The most impressive thing about the new film “The Last Full Measure” is the unusually large number of named actors that are in this above average war story. Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Plummer, Bradley Whitford, William Hurt, Diane Ladd, Amy Madigan, John Savage, Sebastian Stan and the late Peter Fonda in his last movie role. The acting is also outstanding from all of the named actors, especially William Hurt. The Last Full Measure reminds all of us that very often the worst thing about war is the psychological damage it does to so many millions of people, long after the war is over.

The subject of this war story, is mostly told through flashbacks of one of the most bloody battles of the Vietnam war –  Operation Abilene. Air force medic  William H. Pitsenbarger saved over 60 men during this battle and entirely because of military politics, his congressional medal of honor was taken away after he was killed during this battle. Considering the extraordinary heroism of Pitsenbarger, saving 60 lives during one of the worst battles of the Vietnam War, it is a tragedy that politics prevented him being honored for so many years. I thought it was also interesting to find out that out of the almost 3500 Congressional Medals awarded, only 18 are with the Air Force and only 3 of those were enlisted men. One of those went to Pitsenbarger.

The problem with this movie are the large amounts of time devoted to Pentagon employee Scott Huffman interviewing the many witnesses to Operation Abilene, which makes this movie unnecessarily slow in too many places and does account to the relatively low 60% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. I agree with mostly low ratings and despite the very good acting and well shot war scenes I cannot recommend this film.

The new Tyler Perry Netflix movie, “A Fall from Grace” tries very hard to not only be different, but to also provide the most unexpected ending ever produced in any film. Unfortunately the price for creating a story so different that shocks the audience, the ending is one of the most absurd and insulting that I have ever seen in all my years of as an avid movie goer. A great example of an unexpected and shocking ending to a movie is “The Sixth Sense” that was released in 1999. There was nothing far fetched or ridiculous about the ending of the Sixth Sense. As a viewer, you never felt cheated or insulted by this conclusion, because in the end, the story fit together perfectly and ultimately it all made sense.

There is no way to give more detail about the ending of this ridiculous movie, that was both written and directed by Tyler Perry, without giving away too much information. In short, this film has to be seen to be believed. A Fall from Grace was shot in 5 days and I wonder how long it took Perry to write this script. It is always a great ambition to be different, and cover new ground with any new production – but when this insults the intelligence of the audience, enough said.

I agree with the very low 36% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes for this film and recommend it only for those who are curious to see how insane the ending is.

How a movie as bad as”Like a Boss” gets made in Hollywood can only be explained by collaborative favors and named actors more interested in staying active and “current” in their profession. There is no way that Tiffany Haddish, Salma Hayek or Rose Byrne could have read the script for this movie, and then all agreed to make it, because it was funny or had any level of quality.

There is a scene where Haddish’s character eats hot peppers, and then drinks goats milk, only to spit it up all over one of her friends. This was not funny. Haddish also dangles off of a banner, many stories high inside the atrium of a building and almost falls to her death. This was also not funny. This entire story is about two very close friends, played by Byrne and Haddish who are tricked by a very rich owner of a makeup company into selling away their failing company that is 500 thousand dollars in debt. There was nothing funny or even remotely entertaining about this part of the story. The only good thing about this entire movie is that it was a relatively short 83 minutes, sparing the audience another 40 minutes of this horrendous waste of time.

There are actors in the movie business who refuse to ever act in any low quality project, realizing that quality is always more important than money. The majority of other actors have to constantly make movies, either because they are not financially independent enough to turn down the bad roles or are afraid that if they wait for something good or great, it may never happen. If they wait too long, they are afraid that producers will forget about them, so they agree to act in whatever is thrown their way, regardless of how bad it is.

One has to admire Tiffany Haddish because of the long and incredibly hard road she lived through to get where she is now. Her hard life trek included being homeless and even living in a very small GEO Metro car for a long period of time. However at some point, making too many bad movies might completely ruin her career in the movie business, even before it really begins. Haddish is a good comedic actress, but she has yet to make a comedy movie that is worthy of her talents.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for Like a Boss are an accurate 20% and I agree with this rating and do not recommend this film.