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Movie Guru's Current Movie Briefs
Since I write many of these briefs the day before the movies are released, what we have here are mostly ruminations on movies I have not yet seen. You will have to decide for yourself if these briefs have any value. I believe the less you know about a movie, the better chance you might enjoy it to the upside. Too many reviewers seem to go out of their ways to ruin for you with way too much information your upcoming movie experience. In fact my D graded Master’s Thesis proposed that reviews should be embargoed until after the opening weekends allowing moviegoers to see the movies fresh and without plot summaries taken right out of the press kits.
- Fast X
For those who keep asking, X stands for the number 10, we are just not used to movies continuing through nine sequels and using the X Roman numeral. Do you have to see more than the trailers? Maybe not, but those action scenes are American made, no one does it better.
- Guardians of the Galaxy, volume three
I really really enjoyed the first one, sort of like the big budget exhilaration watching the original Iron Man. But here we go again, each characters schtick has become too familiar. The storyline has become too deep. The fun is too little. A disappointment, sort of like woody Allen moving on from the heights of comedy to the depths of movies for critics.
- Hypnotic
Director Robert Rodriguez is my kind of filmmaker, action galore without the big budget. Look him up. If you don’t recognize his movies, skip Hypnotic. This is for his fans only.
- Book club The Next Chapter
Jane Fonda is back again. Like a bad penny, she keeps coming back again and again and again. And she always gets her man. She would be better off playing Dianne Feinstein.
- Super Mario Brothers Movie
It is an animated feature, I prefer the term cartoon. Well excuse me. Anyway, take the kids and get it over with though it will be cheaper buying it on the Internet and letting everyone watch it 20 or 30 times.
- John Wick: Chapter 4
About 10 years ago a 96 minute long, B-action movie, starring Keanu Reeves, John Wick, revitalized Reeves career and lead to today – the release of a two hour and 49 minute extravaganza of death, John Wick Chapter 4. If ever a film was made for the big screen, and I mean XD. IMAX, DFX, Atmos, and the like, this is it. Pay the upcharge and let American Hollywood know-how assault your senses into oblivion. Survival is definitely not guaranteed.