There are many tell-tale signs that you’re in a theater watching a bad movie. People are constantly getting up to go to the bathroom, or to buy food to distract themselves. In my case I was happy I have my cell phone to look at something – or anything other than this 2 hours and 20 minutes of what amounts to a mess. Its obvious that in the end all of the DC Comic and Marvel super hero’s will eventually be made into a movie – but this is the worst super hero movie I have seen yet. There is a disconnected convoluted story and once again, when there is no good screenplay, the workaround is huge special effects, fight scenes and explosions. What is worse is that this bad movie is way too long, well over 2 hours. Why drag on a bad movie? Give the audience a break before there is a mass rush for the exits. This bad film seems to be making money, only because its a new Super Hero Comic movie, so unfortunately there will probably be a sequel.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for Aquaman are an average 64% – way too high in my opinion. I would have given this movie about a 10% rating. This movie stars Jason Momoa, Amber Heard and even Nicole Kidman, who makes appearances in the beginning and end of this film. The question I asked myself when I saw Kidman in this movie was, why?

Run from this worst ever Comic Super Hero movie, its not worth 1 hour of your time, much less almost 2 1/2 hours.

The problem with the new movie “Second Act” starring Jennifer Lopez as Maya who an unmarried woman is the entire premise. A high school dropout wants to go up in the world and tries to get past the barriers of previous work experience and a college education by posting on Facebook with lies about her past jobs and even her degree from Wharton School of Business. Then, the audience is expected to believe that a huge cosmetics company that hires Maya is not going to check and recheck and verify every single thing that Maya has on her resume and posted on Facebook.

There is one scene where a relative intercepts a call from the company when they try to call Wharton – that is absolutely ridiculous and could never happen. The twist in the middle of this pretty bad movie is also very far fetched and for the most part does not work. Just about all of Jennifer Lopez movies all seem the same, so I suspect that the script for this movie was laying around somewhere and someone said – “Lets use Lopez for this one.” I also thought that one scene where a number of flying pigeons were killed when the flew into a truck was in extremely bad taste.

Unfortunately nobody read this script enough to know that the entire story is pretty bad. There is some chemistry between Lopez and her real life best friend Leah Remini, but other than that, the entire concept of this screenplay is so bad that its hard to believe and anyone decided it was good enough to green-light.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for this movie are a low 42% and I would give this at most a 30% – and recommend that this movie is skipped.

The opioid crisis has understandably been responsible for two recent movies, the first is “Beautiful Boy” starring Steve Carrell and now “Ben is Back” with Julia Roberts. The message within both of these movies is the same: the pain drug addicts cause other people in their family is very often as great or greater than the pain they cause themselves. When you are desperately trying to rescue someone from themselves and they just continue on the same path, what can you do? Ultimately the responsibility for changing a disastrous human life is up to the person whose life is a disaster and no amount of hope, pleading, begging, paying for extremely expensive rehab, from anyone else is going to rescue any person from self destruction.

I thought the title of this film, “Ben is Back” is a bad one considering the dire subject matter but the acting from both Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges was outstanding. Ben is Back was both written and directed by Lucas Hedges father, Peter Hedges. Its been an amazing run for Lucas Hedges who is bound to receive and academy award nomination for this movie along with Julia Roberts, although I thought this movie was too weak in too many areas for her to win. The problem with this movie is after a very strong start, eventually degrades into a search mission to find a dog that was stolen from their house by some very dangerous drug pushers. I was surprised at this simplistic direction, considering how severe and complex the drug addiction problem has become in this country. Despite all of this, I do give Ben is Back a solid recommendation.