Caro the Movie Critic

Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl as James Hunt and Niki Lauda. I have a confession to make. I do know some things about racing: NASCAR and F1. When directors try to make a racing movie, they try too hard to make the racing sequences spectacular, they do not focus on the characters. Like Days of Thunder  and Driven , the filmmakers really concentrate on terrible dialogue and the remaining time of the movie is basically fluff when it comes to the last race of the movie. Therefore, you would have formulaic caricatures of the love interest, rival, rivaled-turned ally, and predictable scenario of the race. This movie breaks the rule. The movie starts out with a narration from Lauda (Daniel Bruhl) to kick off his first race in 1970. He meets with James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth), a guy with racing talent but a tendency to woo women and vomit before a race. Niki Lauda is technical and a calculating genius as to preparing cars. The rivalry begins when both cars spin out and Hunt wins the...

A group of girls being so glamorous. Do you ever dream of stealing a valuable possession from a big-time superstar? Do you ever think of breaking into a massive home just to covet what you want? It seems like anybody this present day can get any valuable item with some evident DNA from a superstar and sell it on Ebay or whatever website you can publicly auction. Well, girls can plan a jewelry heist, but how far can they go to get away with it? Marc Hall (Isabel Broussard) is a shy student who arrives at a new high school in California. She catches Rebecca Ahn's attention (Katie Chang), a girl who is really obsessed with fame and fabulous accessories. Marc's invited to Rebecca's house to party and while outside, the pair break into unlocked vehicles and steal cash and credit cards. While they both have lots of stolen cash, they use it as a shopping spree to go into a luxury lifestyle. Marc goes into a nightclub with Rebecca where they meet Nicki (Emma Watson) and her...

Downey Jr. as Stark sitting next to his invention, Iron Man. Iron Man  was so fantastic that it spawned a few sequels. Does that mean the trend will work? Not many sequels will work unless the director and writers create a brilliant and different storyline and not make a carbon copy of the predecessor. Let give me you a few examples of great sequels: The Godfather Part II, Aliens, T2, The Dark Knight, Lethal Weapon 2, Toy Story 2 and 3 . All of them had brilliance in the storyline. The second Iron Man was ok with a forgettable villain, but the third one redeems itself with a great performance and some flashy humor, but a ridiculous plot twist and a flawed climactic fight sequence. The movie starts with a sort of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang  style with Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) narrating a past memory and then rewinding his past to start over. He recalls a memory of a New Year's party in 1999 where he was in a relationship with Maya Hansen (Rebecca Hall), inventor of Extremi...

Gyllenhaal trying to calm Jackman down. Any parent's worst nightmare is realizing and finding out that your child is lost, missing, or dead. The realistic nature of trusting your instincts depends on the parent's knowledge of what is going on in an area of your neighborhood. It's not a perfect world full of sunshine and rainbows. But, the fear of how your child is doing while missing is worse. It is worse because how do you know how your child is doing and who is this person that took the child away and what is the connection between that kidnapper and the victim or the kidnapper and the victim's parents? There are so many questions to be answered and that is germain to this thriller. Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) is a deeply religious person who attends a Thanksgiving dinner at the Birches, who are their neighbors and friends. Anna and Joy, the young daughters of both neighbors, go outside after dinner and go to Anna's house to get her whistle, but somehow they...

Pitt and Enos running for their lives. It's zombie-fest. Everywhere I turn to there has been a spiking interest in zombies whether if it is books, television, or movies. Why is most of the population interested in zombies? I have no clue but the interesting fact is its tension correlating with the characters' lives. I mean looking at this movie, the result presents a "zombie apocalypse". I mean, after I heard about this myth, I researched and it may happen. I still do not believe it, but, hey, it's not a perfect world. The movie itself, however, has "zombie-like" people and it looked like a mess based on the re-shooting. But, this is a surprisingly good movie. Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) is a former U.N. employee who resides with his wife, Karin (Mireille Enos), and his daughters, Rachel and Constance. It is basically the start of a normal day: Gerry making the family pancakes, and the kids asking questions about martial law and other issues. Later, the...

When you see an awful two-hour movie, you know that you'll never get your time back. It is that frustrating to see that there's no good material in that particular movie. So, here are the 20 worst movies. 11-20 was so depressing that I did not want to post pictures of the worst anymore. 1. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 2. North 3. Battlefield Earth 4. Norbit 5. Jaws: The Revenge 6. Freddy Got Fingered 7. Gigli 8. Vampire in Brooklyn 9. The Last Airbender 10. Speed 2: Cruise Control Runner-Ups: 11. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle 12. Beverly Hills Cop III 13. The Last Mimzy 14. Return to Oz 15. Batman & Robin 16. Basic Instinct 2 17. (tie) Just My Luck and I Know Who Killed Me 18. The Adventures of Pluto Nash 19. All of the Highlander movies. 20. That's My Boy

Patrick Wilson and Ty Simpkins. I declared James Wan, the director, a true horror film director after he made The Conjuring , the surprisingly successful horror film of the summer. He knows how to eerily create the tension and suspension without just putting predictable scares and jumps onto the screen. Even, I said that he could rank with John Carpenter, Wes Craven and maybe Alfred Hitchcock. But, sometimes, a director can have setbacks and all three of them had setbacks. James Wan has created his first bad horror movie with this laughable sequel. The sequel is back where they left off as Renai Lambert (Rose Byrne) is being interrogated and interviewed by a detective about the murder of Elise Rainer. She is really uncomfortable thinking that her husband is a killer. The family is staying with Lorraine (Barbara Hershey) and things are settling down after some strange occurrences and revelations in the previous movie. Josh (Patrick Wilson), however, is recovering and tells Renai...