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Die Hard with a Vengeance Review

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Finally following up from covering the first two Die Hard films a few Christmases a go with the third! I honestly go back and forth as to which film I like more out of the original and “with a Vengeance”, as this film has such great dialogue and interaction between Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson alongside some great action set pieces that it’s always a joy to watch. Most importantly while Die Hard 2 was just a rehash of the original film this script is completely different and its “Simon Says” game of cat and mouse has gone on to inspire copy-cats all over the place. So let’s take a look at the last great Die Hard film…

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Dune – Part One Review

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I’ve always been interested in Dune, but attempts to get into the beefy novel in the past have failed and while I enjoyed the 80s cheese-fest adaptation it didn’t really feel like I’d experienced the all-time classic, so when this film came along and was said to be only half the book due to how accurate they aimed it to be I was excited, but also weary of potentially the second film not being made so put it in the back of my mind until Part Two was official… Then I sort of forgot about it, until now! So with Part Two about to hit cinemas, let’s take a look at the first half of the original Dune story, shall we?

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Psycho-Pass Providence Review

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I’m reviewing Psycho-Pass all out of order on this website, but to be fair they’re also released quite a bit out of order as well as “Providence” takes place after the Sinners of the System OVAs but before Psycho-Pass 3, finally filling in the last few gaps in the story so maybe we might be able to move forward should a Psycho-Pass 4 arrive? Maybe? Well, anyway, Providence itself is a fun ride throughout its runtime, so let’s take a deeper look!

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The Marvels Review

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Another MCU film has hit… Disney Plus and due to the expense of bus fare and cinema tickets I skipped out on the actual cinema airing, so here’s my review of The Marvels! Honestly I hated how little I was excited about the film because of a certain subset of fans being really into ragging on the film for having female leads and I really didn’t want to be associated with them, but truth is the trailers did nothing for me so I waited for the streaming debut. Was I wrong in that? … No, I don’t think I would’ve got my money’s worth had I paid to see it, but it was still more entertaining than I thought, so let’s take a look!

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Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Review

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Let’s once again end a run of “Game to Live Action Movies” with a Sonic movie funnily enough as we take a look at Sonic The Hedgehog 2, a sequel to one of those extremely rare things known as a good game adaptation (and a great game in its own right!). Thankfully Sonic 2 manages to keep the momentum going and deliver another fun film with more Jim Carrey insanity, the debut of Tails and Knuckles and even more original MegaDrive Sonic references for me to smirk at. Let’s take a look!

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Resident Evil: Death Island Review

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It’s time for another CG Resident Evil movie set within the canon game timeline that will inevitably not actually be mentioned in the games! Hooray! Seriously though, as a die hard Resi fan since day one I do love these as a guilty pleasure and boy oh boy does Death Island play to my fanboy heart: Chris, Jill, Leon, Claire and Rebecca all in one story? Actually following up on character development from Resi 5 and 6? A villain with an actual interesting backstory?! (before becoming a generic villain in the end) Yes for this fan this was a great 90 minutes, if you’re not a fan then… well, let’s take a look…

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Review

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Finally found two and a half hours to sit in front of the TV and catch up with the latest MCU film offering as we round out the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy with “Vol. 3”. While it’s almost TV-episode-like structure of flashing back to one character’s backstory at various points made it feel odd for a big budget movie, I did enjoy my time with the film, it has a good emotional heart at its story’s core and does end this side of the MCU well. Let’s take a look!

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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City Review

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I had somewhat high hopes for Welcome to Raccoon City when it was first announced, writer/director Johannes Roberts made it clear how big of a fan he was of the franchise, but the announcement that it was merging the first two games into one story put up some red flags, and sadly after watching it you can throw in two all-time great Resi characters being heavily rewritten for the worse as another strike against it. It’s far from all bad, especially for the budget, but the fan-side of me was disappointed after the hype of the film “being closer to the games”. Oh well, let’s take a look at the film as a whole.

This is a “bonus” review by the way because I’ve already covered Resident Evil 1 (HERE), it’s Remake (HERE), as well as Resident Evil 2 (HERE) and its Remake (HERE), so there wasn’t a game to review next to it, though I will throw in an extra related review after this goes up for the hell of it.

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Dynasty Warriors Review

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I’ll admit it’s going to be hard to review this one as while it is an adaptation of a game series I’ve loved since its fifth of currently nine entries it’s also a Chinese film that pulls together an all-star ensemble cast but due to being completely unfamiliar with the country’s films that was completely lost on me, and I can’t compare it to other films of its country-specific subgenre (known as Wu Xia, apparently) either. Still though, I can judge it purely on whether I liked it or not, and after all isn’t that all I normally do anyway? So let’s take a look!

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Mortal Kombat (2021) Review

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A lot of people were really high on this movie so I was expecting another rare positive review in this marathon of almost entirely poor films but sadly I was mistaken, the great opening scene released online was a misdirection as pretty much everything AFTER the opening is … not very good. The movie is lucky Annihilation exists, otherwise this would look extremely poor indeed. Oh well, let’s take a closer look and see if it can at least score as well as the most recent game released before this did!

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