The Accountant is Ben Affleck's chance to rip off both of Matt Damon's most famous characters in one movie. But it surprisingly works pretty well as a thriller with a lot of moving parts that come together like a puzzle in an intriguing (albeit, anticlimactic) finale.
The Mummy is two hours of absolute machismo fueled nonsense. Everything about it is silly and doesn't work as much as it thinks it does (Brendan Fraiser's character for example), and yet all of it feels timeless. Like an unearthed adventure film from the 40's. And somehow I feel that's the tone they were going for, and it worked.
Fails to capture the creativity and surrealistic tone of Gore Verbinski's films, and doesn't understand what makes Jack Sparrow work as a character. Yet there's nothing in it so bad that it's not unwatchable.
Still captures Gore Verbinski's weird sensibilities while providing surreal sequences of mayhem that lead up to a phenomenal climax in a maelstrom that is worth the buy alone.
Dead Man's Chest accomplishes an adventurous tone that very few franchises have been able to capture. Proof that there is nothing wrong with style over substance in the hands of such a talented filmmaker.
Peter Jackson's big budget King Kong remake feels like a roadshow epic from the 30's and 40's dusted off and polished with modern vfx. Jackson as a filmmaker is deadset on giving you a thrilling adventure film like the ones from his youth and does it exactly the same way, for better or worse.
The Fast and Furious movies are big, dumb, cheesy, masculinity feats of movies, and they are glorious. They work so well because they don't try to take themselves seriously at all, instead focusing on what you really want to see from them. Over the top car action. And boy do you get that.
Rogue One is possibly the best directed Star Wars film yet. Unfortunately, it's a weak script. It's by no means as bad as the prequels, but the characters are bland, never form a team dynamic and the entire film feels like it was cobbled together from 5 different cuts of several different script drafts. However, the action scenes and directing style of Gareth Edwards save the film from being a slog.