Weekend box office~ The end of Summer

   Well it's that time of year again the last week of Summer. More importantly the last two movies of Summer. The two last summer movies coming out this week are the Sinister 2 and America Ultra a Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart spy-stoner comedy movie. Currently because next week is the start of the new school year I will not be seeing a movie this weekend but rather preparing to for school this coming Monday but expect to see a review for Man from Uncle coming in it's place.

   I have never seen the last Sinister film because I don't traditionally tend to watch horror movies that much. Yet the trailers for the film make it look good and not as jumped scared filled as it might appear to be. It will probably make a good amount of money since Horror movies are typically cheap to produce and their is always a fan base to go see these movies although to me they would probably make more money if they waited and released this in October in time for Halloween.

   Now the other film American Ultra from the trailers alone the film doesn't look that interesting despite the premise, it actually just looks like your run of the mill stoner comedy with Spy movie elements it looks like it doesn't know what to do with. Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart acting wise look fine in it, while I don't like Kristen Stewart as a person too much you can't say she's a bad actress because she isn't, she just keeps getting stuck in bad movies.


   Anyway here's my prediction.

Sinister 2
Budget: N/A
Weekend box office:$15-$20 million
Domestic box office:$25-$30 million
International box office: $20-$25 million
World wide box office: $45-$55 million
   
      Horror movies while do make a lot in comparison for what they cost to make but in terms of what movies normally make nowadays it's pretty small.


American Ultra
Budget: $12 million
Weekend box office: $10-$20 million
Domestic box office: $20-$25 million
International box office:$30-$40 million
World wide box office:  $50-$65 million

      I expect this out of the two movies to be the one that sells the most since a lot more people like to laugh at a movie than be afraid at one and while I may not be interested other people might be and it pretty much cost nothing to make in Hollywood terms.

Weekend box office
1.) Straight outta Compton
2.) American Ultra
3.) Rouge nation
4.) Sinister 2
5.) The man from uncle
6.) Fantastic Four
7.) The Gift
8.) Ant-man
9.) Vacation
10.) Minions

That's my weekend box office prediction and hopefully I'll see you Friday or Saturday for some sort of new post (maybe.)

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Weekend box office- I'm back

   I just got back from visiting my grandparents house and now I'm back on the internet so I can hopefully get back to my usual schedule which I plan to do this week. Maybe. I know I promised three movie reviews and only did one of them sorry I forgot after posting the Rouge Nation review I was leaving the next day.

    Any the weekend box office is official and the movie that one was the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton (haven't seen it yet but I want to) with Mission Impossible Rouge nation and Man from uncle (Which I did see over my visit- maybe expect something this Sunday.) Now while the N.W.A and it's music were way before my time I love biopics and I hope to see Straight Outta Compton this soon. It's sad to see Man from Uncle not do as well or even get second place because (as you might see soon) even though I'm half and half on the movie I do want to see a sequel and unless it stays consistently in the top 3 it might not get it.


Weekend box office
1.)Straight Outta Compton- $60 million
2.) Mission Impossible Rouge nation- $17 million
3.) Man from uncle- $13 million
4.) Fantastic Four- $8 million
5.) The Gift- $ 6 million
6.) Ant-man- $ 5.4 million
7.) Vacation- $5.18 million
8.) Minions- $5.14 million
9.) Ricki and the Flash- $4 million
10.) Trainwreck- $3 million

      That's last weekend box office and hopefully I see you all Wednesday for my prediction for what will be in the top ten next week.


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Mission Impossible Rouge Nation review

 
  First off sorry about the hiatus last week I was in California for my Summer vacation. I'm being serious I was in California for the last week or so, which is why I haven't been able to update the blog and I'm getting ready to go to my grandparents house due to other events so this week so I won't be near a computer for a while so I'm calling a hiatus from my normal schedule but so that way I don't leave you guys without anything for another week this week your getting three movie reviews (Trainwreck, Rouge Nation and Ant-man.) Today will be Rouge Nation.

   Anyway last Sunday I saw the latest installment in Mission Impossible franchise Rouge Nation. In this movie Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is investigating a mysterious international crime syndicate known as... The Syndicate. However recently the IMF has been shut down due the amount of dangerous stunts, innocent lives lost and unnecessary damage that has been caused (mainly by Ethan) and so Ethan goes rouge so now while trying to investigate The Syndicate he also has to evade the CIA who want to capture him and he's going to need the help of his friends William Brandt (Jeremy Renner), Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), Luther Stickwell (Ving Rhames) and the Femme Fatal double Agent Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson.)


   Going in I was very excited, I've always been a fan of the mission impossible series even more so than the Bond Franchise. I liked Mission Impossible I and II, I love Mission Impossible III and liked Ghost Protocal. I got even more excited when I saw the reviews for this movie and people were praising it calling it the best action movie of the summer and how it was more exciting than the last. I was pumped for this movie! Then... I saw the movie and was thoroughly disappointed with it.

  Mission Impossible Rouge Nation to me was a boring, rehash of Ghost protocol that attempts for great things yet never follows through with them with boring main characters and a super anti-climatic ending. I know I'm going to get a lot of heat for this especially considering how almost universally acclaimed this movie has been so far (I'm getting deep flashbacks to my X-men Days of future past review.) But this is my review and thus my opinion and this is how I feel.

  Before I go into the negatives I will go into the positives because while I was overall disappointed with the movie that doesn't mean that they're weren't some things I liked. First off the movie is extremely funny and the comedy is clever without being overbearing or distracting from the plot, the best jokes are given to Simon Pegg who is basically the heart of the movie. Speaking of Simon Pegg he, Jeremy Renner and Ving Rhames do a great job in their roles with Simon Pegg stealing the show, Ving Rhames acting as a great straight man and Jeremy Renner being a great counter-balance to Tom Cruise. All of them add a lot of dimension and color to very standard characters and are great to watch. The villain was well acted and Sean Harris did a good job with what little he was given.

   On a technical level the cinematography is a highlight of the film with good angles, great shots of different action scenes and the choreography for all said action scenes are done well. Probably the best action sequences in the movie where Ethan swimming and holding his breath while trying to turn off an electrical system and the knife fight Ilsa has at the end of the movie. Both those sequences were the best because unlike the rest of the movie both scenes had a lot of suspense, tension and a realness to them that the other scenes didn't have.

   Now to the bad.

   To me this movie was actually kind of boring. Besides the two actions scenes I mentioned the action scenes were subpar or kind of forgettable. The plane sequence was shown so much in the trailers that it lost a lot of it's excitement and it was really short and it had nothing really to do with the rest of the movie so it was pointless. The motorcycle sequence was the same nothing really wowing, the opera fight had potential but didn't really do anything until the end and the other action scenes I can barely remember. Nothing really happens at the end of the movie and it kind of ends on a weak note, they try to do something clever but that doesn't work that well because you forget why it's supposed to be clever.

   Now while I liked everyone else in the movie the two people who I didn't like were the two leads Ethan Hunt and Ilsa Faust. Ethan Hunt has always been my least favorite part of these movies, I always found him just another boring generic action hero and the most interesting I've ever found him in was Mission Impossible III. They try to make him interesting in this film with saying that his methods are not the best and he ends hurting more people than helping them and might even be slightly insane at this point but like Ghost Protocol any potential character development with him is negated. Ilsa Faust has little to no personality other than being a badass femme fatal and like Ethan they try to make her interesting yet they never go anywhere with it and I had no clue how by the end of the movie she came to like Ethan romantically. 

   The last but biggest problem with this movie is how it under develops it's plot and villain. The plot is basically Ghost Protocol and the first movie smashed into one with the IMF being dissolved (Ghost Protocol) and Ethan going on the run (Mission impossible I) but they try to add a corrupt government plot and what they can do to the people working for them but the thing is they never go all the way with it and it doesn't get fully developed. You don't have to have a theme or message in your movie but if you do you better go all the way with it because the moment you touch on a good idea and don't do anything with it, it might as well have never been in the movie in the first place. On that same note while I like Sean Harris as the villain, his characters is never given any development and when certain things about him are mentioned they are so vague that it leaves you wanting more but not in a good way.

   Mission Impossible Rouge Nation is not necessarily the worst movie of the year but to me it's a disappointing one. I do hope another one comes out because I do not want this to be the last one in the series and the send off to Tom Cruise.

I give this movie a 6.5/10~ A movie with a lot of potential, laughs and good actors and side characters that misses the mark and wastes a lot of it's potential.

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