October - Films

I wouldn't like to choose between:
Mon Roi. 2015 (French) and
Custody. 2017 (French) for best film of September.

No competition for worst: Sick for Toys

The Wife was my top film for September and will probably be on my top five list for the year.

Best of September
Hearts in Atlantis

Worst of September
Clawed wins hands down

Best of September
Won't You Be My Neighbor

Worst of September
Dark Crimes

A Kid Like Jake
3/5

Nothing much happened in this movie. Jake was a bit spoiled and his parents were more concerned with getting him into the right Kindergarten than in teaching him any manners. Jake is 4 years old and his problem with the schools wasn't that he wasn't bright...he was actually way above average but Jake got into fights with his fellow class mates at the day care learning center because he liked to wear skirts, act out fairy tales, and go trick-or-treating as Rapunzel. The entire movie consisted of Jake's parents arguing about who was suddenly responsible for Jack being "different". It had the potential of being a really good movie if it had been more about Jake and less about the parents.

Show Dogs
3.5/5

The story line left a lot to be desired but the animals were soooo cute. All of them talked and their lines were better than the humans. It's not going to win any Oscars and it won't be the best movie you've ever seen...but it's a lot of fun.

The First Grader. 2010. The true story of a Kenyan man who insisted on attending primary school, when the government promised free education for everyone. 84 year old Kimani Ng'ang'a Maruge wished to read and write and is able to join an underfunded village school with the help of it's headmistress. Showing (in flashback) yet another shameful period in British colonial history when it's the army was sent to quell the Mau Mau uprising (with atrocities on both sides). It was a wonderful story that suffered from the perceived need to Hollywoodize it a little. A warm film given it's big heart by the little known lead actor, Oliver Litondo. 6/10 Thanks Carol.

It Follows (2014)
2/5

I'm not sure of the message this film was trying for or even if there was one. These kids clearly have parents who seem to be okay with their kids running all over the country side with no accountability. They never explain, or even bother trying to find out where it came from or why it just wants to "sex" people to death. Pretty pointless movie...even the cover is bad:)

Swimming with Men. 2018. UK comedy. Eric (Rob Brydon) is a bored middle-aged accountant. He's convinced his newly elected councillor, thus, newly invigorated wife (Jane Horrocks) is having an affair with her new boss. Eric can only see a black hole ahead of him until he joins a male synchronised swimming team. They're hopeless, but decide to enter the world championships as they're the only British team available. It's a gentle comedy trying to fill the niche opened by "The Full Monty ". I never want to see Downton Abbey's butler in a pair of swimming trunks again, but you know how willing I am to suffer for my art!. 5/10

Secret of the Incas
I have been reading a book on Peru and the Incas and one of the passages talks about how the explorer Bingham, who explored Peru, may have influenced a 1954 film called Secret of the Inca's and that film may have also influenced Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark. Charleton Heston's outfit in the movie looks very much like Indiana Jones'. My library doesn't carry it but lo and behold you can watch it online (at least in the USA).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20TAGRElvfE

>10 JulieLill:
There is also a webpage devoted to the question at https://www.inverse.com/article/18017-indiana-jones-machu-picchu-hiram-bingham-i...

Wakefield (2017)
2/5

The description for this movie asks,"what would your life look like without you in it?" Howard Wakefield...a successful lawyer...decides after a stressful day at work with a power outage that stalls his commuter train, to find out. I found his actions cruel to his two children and his wife and and absurd in the general realm of things. He hides out in his garage attic and spies on his family. When they begin to move on with their lives he finds fault with their actions and ridicules them. He's not gone for a day or two...he's in that garage spying on his family for months. Then he goes out gets a haircut and shave, buys new clothes and walks right back in the front door with the final line of this travesty...'I'm home". That was the end of the movie but I sincerity hope his wife threw him out with the morning trash.

Suits seasons 1 & 2
4/5

at first I thought this is going to be boring. I was wrong. The supporting characters start out to be stereotypical, but they began to take on a life that was individually their own by the 4th or 5th episode. I do sincerely hope that the mega law firms of Manhattan and other large cities do not behave this way. However for fiction...it's fast paced and entertaining. The good news as far as I'm concerned is that there is 8 seasons of this show.

Unsane

I picked this to watch because it had a high Rotten Tomatoes critics score. I need to learn to pay more attention to the audience score because it more often matches up how I feel about the movie, and in this case I agree that this movie was not good. I like Steven Soderbergh as a director but he apparently shot this movie on an iPhone and it's just very hard to see. On top of that, I found it utterly unrealistic. It is about a woman (Clare Foy) who may or may not have a stalker and is involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. For one, I didn't think she would be tricked into being committed like that, and I also didn't think the hospital would just lock men and women together into the same room at night with no supervision. It just got worse from there. I'll give it 2/5 because for some reason I kept watching through to the end.

>14 sturlington: LOL! You were just hoping it would get better. I've done that.

Alpha Gateway
3/5 stars
This was an Official Selection of the 2017 SCIFI Film Festival in Australia. Two scientists are working on a machine that accesses parallel universes. When the female scientist's husband dies, she uses the machine to find her husband in a parallel universe. Unfortunately, he is not the man her husband was and things go terribly wrong. Though the science fiction special effects are very minimal and the story has been told before, I found it compelling and had to see the ending to see what happened to the family.

>16 JulieLill: I thought this was an interesting plot and it was pulled off fairly well. I don't remember what I rated it but I do remember liking it.

Ready Player One: A fun adventure with great virtual-reality effects. There are some laughs--I miss humor in action movies--and even though it's two hours, the pace doesn't flag. I didn't mind the extensive changes from the book; the movie seemed less bleak somehow, and I loved all the shout-outs to movies, especially The Shining sequence. 4/5

Apostle. 2018. I suffered through this pile of shit, with Dan Stevens as the ex-missionary come to an island cult to save his kidnapped sister. I watched it, despite Dan Stevens, who appears to have only two characters in his repertoire. The sweet, charming dunderhead (Downton Abbey) and a man who has had a frontal lobotomy and doesn't know it! Directed by the man who directed the Indonesian hit martial arts films, The Raid and Raid 2. I was curious to see what Gareth Evans could do in his own back-yard. He appeared to have come up with a very bloody "The Wicker Man" revival. I made it right to the very end, which just about added marzipan (I can't stand the stuff) and mouldy icing to the the cake. The outro was "Mother of MIne" I know Brits will shudder at the thought of hearing this horrendous, sentimental song sung by a ten year with adenoid issues, out of the blue. A "sad bastard" sticker goes to the first person who can name the singer. I don't even want to google it. 2/10

>18 sturlington: Ready Player One wasn't the disappointment I expected, having adored the book. I wasn't keen on the lead actor, but as you say the old-skool references were fun to find.

Little Big Soldier. 2010. Mandarin. Comedy action. Jackie Chan plays a conscripted Liang soldier who feigns death after an ambush which leaves the Wei army decimated too. He finds a Wei General still alive and takes him prisoner, hoping to ransome him off in exchange for some land. He doesn't know the General is the eldest prince of the royal family and his younger brother is on his trail, intending to kill him. One can't help watching a 60 year old Jackie Chan in awe as he fights and does stunts that would leave a man half his age comatose. If you like Jackie Chan, you'll enjoy this one. He gets to keep his dignity, which I found he wasn't always able to do in his Hollywood films. 6/10

Searching. 2018. Drama. David Kim's teenage daughter has gone missing. A dedicated cop is assigned to find her, but there appear to be no leads. David hacks her computer and finds out that he knew almost nothing about her, and sets out tracking down her on-line activity. A tense and believable thriller. Thanks sturlington for the recommendation. 6/10

>19 .cris: I took your challenge but sad to say I lost. I can't find any site that says who sang it in that movie.

>19 .cris: I'm sorry, but this is it. I think Jimmy Osmond covered it, but I remember that sinking feeling in my stomach when the DJ announced it was being sung live on Top of the Pops (our weekly pop music show from 1964 to 2006) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rttRely_cEs

The Final Master. 2015. Chinese Martial Arts. IMDb: "A Wing Chun master has to defeat 8 martial arts schools to open his own school, yet he has become a chess piece to the local power dynamics". The fight choreography was first rate, most of it using blades, some unfeasibly large. It passed the time. 4/10

The Wife. 2017. Drama. Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce are a force to be reckoned with in this story of an outwardly strong marriage that begins to crumble when the husband (Pryce) and his wife (Close) travel to Sweden to collect his Nobel prize for literature. It appears that she patiently supports him every minute of the day, even though he has always been a serial adulterer. She stands on the sidelines, as people fawn and gush over her husband's enormous talent. The only fly in the ointment is the combative relationship between father and his would-be-author son. I know sturlington fell in love with this film, but I couldn't understand why The Wife was so passive. Christian Slater was looking good for a man who's been around since the 80's. 7.5/10

What Will People Say. 2017. Norwegian/Urdu drama. Nisha is a young girl of Pakistani extraction growing up in Norway. Her father catches her with a boy in her bedroom and demands that they marry. Nisha insists that she is still a virgin and she has split up with the boy. Her father becomes violent and she ends up in a shelter. Her mother contacts her and asks her to come home to talk it through and when her father and brother come to collect her, they take her straight to the airport and on to Pakistan, to live with relatives. Even there, although she tried to assimilate into the household, she again "dishonoured" the family. I found this really sad, because her father idolised her, but felt as though he had to do as he was advised, for the sake of the reputation of the family. 6/10

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond Of Matches. 2017. B/W French/Canadian adaptation from a book by Gaétan Soucy. A youth and "his" brother live in complete isolation with their drunken father. The youth is called "brother" by "his" sibling and "son" by "his" father, and "he" has been told that "his" penis dropped off years before, and "his" father forces "him" to bind "his" breasts. The brother follows his animalistic instincts and when the father discovers her pregnancy, he hangs himself. Then it gets really weird! The girl goes to the village for help, but her inability to interact with others causes chaos. The brother readies himself for a siege and the daughter investigates the other secrets the father has been hiding. Very dark. Very weird, but I wanted to know what happened to her next. 6/10

Truth or Dare (2018)
2.5/5

This movie is exactly what you would expect it to be...extremely average and cliched. Not a bad watch if you wanna kill some time, but I wouldn't waste money on buying it. Either rent it or get it from the library.

The Condemned (Spanish - 2013)
2.5/5

The film leaves a lot of questions unanswered...the main one being why the spirit is doing the damage to the clinic and what it really wants or is Ana the source of the "spirit'? With that said...that's pretty much the entire plot of the film.

TV series on Netflix:

I liked Atypical enough to binge watch.

I've tried The Haunting of Hill House twice and haven't made it through the first episode. It's nothing remotely like the book.

I started Salt Fat Acid Heat last night and enjoyed but can't binge.

Any suggestions?

>31 sturlington: Did you see Altered Carbon?

I think I tried that a while back but didn't get into it.

Department Q: A Conspiracy of Faith (2016)
3/5

The movie starts as a kidnapping drama and then turns into a serial killer thriller. This is the 3rd Department Q films based on the books by Danish writer, Jussi Alder-Olsen. As with the previous films, this was a haunting crime-film about the darkest and most twisted evil people and their actions against innocent people. I have to say that I like the characters of Rose Assad and Carl more in the books. These people frowned and looked depressed throughout the entire film...even when they were trying to joke with one another. Good thing there were subtitles as the entire dialog is in Danish and Norwegian. I just muted the sound and read the subtitles.

The Super. 2017 Horror. An ex-cop who recently lost his wife in a fire gets a job as a caretaker in a large housing complex. He finds one of his co-workers, Walter, (Val Kilmer) is decidedly off, and when residents start to go missing, Walter is the prime suspect. I've rarely seen such an uneven film. It started off really creepy and gruesome, and then the lead characters move in. The teen daughter was so bloody rude, I was begging for her to be the next victim. It kept up the momentum until about two thirds through and then it became absolutely ridiculous. For some bizarre reason it looked like the dialogue changed, but it was just dubbed over the original film (mostly Val Kilmer's lines), although he was still unintelligible most of the time. Did they run out of money? 7 for the beginning and 2 for the stupid ending.

Remember Me (2017)
4/5

This 3-part mini series from PBS is more of a ghost story than a mystery. It's very atmospheric...slow-building...and creepy. You'll never hear the song "Scarborough Fair" again without thinking of it.

>36 Carol420: I enjoyed that series.

A Star is Born 2018 edition
Despite seeing the other three films, I enjoyed this. I like Lady GaGa's singing and Bradley Cooper did a nice job on directing and acting in this film. It dragged in parts and if you have seen any of the other films you won't see much differences in the films. I believe Cooper also did his own singing. I wonder if I'll be around to see a fifth version.

At last, something Mr Google doesn't know. I've just watched Ant-Man and the Wasp and had a giggle over Stan Lee's cameo, so I Googled the number of cameo appearances he's made. It varies from 14 to "at least 65". A big difference of opinion there! He's pretty amazing for a gentleman who is 95 years old (probably). I hope he doesn't appear in Julie's RIP thread any time soon.

>39 .cris: Lee is still hanging on there!

Return To Salem's Lot
There is no number low enough

At the start of the movie there was a brief notice that said "Based on characters crated by Stephen King. If I was Stephen King I would be filing papers to sue the writers the producers, the director, the cast, the cameraman, the best boy (always wondered what that was), the person that sold anyone a ticket at the theater, anyone that bought a ticket to this even loosely called movie , and the guy that sold the popcorn in the lobby, and the guy that cleaned the toilets in the theater. I believe that inmates from an insane asylum could have done a better job of acting and delivering line. Oh by the way...did I mention that the whole thing sucked??? If you have even remotely entertained the idea of watching this dribble...RUN!

>41 Carol420: That's a "not recommended" then Carol?

>42 .cris: Not unless you need fuel for a bon-fire or something to use as target practice.

Dead Night (2018)
2.5/5

It had a bright, shining moment of hope...and then it didn't. The idea was a good one but they never managed to pull it together into anything that made any sense or presented even a glimmer of a plot. One of those films that got lost in the gallons and gallons of blood and gore.

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot. 2018. Based on the autobiography of cartoonist John Callahan, with Joaquin Phoenix playing the author. John has been a drinker/drunk since he was 12. A wild night out with a new friend leaves him paralysed from the shoulders down, and now he feels even more hard done by, but, being an alcoholic is not so easy when you have to rely on others to provide the booze. He does hit rock bottom and decides to give A.A. a chance, where he learns he needs to love himself before he can hope for peace. 6/10

Alpha. 2018. Family drama. Set 20,000 years ago, using an invented language for the film, it follows a boy on his first buffalo/bison hunt with his tribe. He fall about 300 miles down a sheer cliff side and his father, assuming he is dead, returns home. The boy had landed on a ledge and only when a vulture lands on him does he decide to climb down the next 300 miles. It starts to rain and he clings onto the cliff-face (with just his fingertips) long enough for a raging torrent to be created
beneath him. He falls and survives....hurrah! He must then fight off a pack of wolves. He injures one and then he heals him and then they become bestest pals, working together to find his way home. Scenically, it was beautiful. Historically it felt all over the place, but I like dogs, so it was fine by me. 5/10

Rewatch: Another Year. 2010. A Mike Leigh drama. Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen are a long-time married couple who are fulfilled by their careers and loving and respectful with each other. They seem to attract friends who are dissatisfied with their lives and expect Tom and Gerri to have the answers. Lesley Manville (a favourite of Mike Leigh's) is enthralling to watch as she lurches between absolute contentment and abject misery in the space of a few minutes. It's Mike Leigh! It's not a comedy, but he can produce a look in the eye of one of his players that will break your heart. 9/10

Christopher Robin. 2018. Disney family film. I reckon I must be wired wrong. What's cute about a grumpy grown man finding his inner child with the appearance of a rather skanky looking stuffed bear that talks? I preferred Ewan Mcgregor when he was shoplifting, mugging tourists, sleeping with under age girls (accidently) and filling his blood stream with copious amounts of heroin. P.S. It's impossible to remove honey from a fluffy surface by wiping it with a damp cloth! 2/10

Dogman. 2018. Italian crime drama. Marcello is a small unassuming fellow. He dotes on his daughter, who he sees when he can. He has a dog grooming parlour in a run down seaside town and adores his four legged visitors. He socialises with the the locals and supplements his income with a little coke dealing. This has brought him into contact to with Simoncino, a huge, bullying sociopath, who insinuates himself into Marcello's life and brings the little man to his knees. Eventually he decides he won't take the threats and the beatings any more and comes up with a plan for revenge. It wasn't a very good plan! The sub-titles I had with this were appalling, but it was mostly visual, so it didn't really matter. 6/10

Golden Job. 2018. Chinese action film. A tight knit group of mercenaries plan to steal pharmaceuticals to send to a refugee camp in Africa, but one of them has double crossed them and they have in fact stolen gold bullion. Lots of car chases and shootouts, where presumably a lot of street vendors lost their stalls and vegetables. I can't remember what happened after that, only that one of them had nice eyes and teeth. 4/10

My Dinner with Hervé. 2018. Peter Dinklage plays the little guy from Fantasy Island, and Jamie Dornan is the reluctant last-chance journo who is sent to interview him. The dwarf gets the job as a Bond baddie, then gets the part of the co-star in a long-running shit TV show, pisses all his wealth up the wall, moans and carps about only being known for these two roles and then shoots himself. The End. He wasn't very interesting, neither was the film, although Mr Dornan is very easy on the eye. 3/10

BlacKkKlansman 2018. Spike Lee film based on an autobiography. Set in the 70's with race being an issue and black students beginning to organise speeches and rallies. Black cop, Ron Stallworth (played by Denzel's son) convinces his superiors he should be allowed to infiltrate the KKK. He convinces his Jewish colleague to be the face, while Ron is the voice. To hear ideas about these dumb-arse bigots believing they belong to God's chosen race makes me feel queasy, but there are still those today who believe it is so. How I miss those afros. 6/10

Ant-Man and the Wasp. 2018. It had some amusing moments, but it relied too heavily on the love story for my liking. Ant Man goes into some quantum realm??? area to retrieve Mrs Wasp to make Ms Wasp happy. Odd that she didn't notice that her mother went in as little known actress Hayley Lovitt and came out 10/20/30? years later as Michelle Pfeiffer. That would have freaked me out. It was OK. 5/10

The Night Comes for Us. 2018. Indonesian. The perfect film for bloodthirsty martial arts lovers. It would have taken several hundred orthopedic surgeons to piece everyone back together again and a blood bank the size of Wales. It was triads and broken brotherhoods, but the story didn't really matter. There were a couple of instances where a couple of characters had hundreds of opponents at the same time, but those Indonesians surely know how to queue. "Next please" "Who's next?" Amazing choreography. I don't know why the West bothers with this genre. 7/10

I hate October and the release of a million rubbish horror films. Finding a good one is like finding a diamond in a cesspit.

>51 .cris: Love Peter Dinklage so I will have to watch this no matter what but too bad it didn't work out.

>47 .cris:

Loved Another Year it has been a rewatch for me a few times, great casting Jim Broadbent is a great actor, he has starred in a few mini series of late. In both he plays a very demented character. One has been Exile and the other is War and Peace.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
3/5

I've seen them all and each one loses more and more of the original story line. The dinosaurs are just sort of... there. So much of the supposed plot makes no sense. All of the dinosaurs were genetically engineered from the very start of these movies but now we have a trained dinosaur that will kill on demand?? Looked to me like he was doing very well on his own. If you train something you need to be able to control it and NO ONE controlled this big boy. I didn't dislike the movie...I just wished they had stuck more with the plot that they started out with.

Dealt
3.5/5 stars
Our library had shown this film on their film night and I thought this was quite interesting. In this documentary, we meet Richard Turner. He lost his sight gradually as a young man (so did his sister) but that did not deter him from becoming one of all great card magicians. They also talked about how him and his sister differed in dealing with their blindness.

Finding Your Feet
3.5/5 stars
I loved this sweet British film about a woman who finds her husband cheating on her and goes to live with her sister. Her sister is involved in a dance group and she joins which brings immense pleasure into her life.

First Man
2.5/5 stars
This is the story of Neil Armstrong and his life during the 60's including his landing on the moon. I never realized what a serious man he was. Even though this has gotten good reviews (my son loved it), I felt it just dragged (it was 2 hours and 22 minutes long). I loved The Right Stuff and Apollo 13 but felt that this movie did compare favorably to those two films. IMO!

The Divine Order. 2017. Swiss (German) comedy drama. I was completely shocked to discover that women did not nationally have the vote until 1990. I did a little reading up on the subject and it appears Switzerland is made up of Cantons, each with it's own rules and regulations. A national referendum failed in 1958, and this film set in 1971 shows Nora, a small town housewife, as she reluctantly becomes the head of the suffragette movement in her sleepy old town, where women must have their husband's permission to get a job, and most of them are very happy to have the little woman at home waiting on them hand and foot. I enjoyed this gentle comedy and actually thought it hilarious when these very sexually naive women attended a hippy seminar for the ladies in the big city. 7/10

Drunk on Women and Poetry aka Strokes of Fire, aka Painted Fire. 2002. Korean period piece. Even Choi Min-sik couldn't make this tale of a genius suffering for his art exciting...Yawn! 2/10

Five Fingers for Marseilles. 2017. South African Western. A boy does a runner after shooting two corrupt cops who were collecting protection money from his shanty town. He returns many years later to find all his old friends are dirty in their own way. When a gang from the city move in, intending to make the town their own, everyone has to choose a side. Some of the reviews found fault with the accents being wrong. Obviously, that was never going to lose points from my perspective. An unusual setting for "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" scenario. 5/10

Possum. 2018. Horror?. I think Sean Harris is a great actor, so I was looking forward to this. What a disappointment, I didn't know what was happening. Philip (Sean) returns to his family home gingerly carrying a holdall. There's a revolting old man living in his disgusting house (his step-father?) and then Philip throws the bag in the mud, throws it in the river, burns it, but it keeps turning up. It's a vile puppet of a spider and then a teenager goes missing and Philip changes his raincoat for a donkey jacket and then, and then, and then....What the hell was going on? 2/10 (That puppet was creepy)

Leave No Trace. 2018. Will, a man suffering from PTSD lives in an urban forest with his 13 year old daughter. They live off the land, sleeping under canvas, avoiding any contact with others, except for the occasional trip to town, where he sells the medication he gets from the Vets centre, to buy essentials. The park rangers track them down and they are separated, but there is no evidence that the girl is mistreated so they are offered a place on a quiet conifer farm, but Will is unable to cope with the interference from social services, and the rules he must comply with, so they run again. This time the authorities are chasing them. It had a bittersweet ending. I love Dale Dickey, who is too rarely on our screens, and thought the young actress playing Tom was brilliantly understated. Highly recommended. 8/10

Adrift
3/5 stars
A young couple are given the chance to bring a boat back to the states. They take the challenge but disaster awaits. Okay film, but I feel like this has been done before.

Papillon. 2017. Remake of prison break drama. I realise there is a whole generation who have never heard of Steve McQueen, It's a good yarn, so perhaps a remake is due, Let's discuss the casting:

Producer: "We need to cast the McQueen role. Any ideas?"
Casting agent: "Fassbender?"
Producer: "He can't act!"
C.A.: "Hardy?"
P.: "Not sexy enough. The ladies will never watch it"
C.A.: "Bale?"
P: "Not committed to his role"...."How about Bogart?
C.A.: "I think he's dead sir!"
P. "Get me Charlie Hunnam, and we'll make him take his shirt off a lot" "That'll work!"
C.A.: "What about the Dustin Hoffman role?"
P.: "Pick anyone available who looks geeky in geek glasses"

It IS a good yarn. It filled a couple of hours, but I'd recommend the original. 4/10

Rewatch: Dead Man's Shoes. 2004. Revenge flick. Richard (Paddy Considine) plays cat and mouse with the low-live's who tormented his mentally challenged brother, while he was away in the army. Directed by Shane Meadows and written by Messrs Meadows and Considine. This is a tight, terrifying look at a man with nothing to lose. Considine is absolutely brilliant. Quite bloody. 9/10

Equalizer 2. 2018. Action thriller. I like Denzel Washington. I believe he has made more good films than bad (My favourite is "Fallen"). He's getting on now, but he was able to convince me that he was this man who deals out retribution/justice. I barely remember the prequel, but in this he is a quiet unassuming taxi driver with extraordinary skills. His ex-boss/friend was killed and he needs to find out who and why. There was a sub-story about him saving a young neighbour from drug dealing and gangs, which rang a bum note, but generally, I enjoyed it. 7/10 (a higher rating than the first film)

The Bombing. aka Airstrike. 2018. A review from IMDb "A collaboration between Hollywood and Chinese cinema has brought you possibly Bruce Willis's worst film EVER!" I know I said I'd never watch another Bruce Willis film again, EVER, but he was starring with some BIG Chinese stars. I lasted 5 minutes. The pilots was all so beautiful, they looked like refugees from Chinese boy-bands, the dialogue was dubbed and I hit the off button without even seeing Bruce.

>68 .cris: I enjoyed this sequel too.

I will be going to the movies to see Bohemian Rhapsody Tuesday, lead up on TV two docos re Freddie Mercury and another on Queen.