Reviews

I would like to rate this movie higher as this movie does have its moments of humor and charm. But it has the unfortunate distinction of following Live and Let Die and preceding The Spy Who Loved Me, both movies that were funnier and showcased Moore's wit and charm more than this one.

I must say I did not enjoy the funhouse sequences as I thought it rather nonsensical. The pre title sequence was a pretty good sequence as Christopher Lee showcased his acting chops and why he would become an iconic villain in the franchise and Maud Adams showcased why she would become a Bond girl later on as she was beautiful.

The song is by far and away one of the worst songs I have heard in a Bond movie. Lulu sounds like a screech owl. The worst song in the Roger Moore era as this one lacked the pizzaz of Live and Let Die and the romanticness of the next four.

As for the movie, it was lackluster as Britt Ekland was a rather annoying Bond girl whose acting was wooden and stiff. I also feel like JW Pepper should have been left in the Louisiana Bayou as he felt out of place in Thailand and felt more like a shoehorned excuse for comic foil in a movie that desperately needed it and didn't get it. And don't forget the slide whistle was one of the worst moments in the franchise and I desperately wished that the Blu Ray and DVD releases would have removed the slide whistle from the impressive corkscrew stunt.

This one hits on all the notes I liked from For Your Eyes Only and even adds some special touches. I also liked the change in direction, even though Roger Moore will forever be my favorite Bond, but he grown too old for the role after View to a Kill sadly as he couldn't carry a bad plot and bad actors any longer.

Anyways, one of my favorite things about this movie is the fact that James Bond in this much grittier and when he deliberately missed and saved Kara's life, I'm glad he did and I loved the way he told Saunders to kiss off. Moore's Bond couldn't have been that brass with the upper echelon of MI6 when they were in the wrong and questioning the instincts of their best agent, but Dalton delivered that with perfection.

My favorite part of the movie is the romance between Kara and Bond. I loved the way he doesn't force himself on her and she is won over by his genuine niceness to her as eventually comes to see that Koskov, who she thought loved her was a manipulative monster who was only using her for a phony defection. I also liked that you could see a growing confidence in her as she wasn't combative and didn't know anything about fighting in the jail, but by the time the opium trade was done, she was willing to risk her life in an attempt to save James from certain death at the airport all by herself with whatever weapon she grabbed from Kamran.

I also liked the villains in Koskov, Whittaker and Necros as they were good villains. Koskov was so swarmy and yet so over the top that his comeuppance was deserved when you realized what the Soviet Union was going to do him for his defection attempt. I liked Whittaker as he thought he was this badass general and yet, he was a complete fraud who was only interested in the money he was making from blackmarket deals. His comeuppance wasn't the best, but it did result in a rather good oneliner from Bond though, so that salvages a rather pathetic death. Necros though stole the show as he had his own leitmotif in the form of The Pretenders song "Where Has Everybody Gone" that incorporated elements of the Bond theme. His comeuppance was also pretty good and reminded me of Gobinda's death from Octopussy in some ways, which I enjoyed.

Another good part is The Pretenders having their "If There Was a Man" play over the end credits. The song was a great choice as it fit the romance that had built up between Kara and James and I wish they would've kept her as Bond's wife as Kara and James had a special bond that they would've risked life and limb for eachother and she would've been a tough out in a fight with some training as she had shown some considerable growth in a short amount of time like I said earlier.

I watch this episode for the Headless Ghost segment. Stacy Keach has good narration and I do think he helps stabilize the wonky acting. In particular, Sheena Easton is a hilarious choice for a woman as she can't pull off a southern accent at all. But her performance though is worth watching it because it is so bad, especially during her narrative bits. Also, the bit at the end when it is revealed that Bobby Mackey might have put his name on the sign, but in the legal papers, he put the nightclub in his wife's name and that explains why the spirits were more hostile to her is downright despicable.

This movie is a good, but not great entry in the James Bond series. I wasn't emotionally moved by the title theme like I was moved by For Your Eyes Only and for some odd reason I can't put my finger on, Carly Simon doesn't have the voice I would expect for a singer who takes on the titular theme song for an iconic franchise such as this.

Also, I couldn't get the past the outdated backgrounds of the ski scene as anytime they closed in on James Bond, it looked so incredibly fake it took any drama out of the scene. Also, the speedboats launching out of the supertanker looked ridiculous, but I guess beggars can't be choosers as the technology of 1977 was rather limited.

But the story was good for the most part and Roger Moore carries it beautifully and Jaws was the closest Sir Roger Moore ever got to battling a supervillain. I did like the villain and I was glad to see he survived the ending for what ended up becoming Moonraker, which I have yet to watch.

Let me be frank here that this movie marks the first time I have watched a James Bond movie. Now with that out of the way, this film is just beautifully put together. Almost everything has aged rather gracefully from the underwater sequences to the score by Bill Conti, with my favorite bits of his score being the instrumental For Your Eyes Only used when James Bond and Melina were diving on the underwater ruins.

I must say I just love the opening titles to this movie. The incorporation of Sheena Easton's beautiful face and elegant beauty goes well with the shadowy figures dancing alongside. I can see why Sir Roger Moore loved this opening sequence and said she was far more attractive any of the Bond girls.

From beginning to end, the story is just and the only thing I would have cut out from the end would've been the bit with the Margaret Thatcher and her husband's look alikes, as it didn't add any humor or anything relevant to the plot.

I am wondering what I just watched. I seen this was on Tubi and decided to try it out just for the "Hair" segment as I seen it had Sheena Easton and I enjoy her singing. This was just weird.

Stacy Keach playing Richard, a man whose going bald and refuses to accept, was somewhat hilarious. I found myself laughing at his attempt at a hairpiece, as it was cheap and looked like a mat of hair someone ripped off of an animal in the jungle somewhere. And his "treatments" and "solutions" to try and solve it from the New You! Beauty Salon were hilariously awful and the narm is taken up to an 11 with the cassette tape talking about how to make your hair grow.

But the best part is Sheena Easton playing his wife, as she puts in a fine performance and still looks like the 80s bombshell that every man adored. Her kissing the top of Richard's head was hilarious and you can tell she was angry at her husband's use of hair gel or whatever that was she stained her face with. I do wonder how they managed to secure her to do a part in this along with fellow musician Deborah Harry.

This movie had a ton of potential with the list of actors including Brighton Sharbino, C. Thomas Howell, Jason London and Lou Diamond Phillips. But what follows is a film with some rather horrible acting that calling it wooden would be an insult to wood. To me, the faults for the bad acting lie at the hands and feet of the director and writer, who couldn't put together a competent package as the people running around the baseball stadium scene goes absolutely nowhere, even though the girl and dad returned to the same ballpark at the end of the film.

While this movie tries to present positive messages of finding yourself and forgiveness and that stuff, it fails to deliver on showcasing the messages to its viewers as various storyboarded pieces just talked about and then dropped after a couple of minutes of dialogue or screen time.

Just a waste of my time that I am glad I didn't pay to watch as it was included on Amazon's FreeVee.

This film was the worst entry in the Jurassic Park / Jurassic World franchise. I was originally going to give this a 1 out of 10, but I decided to bump it to a 2 out of 10 just because just about every line out of Ian Malcom was hilarious. Also, Maisie got in a good moment as well when she gave Henry Wu the double bird that was so unexpected out of her.

What I really hated out of this movie was the endless political pushing with the "Now This" video that was needless and totally unnecessary. Also, the Air Force pilot should be written in as Ian Malcolm's daughter from The Lost World instead of this random woman who has no connection to the franchise.

I can only hope the extended cut of this is better than its regular theatrical cut.

I can't figure this movie out, as the writing in this was atrocious. Whoever the writers were on this project should be ashamed of themselves. I couldn't tell if Elisabeth Shue's character was gaslighting herself, was the victim of a demonic entity, or was just flat out certifiable.

Also, I would strongly recommend not watching this movie if you are an animal lover of any kind, as a dog gets poisoned rather quickly and a rather cute mouse is suffering in peril and agony on a mouse trap.

This movie was horrendous. Don't be fooled into watching this movie because it features two Christian conservatives in Dean Cain and Kristy Swanson, as you will disappointed. This movie is borderline filth, if not outright filth, as Dean Cain's new girlfriend in the movie is straight up trash and walks around in outfits that show tons of cleavage and flatter her body, as well as her "yoga" poses.

It wasn't a terrible movie, as I've seen a lot worse movies than this movie, but it wasn't a great movie. The cast was great and played their parts perfectly, including JT Walsh, John Lithgow and Richard Dreyfus all putting in great performances.

What really hurt this movie was the addition of adult voice actors for Tim, the autistic boy. It was contrite and just plain stupid, and that trait could've been cut out completely . The unneeded profanity really hurt the product as well, especially from Tim. And plus, the whole seduction with Liv Tyler's character hitting on Richard Dreyfus' character was just dumb, and really offered nothing to the plot whatsoever.

If that stuff would've been written out or tied up a little better, this film was almost great and maybe could've been a box office smash instead of a box office dud.

I really wanted to like this movie, but I just couldn't. Every single character was unlikeable, which is a shame as I liked Kristoffer Polaha in Where Hope Grows, Mykelti Williamson in Wildcats, and Mario Van Peebles was OK in Jaws: The Revenge. They were saddled with a movie that had no direction and a horrible soundtrack. Just a waste of talent and I'm thankful it didn't seem to kill any of their careers yet.

Now, I love Christian movies and inspirational movies, but this movie should have never seen the light of day, as Facing the Giants and Abel's Field were far better football movies that had a Christian message. Plus, Tim Tebow's presence in a completely unnecessary cameo is vomit inducing, as it showed the film couldn't stand on its own merit, so we might as well give Tebow a part to make people come see it.

This movie is a great movie, with a moving soundtrack. Sean Astin and Chris Mulkey play their parts perfectly, and actually made this movie entertaining, as they had such great chemistry and delivered their lines perfectly. This movie showed that a savior can come in an unusual form , as both characters were saved by somebody unlikely. Sean Astin's character was saved from killing himself by a pilot whose advice violates every rule in the handbook on to deal with suicide cases, and Chris Mulkey's character was saved by a suicidal guy who was dealing with the death of his dad and his mom's declining health. Really liked that aspect of the movie.

This movie was disappointing. The first two chapters were interesting, but it feel apart at the start of the third chapter, as it became something of a musical number that got annoying rather quickly. The audio in this movie was horrible, as it was hard to hear the characters speak clearly in large portions. I gave it a 5, just because some comedic bits I found myself laughing at, like the gas station and the part where this woman is breastfeeding her baby and because the logging scenes were well thought out.

This movie was horrendously awful in every facet. The best two actors were the mayor and the sheriff in my opinion, and even then, their performances weren't that great. The writing was just as bad, as the writers just had to magically save the disabled beekeeper from death somehow, even though she was stung hundreds of times when she flung her helmet off. The only funny parts was the horrible attempts at making a digital bee or a digital swarm.

We found this to watch on Amazon Prime Video to watch, and figured it wouldn't hurt to try it as it was supposed to be a faith movie and a thriller, two things we like. This movie definitely hit on the thriller aspect, as this movie is downright scary for how real the story is, in that this is happening all over the world, every second of every day with predators trying to seduce young children. The religious aspect, while present, didn't take the center stage, and I think that helped this movie a lot.

The infuriating parts are largely centered around Dawn's mother and Dawn herself, as well as Carrie. Dawn was far too young to have a cell phone, looking about 9-10 at the max, and far too young to be talking to boys on a cell phone about romantic interludes. And her mother, she says she's not a bad mother, but she was clearly a negligent one, who clearly should've known something was up when her kid all of a sudden seems to take an interest in soccer. Carrie irritated me a lot, as she claimed to be so concerned about Dawn, but when she goes to the place where the kidnapper and Dawn are at in the woods, her performance gets more and more painful to endure.

But this movie was a good movie, especially if you want to Michael Sigler outside of a Jason Campbell movie.

I highly recommend this movie. This movie will have you laughing and having a good time throughout most of it, as there is a lot of comedic elements throughout most of this movie. But in the end, you will be saddened and angered, as all the comedic elements go away and the mood changes quickly. Larry, the loudmouth drunk redneck you probably was laughing at the whole movie, is shown to be an evil man.

This movie is a good movie. It's worth buying a DVD or streaming it, as it's well put together. The acting is good, but isn't outstanding or worthy of any awards. The soundtrack is a great soundtrack, especially the music used for the opening credits. The story was well written, but I feel like this film has something of a Poltergeist 2 effect, in that it's too short and needed to be extended 105-120 minutes. But one of the biggest problems, and he played a good part, was Steve Buscemi's character needed more screen time.

This movie has several funny moments for a drama, and Ernest Borgnine shows he can still act at his age, putting in a great performance I feel should've won him an award. You will be crying at the end, as it's extremely bittersweet to see what happened to the farm in the end.

This movie was awful. I have no idea why this film became a cult classic, but I suggest strongly avoiding this one. The only good things about this movie are the "Oh Yeah" song, the famous "Bueller, Bueller, Bueller" scene and the scenes involving a Rottweiler chasing down Jeffrey Jones' character, Ed Rooney.

I watched this film tonight on Amazon Prime as it was included and I like clean movies and movies that feature dogs in them. I also thought the plot sounded good and it has some actors listed that I liked in previous films as well.

This film disappointed me entirely. The bad guys, played by Curtis Armstrong and Steve Guttenberg just seemed to be trying way too hard to be funny, and it ended up coming off as stupid. And the special effects or CGI that was used to simulate the swinging boulder trap was horrendously awful. It came across as a blurry mess. The audio was horrible as well. The only positive parts of this movie was the dog, Bosco. He was so cute.

If I Had Wings is deep, provocative, well-written, well acted and emotional. The story is moving, a blind teenager named Alex who wants to race for his high school cross country team, but needs a guide for the course and he is teamed up with a fellow student named Brad, who is a bad boy.

The moral lessons in this film are worth taking note and I will avoid going too deep into them, but loyalty is something I picked up on as one of the moral messages.

And the climatic scene is my favorite scene in the movie. Alex and Brad race their way to 2nd and 3rd and Brad sacrifices his race, actually quits the race, and gives Alex a boost to beat Tyson, the bully on the team, all the while being set to Ray Charles' So Help Me God. Just a moving scene that will leave you trying to hold back tears.