Reviews

Another entry in the old guy takes on world genre like Taken. The production quality just feels like straight to video b movie, much like John Wick. The music was really bad, great tracks but mostly really bad cover versions of very well known classics, you had Rza there why not ask him to have a listen, and add some oversight! Odenkirk is likeable as always which makes an otherwise forgettable movie worth a watch.

The concept and characters dynamics kept me watching but the dialogue was terrible. They somehow got this solid cast to deliver this content in a bizarre Room level fashion. Dude, next time get a writer that has a little closer handle on reality.

Apparently written in 3 days, and filmed in 5 this movie is so funny. So many memorable moments including the virtual Melinda gates sex scene. The acting is bang on, and the writing is great. Better then most box office comedies in the past few years. Hopefully there will be more and more of these low budget but awesomely written movies produced in the future, though Funny or Die's follow up 'Coffee Town' looks pretty lame. Jorge Garcia as Steve Wozniak is an endless source of laughs, I'm still laughing just thinking about the way they wrote the relationship between him and Jobs. Check it out, it is ridiculous but amazing.

I have loved Bond movies for a long time and was looking forward to this one, but was massively disappointed. They have pretty much turned Bond into a Batman/Bourne character. The modern action movie seems to feature a superhuman hero whose biggest fight was with his own past demons, in Batman it was completely pathetic, here a little less so, but it was still bad. The heroes in these movies are constantly whining about some past grievance, as are the villains. In this case man up guys, you're top secret agents with a license to kill, you don't think the job might have it's risks? Past Bonds seemed to naturally understand that, which is why Bond was such an exciting character. He knew could die at any moment but he maintained charm and cool at all times. This Bond was a robotic, and personality-less. He was like a Bourne programmed killer. Without personality in any of the characters, it's tough to care for them. The story was pretty standard comic book fare, maniacal bad guy with endless pool of resources whose only goal is to terrorize. The villain here was quite similar to the Bane/Joker style bad guy, only destruction is enough. That feels totally unrealistic, I can understand the making money, world domination aspiration, but revenge just feels a little bit pathetic. And that final showdown scene, wow you can totally tell they were gunning to get Sean Connery for that but he declined.

They say the greatest art is the art that evokes the strongest response, either love or hate, and this movie does that.

It seems some people were disappointed that the movie wasn't more about time travel, that the trailers were misleading. For me having a smart, unpredictable movie is something really rare in Hollywood currently that this movie stands out even more. So many rehashes of superhero movies with the exact same plot, it's nice to see something original. This is a movie you can have a discussion about afterward because it provokes questions (something I really think great movies do).

Every detail was done well, the music was incredible, acting was stellar across the board, Emily Blunt was truly amazing. The futuristic setting was one the most believable I've seen, very similar to our world but on steroids.

Go see it, a couple of times.