Justice League Review

Now the last time I did a review I did the last Wolverine film and since then there's been a lot happening with rumours of Fox being purchased by Disney just to get the Fantastic Four and the X-men which shows that they are very desperate to get those characters and put them into the MCU which has been on the screens for almost 10 years now. Anyway, that's one worrying factor in Superhero films here's the film that by what the media is saying could make the future of the DC universe change forever. Yes, I mean Justice League.

Now before I start I want to say I have wanted a Justice League film since I watched the animated series and when the Avengers came out it was a complete gamechanger. So when I heard DC will do there own I was hoping when they got to a Justice League film that it would be the same, shamefully that didn't happen but it might be the second best movie in the DCEU so far which, to be honest by the way their movies are going that's not the greatest place to be at the moment. But then again at least Wonder Woman was good and everyone was worried about that.

Now let's begin, it starts at least a year after the events of B vs S and much has changed. Batman's trying to investigate these disappearances and Wonder Woman works in a museum. While the others are out of hiding. One problem I have with this movie is you sort of have to forget events from the last as it portray's Superman as this g-d like character which to be far he saved everyone just in a very questioning way.

Anyway, crime increases and whats worse is that the main villain Steppenwolf voiced by Irish actor Ciaran Hinds comes to Earth to locate three motherboxes that together can recreate the world in his image. This action is called the unity. The Justice League eventually come together to stop him and use the last remaining motherbox to revive Superman, this happens and he turns on the Justice League and Lois Lane is used to make him calm down as he almost kills every member of the Justice League.

The League go to Russia and stop Steppenwolf from using the Unity, Superman returns after having calmed down and helps them defeat Steppenwolf and turn his Parademons against him and is sent to who knows where. All the heroes are reunited and are able to live happy lives until the next event in the DCEU. There is also an after credits scene of Lex Luthor having escaped Arkham Asylum and having talks of forming the Legion of Doom or the Injustice League with the help of Deathstroke portrayed by Joe Manganiello. 

The overall movie is alright there is nothing that special and it is nothing like there version of the Avengers which is a shame because if they got all the solo movies done first then it might have worked instead of just dragging them into the movie but to be fair they did introduce them into the last movie so that was good. The villain contributed nothing to the plot as he kept saying 'mother' and other lines that didn't make sense. My main issue is that the story was a bit of a mess as it was very rushed and not all the scenes made complete sense which was a major issue.

I'd give Justice League a 6.5/10. Good new characters, enjoyable to watch at times, disorganised plot.

Logan review

Logan marks the last Hugh Jackman film as the popular X-Men character Wolverine. The film has a different tone to other X- Men movies and its film certificate. Due to the success of Deadpool, Logan was rated a 15 and boy did they stick to that. The film has more violence which suits the role of Wolverine very well. Also he swears quite a bit like his comic counterpart. The story is set 6 years after the events of days of future past were we see that Logan is one of the only mutants left in existence, he stumbles across a girl who is just like what he used to be so he, Professor X and the girl must find a save haven. once they do they see other mutants and take them to safety so the mutant generation can live on.

The cast like any X- Men movie is well built. Some performances to spot are Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, Patrick Stewart's Professor X and Stephen Merchant unrecognisable performance as Caliban. Newcomer Dafne Keen did a good job at playing X-23 or the New Wolverine as she is now in the comics. Director James Mangold has down a good job on his last two Wolverine films and hope to see him in future X- Men films. But Logan marks the end of the current X-Men franchise so I doubt I'll see him do another film like that again.

There isn't really any negatives I can say to this movie as it is not a usual X-Men type film, it is more of a drama just with comic characters. I guess one thing could be Wolverine's clone X-24 (spoilers) as they sought of went a bit too far with that idea. That I guess it the only negative I can come up. But all that aside I would give Logan a 10/10 as it is one of the best Wolverine/X- Men movies I have seen in quite a while.

Hidden Figures Review

Now we all know about the Oscars and it's recent bluff that has been over the news but usually I never see a film that is Oscar nominated before. Here is one of the films were I actually have seen and got nominated. Hidden Figures is about 3 Black women working at NASA in the early 60's which played a crucial part in the unmanned space rocket tests before the 1969 moon launch. The three main characters are called Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) who was a crucial part of the success of the rocket tests as she figured out all the coordinates needed, Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia Spencer) a woman who tried her best to become the IT supervisor who never got the job never mind her attempts but she helped in working the IBM machine and eventually becoming the supervisor and Marry Jackson (Janelle Monáe)  a woman who become the first black person to graduate at Hampton University to become an engineer.

The Characters are well developed and you can understand each character no matter of the screen time they share to the other characters. The soundtrack as well is good with numerous songs by Pharrell Williams and of course composed by Hans Zimmer who is well known for numerous films. There are not many negatives I can say to this film as it is based on true events found from a book a year prior to the films making. However I personally did not think it was Oscar worthy. I mean don't take this the wrong way it is a good film but I have seen a few films like these and I found them all the same unless there is something special to them. To me this film didn't have anything special to it apart from the characters would standout to most of the scenes in the film. Feel free to comment on this.

Overall I thought the film was good and I enjoyed it. There are a few scenes that might make you tear up and most of them will get you thinking on what society was like in those times. Anyway I would give Hidden Figures a 8.5/10

Justice League Dark review

Justice League Dark is an animated film as a part of the DC animated universe. The outline of the story is a being called Destiny hypnotizes people into thinking they are seeing everyone as a trans dimensional beasts. Just as they are about to kill people, various members of the Justice League are in time to stop them. They then consider that magic could be involved with the current events. Batman grows suspicious and decides with the help of Zatanna to go to John Constantine to see if he has any insight on what is happening. With Constantine's help they form a team and come together to stop Destiny from causing chaos in the city.

The film starts off very differently to what I have seen through other DC animated films, this helps to establish just how mad people can be when they are being deceived into seeing something else. The cast contains Matt Ryan reprising the character of Constantine as he has done in the Amazon Series, Arrow and now the upcoming animated series on the CW. Jason O' Mara returns as Batman for his seventh time on the role, Nicholas Turturro voices Deadman a ghost of a living ghost of fallen acrobat Boston Brand, Grey's Anatomy star Camilla Luddington voices Zatanna an ex of Constantine's and Alfred Molina voices the villain Destiny a man who is willing to get revenge for what happened to him 500 years ago. There many other roles but it will go on for sometime so I decided to shorten it down.

Now its time for the negatives, the films story was very basic and like other DC animated films I have seen it was nothing special, which is a shame as it looked really good when in the trailer. Also Batman didn't feel like he was a part of the team he was just there for some familiarity, he just growled at everything which I'll admit I laughed at but he didn't suit the team in anyway apart from being Batman. Also the character of Swamp Thing is hardly in the movie either. Which I found was a shame as not many people would know about him and if he had a bigger role he might have actually been member able than most of the other characters.

Anyway negatives are down here's my overall opinion on the movie. Overall I thought
Justice League Dark was an average movie that had a lot of area to improve on. Some of the characters were good and some I felt weren't need at all like the Justice League (Including Batman). I felt using the actors from Constantine was a nice idea and hope to see more from them in the future years however I found the story was very basic but effective and the thought of a sequel might come but I think it was a one off movie. I would give Justice League Dark a 7/10.