Few films line up a cast this talented and deliver a movie this devoid of entertainment. And so jot down, if you are scoring at home, that Baywatch is one of 2017's worst films. Painfully, gratingly unfunny, straining for every joke and chuckle, and delivering a beach mystery straight out of a contrived 1980s T&A flick, this movie is so poorly conceived, no amount of CPR or resuscitation can save it after it squanders any potential within the first 10 minutes.
About the only thing that works here is a barrage of putdowns levied upon the chiseled Zac Efron by Dwayne Johnson. The chemistry between the two superstars is obvious and easy, but the material they are given is so generic and shoddily crafted, we groan and wince and shake our heads
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Concurrently, a deadly drug known as Flocka has washed up on shore and was found on a party boat that burns up in the water, killing a city councilman (Oscar Nunez).
I wonder how all of this connects.
At 116 minutes, Baywatch is interminable to sit through because it is so bland and not funny. This plot, this conflict, is so simple and easy to figure out, that by a half an hour in or so, you know exactly where this movie is going to end up, and there is still another 90 minutes to go. Joyless, save one running gag where Johnson continually calls Brody by teen pop culture references, these characters have no depth, the film doesn't have any energy, and it may very well be the most boring major studio comedy in years.
Director Seth Gordon seems to have completely checked out with all of this. His movie has no pace, no tone to connect with. He wants to have it nasty and gross-out funny, but he also has dramatic moments and his silly drug/crime subplot. There are action sequences, shot against such obvious and unintentionally terrible CGI, you realize this is an outright failure on every
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Jason and the 2009 reboot of Friday the 13th on their resume. They haven't produced a script in eight years, so how the hell did this script get a pass and a $69 million production budget?
Wait. $69 million, huh? Okay. Neat. I see what you did there. (Exhales loudly).
Baywatch fails to even get its cameos right. It is no secret that Hasselhoff and Anderson are involved here, but they are given the benefit of the doubt that simply showing up will make us laugh and smile. What Gordon doesn't seem to realize is that most of the audience likely interested in this movie will not even have a clue who they are and why they matter.
Good, talented actors try their best here (Johnson especially commits to trying to get all of this over), but they are all hung out to dry. Gordon has seemingly lost his ability to tell a story and the screenplay is credited to a couple of hacks who apparently drew inspiration from a steady stream of Beverly Hills Cop movie knockoffs from the 1980s. What a waste of time and energy for all
In every great movie, there must be some flaws. In my opinion, it really took a very long time to get to the complication. Since the movie is about superheroes against superheroes, I wondered when the battle will happen. And the visual effect is not as great as Marvel movies usually are. And like other Marvel’s villains, the villain is very weak. But I think the weakness can be tolerated since the villain doesn’t have any super power.
However, I feel that the producer and director of this movie did a good job
The film, at 97 minutes, is an eye drainer. There were a few times where comic relief has the audience laughing at the screen, but the gorgeous New York scene and street-wear office fashion held the attention of the audience and kept them on the edge of their seats. However, the trailer was a bit unclear at times.
It has been noticed over the years that the summer, is the best time to release hit movies, and each summer never fails to have good movies released during that period. The movie company Lions Gate, released the best movie of the summer which was called Bay Watch. The movie has been tagged as the best movie released during the summer period because of varying awesome features which the movie entails. First, the genre of the movie is one of the things that really make people want to see the movie. The movie has a splice of Action, Drama, Comedy, Romance and Suspense; why would anyone not want to see a movie like that.
Even though it's based on true events, with so many cheesy one-liners and rehashed action scenes, "13 Hours" looks like it was directed by Michael Bay. Oh wait, it WAS directed by Michael Bay, which explains a lot. Don't get me wrong, it was an entertaining movie, but it wasn't very deep or memorable.
Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter, who was not a fan, said that the movie showed a non-humorous script from Chris Terrio and Joss Whedon. From Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson, the movie seemed to lack guidance after five years of planning. Lawson also expressed that the movie was short in real characterization and compelling storyline. Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian expressed disappointment that the talent of an ensemble cast was thrown away. The movie gave
I believe that this action packed blockbuster that gave Leonardo DiCaprio an Oscar is boring. I believe this not because it has a poor scenery or bad acting, the acting is phenomenal and the scenery and special effects are very detailed and
Everything in this movie signifies its tiring concept despite having a pretty acceptable origin story. Victor Creed and William Stryker had better screen time than Hugh Jackman. And they sort of wasted Gambit's personality to a generic character.
Despite all these flaws, I still had a good time with “Jason Bourne.” Damon owns the role, the supporting cast gets the job done and the score is good (I can’t overstate how awesome that music at the end is). Due to the terrible directing and troubled script, “Jason Bourne” isn’t as polished on entertaining as its Damon-led predecessors, but it’s still an enjoyable action
Tarantino develops an array of crooks and gangsters who work in a business of money and drugs. He makes them indulge in little conversations to express their perspectives on life and what exactly goes through the minds of these so called ¨bad¨ men. Hitmen Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega (played by Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta) do some pretty terrible things but still manage to have conversations that normal people have on a daily basis. For example they were driving to kill a bunch of boys for screwing over their boss and on the way there all the talked about was what European countries call their hamburgers at McDonalds. I found this very comical because they are literally driving to an apartment to hunt down these men and that is what is on there mind. Even right before they walk in they talk about the deeper meaning behind giving a foot massage. They are so nonchalant about everything they do and I almost admire that. Of course what they are doing is wrong but the way they make light of the situation infers the fact of their perspective on life. People don't need to be serious and stern all the time and Vincent and Jules prove that. That's how the movie kept me entertained because I could relate to the characters. There weren't just hit men with no interior but men who could be normal. I also really enjoyed the character Mia Wallace (played by Uma Thurman). Although she was addicted to drugs she gave the audience an inside to her mind and what she thought of. Like in the movie she talked about how if two people were so comfortable with one another then they can sit in silence and it wouldn't be weird. She quotes ¨That's when you know you've found somebody really special, when you can just shut the f*** up for a minute and comfortably share a silence.¨ I find that to be very true. If you truly are comfortable then not talking should just be normal. Pulp Fiction does a great job composing
Along with no momentum, the action scenes were poorly choreographed with even worse camera angles. Instead of fighting, Nicolas Cage’s character went straight to cutting his opponent, and the camera angles did not allow the audience to see the strikes.
Ed Whitfield, Lawrence Topman and Tony Brian all agree that the movie does not live to the expectations. Their common claim is that, Captain Phillips is just an ordinary thriller movie, Ed Whitfield says that “captain Phillips, does not have an absorbing tale to tell” (Whitfield). He describes the movie as being meaty and immensely raw (Whitfield). The critic argues that the movie is just an ordinary thriller, with components like those in other thriller movies, “an armed siege, a game of cat and mouse” (Whitfield).
Suicide Squad (2016) is a comic book based movie that was announced late 2014 with the expectation of being a thrilling film. David Ayer, the director of Suicide Squad, has many years of experience working on action based movies. Some familiar movies that he directed are: The Fast and the Furious (2001), S.W.A.T (2003), and Fury (2014). Some of these films received double the ratings Suicide Squad obtained. In spite of Ayer’s professional history, he failed to make an appealing movie. The Unorganized editing, negligent lovers story, and incorrect character portrayal, are just some reasons Suicide Squad received low ratings from many trustworthy movie critics.
Some critics are already licking their chops to take shots at this movie. I've heard everything from Kong: Skull Island is hollow to it's lacking substance. What exactly were they expecting? Did they want Kong: Skull Island to have the same depth as Moonlight or La La Land? To judge this by any other measure than it was a monster movie is ridiculous. This film is an exhilarating experience for all moviegoers and will provide an escape from the onslaught of divisive headlines that seem to be a mainstay in the news. Sometimes an escape isn't a bad
So let’s be honest with ourselves for minutes here. The chances of this film being a disaster were high from the jump, I talked a bit about this in an editorial I wrote this last week. Where to begin? You have a film here that was reshot at least twice for multiple reasons. First, you have a studio in Warner Bros that is absolutely scared to death of bad reviews for this film given out bad Man of Steel, Batman vs Superman, and Suicide Squad were received by mainstream critics. Secondly, you had an entire cut of the film that was scrapped because executives hated Zack Snyder’s original vision. Then Zack Snyder’s daughter tragically dies and he leaves the project for Joss Whedon to take off and order even more reshoots of the film. That