The World's End

The World's End is the last in the Simon Pegg and Nick Frost films. It is about a bunch of all friends coming back together and trying to complete the golden mile. The golden mile is a pub crawl of 12 bars ending at The World's End. Now when the group all get back to there home town they notice something is different about there home town and madness begins.

Now this film I have been hearing a lot of good buzz around this film and plus I really enjoy the other two films them being Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. So I was expecting something just as good as those two films. Now that being said this film really delivers on a lot of that. This is film is very witty and very funny. I was laughing all the way thought this film. Which is pretty hard to do. Also I really enjoyed Edgar Wright directing style. He was is really good at combining films that don't really belong together. So the tone was actually really good and very well done. Also he was able shoot some of the action scenes really well and they are like is blend of shaky cam that isn't shaky cam it was odd but cool. Now another thing that I really liked was the acting. All the people in the film were great. I mean they all understood what this film was going to be and gave it there all. The actors really do knock this film out of the park.

The script is the only real thing that is like double edged sword in this film. Like the writing is so good. Like the characters that they create are so good and so well realized and just all around fun to watch on screen that when the (spoilers for the rest of the review sorry it needs to be talked about ) Robots come into the film it feels out of place. Like I would have been fine with this film if there was no action and it was a Dramdy. It would have just held its own. So I think the film forgets what it is trying to do and loses some things but I still very much enjoy the film and I am going to give a

RATING
3.25 out of 4 Ticket Stubs

Kick-ass 2

Kick-ass 2 is the follow up to Kick-ass. So if you ever saw the movie Kick-ass you need to know what your expecting when you go into this film. You should know this film is R-rated so your going to get over the top comedy and its going to be super violent. Now my biggest fear for this movie was I loved the style and tone the Director Matthew Vaughn brought to the first one. So I didn't think his style would be placed into this film because he was just a producer on this one. So lets go to wait I thought about the film.

The acting in the film I found just like the first one done very will and pretty amazing. Chloe Mortez is once again the best and most fun of all the characters. She has really grown up in this film and she has a very cool arch for the film. The boy who played Kick-ass did very well and did a good job in this film as well. Now the wild card in this film was going Jim Carry and I very much enjoyed him in the film and it was a lot of fun to see him in something good again. Now the scripted by Jeff Wadlow who also is the director in this film. I thought his script was actually the best part of the film. It felt like a mix of the movie Super and The Avengers. He had a nice moral and a good theme thought out the whole film. He was also able to make very funny moments. With some really well shot action.

Now my biggest problem with the film is the fact that Vaughn wasn't there. He was there as a producer so. Some of the style and tone is there. The only problem is you can only do so much as a producer. Wadlow does his best job to recreate it but I think he fails. So I think if Vaughn was the director and he had the same script the film would have been much improved. There is also a pace issue at some points I feel is that it is a little too long. It could need some of the fat trimming. Now maybe this is just do I didn't find the direction good because the scenes it would be hard to trim this fat because it was a important fat. So I think this film is going to be a mixed bag for a lot of people and not everyone will enjoy this film. So for that I am going to give it a

RATING
3 out 4 Ticket Stubs

          

Elysium

Elysium. The film is the follow up to Neill Blomkamp who was my pick to direct the next Star Wars movie and after seeing this it just makes want to see his version more. Now what the film is about is about a earth in the next hundred years has become so over populated and polluted that the rich had to leave the planet. So with them needing a place to stay they built Elysium which is a space station with all this amazing stuff. Like clean air and nice lands and the most important thing free health care for all. I am not just saying health care that we have today but health care that can cure you if your face is blown clean off as long as your brain is still working. The film stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster in the lead roles. Along with Sharlto Copley who is Blomkamp's Johnny Depp.

Now what I really liked about the film was this Blomkamp has a perfect style of film for this. This guy is a master of visual effects like they all look so great on top of good use of effects. He paced this film perfectly and the tone is also perfect. This film would not have worked without Blomkamp at the head of the film. This could have easily fallen apart. Now the acting in the film by the two leads were great. I mean Matt Damon was perfect in the role of Max and Foster I think was great not as good as everyone else but still very good. The one that steals the show in my mind was Copley he plays most likely the best villain of the summer. He is ruthless and crazy and tough as nails. He is everything you want in a villain character. This man sure can act and has a huge range. There is a lot of shakycam that comes with the Blomkamp style but its not bad and actually adds to the film. It helps you get sucked into the film. I makes you feel like your with Mr.Damon being shot at.

Now this film does have its fair share of problems. I think the biggest issue I found in this film was the script. The script needed to be more developed and need just in general more. Like this film needed to be to be a two hour movie not an hour and half. This film doesn't really let you get sucked into the characters and the story. It was far to focused on the symbolism and social problems of today to be a effect message. Like if they would have attempt to make the story and the characters better I feel that the message would have been a bit more impactful. Now with that I am going to give this film

3 out of 4 Ticket Stubs