Saturday, October 25, 2014

John Wick (2014)

Rated: R - Runtime: 101 min
tesg's Rating: Two and one half stars (out of four)

After surprisingly opening with one of the most touching scenes in any movie I'll bother seeing this year, John Wick is a fantastically stylish killing machine of a movie for quite awhile.  And it would have been really great if they just kept it that way all the way through.  But no.  Not only do the bad guys NOT kill John Wick when they had the easy opportunity...they had to throw in the James Bond Villain-like standoff so perfectly parodied in the first Austin Powers movie.

Up until then, this was nearly as brilliant as Jason Statham's "Crank".

(If you haven't seen "Crank", you seriously need to.)

Saturday, October 4, 2014

The Equalizer (2014)

Rated: R - Runtime: 132 min
tesg's Rating: Two and one half stars (out of four)

What...Steven Seagal was busy or something?

Friday, October 3, 2014

Gone Girl (2014)

Rated: R - Runtime: 145 min
tesg's Rating: Two and one half stars (out of four)

A woman disappears in small-town Missouri.  The story sets the blame on the husband through a lot of manipulative plot twists.  And then...well, never mind.  Basically, this movie is chock full of twists and turns and it gets really REALLY ridiculous.

Some of it is clever.  Some of it is funny.  But in the end, I'm on board with the defense attorney's final assessment.