The Movie Addict

I have been looking forward to this film for over a year. Ever since I heard about it I knew I wanted to see it and my main worry going into the screening was similar to the worry I had when I went to see 'Last Night in Soho' was whether it would live up to my expectations. Like 'Last Night in Soho' I am relieved to say that those worries were unfounded. Oppenheimer is a brilliant film and probably my favourite Nolan film since 'Insomnia' (I have to state that I haven't seem 'Memento').  The film follows Oppenheimer (played superbly by Cillian Murphy) as he helps create the atomic bomb but in a way the film is actually about the complexities of Oppenheimer. How his relationship with women wasnt normal and how he was basically picked on by the U.S government because he may have been a communist even though the film shows that he may have liked the ideas of the communist party he wasnt a member of the party even though everyone around him seems to have...

The first Mission: Impossible film in 5 years starts off a two part adventure which sees Ethan Hunt (and team) try and get a key to destroy an AI force known as 'The Entity'. This first part is basically going to try and get the two parts of the key and that is essentially the single plot of the movie which I don't mind because it keeps things simple and allows the action to take centre stage and that's why we pay to see these films.  Like other MI films, this film has settings all over the world and makes the story feel a lot more epic and important. The chase scene in Rome was very much (as all the action scenes are) but I was reminded of the chase in Indiana Jones 5 and how tame and dare I say it....dull it seems in comparison to this. All the action scenes are very well done and even the exposition scenes in between were done in such a way that were entertaining.  Tom Cruise is the king of these films and possibly even the action genre. He might be in his 60's b...

Let’s be honest, the Insidious series isn’t the greatest in movie history. The first one was ok, the second was not great and I don’t even remember the third one with the fourth one being interesting but only because it featured Lin Shayne in the lead role. This one returns to the main family with Patrick Wilson taking the helm behind the camera. The set up is that Dalton is off to college but his suppressed memories start to come back and his relationship with his dad Josh (Wilson) is somewhat strained. The first half of the film is very boring. There was very little in the way of plot and it seemed like people moping around and Dalton being a dick to his dad and his dad not really sure what he should be doing. Once the plot does get going things get good but it takes a long time to get to this stage and not even jump scares make any difference. There is one jump scare that I thought was quite good and it was when Dalton was in the MRI scanner and the monster climbs towards him.  ...

It’s been about 12 years since i saw my last Transformers movie. I saw the first in 2007 and enjoyed it, the second one was such a depressing experience that I went home and watched the animated 1986 movie to remind myself what a good  Transformers movie was like, I watched the next one but gave up on the series because it became clear that Michael Bay was a hack director who was ruining the series. So because I knew Unicron was the baddie in this film, I thought that I would give the series another go. The first thing I noticed about this film was that the plot was much better than the Michael Bay films. There was a bit too much establishing how tough things were for Noah and his family but I understand that they have to set the character up so that we cared but I personally could have done without that. Noah is a good character who is played well by Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback is always good and whilst this isnt the best performance she has given, I thought she was very ...

Indiana Jones is a series that is much loved. Personally I think that Last Crusade is the best one of the original trilogy but i could accept peoples argument for the others being their favourite. The film sees Indy travelling with his god-daughter played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and get two pieces of a dial which Mads Mikkelsen’s Dr Juergen Voller is trying to get so he can go back in time to change the outcome of the Second World War. Harrison Ford is as good as ever as Indy although the de-aging was slightly off pointing. It’s not that he didn’t look like 1980’s Indy but he didn't sound like 1980’s Indy so there was a mish-mash of two Indy’s which at first was off putting. The main problem with the film is that Helena Shaw is clearing being set up as the new lead but she is so unlikeable that no one would really care about her. She actually admits that she is only looking for the dial because she wants the fame. This is what they want their strong female lead’s motivation to be. ...