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I saw both of these movies this week, as i'm bored i decided to write reviews, which is something i may do again for future movies, we'll see. MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.
<big><big>The Wolverine</big></big>
Before the movie : I love a lot of marvel movies, x-men being one of my favorite marvel franchises (along with Iron Man and Blade) i was pretty excited to see what would happen in this movie after the small letdown that was Origins : Wolverine.
Movie Plot :
In 1945 Logan was held in a Japanes camp, during the bombing of Nagasaki he saved Yashida, a Japanese officer.
Nowadays, he lives as an hermit, tortured by memories of what happened in The Last Stand when he killed is beloved Jean Grey. Yukio, a mutant working for Yashida finds him, her boss is dying from cancer and pretends he wants to bid farewell to the man who saved his life.
Once in Tokyo, Yashida tells Logan his "curse" to live forever because of his healing factor could be transfered to another man : himself to cure his cancer. At night, the Viper who is Yashida's doctor, introduces something in Logan's body but he just thinks it was part of one of his hallucinatory dreams involving Jean. In the morning he learns Yashida's passing, at the funeral some Yakuza are attacking Mariko, Yashida's grand-daughter, Logan protects her and finds out after being shot and beaten down that his healing factor works slower than before.
He will have to protect Mariko and discover why her life his endangered by Yakuzas while being weaker than ever because of what the Viper did to him.
My impressions :
+ The Story, without being the most inventive, is good. You follow it with pleasure, it doesn't make it a "Logan walks in Tokyo slashing Yakuzas for no reason" story and yet it's simple and no brainer.
+ The choice to not mention the event related in the infamous Origins and making the movie follows the events of Last Stand is a good idea.
+ Wolverine has the image of the unbeatable beast who doesn't give a sh*t, the best point of this movie is how it shows a weakened Wolverine on a physical point with the healing factor reduced but also on the mental point with how he his affected by the loss of the one he loved, killed by his own hands.
+ The cast ! That's something that bothered me little with Origins. We have a movie centered on one character adn having well known people (ex : Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Dominic Monaghan, Will i am) even in minor roles is slowly taking the spotlight from the main character.
Here in The Wolverine, the actors are lesser known (which is also a negative point) and keep the spectator centered on the protagonist.
+Famke Janssen's apparitions add a point of hotness
-Logan living in hermit could have been better used with a more broken character than a friend of bears who will fight a bunch of hunters in a bar because one of them used a poisoned arrow on a bear
-The cast, as i said most of the actors aren't really well known and i found it difficult to care about their characters, some of them are okay but the one who played the viper or the one who played Mariko just left me blank.
To Conclude, this movie was really enjoyable, way better than Origins but still not as good as Iron Man 3. It made my attention rise on the event that will occur in Days of Future Past and made me want to watch the whole franchise again.
<big><big>7.5/10</big></big>
<big><big>R.I.P.D</big></big>
Before the movie : I was mixed, we have a duet with Jeff Bridges on one side, great actor who was impressive as a goofy asshole in The Big Lebowsky or as a serious Marshall in True Grit to only mention these two great performances. On the other side we have Ryan Reynolds who made me smile in Van Wilder and disappointed me in many other movies such as Green Lantern, Blade Trinity; but i don't think he is the only one to blame for these lame performances, i'll explain it later.
Important thing, in French Reynolds voice sounds like a pompous 16 year old making it hard to support the scenes where he talks a lot.
Movie Plot :
Detective Nick Walker (Reynolds) and his partner played by Kevin Bacon stole Gold, Nick hides his share under a tree in his backyard but regrets this bad cop action and tells his partner he will return the gold. During an intervention in a warehouse Nick is killed by his partner because of this decision.
Nick wakes up in some kind of interrogation room where a female character offers him to join the R.I.P.D (aka the MIB version undead) where he meets his new partner, Roy Pulsipher (Jeff Bridges).
Roy and Nick Go to earth to attend Nick's funeral and then go on his first operation as an RIPD agent, the undead the went to arrest tries to run away and Roy ends up shooting him, on him they found pieces of gold similar to the ones Nick stole while alive. Further investigations show that Nick previous partner is dealing something with the undead and the gold pieces are parts of an ancient artifact which could bring hordes of undead back on earth.
Nick and Roy will do their best to prevent this.
My impressions :
+ MIB is a fun movie(the first one) so why not an undead version of it ?
+and- We have Bridges portraying an old grumpy and yet funny officer who is enjoyable and Reynolds who is the young one, thinking he know it all in a first place, with a dumb love story.
- The jokes are at a low level, what i'd call "dick and shit jokes", sometimes the timing is good and it will make you smile, but most of them just fall flat and you'll wonder why you came to watch this movie.
- Reynolds bad performance again ! As i said he is not the only one to blame, i feel like in most of the movies he played in, they gave him the role of a 30 years old retard teenager with blank love stories, who talks too much and most of the time the dialogue lines he has are plain stupid
- The story, after 18 minutes of watching i already knew how it would end, there wasn't even one little surprising moment during the whole movie.
To conclude, i consider R.I.P.D one of the worst movies i watched in a cinema this year, the few laughable scenes don't justify spending money on this movie. On a side note i watched it alone, maybe you'll enjoy it more if you go with some friends a beer in the hand to have some fun.
<big><big>3.5/10</big></big>
<big><big>The Wolverine</big></big>
Before the movie : I love a lot of marvel movies, x-men being one of my favorite marvel franchises (along with Iron Man and Blade) i was pretty excited to see what would happen in this movie after the small letdown that was Origins : Wolverine.
Movie Plot :
In 1945 Logan was held in a Japanes camp, during the bombing of Nagasaki he saved Yashida, a Japanese officer.
Nowadays, he lives as an hermit, tortured by memories of what happened in The Last Stand when he killed is beloved Jean Grey. Yukio, a mutant working for Yashida finds him, her boss is dying from cancer and pretends he wants to bid farewell to the man who saved his life.
Once in Tokyo, Yashida tells Logan his "curse" to live forever because of his healing factor could be transfered to another man : himself to cure his cancer. At night, the Viper who is Yashida's doctor, introduces something in Logan's body but he just thinks it was part of one of his hallucinatory dreams involving Jean. In the morning he learns Yashida's passing, at the funeral some Yakuza are attacking Mariko, Yashida's grand-daughter, Logan protects her and finds out after being shot and beaten down that his healing factor works slower than before.
He will have to protect Mariko and discover why her life his endangered by Yakuzas while being weaker than ever because of what the Viper did to him.
My impressions :
+ The Story, without being the most inventive, is good. You follow it with pleasure, it doesn't make it a "Logan walks in Tokyo slashing Yakuzas for no reason" story and yet it's simple and no brainer.
+ The choice to not mention the event related in the infamous Origins and making the movie follows the events of Last Stand is a good idea.
+ Wolverine has the image of the unbeatable beast who doesn't give a sh*t, the best point of this movie is how it shows a weakened Wolverine on a physical point with the healing factor reduced but also on the mental point with how he his affected by the loss of the one he loved, killed by his own hands.
+ The cast ! That's something that bothered me little with Origins. We have a movie centered on one character adn having well known people (ex : Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Dominic Monaghan, Will i am) even in minor roles is slowly taking the spotlight from the main character.
Here in The Wolverine, the actors are lesser known (which is also a negative point) and keep the spectator centered on the protagonist.
+Famke Janssen's apparitions add a point of hotness
-Logan living in hermit could have been better used with a more broken character than a friend of bears who will fight a bunch of hunters in a bar because one of them used a poisoned arrow on a bear
-The cast, as i said most of the actors aren't really well known and i found it difficult to care about their characters, some of them are okay but the one who played the viper or the one who played Mariko just left me blank.
To Conclude, this movie was really enjoyable, way better than Origins but still not as good as Iron Man 3. It made my attention rise on the event that will occur in Days of Future Past and made me want to watch the whole franchise again.
<big><big>7.5/10</big></big>
<big><big>R.I.P.D</big></big>
Before the movie : I was mixed, we have a duet with Jeff Bridges on one side, great actor who was impressive as a goofy asshole in The Big Lebowsky or as a serious Marshall in True Grit to only mention these two great performances. On the other side we have Ryan Reynolds who made me smile in Van Wilder and disappointed me in many other movies such as Green Lantern, Blade Trinity; but i don't think he is the only one to blame for these lame performances, i'll explain it later.
Important thing, in French Reynolds voice sounds like a pompous 16 year old making it hard to support the scenes where he talks a lot.
Movie Plot :
Detective Nick Walker (Reynolds) and his partner played by Kevin Bacon stole Gold, Nick hides his share under a tree in his backyard but regrets this bad cop action and tells his partner he will return the gold. During an intervention in a warehouse Nick is killed by his partner because of this decision.
Nick wakes up in some kind of interrogation room where a female character offers him to join the R.I.P.D (aka the MIB version undead) where he meets his new partner, Roy Pulsipher (Jeff Bridges).
Roy and Nick Go to earth to attend Nick's funeral and then go on his first operation as an RIPD agent, the undead the went to arrest tries to run away and Roy ends up shooting him, on him they found pieces of gold similar to the ones Nick stole while alive. Further investigations show that Nick previous partner is dealing something with the undead and the gold pieces are parts of an ancient artifact which could bring hordes of undead back on earth.
Nick and Roy will do their best to prevent this.
My impressions :
+ MIB is a fun movie(the first one) so why not an undead version of it ?
+and- We have Bridges portraying an old grumpy and yet funny officer who is enjoyable and Reynolds who is the young one, thinking he know it all in a first place, with a dumb love story.
- The jokes are at a low level, what i'd call "dick and shit jokes", sometimes the timing is good and it will make you smile, but most of them just fall flat and you'll wonder why you came to watch this movie.
- Reynolds bad performance again ! As i said he is not the only one to blame, i feel like in most of the movies he played in, they gave him the role of a 30 years old retard teenager with blank love stories, who talks too much and most of the time the dialogue lines he has are plain stupid
- The story, after 18 minutes of watching i already knew how it would end, there wasn't even one little surprising moment during the whole movie.
To conclude, i consider R.I.P.D one of the worst movies i watched in a cinema this year, the few laughable scenes don't justify spending money on this movie. On a side note i watched it alone, maybe you'll enjoy it more if you go with some friends a beer in the hand to have some fun.
<big><big>3.5/10</big></big>
