Showing posts with label Simon Pegg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simon Pegg. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The World's End

SF: Oh well they tried. Sad to say this film is all expectation and no delivery. The performances are ok, the humour present and the story easy to follow but lacked pace. I only laughed twice. Too much random fighting, a lot of seemed to be to just fill the time and the end didn't fit at all. Sadly just 4/10

50Eggs: n/a

DonkeyB: Urgh. Its a "British Comedy", it is rubbish. An absolute waste of Considine, Marsan and Pike. Does Rosamund Pike have a lazy eye? Because it looks like she does for most of the film. Pegg and Frost need to watch themselves they have both been in a whole heap of crap recently- this way Chevy Chase lies. 3/10

Overall: 3.5/10

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Star Trek - Into Darkness

SF: Enjoyable second instalment to the Trek reboot. I think most fans will be pleased with how this turns a few things about. Like its predecessor, a nice blend of action, humour and twisty sci-fi plot surprises, what more could you ask for? Cumberbatch pulls off his villainous role perfectly and does anyone else wonder if Chris Pine is wearing lipstick? Chances are I'll go see this again and soon. Which is all I can say without spoilers 8/10

50 Eggs: I don't know why it's called 'Into Darkness', but no matter, this is really good. The action is brilliant and the story pleasingly 'Trek', even continuing the split reality theme of the last film. The only downside is that it cant quite live up to its immediate predecessor as it lacks the surprise factor...also I'm pretty sure there is a plot hole that I've yet to solve by scanning the FAQs. Still, a great addition to the series (so much better since the reboot), and I'm adding a point on as I saw it in Imax 3D - it looked amazing. 9/10

DonkeyB: I think it is called into darkness because its in 3d (for some people) and therefore by definition darker. Before you consider my review you should know the following: I've never seen any of the first 10 Star Trek films (in fact I wasn't really aware there were 10, in my mind I knew a few existed- if you asked me to put a number on how many I'd have guessed 4), I've never seen an episode of any of the tv series all the way through and I saw the last film on a plane and probably fell asleep because I don't remember anything about it. So here's what I thought, the plot was difficult to follow but that's a good job because its ludicrous. It is funny in places- mostly Spock who in my (informed only by popular consciousness) opinion seemed perfect. There is an unnecessary undressing scene for one female character to rival deep blue sea (the shark one). It looks pretty good, but it should have been called Star Trek- "get out of my face with that camera", because I was constantly trying to lean back as every shot looked zoomed in. The captioning and subtitling are oddly positioned. It is TOO LONG. There are two too many endings. There are lots of shots which make you think that Abrams was rehearsing for Star Wars, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if some Trekky people hate this film with a passion because it is much more of a space action film than anything with any intellectual weight. All that being said cumberbatch is annoyingly brilliant as usual and I wasn't bored. 7/10

Overall: 8/10

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

SF: Yet another Mission Impossible, yet more crazy stunts, gun fights and lack of decent plot. Still this one was better than 2 (the most dire of all MI films) but alas can't top the pace of 3. Lots of good touches that keep you going and its nice to finally see some team work. 6.5/10.

50 Eggs: MI1 was, in my opinion, an absolute classic espionage film. There was never any danger of this reaching those heady heights, and so it proves with this hit and miss action/comedy film. Some scenes are great (infiltrating the Kremlin) whilst others fall flat (car chase in zero visibility dust storm?!). As SF said though, way better than MI2. 7/10

DonkeyB: n/a

Overall: 6.75/10


Friday, October 29, 2010

Burke & Hare


SF: Black comedy is my thing, so this should of been just perfect. Plus I adore half the cast and they filmed next door to me, alas I was rather under whelmed so a sad 4/10

50 Eggs: Very forgettable. Not particularly funny but harmless entertainment. 6/10

DonkeyB: n/a

Overall - 5/10