Becky and I went to see the new movie Collide last night at the AMC theater in Highlands Ranch, CO with our friends Mark and Maria.  The Fandango website at Collide describes the movie as follows…

“After a robbery goes awry, a young man (Nicholas Hoult) must call on his drug-smuggling former boss (Ben Kingsley) to protect his girlfriend (Felicity Jones) from mobsters who want to kill both of them and retrieve their cargo. Anthony Hopkins co-stars…”

The Review:  Collide is another lame action film that is too far fetched to be enjoyable.  The acting is pretty good with Anthony Hopkins showing his age by taking roles like this one and Ben Kingsley.  Their talent is being wasted on a movie like this one for sure.  The two older actors each play older mobsters who are in a feud with the main character caught in the middle.  The main character is trying to get a couple hundred thousand for his girlfriend to get a kidney transplant, so he turns back to a life of crime.

The story is pretty pathetic because there is no way that the main character would be putting himself into this terrible situation to try to save his girlfriend with the possibility of getting killed.  The movie didn’t make much sense and several people got up and left.  If we hadn’t been with our friends, we probably would have left too.  It was just too cheesy and one of those movies where you roll your eyes too many times.  The best thing about the film were the cool cars that the main character got to drive.

However, he steals what looked like a Volvo station wagon and gets in a high speed chase with a Porsche Cayenne and some other high-end cars on the Autobahn and they are shooting machine guns at him on the freeway.  As if that wasn’t unrealistic enough, he is out driving these much faster vehicles and after rolling his car multiple times he gets out and steals a hot Mercedes to keep rolling.  It was pretty ridiculous.  Becky and Maria both fell asleep during this movie.  It wasn’t very good, but Mark liked it more than we did.  I’ll rate it as a rental and Becky thought it was a total waste of time.

John – ** Rental
Becky – * Don’t  Bother

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Auto Consultant – John Boyd: The Cool Car Guy
John is an auto consultant who owns CoolCarGuy.com that is a licensed car dealership in Lone Tree, CO.  He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle! jboyd@coolcarguy.com or Twitter @coolcarguy

Becky and I went to see the new movie John Wick Chapter: 2 two weeks ago the AMC theater in Highlands Ranch, CO with our friends Mark and Maria.  The Fandango website at John Wick Chapter: 2 describes the movie as follows…

“Legendary hitman John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is once again called out of retirement, this time by a former colleague (Riccardo Scamarcio) who wants him to repay a debt by killing an Italian crime lord (Claudia Gerini). But when the attempted assassination goes awry, Wick finds himself hunted by an international cabal of killers, and his only hope for survival might be a shadowy figure known as the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne). Director Chad Stahelski and screenwriter Derek Kolstad return for this sequel to their 2014 cult action hit…”

The Review:  John Wick Chapter: 2 is a continuation of the first John Wick film that pretty much sucked.  This one sucks too.  It’s so ridiculous that it’s not even enjoyable to watch as Reeves character runs around making really bad decisions over and over again.  He’s like a super hero that is unstoppable, but he doesn’t have any super powers.  He can get run over by a car and get up and kick ten guys butt.  He can get stabbed, shot at with his suit that is apparently bullet proof and like a Timex watch, he takes a licking and keeps on ticking.

The story makes zero sense.  He also knows that if he kills a bad guy that he’s after in a specific area that it will be signing his death warrant, so of course he does that because he’s such a genius he just likes to do stupid things throughout the movie.  Don’t get me started on the body count.  This guy kills more people than all the people the were killed in every series of The Matrix.  It’s beyond absurd and after a while your brain turns to mush watching the movie.

Becky and Maria fell asleep they were so bored and Mark and I both looked at each other thinking that this movie couldn’t get any more stupid.  Apparently though people really like this movie.  Why we do not know.  I like the character and that’s about it, so I rated it a rental at best, but the acting sucks, the directing sucks, the story sucks so there isn’t much to this film.  You could stay home and watch your teenager play a video game and it would be about as realistic as this movie.

John – ** Rental
Becky – * Don’t  Bother

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Auto Consultant – John Boyd: The Cool Car Guy
John is an auto consultant who owns CoolCarGuy.com that is a licensed car dealership in Lone Tree, CO.  He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle! jboyd@coolcarguy.com or Twitter @coolcarguy

Becky and I went to see the new movie A Cure for Wellness last night at the AMC theater in Highlands Ranch, CO.  The Fandango website at A Cure for Wellness describes the movie as follows…

“A young executive (Dane DeHaan) must travel to an isolated spa in the Swiss Alps in order to find and bring home the CEO of his company. But when he begins digging into the truth behind the resort’s supposed “miracle cures,” the staff diagnose him with the same affliction that has left the other guests trapped there…”

The Review:  A Cure for Wellness is a trip into a bizarre world of crazy rich people and miracle cures.  This flick is really dark and pretty disturbing, but it’s definitely unique.  You haven’t seen this movie before for sure.  The characters are interesting, the story is strange to say the least and the conspiracy behind this spa hidden in the mountains is really wild.  Most people won’t like it though.  We sent our son Conroy and his girlfriend to see this movie and they hated it.  They thought it was stupid, but Becky and I both liked it because it was refreshingly weird.

So many movies today are the same canned Hollywood crap, but this movie was a cross between an evil scientist like Frankenstein and a suspense thriller.  The story is really weird because it takes place in a remote mountain village in Europe where rich people are going to retreat into this spa for their health and longevity.  What they fail to realize is that the guy behind the spa used to experiment on the local peasants and now he’s experimenting on the rich people who are paying to be his science project.  It’s like the Hotel California where you can check out, but you can never leave and what the mad scientist has conjured up is a way to live longer using a type of eel, spring water and a dehydration therapy.  It’s really crazy.

Becky and I both liked it and thought it was definitely worth the price of admission, but you have to really pay attention and follow the story as it goes through the history of the castle, the family, the rich people and the local town folk.  If you don’t follow along you’ll definitely get lost in this movie.  It’s not for everyone, but we liked that it was refreshingly different.

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

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Auto Consultant – John Boyd: The Cool Car Guy
John is an auto consultant who owns CoolCarGuy.com that is a licensed car dealership in Lone Tree, CO.  He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle! jboyd@coolcarguy.com or Twitter @coolcarguy