All of the five Ocean’s movies are caper movies – and the challenge with writing a caper movie is that you have to make whatever crime the group pulls off both plausible and understandable to the audience. This is not easy, because any detective or anyone with a keen eye can find flaws easily if all of the misdirection that goes into stealing something big – in this case a 150 million dollar necklace. I noticed a few things in this 2 hour caper that did not hold water but not enough to consider this a bad Ocean’s movie. Overall, this 5th installment seemed to be about as good as all the other ones I have seen but I have never seen the original 1960’s Ocean 11 movie starring Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.

The idea with Oceans 8 starring all women, like with the previous 3 Ocean’s movies starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt is to make a good enough first installment so it will spawn more sequels. The jury is out on this on if there will be enough interest to make new Ocean’s movies starring the same cast of women, lead by Sandra Bullock. One good sign is that the movie theater I was in was 100% filled.

I thought that Oceans 8 was a good movie, definitely not great and I do recommend it.

The Logline for “Hotel Artemis” is a very good and original idea. “Hotel Artemis is a paid for medical service and Hospital for criminals with rules and regulations”.

Unfortunately the only thing interesting and original about this movie is the Logline, not the screenplay and definitely not the movie. For me it was a struggle just to stay awake for the almost 2 hours of this pretty bad movie that was too long and too boring in way too many areas. The most interesting thing about this film is why a great actor like Sterling K, Brown of “This is Us” , Jeff Goldblum and Jodie Foster decided to make this film in the first place. In the case of Sterling K. Brown, who is trying to parlay his great TV role with movie roles, making this film was a mistake he cannot afford to make too many times. Didn’t anybody read the script?

There is nothing interesting here, just a series of criminals that have their different issues when they are arrive, fight or are treated at a hospital for criminals. Who cares? I sure didn’t.

This movie is simply a bad one and should be skipped and considered an opportunity of a good idea for a story – lost forever.

As as a movie that had a huge ending emotional impact, now some 36 years after its release – I cannot remember a movie greater than An Officer and a Gentleman” that had better lead up to an emotional ending. I remember seeing this great movie in July 1982 and after it was all over – I was amazed at how well the screenwriter and director captured the extreme highs and lows of the story during the last 30 minutes. The ending is a love story that all of us can see ourselves experiencing and the music made the whole conclusion even more emotionally overwhelming.

After all these years, I cannot think of a better movie that Richard Gere has ever been in, along with Debra Winger, but some would argue that “Terms of Endearment” in 1983 was her best role. It has been 36 years since An Officer and a Gentlemen” has been released and nothing like it has ever been produced since.

I highly recommend An Officer and A Gentleman.