Power Rangers Movie Review.

Synopsis: A group of high-school students, who are infused with unique superpowers,harness their abilities in order to save the world.

Everybody says it is really fun movie. Power Rangers TV show was always fun and very goofy but it was enjoyable. This movie is more realistic and settled for a more gritty tone. It has good actors in it, more realistic action and a good feel of a descent superhero movie. Nice interactions between the characters and funny humor are the basis of this film's success. It is successful in achieving it's goal - being funny, entertaining, not super serious and visually great.  

Power Rangers is a big teenage flick, it does have a high school feel, the way people talk reminds of some sitcoms but it is still a good acting from that cast. The mythology was pretty good and well explained, the story is very simple - a cliched superhero plot and all in that manner. But this movie had a strategy of being fun and entertaining so the bad side of this film isn't noticeable that much. 

Well done movie, but it had problems in pacing and the story. The biggest problem I had with this movie is that Power Rangers couldn't suit up for the whole movie and did it just at the end. After all, it felt like a Power Rangers TV show so with that the director did a good job. And visually this movie looks great - a good time in the movie theater. 

Kong: Skull Island Movie Review

Skull Island poster

A team of scientists explore an uncharted island in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong, and must fight to escape a primal Eden.


New huge blockbuster with a familiar face - Kong: Skull Island appeared to be a big and a very violent film. Right from the beginning it makes total sense that this movie is made just to introduce Kong in a new monster universe for Warner Brothers in which latest Godzilla ( 2013) took place. 

The main purpose of this movie is to entertain, so it does with clumsy action and many many deaths. This movie has a 70-s and a Vietnam war feel to it, and it always has cool music to remind about it. 

The story and the characters are very simple. It almost copies Peter Jackson's version. A squad of navies goes to an uncharted island with a bunch of scientists to explore it. Thus they drop special bombs to study it, which leads everyone into trouble. 

Kong:Skull Island

If we look at this movie from an artistic point of view then we will see a big mess with no character development, good plot devices or hooking story whatsoever. But the most awful thing that happened in this movie is the treatment of all characters in it. They whether die with no emotional meaning or they just don't do anything at all. 

Kong is in front and center of all action. There are a lot of fighting scenes with him and overall he was done pretty well. The big bad monster at the end wasn't difficult to defeat at all, and that took enjoyment out. The main villain though is a human. 

Acting was somewhere in the film but this movie wasn't made to enjoy drama or good interactions between the characters. So, Kong: Skull Island is a big messy flick. I can't say that the action was done well, it felt inconsistent and the CGI looked quite unconvincing. But it was pretty fun sometimes: John C. Reilly was a good comedic relief, Tom Hiddlestone played a bad-ass and sometimes it was enjoyable to watch him on screen and some other scenes were good. This is how I liked this movie. It has some good moments but I expected something more, that looks like a good motion picture.

Logan Movie Review.

Synopsis:  In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X somewhere on the Mexican border. However, Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.

This movie has a special place in my hart. It is more then just a movie - this is legacy. It has been 17 years since the first X-men movie came out. And ever since Logan was played by Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart played Professor X. After all those years this film seems more then a perfect ending and a grand finale for a thing that lasted for such a long time. James Mangold - the director of the movie also directed The Wolverine (2013) clearly knew how to make this one work. There was no major studio interference on Fox's part, so he did what he and Hugh Jackman wanted this last Wolverine movie to be. Logan is inspired by many great films. You can find a feel of a good old-time western in it, The Last of Us and Unforgiven (1992) vibe. 

The story is moving very quickly, starting from a good R-rated blood mess, then turning into a story of an old sick man, suffering from loss, despair and hopelessness in this world. This man is Logan, who lives near the Mexican boarder and takes care of Charles Xavier Professor X, who has gone mad. The mutants are gone, they are not born for some years and it seems like an end for their kind. One of the last mutants - Caliban (Stephen Merchant) also takes care of Professor while Logan is gone for a job to collect some money to buy a boat to escape to the sea with Charles who has become a threat for the people near him. He needs drugs to stop his seizures. 

That is so painful to watch these iconic characters rot in that place they live, that looks like a garbage storage. Disgusting how they ended up being after all those years of struggle, school for gifted children and X-men existence. The story moves when the little girl Laura (Dafne Keen) suddenly comes up, along with an army of villains. She is a mutant of a new generation raised and grown artificially in the lab by villainous Zander Rice (Richard E. Grant) and his right hand man Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook). Charles always did everything for the mutant race, and now in a time of despair he convinces Logan to help young mutant to survive, so she would live a new live without violence and pain. 

The biggest strength of the movie are the dialogs and the story itself. The way how characters interact with each other, also with the sense of the history of what happened before, these relationships look even more brilliant. Charles and Logan go all the way back, so they are treated like iconic ones in terms of the depth of the story around them.

The thing that I loved the most was the feel of what I was promised in the trailers. It was really amazing to see those characters again in a new way I never seen before but with the same feel that was in previous movies. I find this movie extraordinary and very memorable. It is going to be a classic superhero ending for ages. 

Passengers 2016 Movie Review

Passengers Movie Poster

Passengers 2016, starring Chis Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Sheen and Laurence Fishburne. Directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Jon Spaihts, who actually wrote the script for Doctor Strange. The film takes place in a short distant future on a spaceship "Avalon", which travels to a distant colony planet known as the "Homestead Colony" and transporting 5,258 people has a malfunction in one of its sleep chambers. As a result, one hibernation pod opens prematurely and the one person that awakes, Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) is stranded on the spaceship, still 90 years from his destination. 

After the awakening, Jim finds out the truth about his voyage that he is 90 years yearly so he will probably die as an old man on this ship before it reaches its destination. He has a barmen android as his pal and a very long time to study every data log on the ship in order to repair the broken chamber. He is desperate and lost. Chris Pratt does a great job playing his character as we can understand his desperation and loneliness. Pratt plays a usual guy - mechanic, who is not the most confident or charming but full of surprises. He is a little different from the Star-Lord or Owen from Jurassic World. He is a more regular person.

Passengers 2016. The Ship.

This movie has such a huge work behind it. The production design is stunning. The ship looks beautiful, every detail reminds of a high quality of the future technological progress. This movie shines with the atmosphere of excellence. And this is a very expensive film to make, paying large fees to the stars of cause too. And I think that it was poorly marketed, but at least it was what I expected the movie to be, in order of tone, even though the plot is not as it was shown in the trailers.

As you noticed, Chris Pratt's character wakes up alone. He searches the ship, looks everywhere for the solution for his repair problem, tries to destroy the armored deck door to wake the Captain ( Laurence Fishburne) (Jim obviously just a mechanic and can't use many things on the starship). The road gets him to the point where he just can't stand Arthur (played by Michael Sheen) (the barmen android) company anymore. 

I am not very familiar with previous Michael Sheen's works but he was pretty good in Passengers, he masterfully captured the behavior of the machine with no actual feelings, but with some automatic artificial reactions on a behavior of others. I don't really understand much of Jim's complaints - he had a free bar just for himself for the rest of his life, but that life lasts too long, he is just all along and can't find a reason to stay alive.

Passengers. Michael Sheen and Chris Pratt movie.

And in the moment of the biggest desperation, he throws some item away in anger to come and pick it back up and see beautiful Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) sleeping in her chamber. And then if you saw a damn poster you guess the biggest plot twist spoiled in the very first poster for the movie in the marketing campaign. 

But before that Jim was such a gentlemen to not to wake her up just in a moment he got in love with sleeping beauty. He struggled because he is a nobleman who won't take and bury someone's fortune for his own advantage. Instead, he studies her by her dairy. It turns out she is a writer and seeks adventures just as her father did to write an entertaining book. That is why she volunteered to be on this voyage. 

Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence.

The flaws of the movie are on the surface, but this is a movie you can enjoy very much for the star power, atmosphere of an expensive movie and for the romance. I didn't see necessarily a strong chemistry between Lawrence and Pratt, they fit each other and these are world class actors but there was less depth for Aurora character. She wasn't explored wisely. She definitely plays a supporting role. All of that made this romance watchable but only for the aesthetic pleasure. 

As for the plot - it was boring, everything was spoiled and the rest was not interesting as it turns out to be an action movie in the third act with most of the problems in it. The drama at the end wasn't powerful due to numbers of flaws. Overall this movie shines in the technological aspects but lacks a good script and solid filmmaking; it looked expensive but too popcorny to be serious enough as it wanted.   

Passengers. Open Space