[Recommended]
This one is excellent.
It’s not nearly as good as Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), but few movies are.
The acting is great for an action movie.
The music is pretty good.
The action sequences are amazing.
This movie has lots of crazy stunts, though I think a lot of it is done with special effects.
The ending is pretty weak, however.
Also, I had trouble understanding what was going on even though I don’t think the plot was all that complicated.
If you’re expecting a movie that’s as amazing as the 2015 movie, you’ll probably be disappointed.
I mean, Furiosa is a great movie and I’m glad that I watched it, but it’s not an all-time great action flick.
as realistic as these things go (ex: Aguirre was NOT blonde).
interesting to me since i already knew the history/story.
good and reasonably short… 1:30 run-time.
Fury Road was god tier, it would have been almost impossible to top it. I think I would have preferred a sequel though because it was less exciting knowing ahead of time how things would end up. I still enjoyed the film and will eventually add it to my collection though
Anyone know why people keep giving Guy Ritchie money to make movies? I enjoy more of his stuff than not, but it doesn’t look like he is very commercially successful. Maybe he just knows the right people? It’s just weird, some directors make one or two box office bombs and are never heard from again. For example, Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, 1999) had one box office bomb in 2013 and hasn’t directed anything since.
Table of Guy Ritchie’s films :
Film Title
Budget
Box Office
Multiplier
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1.4 mil
28.1 mil
20x
Snatch
10 mil
83.6 mil
8x
Swept Away
10 mil
1 mil
.1x
Revolver
27 mil
6.7 mil
.25x
RocknRolla
18 mil
25 mil
1.4x
Sherlock Holmes
90 mil
524 mil
5.8x
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
125 mil
543 mil
4.3x
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
75 mil
110 mil
1.5x
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
175 mil
148 mil
.8x
Aladdin
183 mil
1 bil
5.5x
The Gentlemen
22 mil
115 mil
5.2x
Wrath of Man
40 mil
104 mil
2.6x
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
49 mil
50 mil
1x
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
55 mil
21 mil
.4x
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
60 mil
26 mil
.4x
Based on what I have heard, marketing costs normally require a return of 2x (making double the budget) in order to be considered a financial success. By that metric, only 7 of Ritchie’s 15 released films could be considered successful, and the 3 most successful ones are based on big intellectual properties with built-in fanbases.
When he first started I imagine that physical media sales were better. Now it seems like his movies are under-promoted so maybe the strategy is save money on marketing and then make a sweet deal with the streaming companies? Maybe even now his films still do unusually well with physical media sales.
Just to reiterate, this is not a hate post, I’m just confused why some directors disappear after some failure but Ritchie is able to keep chugging along.
It’s generally worse than that. Whatever’s the take at the box office, the studio gets only about half domestically, even less than that internationally (as bad as ¼-⅓). Plus there’s marketing that’s not figured into the budget, which is only the nuts’n’bolts of making the movie happen (salaries, catering, sets, permits, travel, etc.).
Add reshoots and post-post-production, and that can start snowballing well beyond what the initial budget figures claim to be.
So for a budget of 100M and everything going swimmingly, they’d have to take in about 200M domestically to cover that, and if they spend 50M on marketing, that means they’d have to take in about 250M just to break even.
This movie is terrible.
I saw a dubbed version and the voice acting is pretty bad.
Worse than that, the dialogue is atrocious.
Some of the music is good, some of it is bad, and there are a lot of scenes without music that would have benefited from some decent music.
The scenes with martial arts are mostly excellent, but there are very few of those scenes and the vast majority of the rest of the movie is painfully boring.
Parts of this movie remind me of the Saw series even though this movie is not a horror film.
Because the first Saw movie and this movie were both released in the same year I think the similarities are a coincidence.
This movie is a little over two hours long and about twenty five minutes are actually entertaining, and I’m including the entertaining credits where they showed the stunt outtakes.
This movie has a lot of stunts, but most of them are not enjoyable to watch, with the exception of the martial arts scenes.
This is by far the worst movie in the Police Story series (that I have seen.)
This is just a bad Jackie Chan film.
I give the movie an R rating for quite a bit of violence (including a decent amount of blood), and some language.
Uwe Boll is even more baffling, he’s never made a good film. Surely by now he should have made something that wasn’t terrible even if it was an accident.
Lock, Stock… and Snatch were definitely Guy Ritchie’s best work, but I enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes films.
If I remember correctly, I liked Postal (2007) and Rampage (2009), which are both Uwe Boll movies.
I might have liked Rampage: Capital Punishment (2014) as well.
Based on IMDb scores, I probably didn’t like Rampage: President Down (2016).
Out of those four movies, Rampage (2009) was the best.
sort of a mix of other movies:
Terminator, The Mask, 48 Hrs, Speed, etc.
i did learn something new, though.
“fridging”.
Vanessa Carlysle, the character is killed at the beginning of the film.
There’s actually two different versions of Deadpool 2.
One is rated R, and the other is rated PG-13.
The PG-13 version has some stuff cut out, but it also has extra scenes with Fred Savage as an adult but re-creating his role from The Princess Bride (1987).
I like both versions.
Watched The Fall Guy. It was an OK movie, a little too silly for my liking. I think the best part about this movie was the cover of “I was made for loving you” by Yungblud.
I saw the trailer and got the distinct impression that all the best parts were probably in the there. I don’t buy Gosling and Blunt as a couple, no way. Also, Blunt has had some fillers added to her face and it is really distracting in a bad way.
I think it could be classified as a mild form of plastic surgery but I’m no doctor. The full term is dermal fillers. I can’t prove Blunt got dermal fillers, but I would probably bet money she has at least had fillers. Maybe there are implants too idk. The way her face changed is just too drastic.
