What's The Last Movie You Watched? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 51

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Primal Rage (1988)

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Investigating animal experimentation leads a college journalist to accidentally unleash a rage virus that quickly spreads causing its victims to act out violently. Initially I was kind of disappointed with this but the second half is a little better. It's very '80s-centric, some of the acting isn't great and it takes a while to pick up. The depiction of the sick is pretty disturbing though and there are plenty of gory kills. The climax features a Halloween costume party full of interesting visuals and the ending has some pretty tense moments.
 
Justice League

For a film this expensive, I was shocked at how shoddy it looked at times.

5/10
 
The Voices
John Wick: Chapter 2
Spider-Man: Home Coming
Hellraiser
Dead Hooker in a Trunk
 
Death Note (2017) - 5.5/10
While I think the overzealous hatred this has received has gone overboard, this was definitely a missed opportunity. The film never really settles into a single direction to be cohesive (going from campy Final Destination-lite, to cat and mouse chase thriller, to Heathers-ish black comedy), which would be less of a problem had the film not been packed to the gills with about a trilogy worth of content. When a massive world changing event takes place over the course of a quick montage about 25 minutes in, it quickly becomes clear this movie is not interested in developing much in the way of anything.
 
The Mark of Zorro (1940)

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It doesn't get much better than Tyrone Power playing Zorro with Basil Rathbone cast as the villain. In fact I think this is arguably the best version of Zorro ever on film. The action in this is exciting throughout from the vigilante style holdups and chase scenes to the swashbuckling. The story itself is really interesting, it's well acted and the ending is absolutely epic. I really can't recommend this one enough.
 
Maniac Cop (1988)

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I've seen parts of the sequel on cable before but never sat through the original which I've been meaning to check out for awhile now. I thought this was a smart use of social commentary for the slasher genre that's still relevant today. It's well paced, the casting is decent and right away there are some brutal kills. There's also a brief Sam Raimi cameo! A killing spree perpetrated by a mysterious uniformed police officer puts the city into panic. Bruce Campbell plays a cop who is arrested for the murders after the death of his wife. When the real killer breaks into police headquarters Cambell's character must escape and prove his innocence. I think the use of a disgraced cop as the serial killer and the investigation into his motives was interesting. The climax is action packed and the ending left me wanting more.
 
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
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It doesn't get much better than Tyrone Power playing Zorro with Basil Rathbone cast as the villain. In fact I think this is arguably the best version of Zorro ever on film. The action in this is exciting throughout from the vigilante style holdups and chase scenes to the swashbuckling. The story itself is really interesting, it's well acted and the ending is absolutely epic. I really can't recommend this one enough.
This movie is brilliant from start to end.
 
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
 
Rewatched Alien: Resurrection, pretty dumb but fun. The worst part was the basic story idea and the second worst part was the script. Whedon has a lot of nerve to say that everything else was the problem, the script was just badly executed (although at least he's honest enough to admit that the script wasn't changed much).
 
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