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What did you expect?

From the get-go, Anderson let's it all hang out. And late 20s Anderson is sexy as sin.
Also, Word Up. The Gun cover, but it's still good. The music's the best part of the movie. Except the porno-sax parts.

The movie is basically Mad Maxablanca with boobs. Boobs on Boggie. Disturbing. Not sure it's comics-accurate, but who's read this?

Funny thing, America is ravaged by (un)civil strife in ... 2017.
Reality was less fun.
Then again, the 'safe' dollar is Canadian, so, sci-fi.
Also, Casablanca made sense to escape from Europe at the time. But trying to sneak into Canada? Isn't the border on the huge side?

Anderson is hardly inside her costumes. Not a thespian by any means, but she fits the role. She goes through the action parts a lot better than expected.
Morrison is just out of Once Were Warriors, but hey, bills are bills.
Rowell is (not) out of The Young & The Restless. Over 800 episodes. Impressive until one learns there are over 13k episodes. Anyway, not quite talented, but gorgeous.
Berkeley is a solid actor, doing a solid job.
Kier is, well, Kier. Has been all his life, so he's good at it.

The photography is surprisingly acceptable, albeit on the darker side, and the whole thing is rather well paced. Hogan does have a gazillion music videos to his name, so there's that.

No agenda that I could see. For those screaming Nazi imagery! Well, Casablanca rip-off, so Nazi rip-off.
Common sense rip-off.

It has some fun lines ("Pleasure doing business with you" "If it was pleasure, I'd charge more."), charismatic actors, a decent script, good music, good photo.


I rate it a solid 60% as a second-screener (technically third screen, but let us not nitpick).
As a main watch? It's a safe (but not for work) double-bill with Street Fighter, I guess.

Let's not compare, because it doesn't

I would have rated this lower, but there has been so few comedies of late. And movies without an agenda. And it has Weird Al.

Neeson somehow stopped aging at 50 - he's still doing action flicks - but he's in the low seventies I think; same as Nielsen during his tenure.
He does his best, but lacks Nielsen's natural, goofy, self-aware comedic charm.

Anderson, well, looks Neeson's age, and never was much of an actress to begin with. Except maybe Barb Wire. Ah, time goes by.

The whole movie feels more like a 90s uninspired spoof movie (Kingsman in this case), with the only tangible link to Police Squad and The Naked Gun being the end credits.
Don't miss the end credits.
And go watch the originals. Which probably means go to your living room, but you get the point. And old ZAZ stuff.

Slasher chases modern teens into a gay bar

Please stop. Every God damn film. We have a typical slasher-type film which kind of has been rehashed since the dawn of time, but a bit of predictability is far better than when they jammed a homosexual love affair into the middle of the film, out of left field.

Clown in a Cornfield isn't funny, but it's got cringe down. A sheriff who does whatever the hell he wants to do, adult townies that clearly hate these modern, agenda driven teenagers and their new fangled ideas and, naturally, a gay love affair between the pretty boy and redneck. By the end of the film, it's devolved into a blathering rant of woke ideology from the "old generation" about Mother Earth and cat videos.

I feel the need to stop watching films from the 70's and 80's to get a modern woke-r-not perspective, but there's so much of this shit, it makes my head ache.

It was a laugh when the kids try to use a rotary phone. That was silly!

Burning ruin of rationality because of Wokeness

Environmentalism is still a large part of the film’s narrative, so is the biased assumption of skin color and morality as Quaritch once brought up, and even a pregnant alien female takes part in the battle that is very irresponsible just for a show of feminism, that and other instances of feminist “warrior” culture.

Paganism is plenty in this movie. Aside from deifying the environment as some sort of God that hates humans, it emphasizes the message of following your path in faith that is a displacement of the message that God determines our paths out of goodness. On top of that, the “goddess” of Pandora is made to be a manifestation of nature against mankind. It also pushes transhumanism in the transformation of Spyder to become a Pandora native.

Kind of fun, bloody, indie horror

The acting actually isn't as terrible as I'd expected and at least The Demon Inside isn't made on a cell phone. The sound quality and lighting isn't amateur and the plot is serviceable. That's really cool. I wish more indie films were made with higher quality equipment and better caliber actors like this one. I even bumped my rating a little higher just for that. Don't expect a lot, but it's worth a watch.

I was surprised to learn that I think these indie films are mostly woke free because they don't have to bow to their corporate overlords for funding and have less need to appeal to everyone and anyone.

... Minor spoilers ...

It's mainly about a dude with a drinking problem who's house is possessed by a demon. He and his wife call upon a group of nutty ghost hunters to try and relieve the home of demons, but that doesn't work. There's a fair amount of blood, no apparent CGI and it's free of any and all woke aspects.

Not bad.

Wokeness: I didn't notice any agenda.
I love a good whodunit story. This one isn't too bad. The lead character, Benoit Blanc, seems to be a mashup of literary detectives, Poirot, Dupin, and maybe Holmes. The mystery is a play on a Dickson Carr story, The Hollow Man. That is, a locked room murder. They even reference the book in this movie. There are a few weaknesses in the basic plot, but, overall, it's worth the watch.
I will opine that this isn't Craig's best work.

While there are a few comments that could be considered wokish they are done in the context of a joke and for humor and not preachy or forced so I'm not marking it for that. This is another yearly watch for the holidays for us. Good acting and writing. While the jokes are good and well done it's more of a solid humorous Christmas movie than a laugh out loud one though there are some of those as well.

Rewatch after 40 years...(almost)

I saw this when it first came out. I remember liking it. It's definitely a '80's comedy. That is, cheesy, predictable, and kind of gimmicky: "That's not a knife. This... is a knife." I love fish-out-of-water stories. This was a pretty good one. There was a transsexual character that was the subject of ridicule, so, no woke there. Paul Hogan wrote and starred in it. He played heavily on the culture shock between the Outback and the big city. It's a fun movie as long as you don't take it too seriously.

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 up its main character.

It then devolves into a 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.