Reviews by johanlefourbe

To be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but, with such a title, it could have been pretty awesome and there was definitely some potential. Furthermore, the fact that it was based on a real life story was quite promising. First of all, Simon Pegg was a great choice for the lead and, as usual, he was quite hilarious. I also enjoyed the rest of the cast (Megan Fox, Gillian Anderson, Jeff Bridges, Kirsten Dunst), even though, in my opinion, Megan Fox was not really successful in parodying herself. Unfortunately, some of the jokes were not really funny and, above all, they watered down the whole concept with a very predictable romantic-comedy. Furthermore, the main character’s obsession towards the Megan Fox character was, in my opinion,  rather annoying and uninteresting. So, the end-result was still half-baked. I mean, this study of the media world was really interesting and to see this real-life figure losing himself in this world was pretty neat but the whole romantic angle was rather boring. To conclude, there were some funny bits and some other boring stuff but the whole thing was still fairly entertaining and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like Simon Pegg.

Since this movie has a rather lame reputation, of course, I wasn't expecting much from the damned thing but since it was James Cameron's directing debut, I still wanted to check it out. Indeed, many people might think that James Cameron started his career with 'The Terminator' but it wasn't actually his first directing effort. Indeed, his first movie was in fact this massive piece of garbage. Basically, it was some kind of very cheap and boring version of 'Jaws' except that they replaced the sharks with some flying piranhas. Actually, to be honest, they didn't even look like some piranhas but it was rather difficult to tell with such horrendous special effects. Eventually, it was actually rather funny that the special effects looked so bad as Cameron would become eventually the reference in this area. Anyway, the story was just boring, the characters were not interesting or entertaining at all and the acting was just abysmal. It is quite understandable that Cameron would like to forget this movie all together (he officially disowned the damned thing) . Anyway, after this movie, he did bless us with some outstanding movies. To conclude, it was pretty bad and not really worth a look, even if you are curious to see how James Cameron started his impressive career.

Following his come-back with Rocky, it wasn't actually really surprising to see Sylvester Stallone coming up with a new installment for his other star-making franchise (actually, he wanted to make this one before 'Rocky Balboa' but well...). Well, the first thing that really stroke me was how different the movie was from the current action flicks. Indeed, nowadays, the violence in those movies is always toned down as much as possible so they can get a PG13 rating. Here, Stallone went for the complete opposite and it was easily one of the most violent action movies I have ever seen. I always thought it was rather annoying when they removed the violent bits but, in this case, it was actually rather sad and depressing to see all these innocent people getting slaughtered over and over again. In fact, it pretty much felt like watching an action movie produced by the makers of the 'Saw' franchise. Furthermore, it was basically your typical predictable Rambo story with some really terrible dialogues and I wish they added at least one memorable supporting character. To conclude, it wasn't bad but I can't say I enjoyed the damned thing. However, since I didn't really enjoyed the previous Rambo flicks, I guess I wasn't the best audience for this movie.