This has been an especially bizarre week at the theater.
Death Of A Unicorn is a creative movie that takes some big swings.
Not all of them land and the third act is too long.
But, isn’t that what we want in a movie?
To take chances and give us something unique?
The biggest reason this movie works is the comedy and the casting.
Paul Rudd makes being funny effortless.
Anthony Carrigan was hysterical as a butler that is constantly annoyed.
Death Of A Unicorn is more clever and humorous about it.
This consistently entertained and amused me.
I’ll also never look at unicorns the same way.
But it’s not fun or silly enough to be the rewatchable and goofy movie that it should be.
Jason Statham deservingly is the heir apparent to the kinds of movies that Liam Neeson used to be in.
This movie’s primary plot is very similar to Taken.
But these is a need for fun action movies where a guy just beats the shit out of people.
It does completely waste the very good David Harbour and Michael Pena.
Harbour especially is a big name from Marvel movies and Stranger Things.
I can’t recommend this to a general audience.
Novocaine is smarter and better.
Flight Risk is dumber than this but that you’re able to laugh at more.
But having said that director David Ayer and Statham are a good combo.
They just need to have more fun.
This also does itself no favors.
A huge part of the third act is dedicated to cars stuck in the mud.
Robert De Niro wasn’t bad playing two different roles but it was completely unnecessary.
The movie would have been better with Joe Pesci or Al Pacino in the hothead Vito Genovese part.
But, maybe those two wisely read the script.
The Alto Knights is a lifeless movie that is also a poor photocopy of Casino.
I guess it’s to Casino’s credit that even its hardly warmed over leftovers aren’t completely terrible.
The Alto Knights: C
There are TWO The Last Supper movies out in theaters right now.
I shit you not.
The first one that came out was The Last Supper, which is a horrible movie.
The last title card says: THIS IS MORE THAN A MOVIE.
IT’S AN INVITATION TO KNOW JESUS.
I don’t see myself RSVPing.
There is no character development to speak of.
Look at The Last Temptation Of Christ or Jesus Christ Superstar.
Those are interesting ways to his those points but also be unique.
I can’t recommend this movie to anyone, even the ultra-religious.
It’s a weak movie with a bad script and worse performances.
The other Jesus movie I saw this week was better.
There’s also a cartoon coming out this month.
I have to imagine that will be better.
Can’t be much worse.
It seems to be a smart play as it opened #3 for the weekend.
Part 1 is episodes 1& 2 of that season.
That is a much better viewing experience than The Last Supper movie that I just wrote about.
This has high production values and there is care put into it.
This does a decent job with the dramatic elements but really misses when it tried to be comedic.
This is humor that’s more awkward and out of place than a Marvel movie.
It wasn’t strong enough for me to have any interest beyond what I saw on screen.
I know I sure didn’t.
When one of the two leads doesn’t even really know herself, how can we know her?
Director Flying Lotus seems to be very focused on visuals yet this movie is badly lit.
80% of this is shrouded in darkness.
Turn a fucking light on!
The premise could be interesting enough.
Final Girl wakes up in a spaceship to find her crew dead.
But instead of interesting twists, things happen pretty much how you’d expect them to.
They also open a toolbox and you’d think it was from the 1980’s.
I guess a good Phillips head screwdriver never goes out of style.
It’s a much better option than this cold and predictable trip into darkness.
