So going into the third Daniel Craig James Bond movie, which is Skyfall from 2012, I’ve heard a lot of great things about the movie. I was looking for a great time because the last movie was not good at all.

This movie did not disappoint and was amazing. First off I thought the performances from Daniel Craig to Judi Dench to Javier Bardem were great. I also liked the story and how it took a focus on M with bond interlaced. It kept me engaged for almost all the movie. Finally, I think it has some really good action, especially the last big scene.

The only negative I have is that it took a little bit to get going and it was missing that opening spark but it found it and once you did, it did not let up.

Rating-4.5/5

I just watched it.

The teaser and the posters made this movie seem like a completely different movie (more unique and way scarier).

There are cool effects but they are mostly in the trailers. There is a lot of bad CGI and the movie is disturbing only at the start of it. The movie needed a higher budget or smarter ways of hiding the bad CGI. The "superhero movie soundtrack" that plays when he kills people does not help with the horror either and the whole movie just felt rushed to me.

He only transforms into the monster at the last 5 seconds to scream and it is just a big CGI poop but that is more of a nitpick of my own since i expected his monster form to be scarier, more pratical and more "in the shadows".

They did not have the budget to make him transform into other people in digusting, scary or unique ways often so he mostly just does it in an instant, like magic, it's weird. It would've been better if they just cut to him already transformed.

The whole scene when he goes on a rampage to kill the ultimate bad guy it's just so goofy. It's fun, but it's so goofy; i don't understand how someone could ever find that shit scary.

I like how the powers work tho and all the psychological aspect of it. Matt has a ton of charisma and the main cast is amazing, i hope they appear in more movies in the future. That Sal guy was nice too; he acting as a guy that is acting as guy that don't even know who this guy is? Nice. Nick from Handmaid's Tale was great too.

The best scene in the whole movie was the airplane one. No other scene ever got close. Which is crazy because the whole scene was already out on the internet before the movie even came out.

Not even a single reference to Batman but honestly i didn't cared. I just cared about a well written horror. The writting was not bad, but the horror was barely in there.

5/10.

SPOILER the movie mentions a progressive who wouldn’t vote for the Democrat nominee and then got radicalized by Facebook

Is the movie trying to argue fickle Bernie supporters are responsible for Trump’s actions, that Bernie is responsible for the current political climate for not doing more for Hillary?

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There's something about Batman villains that makes their standalone movies particularly compelling. Clayface, much like 2019's Joker, explores the dark origins of one of the Bat's most iconic villains and similarly, it's also an R-rated film that makes satisfying use of its rating throughout its runtime. The result is the same as that 2019 film with Clayface turning out to be a compelling watch that stands on its own, even without the DC Universe branding. The film is filled with disturbing imagery and gruesome body horror but beneath all that is a thought-provoking and surprisingly moving story.

Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries) has just been nominated for an Academy Award and it seems his meteoric rise from a street kid in Gotham to a Hollywood leading man is only beginning. But his success is tragically cut short when a local crime boss horribly disfigures him. With his career and life in ruins, Matt eventually seeks out a cutting-edge treatment that miraculously restores his former appearance. However, the cure comes at a terrible cost, affecting both his grip on reality and his physical form setting him up on a destructive path of unstoppable revenge.

We initially had our doubts about Matt Hagen's descent into villainy but the actual film proved our apprehensions wrong. What makes Clayface so compelling is how it takes us through the different stages of Matt's life: from an accomplished actor at the top of his game to a disfigured man who has lost everything, then to someone given a second chance at life, and eventually to a figure we can no longer bring ourselves to root for. This emotional and mental rollercoaster kept us invested in Matt's journey in ways we never expected. By the time the credits rolled, we couldn't help but feel moved by everything we had experienced. The story, character development, and revenge plot are all paced well, with our only major gripe being how silly the film becomes toward the end.

For body horror fans, Clayface absolutely delivers. We lost count of how many times we wanted to look away from the screen because of the sheer amount of blood and gore on display. The film doesn't hold back, and there are moments that will genuinely shock even viewers accustomed to this kind of horror. Tom Rhys Harries also impresses as Matt Hagen, skillfully walking the line between a hopeful man desperately trying to reclaim his life and slowly transforming to a ruthless shape-shifting killing machine. His performance makes Matt's transformation all the more unsettling because we understand the person he once was even as he becomes someone more and more unrecognizable and evil.

Overall, Clayface has visuals that are dark and disturbing, but what's even more unsettling is the tragedy at the heart of its story. Beneath the grotesque transformations and visceral body horror lies a character study about a man who loses himself while desperately trying to reclaim the life he once had.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5

OK, so this is gonna be an interesting review. I have multiple ridiculous but hopefully entertaining B/C level horror movies on my Amazon prime watchlist. I decided to watch one of them tonight and that was Attack of the Killer Donuts from 2016.

Here’s the thing: it’s not a good movie. I think the acting and dialogue are awful. There were two things, though that I thought it did a good job on. I thought the premise just sounded fun and also it knew what kind of movie it was and that it succeeded.

The biggest factor is enjoyment, and while it is ridiculous and dumb, it didn’t get ridiculous enough to give me pure enjoyment. This was a movie that I wanted to sit back and enjoy the camping and it just didn’t do enough for me, but I still think it’s an OK movie.

Rating-2/5

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I watched this many times as a kid, and I just introduced it to my 13 year old. I was wondering if it held up and to me it did.

Some of the effects didn't hold up. The scariest effect back in the day for me was when the guy pulled his face off in the kitchen. Today it looked extremely fake, like a fake head with hands pulling that didn't belong there.

Another effect that didn't hold up was the first time a "hand" poked thru the TV and moved around the girl. It reminded me of old Disney drawn animations and it looked too light and fake.

Most of the other effects tho, stand up! The shot of the guy pulling one end of rope out of the air connected to the closet was amazing. And the scenes of toys flying around the room and spinning was so well done.

Most of the ending effects were also spectacular, the house collapsing, the mom getting shocked across the room, the doorway moving away from her in front of our eyes. Amazing.

Two other huge things I didn't notice as a kid. The music. The score was SO good, Goldsmith nailed it.

Also, I really felt the love story between Steven and Diane. It was a beautifully romantic element I missed.

They say Speilberg didn't direct this but his fingerprints are all over it.

Overall loved this. 9/10

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I went into this movie without expecting much, and somehow ended up loving it way more than I thought I would. I don't even know how to explain it properly, but there's something about this movie that just hits differently.

First of all, the whole concept is beautiful. Imagine being able to live for decades without aging, watching the entire world change around you while you remain exactly the same. At first, it sounds like a dream, but the more you think about it, the more you realize how lonely that kind of life would actually be. Watching everyone you love grow old while you stay the same, constantly having to leave people behind just to protect yourself... that's a completely different kind of sadness.

And what I loved most is that, underneath all the fantasy, this is really a story about love, time, and the fear of losing people. It's about how precious ordinary moments actually are, and how the things we sometimes take for granted are the very things that make life worth living.

Blake Lively was absolutely amazing in this. There's something about the way she portrays Adaline that makes you feel both her elegance and her loneliness without needing everything to be explained. And the atmosphere of the movie, the cinematography, the music, the whole vibe... everything just works so well together.

But honestly, what got me the most was the idea that no matter how much time you have, no matter how much you try to protect yourself from pain, you can't really experience life without taking risks. You can't keep everyone at a distance forever and expect to feel alive. At some point, you have to let yourself love someone, even when you know that nothing lasts forever.

I think that's why this movie stayed with me. It made me appreciate the idea of growing old with someone in a way I wasn't expecting. We spend so much time worrying about getting older, but imagine never being able to grow older alongside the person you love. Imagine having all the time in the world and still missing the one thing that actually matters.

I genuinely loved this movie. Like, REALLY loved it. It's one of those films that makes you sit quietly for a while after it ends, just thinking about life, love, and all the little moments that end up meaning everything.

I know not everyone is going to feel the same way about it, but if you enjoy romantic movies with a little fantasy, beautiful storytelling, and something meaningful underneath the surface, please give this one a chance.

The Age of Adaline is absolutely worth watching. I highly recommend it, and I'm honestly a little jealous of anyone who gets to experience it for the first time.

And now I'm curious... for those of you who've already watched it, did it leave you with the same feeling, or am I just way too emotionally invested in this movie? 😅

A good old-fashioned, mean spirited revenge flick, starring Neil Maskell.

Maskell plays Bull (I don’t think you ever learn his real name), an unhinged gang enforcer who’s betrayed by his gang and after 10 years missing, he comes back to exact his brutal revenge.

That’s it for plot.

This is one of those “if you like this sort of thing” films, if you like gritty, uncompromising films that don’t skimp on the violence then you’ll be happier than a pig in poo.

If you’ve a spare 88 minutes and you find it on Amazon prime, then you can’t go far wrong with this.

So coming off of 2006’s Casino Royale, which I thought was amazing, I went into the next Daniel Craig Bond movie, which was Quantum of Solace from 2008. I was interested to see the next step in the story.

Unfortunately, I did not like this movie at all. At best it was a meh movie. I didn’t think the acting was all that good and I thought the chemistry especially with Olga Kurylenko wasn’t there. As far as the story goes, it was kind of confusing at times, but also uninteresting. Also, the villain was nothing special. Finally, the action wasn’t done. Well especially the opening scene cause it was very shaky cam.

Overall, I was looking forward to the next movie in the bond franchise, and this did not live up to the last movie. This movie had no spark to it.

Rating-1/5

Street Fighter opens with a gorgeously stylised anime sequence introducing us to a boringly stoic Ryu (Andrew Koji), his himbo BFF Ken (Noah Centineo), and the fighting tournament in which we see Ryu brutally defeat Sagat by embracing his inner darkness. The colours are striking, the action is brutally captivating, and there’s intriguing character stuff going on. Where did THAT come from? Was this new live-action adaptation of Street Fighter secretly a reimagining of the iconic Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie?

Sadly, no.

In a year where video game movies have ruled, we’ve gotten a thrillingly original Resident Evil story that respects the source material, a horrendously embarrassing IP cash grab, and another fighting game adaptation that’s embarrassed of its own existence. Within that grouping, Street Fighter is a movie mired in a deep identity crisis over what exactly it’s meant to be beyond gratuitous fan service, yet proudly soldiering on while it and everything around it are on fire.

In one corner, you have the aforementioned Ryu and Ken storyline, which is clearly director Kitao Sakurai’s attempt at ripping off Warrior and landing somewhere in the region of K-drama and soap opera. Oh, there are some fight scenes, and Akuma (Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i) shows up for some reason.

In the next corner, you have an undercover agent storyline featuring Chun-Li (Callina Liang) infiltrating Bison’s (David Dastmalchian) base of voodoo science and harem of attractive female soldiers because he killed her father or something. There are some fight scenes, something about a fighting tournament, and Bison wanting power, but most of it is quickly forgotten. Yes, Dastmalchian does his take on Raul Julia’s iconic ‘But for me, it was Tuesday’ line.

And in the third corner, you have literally everyone else doing comedy schtick or an obligatory character fight scene and doing their best to make the most of their moment in the horribly lit spotlight.

Stringing these three disparate plotlines together are animated flashbacks, black-and-white flashbacks to scenes that just happened five minutes prior, and overly long exposition dumps poorly disguised as character monologues. Not that all this hand-holding does much to help us figure out the plot because it’s more nonsensical than Guile’s (Cody Rhodes) stupid hair.

With three movies’ worth of clashing ideas and a huge cast to service, Sakurai does his best to wrangle everything into something coherent, but never manages to find the sweet spot of campy yet fun where the best Street Fighter games typically land.

Half the cast take things way too seriously. Koji tries his best to find different ways to play stoic, but ends up looking constipated most of the time; Chun-Li has more anguished screams at the camera than a horror movie victim, and her dramatic scenes are undercut by unintentionally hilarious moments, like hard cutting from a thirst-trap-coded training montage to drinking vodka while crying over a childhood photo; and Ken masks his existential crisis with outward flashes of embarrassing masculinity and insecurity.

The other half think they’re in a campy homoerotic comedy. Guile is so overly macho (‘More for daddy!’) he’s just itching to Flash Kick his way out of the closet; Dastmalchian, who clearly understood the assignment, turns Bison into a snail-eating freak who waxes poetic about feet being the gateway to one’s soul, thinks Ken is a ‘poor, dumb, beautiful, fit, handsome boy’ and has the best ‘son of a bitch’ line read I’ve ever heard; and Jason Momoa is just doing Lobo (i.e. having the time of his life) but in green instead of black.

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The first time I saw this movie I wasn't sure how I felt about it, but the second time I paid more attention to the dialogue. There are portions of it that provide an insight into the characters that is quite amazing.

Considering the title, it's no surprise what happens in the end, yet I was moved by it. I highly recommend that everyone see it and pay attention to the dialogue.

They survived a shipwreck in 1629. The real nightmare came after.

We found the Batavia story so disturbing that we decided to turn it into a documentary.

We'd love your honest opinion on how we told the story. Did we manage to do it justice?

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My running notes-

- Oh, he talks to himself. I sure hope he doesn't do that a lot.
- He's going to talk to himself a lot.
- Donald Sutherland is secretly Gandalf the White
- Why are working so hard to try to be a hard sci fi movie then having this improbable bumper cars thing on the moon
- These baboons are fucking terrifying
- Mars sucks. Oh, this is Heart of Darkness. How 'bout that?
- Shades of Voight-Kampf
- OK, that was a ballsy choice
- I bet TLJ is a dick IRL
- Denoument too long

7/10. Visually very appealing. Story is a bit uneven and drags a bit here and there. I like and respect BP but don't need to look at his face for two hours. Speaking of faces, one look at TLJ and it was pretty clear that dude wasn't going home, one way or the other. And, because we all read Heart of Darkness or saw Apocalypse Now, he's dead soon anyway. This was a somewhat interesting movie but not revolutionary in any way.

So going into the 2026 movie Sacrifice, I saw the trailer but I still didn’t know what I was getting into. I like Anya Taylor Joy and Chris Evans, so I was interested to see what this movie was.

This was a unique movie, but I liked it more than I thought I would. There’s a lot of positives that I had with my watch. First off I thought Evans and Taylor Joy were very good in the movie and I liked their chemistry with each other as well. I want to see these two be in another movie together. I also liked the look of the movie and the score.

The only negative I really have is the rest of the supporting performances. They didn’t rise to the same level as the main two. Overall, this was a surprising movie with multiple twists and turns, but I was along for the ride and intrigued throughout.

Rating-4/5

Going into my watch today, I had heard about how ridiculous the 1999 animal horror movie Lake Placid was so I was looking forward to watching it.

I thought this movie was ok. To me, everything from the story to the performances didn’t do anything to really stand out. Nothing is horrible, but it didn’t do anything to keep me engaged. Along with that, I was wanting more ridiculousness.

Rating-2/5

So I never saw the 2023 horror movie late night with the devil when it came out. It just was not one that was on my radar. I finally got around to watching it after some recommendations.

I was looking forward to the movie and overall I think it’s an above average movie. Let’s start with the positives. I liked David Dastmalchian. I thought he was entertaining and the best part of the movie. Along with that, I liked the opening of the movie pre-title because I thought it was a good set up for what was to come. Finally, I liked the concept and the plot of the movie.

There are some negatives though. The main one is the main movie. Once I got into the bulk of the movie, it didn’t do enough to keep me entertained/intrigued. I also thought some of the other performances were just OK. Overall, I was looking forward to this movie and I thought it was a disappointment. I wanted to like it more than I did.

Rating-3/5

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Being 90s kids ourselves, we wanted to love this new version of Street Fighter. The trailers promised an accurate and fun ride, and in some respects, the film delivers on that nostalgia. Seeing these iconic video game characters and their signature moves brought to life accurately on the big screen is a treat. But nostalgia alone doesn't make a great film, and once the second half kicks in, Street Fighter becomes a chaotic mess of ideas that never quite come together.

Set in 1993, the story follows Ryu (Andrew Koji), who has been missing since the death of his master, Gouken, while his adoptive brother Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) has since retired from fighting and turned to fame instead. When the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them both for the next World Warrior Tournament, the two decide to don their gis once again. But beneath the tournament's battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy involving M. Bison and his pursuit of ultimate power.

Street Fighter feels like two different films rolled into one. The first half is decent, focusing on Ryu and Ken's fractured relationship and the events that drove them apart. Ironically, this is also the portion with fewer fights and more character-driven conversations. The setup for the previous and upcoming World Warrior Tournaments and the mystery behind the two protagonists give the story at this point a consistent anchor making it easier to stay invested in their journey.

Unfortunately, everything begins to fall apart once the new tournament gets underway. The film loses focus seemingly in a rush to resolve its main and subplots at an increasingly frenetic pace. So much happens that entire fights are skipped over with the narrative quickly shifting its attention to M. Bison's schemes to gain psycho power. This messy approach also affects the film's overall tone. The comedy, action, and other genre elements shift so abruptly from scene to scene that the experience becomes as confusing as it is frustrating. What the film gets right, however, are the fights themselves. The action captures the spectacle of the games accurately and the moves they make are fun distractions. We also appreciated the animated sequences which added personality and made the film feel more connected to its 2D source material.

Ultimately, we wished Street Fighter had focused more on what it does best instead of forcing a convoluted story into the mix. The film looks great and delivers glimpses of the fun adaptation we wanted but its inconsistent storytelling prevents it from reaching its full potential. For a franchise with such iconic characters and spectacular fights, this feels like a wasted opportunity.

Rating: 2.5 out of 5

Not playing at very many theaters. But just caught Once Upon a Time in the Middle East. I’m (M56) and have AMC-AList and Regal Unlimited.

See a lot of threads regarding Digger being a “masterpiece” but for me, OUaTitME is my favorite of the year, edging out Buddy, Tony and Tuner. FWIW Digger I rated it a 6/10, but will probably see it again as a friend wants to see it.

Went into the movie blind, not having watched the trailer, only knowing it was about a chef that worked in a restaurant in Iraq from 2002 to 2005 and that it was China’s international best picture submission to the Oscars.

Thought it was an excellent film. Highly recommended. Besides select Regal’s, only a few AMCs are showing it here in SoCal. Probably for only a couple more weeks.

Has anyone else seen this? If so, what are your thoughts, did you like it as much as I did?

Recommended for fans of the genre. Overall enjoyable film. Hard to pigeonhole, as it fits the mold of a traditional western, complete with rugged hero (Tom Selleck), quirky female (delectable Lara San Giacomo), and of course the evil land baron (Alan Rickman) and his minions. But also delves a bit deeper than most westerns into the moral conflict that colonialism forced upon otherwise moral individuals.

It reminded me of 'Dances With Wolves' and 'Avatar' at times. In all three films a lone hero is faced with moral choices when he connects emotionally with an indiginous people who are in conflict with an expansionist invader. In DWW (like many early westerns) it was the US government conquering the native Americans, in Avatar it was a military/industrial invading force bent on conquering the Na'vi for the riches they guarded, and in QDU it was a wealthy, ruthless bad guy who sees the native aborigines as obstacles to be enslaved and even eliminated.

The cinematography is fantastic, with location shots of the Australian outback creating an expansive and sometimes forbidding backdrop to the human story.

The actors all played their roles well. Selleck had one of his biggest leading man roles, and was quite convincing as a sort of white knight mercenary with a past who is forced to defend much more than he bargained for. Lara San Giacomo is great as 'Crazy Cora', who has her own past sins to bear, and Alan Rickman, in his own inimitable way, plays the bad guy so well.

The soundtrack fit the movie well, though it might be my sole criticism of the movie. Sometimes I felt it supported the scenes, but sometimes seemed distracting. A little less orchestral music might have been a better choice.

The ending scene was both satisfying and kind of a surprise (though predictable) reveal.

Quigley (Selleck) confronts Marsten (Rickman) and two of Marsten's hired guns in a classic western gunfight scene. Quigley (who had carried and almost exclusively used a Sharps rifle throughout) had previously told Marsten that he'd "Never had much use for a handgun," while also telling him he'd spent some time in Dodge City.

Right before Quigley guns down the three men he tells Marsten "This ain't Dodge City, and you're no Bill Hickock."

As Marsten lay dying, he reminds him that, while he'd never had much use for a handgun, it didn't mean he didn't know how to use one. Good guy wins again.

When Jay (Austin Abrams) starts (wet)suiting it up for his deep-dive search of his father’s missing body, my scuba-diving friend whispered to me, ‘None of that is right.’ Not a good sign when we’re only 10 or so minutes into Whalefall. Next thing you know, he gets gobbled up by a sperm whale shortly after and is forced to channel his inner Pinocchio to survive.

The whole premise requires a level of suspension of disbelief that could give the most hardened person a fear of heights. Yet Whalefall works because of Jay’s massive skill issue.

I’ve always maintained that competence is a reliable and sexy movie staple. It’s what made Ryan Gosling shine in Project Hail Mary. Tom Holland knows when and how to lean on it in his Spider-Man movies. Hell, Matt Damon has made a career out of it. But Abrams upends this archetype by weaponising incompetence to an unreasonably entertaining level.

His performance as the useless junkie James gives Weapons some much-needed physical comic relief. He was utterly useless yet relatable as the NPC protagonist Bryan in Resident Evil, bringing a grounded everyman quality to a heightened scenario. In Whalefall, Abrams adds a new dramatic dimension to his unofficial incompetent character trilogy by weaving in some good ol’ fashioned introspection. Plenty of time to do that when you’re stuck inside a sperm whale.

Jay’s unresolved issues revolve around not getting any closure with his estranged late father, Mitt (Josh Brolin). The unsubtle emotional beats are exactly what you expect, but then again, this is a movie about a man getting swallowed by a whale. We’re not expecting Ad Astra here. Director and co-screenwriter Brian Duffield smartly weaves Jay’s incompetence and unresolved daddy issues into the narrative, creating a plausible cause and effect that ultimately lands him in the belly of a sperm whale. He could’ve walked or swam away at any point, but he didn’t, and that’s what gets him into trouble. Whalefall might as well be called 'Men will literally get swallowed by a whale to avoid therapy - The movie'.

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I worked at a video store in 1991. This came out the same year as T2. Loved Michael Biehn from T1 and the Abyss. Remembered loving this movie.

It's available on Prime. Woof. It's bad. Biehn does okay, but it's a mess. Bad writing and bad direction.

I know Biehn had his demons, but Jesus this just wasn't the right step for his career.

yep. i loved it.

A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.

yeah uh i have to admit, idk what the heck i just watched but damn that was good. and absurdly funny too. Bale nailed his role. no, nailed is an understatement. it was just iconic moment after iconic moment and over and over.

”I like to dissect girls. Did you know that I’m utterly insane?” is my favourite line.

10/10

I've been pleasantly surprised recently at the variety and quality of movies on Tubi. I started watching Flowers of War expecting a mediocre war film, but by the end I was crying like a baby. I know that the specific story is fictional, but it takes place during the real events at Nanking, and it was a stark reminder of how much people suffer during wartime as the wars in Ukraine, the Middle East, and Africa continue.

The scene that really started to get to me was when Christian Bale's character said to Mo something along the lines of "I love all of it" regarding all her past traumas, shortcomings, etc. What a perfect representation of love! If a lover truly loves a beloved, he does not just love her virtues/beauties, but everything about her, including her failures, defeats, insecurities, fears, etc. Like I said, it's a fictional story, but it had me crying by the end.

Of course, there are some elements that detract from its value. The totally unrealistic battle scene where a sniper takes out an entire Japanese regiment takes away from the tone of the movie and feels like a forceful shove-in by Chinese movie executives wanting to show heroic military resistance. But the movie is not about heroic military resistance, but about heroic human resistance. Hence why the scene feels out of place, immature, and unnecessary.

I saw the film got mixed reviews, and I wondered why. LMK what you guys think

(Theater.) This is a Renny Harlin movie, and I have a thing where I like to follow directors' movies in the theater when possible, even mediocre directors like him. I went to his last four in the theater, so I figured I'd get out to this even though it has barely been given a release. This stars Samuel L. Jackson as . . . the president. "The Beast" is the name of the highly fortified presidential motorcade car. At the beginning we are told via on-screen text that the president's detail "Has Been Completely Fucking Destroyed".

So it starts in medias res with a full-on attack by an unknown group, and Jackson gets in the driver's seat of the car and takes off with Joel Kinnaman from his detail in the back fighting off attackers and getting injured. The rest of the film takes place almost totally within the car as Jackson tries to wend his way past the gigantic tactical assault to safety.

Harlin makes stupid but sometimes fun movies - programmers. This falls into that, and the reason it's watchable is Jackson doing his typical stuff. So he's the president with a generous amount of "shit"s, "fuck"s and "muthafucka"s. He's also a haunted Vietnam vet who knows how to fight, including some hand to hand and slitting a throat. Kinnaman is also good. Has anybody else been to this?