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Reagan Gavin Rasquinha's Film Reviews
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Save some potty jokes, the plot is essentially a vehicle for a bunch of sight gags and situational comedy all strung together. Carrey is a natural – he often sounds like he’s ad-libbing and Turner’s dour one-liners delivered in her nicotine-roasted voice is genuinely funny. The jokes are definitely ‘dumb’ (and therefore, it works in this film’s context), but with a movie title that literally proclaims the same out loud, what can you expect?
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The movie’s climax in is a bit drawn out but all said and done, Washington and Csokas are thoroughly convincing and if you’re an action junkie, you’ll surely get your money’s worth.
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…the visuals are elaborate and that makes it watchable. However, there’s a lot more that Gans could have done with this revered and traditional fairytale.
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There is not a wasted second in Wick’s relentless and efficient pursuit of his wrongdoers. This revenge film looks slick, stylish and despite its camp story line, keeps you engrossed throughout with a strong impact. John Wick is a raucous romp of a movie and offers you no-holds-barred action all the way.
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Definitely a delightful film with its heart in the right place.
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The terminologies and mathematical formulae might confound some, but you will nonetheless be dazzled. Subtexts abound: the individual vs. the good of mankind, love’s overarching influence over time and space and so on.
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Fury is unflinching in its depiction of war from the get-go to the point of being unsettling. As unrelenting as the iron tracks of a tank crushing everything in its path, it is indeed a juggernaut of action – tank against tank and tank against artillery. It is also surprisingly sophisticated in terms of the drama and interplay between all of the characters. Largely devoid of jingoism, not since Saving Private Ryan has there been a World War II film that looks so convincingly ‘real’.
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…this is essentially Evans’s vehicle. His version of Dracula is action-oriented rather than horrifying and creepy. And keeping that in mind, he manages, in most parts, to get his teeth into the substance of Count Dracula’s legend convincingly enough.
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Delightful but somewhat un-memorable, the energy of the film lies in the push-pull conflict between the two protagonists handled deftly by Radcliffe and Kazan – the whole question of love that cannot be…and hoping against all odds that it can.
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The Judge is a great example of meticulously-crafted character portrayals and a film that carefully builds up each of the main characters over the course of its duration.