Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3″is 2023’s newest and according to director James Gunn, the final installment of Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” series. It brings back all our favorite guardians while also adding Will Poulter (We’re the Millers), Chukwudi Iwuji (Peacemaker), and Nico Santos (Superstore) in this installment.

A mad genius known as the High Evolutionary is determined to get his most successful creation back in order to kill it and study its brain. The creation happens to be Rocket. The guardians are determined to protect Rocket at all costs and put a stop to the High Evolutionary.

The Guardians are my favorite series in the MCU. It blends the perfect amount of action and humor together. It is the creme de la creme of the MCU. So how does this one stack up compared to the first two? Simple answer, James Gunn brings another masterpiece. This one is full of action and the comedy we’re used to with the Guardians. It does bring a little more in your feels/drama in this one, but that’s to be expected being supposedly the last one. A lot of it is centered around Rocket and his back story and how he came to be. So that’s pretty cool to see. They do wrap it up as it could end, but they do tease at the end that Star lord will be back. If it’s a solo movie or coming back for another guardians we’ll see. If it is the last one, it has been a hell of a ride. I give it a 9.5/10.

Knock at the Cabin

“Knock at the Cabin” is a 2023 thriller/mystery directed by M. Night Shyamalan based on the book ” The Cabin at the End of the World” by Paul Tremblay. It stars the big man himself Dave Bautista (Glass Onion), Jonathan Groff (Mindhunter), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), Nikki Amuka-Bird (Old), Abby Quinn (Mad About You), and Ben Aldridge (Pennyworth).

Two husbands and their adopted daughter are vacationing at a cabin in the woods off the beaten path. They haven’t been there long, when a knock comes at the door. It’s four strangers who tell them the fate of the world is in their hands. They must sacrifice one of themselves or the world will end.

I love M. Night Shyamalan, he’s one of my favorite directors. His movies are thought provoking, unique and a lot of times leave you speechless with the surprise twist. This one is pretty much the same, not as much of a surprise twist and you would expect from him, but the rest is true. This is another home run for him. I like both Dave Bautista and Jonathan Groff, both are great actors. It’s also good to see Bautista branch out and do a serious roll versus the big, dumb, muscular, funny guy roll that he normally plays. Which he nails. It’s a two-hour movie, and the whole thing takes place in one location, the cabin. So, it’s set up to be a nightmare if written poorly, but this one is executed really well and doesn’t feel like two hours at all. Plus, it throws some tear jerkers in there as well. The only thing I didn’t like about the movie is the camera angles. Majority of the scenes are zoomed way in and only catch on person in the frame at a time, I’m guessing it’s done for dramatic effect, but I didn’t care for it. Overall, it’s a must see and I give it a 9/10.

Army of the Dead

So I’m a little late watching this one, and getting a review out. ‘Army of the Dead’ was shortly released after Zach Snyder’s cut of ‘The Justice League’ was released to HBO Max, I didn’t watch it but it was met with very strong reviews. So needless to say, there was a lot of anticipation for this film. ‘Army of the Dead’ is Zach Snyder’s newest film, a 2021 action/thriller starring Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy), Ella Purnell (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children), Ana De La Reguera (The Forever Purge), Omari Hardwick (Power), Matthias Schweighofer (What a Man), and Nora Arnezeder (Zoo).

When Las Vegas is overran by zombies, a billionaire businessman hires a team to get into Vegas, break into a casino vault, and extract 200 million dollars.

Zach Snyder is coming off a huge win with ‘Justice League’, and my boy Bautista is in this, so I had to see it. The trailer it looks really good, non stop shoot em up style Zombie movie. However, this is a little different than what I was expecting. Not quite as much action as what I thought there would be, and the main issue for that is it’s run time. It’s a 2.5 hour movie, that is ridiculously long. The acting is good, the CGI is great, it’s just the run time. I feel the story changed directions three different times just to fill the run time. There could have easily been an hour cut out of this and it would have been a great film. The only thing that really saves this one is it’s ending. It has a great ending, that sets it up for a second one. I just hope if they do choose to do a second one they cut out all the fat and make it a strong movie in an 1.5 hour run time. You can currently catch this one on Netflix, I give it a 6/10.

My Spy

My Spy is a 2020 family comedy/ romantic comedy starring the man himself Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy) and co staring Kristen Schaal (Bob’s Burgers). This is one I have been wanting to see all year since I first saw it previewed, unfortunately with the shutdown this movie didn’t make it to theaters and my plans of seeing it were put on hold. Good news though, you can now stream it on Amazon Prime.

Along side Bautista and Schaal, ‘My Spy’ also stars Parisa Fitz-Henley (Fantasy Island), Ken Jeong (The Hangover), Chloe Coleman (Big Little Lies), Nicola Correia-Damude (Shadowhunters), and Greg Bryk (Shoot ‘Em Up). ‘My Spy’ follows CIA agents JJ (Bautista) and Bobbi (Schaal). While they are undercover they are found out by 9 year old Sophie (Coleman). In order to keep Sophie quiet JJ becomes her friend and trains her on how to become a spy.

Anything with Bautista is going to be good, the guy is hilarious, and ‘My Spy’ is no exception. It wasn’t as funny as some of past movies like ‘Stuber’, and ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, but it still has it’s funny parts. Overall it’s a feel good movie that the entire family will enjoy. I give it a 8.5/10.

Stuber

I want to start off by saying how excited I was for this movie. It looked hilarious in the trailers, and I love Dave Bautista. He’s a seriously funny dude, and Drax hands down is the best part of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy.’ I would have seen it just because of him alone. If you haven’t seen the trailer, you have to look it up. It is basically about a cop (Dave Bautista) who’s partner was killed in the line of duty and Bautista has been hot on his trail for two years after the event. When he finally catches the big break he needs to get the guy, it turns out to be on the same day Bautista has Lasik eye surgery. He tries driving himself to the lead and ends up failing miserablely. He is forced to call an Uber to get where he needs to go. This is where his driver Stu (Kumail Nanjiani) comes in. Nanjiani is another very funny dude, he plays a small nerdy Indian guy who can’t say no and is a push over. So when Bautista gets in the car Nanjiani will do whatever it takes to get a 5 star rating. So Mr. Magoo on steroids and Stu are off to find the guy who killed Bautista’s partner. The entire time Nanjiani wants to just get away because he finally has a chance to get with his dream girl (Betty Gilpin). Nothing could go wrong, right? There hasn’t been a whole lot of great comedies this year, but this one is definitely worth seeing. So go check it out if you haven’t.