Thomas Julian

I enjoyed this movie much more than I thought I would. I’ve been done with Marvel for a while but Thunderbolt’s focus on character and consequences was a nice shift. The tone was more melancholy than I expected and the lack of a true bad guy might turn some folks off. I loved the Bob concept of both the threat and the objective to save. Sort of a smaller effort and nuanced in ways other Marvel films aren’t. Also love watch JLD chew the scenery .

I would like many more of these please. Just keep picking different historical moments. Highly enjoyable. A bit nonsensical but overall a raucous and expertly crafted good time.

Enjoyed John McWick! Is this movie accurate - likely not. I don't think an Irish super soldier was murdering his way across the potato famine. Does it scratch the same itch as limey baiting movies like The Patriot? Sure does - and in half the time and with a lot more pathos. The action is slick and brutal and the scenery of Ireland is showcased in all her hungry glory. When juxtaposed with the hungry populace, the concept of "not being able to eat the scenery" comes to life. The movie takes time to highlight the atrocities of the British occupation - physical, cultural and theological - and by my count, at least 20% of the dialogue is in Gaelic. Some nice character dynamics are in play as well - between the Irish hero and his old British commander tasked with hunting him down. Overall the plot is surprisingly shifty for what's essentially an extended revenge montage and I was really pleased with its tight run time - which gets twice done where films would meander and plod. This is the movie your rowdy cousin from Boston watches with his buddies over a dozen Guinness every St. Patrick's day. I had a splash of the drink while watching it. slainte

Enjoyed this movie until Mickey’s multiple showed up. Then it just got too distracted by the weird love triangle stuff. It also tended to drag and spend too much time on philosophizing in real time. Top that off with Mark Ruffalo’s gross performance coupled with a general gross esthetic all around. The creeper stuff was actually pretty interesting but came too late and was carried into the film by the before mentioned mistakes. Overall this would have made a slick 45 minute Dr. Who episode but it was well over two hours. I wanted to like this movie a lot but beyond Pattinson’s great performance this was a miss.

Clunky as heck dialougue. One scene in particular. "There was that bombing 8 days ago..." says a guy talking to another guy. That's the only bombing the audience knows about. We know it happened recently. Who keeps track of things like that?

Very revealing story. I felt that his "guidance from god" was a bit BS though. He kept waiting for the signal to come in the form of someone stopping him or bidding on his place of the dozer. It turned out that he did see his property for ten times what he paid for it. I think he had fallen way down in the delusion well and was going to go through with the rampage regardless of what happened. It seems like he drifted in to madness over time, taking events as personal affronts to him and exaggerating slights. It was sad to see him giving everything away, literally and figuratively. I would love to see this as a feature film, but special care would need to be made to really emphasize the descent his life took before the rampage. I think Sam Rockwell would do a great job in this role.

A worthy companion to Blackhawk Down. Unlike that film though, The Outpost takes its first hour getting to know the soldiers. When the big battles comes, we really feel for each one. The beating heart of this film is Caleb Landry Jones's Carter, an outcast within this band of brothers. His world weary, loner doesn't mesh with the rest of the team, but really shines when the shooting starts. Ultimately, the comment of this film is on the hubris of putting the base at the bottom of a shooting gallery to begin with. A series of commanders cycle in and out, but the men stay and endure. The big question of "why" they were there doesn't matter. It is perhaps analogous to the rest of the Afghan conflict. When does it end and what's the point being the operative question. I hunted for things I didn't like about the film, but came up empty. This one was is a winner.

He’s no Timberwolf Velez