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‘Mechanic: Resurrection’ Review: Jason Statham Once Again is Too BadAss to Be Killed

08/27/2016 11:39 am

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

British actor-Jason Statham is just not a great talent, even though many of the movies he has starred in fall short of his excellence, his unique individual brilliance has kept his contemporary action hero brand well in-tact.

Statham is like the Bruce Lee of guns and kicks: his speed, intelligence and strong ability to improvise never leave him pathetically vulnerable in the hands or camp of his enemies. Once again, he proves in ‘Mechanic: Resurrection’, a far better movie than its prequel-Mechanic, that he’s indeed the skilled killer.

‘Mechanic: Resurrection’ seals the disappointing holes of its antecedent but its storyline is still not super fascinating—it’s too direct and makes little use of the elements of suspense and surprise.

Nevertheless, the action is thrilling, brutal and flawlessly presented.

Arthur Bishop (played by Jason Statham), the killing mechanic had gone under the radar to live an ordinary life in Brazil, in attempt to leave behind his past in search for a peaceful non-violent fun.

‘Suicide Squad’ Review: A Group of Meta-Humans Fighting for the Interest of the State in A Plot-less Heavily Computerised Chaotic Film—Much More Like A Recorded Grenade-Themed Computer Game

08/6/2016 12:04 pm

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

Written and directed by David Ayer, “Suicide Squad” is plotless and chaotic—-so bad that I had to keep stuffing Doritos into my mouth just to stay awake throughout the movie.

It’s perhaps the worst I’ve seen so far in the cinema this year: the chaotic fighting between meta-humans and evil spirits turned into some sort of futurist machines comes no where close to being an interesting fantasy.

It is just like watching a recorded video game full of grenades and heavy weapons having been played by a clueless child whose keen interest was to see the screen in flames.

‘Suicide Squad” is that extensively pathetic.

It does not lose its bearings mid way or at the end, it just has no direction or even a weak plot, worse than “Fantastic Four”.

'Jason Bourne' Review: A Snowden Style Whistle Blowing Attempt Sends Assassins Once Again After Rogue-Bourne

07/30/2016 12:11 pm

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

After failing to appear in the 2012 Bourne spinoff-The Bourne Legacy, Matt Damon has returned to the Bourne franchise to keep the Bourne cinematic legacy going, as the infamous rogue CIA agent whose existence is regarded as a threat to the agency’s top chief and its whole global covert operations.

We were introduced to Jason Bourne, in The Bourne Identity (2002) and saw his pack of special “assassin” skills in The Bourne Supremacy (2004), followed by The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and now this name titled film-Jason Bourne somewhat introduces us to the emotional compass of Bourne.

‘Cocoa Brown’ Review: A Poor Opening With Overt Execrable Acting and Unpardonable Production Flaws

07/11/2016 10:02 pm

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

On the back of the initial success of her first TV series-Afia Schwarzenegger which somewhat lost its momentum and audience to the exit of its lead character, Deloris Frimpong-Manso recently aired her latest production, Cocoa Brown directed by Kofi Asamoah—-after months of social media promotion and a failed machiavellian attempt to generate media buzz with an in-house orchestrated controversy as to who actually owns the name-Cocoa Brown.
The first episode of “Cocoa Brown” is currently on Youtube with comments disabled, perhaps, an attempt to prevent those who would watch it from discouraging others with their disparaging remarks about the overt execrable acting and unpardonable production flaws of the episode.
When the first episode of a TV series, which ought to serve as the strongest bait is clouded in glaring production flaws agglutinated with egregious acting, you would find yourself summing up how disastrous and odious the rest of the journey would be.

'The Legend of Tarzan' Review: A Remake That’s Far From the Tarzan We Fell in Love With

07/9/2016 12:07 pm

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

The popular English adage; “if it’s not broke don’t fix it” perfectly captures the feeling I walked out of the cinema with after about 2 hours of a 3D journey, watching director David Yates’ remark of Tarzan—-the jungle being whose connection with the jungle animals in the original film was so touching that a separation got some people teary.
This time we are dealing with a fully grown civilised Tarzan; yet he could still swing, connect with the animals and had a great rapport with the villagers stationed near the jungle where he grew up—-but there were deeper problems with the remake, as attempts through flash backs to take audience back to how Tarzan came about awfully fails.
For the many times that Tarzan’s former existence as a younger jungle man was shown, he was depicted as fully shaven, sleek, semi-clothed and the emotional connection between him and the animals couldn’t be fetched. The magic was missing…
But that was Tarzan then—-now, he is John Clayton, Lord of Greystoke (played by Alexander Skarsgård), married to an American-Jane (played Margot Robbie) who saved his life when ironically he tried to save her while a resident of the dangerous yet wonderful jungle.

Game Of Thrones Season 6 Episode 10 Review – The White Wolf Rises

06/27/2016 11:43 am

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

From BrutallyUncensored.Com
*Spoilers, naturally, follows for those yet to watch Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 10 ‘The Winds of Winter’*
Game of Thrones has a tried and tested formula for its episodes, a formula which has worked consistently for its six years on the air. It’s a formula which most shows use, except tweaked in the tiniest way, concerning the functions of its penultimate and finale episodes.
Whilst most shows would build everything up to an explosive finale, Thrones typically keeps those blockbuster episodes for its penultimate ones, the dreaded episode 9; episode ten just becomes the vehicle to tie up all the storylines in a nice little bow.

Game Of Thrones Season 6 Episode 9 Review : Underwhelming Battle Resolution Undercuts Brilliant Episode

06/20/2016 4:05 pm

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

From BrutallyUncensored.Com
*Spoilers, naturally, follow for those yet to watch Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 9 ‘Battle of the Bastards’*
Game of Thrones has handed us some magnificent battle sequences in the past, sequences that took all the elements of the greatest battles of history and personalised it to the nitty gritty of our beloved Westerosi characters.
Mostly, these battles involve heroic, almost futile but ultimately successful last stands. Tyrion held King’s Landing against the might of Stannis Baratheon’s army, utilising pluck and guile to hold on long enough for the Lannister/Tyrell army to arrive on the scene and smash Stannis to bits. Jon held the Wall against similarly insurmountable odds, putting on a defensive masterclass that still looked doomed until Stannis and his army rode in to crush the wildling army under its heel.

Game Of Thrones Season 6 Episode 8 Review- No One Is Going Home

06/13/2016 10:27 am

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

From BrutallyUncensored.Com
*Spoilers, naturally, follow for those yet to watch Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 8 ‘No One’*
Arya Stark has been divorced from the main storyline of Game of Thrones for so long, she has unfortunately started to feel like a cheap appendage, who gets trotted out every once in a while to remind fans she’s there, to keep us invested in her storyline.
In many ways that is inevitable, what with the sprawling nature of the series, and the diverse cast of characters. It is not uncommon to go one or even two episodes without seeing even consequential characters like Jon or Tyrion, so in Thrones that is a feature more than a bug- except for those storylines, checking in with them often gives you a suitable progression with the story that you can live with.

'The Boss' Review: Melissa McCarthy’s Fall from the Top and An Aggressive Comeback

06/11/2016 9:35 am

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

Co-written by Melissa McCarthy and her husband-Ben Falcone who also directed this corporate themed fused with family comedy, The Boss, has unexpected hilarious scenes and lines on the back of Melissa’s amusing personality. But the storyline and the pack of many begging to be funny characters leaves the film undeservingly starved. Melissa McCarthy is funny … Read more

Game Of Thrones Season 6 Episode 7 Review- The Calm Before The Storm

06/6/2016 4:16 pm

by Godwin Nii-Armah Okine, Managing Editor

From BrutallyUncensored.Com
*Spoilers, naturally, follow for those yet to watch Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 7 ‘The Broken Man’’*
Game of Thrones returned to its strong episodically thematic roots in ‘The Broken Man’, as writer Bryan Cogman delivered a solid but unspectacular hour predating the sh*t storm about to hit us.
Game of Thrones has a carefully structured flow of events that ensures the biggest holy sh*t moments are reserved for the second to last episode of the season, ala the Red Wedding and Ned’s beheading- this ensures an inevitable lull mid season as the story is built in the direction of the crazy endings- the calm before the storm, so to speak.

Game Of Thrones Season 6 Episode 6 Review: Ahoy For Westeros!

05/30/2016 2:52 pm

by Godwin Nii-Armah Okine, Managing Editor

From BrutallyUncensored.Com
*Spoilers, naturally, follow for those yet to watch Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 6 ‘Blood of my Blood’*
Season six of Game of Thrones has, so far, turned out to be one of the absolute best of the show’s entire run, churning out episode after episode of fascinating, gripping television. There has scarcely been any dull moments, and the number of huge climaxes and significant deaths has kept the show at a level unmatched since Season 3.
But even Game of Thrones, as gripping a show as it is, has to suffer its mid season lulls; when the story is caught between the fascinating set ups of the early season and the brutal climaxes of the late, and ‘Blood of my Blood’ was the first true ‘hanging’ episode of the season.

Game Of Thrones Season 6 Episode 5 Review: Hold The Door, Please?

05/23/2016 9:55 am

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

From BrutallyUncensored.Com
*Spoilers, naturally, follow for those yet to watch Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 5 ‘The Door’*
This season of Game of Thrones has been one smooth roller coaster of fun, accelerating colossally after a less than stellar premiere. Since the slow building first episode, we’ve been hurtling wantonly towards the season’s major stories, with several feel good moments such as the return of Jon, Dany’s Dothraki barbecue, and THAT STARK REUNION.
‘The Door’ gave us a solid mid-season episode that advanced some stories slightly whilst totally ignoring others, ending with a mind blowing final scene which is probably the saddest we’ve ever seen on Thrones. For a brutal show like Thrones, scenes with blood and death and gore, even those involving our favourite characters, are almost guaranteed. And whilst scenes like Ned’s death, the Red Wedding and Jon’s stabbing can and does leave one sad, it mainly gets the blood raging hot, as you fume over the betrayal imbibed in getting our favourite characters killed. The story of Hodor’s death and simultaneous disabling leaves you nothing but absolutely dead inside.

Cannes Film Review: ‘The Wailing’—Brutishly Intense And Yet Deeply Emotional

05/19/2016 3:21 pm

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

If you’ve ever considered supernatural stories a little lame and passé in contemporary cinema direction, then perhaps you are yet to see South Korean director-Na Hong-jin’s ‘The Wailing’—an incredibly brilliant mystery thriller which succeeds in lacing horror with comedy and strikes deep emotional cords on the back of a seemingly over exploited theme.
Beyond the fact that the film ends on a vague note and lacks any sort of logical consistency, Na Hong-jin’s brilliance in storytelling takes charge of what would fairly be a predictable narrative, and cleverly box it in an unending suspense, twist and nerve-racking gore which doesn’t just keep the audience boldly shaking, but intensely glued.
Per modern expectations, a dive into the world of demons mostly would come off as an attack but Na Hong-jin steers far away from an assault, and rather explores the spiritual world, clashing the strength of opposing and not so well defined mystical units with a small village and a household serving as the unfortunate battle ground.
It’s mainly over two and half-hours of blood oozing from the nose and mouths of characters, subtly balanced with effortless comedy from the film’s lead- Sgt. Jeon Jong-gu (played by Kwak Do-won) and sometimes, his beloved and adorable daughter-Hyo-jin ( played by Kim Hwan-hee).
The horror takes off when Sgt. Jeon Jong-gu and his unit were called to a village house, where a man had brutishly stabbed his wife and children to death with blood all over the floor as much as on him—his creepy bloodshot eyes could not be missed, and his body was decorated with strange boils.
The obviously shocking family massacre soon became a rampant occurrence, with series of similar cruel killings turning the village into not just a wailing yard, but a screaming and a dangerous locale—with widespread panic on the back of rumours that a middle-aged Japanese man (played by Jun Kunimura) was the person spiritually behind the killings.

In fact, the suspicion wasn’t just rumour-based, a young woman-Moo-myeong (played by Chun Woo-hee) predicted an imminent doom to befall the village and linked it to him—and a yokel was adamant he also saw him strangely eating raw blooded meat.

Cannes Film Review: ‘Aquarius’—When Home and Memories Are Strongly Intertwined | A Brilliant Performance By Sonia Braga

05/17/2016 7:26 pm

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

Actress- Sonia Braga has aged gracefully and playing a woman around her real age in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s latest film-‘Aquarius’ must have demanded a little to no effort—her flawless performance suggests nothing more than a woman at ease with herself and her role.
‘Aquarius’ isn’t only a strong plus for Sonia Braga, Kleber Mendonça Filho may have taken chances with his running time and slow pace but the brilliance of the two is such that, you wouldn’t realize the film runs for over two hours.
It’s a typical Brazilian movie; and it captures the breath of the sea as much as the neighborhood activities—the awful Brazilian class system entrenched on the back of skin color was touched on and the widespread case of nepotism; where almost every business is filled with close friends and family was also not left out of reach.
But the above were not the focus of Filho’s exploration or attack—the film is heavily seated on the connection between an individual and her home, a situation where every item surrounding her has a unique story to tell about her life’s journey.
Divided into three parts; the film starts with a beach scene featuring a far younger Clara (played by Bárbara Colen) in a car, blasting out “Another One Bites the Dust” in 1980. At this stage, Clara’s love and probable obsession with good music is being laid out.

Cannes Film Review: ‘Mademoiselle’—Cleverly Weird and Confusingly Interesting

05/16/2016 4:12 pm

by Chris-Vincent Agyapong, Founding Editor

Written by Park Chan-Wook and Seo-Kyung Chung, ‘Mademoiselle’ which translate as ‘The Handmaiden’ in English is a brilliant piece of art—yet it’s extensively confusing until the puzzle is pieced together at the end of the film. As a rework of Sarah Waters’ brilliant best-selling novel Fingersmith, ‘Mademoiselle’ is set in the 1930s—with two women playing … Read more

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