Author: broderic

When the magic in your movie about thieving magicians isn’t so special, you have a problem. Now You See Me‘s magic wasn’t so special. That is one of many problems with the movie and its most glaring. The big reveal wasn’t so big because you were expecting something. The red herring was too much to believe they kind of threw it in just to make the big reveal bigger, but you already new it was coming.

Anyhow, the film is a good popcorn movie. You’ll enjoy it for what it is, but afterwards you’ll forget about it until you catch it on USA network in 2 years.

The magic could’ve been more interesting.

3 of 5 stars.

Star Trek Into Darkness is Joss Whedon making action adventure rather than science fiction turning the Star Trek franchise into a bombastic summer blockbuster. Now there is nothing wrong with any of the action in the film, but I would’ve just loved to see some logic.

Logic like a Vulcan. Not like a Vulcan going into a volcano. What? Why can’t they just beam the bomb down? Or why doesn’t the Enterprise just do this all from space? Hunh? Submariner? Doesn’t make any sense if it was a science fiction but it’s an action flick.

We do get a lot of action. Good clean fun.

But it’s Kahn all over again. Is this what we want from our Star Trek franchise?

3 of 5 stars.