The Two Worst Movies Currently at the Box Office
Well…maybe worst is a little bit harsh, but in reality, I would have definitely waited for the DVD in both instances. On Thanksgiving day, my first away from home, I am deciding what would be the most cliche thing to do…then I decide, it is time to catch up on my movies.
Movie Still of Apocolyptic Las Vegas Strip in 2012
Plot: The world is coming to an end and one father (John Cusack) tries to do right by his ex-wife (Amanda Peet), their two children and her new boyfriend. The group sets out to beat the deteriorating world around them in search for a “ship” that will protect the new civilization for the new world.
In reality, there are various reports that the people are preparing themselves for the end–using the Mayan calendars and other scientific resources to plot the destruction of the world as we know it. So how does Hollywood respond to this panic? Make a movie that while you are in it! It made me wish it already was December 21, 2012, just so that the movie would finally end. Below is a scene from the film when everything starts to go awry and the earth destroys itself.
See what I mean? The film was just bad. However, there were some redeeming qualities. I always have a soft spot in my heart for Woody Harrelson. He was the most entertaining part of the movie, and sadly he was in very little of it. His character is Charlie Frost, is portrayed as a conspiracy theorist living as a hermit and hosting a radio show from Yellowstone Park and claims he has knowledge of a secret “space ship” project and possesses a map of the ships’ location that the up-and-ups of government are going to take when the world comes to an end. Here is a clip of one of the more informative and entertaining parts of the movie.
The movie would not have been this bad if they had just trimmed it down and maybe not have used so much CGI. There was definitely some great special effects that they used but in the end, it was just way too long and not realistic enough for people to really take seriously what they were saying in the film. If anything, it eased my mind about any doubt that that would happen in just two years.
Plot: From the time he was a child the Ozunu Clan, a secret societ of assassins, trained Raizo (Rain) to become one of the deadliest assassins in the world. After one of the members of the clan killed his childhood love, he slowly started to rebel. Once he was finished with training, he tried to destroy the clan but the numbers were against him. Now, as an adult he waits for the opportunity to fight them again and finally avenge her life. In Berlin, an agent, Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) stumbled upon a money trail linking several political murders to an undergrand network of untraceable assassins–because no one can know about the clans, the investigation makes her a target and the Ozunu Clan sends a group to kill her. Raizo vows to protect her and is able to fight against “his brothers” until only one is left standing.
Below is a clip of a fight scene that happens toward the end of the movie.
What you just saw, is pretty much how the entire movie goes. It is a lot of fighting, A LOT of blood–that is really badly sprayed EVERYWHERE and a protaganist that has nine lives. As part of the clan Raizo has learned the art of healing his wounds just by putting his hands in a weird position and closing his eyes–the marks that you see in this last fight scene are nothing compared to some of the wounds he receives throughout the film. All in all, this movie was purely for entertainment, but I do not have a a Y chromosome and therefore could not enjoy it.
What did you guys think of the films? Let me know in the comments!
