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I watched this movie directly after The Predator, and it may have been the thirst for a scene without someone getting brutally murdered speaking, but I’m pretty sure that I enjoyed Mrs Doubtfire more. Robin Williams is one of my favourite actors and his seemingly infinite level of energy contrasts perfectly with the grouchiness of everyone around him, this same energy makes the scenes were Daniel – the main character – is beaten down by the sadness of his situation even more soul crushing. Behind this hilarious movie is a giant heart, which works with the plot. The heartful part of the movie based around Daniels’s divorce, with the humour coming from him dressing up as an elderly woman. The plot is rather simple, so most the movie is filled with scenes that a relatively disconnected to the progression of the plot, providing humour but more motives for the main characters sadness. I think this movie can be enjoyed by literally anybody, which is most likely why the film raked in half-a-billion dollars in the box office. Its hard to think of any problems I have for this film, but I’m sure that if Robin Williams wasn’t the main role it would have lost all of its charm.

(SPOILERS) I’ll be completely honest, I started the movie thinking that the sci-fi/horror/action classic would have some substance aside from its action, but it really fell short in that area, which is almost completely made up for with the one-liners and outrageous gore-filled that fills the spot that the movie has empty due to the general lack of good overall cinematography. The dialogue doesn’t have impact on the movie, as there isn’t that much dialogue that isn’t the soldiers talking about the predator. The writing is quite a bit stale and definitely reflects the common trend of 80’s movie that are solely focused on great action, and there are a lot of F-words, 106 to be precise. So, if a movie has no dialogue, then it only has action, and that’s really all Predator has. The first half of the movie’s action begins with the soldiers raiding a central American jungle to find hostages, a scene that feels like it lasts far too long, which may be due to the fact that the film hasn’t set itself up as pure action yet, making the audience wonder why a film would have room for so much action. After the hostage raid, the soldiers slowly get picked of one by one by the Predator in the goriest fashion possible, including Carl Weathers getting his arm (That’s still firing a gun) cut off before being killed, a guy getting his skull ripped out of his back, and the soldiers finding a group of men skinned in the thick of the jungle. 80’s nostalgia probably led people to think the movie was way better than it is, and it probably only had success because of the 80’s obsession with sci-fi and action; this is reflected by the ratings of the modern-day iteration of Predator, with rotten tomatoes giving it a 33%. However, the movie was still fun, but definitely not anything special.

I only watched it last night and I loved it! The comedy is hilarious, more specifically the gags that are set up at the beginning as throwaway jokes become major plot points or funny call-backs later in the film, i.e., the Swan, the old woman being called "Hag", and the bin being thrown at people’s heads. In the first half of the film the pacing can feel a little off due to the creative and unique camera angles and transitions that Edgar Wright masters in so many of his films, but this problem becomes less obvious later in the movie. Although most praise of the movie isn't focused on the murder mystery, it is still pretty good, and the ending did catch me off guard. The blood did look a little off, and was very obviously CGI, but that’s understandable for both the budget and time of shooting. Overall, it very much so exceeded my expectations and I was 100% hooked the entire time, and (SPOILERS coming up) the last quarter of the film where the main character becomes a badass cop is one of the coolest, funniest, and most action-packed collections of scenes I have ever seen in a movie in my life.