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Taika Waititi scores again!

Easy to enjoy and easily worth nine stars.

Based on real facts, a terrific local cast and solid bona-fide leads make this film a winner!

No gratuitous sex, expletives, or nudity also make this movie enjoyable entertainment for the whole family.

The after-movie credits the past and current achievements of the lead characters and shows the actual people with their old and recent pictures.

Yes, the talented Taika Waititi has certainly just nailed another good one. Hardly wait for his next effort.

Thoroughly recommended to all those who like to watch a good easy-going story.

Paradoxically, Trump being a grandchild of the Drumpfs, a German immigrant couple and thus HE might "be diluting, weakening, our blood" himself!

AND well I never! Oh wow! Melania must also qualify as a blood-weakening immigrant as well!

This movie "Unfit" has exposed Trump by proclamation of America's finest psychological analysts as an ultra-dangerous, demented individual that harbours amongst his fervent wishes is to get the right go-ahead advice on when he will be allowed to to detonate one or two nuclear bombs on his "perceived" enemies.

The prospect of this psychotic racist becoming president again after being supported by ignorant new immigrants, and "po"' white lowlifes and rednecks is a hideously frightening prospect both for America and the World itself.

If you know any Republicans, get 'em to watch "Unfit".

Surely all educated, lucid Americans, young and old, black, brown and white, will all reject Trump's palpable lies and numerous false claims of others' achievements... How Trump must envy the actual achievements of the popular and intelligent Barack Obama to falsely claim them!

Let's hope the SCOTUS delivers the proper decision that does the entire country and world a favour!

I had read a substantial review of this film which actually whet my appetite and I simply had to get the DVD.

Ha! After about 25 minutes I believed it could not possibly have been Steven Spielberg's work.

It was more like an unholy shambolic mess that ex-one term president Donald Drumpf might well have actually starred in... such was the mess.

I was appalled at the accurate demonstration of what would have almost certainly occurred under a blundering President Drumpf.

Too many comic turns made Toshiro Mifune, the Japanese submarine captain playing it fairly straight, the best character for me.

Whist Spielberg had assembled some very respected Hollywood actors in his veritable army of thespians I'm afraid that without Donald Drumpf popping up for some sight gags; general foul-ups, pratfalls, blunders and goofing off - to raise some genuine belly laughs at his natural foolishness - the end of the movie couldn't come quickly enough.after a tiresome 2H 35m 1s.

I just first watched this movie last night - 41-years after it was made - and found it an easy pleasant watch that caused no stress or strain or pain for your brain.

Richard Pryor was Richard Pryor whilst the lovely Cicely Tyson was the beauty for the beast.

The easy plot saw the crim-cum hero come up trumps when driving a busload of young delinquents as a parolee under duress.

Slapstick humour even included Dan Quayle's Alma Mater of the KKK getting made monkeys of themselves with Pryor's lead.

If you want a laidback movie watch this one for a some good laughs and good humour.

Recommended for a 90-min nothing-to-do break.

Okay, "The Machine" wasn't a 10 but it was certainly an 8-plus and better than the 5.3 it has got so far!

We watched it last night and were happy with an entertaining movie.

Whilst unfamiliar with ANY of the cast except Mark Hamill, they all looked very well selected for their respective roles and did their jobs!

A fair amount of bloodshed, alcohol and killings, but happily, also pretty much free of gratuitous use of f's and c's.

Events in the story of the early life of an infamous young party animal in Mokba, Russia, the Machine returns to Russia and meets a variety of types including some VERY capable female fighters and ditto for the guys too!, Enjoy a good story that ducks and dives a bit, but hang in there and enjoy the action!👍👀

...and I made the awful mistake of watching it too.

For me, it was a six stage endurance test: Mesmerised....numb....heavy-lidded.... bored shirtless....distracted....final relief!

Very kindly, my lovely wife of 53 year's neutral comments were tactful, but I could easily tell she was "very disappointed."

It simply does just not qualify as a "spectator sport" as far as movie entertainment goes, with the prevailing theme was just endless depression.

Sorry, but I could not recommend this movie to anyone as it appears specifically made to acquaint those unfamiliar with trailer park communities and the denizens of same - in case the viewer also felt a need to become depressed.

Unbelievable! IMDB would actually require 600 characters for reviews of THIS lame dog?

I watched the trailer where a strange male Taekwondo student flattened an elderly female OAP with a whistling 180-degree hip-to-ceiling uppercut and then treat her to a couple her a few boots to her guts while she lay there, apparently dead.

There you go; the laugh from "the fist foot way".

I should have stopped there and watched "The Karate Kid" again...after forty years.

With three of the cast writing the script for "The Foot Fist Way" although I am familiar with Danny McBride's ability, I can't believe either he, or his two fellow script writers, would be at all satisfied with this work.

Don't bother.

After looking forward to watching this follow-up to the first entertaining film, I cannot honestly write one decent word of praise for this appalling narcissistic tribute BY Eddie Murphy TO Eddie Murphy.

Although as a habit, I normally copy movies to my personal movie drive, but having watched it, I found I could not conjure up even the slightest desire to put it alongside my really good entertaining collection of films.

Actors like James Earl Jones and Samuel L Jackson were as professional as usual, but oh dear, I do not believe they could have been flattered by the lame duck of a story.

I say that if you enjoyed the first movie, let this sleeping dog lie.

Not QUITE as good as the first "Gods Must Be Crazy" (1980) but this 1989 follow-up maintains the same high standard of frantic slapstick and sight gags!

While the story is as far off the mainstream theme and full of hilarious madness as the first one....only the names have changed and little is lost by that fact. The little/big star in our deadpan Kalahari bushman is still doing his thing again, whilst the others in the cast pull their weight admirably to carry off another 90 minutes of humour - which again starts virtually straight away after the kick-off whistle!

Even though these two movies are respectively from 1980 and 1989, if you have already enjoyed the first version of this franchise, don't miss enjoying this one!

Stumbling across this movie in New Zealand in 1981 I wasn't expecting much and I told my wife it may have a couple of laughs in it for us?

A couple of laughs?????

Almost immediately the laughing was happening and continued throughout.

Well considered ingredients of sight gags and slapstick went together like strawberries and cream, and as the base in the mixing bowl of the movie lay one crazy story.

An excellent cast all played their roles to perfection and kept the humour happening; both audibly and visually!

I had bought the VHS video of the movie and soon my wife and I almost knew the events by heart, and even the knowledge of the imminent gags didn't spoil the humour. Then the video passed away, so we got a replacement - a DVD! - and watched it two night ago and discovered the movie is still a winner 43 years later!

Enjoy - you can't help it!

We thoroughly recommend ANYONE to watch this gem whenever an opportunity occurs and grab it with both hands!

Yes! An easy 10-stars....even today 17 August 2023.

As an actor, I like Russell Crowe, but this movie stank so-oo-o BAD and no one had horse-and-carted - or needed to! It started off slow and murky and even got worse.

I don't mind convoluted storylines - but they have got to be able to hold your rapt attention - but this story was too boring, and, quite frankly, too SILLY.

I nearly ended this somewhat rambling and annoying tale after 30-odd minutes but couldn't think of anything else that could possibly rescue me from my ennui.

No, Mr Crowe, my fond memories of your past efforts in the likes of "Cinderella Man" and many other top movies seemed many light years away, and how I missed them!

Keep your money in your pocket and feel very good about it!

I'm English and I love the English sense of humour even more than I love a bacon sarny for my breakky!

Sorry, but this was pure unadulterated 100% CRAP!

The filmmakers must have paid John Cleese and the Monty Python crowd a King's Ransom EACH.to merely voice-over work of scripted unfunny rubbish for cheap amateurish.comments from cheap amateurish computer generated "blobby people"

Simon Pegg catches some real rubbish roles but this one was at least consistently BAD from whoa-to-go. He did try.

Hey, I'm not kidding, it's a stinker and isn't worth a plastic shekel!

Set in the picturesque Yorkshire Dales during the emergence 1963/4-onward of the soon to be worldwide early English Rhythm and Blues revolution.

The music of that time supplies a zeitgeist with the most welcome ability to enjoy the nostalgia of the music and climate of that time.

A variety of separate stories and a wonderful cast of well-drawn characters with an unforgettable comedic police nemesis in the form of Claude Greengrass (Bill Maynard), made every episode a mandatory appointment for every viewer. The cast grows over the series and the characters and the characters' idiosyncrasies grow on the viewer.

Just like other great English-setting series, this is another roaring success, and I can thoroughly recommend it as I am currently watching (Apr 2023) the lot again myself - in order on Youtube.

Please enjoy!

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a great movie; full of twists, fun and action.

I have seen a few of his movies and I have never been a Cage fan, but this movie showed me what I have missed. Like few movies I have ever selected on the fly, this one entertained us from go-to-whoa, and I patted myself on the back for my prescient choice for picking this one from Google's offerings! This is a film for those who like to feel - as a movie's credits go by - at the end like they have spent their money wisely after being pleased what one has just seen and thoroughly enjoyed.

I recommend this one as a goody!

Having rented it on Google, having thought the trailer looked mildly amusing and entertaining enough; just like reviewer "Ryan 44110", we also battled bravely nearly half-way through it when watching it had already proven about as pleasant as sewing your own lips to the carpet.

The cast must have known their vessel had a leak, although their acting was valiant in a poor script with a poor story that flailed about like an asthmatic sheep in quicksand.

Even reviewers here that write the first one was marginally better could not even nearly tempt me to persevere with what would have definitely been just more needless self-flagellation!

I found it a blatant feelgood, non-stroke incurring, and vaguely lacking "bits of anything" movie.

Surprisingly easy to watch without doing cartwheels at any stage because of some non-existent scripted brilliance, for me, the movie actually lacks an; adventure, any thrills, real romance, nudity, unbridled sex, gratuitous obscene language, any violence, a murder.

My wife said it was "okay" (as it was her choice) and I just grunted...in a safe, sort of non-committal agreement with her.

Honestly, without being sexist, I would say the storyline was exclusively aimed at middle-to-senior aged females.

Oh well, a generous six stars.

...it certainly hadn't improved for me with age.

Twelve months after our marriage, my wife and I watched this movie on its release in 1971 in a cinema.

Then and still now, I think Jane Fonda is gorgeous, Donald Sutherland is a top thespian and why the late Roy Scheider was then still a growing force.

I couldn't recall whether Jane was to be seen au naturel in 1971 - and I make no apologies for my disappointment in 2022, when I felt bitterly sad and almost swindled when I saw on my new DVD that Jane hadn't shed her clothes in the interceding 50 years via a little celluloid magic. Oh well 😥...

But, like 1971, the acclaim that the film had received escaped me again, as I once more could not get why it was regarded almost as an icon, a "must see". I would have enjoyed it much more if Klute's character turned into silent-but-violent farter - which always made the innocent Bree lean over and instantly vomit on his shoes. That would have certainly got some laughs and earned the movie two more stars?

If asked for a brief, lasting impression of the movie, I would still say again: "dark, disappointing, sombre and tedious". The cast won my four stars.

Although the film suggests Seal was recruited by the CIA while flying for TWA, he denied in court that he had ever worked for the CIA.

Monty Schafer, Seal's supposed CIA contact and runner, was an invented character.

The CIA Inspector-General admitted in 1996 that they had run a covert training exercise at the Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport with another federal agency, but found no evidence that they had been involved in any illegal operations.

Seal was sacked from TWA in 1974 for falsely claiming medical leave when he was involved in smuggling.

His connections with cartel bosses were also not direct when he was running his drug operations.

He did not meet Pablo Escobar or the Ochoa brothers in person until 1984, when he was "narking" for the DEA on an undercover operation, following his arrest.

His third wife Deborah, whom Lucy was loosely based on, said Seal began his drug smuggling business in 1975 not 1980 like the film suggests, and concentrated on marijuana before it involved cocaine.

Seal's DEA record also said that he progressed to smuggling cocaine in 1978 and that he was smuggling marijuana as early as 1976.

Also, Seal's ties to the Medellín Cartel did not begin after being kidnapped while refuelling his plane in Colombia, but when he met a smuggler who flew for a cartel "biggie" Jorge Ochoa during a flight home from Honduras where he served nine months in a local jail after being caught smuggling drugs in 1979.

Asked if the film was a biopic, Director Doug Liman replied "You know, we're not making a biopic. Tom Cruise doesn't look like Barry Seal, but his character is built around the tales we heard about Barry Seal." Cruise reportedly gained weight for the role, but as he is only 5 ft 7 in tall, Seal ended-up a genuine well-padded porker who reportedly weighed the same as 300 pounds of bacon!

But in fact, Barry Seal weighed 300 pounds only later in life and his "pork poundage" was probably borrowed from a morgue record after his death as there are many photos of him weighing much less.

Director Liman also said that the film's zero-gravity love scene was his idea and that he was inspired after he and Cruise "collided" in the cockpit while filming a flight scene... Seal was unapologetic about both his weapons and drug smuggling operations, even stating once in a television interview, "Whether you call it soldier of fortune, or what, it's a way of life for me. I enjoy it and I'm going to keep doing it." Seal also never crash-landed into a suburban neighbourhood and Liman has described the film as "...a fun lie based on a true story."

Just as cowardly Republican senators demonstrate their own corrupt and craven cowardice by irresponsibly, deliberately refusing to accept incontestable evidence of Trump's own malevolent and corrupt activities, Jon Stewart's entertaining microcosm cleverly demonstrates "Small Town" USA's politics when monitored by Washington DC.

A very good watch of an all-round cast led by Steve Carell, Rose Byrne and Chris Connor is well worth the time.

Just as America's politics needs cleaning up, so does its totally archaic 1700-1800's Wild West "right to bear arms" appeals to loons like Trump, it also appeals to his fellow loons that slaughter innocents.

It also convinces the world that it's like a do-nothing and don't care USA's national sport!

Simply ban ALL guns and publicly identify ALL corporate (eg NRA) sponsorships over twenty thousand dollars.

Standard practice like the hackneyed, flyblown cry of "background checks" is just a pathetic "now let's leave it without having to do anything else" closing of the topic - until the next slaughter.

Simply put, for me, this was an easy watch with twists and turns which worked all the way.

Okay, no masterpiece, but entertaining all the same, without having to work at it.

Sorry, but I thought along with the late Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel carried the movie along; whilst the naturally monosyllabic, mumbling Sylvester Stallone was of course totally convincing as a monosyllabic, mumbling sheriff.

Oh yeah, I thought the female police officer was also an asset with a creditworthy performance.

Now, here at 31 May 2022, even 25 years after release, I'd say give it a miss.

A profoundly disturbing movie but a great and superbly-crafted one!

Along with his fellow brilliant co-star in Oscar winner Olivia Colman, Anthony Hopkins and Olivia superbly stage an acting workshop of a dutiful, devoted daughter and her dementia patient/father whose tenuous grasp on any reality has become almost strictly confined to spontaneous decayed flashbacks as his dementia accelerates.

His rapidly diminishing control has all but gone; bar voicing the characteristic angry outbursts and outrageous accusations and beliefs of dementia sufferers that are all too familiar to such afflicted person's relatives, carers and friends.

I easily gave it 10+ stars as I thought the discernible reveal-all ending was intriguing, and Hopkins' customary superb performance throughout was that of a man at the very brink of total mental collapse.

I like Ryan Reynolds and admired his work again in this film.

The whole cast also kept up with the ball and played their roles well, especially the young actor playing Ryan as a youngster.

Hard to explain the plot without possibly compromising the movie and that would be a shame.

My wife and I both enjoyed the movie.

Cons: CGIs (grr) but well done ones.

Plus; Not an Adam Sandler in sight..

The concept was interesting, acting was fine, not a fan of CGIs which were far too overcooked for me.

I actually lost the thread when I got bored and thus distracted after about 20-25 minutes and only tuned in sporadically to the movie which kept churning on virtually unwatched until the last crash, bang, wallops at the end.

I was looking forward to the movie and I honestly wouldn't have bothered had I have known....

Beautiful setting, good enough story, well acted - but strangely casted!

I thought the story remained interesting enough with some good twists and turns right to the end - without being outstanding.

But the two married couple's various "role suitability" left me cold... I thought none of the 'married couple" characters struck me as if they would ever be physically or spiritually attracted to each other, The inter-couple affair also seemed about as likely as tomato sauce with cornflakes.

I also thought as a result of the limits imposed on the married couples unlikely consortium's characters, that the "Croatian Police officers" and the particularly excellent "Syrian taxi-driver" stole the show, although (lol) he did seem to get by without doing any taxi driving!