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Movie Review: How to Make a Killing

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It is never a good sign for a new movie release when a key fact on the poster does not match the movie. The main character, Becket Redfellow, can inherit 18 Billion Dollars (from the movie), not 28 Billion Dollars (from the movie poster). From ChatGPT, this could be about movie marketing, but for me, this looks like a glaring error right from the start.

After one of the women in a wealthy family marries the wrong man, whom she later divorces after having a son, she is barred from having anything to do with the family or their money. What doesn’t make much sense in the movie’s main premise is how her son could have any claim to the 18 billion dollar family fortune after she was banned from the family, and later dies. Why would her son somehow be able to kill the seven relatives in the family who are the remaining heirs, and then be somehow unbanned from the family because he is the only remaining relative? It also does not appear that the son or his mother are the kind of people who would consider mass murder for money. Why would anyone think they could kill seven people in a row and get away with it? From the start, this logline or movie concept should never have been greenlighted.

“How to Make a Killing” stars Glen Powell as Becket Redfellow, Margaret Qualley as Julia who is a former insane girlfriend of Becket, Jessica Henwick who plays the love interest in Becket and Ed Harris as Whitelaw Redfellow, who is the head of the family and the subject of a hunting rifle and bow and arrow scene with Becket at the end of the film – one of the few impressive scenes in this below average movie. Unfortunately, this movie does not work on several levels, including the rare attempts at humor or irony.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings are a correct and very low 48%, and I agree with this rating and do not recommend this film.

Movie Review: Solo Mio

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According to ChatGPT, of the two million plus marriages in the United States per year, around 50,000 of them end in a last-minute or left at the altar, resulting in devastation for the person left waiting for their partner who never arrives. The most well known left at the alter celebrity instance of this was when Julia Roberts left Kiefer Sutherland as the alter in 1991.

The new movie “Solo Mio” is about a man, Matt Taylor, played by Kevin James, who is in Tuscany, Italy, about to be married, and is left standing at the Church altar. The rest of this movie is about Matt’s inability to get his money back for the huge cost of the planned Hotel and honeymoon in Italy, and being surrounded by other married couples to try to help him get over the worst day in his life. The screenplay for this film is surprisingly simple and mostly mundane, with some minor humor and an ending twist that I found very well done, and impossible to predict – essentially saving this movie into one that is more memorable.

The Rotten Tomatoes for this average January movie is a too high 77% with my rating around 70% and a very marginal recomendation.

Movie Review: Anaconda

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The new movie “Anaconda” is not a remake of the 1997 movie “Anaconda” that starred Jennifer Lopez, John Voight, and Ice Cube. This new version is about four people who are friends, who decide to make a “reboot” of the movie Anaconda, which means that this is a movie about making another movie that was released 28 years ago. There is no doubt that this is a new idea for a screenplay, but unfortunately, it is so idiotic, unfunny, and stupid that there is no way this film should have been greenlit and financed for $45 million dollars.

The most amazing thing about this bad movie is why Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Steve Zahn, and Thandiwe Newton could have read this script, agreed to fly to Australia for months of hardship to make a movie that is this so obviously bad. This film is supposed to be a parody or comedy of the original Anaconda movie, but there was not one laugh in the audience I was in, and almost no moment that was even slightly amusing. Ironically, the movie that was worse than this movie was the film the characters were trying to make inside of this idiotic mess. Then during this story, the four friends run into another production crew also trying to make another reboot of Anaconda. What level of drug use is required to think of this many bad ideas for one film?

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for this bad movie is only 50%, with my rating 10% and a recommendation to “whatever you do, miss this disaster of movie making at all costs”.