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The Killer

The Killer

NBC and Peacock fresh off the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris capitalized as Paris with it’s sweeping landscape and The Eiffel Tower are the main back drops for “The Killer”.

Legendary Actor/Director John Woo famous for movies like Face Off, Mission Impossible II, Paycheck, Broken Arrow just to name a few is back with a radical reimaging of his 1989 Hong Kong Classic, “The Killer”.

From the Oscar® winning producer of Oppenheimer, the kinetic action thriller stars Emmy nominee Nathalie Emmanuel (The Fast Saga and Game of Thrones) as Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known, and feared, in the Parisian underworld as the “Queen of the Dead”. 

But when, during an assignment from her shadowy mentor and handler (Avatar’s Sam Worthington), Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman (Diana Silvers; Ma, Booksmart) in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate Zee’s alliances, attract the attention of a savvy police investigator (Golden Globe nominee Omar Sy; Jurassic World franchise, Lupin), and plunge her into a sinister criminal conspiracy that will set her on a collision course with her own past. The Story unfolds from there…

The movie starts off intriguing enough. There is a certain air of mystery and suspense. But all too soon the movie derails and there are “dead spots” that would make you check your watch if you were in a dark theater watching this on a big screen. 

The sweeping views of Paris were awesome. There is a ton of action and some pretty wild and crazy car / motorcycle chases / crashes. Having a Female Assassin was awesome. She is so “Bad Ass”. Those were the best parts of the movie. 

I wanted desperately to love it!! I was so excited when I saw the previews, but alas “The Killer” left me a bit disappointment. The Ending appears chopped off. You are left to wonder about a few things. 

The advantage to watching “The Killer” is that it’s on Peacock, NBC’s Streaming Service. You can pause it, re-watch a scene or just walk away if you are bored.

All of that being said, this is a John Woo Production. John Woo has made some pretty awesome movies and the reimaged “The Killer” is worth a look.

This is a 3 Star Movie!!

The Shack

It’s difficult to bring a best-selling novel to the big screen. It’s even more difficult to bring a novel that was difficult to read to the big screen. In comes “The Shack”. I read “The Shack”. After the first 75 pages I had to walk away from the book for a few a days, but I did come back because it was a recommended read for me because I was struggling with the death of my Mom at that time.

“The Shack” is about how we question or even abandon our faith when something tragic or devastating happens to us.
Mack Phillips (Sam Worthington) suffers a family tragedy. He falls into a HUGH depression, questions his beliefs and abandons his faith. Mack is summoned to an old shack in the Oregon woods. There he meets three souls. Through this meeting Mack discovers truths about himself and how to deal with his tragedy. The story unfolds from there…

“The Shack” is difficult to watch on the screen, not because it’s not meaningful and important, but because the script is all over the place. The movie is really hard to follow. The story doesn’t really come together and the movie is not entertaining. The book wasn’t that bad…

The movie contains some beautiful cinematography and panoramic views, but that’s not enough to make “The Shack” even a three star movie.

I have seen many Christian-Faith based movies and I personally do not think “The Shack” is worth the money, but I will say that Octavia Spencer is the best element in the movie.

This is a 2 Star Movie!

Sabotage

“Sabotage” is Sabotage to your wallet. 😦

Breacher (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is the leader of an elite DEA task force that works at capturing the world’s most vicious drug criminals. The team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a drug cartel safe house, they think their work is complete, but they later find out they are being accused of stealing 10 million dollars from the cartel safe house.

Each team member is thoroughly investigated but nothing was found. They are all given back their badges, guns and equipment. They go back to work, but then one by one they are mysteriously eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect. The story unfolds from there…
The story gets off to a bad start…The plot is non-existent until you are half way through the movie. “Sabotage is “In Your Face Bloody”. It’s so bloody that I found myself turning away from the screen several times. The violence is crazy! I have to applaud the cinematography because the views you get are very grisly. Everything looks so realistic. There is plenty of suspense and some intrigue, but the story is lacking substance and depth.

“Sabotage” disappoints. It’s not as good as I had hoped it would be. It’s collateral damage in the worst way.

If you are an Arnold Schwarzenegger fan, “Sabotage” is your movie.