Mini Movie Reviews 2 - The Reviewening

[ColShaw]

Safe (2012)

Jason Statham kills everybody.

No, seriously. Everybody. It's very much the typical Statham role, in which he protects a young girl that everyone else wants to capture/kill, and in the process, he goes totally berserk and kills the entire rest of the cast.

Pretty forgettable. The action sequences were okay, but edited a little choppily. Worth a one-time Watch, but only because I got it free on Netflix Instant. Don't bother if you have to pay money.

[Easy E]

I think I liked Safe better than you Col. Shaw, but I also saw it on Netflix Instant.

[Avian]

Disclaimer: My experience with Star Trek previously started and pretty much ended with TNG. I knew almost nothing about TOS before the previous movie.


Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
Whatever happened to boldly going where no-one has gone before?
Out of the last four action movies I've seen - all praised by critics - three have been disappointments and this was one of them. There were so many stupid things going on with the plot and script, such as

At times of great emergency, protocol dictates that every captain and first officer of starships in proximity convene somewhere not bullet proof.

Are they idiots?
And also

Torpedoing someone from millions of km away? That makes no kind of sense.

And all the punch-ups. And Leonard Nimoy. And

unwarranted, yet welcome, random underwear shot.

Why not do something more original? Why not go out and explore?

I'm also sick of villains who plan on getting captured as part of their master plan.

Blech!

Verdict: Watchable
(three out of five)

[Caiphas Cain]

That sounds like a forced 'watchable' to me.

[Avian]

Also the misleading tagline:

"After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. "

He was not a one man weapon of mass destruction. In fact, until Marcus brought along the warship and Kirk helped him take it over, he hadn't done all that much damage.

[duffybear1988]

Also the misleading tagline:

"After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. "

He was not a one man weapon of mass destruction. In fact, until Marcus brought along the warship and Kirk helped him take it over, he hadn't done all that much damage.

I don't know, he shot up a fair few

klingons

early on

I liked it - 5 out of 5 from me.

[Avian]

That scene at least was cool. But the

Klingon prosthetics

were a let-down.

[Dai-Mongar]

I feel like I should watch Star Trek just so I can read all of these spoiler conversations.

[Caiphas Cain]

Cloud Atlas

Tom Hanks plays him too!?

What a mess.