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IR Film Review: SUPERGIRL [Warner Bros.]
"Supergirl" hasn’t been attempted in a while...and rightly so in some ways because it has to get the tone right. With Milly Alcock, they have cast completely right but somehow the story doesn’t quite feel up to snuff and the villain a little too eccentric. There are moments when it really locks in like when Kara at one point jumps into orbit off a dying planet. Her devil may care attitude works well. The story is about helping Krypto so that does make sense. But the adjoining story of a little girl who needs help and the bad villain Krem (played by a well hidden Mathew Schoenaerts) doesn’t quite hit right.
IR Film Review: A MINECRAFT MOVIE [Warner Bros.]
The aspect of a video game adaption comes down to just what a film wants to do. If it is just entertainment with some semblance of sarcastic character structure thrown in, it can do well. "Super Mario Bros Movie" knew what it was but it was a series of sequences. "Borderlands" wanted to be something grand but seriously lost track of itself. "Minecraft" involves something in between. But they all share one thing: Jack Black.
IR Film Review: AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM [Warner Bros]
The context of "Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom" is redemption. The structure of the film begins a little too cartoonish but once it gets to its pinnacle, it redeems alot of its mythos despite a clunky finish in a way.
IR Film Review: FAST X [Universal]
The propellant of a "Fast" movie has increased in structure but unraveled in many ways in story. It has becomes at times, vignettes of its past mythology slowing down just once in a while for patriarch Vin Diesel to wax about family. However the bombast, despite a lack of reality, still can play for fun demolition.