Michael M – Google

Such a fun movie. We get to know Baby (that's his name for some reason) pretty well, from his personality, his past, and present. The movie is full of action, much of it being driving, and even romance without the modern corruptions of it (most romance movies are about cheating or pseudo-stalking). There are some pretty violent scenes but they carry weight to them. One of my favorite movies and I highly recommend it.

It's exactly what you can expect. Poor, boring, and bad marvel writing. Some funny jokes. Every single character is unexplored, even the main 2 and the villain. There were like 2 good scenes in the whole movie. The action scenes are pretty good at least. But the backstory on characters feels shallow - as well as their personalities. The cameos are just there for that, just there to make you go "haha, I know who that is!" and don't retain any relevance.

I first read this in Highschool because I'm from New Mexico. Overall, nothing really happens in the book. I was left waiting for the "coming of age" that never seemed to arrive. Ultima dies at the end but I couldn't find myself caring - she was boring and her character never felt developed, she was just strange. Throughout the book, Antonio just questions what he wants for his future vocation and never arrives at an answer. He still seemed as oblivious at the end as he was in the beginning. Ultima ultimately had a very small role, which was just opening his view about spirituality which wasn't even spiritual, just the occult. He supposedly learned the magic she used (which is erroneously alikend to spirituality in the book) could be good or evil -- just like any tool ever -- and he doesn't actually learn anything about good vs evil. Somehow this is relevant to his coming of age? Maybe he thought spirituality was always good, who knows, because it's never explained. The book also has Antonio questioning his faith, but he doesn't even understand it. It uses some analogy of fish to dumb it down, but honestly I didn't get it because they have too elementary of an understanding of the Catholic faith, so it fell flat. Antonio never really forms a strong opinion of anything, which is part of why he seems to never "come of age" by the end. But even if he did, he still wouldn't come off as coming off age and more like a teenager. Which he never seemed to turn into. I spent the whole time reading the book waiting for something interesting to actually happen. It was ridiculously boring and I'm disappointed that this is among the best writing New Mexico thinks it has to offer.

Nothing actually happens in this movie. It tries being sentimental but never fully explores it, the action is unnecessary, the jump scares are terribly done and rely on loudness, and nothing gets explained - no premise, no real resolution, nothing. SPOILERS AHEAD There are only two characters that can't really talk to each other. If you have played The Last of Us, this tried something similar with sentimentality but doesn't come close - the guys daughter died and he sees her in this young girl he met. The action is irrelevant to the story and isn' an interesting obstacle since the only goal in the movie is to climb the mountain to the ship to escape. That's also happens to be all that gets explained. We aren't told why they're 65 million years in the past, if they're from another planet or Earth (but they are never surprised about seeing Dinos or the moon so it seems they aren't from Earth), where they were headed or where they go after they escape. This movie copied jurassic park with an early dino returning at the end for vengeance. They kill it. They barely leave on time because the asteroid that killed the dinos is headed there way. There, I've saved you 90 minutes, that's all that really happens and gets explained. I did give it an extra star for not incorporating any modern Hollywood tropes (not that the movie lacks tropes), unnecessary "social commentary", or inappropriate scenes.