Awake not Woke!

Pro-family Christmas movie

One of the greatest family movies of all time.

This will not be for everyone but it's become part of the regular Christmas watching rotation for us for years now. The comedy is pretty good but it is a 90's movie so there's some sappy romance stuff mixed in as well. Cage and Lovitz work well together with their comedic timing. Carvey's performance is a little one note and while he has some decent comedic scenes his constant Klepto and over the top stupidity starts to get old halfway through the movie. The FBI agent and the mother have some great scenes as well. Whether or not you will like this probably will depend largely on your like of the 90's and the 3 lead actors. There is nothing woke.

Not really woke. There is one 2 second scene of a lonely man in a window who has another man come up to him and give him a kiss on the cheek and he smiles and they both walk away implying a gay couple. It's a very short scene and it's done in the context of a joke. The characters are never seen again or before this. I Don't see any reason to ding it for that one thing. This is a watchable Christmas movie despite Affleck's horrendous performance. I don't know if he was directed to do this or if it's his fault. His character is so annoying and his acting is terrible. He does this weird high pitched whiney high energy annoying voice that is awful. The strange thing is there are a couple of scenes were he is a normal person and his acting is fine and his voice is normal. His character has some great jokes and lines that would be funny if not for his bad acting and voice. The saving grace though and the real reason to watch this is the performances by James Gandolfini and Catherine O'Hare. Those two steal the show with excellent acting and hilarious jokes. Applegate has some good scenes but those 2 are by far the highlight.

So you're like a -- we don't speak of it

SPOILERS -- SPOILERS -- SPOILERS Well, not really. Jack is shown with pigeon wings on the jacket, and the scars show up in the first scene. The script plays fast and loose with the cainite origin of -- we don't speak of it. Rollins is somewhat convincing as Jack; the rest of the cast is on par. The movie suffers from a slow start, where it does a lukewarm job of building its main character. It then devolves into lazy and slow-paced Terminator-like action ending. Its cardinal sin, in my eye, is the lack of lore-building. It awkwardly hints, sometimes, but never really sparks interest. It stretches the 15-lines background of a game character into a 90 minutes movie. Just not enough butter for that much bread. Well, Krawczyk (writer and director) apparently wrote a sequel with even less substance (She Never Died, I guess they'll need a dog to round up the trilogy). So, as good as he gets.