Snitch - Snitches get stitches

"Snitches get stitches," is a common urban phrase.  It basically means that if you tell the cops about any criminal activity that can get someone in trouble, then there may be some violent repercussions towards you.  This movie Snitch is quite the opposite of this phrase.  The premise of the movie is to save his son from unfairly spending 10 years in prison for drug distribution, a father decides to make a deal with the US Attorney General to become an informant and bring down a drug cartel.  In other words, a snitch keeps his son from being a prison bitch.

Snitch stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Benjamin Bratt, and Michael Kenneth Williams (yes, Omar from The Wire is in the movie and the whole time I kept calling him Omar in my head).   Dwayne does a yummy fantastic job in this very serious role.  At no point does he look into the camera, raise one eyebrow, and smile, and sadly he never takes off his shirt.  I guess he wants to be taken seriously as an actor, and I try in this movie while mentally undressing him.  There's a C-list actor in this movie by the name of Jon Bernthal.  He does a great job in the gritty role as the ex-con trying to do right only to get sucked into this situation to help his boss get in good with the drug cartel.  I see him at least jumping to the B-list if he continues to take on roles like this.

I really enjoyed Snitch.  It was full of action and it often tugged at your heart strings especially when the son is always shown with more and more bruises and stitches because of his time spent in prison.  This movie is based on a true story which makes it even more interesting to know that this type of thing goes on sometime.  Dwayne Johnson does his thing and although he stays fully dressed, I think many women and men will enjoy it.  Teens should see this movie also, just so they can think twice about some of the decisions that they make.

A Good Day to Die Hard - A good day to stop making these movies

Bruce Willis was one of my favorite action heroes...15 years ago.  Don't get me wrong, I love a good action movie like the next girl, but I need my hero to not be 75 years old and to no look like everything hurts.  That's NOT hot.  Why are we still making Die Hard movies?  The last one wasn't that great and this one was worst than the last.  It's like the Fast and Furious franchise.  We coulda stopped after the second one although I did enjoy all the man candy is Fast 5.  But I digress...

A Good Day to Die Hard is the fifth installment of the series which stars Bruce Willis as the aging John McCain.  In the past, he neglected his kids because as NYPD he always found himself trying to stop some psycho in grand fashion.  Now, he's decided to find his son and help him out of trouble who just so happens to be in Moscow in the middle of Russian politics.  The storyline is a little bit more plausible than Live Free or Die Hard.  One can believe that the angry son played by Jai Courtney of an NYPD officer would be an CIA operative who is helping the Russians.  On John McCain's visit all sorts of trouble ensues including fire-powered tanks, exploding courts, and a fateful trip to Chernobyl.

This Die Hard was rather boring, predictable, and completely unnecessary.  The story would have been better sans Bruce Willis, a different title, and a much hotter hero, more depth to the plot.  I really hope this is the last one.  I'm part of the problem because if there is another one, I'll go see it.  I'm a sucker for an action movie even one starring a dried up action star.

Warm Bodies - A zombie love story....really?

Zombies aren't really my thing.  I've only seen one or two Resident Evil movie.  There's like a hundred of them.  Ok, not really, but there probably are over a 100 zombie movies.  I'm sure Warm Bodies is probably the first time one falls in love with a human and his cured of his zombiness.  I've pretty much just told you the entire movie.  If this is all you ever see of the movie, you'll be ok.  I mean, it's cute, and stupid, and a little funny, but let's be real.  A movie about a zombie who is cured by love can't be that good.  The two guys who left the movie when the zombie and the girl kissed left 10 minutes too soon.  Well, there wasn't much left after that, but I can see how once it got to that point you'd be fed up and want to leave.

Warm Bodies is based on Isaac Marion's very popular novel with the same name.  I'm sure the book was better which is usually the case.  They both are about a Zombie named R played by Nicholas Hoult who thinks and feels and is bored with being a zombie.  During his hunt for food (humans) with his friends, he meets and falls for Julie (Teresa Palmer) who's father happens to be the leader of the humans.  Julie catches his eye and heart, and R decides to keep Julie safe.  They spend time together and develop feelings for one another and discover that caring for each other is curing him and his zombie friends.  The bonies who are even more zombie than R and his friends don't like this change and decide to hunt Julie and R.  Julie tries to explain this to her father played by John Malkovich.  He doesn't believe it until he shoots R, and R begins to bleed.  He stops the war against zombies and helps them fight the bonies.  

I guess the point of the movie is that we need to spend more time with each other caring for each other instead of being on our phones, ipads, and computers all the time.  Nice sentiment.  Just a very cheesy way to get the point across.  Warm Bodies wasn't bad, but it wasn't good.  If you have an extra 90+ minutes to kill, knock yourself out, but if not, stay home or go see something else.  I've heard Zero Dark Thirty is good.  I still haven't seen it.  Go see it and tell me about it, and pass on Warm Bodies.