Mini-Review: A Lifetime film about the horrors of sexting. You would think then, as a Christian film network for worrying mothers that the moral would be YOUR TEEN SEXTS AHHHHHH, STOP THEM, ALSO, THIS IS WHAT SEXTING IS BECAUSE YOU PROBABLY HAVE NO IDEA! But it isn't! (Well, it is, sort of) it's a well meaning film, but it's so laughably unrealistic and righteous the moral message just melts away.
Mini-Review: "hey, you remember this guy from the book yeah? Good, then we don't need to explain who he is"
The dragon should have been voiced by a Sassy Black Woman
Mini-Review: I love this film so much. I love the jokes in it, I love the little hints of Christmas songs in the dramatic score, I love the way over the top moment when Al shoots someone. Everything about it is wonderful. This is a terrible review but I don't care.
My favourite action film of all time
Mini-Review: Of the Christian Apocalypse films that exist, this is a decent one. I say that as a film: it's average with some reasonable action and a many-threaded, mostly irrelevant plot. But as a means of conversion it makes some valiant attempts to connect with godless atheists by targeting conspiracy theorists and those in an existentialist crisis, though when it compares the failure of Nostradamus to the accuracy of the prophecies in revelation it disappears up its own rhetoric and I start laughing
Mini-Review: A film ostensibly created to develop the 6 characters personality. Alvin does some growing up. Simon gets less awkward. Theodore, Elanore and Jeanette do nothing and Britney may as well not even exist, she neither had a personality at the start nor does it amount to anything at the end. For all the character development done it is undone in the epilogue making the whole thing pointless. It rips off Castaway, the Double Rainbow meme and, inappropriately, the Honey Badger don't give a shit meme.
Mini-Review: Effortlessly watchable. All the good things that have been said about this film are true and I shall not repeat them. Instead I will do what I do best and nitpick, specifically about the magical transit papers. Everyone knew they existed, everyone knew they were stolen and everyone knew they were in Casablanca. Everyone knew someone would try to use them but if you did - welp, I guess that's your ticket out of here! Nothing we can do to stop you despite us knowing exactly where they came from!
Mini-Review: Reviewing this film as "Extremely Long and Incredibly Boring" is exactly as poor as this film is. Nothing screams Oscar bait like an autistic kid and 9/11. Even the kid is called Oscar, I mean come on.
Mini-Review: Pretty enjoyable but I felt it started to get a little silly towards the end as it started to lose the plot (so to speak). There was an air of joviality throughout as if it were occasionally glancing at the audience and saying "hey, lighten up - we're having some fun here!"
Simon Pegg however, needs to shake off his typecast supporting role as a nerdy manchild who makes the occasional wisecrack because it's starting to irritate me.
Mini-Review: A film that insults the intelligence of the people it is aimed at, carelessly ignoring the rules of its own universe just to shoehorn in some jokes and tropes and then never confronting the problems they create. Also trying to make Easter the same as Christmas (The Easter Bunny delivers eggs to all the boys and girls in the world in one night, on an egg shaped sleigh, with magic flying baby chicks) just shows what lack of imagination the script writers had.
Mini-Review: Not a mindless but enjoyable action film, a mindless and tediously dull action film. The two characters that are anything more than cardboard cut-outs are so poorly developed that instead of adding depth as intended they are stretched wide and thin making them transparent. Explosions, guns, cars, sexy women and hulking men aplenty, but it's just not worth the stimulation of your adrenal gland when your frontal cortex shuts down out of boredom.