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http://www.axs.com/movie-review-arrival-lands-just-in-time-for-awards-season-109774 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
There is a big problem in the Marvel Universe, and I'm not talking about the latest clash that pits many of the Avengers against one another. In Captain America: Civil War (opening today) the building friction between two of the top Avengers - Captain America (Chris Evans) and Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) - finally comes to a head, but this is more than a civil war...it's another over-stuffed comic book movie that is more interested in setting up future chapters than it is in telling an exciting, cohesive story. Because for all of the panache and energy that this film has - and it has it's fair share of both - Captain America: Civil War ends up just being a loud, hollow excuse to throw several of our favorite super-heroes - old and new - on the screen at the same time. It succeeds in being excessive, but wouldn't it be great if it felt important? Rating: 2 out of 5 starsGenre: Adventure, Science Fiction
Run Time: 2 hours, 17 minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Dormer, Elizabeth Banks, Gwendoline Christie, Liam Hemsworth, Jena Malone, Julianne Moore, Josh Hutcherson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Donald Sutherland, Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson Directed by Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Water for Elephants, I am Legend, Constantine) Meet The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (opening today), the two-plus-hour film that really should have been released as just one movie, following last year's stupid-slow money-grab, Mockingjay Part 1. This is the fourth and final film in the series, bringing the once-promising franchise to a close. And while it has a rabid built-in audience and is sure to be a bona fide box-office hit, the ending, for me, couldn't have come soon enough. Rating: 4 out of 5 starsGenre: Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction
Run Time: 2 hours, 21 minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Pena, Sean Bean, Kate Mara, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sebastian Stan Based on the book by Andy Weir Written by Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, World War Z, Cloverfield) Directed by Ridley Scott (Exodus: Gods and Kings, Prometheus, American Gangster, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, Thelma & Louise, Blade Runner, Alien) For as long as we've known about its existence, mankind has dreamed about what life would be like on Mars. In The Martian (opening today), we finally get to find out. Rating: 1 out of 5 starsGenre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Run Time: 1 hour, 57 minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Canavale, Anthony Mackie, Judy Greer, Michael Pena Directed by Peyton Reed (Yes Man, The Break-Up, Down with Love, Bring It On) Marvel has a big problem. Its formula for success has been beaten and bashed more than one of its second-rate villains featured in any number of its recent movies. And although Chris Pratt breathed some new life into series with last year's Guardians of the Galaxy, every other entry in the "Phase 2" of Marvel films (that's every film since 2012's The Avengers) has left a lot to be desired, as the film franchise has begun to show major signs of creative fatigue. Enter Ant-Man (now in theaters), the latest chapter in the canon to suffer from the growing condition I like to call Marvel-itis. Symptoms include reluctant heroes, goofy side-kicks, lame villains and a need to try to create direct carbon copies of other, better films that have come before. Sadly, we are not helping the cure by flooding theaters every time a new chapter is unveiled. In fact, we may be the root cause as to why these films may never find a cure. Rating: 5 out of 5 starsGenre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Run Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes, Rated PG-13 Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Irrfan Khan, Jake Johnson, BD Wong Directed by Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed) The creators of Jurassic World (opening everywhere Friday), want you to forget about the past two Jurassic installments. It has been 22 years since the ground-breaking, box-office shattering Jurassic Park, and 14 years since the previous film, Jurassic Park III (sandwiched in the middle of these was the 1997 sequel, The Lost World). Surely, there is no evidence that either of the last two films existed according to Jurassic World, where we had last seen a flock of pteranodon flying off the coast of Isla Nublar, the island near Costa Rica that was home of the original Jurassic Park. The implication was that we had unleashed dinosaurs into the wild. But forget about all that...this fourth installment feels much more like a direct sequel to the first film. And if you can get past the idea that the last two never happened, Jurassic World will be more than satisfying. In many ways, the true brilliance of this new chapter is that it provokes the same sense of excitement that the original film did. It is a wondrous Summer blockbuster, the sort of film that you hope for every time you buy a ticket and the kind of film that makes you love going to the movies. |
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