(As always, potential spoilers ahead)
Forgive the lateness of this review, but I've been having a rough weekend. Seeing The Equalizer didn't help. I don't really wanna do a full review (I'll explain why in the review) but I also wanted to touch upon a couple of things I've come across recently. But first, a Mini Review of The Equalizer.
Plot Summary - Robert McCall is a former black ops agent whose forced out of retirement after running afoul of the russian mob.
Pros - Denzel Washington is pretty good in this. I imagine this is as kind of what a solo movie of his character from Training Day might seem like.
Cons - It's a really thin plot that's stretched out way too long (2h 12m). I honestly think the guys who made this and the guy who made A Walk Among The Tombstones should've changed scripts cause both movies would've have been much better. Why? AWATT has secondary characters who don't get enough screen time, Equalizer has too many side characters with too much screen time. There's a really long sequence where he's visiting colleagues more near the end of the movie to try and figure out who the bad guys are. What could've been a five minute scene I think goes on for twenty minutes and it's pointless.
Final Score - 2/10
It's bad. Denzel Washington and what he does are the only good things about the film. Other than that it's a thin plot stretched out too long and that's never good.
So you can see why I didn't want to do a long review, there isn't much to talk about the film. Hence, why I wanted to do some news bits as well. First up:
http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-sequel-netflix-weinstein-co-1201316645/
Netflix and the Weinstein company are making a sequel to one of the greatest martial arts films of all time. Apparently production started last year and it even has a title: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - The Green Destiny.
And you know what? I'm actually happy with this. The weinsteins have a good track record and, even though I don't really watch tv shows, Netflix has been doing well with it's own series of shows, so why not tackle a movie? If they pull it off, imagine the kind of unique content we might get out of this. I said I don't like tv, but I did give Bojack Horseman a try and I actually really liked it, and everyone else seems to like OITNB and House of Cards, so why not films? Don't get me wrong, I still want to see the final result, but for now I'm going to be optimistic.
The other thing I wanted to talk about was this:
The new trailer for Taken 3, or Tak3n (I'm not going to write it like that again, my fingers almost went on strike) and even though I skipped the second one, I'm optimistic about this one. Why? Because nobody is actually going to be taken.
The first film didn't have the most original premise, but it was a pretty good movie for what it was. The mistake with the sequel though was the fact that they did pretty much the same thing that they did in the first one. They got lightning in a bottle and tried to do it again and got nothing good out of it. But the third one, if nothing else, will just be an awesome example of Liam Neeson kicking ass.
So there we go, again I apologize about the long wait for the review, but next week Gone Girl is coming out and I'm stoked for it, so expect a review of that. If you can't wait, check out some of my other posts on the side.
So until next time, I'll see you folks at the movies.
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