MOVIE OF THE WEEK: AMERICAN ASSASSIN

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Hello Screen Addicts, after months long hiatus your favorite movie blog is back in full swing. Thank you for your patience.

Now with Hollywood throwing movies at us left, right and center, not every release is worth seeing or even giving the time of day. But this week I have seen a lot of amazing movies, but one I gleefully award movie of the week is American Assassin.

Based on Vince Flynn's novel with the same name the film follows a young CIA recruit Mitch Rapp helping a cold war veteran try to stop the launching of a nuclear weapon in the middle East. But there's more to it, the major driving force behind Mitch's conviction is revenge. Apparently the said terrorist had a hand in the death of Mitch's girlfriend.

Dylan O'Brien (Teen Wolf, Maze Runner) proves me right that his real strong suit isn't comedy, but action, and boy does he deliver. Expect Jason Bourne style fights with more grit, and a grander climax.

Micheal Keaton (Spiderman homecoming, Birdman) plays Stan Hurley, a veteran and trainer of CIA agents. Another great performer in this film.

As always it's very difficult doing a spoiler free review, so without saying much, I recommend this movie to all action fans out there who would like a break from superhero movies and just want to watch bullets and fists fly. There's nothing like a threat of a nuclear bomb in a movie to keep action addicts grinning for more.

7/10 (Great action, great performances, this movie won't change your life, but it'll entertain the action freak in you)

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WOLVES OF WAR

It's captioned "final fight", but honestly there was no fight. Disappointing.

Teen Wolf finally comes to an inconclusive end, after months of dragging out the climax to the point of the lack of story and inspiration becoming obvious.

Taking nothing away from Teen Wolf, previous seasons have been incredible, with far better villains and story telling techniques that made us almost certain that Scott McCall was in real danger.  Season 3 had the Nogitsune who was pure evil, a twisted version of a character from Japanese folklore. A monster trying to take over styles mind and body, that was sinister. Then there was my personal favorite the Dredd Doctors that where turning humans with a specific DNA into hybrid monsters.

Even Styles return was unnecessary and didn't do anything to improve the show. Even the comedy was bad.

Now enter season 6 which just shows the clumsiness of the show runners.  Zero romance, Teen Wolf has always been a love story and what sold it for us was the Allison love story. It was a typical Romeo and Juliet story which always works. Her family the Argents hunt werewolves, and Scott is a werewolf.  And now For whatever reason Allison Argent was killed off after breaking up with Scott McCall. Then enter Kira Yukimura in season 3 Scott's new love interest who had abilities of her own which were awesome (she's a fox and uses a sword). That worked through season 3 to 5, but everything fell when Kira was clearly written off the show ( she went on a mystical journey to master her powers and never came back).

And again Scott finds a new girl, who becomes his anchor without any visible romance or connection apart from a free teen sex scenes which looked more like fan service than anything else. A total fail.

The new villain even had trouble manifesting itself and when it does it's boring and unchallenging. The premise of fear and fighting the hunters would have served the series better.

That being said, the conclusion was loaded with guest appearances of previous stars of the show and as well as villains, which only made for a dull nostalgia act.

I'm really disappointed because this was one of my top ten tv shows.

Teen Wolf Series Finale: 5/10 (Poor fight choreography, poor character arcs, failed nostalgia acts, no chemistry between Scott and Malia)

Season 6 trailer:

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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2 AWESOME MOVIE

Writer / Director James Gunn once again sat in the Directors chair much in our favor and yet again by trapping lightening in a bottle twice with Guardians Of the Galaxy Vol2.

All the usual suspects from Peter Quill to Zoe Salander's Gamora and Rocket Raccoon and Drax are present even cute adorable baby groot (believe it or not Vin Diesel voiced baby groot...again ).

The story's premise this time is about family as Peter Quill finally gets to meet his mysterious father who turns out to be a celestial god (small G)  called Ego The Living Planet,  played by Kurt Russell.




Ego is a god but as his name implies is an egomanic but also a man seeking to reunite with his son. For the first time in Cinema we get to see Peter Quill's true heritage. The theme of family here is strong and can be seen in the teams relationship with one another and their ability to draw strength from that to achieve anything.

Though this movie was infact fast paced in it's own right and left me wondering who and why the villain is who he is (no spoilers), and before we know it the drama was over and paved way an explosive epic space style battle to save the universe.




With plenty of slap sick humor, this Guardians ​Of The Galaxy movie had the largest cast of heroes and cameo appearances in the entire marvel cinematic universe, including Stan Lee in space.

Whether or not this is your first time seeing a Guardians of the Galaxy movie or not, this movie will not disappoint, it's a fun thrill ride from start to finish with a lot of heart.




RATING

9.2 /10

- Great story
- Great performances
- Ego the living planet
- Guest appearance from Sylvester Stallone


 


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