Update: Alien Covenant BOMBED at the box office. The audience has spoken and world wide the resounding answer is No. We don’t like bad scripts and stupid characters. Scott will have an extremely difficult time getting his next debacle green lit with a decent budget. Covenant will be lucky to clear 200 mill. The big wigs at the studio aren’t going to like this, but on with the review.
ALIEN CONVENENT is cheap torture porn at it’s lowest, disguised as a tent pole sci fi, horror movie. Cheap in it’s constant cliches despite surrounded by big money effects and actors scrambling to raise a sunken ship of fools mired in confusion from the ocean floor. Continue reading
Ridley Scott
Why I didn’t like THE COUNSELOR
Ridley Scott has been working over time producing movies lately, like a man possessed. He keep punching them out and it does seem like each of his projects get more ambitious and less watchable. I respect the director but sometimes you have to speak up.
Why I almost Liked WELCOME TO THE PUNCH
PUNCH’S stylish noir crime thriller, with deep blacks, brilliant edits and skilled visuals fails to deliver the knock out punch with a meandering script of few high points. The DI (Digital Intermediate) is brilliantly color corrected, contrast is perfectly balanced and the timing is impeccable. Ridley Scott has the movie production pipeline greased to the nines but still scrimps on the writers fees by shellacking the screen with crushed diamonds. Continue reading