Bone Tomahawk (2015)

I’m hard pressed to think of a more gruesome scene than the one inside that cave. Unpleasant. Unexpected as well, seeing as the build up to the nastiness was quite slow. Definitely an odd western, if you can call it that.

Rating: C-

Vantage Point (2008)

Like watching an extended episode of Boomtown, but with a bigger budget. Expect to be entertained and not much more.

Rating: C

Speed Racer (2008)

I can hardly fathom how the Wachowski's can be responsible for amazing films like The Matrix and Bound, only two follow them up with two inferior Matrix sequels and then a massively disappointing car wreck of a film, Speed Racer. What happened?

 Regardless of whether they were going for an anime feel or pure camp, the film still needs to be entertaining. It failed miserably on that count. The characters are as two dimensional as the crappy cartoon this movie was based on. I was unable to root for the hero because I was too preoccupied wishing other characters dead. Only a bullet to the head of his mother, fat kid brother, and dumbass monkey could have turned things around for me.

Christina Ricci should have known better than to sign on for this abomination. She was better in Casper for crying out loud. 90% of the film is one giant green screen, and it shows. There's at least a full hour of actors reacting poorly to scenes that a computer is yet to create. The scriptwriters sat at the back of the bus while the FX guy drove it off a cliff. One of the worst films of the year.

Rating: F

World War Z (2013)

I had high expectations going in to this one. I’m a huge zombie fan, I read the book, and I knew they had a massive budget to work with. First off, the movie shares very little with the novel. I think they just wanted to use the title. The book wasn’t that great, so I had no qualms about a new storyline.

What did really bother me were the zombies. It’s like they took the infected from 28 Days Later, fed them crack, and then CGI’d the crap out of them. Apparently dying also gives them superhuman abilities. It was borderline ridiculous, and didn’t feel like a zombie movie at all. The story was ho hum and lacked any emotional depth. A very average zombie movie that should have been awesome.

Rating: C