I was mostly pretty excited to see this movie; it’d been a good while since I’ve seen this type of action movie. The only problem I predicted by the trailers was Ryan Reynolds, I’m not too sold on him as an action movie star, but that crack only shined through a couple times, though most of the movie Reynolds holds it up because he actually is a damn good actor. The man really at the center of the movie though is Denzel Washington, he’s one of the greatest actors of the era and he’s always a badass when he’s in an action movie. And as an added bonus Robert Patrick is even in here for a little bit. Onto the actual movie though, Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) is a traitor to the nation, and pretty much every other intelligence agency in the world. An ex-CIA man that started selling off secrets to the highest bidder. Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) is a man that works at a safe house where Tobin is brought to once he is captured. Some shit goes down and Matt has to take Tobin on the run. The rest of it is you’re pretty standard fair action movie, and it does have some great action scenes. Awesome fights, cool car chases, some shootouts, you won’t be bored watching this. There’s also a lot of cloak and dagger stuff in here being a movie centered on the CIA, most of that is where the movie falls short. The twists are pretty lame, and the ending is kind of weak too. But the action really makes up for any other area the movie might be lacking in. If you’re a fan of the espionage action movies you’ll definitely want to see Safe House.
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Director Greg Mottola who we know from Superbad brings us Adventureland. Not a star studded movie but you don’t need big names to make a great movie, and this proves it. One thing I will say for this movie that seems to be a trend now a days is its not a comedy but it was marketed as such. Adventureland is about a kid who goes to work at an amusement park, finds a girl, who turns out to be the other woman already involved with a married guy and falls in love with her. More of a romance drama deal but it does have some laughs. Bill Hader is in this one providing most of the comedy. Also appearing is Ryan Reynolds who surprisingly provides no jokes at all. Despite being not the comedy I expected to see Adventureland was pretty great.
This movie is very highly anticipated for a lot of people, myself included, it was announced my first thought was “fucking awesome” then my immediate second though was “I hope it doesn’t suck”. Then the trailer was released and it looked like there was a green light to get excited, but I still held my reservations because I still remember the shitiligy that was the X-Men movies. Well one thing this movie succeeded on was being vastly better than any of the X-Men movies, in fact it was better than all three combined, granted that wasn’t too hard of a feat to pull off. It more or less follows the Wolverine Origins comic story with a few inconsistencies. For the most part I thought it was pretty good, not great, and not terrible. That is until ‘Weapon XI’ shows up, then we have about twenty minutes of pure and total shit. That aside Hugh Jackman still does a good job filling as Wolverine, Liev Schreiber gets the job done as Sabretooth (although I’m pretty sure the name Sabretooth is never in the movie), and Kevin Durand is pretty decent as the Blob. However that’s about as far as it goes. Taylor Kitsch was a pretty shitty Remy LeBeau/Gambit, but to be fair, I’m not sure how much of that was truly his fault, and the one that really surprised me was there was a very bad version of everybody’s favorite “Merc with a Mouth,” Deadpool aka Wade Wilson, trying to fill those shoes was a man I’m a fan of, Ryan Reynolds. I’m going to cut Ryan some slack here though and blame the script, he really didn’t have much of a role, and the action sequences he was in were pretty shitty but I still feel like given the chance he could have lived up to what it should have been. Also in this movie was the pain in the ass I can never escape, Scott Summers, I’ve always hated this douche bag, even when I was a kid and now he’s gotta pop up in every movie having remotely to do with the X-Men, it’s maddening. All in this entire movie was not good, but realistically it could have been much worse. I hesitate to blame the Director, Gavin Hood or the writer, David Benioff sense they’ve had very little experience in either roles but I really don’t see where else I can put the blame for this movie. I mean I would like to thank them for not throwing another piece of X-shit on me but I still feel this could have been so much better. Ah you know what, screw it, I’m blaming the failure of this entirely on Scott Summers.
