A police precinct is being stormed by a group of killers. We have seen this before. Lots of shooting and killing and explosions. We have seen this in every action movie. As far as I saw, the new movie “Copshop” is nothing new with the possible exception of actress Alexis Louder who steals this movie from Gerard Butler, who plays one of the criminals held in a cell at the precinct. The huge mystery here are the high 80% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, considering the movie is at best average with only a 6.6 on IMDB.
I thought the acting was OK, the ending was mostly predictable, but it was too boring in too many areas and nothing new. My rating is an anemic 50% and a pass on this one.
At age 91, its impossible to believe that Clint Eastwood is still not only directing, but acting in movies. Considering his age, and the number of movies he can potentially still make, it is equally as hard to believe that he would choose a script as bad as “Cry Macho” to both direct and act in. What was he thinking with this waste of 2 hours?
This story is stunningly boring – mostly from the middle 85% where amazingly it seems like absolutely nothing is happening. This movie reminds me of the recent Liam Neeson movie “The Marksman”, where a man is on the run with a Mexican boy trying avoid a group of people out to kill them. Unfortunately most of this movie is about the boy and Eastwood’s character hanging around a farm, having dinner. As far as The Marksman it is an OK movie where Cry Macho is so boring that I almost left the theater several times.
The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for Cry Macho are a very low 50% and my rating is in the 30% range ranking this film as a must miss. This film should be called Cry Boring.
“The Card Counter” is one of those movies that in my opinion is different weird, rather than different good.
The title is obvious enough, about a man who calls himself William Tell, played by actor Oscar Isaac as we follow his life that is entirely about playing cards. What is fascinating to most people is how anyone can do nothing but play cards for hours on end, and never get bored? Even when playing for money, most of us would dose off or fade into a coma while doing nothing more than playing cards all day. I thought the explanation of card counting was a good part of this story- due to the fascinating mathematics that is an extremely impressive achievement for whoever invented it. Other than that, there is no way I would recommend this strange story or understand why so many critics liked it.
The problem here is, the “lets be different and surprising at all costs” is what killed this entire film. I can only guess that because the great writer/director Paul Schrader is involved, most critics give this film an automatic thumbs up. My opinion is that this movie is too boring in too many areas, too strange and too hard to follow for those of us who fell into a coma about 50% through this extremely strange story.
The only high point is the acting of the lead, Oscar Isaac, along with Tiffany Haddish who showed she can also do some serious roles. Willem Defoe is also in this film, but its only a small role.
Due to the overkill of weirdness and a story that was too strange to like I do not recommend this movie, despite the high critical ratings on Rotten Tomatoes of 86%.
