April movie reviews

A WORKING MAN

Last year, Jason Statham and director David Ayer teamed up for the thoroughly satisfying The Beekeeper. This is not as good. It's functional, but too slow and serious, with most of its action taking place in poorly shot night scenes. 

THE AMATEUR

The seemingly very odd casting of Rami Malek as the lead in a spy thriller really does pay off. He's no action star. He gets in one real fight in the movie, and has his ass kicked by a middle aged woman. But he's meant to be completely out of his element in that way, so it's very convincing. The rest of the movie is a solid, engrossing 2 hours of fairly generic spy thriller material.

DROP

This thriller about maybe the worst first date in history (even I can't compete) is reasonably well made and holds ones attention most of the way. But then it completely falls apart in a bombastic final 20 minutes. 

A MINECRAFT MOVIE

I'm glad that people went back to theaters in droves....but for THIS? 
Look, I've never played the game and never will, but I can still tell this is a very lazy movie, with a half-assed story and poor script.
The visuals are fine, I suppose. But stars Jack Black and Jason Momoa both give absolutely insufferable performances.
At least I didn't attend one of those screenings where idiots lost their minds at "chicken jockey"

SINNERS

Ryan Coogler's period vampire flick has also become a box office sensation, and this one is WAY more deserving of its success. Super cool and stylish. That one musical sequence everybody is talking about is as great as advertised. A slew of memorable characters, led by charisma machine Michael B. Jordan in a dual role, and a dazzling Hailee Steinfeld going places I never expected. 

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