Minions (2015)

This animated movie was made with the crew’s heart in it. I love how the director – Pierre Coffin – made a full contribution for the movie. He even gave his own voice to make ALL of the minion’s voices.

In Wikipedia, it’s said that this is an American movie. But in the rolling credits I saw a lot of French people – including the director himself. It’s an odd thing. Only the distributer was American. I think the movie should be called French-American Movie.

In the movie, I saw a lot of dark and funny reference. If you haven’t watch the movie yet, I dare you to look around for “small things” which were references.

Also – one more – look at the detail of every material. Kevin’s gloves were made of leather. You can see the crack of the leather.

The verdict:

The movie was made with “heart”, it was a great movie, but not too great because of the ordinary story, but again it was enough.

Ant Man (2015)

When I heard this movie was coming, I thought how being small was so boring. Ants are not so strong – just crush them with your thumb and they’re dead. But this movie defines that “size doesn’t matter!”

Edgar Wright – a great filmmaker – was appointed to be the director. But was only credited as a writer when he had a different creative idea with the producer – Kevin Feige. You can still see Wright’s comedy style in the movie, which was hilarious!

Kevin Feige – the producer from all of Marvel’s movies in the cinematic universe – was good to keep the phase of the movie. But I think he limited every creativity from every directors. Their style was alternated every time. So we can’t really enjoy every director’s potential.

Alright enough with the crew, lets talk about the film.

The film was a heist film. I should’ve thought about it when I was still sitting in the cinema. The phasing for the film was too fast in the end (as a heist film). Like I said, Edgar Wright was to be the director. His style match with his writings. The replacement director - Peyton Reed  - can’t even matched Wright’s phasing.

Also, there was not much information to make the film more likeable. For instance, the antagonist. Just take a look how small his evilness – it was even smaller than an ant.

But in the end, I think Ant Man deserve more than just “this.” His character was more likeable throughout the film.

The verdict:

This is a bad heist movie, but sure it was a good movie as a superhero movie.

Terminator: Genisys

This movie deserves a review from me. Why? Because the movie sucked so much!

First of all, the originality of the movie was there, I mean, guys.. ARNOLD’S BACK! But – let’s do the math here – if Arnold’s only 10% of the originality then this movie just turned the other 90% into vomit. I don’t like that. In the prequels, the franchise defined “machines” as machines. Now they turned machines into a pet dog. Well that’s only 45% from the 90% I said before. The other 45% was the idiocy of the time paradox.  They’d spit on their own parents.

Second, was the director. I felt pity on him. The name is Alan Taylor. He said the franchise forced him to spill out the plot twist in the movie. I say, “BULLSHIT!” A director and a film are like a parent and a child. The parent must protect and teach the child at all cost to be as perfect as they can. But the franchise – or so I say the social service – wanted the child to be on their side. So, I raise you a question. What will you do if your child would be taken by the social service?

YOU FIGHT FOR YOUR CHILD!

Third, the cinematography made me dizzy. It was so awful, I didn't follow the story very well. So I had to watch it twice.

The verdict:

The movie lacks of originality and mixed them with the wrong ingredient, but if you like action, you’ll like it.