Showing posts with label Samuel L. Jackson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samuel L. Jackson. Show all posts

Monday, 13 July 2026

Jurassic Park (5 Stars)


As most of you know, Sam Neill passed away this morning. I've decided to watch two of his films to remember him, "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic Park III". He doesn't appear in the second film, but I'll watch it anyway. It's in my top 20 films, meaning it's a film which deserves to be watched repeatedly.


If there's one performance that defines Sam Neill's career, it's Dr Alan Grant in "Jurassic Park". Neill had already built an impressive filmography before Steven Spielberg's dinosaur epic, but this is the role that made him a cinematic icon. Decades later, it's still impossible to think of Sam Neill without picturing the moment he removes his sunglasses in stunned disbelief as dinosaurs once again walk the Earth.

Neill is the emotional anchor that keeps "Jurassic Park" grounded. Grant begins as a brilliant but emotionally distant palaeontologist who'd rather spend his life digging up fossils than dealing with children. Over the course of the film, Neill subtly transforms him into a reluctant protector, and every stage of that journey feels completely natural. Whether he's awestruck by the sight of a living Brachiosaurus, desperately outrunning a Tyrannosaurus Rex or quietly comforting two terrified children, Neill never lets the spectacle overwhelm the humanity of the character.


Spielberg's ground-breaking visual effects still hold up remarkably well, but they only work because the cast reacts with absolute conviction. Neill's expressions of wonder, fear and determination make the impossible believable. His chemistry with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum gives the film warmth and humour, while his fatherly bond with Lex and Tim provides its emotional heart.

"Jurassic Park" remains one of the greatest blockbusters ever made because it balances breath-taking action with unforgettable characters. At the centre of it all is Sam Neill, delivering the performance of a lifetime. He's enjoyed a long and distinguished career, but this is the role that made him immortal. For generations of film fans, Alan Grant isn't just Sam Neill's greatest character; it's the performance that will always define his legacy.

Sam Neill
14 September 1947 – 13 July 2026

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Saturday, 18 April 2026

Kill Bill (5 Stars)


Oops I did it again. I went to see "Kill Bill" for a second time in two days. When I bought my tickets it seemed necessary, because it was claimed it would never be released on disc. Quentin Tarantino has  changed his mind, fortunately. But it was still good to see the film again.

One recent change to the complete film that wasn't in the 2011 version shown at the Cannes Film Festival is a 12-minute after-credits scene, called "Kill Bill: The Lost Chapter". It's a fully animated sequence featuring Gogo's sister Yuki. It doesn't really belong to the film, especially not at the end. When I own the film on disc I'll probably watch it separately, not tagged on to the end.

One thing that amused me tonight was the man sitting in the seat next to me. I always respect people who go to the cinema alone, like me, not with their partners or friends. It shows that they take films seriously. This man was different. During the fight scene in the House of Blue Leaves he covered his eyes every time a head or an arm was chopped off. Someone should have warned him that it would be so violent.

Friday, 17 April 2026

Kill Bill (5 Stars)


Finally! I've waited 22 years to see this film. "Kill Bill" was originally released as two films in 2003 and 2004. Quentin Tarantino re-edited the two films into a single film in 2011, but it was only released in Japan. In December 2025 it was finally shown in America at a few select cinemas and minor re-editing. Conflicting statements were made, possibly deliberate misinformation to raise expectations among film fans. First Tarantino said the film would only be shown in cinemas and not be made available for home viewing on disc or streaming. That was depressing. Then it was said that it would be released on Blu-Ray, but not streaming. Ideal! For me, at least. Then I was surprised to see that it was dropped onto Amazon Prime today, without prior announcement.

My local cinema was only showing the film twice, today and tomorrow. I bought tickets for both days. Then, last Monday, they announced that it would be lengthened to four days, probably because both days were sold out.

The main changed are

1. Oren Ishii's origin story is lengthened.

2. The fight scene in the House of Blue Leaves is in colour throughout, not partially black and white.


One small change that I noticed immediately was that the Klingon proverb was missing from the opening scene. I've read theories why Tarantino edited it out, but I miss it.

The official name of the film is "Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair". Giving it that name makes it sound like two films that have been stitched together. I prefer to call it "Kill Bill", which emphasises that it's a single film that was chopped in two.

Thursday, 10 October 2024

The Marvels (3½ Stars)


I've finally bought "The Marvels" on Blu-ray. After all, I buy every Marvel film on disc. I was disappointed when I saw it in the cinema, but I made an effort to like it today. I made a conscious decision to see the good in it.

A large part of the problems isn't the film itself, it's the way it's been framed. Marvel fans are already used to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films being interconnected, so they have to watch some of the previous films to know what's happening. To me that's acceptable. But "The Marvels" takes it a step further. Important characters were introduced in the mini-series "Ms. Marvel", and background information was given in the mini-series "Secret Invasion". Both of these series were broadcast on Disney Plus. Is it acceptable to expect people to subscribe to a streaming service before going to the cinema? No way! That's probably the main reason for the poor box office figures.

Okay, I'm one of the lucky people who subscribes to Disney Plus. I've got over that hurdle. I can understand the film. So do I like it?

Another problem is that something else is missing. There's an untold story that's often mentioned in "The Marvels", but we've never seen it on screen, not even in flashbacks. At some point in the past, Captain Marvel destroyed the Kree's Supreme Intelligence, leading to a civil war and ecological disasters. She's now called the Annihilator. This would have been an exciting film, if it had ever been made. And it wouldn't have needed any Disney mini-series to prop it up.


The new leader of the Kree is Dar-Benn. Wasn't she a man in the comics? It's also weird that she carries the staff of Ronan the Accuser. In the comics the Accusers were senior officials, acting as judges and executioners, but they weren't the rulers. Or maybe this apparent blunder can be explained as a result of the Kree civil war.


Captain Marvel is now accompanied by two other women, variations of herself. They're Monica Rambeau (who refuses to carry a Marvel-ish name) and Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel from the Disney series). They're linked to one another by some pseudo-scientific cosmic occurrence that I doubt even the scriptwriters understood. I can see where it's coming from: the male Captain Marvel used to swap places with Rick Jones. In a vaguely similar way Captain Marvel and the Mini-Marvels swap places whenever they use their powers. Incidentally, the exchange with Rick Jones was powered by the nega bands that Captain Marvel wore in the comics. In the film they're incorrectly called quantum bands. The quantum bands in the comics are also Kree artefacts, but something different.

Ms. Marvel wears one quantum band, Dar-Benn wears the other. Dar-Benn wants to unite the two bands in order to return the Kree homeworld Hala to its former glory. With only one band, she's forced to create new jump points to suck air or water from other planets and transfer it to Hala. A jump point is a portal from one point in space to another. In the comics jump points were created by the Kree thousands of years ago, but in the films their origins are vague.

The film isn't an absolute disaster. There's a lot of action, interspersed with occasional comedy. For instance, Captain Marvel is married to the leader of a planet in which all communication is carried out by singing. As soon as the Mini-Marvels talk normally, no one understands them.

"The Marvels" isn't a complete disaster like "The Eternals", but it's still the MCU film that made the biggest loss. What's embarrassing was the way the box office flop was explained. Brie Larson claimed that fans stayed away because they were misogynistic and wouldn't accept a female team. What a stupid thing to say! I doubt this was an issue for many fans. Comic book fans, especially young men, like films with sexy women. Doesn't Brie know that?


For me, the most appealing character in the film is Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan. She's such a charismatic teenager, always a pleasure to see on the screen. Brie Larson seems to have been written out of future MCU films, due to her arguments with Marvel Studios. I hope Iman will be used in future films. She has too much talent to be wasted.

I tried to like the film today. I've managed to give it an extra half star. It doesn't deserve more.

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Sunday, 12 May 2024

The Garfield Movie (4 Stars)


Does this film fall into the category of a delayed sequel? The first five Garfield films were made from 2004 to 2009. Now there's a sixth film after a 15 year delay. Usually that's the sign of a poor movie, but I can't really judge, since I've never watched the first give films. Apart from that, I was impressed by the film I saw today. The children in the audience were laughing, and I was laughing as well.

The story's premise is that Garfield finally meets his father Vic after years of separation. But who's his mother? We meet Vic's ex-girlfriend, an evil Persian cat called Jinx, but it's never suggested that she's his mother. Maybe, maybe not. Garfield and Vic are sent on an (admittedly over-complicated) mission to get milk from a dairy. Don't worry that so much of the film doesn't make sense. The animated slapstick humour makes up for it.

Thursday, 4 January 2024

Django Unchained (5 Stars)


This is the latest selection from my top 100 film list that I decided to watch with my son Benjamin. It's currently in 40th place.

I don't have much to write about it today, apart from sharing some information I recently read.


There's a scene where Leonardo DiCaprio, playing the slave owner Calvin Candie, had to bang his hand on the table. He did this so vehemently that he broke a plate and cut his hand. This wasn't scripted, but it looked so good that the cameras continued to roll.


Is Samuel L. Jackson, the head slave Stephen, staring at Leonardo because of the unexpected blood on his hand?


Leonardo went on to smear his blood onto the face of Broomhilda, played by Kerry Washington. That's an amazing improvised scene. I'm surprised that Kerry even put up with it. Some actors are true professionals.

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Tuesday, 26 December 2023

Jackie Brown (5 Stars)


After watching an underwhelming film in the cinema this afternoon, I thought it was a good idea to pick another film from my top 100 film list. What better choice than "Jackie Brown", currently in 34th place? It's an homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1970's, but let's be honest: were any of the blaxploitation films half as good as "Jackie Brown"? It's a classic, considered by many to be Quentin Tarantino's best film.

One small criticism I have is that the film needs to be remastered. Many of the scenes are slightly blurred. A film like this deserves to be presented in the best possible quality.


I like pictures of a beautiful woman when the camera is pointing up at her. It makes the woman look like a Goddess. And that's what Pam Grier is. She's a Goddess. She's a giant among women, beautiful and powerful.

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Wednesday, 8 November 2023

The Marvels (3 Stars)


Where has all the Marvel gone?

I used to connect the word "Marvel" with high quality. But that was a long time ago.

The film has action from the beginning, but it can't cover up the poor story-telling. The film makes no compromises for anyone who hasn't seen the last ten Marvel films and the "Ms. Marvel" series. The characters are thrown at us without any introduction.

I originally intended to write a few words about the plot. I've changed my mind. It's not worth it. If you really must go to see the film, don't expect a lot.

Sunday, 30 April 2023

Die Hard 3 (3 Stars)


This film was called "Die Hard with a Vengeance" in most countries, but I prefer to call it "Die Hard 3". It makes things easier for my alphabetical list of posts.

I disliked this film from the first minutes. It doesn't keep to the concept of the first two films, in which John McClane was a policeman outside of his jurisdiction acting without the support of the other police.

John is now living in New York, although he was working in Los Angeles in the second film. He began his career as a New York Cop, then he moved to Los Angeles to join his wife, and now he's back in New York. He's split up with his wife, which is maybe the reason for his move. He's also been suspended from the police force because of his drinking. He's introduced as an alcoholic, which also disturbs me. Okay, people can change. But the biggest problem I have with the film is his relationship to the police. A bomb goes off in a department store, and a caller tells the police that he'll set off another bomb unless John McClane goes to Harlem, wearing a sandwich board with a racial slur. And the police actually send McClane. They give him back his badge and send him into action. Ridiculous!

John McClane is almost killed by a black gang that doesn't like what he's saying. I won't repeat the words, but it's nasty. His life is only saved by a corner shop owner, Zeus Carver, played by Samuel L. Jackson. Zeus has a jovial personality, but he isn't a pleasant man. He's a racist who tells his children not to take any help from white men. He only helps McClane because he's told that the next bomb might go off in Harlem.

A cat and mouse game follows. The mystery caller, who's later exposed as the brother of Hans Gruber from the first film, sends him round New York on impossible tasks, running against the clock to prevent bombs going off. The caller insists on Zeus going with him, which I also find strange. He wants revenge on McClane, so a random man from Harlem only gets in the way. It's an artificial construction by the screenwriter to put a black man into a main role.

There's a lot of action. It's not car chases, it's just a fast car racing from A to B. The fans liked the film, but the critics didn't. It was the most successful film of 1995 at the box office. This is one of the rare occasions where I side with the critics. The film's action sequences aren't enough to compensate for a poor story.

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Saturday, 12 November 2022

Inglourious Basterds (5 Stars)



I warned you that I'd be watching Netflix more often while I'm on holiday. That includes films like "Inglourious Basterds", which I have on Blu-ray at home.

In a recent interview Quentin Tarantino named six films which he considers to be perfect. The films, in the order he named them, are:


That's an interesting list. I've seen all the films except for "Annie Hall", but I've only reviewed "Jaws" and "Young Frankenstein" in my blog. I ought to watch all of the films in a row to see what he means. He claims the films are technically perfect, regardless of a person's personal tastes. That's difficult for me. My reviews are subjective, and I don't think I'm able to make an objective decision whether a film is perfect. I'll do my best.

Quentin should have added one more film to the list: "Inglourious Basterds". Maybe he was too modest to name one of his own films. The film's chapters are a series of vignettes, each of which can be judged on its own merits. Each vignette is perfect. If anything is imperfect, I'd like to hear Quentin himself tell me what's wrong with it.

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Tuesday, 25 October 2022

The Red Violin (5 Stars)


This is a difficult film for me to describe adequately. If I tell you what it's about you'll shrug and say it sounds boring. It's about a violin made in 1681 and the people who play it over the centuries. Does that sound interesting? Not really. And yet I remember when I first saw the film, before I started writing my blog. I sat on the edge of my seat, repeatedly saying Wow at the various twists and turns.


Is the violin cursed? It would seem so. Those who play it suffer early deaths, whether by sickness or suicide, but the deaths are caused indirectly. Those who hold the violin become obsessed with it, and it's the obsession that causes death, not the violin itself. The fortune teller Cesca makes a mistake while reading the Tarot cards. She predicts a long life for Anna Bussotti, the wife of the violin maker Nicolo Bussotti, and yet she dies in childbirth the next day. Cesca has unwittingly foretold the future of the violin, which will travel the world for hundreds of years.


A hundred years after its creation, the violin is buried in the hands of an orphan who played it. But that can't stop the violin. Grave robbers loot the cemetery, looking for buried treasures, and the violin finds its way into the hands of gypsies travelling across Europe.


Some of the lives are shown in detail, while others flash across the screen for a few seconds only. There are many untold stories.


Lord Frederick Pops lies in the arms of a beautiful woman, but he can't take his eyes off his violin. She tells him she's jealous of the violin. It has a seductive beauty that no woman can match.


Wherever the violin is played, tears are shed. Crimes are committed by men who've been honest all their lives.


The film doesn't show the end of the violin's life. It's merely the next phase. At the end of the film we see the violin being carried from Montreal to New York, where it can continue to influence people.

I've tried to make "The Red Violin" sound interesting. I hope I've succeeded.

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Monday, 3 October 2022

Jackie Brown (5 Stars)


Quentin Tarantino has said that he'll only make ten films. So far he's made nine films, which means his next film will be his last. He claims that most directors end their career with poor films, and these are the films they'll always be remembered for. He wants to stop while he's at his peak. I think he has too little faith in himself. I could name many directors who have remained good after making many films, starting with Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg.

On the other hand, I think Quentin has already passed his peak. If you look at my top 100 films list, you'll see that it contains seven of his nine films. The two films missing from the list are his last two films, "Hateful Eight" and "Once upon a time in Hollywood". I'm not saying that they're bad films, but they're not up to the quality of his earlier films. "The Hateful Eight" lacks the detailed character development of films like "Jackie Brown", while "Once upon a time in Hollywood" seems to lack direction. Quentin himself says that "Death Proof" is his weakest film, but I strongly disagree. It could have been slightly improved by making the car chase longer, but I can't say anything else against it.


Today I watched "Jackie Brown" using the enhanced trivia track, a text commentary while the film is running. I don't want to write anything more about the film after reviewing it five times already, so I'll just talk about one thing in the text commentary:

"As Jackie is walking towards Max Cherry, the song playing is Natural High, performed by Bloodstone. Quentin Tarantino says this is one of the greatest soul ballads of the 1970's. According to Quentin, when white audiences hear this song, they think Max is falling in love with Jackie, but when black audiences hear this song, the audience is falling in love with Jackie".

I don't understand why Quentin thinks white and black audiences react differently when hearing the song. It doesn't make sense. It's obvious to me that the song is played to show Max is falling in love with Jackie at first sight. That isn't just because I'm white. And why does Quentin think only black audiences would fall in love with Jackie? I had a crush on her for years.

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Tuesday, 15 February 2022

The Protégé (3 Stars)


Sometimes I'm too impatient for my own good.

At last year's Fantasy Film Festival there were trailers for this film every day. Probably three trailers a day. The trailer interested me, because the film stars Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton and Maggie Q, three of my favourite actors. I searched for the film after the festival. It wasn't available on streaming, and the price on Amazon was too high. So I left it on the list of items to buy later. Month after month went by. The price slowly dropped until it was something I was willing to pay. Only 6.50 Euros. One last check to see if it was available on streaming. No, so I clicked Purchase. It arrived yesterday.

Later yesterday I received an email from Amazon telling me there was a new film available with Prime Video. You guessed it: "The Protégé". Annoying. I'm contributing to Jeff Bezos' wealth.

Samuel L. Jackson plays Moody, a contract killer. In 1991 he's paid to assassinate someone in Vietnam. After finishing the job he hears shooting nearby. He finds a room full of dead bodies and a small girl holding a gun. They'd broken into the apartment and killed her mother, so she picked up a gun that one of the men foolishly put down. Moody recognises the girl's potential, so he adopts her and trains her to be a killer.

30 years later Moody and Anna are an unstoppable team. Moody is secretively trying to locate someone, not even telling Anna who it is. Assassins kill Moody and everyone associated with him. Only Anna survives. She realises that the attack has something to do with the person Moody was hunting, so she finds the name and carries on the search.

The search takes her back to Vietnam. She meets a man called Michael Rembrandt who works with the men who killed Moody, although he says he never approved of the killing. In theory they're enemies, but there's too much raw chemistry for them to kill one another, and they end up in bed together.

Great acting by the main cast, but the story itself is lacking magic.

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Saturday, 5 February 2022

Kill Bill (5 Stars)


Today I watched "Kill Bill" with my friend Alex and his girlfriend Anna. It's always a pleasure to watch films in a group of like-minded film fans.

There's nothing I want to add to my previous reviews, apart from a few words about the film's two four-year-old girls.


Nikki, the daughter of Vernita Green aka Copperhead, is played by Ambrosia Kelley, who was seven years old at the time. She appeared in a few television programmes after "Kill Bill", but her acting career fizzled out in 2012. I haven't been able to find out what she's doing now.


B.B., the Bride's daughter, is played by Perla Haney-Jardine. She was five years old at the time. She's had a more successful acting career, including films like "Spider-Man 3" and "Steve Jobs". I hope to see a lot more of her in the future.

As you can see, some child actors have success that continues into adulthood, others don't. An early start in acting isn't an automatic guarantee for a long career. There's no replacement for talent and hard work.

Success Rate:  + 3.6

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Friday, 21 January 2022

The 51st State (5 Stars)


I've interrupted my series of true stories because of sad news that I heard today. The singer Meat Loaf, real name Marvin Lee Aday, died yesterday at the age of 74. The cause of death hasn't yet been disclosed. He's best known as a singer, but he's also appeared in 45 films, so I decided to watch one of his films to remember him. I have two of his films in my collection, but I'll only be watching "The 51st State", because it's one of my favourite films. No, it isn't in my top 100 film list, but it ought to be.

I used one of his early photos to head this post, not a screenshot from the film, because he plays a character with a scarred face.


This is what he looks like in the film. Not a very typical look for him.

Meat Loaf's first album was "Bat out of Hell", released in 1977. I bought it after hearing the title track played on the radio. I loved it immediately, but I admit that it wasn't Meat Loaf's singing that attracted me. It was the searing guitar played by Todd Rundgren. Todd produced his first album, and as I've mentioned before, Todd Rundgren wasn't a normal record producer. He effectively took over the albums he produced, giving them his own sound. If you look at the credits of "Bat out of Hell" you'll see that the other musicians are Roger Powell (synthesizers), John Wilcox (drums) and Kasim Sulton (bass guitar). This was the complete line up of Todd's band Utopia. "Bat out of Hell" could be considered a Utopia album with a guest singer.

I wasn't as enthusiastic over Meat Loaf's second album, "Dead Ringer". It wasn't too bad, but it wasn't a Utopia album. Added to that, Meat Loaf's voice was less powerful. His third album, "Midnight at the Lost and Found", was a disappointment to me. After that I stopped following his music and didn't buy his following albums.

It wasn't until the early 2000's that I rediscovered his music. I heard some very good songs, and I found out they were taken from "Bat out of Hell 2", released in 1993. It was a very good album, despite not being produced by Todd Rundgren. It contained several moving ballads. I checked out his other albums, and it's my personal opinion that his second to fifth albums should be forgotten. They were below par, but his sixth album, "Bat out of Hell 2", was a masterpiece, almost up to the quality of "Bat out of Hell". After that all his albums were good. They seemed to be getting heavier from album to album, and his voice had regained its old power.

Summing up his albums, "Eight out of twelve ain't bad".


I don't want to write anything about "The 51st State" today, except to say that it's a brilliant British gangster film. It has similarities with Guy Ritchie's films "Snatch" and "Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels".

This afternoon I listened to "Bat out of Hell 2". It's late now, but I'll listen to "Bat out of Hell" before I go to bed. I'll listen to some of his other albums over the weekend.

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Sunday, 29 August 2021

The Hitman's Bodyguard (3½ Stars)



Yes, I know. This is the third time in a row that I've published my Amazon Friday post on a Sunday. Maybe I should just give up and rename it Amazon Sunday. But if I do that, I probably won't write my post until Tuesday, so I'd better leave it as it is. I know my readers are laughing about me, especially the ones who know me personally.

I picked this film today because the film's sequel, "The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard", is currently in the cinemas. I don't know whether I want to watch it. Both films star Samuel L. Jackson, one of my favourite actors, but they also star Ryan Reynolds. He's very much hit or miss, as far as his films go. I have no doubts about his acting ability, but he's made a large number of bad films. He even jokingly acknowledges this in the mid-credits sequence of "Deadpool 2". He accepted film roles that he should have turned down, and he knows it.

In "The Hitman's Bodyguard" Ryan Reynolds plays Michael Bryce, an AAA certified professional bodyguard, who lost his reputation after one of his clients was killed on his watch. He can't get top profile jobs any more, until his ex-girlfriend asks him to guard Darius Kincaid, a professional hitman who has to give evidence at a war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

The two have met in the past, and Bryce looks down on Kincaid. He thinks he's better, because he saves people's lives while Kincaid kills people. It's not that simple. Bryce will guard anyone for money. He doesn't judge his clients. Kincaid is different. He has a conscience, so he only kills those who deserve to die, whether they're criminals or corrupt politicians.


On the plus side, the acting by the two main characters is superb. There are multiple car chases, including a spectacular five-minute chase involving cars, motorbikes and a speedboat through the centre of Amsterdam.

On the negative side, the plot is highly infeasible. It's difficult to take things seriously. The details of the history between the two men are unclear. Evidently Kincaid has attempted to kill Bryce 27 times in the past. Why? I thought Kincaid would only want to kill Bryce's clients.

Compared with Ryan Reynolds' other films, this is average. Not the worst, but far from the best. I still don't know whether I'll watch "The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard" in the cinema. I'll decide at short notice.

Success Rate:  + 3.9

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