There have been reports that when the Stade de France was evacuated, attendees sang La Marseillaise, the French National Anthem.
If you haven’t heard this part of the news coverage, one of the terrorists attempted to enter the stadium wearing a bomb vest. He was stopped and questioned before entering and detonated himself right there. Three people died and its terrible that they did. It surely would have been even worse had he been able to detonate inside the stadium.
So the evacuees sang their national anthem as they exited the scene. That protest in the face of tyranny reminded me of another time when French people sang their national anthem in defiance of evil. Although the one I’m thinking of was fictional, it’s still moving.
Casablanca, a 1942 film that brought light to the plight of European refugees fleeing their homeland via Morocco during World War II is one of the best films ever made, filled with quotable lines that still hold up today. If you’ve ever heard someone say, “round up the usual suspects” that’s where it came from.
OK. I’ll cry SPOILER ALERT even though its a 75 year old movie. Whatever. It’s about a love triangle between Humphrey Bogart’s Rick Blaine, a night club owner who’s fled America to escape his troublesome past, Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund, the hot babe he falls in love with in France and Paul Henried as Victor Laszlo, an anti-Nazi writer and activist. Ilsa fell for Rick assuming she’d never see Victor again but voila, he returns and it’s heartbreak city all around.
But I’m not talking about that part. I’m talking about the part where the evil Major Strasser sings a Nazi tune with his jack booted brethren, only to be drowned out by Victor and other French folk in attendance.
La Marseillaise. It worked against Nazis. It works against terrorists.
And I’d like this review to be shaken, not stirred.
Aww who cares, only 3.5 people are going to read it anyway.
BQB here with a review of the latest James Bond movie, Spectre.
At the outset, let me just say this:
It wasn’t as good as Skyfall, but that’s only because Skyfall set the bar so high.
But that being said, it was still pretty damn good. A lot better than that Quantum of Solace nonsense.
I love James Bond. Bond is the man every man wants to be. I’d love to be able to charm the pants off of any woman I meet, beat the crap out of all my enemies and still make it to cocktail hour on time in a nice suit.
Sadly, that only happens in the movies. Bond is so suave he can even charm top secret info out of hot enemy babes. Meanwhile, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that one day I’ll get a woman to make a sandwich for me. Damn it Bond, you probably get all the sandwiches you want, don’t you, you bastard?
Anyhoo – OBLIGATORY SPOILER WARNING.
It hasn’t been easy for Bond in the post-9/11 world. Since that fateful day, as well as after various tragedies since, people have been a lot more aware of the fact that illicit intercontinental activities can bring about grave repercussions.
Suddenly, the white cat stroking caricature Bond used to face just doesn’t cut it anymore, not when we’re fully aware there are real monsters in the world.
Casino Royale got the message. It was lost in Quantum of Solace, which involved a plot to steal water. Sorry Bond, but we’re done with outlandish, cartoonish plots.
Skyfall gave the series a reboot, giving Bond a team of compatriots to work with – a new Q, a new Moneypenny, a new M, new colleagues all around. And this is the first film where we get to see them all shine.
The plot? Bond must infiltrate the evil underground organization known as Spectre and take it down. Its operated by a sinister ne’er-do-well aptly played by Christoph Waltz. Waltz provides a great performance – never too emotional, speaking matter of faculty about significantly evil doings.
Wrestler David Bautista STEALS the show. It’s been awhile since we’ve seen a good Bond henchman. I’m not talking about the main villain but a lackey, a number two, a guy who does the villain’s dirty work. Oddjob is the last one I remember.
Bautista hunts Bond and even though your inner voice reminds you that it is Bond’s movie so of course he can’t die, this guy leaves you thinking Bond might just end up drinking that shaken martini in the sky.
He doesn’t. Don’t worry. I don’t think that’s a spoiler. You all know Bond lives at the end of these things, right? That’s why they’ve made so many of these movies.
Ralph Fiennes, having replaced Judi Dench as Bond’s boss, M, is at the helm in this movie. You end up feeling for the guy. He’s plagued by red tape and bureaucracy. He has to chew Bond out for ignoring protocol and generating bad press, even though its obvious he understands that Bond’s unorthodox methods have saved the world from ruin time and time again.
It sucks to be management.
One criticism is that there is a whole scene where the villain spills the beans to Bond as to how his whole sinister operation works. I kind of thought these movies were pushing to get past those tropes but oh well, you have to have some, right?
Oh and I should point out, the villain does have a white cat, but he doesn’t stroke it. Progress.
STATUS: Shelf worthy. Worth seeing in the theater due to great stunts, fights, car chases, special effects.
Bookshelf Q. Battler here, still riding out the zombie apocalypse, but luckily I have Alien Jones’ space phone to stream stuff on, like the latest Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer:
My thoughts, in no particular order (and feel free to correct me if I’m wrong because many of these are predictions i.e. me just spitballing:
So we have two new heroes, a young male and a young female lead. The girl I believe is some kind of junk scavenger and I’m guessing the structure she is searching through is that big crashed Star Destroyer from the previous trailer. I’m assuming it is, in fact, the Star Destroyer where Luke had his final battle with the Emperor in Return of the Jedi. Could be wrong but I thought I read somewhere that the girl find’s Luke’s lightsaber or something. (Again, I’m just throwing stuff out there, I really have no idea.) Meanwhile, the male lead is a stormtrooper and apparently something happens that makes him renounce his stormtroopery ways.
We see/hear the female lead ask Han if the stories are true and he explains that yes, they are. Therefore, apparently much time has passed, the tales from the older films have become less real and more like legends to the people of the Star Wars universe, and assumably, Han, Luke, and Leia as old-timers will guide a new generation of heroes in taking on a new threat.
That threat comes in the form of some bad masked dude who’s checking out Darth Vader’s crushed mask, pledging to finish what Vader started. Didn’t he get the memo that Vader recanted his evil ways while he was dying and finally ended up being a nice ghost who chilled with Ghost Obi Wan and Ghost Yoda at the end of Return of the Jedi?
We see Leia – she looks sad, she appears to be hugging Han. I don’t know why she’s sad. Presumably because evil deeds or transpiring, or maybe she missed Han. Han said “Chewie, we’re home” in the other trailer, so assumably Han and Chewie went somewhere for a long time. Here’s hoping there will be some joke where Leia calls Han a scruffy nerf herder or something.
I’m sad to hear about all the “Boycott Star Wars” nonsense, i.e. claims that the movie is “anti-white” but on the other hand, if you check out the hashtag, it’s mostly people complaining that the hashtag was ever created. Food for thought – I get people are mad and want to vent but sometimes where the Internet is concerned, ignoring a dumb idea makes it go away faster whereas talking about it helps it gain steam, which, yeah, why am I talking about it then?
Ticket sales are breaking records as well as websites. People buying pre-sale tickets for a movie that’s 2 months away. I’ve never really cared about a movie before enough to buy tickets in advance but I might just for this one.
So we see Han, and Leia, where’s Luke? We only see his hand in the first trailer. I mean, Mark Hammil hasn’t had it easy when it comes to aging (but then again who does?) He was in a car wreck when he was younger and he wasn’t the best looking dude starting out (Kids there was once a time when Hollywood allowed people who didn’t look completely like Gods and Goddesses to be the leads in films, I know, amazing!) so I wonder if that’s it – but he was in the The Kingsman earlier this year and he looked fine. I hope they’re not going to do some Hollywood thing and cover him up with a cloak or something for half the film. I dunno. That’s all pure speculation.
OK. My two cents over. Again, don’t quote me because I’m just talking out of my butt. I look forward to seeing this movie. What do you nerds think?
No time to do an in-depth movie review because I’m busy fending off zombies but just wanted to say Bridge of Spies is pretty good. Not a real flashy movie, though there’s a cool special effects laden scene where Gary Powers’ spy plane gets shot down over Russia.
The movie has Tom Hanks as a U.S. lawyer on a mission to do a prisoner swap – Powers for a Russian spy held by the US in the 1950s.
Lots of interesting Cold War history.
Go see it. Or don’t. What do I care? I’m too busy with my new role as Deputy Mayor of East Randomtown.
Yes, I am trapped in the middle of a zombie apocalypse but I do have Alien Jones’ space phone to keep me updated on the latest pop culture news.
So this idea for a Die Hard prequel starring Bruce Willis about John McClane’s early days as a NYC cop.
RIDICULOUS!
Here’s the thing.
First. Let me say this. Big Die Hard fan here. It’s my favorite Christmas movie.
3.5 READERS – But BQB, it’s an action film!
So what? It takes place during an office Christmas party taken over by evil terrorists! Every year without fail, when you’re watching the Grinch or It’s a Wonderful Life or whatever I’m watching John McClane save Nakatomi.
Here’s why the original Die Hard was so great.
It starred an average guy in the lead role.
Originally, Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to be McClane. Would have been ok. Probably would have ended up being mildly memorable.
But Bruce Willis? Then a pretty average looking dude, hell he was balding and going with that “I’m fighting the good fight against hair loss” hairstyle at the time.
And it made all the difference.
Sure, McClane was a cop but in real life the average cop is not equipped to take down a team of highly trained terrorists all by himself.
That’s what made the movie awesome. It basically asked YOU to step into McClane’s shoes. You’re not Arnold. You don’t have muscles up the wazoo. You have average speed, strength, agility, intelligence…and now it’s up to YOU to save the day.
McClane was more or less one of the first average heroes in an action film.
Aside from the idea that a younger actor will play a young McClane – I mean, I get that – sure, Bruce Willis can’t play a young version of himself. But Willis is so McClane I don’t know how its possible to find anyone else to play this iconic role.
That’s crazy in and of itself but what’s really crazy about the idea is that if you create an adventure where McClane had some kind of amazing fight between himself and various bad dudes BEFORE the original, then how can I ever enjoy the original again?
Because again, that’s the beauty of the original – average guy fights against the odds. Give McClane an adventure that happened BEFORE Nakatomi and well, ok who gives a shit then, of course John can handle Hans Gruber and Co, he handed X bad guy in the damn prequel.
BOOO!!!! BOO!!! BOO! I say BOOO!!!! Don’t make it Hollywood. Don’t make it.
Emily Blunt in a “look at my acting chops!” role. Josh Brolin as a smug jerk, or in other words, a typical Josh Brolin role. Benicio Del Toro as creepy as always.
BQB here with a a review of the latest Fall movie season Oscar contender.
I know, 3.5. I know. I’m stuck in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. I should be doing something more productive than watching movies. But what can I do? The zombies are out there, I’m stuck in Price Town. Might as well make the best of it, especially when my alien buddy has an intergalactic communications device (aka a space phone) that allows me to watch top notch Emily Blunt films.
Aliens love Emily Blunt. And to be blunt, so do I.
Wow, I bet Emily’s never heard that joke before.
OK. So let’s dive in. As the opening sequence of this film explains to us, a “sicario” was once the term used in Jerusalem to describe the super devout who chased Romans from their homeland, but today it has become the Mexican word for “hit man.”
By the way, just now, Apple spellchecker really wanted me to write “pit man” for some reason. I hate it when I have to argue with my computer just to get it to say what I want it to. I swear to Christ this is how Skynet begins. Up your butt, Apple.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
No more distractions. The film begins with Emily as FBI agent Kate Macer, an FBI anti-kidnapping specialist leading a mission to take a house that is alleged to be holding a drug cartel’s kidnapping victims.
Only thing is, it turns out the house is actually a house of horrors, with dead cartel victims lining the walls.
Emily is then recruited to assist a special task force with the apprehension of Manuel Diaz, the big time drug kingpin behind the death house.
Do you ever get confused when you watch a hardcore crime movie? I know when I watched True Detective, Season 2 I felt like I needed a flowchart and a slide rule just to keep up with what was going on.
Well, with this movie, you’re in luck, because you’re not the only one who’s confused. Emily/Kate is too.
Josh Brolin (aka Matt Graver) is some type of G-man in charge of the task force. Is he a spy? Does he work for the CIA? Is he military? Is he someone else entirely?
Meanwhile, the task force’s biggest asset is Alejandro aka Benicio. The same questions apply. Is he a CIA agent? Is he some kind of Mexican spy, a Juan Bond, if you will? (Oh come on, PC police, that was funny and you know it.) Is he military? Someone else?
The point is, Kate ends up working with these people and a) she has no idea who they are and b) they won’t tell her. In fact, Matt/Josh seems to relish holding back details of what’s going on vis a vis their mission, only eeking out just enough details to keep Kate from walking away, but otherwise she’s kept in the dark.
Finally! A protagonist in a serious crime drama who’s as confused as I am. I felt for Emily in this one. The whole film she’s like “What’s going on?” and I was replying, “I don’t know Emily, but I hope you find out. Don’t trust these dudes, girl.”
All in all, great acting, a gripping plot that draws you in. It gets you on a roll with questions and if you hang in there, they are answered.
On top of all that, it does offer a stunning indictment of the whole inter-border drug war. Nasty business. Don’t do drugs, kids.
I hate to give too much away but there was one quote that caught me. I’ll paraphrase. Basically, twenty-percent of the population are hardcore drug users and if we could get them to quit the cartels would be out of work.
So quit today, all you dope fiends. Only you can stop Mexican mafia murder houses.
One thing that made me happy was seeing Jeffrey Donovan in a supporting role. You might remember he was Michael Westen in Burn Notice. I loved that show. He’s a good actor. Hope to see him in more stuff. I hear he’s in the next season of Fargo.
That’s all I have, 3.5. To discuss it any further would be to spoil the whole thing. Go see it.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go ride out the zombie apocalypse.
All is forgiven for Mortdecai, Johnny. All is forgiven.
I’d announce SPOILERS though all this stuff actually happened! BQB here with a review of Black Mass.
“If nobody sees it, then it didn’t happen.”
So goes the advice of infamous Irish mobster James “Whitey” Bulger to his young son after he got in trouble for punching another kid at school. It’s a line delivered so eerily that it sets the whole tone of the movie.
It gives the viewer insight into just the kind of guy Whitey is. Most parents would tell their kid not to punch anyone. Whitey tells his to just make sure no one’s looking before he punches someone the next time.
Step aside Tony Soprano, as this true crime gangster flick shows Whitey as one cold, calculating sociopathic serial killer, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake during his tenure as the boss of an organized crime family known as the Winter Hill Gang in South Boston from the 1970s to the 1990’s.
I was a fan of The Sopranos and the ongoing theme of that show was that Tony often felt bad about his crimes. Of course, that didn’t stop him from being a murderer, but after the dirty deed, he’d feel bad, overeat, not sleep and walk around in his bathrobe and get so depressed that he’d need to go spill his guts to his confidant/ shrink Dr. Melfi.
Whitey, on the other hand – SPOILER – is able to strangle a hooker then take a nap and have dinner afterwards.
In one of the saddest turn of events in modern law enforcement history, FBI agent John Connolly struck a deal to use Bulger as an informant, but as we see in the movie, John becomes less concerned about justice and more about helping Whitey, his childhood friend, not to mention getting some extra gifts on the side.
Meanwhile, Whitey plays the FBI like a fiddle. He gives them info needed to take down a rival Italian crime family moving in on his turf, but after that, pretty much feeds them bupkis.
If this sounds familiar, you might recall 2006’s The Departed, which was somewhat based on Whitey’s reign of terror.
I’ve always felt The Departed was one of the best gangster flicks I’ve ever seen and this one does meet it.
Johnny Depp solidifies his reputation as an actor who can become anyone. He plays the ruthless yet somewhat quiet Whitey to a T and is barely recognizable on screen.
To complicate matters, Whitey’s brother was William Bulger, President of the Massachusetts Senate.
Benedict Cumberbatch plays the South Boston politician well, delivering a powerful speech about how he’ll drive crime out of South Boston just as St. Patrick drove the Romans and British out of Ireland.
Ironic, given who his brother was.
What did William know about his brother, when, and what was his involvement? Those are questions left on the table, though the film takes the standpoint that Billy basically suffered from being tied to a degenerate brother.
Can’t pick your family I guess.
Joel Edgerton turns in an excellent performance as Connolly, the fast talking Fed who always has a comeback ready to explain to his boss (played by Kevin Bacon) as to why Whitey’s being allowed to jerk the FBI around for his own personal gain.
Jesse Plemons (aka Creepy Todd from Breaking Bad) plays another creep, Whitey’s associate Kevin Weeks. Poor Jesse’s stuck playing creeps I guess.
Adam Scott (known for comedic roles such as his part as Leslie Knope’s husband, Ben Wyatt on Parks and Rec) makes his first notable foray into drama as a Fed who’s suspicious of Connolly.
Overall, it’s a solid cast. I could go into more detail, but I’d end up giving the rest of the story away.
Did Whitey win? If you’re a news watcher, you know he went on the lam in the 1990’s after being tipped off by Connolly to an impending arrest, only to be caught in Santa Monica in 2011.
You might say justice was finally found. Then again, Whitey was in his 80’s when he was nabbed so, he did get to live out his retirement years.
This is one of the first major Oscar contenders of the year and cements Depp as one of the greatest actors of our time.
If he takes home a gold statue for this, he will have earned it.
I had such a lazy day yesterday. Still can’t believe the odds of it. Was looking forward to Labor Day and then I get sick.
Oh well.
In one day I watched:
GI Joe Retaliation – Oddly, it sucked less the second time.
Kingsman: The Secret Service – it was great
Unfinished Business – Silly Vince Vaughn comedy thought it was better/more touching than I thought it would be. All about the underdog starting his own company, worrying about keeping his family and his two employees happy, all the worries you have when you have people depending on you.
My posts have been definitely been lacking since September rolled around but I hope you’ll bare with me. I’m putting a lot of time into 31 Zombie Authors.
That’s right. 31 days in October. 31 zombie authors will be interviewed. In between the interviews, there will be a fun story about East Randomtown being invaded by zombies.
I, BQB, Video Game Rack Fighter, and Alien Jones band together to stop them. Occasionally, we take a break and call zombie authors for help.
Not a single dude in tights with a cape to be seen!
Hollywood surprises us with a winner with No Escape.
Be warned: there’s “no escaping” these spoilers.
Ha. See what I did there? That guy gets it. Yes. You sir. Right there. Thanks for reading.
The setup? After his company goes belly up, Jack Dwyer (Owen Wilson) moves his wife, Annie (Lake Bell) and two young daughters to an unnamed Southeastern Asia country. It borders Vietnam and I could probably figure it out if I felt like looking for a map but I really don’t. Since it wasn’t named, I assume the movie producers weren’t looking to criticize any particular country anyway.
Before I go on, am I the only one who thought Annie was played by Idina Menzel of “Let it Go, Let it Go” fame?
The whole summer I’ve been seeing previews for this film and I’ve been like, “Huh. Elsa’s flexing her acting chops. Good for her.”
And throughout the whole movie, I was like, “Wow. That ‘Let it Go’ chick is really letting an ass whooping go on these bad guys.”
But it wasn’t Idina Menzel. It was Lake Bell. But I swear they look alike, so much so that Idina Menzel will probably get an award for being in this movie that she wasn’t even in.
Plus, I have to be honest, I’ve never heard of Lake Bell before, so now I’m wondering how many times I’ve seen her in other stuff and assumed it was Idina Menzel.
Mind=blown.
Anyway, the Dwyers aren’t settled into their new digs for more than a few hours when rebels storm the city, overrun the police and military, and start rounding up and shooting Americans/Brits/Aussies, various others they’ve identified as foreign devils.
It’s up to Jack to save his family as the Dwyers manage to stay just a few steps away from being slaughtered throughout the entire film.
People who are used to Owen Wilson being that happy go lucky, laid back mellow dude will be surprised to see him in this role. He still is that “dude” but this movie asks us to consider all the terrible things we might do to save our families, from taking a drastic chance that they’ll survive being thrown across a large gap between rooftops (note in real life they won’t) to beating a man to death who refuses to keep quiet.
It’s like Dupree but with killing.
You, Me and Dupree. God that movie sucked. Don’t even get me started on Drillbit Taylor. All is forgiven though, Owen, you’ve really redeemed yourself with this one.
Pierce Brosnan rounds out the cast as Hammond, a British badass adventurer type who comes to the Dwyer’s aid. He’s a bit mysterious but we’re alerted to his badassery early on when he informs Jack’s kids that he extracted the tiger tooth he’s wearing on a necklace from an actual tiger.
Reviewers have referred to this movie as “stressful” and it is. The stakes are high. We’ve seen a lot of super hero movies this summer with cartoonish violence. I’m not knocking them. I love them. But when a movie focuses around whether a family with two little kids is going to make it or not, it becomes a lot more real than, say, whether or not Iron Man’s suit gets a dent in it.
Love the comic book movies, but it’s good to see that Hollywood hasn’t completely forgotten that action can happen to the non-caped as well.
By: Video Game Rack Fighter, Official Bookshelf Battle Blog Video Game Reviewer/BQB’s Main Squeeze
What’s up, 3.5 readers?
Finally! BQB allows someone with an extra X chromosome to get a word in edgewise around here.
Between BQB, the Yeti, the Ghost of Uncle Hardass, and Dr. Hugo Von Science, it’s a total sausage fest up in this place.
I’ll exclude Alien Jones for obvious reasons.
Let’s talk about the latest attempt at a movie based on the long running video game franchise, Hitman.
FYI – this review is going to have some KILLER SPOILERS!
(Ha! See what I did there?)
Hitman: Agent 47 – Twentieth Century Fox
In the games, you play Agent 47, a cunning, coldblooded killing machine, completely devoid of feeling or remorse.
BQB EDITORIAL NOTE: Kind of like VGRF that time I ate her twizzlers.
Do you mind?
The games present a very chilling version of 47. He has an expressionless face and a deep, scary voice.
BQB EDITORIAL NOTE: Kind of like VGRF that time…
Shut up!
Anyway, the games are such a hit because there is so much strategy involved. As Agent 47, you work for, “The Agency” and you’re assigned a target to assassinate.
Don’t worry. The target is usually a bad guy who’s done something assassination worthy and often, the Agency will call on “The Hitman” to cross some line. He refuses and ends up taking on his bosses.
The player has a variety of choices. There are subtle ways to take out the mark, like poisoning his food, injection with a syringe, strangling with a garrote wire, setting up a trap (i.e. rigging a chandelier or something heavy to fall on his squash) or, if you aren’t up for any of that, you can just break out 47’s trademark dual pistols, the “Silver Ballers” and start racking up the body count.
BQB EDITORIAL NOTE: This is why I sleep with one eye open.
While this video game series is superb, Agent 47 is not a character that translates well to the big screen.
When I say that the video game 47 is completely devoid of personality, I mean he’s really devoid of personality. There’s just nothing there, and nothing that keeps him from feeling bad about the things that he does, and that’s why he’s such an eerie anti-hero to control.
Try as they might to avoid it, every actor has some personality, even if they try to stifle it for the role. Timothy Olyphant tried in a 2007 long forgotten version simply titled Hitman and while this latest effort brings more style and panache, it too I fear is destined for the 99 cent bin.
Rupert Friend, who you may know as Quinn, Carrie’s post-Brody love interest on Homeland, provides a more believable tour of duty as our favorite Hitman than Olyphant did. If you ask me, Olyphant is such a likable guy that it was a mistake to cast him for that role.
There was a more concerted effort to pay homage to video game fans with this one. Friend breaks out the silver ballers and the garrote wire.
BQB EDITORIAL NOTE: Hon, I just feel you’re too comfortable using the words “garrote wire.”
.And just like the VG version of 47, Friend grabs various uniforms to use to blend in and escape.
BQB EDITORIAL NOTE: Because that would totally work.
Do you just want to write this then? Huh? Sheesh.
Friend also attempts to mimic a stoic 47-esque voice. Sometimes he hits the mark, other times he misses it.
Gamers will also be pleased to see that 47’s handler, Diana, also drops in. She’s played by the actress, “Angelababy.”
Isn’t that just an adorable name? “Hi. I’m Angelababy.” Love it.
The plot? That’s the other reason why it’s hard to turn this franchise into a movie. The plot of the video games is to kill, kill, kill.
Here, the film follows a plot to capture Litvenko (aka Ciaran Hinds aka Mance Raider from Game of Thrones.
BQB EDITORIAL NOTE: OMG! I love Game of Thrones.
Tell us something we don’t know.
Litvenko was the man who began an assassin development program, conditioning people like 47 to kill in a brutally efficient manner.
After deciding he wanted nothing more to do with the program, he took off, but now the bad guys want him to produce more hitmen.
So, to get to him, they want to kidnap Litvenko’s daughter, Katia aka Hannah Ware.
There’s a face-off between 47 and Agent John Smith aka Zachary Quinto, who plays Mr. Spock in the JJ Abrams Star Trek reboot.
Both agents claim to have Hannah’s best interests at heart, but only one does. I’ll let you figure out who it is.
Oh, and I don’t want to give too much away, but it turns out Hannah doesn’t need that much protecting.
To wrap this up, it’s better than the first movie, but that’s not saying much. As a fan of the series, I appreciate the nods to gamers, but overall, this one fell flat.
Worth a rental, but don’t rush out to the theater.
The dog days of summer are here, and unfortunately, this is the first of many dog movies to come.
Bookshelf Battle 