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The Suicide Squad (2021) - Movie Review

  DC Meets Marvel Director What happens when you put a great cast with a proven directory like James Gunn? Not the movie I was saw. The cast was great. I didn't even realize Sylvester Stallone and Nathan Fillion were in the movie. Add to the known cast of Idris Elba, Margot Robbie, and John Cena among other and this should have been a great movie. I think my daughter summed it up the best as a horrible movie that was so bad, you had to watch it. My impression is that you took the group movie like Guardians of the Galaxy and threw in Deadpool dialog. It did not work in my opinion. Review The cast were great. You really felt for their characters. The story had a lot of promise. Cinematography was very good. Dialog destroyed this movie. Not all of it was bad but it felt like the dialog dropped the f-bomb every fourth or fifth word. R rating had nothing to do with fighting. Joker got away with their R rating and it was an okay movie. Birds of Prey had an R rating and was about as good ...

Ice Road (Netflix) & The Tomorrow War (Amazon) Double Feature Movie Reviews

 Slacking In Reviews So I have been a little behind on movie reviews. Guess that means double feature review time. To make it interesting, I picked two fairly new releases to two popular streaming platforms. This review will be a little different than normal as I try to determine which original movie is worth the streaming fee. I will also give some spoilers away for each movie so you are warned now.  Both these movies have star actors as the leads with Liam Neeson and Laurence Fishburne in Ice Road from Netflix and Chris Pratt and J. K. Simmons in The Tomorrow War on Amazon. Netflix streaming service is $18 per month for just streaming. Amazon Prime is $13 per month or $119 per year which includes free shipping. Amazon clearly has the price win here. I am surprised they don't use their shipping services to sell movie merchandise for their original movies. I would like a small commission if they do for giving them the idea not that they read my blog. lol Ice Road - Review Who ...