Category: Critique

Steven Spielberg came up with the story of Disclosure Day, perhaps, after watching an X-Files episode. He needed to tell this tale to save humanity from itself. The underlying message is that we are all along for the ride so why don’t we act better towards each other. Yes. Agreed. I doubt you’ll get through to the audience. Okay, boomer…

I guess it’s alright. It’s been a while since I have seen a Spielberg film. I haven’t seen his last few films. So I was ready for seeing the master at the twilight of his career. Does he still have it in him?

I am not going to doubt Spielberg, but the film was a bit cliched. The two factions of a shadow government group who want to keep alien contact secret. One faction has decided to expose it all. The other trying to stop it at all costs. Caught between are two people who were abducted as youths and who were imbued with the power to communicate with the aliens. They were being recruited by the faction who want to expose it.

It could’ve been better.

3 of 5 stars.

Wuthering Heights movie opened on Valentine’s Day 2026. It was marketed as a romance. This movie ended in tragedy. Then I read the Wikipedia page and the book actually is even more tragic and awful than this movie.

Awful is the key word here. I didn’t enjoy it one bit. There’s no romance at all. There’s no predestined love. It is a story that just makes you cringe. The movie did as well.

One thing about it was the staging. Very much trying to be flashy and stylized. It turned out rather gimmicky.

I don’t think I was the target audience.

2 of 5 stars.

Superman is the first of DC’s answer to the Marvel’s MCU. I guess it was good. I mean it beats out the Snyder-verse version just because it’s not as serious and grey. It was earnest, approached its world-building with purpose, thoughtful to a fault, and fine entertainment.

Earnest as superman. Closely reminds one of Christopher Reeve’s version. Innocent but interesting.

It’s the start of the DC cinematic universe. Although, I believe the audience is already sick and tired of super heroes. Its a start which is always interesting.

Overall, watching it was exciting, but I’m already not ready for anymore superhero films.

3 of 5 stars.

Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning is the culmination and summation of the Mission Impossible franchise of the last thirty years. Thirty years?!?

It has been going on that long. The way this one dragged a bit let’s hope it is truly the final.

The story picks up from the last one — in the hunt for the Entity. Except it feels disjointed. The last had us finish with Ethan Hunt in the wild. This one starts immediate and slow. It takes a bit to get going. And why is every mission have to be stressful? Why can’t it be quick and simple? No rolling nukes!

Anyhow, watch it for the ending.

3 of 5 stars.

God damn Love Hurts isn’t good. It’s serviceable, but you’ll immediately see the flaws. It’s a bite on John Wick except people are in love and there is no dog. It opens in a world that the story has already been going for the last few years, and we’re expected to pick up the finale. If it was better, I am sure it would be a franchise just like John Wick.

I’m sad that this is Ke Huy Quan’s first leading man role. He’s deserving of an action film so much better. I want him to do the action In the Mood for Love. Let this man cook.

Anyhow, it wasn’t very good.

2 of 5

I should’ve enjoyed Paddington in Peru more considering the previous entries in the series were solid fare. Unfortunately, Paddington in Peru missed it’s mark with me. Maybe it was the replacement of Sally Hawkins’s mother with Emily Mortimer that felt off. Perhaps it was the weird final act reveal of the true villain that felt out of place. Anyway, I didn’t fall for it as I had for the previous two. I guess I went in with high hopes for another movie to charm my pants off, but came away disappointed.

3 of 5 stars.