Well I had a sort of busy if not kind of lazy weekend. I saw two movies in the theatre and went to a birthday party.
The first movie I saw was Chronicles of Riddick - For anyone that reads this there are SPOILERS BELOW:
****SPOILER ALERT****
It looked kinda good from the previews but the movie played like a video game; main character is rogue who fights amazingly powerful army that nobody else can stand up to because he's somehow unique and prophecies foretell of someone like him ending the reign of such an army. So our main character fights, falls in love with one, and then meets the boss at the end and kills him. So what's the ending the player gets for the beating the game (er...i mean at the end of the movie)??? Our hero becomes the new leader of the massive army that was trying to kill him. Final Review: 2/5. Virtually no plot, almost a love story in there, cheesy ending. The two points are for the action sequences and the special effects (elementals, glowing eyes, burning men at 700c)
The second movie I saw in theatres was Around the World in 80 Days. This was a Disney movie starring Jackie Chan. In it Jackie plays a chinese assistant posing as a french assistant to an English inventor who bets his life's work against the chair of the Science board in London. If this inventor can circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, he will become head; if not he will lose all his inventions and must promise not to invent again. So the two set off on a journey and meet a french girl who the inventor falls in love with.
Along the way we see various countries and cultures, and a few other actors make cameos, including Owen Wilson (who starred with Jackie in Shanghai Noon and Knights) and his brother Luke Wilson, current California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rob Schneider, and Sammo Hung. Sammo Hung is the eldest of three students who studied martial arts under the same teacher as Jackie Chan. They were considered brothers because of it. Jackie was the youngest of the three. While the cameos were nice, they weren't really necessary. They could have visited the places without them and they did seem a little tacked on.
Review: 3/5 Good action sequences, real martial arts, nice comedy lines. Not sure if it was good as a kids movie (Disney).
The first movie I saw was Chronicles of Riddick - For anyone that reads this there are SPOILERS BELOW:
****SPOILER ALERT****
It looked kinda good from the previews but the movie played like a video game; main character is rogue who fights amazingly powerful army that nobody else can stand up to because he's somehow unique and prophecies foretell of someone like him ending the reign of such an army. So our main character fights, falls in love with one, and then meets the boss at the end and kills him. So what's the ending the player gets for the beating the game (er...i mean at the end of the movie)??? Our hero becomes the new leader of the massive army that was trying to kill him. Final Review: 2/5. Virtually no plot, almost a love story in there, cheesy ending. The two points are for the action sequences and the special effects (elementals, glowing eyes, burning men at 700c)
The second movie I saw in theatres was Around the World in 80 Days. This was a Disney movie starring Jackie Chan. In it Jackie plays a chinese assistant posing as a french assistant to an English inventor who bets his life's work against the chair of the Science board in London. If this inventor can circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, he will become head; if not he will lose all his inventions and must promise not to invent again. So the two set off on a journey and meet a french girl who the inventor falls in love with.
Along the way we see various countries and cultures, and a few other actors make cameos, including Owen Wilson (who starred with Jackie in Shanghai Noon and Knights) and his brother Luke Wilson, current California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rob Schneider, and Sammo Hung. Sammo Hung is the eldest of three students who studied martial arts under the same teacher as Jackie Chan. They were considered brothers because of it. Jackie was the youngest of the three. While the cameos were nice, they weren't really necessary. They could have visited the places without them and they did seem a little tacked on.
Review: 3/5 Good action sequences, real martial arts, nice comedy lines. Not sure if it was good as a kids movie (Disney).
