I've never played the Uncharted video game, so I went into this film as someone just looking for a good adventure movie. As someone with no loyalty to the video game this is based off of, the film didn't work for me.
The film just ultimately gets too ridiculous and over-the-top. That would be acceptable if the film were exciting enough to compensate for those issues, but it doesn't deliver nearly enough successful thrills to make up for its numerous…
On the surface, Ambulance seemed like a return to the 1990s version of Michael Bay, when he made old-school action films packed with shootouts and car chases before he started making big CGI robot-fests. In theory, I was all for it, as my favorite Michael Bay film is The Rock.
Unfortunately, the reality is that while Ambulance is still better than most of Bay's recent output, it doesn't come close to matching his best films. The film has two major…
From 1975 to 2015, we got exactly four good shark movies. We get two this year alone! In the Deep (which was ironically the original title for The Shallows) stars Mandy Moore and Claire Holt as sisters who go vacationing in Mexico and impulsively decide to go shark cage diving.
What starts off initially as an exhilarating adventure quickly turns into a nightmare when the winch holding the cage breaks loose with the girls inside, dropping the cage 47 meters…
For the first 40 minutes, I was having an absolutely amazing blast with this film. It was delivering on virtually every single level, with a constant barrage of near non-stop laughs and gruesome action. From the opening beach battle all the way to the Suicide Squad's extermination of an enemy camp which ends with a hilarious punchline, this film was firing on almost every cylinder.
Well, it couldn't keep the momentum going. Once the film actually slows down after the…
