‘Challengers’ Review
04/26/24 • 1 min
Rated R
Opens: April 26, 2024
Kevin says Challengers SUCKS!
The new film CHALLENGERS asks the question: Can tennis be sexy?
The answer – at least how it’s presented her – is a resounding NO... Unless you want to be visibly drenched in flop sweat from the actors on a 30-foot tall screen.
The story examines the relationship between three tennis phenoms over the course of thirteen years and their passion for each other and the game itself.
Alas, the characters are all shallow, despicable, and thoroughly unlikeable. But even worse, the film is plain boring. It doesn’t matter how much pulsing pop music you blast on the court.
Still boring.
The film’s success depends on how much of an actual movie star leading lady Zendaya is. It’s so desperate for this that the advertising implies some pretty intense moments.
Sorry guys. None of it actually pays off. We’re left with a feature-length version of a jewelry ad with attractive but utterly vapid people wandering in confusion.
Die hard tennis fans may like this, but it’s a double fault for me.
CHALLENGERS gets 1 1/2 tennis balls out of five. I’m Kevin Carr, and that’s the way I see it.
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Rated R
Opens: April 26, 2024
Kevin says Challengers SUCKS!
The new film CHALLENGERS asks the question: Can tennis be sexy?
The answer – at least how it’s presented her – is a resounding NO... Unless you want to be visibly drenched in flop sweat from the actors on a 30-foot tall screen.
The story examines the relationship between three tennis phenoms over the course of thirteen years and their passion for each other and the game itself.
Alas, the characters are all shallow, despicable, and thoroughly unlikeable. But even worse, the film is plain boring. It doesn’t matter how much pulsing pop music you blast on the court.
Still boring.
The film’s success depends on how much of an actual movie star leading lady Zendaya is. It’s so desperate for this that the advertising implies some pretty intense moments.
Sorry guys. None of it actually pays off. We’re left with a feature-length version of a jewelry ad with attractive but utterly vapid people wandering in confusion.
Die hard tennis fans may like this, but it’s a double fault for me.
CHALLENGERS gets 1 1/2 tennis balls out of five. I’m Kevin Carr, and that’s the way I see it.
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‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review
Rated R
Opens: April 19, 2024
Kevin says The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Kinda Rocks!
It’s another weekend, and another war movie is opening in theaters. But this one takes a more whimsical approach.
Guy Ritchie directs THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE, a somewhat true but greatly embellished story of a secret British plot during World War II.
Winston Churchill directs a rag-tag group of mercenaries to cripple Germany’s U-Boat capabilities. And along the way, a lot of Nazis get killed. I mean, A LOT.
Not since Quentin Tarantino’s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS has there been such a joyful display of Nazi grudge-killing, and I’m all for that. It’s what rockets this movie from a war film to an almost comic-book level of insanity. And its tongue-in-cheek attitude with a formidable cast makes it a lot of fun.
As expected from Ritchie, there’s plenty of action and punchy one-liners. He’s definitely back in his filmmaking element here.
Not to be taken too seriously as it revels in its own pulpiness, this is a silly film, but it’s still a great deal of fun.
THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE gets three and a half machine guns out of five. I’m Kevin Carr, and that’s the way I see it.
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‘The Fall Guy’ Review
Rated R
Opens: May 3, 2024
Kevin says The Fall Guy Kinda Sucks!
The latest adaptation of a TV series with few similarities to that series is THE FALL GUY.
If you loved the old Lee Majors show about a stunt man helping people on his days off, I have no idea if you’ll like this movie. ‘Cause they’re very different animals. I mean, this is a tongue-in-cheek action movie about a stuntman, but the similarities end there.
The film follows a retired stunt man brought back to work for his ex-lover-slash-director on a sci-fi epic blockbuster. He then has to track down the missing star of the movie.
Yeah, the stunts are fantastic. That’s to be expected. But it’s held together with the filmiest of scripts. It feels like one of those stunt show spectaculars performed at theme parks, with a story as an afterthought and ends up being simultaneously convoluted yet clichéd, and predictable yet baffling.
Stars Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt have chemistry and are fun with the comedy, but their characters at times don’t even seem necessary for the film. We are left with a slick-looking movie about making movies that appears to have no idea how movies are actually made.
THE FALL GUY gets two and a half thumbs up out of five. I’m Kevin Carr, and that’s the way I see it.
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