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Movie Review: Fight or Flight

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The only obvious difference between the nonstop-seen-this-before action movie “Flight or Fight” is that all violent fights and action occur on a plane, with the additional insanity of a final fight scene that involves a chainsaw, even though there is no way a chainsaw would be allowed on a plane like this.

Fight or Flight stars Josh Hartnett as Lucas Reyes, an FBI agent on the bench, who is mostly sleeping and drunk in Thailand for two years, when he is called up to track down a criminal on a plane. About the time Reyes is about to board the flight, his team at the FBI realizes that just about everybody on the plane is a hired killer, setting the stage for nonstop fight and action scenes for the rest of the movie, without any regard to a coherent story.

The other issue with a movie like this is that with the beatings, stabbings, and shootings that Reyes takes during the many fight scenes, he would have died midway through this film. There is never any real reason to throw logic this far out the window, just to make an action movie.

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for Fight and Flight are a too high 77%, with my rating around 50% and a solid miss.

Movie Review: Trap

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The M. Night Shyamalan trend since “The Sixth Sense” (1999) and “Unbreakable” (2000) were released as great movies continue. After hitting his peak with these two movies from 25 years ago, Shyamalan has continued to make mediocre or bad movies ever since. His latest release “Trap” is not only a bad movie, it is amazingly stupid – and could be ranked as the dumbest movie ever made.

The main premise of “Trap” is probably inspired from the success of the recent and hugely popular Taylor Swift world tour, about a serial killer known as “The Butcher”, played by Josh Hartnett who is at a concert of a major female singing star with his daughter and the police know he is at this concert – so they set some kind of undefined trap to catch him. What follows is a series of stupid events, that make no sense. Towards the end of this disaster is a meeting between Cooper, played by Hartnett, and the singer Lady Raven, played by Saleka Shyamalan, the daughter of M. Night Shyamalan – where Raven is by herself talking to Cooper within an isle in this huge stadium and later in a separate room and inexplicably Raven’s entire security team is nowhere to be found. This is the star of a huge concert with over 20 thousand fans and her security team is not anywhere near her. How could such a glaring and obvious error get past the writer and director of this bad movie? What is Shyamalan thinking?

Cooper and Raven eventually wind up at his house with his wife and 2 kids and once again, her security team is nowhere around them. I could not believe that a director and screenwriter who once was as great as Shyamalan could fall this far. The level of illogical stupidity of this story is extremely hard to understand.

It was also hard to understand why Josh Harnett who is attempting a comeback as a movie actor would choose a movie this bad to make his return to movie acting. Hopefully, Hartnett can recover from this bad mistake.

The Rotten Tomatoes critics are way too high 48% with my rating of 10% and a run for your life miss this horrendous and very stupid mess of a film.

Movie Review: Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre

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The new film “Operation Fortune” is another one of those, “time and money have been spent developing a new script and story idea”. This time the script was written by director Guy Ritchie and two other screenwriters”. After over a year of trying to fix a bad screenplay and money lost developing a bad idea, we have to find a way to recoup our losses. The only way once again is to get named actors to take lead roles in a bad movie, to try and save the box office. This time around, the actors are, Jason Statham, Hugh Grant, Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, and even Josh Hartnett, who has had almost no movie career for many years. There is some very good logic to this strategy because there are definitely fans of Statham and Plaza (including me) who are curious and just might drop about 10 or 11 dollars on something that we know in advance is going to be pretty bad. This movie is in fact, pretty bad.

Starting with the story, which is all over the place, plays like a Bond knockoff, and worse, makes no sense. This film is just one scene, to another location, to another action scene, to another venue in a new country with no explanation or logic anywhere. What the hell is going on now, is the thinking any viewer would have while sitting through these depressing two hours.

Aubrey Plaza is funny in a few scenes, there are some typical Statham karate scenes, but not nearly enough.

This time around, the Rotten Tomatoes’ low ratings of about 54% are accurate and this one should be missed by everybody. The good news is that this movie will be out of most theaters in about a week.