Showing posts with label Henry Golding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henry Golding. Show all posts

THE TIGER'S APPRENTICE (Released to Video on Demand USA 2024)

 

Ben Meyers’ Rating: 3.7|5.0 Starsììì 

The Tiger’s Apprentice—starts strongly—has a story that can be understood more by an eastern audience than a western audience. The movie delves strongly into Asian concepts of demonology and witches and begins to greatly complicate its story when Tom is taken in by Tiger to train. The computer animation and voicing are good.

 Film Poster Courtesy of Wikipedia

Storyline 

A young, high school teen's world changes when his grandmother's friend visits and soon he becomes aware of witchery and shape shifters who claim they help him.

Additional Thanks

 Thank you to Directors Raman Hui, Jong Duk Jhun, and Paul Watling for directing effort. Thank you to Executive Producer Carlos Baena, Maryann Garger, Kane Lee, and Roy Lee for making the film possible. Voice casting includes: Henry Golding, Brandan Soo Hoo, Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh, Michelle Yeoh, Bowen Yang. Leah Lewis, Kheng Hua Tan, Sherry Cola, and Deborah S. Craig.


 
Buy a ticket? Yes? No? Maybe? 

Maybe. It is an interesting film. But the story and presentation are not clear enough for its viewers.

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THE GENTLEMEN (Released to Theaters USA 2020)

Ben Meyers’ Rating: 3.7|5.0 Starsììì 

The Gentlemen—odd, complicated story—is a movie that even with a plotline read is difficult to follow. It drags its audience through a crime-driven, murder-solution, unwholesome and low thinking, drug-oriented life-style. It may work in films where one can learn what not to be. But in this film, one comes away thinking 'why do we care?' The movie begs the question, 'Why was this film financed and given the green light?'

Film Poster Courtesy of Google Images 

Storyline 

 A USA man wants to unload his marijuana business, located in England, which activates a chain of unwanted con men who want a 'piece of dirty pie'.    

Additional Thanks

Thank you to Director Guy Ritchie for directing effort. Thank you to Producers Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, and Bill Block for making the film possible. Cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell, and Hugh Grant.


Buy a ticket
? Yes? No? Maybe? 

Maybe. It is what it is. It works outside the general mafia-styled movie and does not entertain. It plays too deeply into the gross realities of its world and drags it audience through the mud with it. Its complicated plotline does not allow its audience to comfortably and easily understand its storyline but superficially talks about the worst parts of this world with exceptionally graphic violence. It allows no room for audience comfort. A misnomer to title this movie "The Gentle-Men."

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