Becky and I went to see the new movie The Man From U.N.C.L.E. at the Regal Cinema in Lone Tree, CO on Friday night.  The Fandango website at The Man From U.N.C.L.E. describes the movie as follows…

“Director Guy Ritchie brings the popular TV spy series to the big screen in this origin story. Set in the 1960s CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB op Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) pair up to stop an international criminal organization that is dealing in nuclear weapons and technology, which could upset the balance of power in the world…”

The Review:  The Man From U.N.C.L.E. takes place in the 1960’s with two spies going against one another in a bit like the Spy vs Spy comics of Mad Magazine.  In this movie, the have to team up to go after a diabolical mad woman who is dealing in nuclear weapons and wants to destroy the world.  The story is good, it is directed by Guy Ritchie and he does a good job with the film, except for in a few parts where he has the multi-screen effect that you would often see in 1970’s television shows that was annoying then and is more annoying today.  That part of the movie could have been left out for sure.

I liked Henry Cavill in this movie more than Armie Hammer simply because Armie’s Russian character seemed like he was “trying” to play the part, where Cavill being British played a pretentious snob of a spy much better.  He had no problem pulling off his character and you believed that the character Solo really was a British agent with an attitude, which was one of the things that was entertaining about the film.  There are plenty of cool classic cars and some great chase scenes, with plenty of action.  It seemed longer than it was though, which is just under two hours and we enjoyed all of the characters.

Unlike many of the spy movies that are incredibly far fetched these characters find themselves in situations that would be very difficult to overcome and they are able to do so using skills that are less than super human.  That’s one of the things that is refreshing about this movie is that it’s an action film without a bunch of hype. It’s good entertainment.

Becky and I both liked it enough to recommend it.  We thought it was Worth The Trip.

John – *** Worth The Trip
Becky – *** Worth The Trip

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Becky and I went to see the new movie Mr. Holmes at the Regal Cinema in Englewood, CO.  The Fandango website at Mr. Holmes describes the movie as follows…

“Director Bill Condon puts a spin on Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated character with Mr. Holmes, which stars Ian McKellen as the famous detective. The set-up is that a now-retired Holmes, his steel-trap mind starting to fade with old age, lives out his golden years in the late 1940s. He returns from a trip to Japan searching for a plant that could slow the aging process and help him regain the faculties he knows he’s lost….”

The Review:  This movie has a great deal of heart.  It’s a movie about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes as an old man, who is trying to figure out why he retired after a case that he can no longer remember.  As he is aging, his mind is slipping and he’s in search of a cure to keep his mind sharp as he grows older.  One solution that he come up with is to harvest Royal Jelly from bees as a bee keeper that he believes will help with his senility.

He travels to Japan in search of a tree that has been destroyed from the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima that he believes will be even better than the Royal Jelly and in the process he meets a Japanese man who blames him for his father leaving him.  That is an interesting twist to the story and how Mr. Holmes responds to the man about his father.  The story is very well done and the acting is good, but it moves rather slow.  Almost too slow, much like an old man trying to solve a mystery.  The dynamic with Mr. Holmes a a young boy who has lost his Dad in the Great War made the film for me.

I liked the movie more than Becky did and the cinematography was fantastic.  I thought it was definitely worth the trip and Becky probably rated it as a Rental.

John – *** Worth The Trip
Becky – ** Rental

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Becky and I went to see the new movie The Gift at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO with Corban and her Mom.  The Fandango website at The Gift describes the movie as follows…

“Written and directed by Joel Edgerton, The Gift centers around a young married couple Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall). Simon has a chance encounter with a former acquaintance, the off-kilter Gordo (Edgerton), who begins to surprise the couple with unwanted and increasingly menacing gifts. Eventually, Gordo also reveals a hidden secret from Simon’s past and throws the couple’s lives into a tailspin…”

The Review:  Becky and I are always big fans of thrillers, especially crazy movies like Gone Girl.  We expected something like that with The Gift, especially based on the previews of the movie.  It was pretty well done.  The acting was good, the story was pretty good and the directing was good, but it wasn’t very scary or overly thrilling.  It isn’t a terrible film, but it was over-the-top excellent as expected.

The movie is about a couple that has moved to California to get a new job and while shopping runs into an old schoolmate from High School, named “Gordo” as a nickname.  It turns out the two have really negative history and the main character is trying to keep it a secret from his wife.  Gordo keeps bringing the two of them gifts and getting close to the wife of his hostile friend from days gone by.  The movie gets a bit exciting as you start to learn about their past and the present.   It escalates into a serious conflict between all of the parties.

I liked the movie more than Becky, Corban and Betty did.  There are some disturbing aspects of the film with what happens to some of the characters, but I thought it was Worth The Trip.

John – *** Worth The Trip
Becky – ** Rental

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I went to see the new movie Fantastic Four at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO with Conroy and Corban last night.  The Fandango website at Fantastic Four describes the movie as follows…

“Brilliant scientist Reed Richards builds a device that allows users to teleport to an alternate dimension, but an experiment involving it goes wrong and leaves him and his three teammates with unusual superpowers. The quartet are then forced to work together to battle an enemy from their past…”

The Review:  The first Fantastic Four movie really sucked and this one we thought would be better.  Unfortunately it wasn’t, but for different reasons.  The story was actually really good and the acting was good, but the problem was how they put the film together.  It was actually a really great movie for the first half of the film, but then things fell apart.

They built up this really cool story and the next thing you know they threw the audience into this strange situation between the main characters and the evil character Doom.  They didn’t build it up to a major fight scene between the super hero’s and the villain.  The fight scene lasted about 10 minutes or less and it was really ridiculous.  It was as though they had to keep the movie to 90 minutes and they just got in a hurry to finish the film, which really wrecked it for everyone.  People leaving the movie had the same comments.  Needless to say, we were all disappointed because the ending was such an incredible let down.  Which is why we are suggesting you wait for the rental for this one.

John – ** Rental

Conroy – ** Rental
Corban – ** Rental

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Becky and I went to see the new movie Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation at the AMC Theater in Highlands Ranch, CO.  The Fandango website describes the movie as follows…

“Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his teammates reunite for this pulse-pounding sequel, in which they attempt to take down a secret international organization known as the Syndicate–highly skilled ex-IMF agents who are intent on bringing down their former outfit…”

The Review:  The Mission Impossible series has been pretty good overall.  The last one and the first one were really good with several in between that kind of sucked.  If you’re not a Tom Cruise fan like our son Conroy, you will probably still like this film.  As he put it, “The movie was great except that it had Tom Cruise.”, which was kind of funny.  Becky and I both thought this movie was great and so did our friends Mark and Maria.  Tom Cruise is a nut outside of his movies, but there is not arguing that he knows how to make a good movie with this franchise.  It’s going to be a blockbuster and he does all of his own stunts, which are pretty over the top most of the time.

There is plenty of action and suspense in this movie.  It’s action packed from start to finish, much like Ghost Protocol.  There is a hot chick in the movie as you would expect with these spy thriller type movies.  It’s like the Bourne and 007 series if you haven’t seen the previous Mission Impossible movies.  The acting and directing are good and the only complaint from most people is that it is way too long.  Personally though I liked that it was long because it didn’t leave you hanging, like many films today end up doing.  The bottom line is that this was definitely a Don’t Miss It.  It’s worth the price of admission, so go check it out.

John – **** Don’t Miss It
Becky – **** Don’t Miss It

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Becky and I went to see the new movie Southpaw at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock.  The Fandango website describes the movie as follows…

“Jake Gyllenhaal stars as troubled boxer Billy Hope in this high-stakes drama from director Antoine Fuqua and Sons of Anarachy creator Kurt Sutter. At the height of his fame and success, Hope is convinced by his loving wife Maureen (Rachel McAdams) to retire from the sport in order to spend more time with the couple’s daughter Leila (Oona Laurence)…”

The Review: I was thinking that a boxing film was probably going to suck, but the acting in this movie was really great.  Jake is probably going to win an award for his role in this movie and it was really well Directed.  In fact, this is one of the best movies we have seen in quite awhile with plenty of action and drama with a really good storyline.  The movie portrays the life of a boxer, who goes from a rags to riches life to having his world ripped out from under him and how he must overcome his emotions.  He has to battle back against numerous odds that are against him and decide what people he is going to trust and let back into his life.

The language is rough, so be prepared for that when you see it and it is violent as a boxing film.  It also shows the dangers of gun violence when ignorant people make bad choices with weapons.  This is a movie that will pull at your heart strings and it is a movie with characters that have plenty of heart.  We both thought it was definitely a Don’t Miss It and would recommend seeing it for sure.  We really enjoyed this movie and it was really well done.

John – **** Don’t Miss It
Becky – **** Don’t Miss It

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John is an auto consultant and owner of CoolCarGuy.com with his license at a car dealership in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase or consign your vehicle – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle! jboyd@coolcarguy.com or Twitter@coolcarguy