It feels like the whole of the UK has fallen ill this month. My house didn't escape sadly, but it did lead to many evenings curled up on the sofa too tired to do anything than watch a movie! I've seen too many this last week to review them all so here are some Mini Reviews of Dope, John Wick and Kill Your Friends.
I have this blogging community to thank for putting Dope (2015) on my radar. Last summer my feed was full of positive reviews for it, so I saw it as soon as I got the chance. It’s a colourful ‘coming of age’ movie that seemed so familiar, and yet completely different to anything I’d watched before. Shameik Moore plays Malcolm, a geeky kid living in a rough neighbourhood with dreams of attending Harvard. One night at an underground party lands Malcolm and his friends into more than they bargained for, and the movie rapidly changes moods as the situation gets more dangerous.
It’s a really entertaining watch, and it’s worth giving it a chance for the amazing costumes and soundtrack alone!
It’s rare that I let my fiance pick a movie for us to watch, as I can guarantee it’ll be something like this. It’s a genre I can deal with, but it’s not my favourite. John Wick (2014) definitely stood out a little for me, though. There’s always a reason for the revenge killing, and this one in particular really upset me. It doesn’t help that it was Theon Greyjoy himself that carried out the murder, the horrible little rat! The action scenes and stunts were really well done, and I cringed quite a few times. You know when you see something and you think ‘oooh, I felt that’? That happened a lot!
Still not my favourite kind of movie, but this was an entertaining watch, and I’ll definitely see the sequel when it’s out.
When the trailers came out for Kill Your Friends (2015) I was so excited, and then it just completely fell off my radar. I haven’t seen Nicholas Hoult play this kind of character since Skins, and even though he comes across as such a sweetheart, he plays the bad guy surprisingly well. This one is an eccentric comedy/thriller/crime following the British music industry in the 90’s. It’s an entertaining watch, with a shocking start and a satisfying ending, but the rest is just a bit dull.
Regardless, there’s one proper laugh out loud scene that I’ll never forget, and it was worth watching for Nicholas Hoult alone. The guy does such a good job!
Glad to see you like John Wick too, Allie! I think I gave it a 4/5 as I was entertained by it. Can't go wrong w/ Keanu in a badass killer mode, and the music is so darn cool I play it all the time when I'm working out.
ReplyDeleteOoh what a good idea! My gym playlist has been pretty stale of late so I might update it with that :)
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I'm one of those VERY strange people who likes to work out to soundtracks! Heck I've even worked out listening to Sam in CONTROL (I mean Joy Division music isn't exactly workout music) but I've listened to stranger things, ahah. Btw, TRON soundtrack is great for working out too, well maybe not for Zumba but if you're at the elliptical machine it's perfectly suitable :D
DeleteI've seen Dope and John Wick. Dope was good, I wanted to like John Wick more, but it was still fun.
ReplyDeleteJohn Wick was definitely better than other revengey-actioney movies I've seen, but I'm still not a massive fan of those movies, they all seem the same to me. It was definitely entertaining though!
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