The Divergent Series: Allegiant

Tris and Four are back leading their friends on a new adventure. Having a name like Four must make it confusing when someone asks for your name and number.

This time they want to break free of Chicago and go over the giant wall surrounding the city. They go on about how difficult it will be quite a lot and to be honest i think they built it up too much.

Once over they were met by a wasteland as far as the eye could see. They argued about what happened, Tris said ‘nuclear?’ And Four responded ‘Fallout’ and she said ‘no at times like this we need to get along’.

They think no one's out there and then there’s a plot twist and they find an invisible wall!! That came out of nowhere.

They are then greeted by the Bureau of Genetic Welfare, headed by David (Jeff Daniels). He informs them that they have been part of an experiment and that everyone in Chicago has bad genes. I think, after all they have just been through, it was a bit mean to have a go at their fashion sense.

David's motives are soon questioned after a mission to rescue some children from a place called the Fringe, which is a good name for it because it did start to get quite hairy.

I give this movie 6 marks(immons) out of 10.

Total Recall

Total Recall

A little joke to warm up for the review:

‘I was asked if I could think of any films where the best bits were in the trailer, the only one I could think of was 8 mile when his mums having sex in one’

This movie is action packed, full of futuristic gun fights and chase scenes with plot twists and turns galore to keep you on your toes.

We join the movie in a post-apocalyptic world where only two areas of earth can be inhabited, one where Britain is and one where Australia is. The way people move from area to area is by a massive lift that takes them through the centre of the earth, when I saw this I thought ‘cor!!!’

This is a very watchable film but it’s a shame how easy it is to draw similarities to other movies – there is a flying car chase scene similar to that in ‘5^th Element’, robots similar to that of ‘I-robot’, fight scenes like in Bourne Identity, and a blatant plot rip off of a 90’s Arnold Schwarzenegger film which I can’t recall the name of.

There is even a scene with a three breasted woman like in the Arnie film. It shows that having 3 breasts is attractive, giving the impression that the more the merrier, but where do you draw the line, I mean are there men out there looking at cows thinking ‘phwoar, I like those, they’d look good on my wife’.

 If women were to have multi-boobs they couldn’t have them all on their chest for the pure weight of them, so if they were going to have more, maybe they could have them in more practical positions like on the back of their heads to save on pillow expenses, on the bottom of their feet to give the constant sensation of walking on a bouncy castle or on their face to so men can stare at them while talking and maintaining eye contact.

I give this movie 7 Marks(immons) out of 10


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Friends with kids

Friends with kids

A little joke to warm up for the review:

‘my mate and his wife asked me to be godfather to their twins, I said yes and since then I’ve just wanted to wrap them up in cotton wool, because if anything were to happen to them i’d have to look after the kids’

What better way to top a day of drinking down the pub, than going to watch a movie. The trouble with this is, drunken decision making isn't my strong point. With the other movies showing, being the likes of ‘seeking a friend for the end of the world’, ‘ice age 4’ and ‘Batman- the dark knight rises’, I chose to see ‘Friends with kids’. 

 The movie starts with friends Jason and Julie noticing how having children has ruined their other mate’s relationships.  So they come up with the plan to have a baby together thus preventing the baby problems happening in any relationship each of them have. I actually once had the exact same idea but Steve wasn’t up for it.

Maybe due to my level of intoxication, I grew bored of the storyline and had no problem leaving the screen to go to the toilet and buy some popcorn, although turns out they dont sell it there so I got some in the foyer.  I then stumbled back into the screening. 

In the short time I was away from the movie there had been a major twist in the plot.  There is now a comet heading to earth meaning everyone on earth now only have two weeks to live. The two main characters now spend this time looking for the people most important to them, to spend those last moments. From this point on, there is no more talk of having kids. I think this is very powerful and clearly the film makers are showing how, when a catastrophic event occurs, normal everyday priorities will change.

This film has a poor start but does pick up around the middle and has a meaningful end. I give the movie 5 marks(immons) out of 10

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