Tag: David Dastmalchian

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

“The Last Voyage of the Demeter” is 2023 horror movie starring Corey Hawkins (Straight Outta Compton), Aisling Franciosi (The Unforgivable), Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones), Woody Norman (C’mon C’mon), and David Dastmalchian (Oppenheimer).

“The Last Voyage of the Demeter” is a period style vampire movie. It comes from the captain’s log from the novel “Dracula” following the transportation of Dracula, unbeknownst to the crew, from Romania to London.

The movie opens up with the abandoned Demeter crashing onto the shores of London with everyone on board dead. So, off the bat we know Dracula kills everyone, which is to be expected being stuck out on sea with Dracula. However, this makes it shooting fish in a barrel type movie. Yes, there’s gore and some unique deaths, but overall it’s boring. You just sit around waiting for the next person to get killed, which it makes it rely heavily on jump scares, and the jump scares are not scary. Dracula himself, has major Stephen King “Salem’s Lot” vibes as far as appearance. The one bright spot in this movie is Corey Hawkins. His acting is superb playing his role very well, but it’s not enough to save the Demeter. Overall, it’s a little bit of a letdown. I give it a 6/10.

The Suicide Squad (2021)

‘The Suicide Squad’ is the second, or even the remake of the 2016 version ‘Suicide Squad’. This one is James Gunn’s version, it stars Margot Robbie (Suicide Squad), Idris Elba (Luther), John Cena (Blockers), Joel Kinnaman (Suicide Squad), Viola Davis (Suicide Squad), Daniela Melchior (Parque Mayer), David Dastmalchian (Prisoners), Sylvester Stallone (Rocky), and Pete Davidson (The King of Staten Island).

Just like the first Suicide Squad, a group of rag tag villains are brought together in order to save the world.

Two Reasons I wanted to see this movie, 1. James Gunn. James Gunn directed both Guardian of the Galaxy films, which both are amazing. 2. John Cena, John Cena is hilarious in everything he is in, Blocker’s is one of the funniest movies I’ve seen. So with these two involved it was a must see for me. This one is a mix between ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ and ‘Deadpool’, you have your rag team and comedic relief, mixed with gore and cursing. Not sure what I was expecting but not really this, I didn’t expect all the gore and swearing. Honestly it worked though, it was a perfect blend of action and comedy. Sylvester Stallone’s character and John Cena were hilarious. Forget the first film, that one is garbage, this is the true Suicide Squad. Like I said it’s hilarious, the characters mesh perfectly together, it’s full of action, it’s a great superhero movie. It hasn’t done well in theaters, and there’s talks that Margot Robbie is to blame, that they are looking to move on from her. Which is stupid because, Margot Robbie is awesome as Harley Quinn, she brings the character to life. Leave Margot alone, she’s not the issue. It’s probably the release to HBO Maxx, and the first one being garbage, why ticket sales have sucked. I do find it funny though, the DCU had to bring in a MCU director to put out a good movie, but hey whatever works. James Gunn and ‘The Suicide Squad’ lived up to their potential, I give it a 9/10.