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You Can't Run Forever (2024)
Who stops to wash their hands when chased by a crazed killer?
Like most who know J. K. Simmons we picked this movie because we enjoy J. K. Simmons & the movies he stars in. He's a fantastic actor. But this movie is so far below his standards we couldn't help but wonder why the heck did he accept the role.
So he plays the role of a psycho killer okay, but it didn't take any special skills. Other than that, there is not one redeeming quality about this movie. After he shoots the dog owner I would have thought the couple in the chairs would have been like gone! But they just sat there & JK calmly saunters over & shoots them both, but allows the woman at the gas pumps to live; she didn't run either, no she squatted down at the pumps, despite his motorbike beside her. And off he goes. He comes across stepdad & his stepdaughter arguing in a car. After he shoots stepdad its time to chase after the step daughter who ran off into the woods (this movie use to be called The Woods I believe). The daughter actually takes time out to stop at a river & wash her arms & hands. Who does that when running scared from a psycho killer? We now know the premise of the movie as JK continues to act like he's some crazed nut with intent to hunt down the girl. Mom chats with the killer & threatens to hunt him down & kill him, like this will scare him off the daughter. There is nothing to keep you on the edge of your seat here, nothing that you don't already know how it's going to end; except to wonder why the heck did JK Simmons accept this role in the 1st place. Oh, and yeah, the group of young volunteers led by sis.. noisy, complaining, stumbling about.. you can hear them from several miles away. And what police force is going to recruit young volunteers to traipse about the woods in the middle of the night for a psycho serial killer? They try to change things up having daughter gobble down some shrooms, saying "I found some more food". She stopped to read the package, it's in big bold print.. she's starving, but she only has her from having just one. She's supposedly starving but only eats one. Of course that's a good thing or else she would have really been screwed. And the ending.. who does that? You're gonna have to watch the whole it all to find out. This movie is out of this world stupid, and not worth the paper it was written on.
Why did Academy Award Winner J. K. Simmons take on the role? Because he's a loving, caring, supportive, & a super husband, super dad, & super brother-in-law; that's all I can figure. His wife co-wrote it & directed it. His brother-in-law was producer, his daughter starred in it, and his son was the composer for the film. That doesn't make it a good film, & certainly not worthy of paying box office fare (or on-demand). If you're really a faithful fan ofJ. K. Simmons, than by all means watch it for free, but don't expect anything of it.
Line of Duty (2019)
Sad; really sad..
This movie was just plain pathetic. I mean, come on, can't the story line be @least a teeny bit realistic? A cop teaming up with a on-line blog reporter? He complains the Fiat she is driving is not a real car, then (out of all the cars stopped in the middle of the street) his next vehicle he commondeers is that of what could be a UPS van. How is that faster? Now he has 2 civilians whose lives he"s putting at risk fatally. And to what purpose does the blog reporter serve to this film? This whole movie could have been filmed exactly as it was without her. Her absence would change nothing. And that final scene where they are digging up the grave; at 1st they are pulling out shovel fulls of soil (with a backhoe digger in the back ground). The whole city shows up to help the cop dig up a grave.. with claw hammers & crowbars (they really contribute to dirt removal), but the cemetery backhoe operator no where to be found. Shovel fulls of dirt being removed in the beginning, & then it cuts to a scene where the lid of the plexiglass container is being pulled off & is level with the surrounding ground. This movie needs to be read its last rites!
Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (2017)
Boo 2? Boooooooo....
This was a terrible movie. I tried to hang in till the end because I am a Tyler Perry fan, but I abandon ship less than 1/2 mark. Just plain bad acting, boring, distasteful jokes, not the slightest bit funny. So disappointing.