Caro the Movie Critic

Here it is: the fight of the year until Civil War.  Here it is: one of the most anticipated movies of the year with Batman fighting Superman for justice and more. This has to be one of the most challenging projects to partake due to the fan base and also the true spirit of DC comic book universe and who else to be at the helm to direct this movie? Christopher Nolan. Pssshhh...I wish. Zach Snyder: A director that I'm not fond of but when I saw Man of Steel  recently, I liked the movie a tad more but because of the character development of Clark Kent/Superman especially with the scenes with his father. Those were the best parts of the movie. Now, to integrate the climactic events with Bruce Wayne's side of the story as his building collapses, it brings a different angle to the story. However, under Snyder's direction, the visual excitement persuades you to get in the moments of epic greatness but he gets lost in the sloppy narrative that jumbles so much to propel you to g...

Wow! What a disaster. Remember Jaws ? Well, everybody, maybe, does. But, this movie from Norway plays like a similar movie of the Steven Spielberg classic. I say that because of the main storyline which I will get to later. But, for a disaster movie with a low budget, this is profound. With some of the scientific analyses regarding the waves and the type of mayhem that'll cause for the mountain-town of Gerainger. But, as a movie, even though this is a formulaic disaster picture, there are characters that we, the audience, care about and identify with as they are in that terrible and perilous situation. It is a solid disaster movie of a sort. A mountain-based town, Gerainger, with a problem regarding a potential rockslide as Norway has been threatened with many unstable rockslides. A geologist named Kristian (Kristoffer Joner) is living peacefully with his wife, Idun (Ane Dahl Torp) and his children which includes Sondre, their son. (Jonas Hoff Oftbero) The next day, he goes t...

Melissa Rauch as a foul-mouthed gymnast. There are not many movies about the art of gymnastics and training for gymnastics that catapults many viewers to tryout to go after their dreams for the Olympic gold. However, I don't know if this is the movie that will get you to go out and chase your dreams. With much notice, many gymnasts retire at a young age due to injury, controversy or just other pursuits of life. But, my problem with the movie itself does not hang with the art of gymnastics and the set-up of the story, it is the nature of how the main character is dragged on and how they insert a seemingly fresh character and put it in a predictable story no matter how inspiring it is. Hope Ann Gregory (Melissa Rauch) is recognized as a gymnast who finished a routine injuring her Achilles, earning a bronze and the status of celebrity in her small town of Amherst. Her dad (Gary Cole) calls Hope to dinner as she is masturbating to her footage of her bronze victory and screams at ...

Here's Tris...again...ugh. All of the films are the same but again, the YA book adaptation genre has gotten a bit worse in my opinion because there's not one movie that has connected with me. I mean, the only good movie is The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2  right now, the others have gotten tiresome and cliched and is set in the post-apocalyptic world and that's the major problem. Every single YA novel wants to center either a young man and/or woman to stand out against the system. And, every other studio wants to get more money but here's the thing, there's not much originality to its story. This latest movie in the series is so predictable that you can figure out which character is going to be up to no good or will not make it. There are two cool sequences that got me the pleasure to give it a star and that's it. A LITTLE SPOILER ALERT... Now that Jeanine (Kate Winslet) is dead, Evelyn (Naomi Watts) has taken control of post-apocalyptic Chicago and...

Mark Strong and Sacha Baron Cohen. Let's set-up the movie in terms of execution for the story. We have a guy who is an agent in MI6 who has a brother who is loving but is careless. It's a fantastic premise for that type of spy comedy. BUT...if it's for a movie that stars Sacha Baron Cohen...all logic and solid storytelling goes out the window. Ever since he solidified himself as a lead role in Borat , we were surprised on how funny and clever that comedy was. I really liked his first effort but I cannot get myself to watch it multiple times. But, we had the awful Bruno  and the decent The Dictator  and is inconsistent with his comedies. He's back into that category of crass filth that made me laugh big time two to three times and I felt guilty, but in between, the movie is boring. Nobby Butcher (Sacha Baron Cohen) is married to his wife, Dawn (Rebel Wilson) who have a large family of 11 children and one grandchild, living in a poor town of Grimsby, full of degen...

What's John Goodman warning her about? What's out there? It's been a while since I've seen Cloverfield  so I had to revisit the movie again and there are a few minor spoilers...so... BE WARNED!!! The two main characters from that 2008 movie, which still holds up, are worried and proclaim their love for each other as one bomb drops and lots of rubble lands on Rob and then another bomb comes in and kills both Rob and Beth but also gets the animal in pain. But, then when we revisit their date on Coney Island on a videotape as Beth says that she had a good day, something falls out of the sky into the ocean. Mysterious, right? However, ever since the trailer for the movie was released, I was surprised because I never thought there would be somewhat of a parallel story to Cloverfield . Despite a clunky third act that made me a bit aghast and sigh in disbelief, this is a palpable thriller that has echoes of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. It is solid praise until the third ac...

Tina Fey holding an AK-47? I'd never thought I'd see that. Politics, journalism, combat and comedy are extremely difficult to mesh well as a comedic movie that if everything goes wrong, at least, the filmmakers were ambitious to take the chance. When mixing all of those four themes into one satire, I'm surprised that they picked Tina Fey and when I was watching the trailer for this movie, I thought to myself, "I don't know if she's going to pull this movie off." Because there was so much going in that vessel of satirical material, it is the performances and the dark satirical humor that pulls this off quite well that gave me satisfaction to like the movie. Kim Baker (Tina Fey) was working in a cubicle at a news working station in New York and is now assigned as an international news correspondent in Kabul. When Kim arrives in Kabul, she is met by a local Kabul guide named Fahim, colleagues and co-workers and also Tanya Vanderpoel (Margot Robbie), a L...

Whoops! There are going to be a lot of animated movies with animals in the headlines this year and the animal movie fest starts with this latest Disney animated creation. Also, why don't you have a tiresome buddy-cop genre and mix with a fresh animated species-world? Why not? That's not such a bad idea. When watching the ads for this movie, I knew that this movie was going to be geared towards the children, their main demographic, however, there was one trailer that was purely brilliant to spotlight for the entire audience and it's in the movie which involves a DMV. That sold me. But, with the blend of sophisticated humor, banter and action between the two main characters and the storyline, I dug this movie. Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin), a rabbit from her rural town and a big family who demoralizes her of pursuing to become a police officer, has now become a self-determined police officer of Zootopia, a world of anthropomorphic animals. As she now arrives t...

Gerard Butler is back as the Scottish John McClane. 90s hard-R action! Hell, yeah! Well, that's what I've missed. Authentic, stupid fun. People would want to go to action movie to be pleasantly surprised by the explosions, the villains and the sequences that all the filmmakers have gone through with a grand budget. However, lately, is there been an action star besides Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson or Tom Cruise? Those types of stars seem to wane as we further down into more superhero territory and into more territories in which we vamp up a genre. Gerard Butler has proven that up to his potential, however, this latest movie seems to vamp up so many explosions and so much action that the plot goes out the window and it is not as entertaining. A terrorist mastermind named Aamir Barkawi (Alon Aboutboul) is allegedly responsible for the bombings in Europe. The U.S. government launches a drone strike against his compound and supposedly kills Barkawi and his family. Howev...