Movie Reviews in Five Dotpoints or Less - Part VI

Spy (2015)

7.1/10 on IMDb
93% on Rotten Tomatoes

This movie was actually quite funny; it looked stupider in the trailer but it turned out to be really enjoyable

Loads of witty banter and some ridiculous humour

A great cast, and I especially loved Jason Statham

Melissa McCarthey did great in this; she really stepped up to the physical challenge of the film, and is pure hilarity


Good Will Hunting (1997)

8.3/10 on IMDb
97% on Rotten Tomatoes

For some reason I thought this film was called Goodwill Hunting, like looking for goodwill, but I guess that sort of is actually a description of the movie

This film had some great great acting; Robin Williams was amazing in it (my heart broke seeing him) and Minnie Driver as well

Fantastic writing and acting from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, both looking super handsome as well

But yeh the dialogue in this was so great! There were also some fantastic monologues that were done in single takes and they were so mesmerising to watch (coming from someone who has a slight stutter and messes up her words every second sentence)

There were a few moments where things got way too real and I got reallllly teary :'( Would definitely recommend this film be watched


In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

7.0/10 on IMDb
43% on Rotten Tomatoes

Chloe's Thoughts: Please - for the love of all things good and true - do not watch this
Watch it if you: Are too happy in life and want to be bored; Have problems sleeping
(Note: I'm only doing the new rating system for this movie because I want this label to appear on my blog)

Yeh definitely would not recommend seeing this film about a giant whale who absolutely wrecks this ship crew (it's based on the true story that inspired Moby Dick)

It's two hours long but it feels like 50; the first half is so incredibly slow with not a whale in sight; the main plot only comes in in the second half of the film, but then all the interesting stuff is sort of glossed over and happens way too quickly

The music was just terrible; none of it matched. For example they would have really triumphant music when everything was going wrong, and they would have that epic bass-beating music when it was just mundane everyday sailing occurring

Also I couldn't understand anything that was being said. Chris Hemsworth also kept switching from an American to a British accent every other word.

Speaking of Chris Hemsworth, his weight loss was so not worth it. There was like a 20 second scene with him being that skinny, and his shirt wasn't even off.


Serena (2014)

5.4/10 on IMDb
18% on Rotten Tomatoes

We follow the rise of the Pemberton timber empire in North Carolina in the early 1900s

Jennifer Lawrence is great (and the only reason I watched this film let's be real), but the film wasn't that great

It has really weird directing; it's got a slow pace but at the same time it's kind of fast paced? For example there are a lot of slow, drawn out takes but then on the other hand, for some plot-moving scenes, the director does not spend any more than 1 or 2 minutes on the scene, so it feels a bit odd

Bradley Cooper sounded like he had a cold and a blocked nose for half of the movie, and sounded fine for the other half; and I don't think it was shot sequentially because this blocked nose would come and go in between scenes

The ending was quite weird, and I wouldn't really recommend this film unless you are super bored (but even then, surely there is something else to do or some other movie to watch) or just love Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper