Reviews

Great story, great acting, just all around great. The opening scene might be my favorite Ben Affleck/Batman scene. Expect some unexpected cameos! All I'm gonna say there is that most of the "spoilers" you have probably seen online are true.

In terms of making sense of the time travel rules, it follows the same rules as "Back to the Future," meaning changing one little event in time (even the smallest minute detail) can completely change the future. Unlike Marvel, which utilizes the multiverse & the quantum realm to explain the time traveling, the DC universe is essentially one with many possible outcomes, and The Flash's back & forth actions in time show all the possible outcomes (i.e., Michael Keaton vs. George Clooney/Val Kilmer's "universe").

Definitely worth the wait, thank you Andy Muschietti!

The League of Shadow's plan to "destroy" Gotham is to release a panic-inducing toxin that will "rip Gotham apart through fear." I just don't buy that.

It would be much more believable if they were releasing a nerve gas or something that killed people almost instantly. But a panic-inducing toxin? Is that supposed to scare people into killing each other or something? I just don't see how that is supposed to destroy Gotham. Whatever the reason, the story didn't provide much logic for how that was supposed to work.

Other than that, it's still a great movie that I never get tired of watching. 9 out of 10 stars.

This really is the most underrated Spider-Man movie. Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, and Jaime Foxx were all great, Dane DeHann (Harry) too. I think they did a great job of capturing Max's perspective and why he is angry with the world. And what I especially love about the Garfield movies is that they've added a backstory to Peter's parents.

Other things I like: The film is visually stunning, and the upbeat Hans Zimmer music just makes it more fun to watch.

That being said, the reason I can't give this film a 10 is because of how Gwen dies. It's not the fact that she died (there were plenty of clues throughout the film), but it's HOW she died. Green Goblin was nowhere in the movie then suddenly appears at the end to kill her. It's just too random.

Still, I never get sick of watching this movie. A third one is definitely needed.

This movie is a complete slap in the face to the fans. Basically, we watched all the other movies for nothing because this movie changes the past so that everything from X-Men Origins: Wolverine to The Wolverine never even happened.

What else? Suddenly, Kitty just so conveniently has the power to send people back in time (that wasn't introduced before). Also, no one seems to have realized that William Stryker looks 20 years younger than he did in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, even though both films take place in the same year.

The one thing that bothers me about this episode is his encounter with Vader. At first, it felt like Obi Wan was imagining/hallucinating Vader. After all, Vader suddenly popped out in the middle of nowhere in a very wide open area. Then Vader was taking it easy on Obi Wan, apparently because he wanted to take him alive for some reason. It was very confusing and didn't make me fear for Obi WAN's life like the show probably intended for it to.

Despite the fact that Dom chose to go rogue instead of asking his team for help, this movie still had potential. That potential died with Cipher.

She talks way too much and is completely monotoned. It's an excruciating headache to listen to her.

Also, the opening scene is a complete waste of time. Had no relevance to the story whatsoever.

This movie a comedy that isn't even funny. The dialogue is horrible and makes it impossible to take the movie seriously. I mean, the opening scene is Batman getting in the Batmobile, then Alfred says "Shouldn't you take a sandwich?" or something like that, and Batman responds, "I'll get drive-through." Apparently that was supposed to be funny. A Batman movie is not supposed to be humorous or even attempt to be.

Val Kilmer could have actually made a great Batman if he were given a worthy script, such as the Christopher Nolan trilogy. Sadly, we'll never know.

This movie is very difficult to assess. I hated it the first time I saw it, but I decided to give it another chance, and after watching it again, I like it a little more.

Let's get the obvious out of the way...the idea that a stone can grant your wish is very silly, even if this stone was created by a god. In a sense, the story feels like that of a children's movie. And I just couldn't get past this the first time I saw it.

After watching Wonder Woman about 12 more times, I decided to give this movie another shot. I still dislike the plot, but I like the moral of the story. I also like that the movie introduced new skills to Diana while keeping it consistent with her character.

It almost feels like DC told Patti Jenkins, "We want you to take a bad story and make it as good as you can." And given what she had to work with, she probably did.

I love the story. I'm glad that the ending wasn't the traditional Hollywood ending where everyone lives happily ever after. However, the attempts at comedy are forced, not funny, and simply unnecessary (namely Quill, Drax, and Mantis).

Also, why did Thor go to Earth instead of Titan? Thor had Stormbreaker forged for one reason: Kill Thanos. Doesn't make sense.

This movie very much disappointed me. I did my best to keep it brief, so here it goes:

First, the plot lacks originality and relies way too heavily on the past movies. They reused way too many lines and sequences from the first three movies, and I lost count of how many flashbacks were used as well.

What else? Morpheus shouldn't have been re-casted. Niobe looks awful (apparently they were trying to make her look 60 years older). For some reason they brought back Smith (with a new human form), despite the fact that the Architect deleted Smith at the end of the last movie. And people are actually wearing COVID masks during one of the scenes. Seriously? Did COVID strike the Matrix, too?

But worst of all, the movie fails to provide a true, emerging conflict. As humans and machines have finally learned to live together peacefully, there was no conflict until Neo was unplugged from the Matrix, so Neo was really unplugged for no reason. Why unplug him if peace has finally been achieved?

I used to really like this movie, but the older I get, the more I see that the plot is incredibly rushed and way too packed (reminds me of the final season of Game of Thrones). All of the events occur too quickly...and even though it's a 2.5 hour movie, another 30 minutes should have been added for better transitions from one scene to the next. Worst of all, this movie completely lacks foreshadowing.

The kidnappings of Harvey Dent and Rachel....one minute they're kissing goodbye and the next minute they're tied down to oil drums with explosives...and they don't show us anything that happened in between? They at least could have shown Ramirez making a phone call to Maroni to give the audience a clue that something bad is about to happen. Nope, nothing. The "social experiment" scene where neither boat decides to blow each other up because "Gotham is full of people ready to believe in good"..... I can't find one single moment in the movie that even remotely foreshadows that. The guy with the bomb in his chest in the jail....where in the world he did come from? I don't remember seeing anything leading up to that.

It feels like DC expected fans to sit back and be entertained without caring much about the mechanisms of the plot. And obviously it worked. It even hooked me when I first saw it. Like most people, I mostly liked it because of the Joker. Looking beyond that, I now see that this is one of the most overrated movies of all time.

This movie has a 9.0 rating, but it is not because it has a well-constructed plot.

I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. I too was skeptical at first, but I thought the movie did a good job of capturing Jean's struggle with herself from her point of view.

However, I didn't like that some of the X-Men were suddenly questioning Professor X's competency (particularly Raven). Professor X always put his team first, and everyone knew that. Bad writing in my opinion. But still a good movie.

Too many unanswered questions. How is Logan now mortal when he never was before? What happened to all of the mutants? We are told how some of them die, but what happened to all the others throughout the world?

Clearly much has happened between Days of Future Past and Logan, and a prequel is definitely needed to answer all of these questions. Sadly, it won't happen.

Of all the possibilities that Warner Bros had, they chose the worst one. Im not sure if The Penguin is part of the DC comics, but if so, then Warner Bros should have chosen a different direction. I realize that, in the DC universe, there are some supernatural forces at work, but there should still be boundaries. Magical penguins should not be within those boundaries. They should have had Batman fighting more crime bosses.