After seeing the pretty bad movie, “The 15:17 To Paris” , you just had to wonder what the hell Clint Eastwood was thinking when he bought the rights to this story. The entire problem with this film is so obvious. There is not nearly enough story to tell. The Terrorist incident on a train on August 21, 2015 in Paris took about 5 minutes from beginning to completion and because of this, Eastwood and the screenwriter had to fill in about 98% of the story with the childhood of the 3 men who were heroes on the train and towards the end, this even included what seemed like home movies about their trip to Europe.

The other bad decision here is casting the actual 3 men who prevented the terrorist attack as the actual actors in the movie. The difference between watching and actor and a person who has never acted at times can be barely noticed but the 2% you do notice over a 2 hour movie really comes through in a big way.

The ratings for this movie on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes are 5.4 and 20% respectively and these numbers are well deserved. Without a doubt this is the worst movie that Clint Eastwood has ever directed and in hindsight because the story was so short, this film never should have been made. Instead, Eastwood should have shot a documentary about this story, which would have been a far better idea.

This is one movie about Terrorism that should be missed.

What should now happen after the 3 very bad 50 Shade movies are now forever done is create a documentary that attempts to figure out why 3 books about a very boring story and then 3 movies have become such a world wide phenomenon. None of this makes any sense. Creating a bad adapted screenplay about a relationship mostly based on S&M and mix that in with a bad TV movie, with a mostly stupid boring story. Why is this so popular? I saw this 3rd and last installment for the blog and I was embarrassed to walk into the theater. How do we explain the millions of dollars these movies have made?

It has to be the worst book series that spawned the worst 3 movie franchise of all time. Now the remaining mystery will be to find out if the two stars of these movies, who signed their lives away when they agreed to make 3 pretty bad movies, will now have any acting career in the future. I think that Dakota Johnson will make more movies, but her co-star Jamie Dornan, may have seen his last major movie role.

This movie should be missed, even by people who are big fans of the 3 books.

Only because of the fact that “Call me by Your Name” along with “The Shape of Water” are both nominated for best picture this year and the ratings for this movie are incredibly in the high 90’s on rotten-tomatoes, I decided to see this film. For the life of me, I cannot understand why anyone likes this boring, overly long story about a man in his early 30’s and a young boy in his teens – who are trying to decide if they are gay – was ever made into a movie – much less liked by anyone. There is no real story here, just a series of boring scenes in an old town in Italy and I could not wait until it was all over and in the end, after about 2 hours I had to leave early because I just could not stand the whole bad experience.

Considering that 9 movies are nominated now for the Academy Awards and a great movie like “Molly’s Game” was not even nominated and this one was, tells me that there is something very wrong with the voting process for the Academy Awards. As far as the performances, by Armie Hammer who is not gay and the other actor – they were OK but the agony of sitting through this mess was so bad I didn’t even notice. There was also way too much smoking in this movie, even considering that it was set in the year 1983. The sexual scenes were done tastefully, with the exception of one disgusting scene involving a peach that I thought was in very poor taste.

This is one of the worst movies I have seen for a while, and one of the rare times I have walked out of a film before it was over. Do yourself a favor and miss this very bad waste of 2 hours.