it shows what happens after the attack, from the FBI investigation to the manhunt that followed in Watertown Boston.

The manhunt scene is one of if the not the tensest edge of your seat moments, from the moment the first shot is fired all the way up until the very last bullet is fired it is one of the moment amazing scenes filmed, also may I also shout out the guy who was held hostage in his own car, not only was he calm and chilled out but he gave the cops the exact location as to where his car was, thanks to a GPS tracker built in to his car.

All in all Patriots Day is again another eye opener, we see exactly what happened in great detail and accuracy, most importantly the infamous manhunt for one of the terrorists, as I remember watching that live over here in the U.K. everything from the national guard all the way up to them finding the guy hidden in the boat. My final rating for this film is a solid 10/10 oh and this has possibly one of my favourite lines in it, during a shootout one of the cops says to the chief “sir we’re under heavy fire” only for the chief to reply with “yeah no shit” there are some other funny lines in here but I won’t say all of them as it will take a really long time to type the but anyway guys catch ya later 🙂

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Beyond The Black Rainbow… Trippy Nothing Else Just Trippy

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Wow, wow, wow, wow… this film is just wow! Visually amazing the soundtrack is a proper 80s throwback the plot is a little hard to follow at some points, but don’t worry about the plot with this one, this is a film where you can sit back relax and let the visuals take you on a weird acid like trip without the acid.

Clocking in at around two hours the plot starts with a classic 80s throwback and cinematography that’s straight out of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I can’t tell you much about the plot because it’s quite a tricky one to tell, but really you shouldn’t watch it for the plot it’s more of a visual experience, and boy this film has some amazing visuals right from the off, from the bright white room where a young girl is staying, to a glowing white pyramid in the middle of a dark and dimly lit room, now I’m not gonna lie the film is slow, like really really slow, this is the sort of film that you have to watch when you have absolutely nothing to do, oh and probably watch it in a quiet room where there’s no distractions, while I’m at it don’t watch it if anyone you know is epileptic… trust me not a good idea. The acting is impressive (trust me you will hate the therapist/psychiatrist guy)

All in all Beyond The Black Rainbow is a visually impressive slow burner of a film and a right proper throwback to the sci-fi movies of the seventies and eighties final rating 10/10 for the amazing visual hypnotic journey you take.

Oh by the way this film was requested by a user who goes by the name warriornonoba shout out to him/her for recommending this fantastic film one of my new favourites at the moment, so as always guys catch ya later 🙂

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The Belko Experiment… What Even Was This Movie

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Oh boy this one is a doozy of a film, by that I mean it was awful, I had heard of this film for quite some time as it kept popping up on my recommended list on YouTube clips, trailers and sneak peeks, I went in blind and came out feeling sick to my stomach after watching this, it really is a mess of a film.

The Belko Experiment follows eighty people in a Colombian office block, for reasons unknown they send only the Colombian employees away only keeping the American employees, said employees have a chip in their head said to be a tracker, ah but a tracker it is not no it is in fact a tiny ball bearing explosive (yeah you can see where this is going) so all out war ensues, and our American office workers are forced to kill each other.

Now I for one hated this film, I mean it was a huge pile of dog faeces the plot was terrible as were the decisions made by the characters in the movie…. now I’m going to throw in a disclaimer for people who are easily offended (you have been warned) I can only compare it to the selection process made by Nazi troops in Auschwitz, that decision was basically people who have kids under the age of eighteen to the left and people who are fifty or over to the right, we then get a lovely Latin American rendition of the classic Mamas and The Papas song California Dreaming, the people who are fifty and over are then shot in the head.

Trust me the soundtrack gets even better as one final massacre occurs all while Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No.1 In B Minor plays… oh did I mention right at the start of the film we get a Latin American version of Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive, yeah the soundtrack guy really needs to have his head checked.

All in all The Belko Experiment is a right bloody mess of a film it’s horrible and made me feel really uncomfortable watching certain scenes, particularly when one of the employees pulls out his wallet and shows us a picture of his children only to have them tossed on the floor and for the guy to be shot in the back of the head. So do yourself a favour and give The Belko Experiment a miss and if someone ever offers you an opportunity to work in an office in Colombia think twice and say “hell no nah ah nope no way Jose” trust me give this film a miss, final rating 0/0 until next time guys catch ya later!

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It Comes At Night A24 Produce Another Smash Hit Movie

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Ah independent horrors, you could get an outstanding cult hit or a dud, It Comes At Night is in the cult hit area, directed by Trey Edward Schulz director of a little independent movie known as Krisha (which by the way is an outstanding movie)

The marketing for this film was minimal no one and I mean no one had a clue what this was going to be about, the teaser didn’t provide us with anything https://youtu.be/tNE8oUtDaWk you can check that out here, then the movie hit us with an official trailer, which again didn’t provide us with anything. Then we got the film, what starts off as an isolated claustrophobic horror quickly descends in to a 28 days later esque type movie which is amazing, the film has a few jump scares and the plot is easy to follow, a few strangers end up secluded in a cabin in the woods only to become infected with an unknown virus, think Cabin Fever if Eli Roth didn’t add the gore and disgusting parts.

For a film that is relatively unknown it quickly shows that it can become a big independent horror flick, however A24 have only gone and released another small independent horror film… okay it’s more of a romantic horror without all the jump scares, A Ghost Story it’s titled, just watch the trailer and decide for yourselves because this film will be an acquired taste I guarantee it.

Any I’m digressing quite a bit, It Comes At Night is an amazing horror that you need to see final score 10/10 it’s dark it’s creepy it’s an amazing film all round definitely check this one out but until next time catch you later

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The Dark Tower Works As A Standalone Film Rather Than An Adaptation

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I am a huge Stephen King fan, I’ve read and loved every book he wrote, from The Shining to Carrie and my personal favourite It which hits cinemas next month, this year we’ve seen a lot of Stephen King adaptions quite recently The Dark Tower, however I say adaption but the dark tower is nothing like the books, the director really wanted to squeeze in as much as he could with the dark tower, all in all it’s a jumbled up mess.

The dark tower weaves together all the dark tower series in to one film rather than stick to just one source material, I didn’t particularly enjoy this movie and I’m going to be really honest about it, it sucked…. It sucked big time, like really sucked probably the worst film I have ever had the displeasure of seeing at the cinema, the story was dull and unfaithful to the books the acting was sub par and the CGI looked like something out of a cheesy 80s action flick.

Even one guy I was sitting next to mumbled “that didn’t happen” “oh that certainly didn’t happen” “well this is just god awful” no wait that was me, anyway the film was a massive pile of crap, do yourself a favour and go see something else, don’t waste your money on this, it really is just a god awful film try and find another Stephen King adaption to watch I guarantee it’ll be a thousand times better than this mess of a film.

Final score 0/10 possibly the lowest I’ve ever given a film on here, anyway guys until next time catch you later.

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The Emoji Movie…. Do You Think Critics Should Critique Kids Movies

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Please don’t judge, please don’t judge for the love of god please don’t judge but I quite enjoyed this movie.

With that being said it was good it was funny and had tons of adult humour in it, it was definitely something for everyone kids and adults will like this movie however this does beg the question should kids movies be reviewed by critics… okay, okay, okay I know what your thinking “but Jack your a reviewer and your reviewing a kids movie” hear me out I’m praising the movie saying it was good, but critics go out their way and slam and slate a children’s movie, shouldn’t it be the other way round, what I mean by this is shouldn’t we here from the people that these films are intended for which of course is the children, I would love to hear children’s opinions on these movies, instead we get critics who repeatedly slam a kids movie saying “it’s dull” “don’t waste your time” and the most common one “too many fart jokes”I honestly would love to hear your thoughts about this, let me know if you think this is right or wrong

That’s humour that kids know and understand they love all the farting and burping, I should know I have a 10 year old brother who laughed at Paddington squirting tomato sauce, kids get that sort of humour, now I’m not having a rant or throwing a tantrum I just think it would be nice for us to hear some opinions from the future generation. With that being said The Emoji Movie is really good, okay I do have one nitpick and that’s the moral which is find who you are and don’t let others tell you who you are, we do see that a lot in children’s movies.

Anyway the Emoji Movie is an enjoyable kids movie with funny jokes and plenty of adult humour… Oh also look out for Patrick Stewart playing the poop Emoji he has some pretty funny lines too. Anyway final rating of the Emoji Movie I’m giving it a 9/10 it’s funny, enjoyable and just plain silly just the moral was a bit too cliched any way guys apart from that… catch ya later

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The Book Of Henry The Sort Of Film You Will Find In The DVD Bargain Bin

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Colin Trevorrow director of such films like Safety Not Guaranteed and 2015s smash hit Jurassic World, and now he returns to the big screen with The Book Of Henry starring Naomi Watts Jaeden Lieberher and Jacob Trembley, like the title suggests here’s why I think this.

Firstly I’m not slating the movie in anyway I really enjoyed it however the film doesn’t know sometimes what it wants to be for example we open up with a typical suburban family with single mother Susan (Naomi Watts) and her two sons Henry (Jaeden Lieberher) and Peter (Jacob Trembley) we get a happy run of the mill family comedy, we then suddenly get what I like to call it a kiddyfied PS, I Love You Henry is suddenly diagnosed with a brain tumour and dies in his mums arms (didn’t see that coming) then suddenly it turns in to a drama/thriller, basically Christina played by Maddy Ziegler is being abused by her step dad (Breaking Bad’s Dean Norris) Henry comes up with a plan to save Christina from the abuse.

The film then takes us on a journey where Susan tries to complete Henry’s wish, by killing Christina’s step father (say what!!!) yeah this film then gets turned in to a kiddyfied John Wick (a great film in case you haven’t seen it) I’m not gonna say if the plan is successful or not, trust me the ending will leave you like “what the hell just happened”

Okay I may of slated this film a little bit but hey it was enjoyable to say the least, this film will eventually become underrated at some point and when it comes out on DVD you will find it in the near future in say a bargain bin in your local Tesco’s or Asda. So to summarise, The Book Of Henry is enjoyable and heartwarming I just think it should of stayed being a family comedy/drama but hey who am I to judge.

So final score I’m giving The Book Of Henry a 7/10 it was enjoyable but really needs to decide on a genre rather than mashing 3 into 1 anyway guys hope you enjoyed and until next time catch you later 🙂

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