Start a war with everyone

DEA conspires a civil war between two Mexican drug cartels only to find out they have an outraging bodycount and one kidnapped girl in their hands. The first Sicario still fresh in mind, losing magical director (Denis Villeneuve) and brilliant contradictive character Kate Macer (Emily Blunt), Sicario 2: Soldado does alright, proper action and thrills, but still somewhat focuses on the wrong things.

Land of the wolves

Picked up Sicario because its successor is on line in few weeks time. DEA, CIA and FBI have to work with another evil to get to and annihilate the other. I hope the follow-up is anywhere near as cool brutal shit as this one.

Humans deliberately malfunction

Quadriplegic Grey Trace gets an oppurtunity to avenge his wife's murder. He's implanted an illegal microship so he can walk and operate again, but little did they know that the super chip has a mind of its own and, at best, can break all hell loose. Wonderfully refreshing - even funny - scifi crime noir.

Living in the past is dying in present

Every May for 30 years a group of men have played a game of tag because playing keeps them young and literally untouchable Jerry is a resilient little devil that no one has ever caught. Perfect example of the decline of western humour.

Crushing through the bones

There's a secret world beneath the Mariana Trench and it's the kingdom of the great super shark species called megalodon. People tresspass their privacy and they are out to get a revenge. Too bad the massive prehistoric killing machines are just supporting actors because the people spew out ridiculous clichés like there was no tomorrow.

Blissful ignorance

Had there not been the 1973 Papillon film with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, this (with Charlie Hunnan and Rami Malek) would have been more than alright. I just can't get away from comparing between these two and, frankly, there's no way whatsoever the new one stands the comparison. Somehow I'm still glad they did it, it was interesting to see it, a decent enough an attempt.

Relentless purple butterflies

Mom acts against all logic when her son is kidnapped. Actually everyone else is oblivious to the heinous crime taking place even though the mom and kidnappers leave a high-speed car chase, couple of car crashes and one dead cop on a busy highway behind. The only thing more annoying is Halle Berry's character who constantly speaks to herself. It's an often occurring 'mistake', it only reveals that the filmmakers fail to deliver an option how to keep viewers up to date with the story.

Be kind for everyone's fighting hard battle

Auggie ain't quite an elephant man but he has facial differences enough to get bullied and ridiculed at school. Basically, it's the same story that has been told a thousand times, but the rollercoaster of emotions hits its mark, so much so that I truly wished it hadn't an unhappy ending.

The souls of men

The cover of the DVD has Ethan Hawke wielding a gun and it also says 'from the producer of John Wick.' Didn't bother reading the synopsis on the back cover. Hawke's character is a semi-retired super agent who dies, is temporarily fixed and has only 24 hours to live but a few hundred people to kill. That's exactly the sort of shit you expect from the producer of John Wick, if bullets are fired from left to right, there's no need for anything profound. And if you add enough useless flashbacks, there's enough to go by and call it a full-lenght feature film. Probably the worst movie I've seen thus far this year.

King of madness

Catching up with the Derren Brown shows I've missed before from Netflix. With a selected group of elderly he cleverly executes an art robbery. Yet again, the hoax is brilliant.

Down the road apiece

CIA and FBI were too busy measuring their dicks than co-operating with each other to inflitrate and properly investigate Al Qaida cells before the '98-'01 terrorists attacks (most notoriously in Kenya, Yemen and the World Trade Center) took place. The Looming Tower grabbed my interest immediately, as far as I know it's mostly based on true events, the characters were real people, so seeing how things played out is - in spite of the horrible consequences - exciting and entertaining. Jeff Daniels - in particular - as FBI's counter terrorism expert John O'Neill excelled.

Pigs have wings

A boy barely out of school gets what he wished and serves in the trenches of the frontline of the First World War. He finds out that war is hell and most of the veterans are either mad or act insensitive, but they all are scared out of their tits because the Germans are coming for the final kill. Solid British war drama, tension and thrills built up nicely and splendid performances throughout the line.

The ballad of man on fire

With the boxing movies you kinda know what you get. In Jawbone there's a boxer gone astray. He's a lonely penniless alcoholic about to get evicted from his childhood home. He gets a second chance and you just see where it goes from there; baby steps to get back into profession, Alcoholics Anonymous, the final fight, the whole nine yards. Not bad, but easily forgettable.

When the lizards sleep

WWII, former athlete, baseball player Moe Berg has been assigned to locate - possibly assassinate - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and principal scientist in the Nazi German nuclear weapon project. Paul Rudd does alright as the secretive agent as does the rest of the famed cast (Paul Giamatti, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Strong, Jeff Daniels, Guy Pearce), but unfortunately the movie looks like bad TV drama.