Mini Review - Ride Along

This was another movie franchise that was on my sequel baiting list… I regret nothing!

Ride Along featuring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. I should’ve known what I was in for but I didn’t stop to think. Released in 2014, the movie was financially successful, earning $150m on a $25m budget but it was slammed by critics with only an 18% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. So why don’t I just go the whole hog and make it a rage review. Answers to follow

Mini Review - Angels and Demons

It’s been a while since I talked about the Da Vinci Code. Number of reasons, my schedule being full with other movies, the fact that these films rely heavily on religion, a subject in which I’m not very well versed and I am not myself religious, and finally because I found the Da Vinci Code itself quite boring and had little desire to return to the trilogy in any hurry. But, the time has come and I’m ready for it.

Released in 2009 it made $486m on a $150m budget, which is respectable but it didn’t exactly set the world on fire critically, with only a 37% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, still a marked improvement over The Da Vinci’s Code’s 25%.

#65 - R.I.P.D.

Ryan Reynolds, he’s Deadpool but before that he was Green Lantern, he’s was in A Million Ways to die in the West (briefly) and he’s in this piece of sh*t too.

Based on a comic book by Peter Len Melkov, this movie was a dismal failure, making only $78m on it’s $130m budget. Critically it was disastrous too, it holds a 14% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (average 3.6/10) and a 5.6/10 on IMDb, bear in mind, this is the same rating Green Lantern got. To find out why, let’s just dig right in.

Mini Review - Star Trek

Let me tell you about my experiences with Star Trek

Yeah, whilst it took me until I was in my 20s before I watched Star Wars for the firs time, I never watched Star Trek. I think I had an old VHS of it, but it never caught my attention. But in 2009 they decided to reboot the franchise in bring it in the New direction, brought to us by the guy who directed the Force Awakens and Mission Impossible 3, JJ Abrams.

The movie was modestly successful, earning $385m on a $150m budget, not that great, but enough to kickstart this franchise anew leading to a new TV series on Netflix. Look, my schedule’s pretty packed, I may get to discovery some-when down the line but not in the near future.