TL;DR Movie Reviews and Analysis

Movie Reviews in one sentence (or you know like the whole thing, whatever floats your boat)

Movie Review – Spy

Posted on March 13, 2016 by tldrmoviereviews

TL;DR – It is a film that does not know if it wants to be a PG family action film, or an R raunchy exercise, and ends up being neither

Score – 2 out 5 Stars

Review –

In the end, my feeling on this film are quite mixed, some aspects of it really worked and others just really didn’t. I would describe this movie as a collage, where the writer/director Paul Feig has taken ideas from a number of movies and melded it all together into this film, and not always successfully. To explain what I mean, I going to break down the different components of the film, and yes this is about to get spoilery (You have been warned).

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Movie Review – Mad Max: Fury Road

Posted on March 13, 2016 by tldrmoviereviews

TL;DR – A masterpiece of action and cinema, something you should go see just for the spectacle.

Score – 5 out of 5 stars

Mad Max Fury Road. Image Credit: Warner Brothers.

Review –

Wow, just wow, George Miller knows how to put on a visual spectacle. Now I should mention at this point that I have never seen any of the other Mad Max’s (outside of those clips you see from time to time on TV) so while I had a basic understanding of the lore, I (for better or worse) did not come into this film with nostalgia baggage, which is good because you don’t need any of that to enjoy this film.

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Movie Review – Pitch Perfect 2

Posted on March 13, 2016 by tldrmoviereviews

TL;DR – A great sequel to a great film, really enjoyable to watch, even if Rebel Wilson is starting to wear a bit thin.

Score – 4 out of 5 Stars

Pitch Perfect 2. Image Credit: Universal.

Review –

This is how you do a comedy sequel correctly, you take everything that worked from the first movie, you then drop/retool the things that didn’t and then you up the stakes.

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Movie Review – The Avengers: Age of Ultron

Posted on March 13, 2016 by tldrmoviereviews

TL;DR – Not as good as the first Avengers, but still a great movie and a great addition to this whole experiment

Score – 4 out of 5 stars

The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Image Credit: Disney.

Review –

Well phase 2 is almost over (still have Ant Man to go) and the culmination of the last few years has to lead us to this, and you know what, it was bloody good.

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Movie Review – Paul Blart Mall Cop 2

Posted on March 13, 2016 by tldrmoviereviews

TL;DR – A waste of time for all involved, especially the audience

Score – 1 out of 5 stars

Paul Blart Mall Cop 2. Image Credit: Sony.

Review –

So I walked into the movies and saw this and thought “I think I remember the first film, and as I recall I think I liked it” and hey it is cheap movie day what is there to lose, well 90 minutes of your life for one.

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Movie Review – The Interview

Posted on March 13, 2016 by tldrmoviereviews

TL;DR – Fascinating but not really shocking, classic Rogen/Franco film

Score – 3 out of 5 stars

Review –

Ok where to begin, this is a very surreal film, and honestly would have been but a footnote in the careers of the two leads had the controversy with North Korea and Sony not occurred.

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Movie Review – Taken 3

Posted on March 13, 2016 by tldrmoviereviews

TL;DR – What a waste of a movie and a promising franchise

Score 1 out of 5 stars

Taken 3. Image Credit: 20th Century Fox.

Review –

Oh Taken 3 how far have we fallen that we reached here? Before I get into my review of Taken 3 it is important to look at where we have come from. Taken 1 is great, fantastically great, the casting of Liam Neeson was a master stroke, the setting was visceral and it had a real emotional push behind it. It was so good it made you forget just what a stupid set up the premise was if you know anything about human trafficking.

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Movie Review – Kingsman: The Secret Service

Posted on March 13, 2016 by tldrmoviereviews

TL;DR– A really great action film, with a good story and great action set pieces, let down a bit by a ‘joke’ right at the end that fails.

Score – 4 out of 5 stars

Review –

This is a really interesting film, but one should say straight off the bat, it is nothing like what the trailers portrayed it as. This isn’t some kind of young Bond film that you can take the family to, it is extremely violent and contains a lot of course language etc.

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