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Week of June 19, 2015
Robotic workers are also part Keurig machines. First up…
CHAPPiE
The upside to a robotic workforce is no more mandatory
birthday cake in the break room.
Mind you, the emotional automaton in this sci-fi movie would
actually enjoy the awkward ritual.
Forbidden by his boss (Sigourney Weaver) from testing his
experimental A.I. on a new police robot, Dion (Dev Patel) steals an injured
one, CHAPPiE (Sharlto Copley), in hopes of installing it with human emotions.
But an indebted gang (Ninja, Yolandi Visser, Jose Pablo
Cantillo) wants to use the freshly sentient being to do its bidding, which
includes robbery and murder.
Meanwhile, a competing designer (Hugh Jackman) plans to
cripple Dion’s design and introduce a more menacing enforcer to the market.
While the special effects and action sequences can be
impressive, the script is too ambitious with too many sub-plots, while the
entire cast is visually unappealing and audibly annoying.
Besides, having robot cops would devastate the entire
doughnut industry. Red Light
The Lazarus Effect
The downside to returning from the dead is having to pay-off
all your lavish funeral expenses.
However, the resuscitated individual in this horror movie is
more interested in other people’s funeral arrangements.
Forbidden by the dean of their university from continuing on
with their animal trails involving a Lazarus formula, Frank (Mark Duplass) and
his fiancée, Zoe (Olivia Wilde), carry on in private.
But when a lab accident leaves Zoe dead, Frank decides to
use the drug on her, with their friends (Donald Glover, Evan Peters, Sarah
Bolger) barring witnesses to her resurrection.
Back from the dead, Zoe uses her newly developed powers of
telekinesis and super-strength to murder her lab partners.
Lacking any substantial scares beyond the standard startles
in dimly lit rooms, The Lazarus Effect is a poorly conceived thriller with a
predictable and pointless existence.
Incidentally, once in the ground you do have 30-days to
return your coffin. Red Light
Run All Night
The worst thing about your father being a mob enforcer is
his constantly threatening you to throw your little league games.
Thankfully, the father and son in this thriller have grown
up and become estranged.
When his son, Mike (Joel Kinnaman), witnesses the son of his
boss, Shawn (Ed Harris), murder two drug-dealers, Jimmy (Liam Neeson) comes to
his aid, but ends up killing Shawn’s son when he comes back to silence Mike.
Hunted by a hit man (Common) hired by Shawn, the two evade
his bullets while trying to amass evidence on Mike’s innocence.
With Neeson serving as the tormented tough guy once again,
Run All Night has the same demeanor of all his other head-busting roles as of
late.
Furthermore, the acquainted script and archaic action never
exceeds mediocrity.
On the Bright-side, when your dad's an enforcer the hammer
department is the only place you need to shop for Father’s Day. Red Light
***Out of Workforce***
Short Circuit 2
Robots cannot only do our jobs better, but they can stand in
the unemployment line longer than any human.
Fortunately, the bot in this comedy has multiple jobs to
support him.
Loaned out to his old friend Benjamin (Fisher Stevens) to
help with the production of his new toy line, Johnny 5 (Tim Blaney) finds NYC
to be much more interesting than his rural home.
One day when he wanders off he befriends a bank-robber (Jack
Weston) who wants to use Johnny 5 to dig a tunnel into a vault.
Meanwhile, Benjamin’s business partner (Michael McKean)
plots to sell Johnny 5 for millions.
Despite the poor casting of a white actor as the East Indian
lead, this sequel to the corny original exceeds its predecessor by focusing
more on Johnny’s evolution, as well as ramping up the action.
Incidentally, Johnny 5 went on to become an unsuccessful
bomb disposal robot.
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