Ender's Game

This movie is based on the novel "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. It stars Harrison Ford as a Colonel, Asa Butterfield, the one who is destined to save everyone. It involves Earth getting attacked by Alien species called Formics, Hollywood please get original. This movie begins by a quote from Ender "When I understand my enemy well enough to defeat him, then in that moment, I also love him". That right away gave me an indication this movie is going to be about Morality of war.

My problem stared with the premise of the movie. Kids are being trained for war by playing video games, how can anyone not have a problem with that. Once I was able to digest that, this movie started shoving Ender's character down my throat. I understood he is a great tactician and strategist 10th time Ford said it, even though he looked like a psychopath to me. 

After saying he is the ONE for the millionth time, it is established that we have to cheer for Ender cause he is gonna save humanity. This movie never even tries to develop any characters except for Ender, I don't even remember one's name and I saw the movie only a few hours ago. It was established he cares for his sister and he is doing all of this to save her, which I liked for a kid nothing is more important than family. 

This movie reminded me of Harry Potter and Starship Troopers several times, which is not a bad thing but not a great thing either, for me this movie lacks a soul. Moral confusion is one of the biggest theme of the movie and it clearly says "you can't win if you follow rules" and but then the stakes never felt high cause we never saw what these aliens could do or did, so all of this felt meaningless. 

The biggest flaw of this movie is, it lacks seriousness, it needed a real galactic battle to show what the aliens could do but instead every action sequence was either inside a video game or a battle in controlled environment. So we never really cared for any of the character, it never felt that any of the character was ever in any danger of getting killed.

RoboCop

Hollywood is all about remakes and sequels, which is not a bad thing cause it makes a lot of money for the studios which in turn helps them produce more original content. RoboCop is one of those. It stars Joel Kinnaman, who I thought I will hate in this movie cause I didn't like him as much in the The Darkest Hour. The original RoboCop came out in 1987, and it was nominated for two Oscars. I remember watching as a kid, as it came out even before I was born, probably I saw it for the first time when I was 4-5 maybe, it was difficult for me to understand the original one back then.

This movie also has Michael Keaton(Batman) and Gary Oldman(Commissioner Gordon). I went to see this movie for these two alone. It also stars Samuel L. Jackson, who could have been edited out of the movie and it wouldn't have made any difference. Keaton plays a businessman who just wants to make profit, even if its unethical or against the law.

I have seen the original one several times since then and I love it but the remake caught me off by surprise it has depth in it, characters were well realized, I actually cared for Murphy through out the movie. Gary Oldman is like Frankenstein and RoboCop is his monster, which I really liked.



I also like the fact that they didn't too much screen time to his family, it was established that he cared for his wife and son. Abbe Cornish plays Murphy's wife and she was convincing enough to convey the pain his family felt. Child actor who played his son wasn't irritating and that's always good.

This movie has so many elements, Murphy's vengeance, corrupt cops, family dynamics and a selfish businessman. Towards the end suddenly they changed the focus of the film, which would have been a nice surprise, if it was not a Remake cause we knew what was gonna happen, so it felt a little forced to me.


This is the problem with Remakes, we already know the plot of the movie so it becomes predictable and when they try to do something really different it receives a backlash from the fans of the original. Unless Hollywood finds a way to make Remakes different, it's really not gonna work. In the last few years we have seen many Remakes like Planet of Apes, Total Recall, Spiderman, Dredd, Godzilla, The karate Kid, Conan The Barbarian and RoboCop but not many of them have been successful financially or were even watchable. Studios just need to be a little careful before they ruin their properties for good.

Although if you haven't seen the original RoboCop this is a must watch movie, it has some cool dialog and great action sequences.

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Since the last Transformer movie my opinion about movies has changed, it turns now I hate explosions Thank you Michael Bay, you opened my eyes. Transformers: Age of Extinction or Transformers 4 has a different cast but the same plot points, government hiding and screwing the transformers and Transformers rebelling.



The only good thing about this movie is Mark Wahlberg, its not like his character was interesting enough so we would care for him but he was actually involved in the fighting which made him a valuable asset for the Autobots.

Stanley Tucci, I don't know why he agreed to do this movie, my guess is Pay Check. I will be honest I haven't seen him in so many movies but which ever I saw he always stood out for me except in the case of Jack the Giant Slayer, that movie was just awful. He is just a Michael Bay character replacing Agent Simons in a way.

This movie takes place 5 years after the last Transformers Movie and Humans are successfully killing Transformers. Optimus and Bumblebee are in hiding, later they are joined by 3 new team members, who are as pointless as the rest of the movie.

This movie is too much complicated, there is a bounty hunter hunting Optimus, dinosaurs were killed by aliens, humans are making Transformers, Mark Wahlberg can't pay his mortgage and I am writing this listening to the theme of Pacific Rim, this movie is a mess!!!



I understand why Bay makes this kind of movie(awful movie) cause most of the audience dig this kind of movies and makes a lot of money for the studio and movies like John Cater and Pacific Rim suffer.

Edge of Tomorrow (Non Spoiler Review)

This movie is based on Hiroshi Sikurazaka's novel "All You Need is Kill". This is the best Video Game movie we will ever gonna get although its not based on one. It feels like when you are playing Call of Duty to earn a medal, you fight and with each turn you get better, you are able to kill more goons, you score better its exactly that.


The video game thing might sound like a drag but its not, this movie inverts that thing and turns that thing into a comedy which worked, this is where Bill Paxton comes, he is the one who greets Tom Cruise after every reset and his lines were the best!!!

This movie doesn't explain the reset thing entirely and it did not need to, there was a small explanation and it worked. This was done by Emily Blunt, she is a Badass character in the movie and she guides Cruise how to deal with the situation


For me, if the score doesn't bother me a lot its good and it didn't bother me in this one maybe because the movie was too intense, Tom Cruise proved he can still handle action movies like he did 20 years ago. Emily Blunt sold the badass she was in this movie.

No need for Rating, go and watch this movie