Movie Reviews

The Departed

11/10

This is my favorite movie ever.

An action-drama with a phenomenal cast.

Matt Daemon and Leonardo DiCapprio kill it in this movie.

Not to mention tremendous performances by Alec Baldwin, Mark Walberg, and Martin Sheen.

I met Martin Sheen in real life and he was very nice.

I'll see basically anything with Leo in it, but this is his best character in my opinion. William Costigan Jr. is a total badass.

A Quiet Place

9.5/10

This movie does a lot of things right.

A horror movie with a unique style and very good characters

There may be some plot holes, and it kind of suffers from bird-box syndrome where the horror is mostly off-screen. In that movie you never see the monsters, but in this movie you briefly do, and it's terrifying

Now with the sequel coming out, I'm rewatching the first one and the sequel is getting good reviews.

This is a very quiet movie and I think in theaters it would be terrifyingly quiet as well. Brilliant work by the director.

I'm actually disappointed John won't be in the sequel

Memento

10/10

This is a masterpiece of filmmaking

From the opening shot, you are drawn in and completely enthralled.

The level of intelligence going on in the way this was filmed really just makes me humbled by the experience.

You see Christopher Nolan smiling while explaining it on a chalkboard there, and it's really difficult to imagine pulling something like that off.

It reminds me of The Last of Us in terms of quality where I just felt spoiled getting to experience it. Like you put in all that work for years, and I just lap it up without having to work on it at all? It's almost criminal.

King Kong (2005)

10/10

I recently watched King Kong: Skull Island and thought it was not as good as the remake from 2005. I missed Skull Island in theaters because I thought it was too soon for another remake as the 2005 one left a big impact on me. I watched Skull Island finally because I saw the trailer for King Kong Vs. Godzilla, which looks awesome. Skull Island would be like a 6/10 at best. The original King Kong is so much better in every way. I give it a 10 because it's a masterpiece, with a great 3 act structure. Skull island is basically only act 2, but enough about that movie. This Peter Jackson 2005 version is king. The chemistry between a CGI ape and Naomi Watts is really unlike anything I've ever seen. It's such a spectacular movie. Kong takes on multiple T-rex's with a blonde in his hand (and feet) the whole time. In Skull Island, he takes on a few lizard things. It's really stupid. I wish it never happened. Anyway, the 2005 version is heartbreaking, and has excellent characters. I highly recommend rewatching it.

Tenet

7/10

This is one of the most difficult movies to review. I enjoyed watching it in theaters. Too much of it doesn't make sense. Why does The Protagonist go so far out of his way to save the bad guy's wife if he is dealing with a platonium level threat as a secret agent? There is not enough of character development to justify his strange decisions to basically risk the fate of world on saving the bad guy's wife. That doesn't even scratch the surface on difficultly understanding this film. The bad guy is getting help from the future to destroy the past. Why? I've seen it 3 times and I still don't know why. Also, the whole going inverted and then driving a car and it explodes so you get hypothermia thing? No thanks. However, this movie does certain things very well like a breathtaking action packed opening scene along with the smooth way The Protagonist wins fist fights. The inversion thing is cool initially, it's only very frustrating on the rewatch when you're hoping to truly understand this movie. It has it's moments, and is very ambitious. I was going to give it a 4/10 because it's closer to a disaster than a masterpiece but I had so much fun watching it the first time that I have to give it a 7.