Captain America - Pretty Poop

 

It was a standard Wednesday evening... "what shall we do tonight?" says I. "I fancy going to the cinema" says my sister. "But there is nothing good out" I did retort "the only thing I might want to see is Captain America, and as its Orange Wednesdays so we won't waste full price on it" I add. "Agreed" say she. 


At the cinema we did arrive, to find a healthy  looking queue. A little later "Two for captain America please" - and so we proceeded up the stairs. If the queue downstairs was "healthy" the queue upstairs was obese! "This can't be for our film" I did exclaim, and walk straight on past it to the cinema door and the ticket collector. I was encouraged by the digital sign saying "Captain America - Take your seats". As the queue wasn't  moving I did assume it was for something else. "I am sorry sir, you will have to join the back of the queue"... apparently they were still cleaning the theatre. As we turned to join the back of the queue that was now trying to back down an escalator going up a girl from the queue piped up "Captain America is popular you know!", alas I obviously didn't know that! 


"So all these people are actually here because they have been waiting for this film?! - they're not just filling an evening like us?!". I was almost heartened by this, maybe the film was good after all... 


It wasn't. Apart from Tommy Lee Jones and Hugo Weaving, it wasn't. There were many things that got my goat about it. Firstly, the inevitably pathetic girl who falls for the American hero was British. Well done Hollywood, America is a bit bigger now!! Next, imagine every cheesy cliché from every other superhero film and put them all into the same film, yes yes, then you have Captain America. After a promising start where the small weedy guy is getting turned away from the army, all affinity with the character was lost when he became incredibly muscular and I was backing the bad guy for the rest of it.


Despite the 2 for 1 offer I still feel a touch robbed of my money, would have preferred to play scrabble at home...on my own. I give it a 48/100.     

Wild Target

Just to reiterate my policy on films…if you finish watching the film and to are happy to have watched it then it’s a good film, forget what others say about it, don’t shun it because your mates did. If you enjoyed it then it must have been compatible with an element of you.

Here is my opinion on “Wild Target” starring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt and Rupert Grint.

On the whole I enjoyed myself a lot, the plot wasn’t particularly thick, but the focus of the film was how the trio, played by the above tree stars, get on with each other. I found it very humorous; Bill Nighy playing a well-seasoned British assassin was class. Rupert Grint’s character, you know nothing about, a clumsy juvenile that keeps randomly showing sublime skills of a future assassin, which I think he pulls off well. Emily Blunts character was not particularly fun.

I found the film a laugh, especially the bit when Bill Nighy’s assassin Mum (80s at least) opens a can of whoop-ass!  I would recommend it for a rent and give it 65/100