Kick Ass 2 Review

I can't remember why but when it was on at the cinema i never got a chance to go and see it, now it is available on SkyGo before it airs on Sky Movies next week.

I really liked the first Kick Ass and to be honest i didn't think that Kick Ass 2 lived up to my expectations, i think that it missed Nicolas Cage from the first film because he was brilliant as Big Daddy, However i did like the dynamic between Mindy aka Hit Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) and Dave aka Kick Ass (Aaron Taylor Johnson).

The premise of the film is that Kick Ass joins up with a group of normal people who have been inspired by Kick Ass to go out in costumes and fight crime with Chris D'Amico aka Red Mist now the MotherFucker (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) is forming a group of super villains to seek revenge on Kick Ass for killing his dad, the scenes with The MotherFucker i thought that he was a brilliant character.

Mindy has promised her guardian Marcus (Morris Chestnut) that she will try and be a normal teenage girl and hang up her costume with Dave constantly trying to convince her to join his new team which includes Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey) whose character i felt was under developed and had no traits that we have come to love from a Jim Carrey character, he was kind of boring really.

All in all i found the film to be quite boring and was missing something that made the first film brilliant Chloe Moretz carried the film with her brilliant acting, even the final battle was kind of a let down, it had a few highs but not enough to make me watch it again.

Rating 5/10

Carrie Trailer

The trailer for the remake of Stephen Kings Carrie has been released with Chloe Moretz. As well as the teaser trailer being released the first of the posters has also been released (above) which gives me the chills with the black eyes and all the blood.

The teaser trailer doesn't really give much away, all we see is a close up of a burning building for most of the 60 second teaser with voice overs of various unknown people and at the end we see Carrie (Chloe Moretz) standing filthy and covered in blood.

If you haven't read the book or seen the other two film adaptations the main plot to the film is that Carrie lives in Maine with her deeply religious mother Margaret (Julianne Moore) and at school is the outcast and doesn't stand up for herself., especially from the leader of the popular mean girls Chris Hargensen (Portia Doubleday, but Sue Snell (Gabrielle Wilde) tries to make amends by getting her boyfriend Tommy (Ansel Elgort) to ask Carrie to Prom which ends in disastrous consequences when Carrie is pushed to far by the school bullies and cracks, unleashing havoc on the town with telekinetic powers.

Kimberley Peirce is directing the remake with the screen play written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The film will also star Judy Greer, Alex Russell and Cynthia Preston.

I haven't read the book yet but have read a few of Stephen Kings books before and have been planning on reading Carrie for a while and will be downloading it onto my Kindle. Horror films tend not to be my choice of films but i do make an effort to watch any that have been adapted from Stephen King's books.

The film is set for release on the 15th March 2013

Hick

I have just watched the trailer for this film and i can't decided if i am going to like it or not but the trailer makes it look like its going to be a good film.

The film follows Luli (Chloe Grace Moretz) a 13 year old girl from Nebraska who runs away from her alcoholic parents and heads to Las Vegas packing a Pistol. On the road she meets a drifter named Glenda (Blake Lively) who uses cons to make money and makes Luli an accessory to robbery. Both of their lives are threatened when they meet another drifter Eddie (Eddie Redmayne).

The film is based on the novel Hick by Andrea Portes and taking the directors chair is Derick Martini.

I like Chloe Moretz especially in Kick Ass and looking forward to seeing her in Dark Shadows and i hope this is going to be a good film even though it has had mixed reviews.

The film also stars Alec Baldwin, Juliette Lewis and Rory Culkin and is out in cinemas 11th May.

Don't forget to check back for the Review

Dark Shadows

Dark Shadows opens this week at the cinema and is another team up of the fabulous duo Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. The film is based on the fantasy comedy soap opera Dark Shadows that ran between 1966-1971.

Depp plays Barnabas a vampire who was turned by a witch called Angelique (Eva Green) after breaking her heart, he is buried alive for 200 years and when he wakes up in the 70's what was his wealthy estate has fallen into disrepair and so has what is left of his disfunctional descendants. He wishes to restore his families name, but when Angelique finds out she plots revenge and tries to win him back.

Depp looks brilliant in this film like he does in most of his films when a slightly disfunctional/weird character is involved.

Along side Johnny Depp and Eva Green the film also stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloe Morezt, Gulliver McGrath, Helena Bonham Carter and Jackie Earl Haley.

With director Tim Burton on board you know that this is going to be a good film, and it is most definitely going to be a bit weird like most Burton films. But i am really looking forward to seeing this film, mainly because i love Johnny Depp and when ever he teams up with Tim Burton a good film always comes out.

Its already had some mixed reviews with an average rating of 52% on Rotten Tomatoes but you should still check it out.

Dark Shadows is being released on the 11th May so don't forget to check it out.
(don't forget to check back for a review of the film)