pappywatts Reviews

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)

Aquaman part two!!! Well action packed,but a tad overdone.

[7/10 · 24 May 2024]

Yeah...always liked Jason Momoa from the Atlantis( Stargate) TV series.... Now he's a blockbuster movie star, playing the same character ..himself...but then ably supported by the other casted superstars for the franchise. There appears to be a lot of whingeing from the DC diehards that this is a backward step from the comics.

Plenty of well done CGI in this movie,they must have been surrounded in green screen for most of it,fight sequences were well choreographed,Black manta character stuck in the groove,predictable.

However imho a one watch film and forgettable,unless streamed, with ample pee breaks.

Dark Matter (2024– )

Quantumania on steroids? A trip through life's choices

[10/10 · 18 May 2024]

Damn it! I watched the first two episodes,found out it was a book based series, very faithful to the book. So read the book,a very easy read.

I won't put any spoilers in here,but if you are hooked on the series,then as the review title infers,life is a series of choices,that you make affects each stage. That may sound simplistic but human netherless.

The two main actors are very convincing to the original story,production values are exemplary,and like a good expensive wine to be savoured for each episode,reminds me of Vivaldi's masterpiece "Four Seasons" Complicated but resolves at the end,really a love story in disguise.

Accidental Texan (2023)

Superlative comedy Book Based A treat for old timers Yee Hah!

[8/10 · 16 May 2024]

Movie released in march 2023,probably gone straight to a streamer,a delightful mishap style movie,with appearances from veteran actors ,Bruce Dern must be in-his late eighties,Thomas Haden Church always in the same mode in all of his movie roles.

Carrie Ann Moss still a Goddess dominates,a welcome addition from her blockbuster superstar roles,this isn't Hallmark material,way better production,based on Chocolate Lizards the book.

I would put this comedy in the same bracket as the understated Holdovers Movie

Anyway overall a Texas oil drilling theme,unscrupulous corporates trying to rob the poor dirt farmers of their land for oil leases,they are the villains of course. Along comes a failed young would be actor who has a big hilarious mishap on his first gig,road trip afterwards and ends up in the small town local coffee bar seeking help,penniless and desperate. He is offered a job with a going downhill Texas drilling company owner who's about to go bankrupt, The interplay between old school and apprentice is a delight,where they try to beat the corporate takeovers. Of course Carrie Ann Moss is the comforting supportive angel who manages the coffee bar. The driller's long suffering crew are then introduced,and facing redundancy if their boss doesn't come up with a successful oil strike. There is a race towards the end, and the villains get their just desserts. A must watch.

Stardust (2007)

Grown up magic and fantasy for the Adult child within

[8/10 · 14 May 2024]

In the mid 2000's my teenaged daughter was interested in media /arts at school,and occasionally would request a trip to cinema to cover a report on movies for media studies.

At that time of my life,any sort of escapism from domestic chores and work stuff was welcome... A revelation the film,it introduced me to Neil Gaiman's novels,I always read the original source if I'd enjoyed the film.

Surprisingly the producer director Matthew Vaughan, offspring of his famous father actor who had starred in man from uncle,and magnificent seven ,,is also resident in East Anglia,another converted Anglophile.

Any way a delightful now and again rewatch, with a stellar cast, those who are still on the planet,and still working in movies and the arts.

The Proposal (I) (2009)

Grows on you Romcom...

[8/10 · 8 May 2024]

A stellar cast,still watchable in this decade,some of the cast not on the planet anymore,and the supporting actors that still are ,appeared in other Bullock movies...I watched this originally on a round the world trip in 2009, on the first leg to Hong Kong, and rewatch occasionally as and when there are Afternoon specials when I need to switch off and chill.

Mary Steenburgen another favourite character actress,and wearing well.

The director has experience in other popular romcoms,"27 dresses"another favourite.

There is also a very cute Dog,who should have got an animal award.

Great script,not actually filmed in Sitka, but northern shores Boston and Rockport,with cgi mountains. Didn't look brrr.. cold there,very pleasant climate,the veteran comedienne Betty White knows how to deliver a line,and perfect comedic timing from all the cast.

Jurassic Park (1993)

First of the trilogy originals : The 2nd trilogy new generation not so much.

[9/10 · 3 May 2024]

Doesn't Time and Tech fly, 1993, bought the video when released in the UK,1994 from Tesco, VHS, worn the tape out over the years, now we stream the classics, on downloaded movies.

Bob Peck appears as a main character in the beginning, deserves a mention, previously appeared in a BBC tv series launch "The Edge of Darkness" about nuclear containment being breached, had a great theme soundtrack , composed and played by Eric Clapton.

Subsequently was remade as a movie with Mel Gibson playing the same character... meh... Peck's rise to stardom in other movies , great character actor , however died too soon.

The rest of the Cast launched their careers with the movie, box office hit worlwide, spawned a new generation of "lost World" movies.

Ahem... anyways , JP was groundbreaking from a novel by Michael Crichton,adapted by Spielberg after the success of Jaws from a novel also adapted from a best selling novel by Peter Benchley.

However my honest opinion as always,the books were better...

2010 (1984)

A great Sequel of it's Time, A Tribute to Arthur C Clarke's contribution to Spaceflight

[9/10 · 3 May 2024]

As a young man I was hooked by the 2001 movie,it got me into Hard Sci-Fi books trying to understand the Universe, The Evolution of Humanity, the orbital mechanics derived by Clarke after World war Two and the surge in spaceflight, moon missions by NASA and others over the following decades, shuttle missions, including the disasters and fatalities, Richard Feynman's historic judgement on the Challenger disaster goes down in history as a footnote.

Now we have SpaceX and others in the 21st century. Commercial independant development of launch vehicles, other countries, Japan, India, in a Race to the Moon.

Time to find another Monolith on the Dark Side....????

Some reviewers consider this masterpiece as dated, but if NASA's present program of Missions to Mars and Global Moonshots by other nations, the technologies, engineering innovation,rocket propulsion etc. That are portrayed in the movie aren't out of date, more prophetic and accurate in my view.

The Cast, for them who are still on the Planet, delivered all the tension, excitement, geopolitical differences which are still present today.

The Fall Guy (2024)

The Fall Guy reboot. meets What's Up Doc for for 12 year Olds?

[6/10 · 1 May 2024]

Hmmm. A mixed bag of nuts and washers that are all the wrong size, If this truly was a tribute to Stuntmen , as the publicity launch wanted you to believe, then there would be an expose on all the kit they have to use to reduce injury or fatalities.

I suppose the writer's strike gave them time enough to post process the film, and re-edit, but it's still an unbelievable action film.

Did the superstars really need the work/money to appear in this unbalanced mess.

These liittle vignettes shown on the media launch on network television, and the tube trailers sucker you into thinking this may be worth viewing at a cinema franchise with all the Imax rumbly/tumbly seats and deafening sound.

Not for me, watched on a streamer, with pauses for pee breaks, and domestic stuff, and my cup of Murky Tea.. The one saving grace was Emily Blunt's kareoke of Phil Collin's classic, but the rest was little pokes at the last decades of fast car movies, ,hollywood star addiction expose's, cliched drug mob hoods, rival studio sabotage, and as at the beginning of this review, a mixed bag of nuts.

The two starcrossed lovers, indulging in impro?" are you.. do you, I'm sorry" became rather tedious, somewhat over cooked and inedible.

A footnote:- When watching Dune Part Two at Cineworld IMAX, we were early on a family ticket, watching the previews, this was one of three or four, last One was Furiosa coming next month end of May The Cinema was packed, and the row behind murmured.. yeah we'll catch that one, the others ... meh... Should have got George Miller in on the job, if you insisted on doing a Mad Max spoof movie, still I imagine the cast of extras, including the real Stuntmen were glad of the work to pay the bills.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

SHANG- CHI plus awkwafina: Superlative entertainment

[8/10 · 30 April 2024]

Lost count over months /years when I'm really stuck for a timewaster movie, I rewatch this treat.

This supercedes all the later following MCU stuff that the Mouse churned out right up until Eternals, The Marvels etc and the meh TV series,which followed and got ditched.... Feige/Iger eat your heart out.

Reminds me of the Studio Executive interference for the Godfather Part1. Just because you bought out the Comic franchise, doesn't mean you own the fans.

Definite Quality plus Content.. A big fan of Awkwafina ever since.

The origin story, characters are substantial, all the ingredients, mythical creatures, screen play swappiing nations Western and Eastern, makes you feel that the world is joined up, if only.

The two main actors, new generation westernised chinese, along with other superlative actors like "Mancunian" Benedict Wong, yes a Brit, I welcome the multi-cultural influences, and wish them all the success, in this decade's releases, cinema or streaming.

Argylle (2024)

Remember Lost City? all is forgiven! Someone Else repeated the same cliche.

[5/10 · 28 April 2024]

OK..so with we have Henry Cavill/Sam Rockwell playing dual characters, based on Bryce Dallas Howard's author character argylle novel series, about a super agent, with ridiculous scenarios... is this a Vaughn satire done better, or 2.19minutes of action, fun, cinematic, and forgotten when you leave the theatre, recommended for 10-12 year olds, as they hopefully have done their Sats, and have the required reading age.

Or.. A lot of other Big Stars with small parts appear, are they doing this as a bit of Fun for the Grand Children? , or alternately need a tax write off for the end of the year.

Well the fact is, whether the box office return on this will recoup its production costs, or it will it go straight to a Streamer with all the other Turkeys produced by Hollywood, or Ten Cent whatever.

The inclusion of john Cena playing an alter ego PC hacker as Argylle's partner, in the imaginary plot versus real life in tandem makes it even more turgid.... If this is an example of Art for Arts sake, then cinema is truly dead, deceased , shuffled off its mortal coil. R. I. P.

Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)

Discovery Season 5: what happened? scriptwriters in a temporal bubble

[4/10 · 26 April 2024]

I really liked the seasons 123, and then it all went downhill, how many permutations of startrek logic, explanation , paragraph by paragraph do the cast have to sickup before they all pass out, as well as the audience. ...that's us the TV viewers.

I would really like the rebooted movies with Chris Pine and Co. To continue...as 2024 tv is heading for extinction for trekky fans.

Content over Quality, hasn't anyone learnt from the Mouse mistakes The network owners probably looked at the ratings, and concluded that this stray dog should be put out of it's misery, I love dogs ...however that's when they're cute, and playful, and return the love,but as time passes for all of us, time must have a stop.

Arthur the King (2024)

The Incredible Journey reboot?

[9/10 · 26 April 2024]

Based on a True competition, dog lovers beware, there will be tearful moments...Extreme sports endurance movie featuring a has been Winner/Runnerup,re- competing decades after semi-retirement, gets sponsored with a new team , based on previous history to compete against next generation competitors, across south america's rough country.

Mark Wahlberg delivers a solid script, with the usual Win, S. O. B.

Multi-cultural cast with some actual footage of the realworld competition, cinematic locations, going through rough country, with the Roo Hah brigade.

Then introduce a stray dog into the mix, who loves meat balls, and wants more, bonds with Wahlberg's team leader character, and actually saves the team from imminent disaster. Sacrifices are made as the team eventually bond also with the dog...actual footage of the Family plus dog at the End credits.. An emotional ,some what sentimental movie.

Challengers (2024)

Tennis:A Menage a Trois

[7/10 · 26 April 2024]

Hmmm.. not so much tennis rivalry, more a competition in relationships past and present, versus success or failure.. I found the Soundtrack annoying to start with, but accepted the beat of life and competition and who will end up as the dominant species.. Zendaya incredibly mature delivery, reminds me of past generation putdowns when females were referred as the vernacular "Birds", and the riposte "Birds peck the Worms" A love triangle through the stages of growing up, and the tennis sequences very cinematic and convincing.

The dialogue and conversations between the trio, very salty, who will be the Winner, in the Tennis or the Relationship....

The Postman (1997)

Don't Mess with The US Mail:Stuff will get Better

[9/10 · 14 April 2024]

Once in a generation or two, David Brin's masterpieces, at least the themes, get borrowed for all kinds of Apocalyptic scenarios, this decade 2020's, lots of movies, computer games, get churned out by Hollywood, and are popular for a few months, the likes of Fallout, 3 Body Problem,, and others.

However the Postman stands above all of these, as a test of Time.

Unlike the newbies of this generation,watched and then forgotten, and roll out the next production.

Just a pity that Humanity concentrates on having, not just being, and driven by Conflict, Famine ,Disease.and Profit above all.

Family values however, are still present, whatever creed, but the moral compass spins as always.

Fallout (2024– )

Fallout the Series ,not the game, but Brilliant!!!!!

[9/10 · 11 April 2024]

Phew!..for the Diehard game fans, it is very close to the iterations 1 to 4, plus all the mechs, factions, apocalypse now, very strong cast if you binge it like I did,have lotsa tea breaks.. Goggins playing his usual character, very sympathetic portrayal, and gruesome scenes, not for the fainthearted.

Shades of westerworld, ghouls etc.

When I first played the game,I played as a female character which was more interesting , the Bethesda launch was somewhat clunky graphics wise, but this then birthed the modding community of the time... Skyrim wouldn't have beem modded as well if it wasn't for Fallout as they shared the same coding... It's Funny, Very Dark, Violent, as another reviewer has stated, but stick with it, if you have the stomach for it.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

Driven by ideas from avatar,Men in Black, hitchhikers guide ,ET..c

[8/10 · 4 April 2024]

Luc Besson always delivers, from a popular comic book series in france, nowhere else, thinking outside the box of starwars and marvel, and dare I say Disney plus... incredibly detailed, cinematic... This is escapism scifi,fantasy, whatever, if you want another prophetic tome about the pretty blue planet which the human race is currently messing up, since 1941, oil exploitation , famine,conflict,disease, the singularity...birth of AI...virtual reality, the complete fruitcake stuff.

The plot , after meeting other universe beings, Yay!.. Contact.

A huge space station is built, and lotsa of otherlife forms mostly bipeds, and a few reptilians... join the station, bringing their tech and offworld cultures, however it's too big and affects the earth's orbit, so has to head towards Magellan for the next 1000 millennia... Guess what...the profit and business politic first is endemic throughout the universe whatever culture, apart from one that lives in a different dimension and has stuff that everybody wants.

Yep it's the wild west out there...enter our two young heroes....agents of the galaxy.....

3 Body Problem (2024– )

2nd review from mobile account pappywatts

[9/10 · 24 March 2024]

Well I've binged the first four episodes,and requiring sleep,so finish tomorrow, so far...The cast a few members from GOT,plus next generation actors,same script writers,so I reckon curiosity dragged viewers in.

May investigate the books,one of the actors who is prominent so far was in another hard science sci-fi movie UFO Alex Sharp..... very thoughtful clever movie,low budget but gripping.

Benedict Wong playing a mid character spook with his homegrown Lancashire drawl Liam Cunningham usual salty language,lot of Anglo-Saxon expletives from most of the characters,so reminiscent of GOT flavour.

I do like the 1960's historical references to the cultural revolution in China,and the effect of martial law by the military upon the general population.

However whoever's in power in history,profit is always on the agenda,all the human aspects of plagiarism,deceit, and misuse of power.

An exercise in futuristic virtual game play is now in use but really an alien recruitment ploy to get earthling followers and acolytes.

Episode 5 is the big reveal,hard science required to solve the riddles The Alien visitors somehow manipulate the internet,and reveal their existence to the world at large, using communication hi tech software, light years ahead of Earth There is great spectacular cgi in this episode,gruesome,and cutting edge.... They will arrive in 400 years........ News clips with our present world leaders shown ...a cheap trick.

World leaders then decide to fund the science for new technology.

And invest in future science and engineering But as usual the problem will be someone else's future to solve The general population are frightened into conformity The big finale ,the engineering and science fall over, borrowed heavily from a 1960's actual science project, lookup "Project Orion" ,using nuclear blast propulsion in outer space Fast space travel not quite there yet

I suppose it's popular enough for a second season...?..

Oblivion (I) (2013)

A timeless favourite worth repeat viewings.

[9/10 · 16 March 2024]

Great hard scfi adapted from Kosinki's graphic comic novellette if only you can find a copy , limited publishing in spite of the movies success.

A "grown up" Tom Cruise,... Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau looking very different, had escaped from GOT, if you blinked you missed him.

Edge of tomorrow, live die and repeat was also a great follow up TC should really continue to mine that vein, but then he went back to Mission Impossible 4-5-6-7?

Fairly faithful to the book, screenplay, and apocalyptic scenario.

When you consider from 2013,and the next 10 years on our pretty blue planet,it's only luck that we haven't messed it up already without visits from hostile aliens.

The soundtrack is also brilliant,but then I'm a sucker for great Led Zep tracks.

The Gentlemen (2024)

Sucked In, Riveting, Its Just Business and very Personal

[9/10 · 10 March 2024]

I would say that the movie was essentially big stars and standalone, full of Guy Ritchie flavor.

This series introducing home grown next generation refreshing, Theo James and Kaye Scodelario, Vinnie Jones were solid, Ray Winstone,a master of dialogue and great delivery.

And at the beginning.. a very short cameo from Edward Fox which sets the start, The Duke Of Halstead...playing the dying Toff.

Which is totally fictitious, I was born in Colchester,where halstead is on the north west edge and you can almost find a decent pub lunch.

No Lords there...

Daniel Ings a revelation....really drives the tension, a master of disaster and ineptitude.

Way better than the Layer Cake, this had more ingredients.

I'll quote something I learnt from employment within local government, and the civil service, happily retired decades ago... " Why are lawyers buried 8' 0" feet below, instead of the regulation 6' 0" Because deeper down, they're really nice people.....

I binge watched the first 7 episodes, and last episode following day, which was really resolution and last minute reveals, and scores settled.

Has all the elements and quirky characters introduced, all heading towards disaster, but as the episodes unfolded,you find out who's working for whom, and jockying for position.

Miss Scodelario was an absolute delight, almost completely unrecognisable from her previous blockbuster characters.

Totally solid direction , manic script.

This really was a Cockney,Gypsy,Multi- cultured, gangster movie, mixing in the Upper Classes, and the pecking order below.

The Hidden establishment within the UK, business first, a great portrayal of criminal politics, and the British class system.

Dune: Part Two (2024)

Best version this century,albeit the timeline's altered.

[9/10 · 7 March 2024]

OK,I had read all the novels, up until Brian Herbert took over to write house harkonnen,and always his dad inspired the original series first four Books to be a reflection of the regimes and different cultures on our planet,you know the pretty blue one, maybe a thousand years from now,and themes of AI danger,wars,mentats,mass production,and trade wars of that particular era. In short a mirror.

Part one superlative,cinematic, a big improvement to lynch's original.

However I can't give a 10 to this eagerly awaited part two edition,as the director has changed the original book version somewhat, but all the actors did perform exemplary with what they were given.

I didn't like the ending, and the inference of what was to come,after the defeat,it looked like a setup prelude to Messiah,the principle evil characters were dispatched, in a different way to the book,and the benegesserit order,supplanted by Jessica's fremen converts following didn't have the dramatic impact and in the book years passed before the uprising,Paul's character had some important training to go through,and had to prove that he had the heart of a warrior. Also the film portrayed North and South deserts,where there was some division between religious factions and warriors.

Also a Big reveal, that the fremen could ride the worms,and before him taking a trip to survive in the desert,and taking the water of life.

At this point Stilgar became a bit watered down,and Gurney the smuggler reunited with Paul.....all done within 10 minutes on film.

Chani having a hissy fit at the end jarred somewhat. It was accepted that Muad dib would take power and rule for political purposes,and that was implicit in the books,he had already seen his own death in the future. Chani also had three children by him eventually in the books.

Christopher Walken,a great actor and thespian,wasted, not given enough coverage,thinly revealed ,not really portrayed as an all powerful Emperor.

Timothy Chalamet was probably the only convincing original Paul Atreides,along with the psychotic feyd rautha by Austin Butler.

Apparently Chala Mala bing bong is going to do a Bob Dylan biopic...Please...Don't mess that up,while I'm still on the planet.. I still have the original vinyls,it's Alright Ma..I'm only sighing....

What was missing in both films was the power of the landsraad, and guild navigators reliant on spice for utilising foldspace.

San Andreas (2015)

The Best of the Disaster Apocalypse movies of that decade.

[9/10 · 5 March 2024]

From the opening fire service rescue accident scenario,and subsequent exposition and a split family reunion,with a tragic history, as it all unfolds, with a looming disaster,as per the title,geologist scientists are able to predict that the fault lines on the western coast of California are about to fail.very fast moving, great special effects, in my opinion way better than the schlock 2012 R. Emmerich movie.

Dwayne Johnson adding to his portfolio of movies,with more to come, long may that continue. An A list of guest stars present, if you blinked you'd miss them,Lotsa eye candy with convincing performances and life threatening sequences,the cgi budget must have been large,just to include the enormous amount of vehicle destruction and collapsed skyscrapers. Worth a revisit on a streamer.

Contact (1997)

Best Hard SC-FI of that Time

[9/10 · 3 March 2024]

This could have been a tribute to Kubrick's 2001, with a dedication to Carl Sagan the writer, at the beginning, superlative cast in their younger days, and they progressed their careers over the next three decades.

Jodie Foster playing the main character in a mysogonistic environment,you visibly and emotionally feel the frustration of the character as the tome unfolds,ignored and sidestepped by the politicians, and administration in the west, a tribute to the expansion of Astronomy which was to follow.

Accurately reflecting the post flowerpower/Vietnam period.

In the closing End scene , a handful of Stardust....perfect.

Also an emotive soundtrack.

Other great cast members, David Morse, William Fitchner, John Hurt, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerrit, James Woods, Angela Basset, and TV news casts featuring Bill Clinton's era.

Well written Screenplay reflecting that decade,should have received an Oscar somewhere for a groundbreaking movie. But just awarded for effects.

Footnote:- I watched this movie on video/dvd circa 1998, with my daughter, who reminded me, that they shared the same birthday,19th October,not entirely starstruck, but she had considered the actress as a great role model,they are both of similiar stature,petite, blond hair, blue eyes,of course I took that onboard at the time, what Dad wouldn't?..... However...When Silence of the Lambs 1991 was released on dvd, and my daughter had matured enough to view,she did have a predeliction for the Macabre/Gothic afterwards in that period ......Ooops !!!!

Silo (2023– )

Great Hard Sci-Fi stands the test of time.

[9/10 · 2 March 2024]

Hooked by the first episode,Rebecca Ferguson's character playing The eventual heroine of the series,an occupant of a bunker deep well in a Post holocaust society survivors way down the bottom in the pecking order to start with,picking through old tech,slightly reminiscent of Mortal Engines. Great series like these makes you look for the source,and I stumbled across the books mid season,and as always the source material somewhat condensed in the screenplay,which covers almost the first two books.

There has been a gossip column release that Ferguson admitted that she was verbally abused on a set by another actor,some of the scripted characters in this first series were particularly nasty and believable,which evokes revenge emotion for the viewer,mebbe this was where the insult occurred who knows, although I suspect we all have as viewers something in "Common", looking forward to season two....

Shōgun (2024–2026)

Superlative reboot of the 80's Classic series and made for TV movie

[10/10 · 1 March 2024]

This series a big draw for us old farts who read James clavell's novels In the late 70's and 80's.

I would imagine Richard Chamberlain is enjoying some new attention In his salad days.

The first two episodes 100%,with the next generation actors,supported by veteran Japanese artists,Hiroyuki Sanada my favourite and also in other dramas, a great mifune retread.

Newcomers maybe shocked by the history of European expansion and the opening of trade routes with the far east,it had already been divvied up by the Catholic kings of Spain and Portugal,who were determined to supplant the Japanese culture with their own doctrine, then along comes an Englishman,shipwrecked,and keen to establish the British empire existence, sworn trade enemy of the Portuguese.incidentally the Japanese considered the european invasion as pirates and barbarians.it would take almost two centuries before the isolationist policy would bring Japan into the modern world.

Sorry for the potted history lesson,but you have to accept the stark brutality portrayed on screen by the indigenous towards foreign invaders,"The Gajinn,sic.foreign devils" I hope this series continues with a more authentic rep of clavells's novels..Tai Pan is James clavell's next century thriller ,and would be a great follow up,if this repro is successful. So far so good.

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Blockbuster Cinema Success followed by special digital edition extras

[9/10 · 27 February 2024]

Well apparently the production heads had to get permission for The Helicopter to land at the beginning in Trafalgar Square... Mostly filmed in London and locations in UK,and green screen everywhere for the Battleground sequences.

Cinematic,based on a short story by Hiroshi Sakurazaka... Eventually renamed Live Die ,Repeat.

Anyway big success ,deserves a sequel,and that is still under discussion in 2024. The original was considered to require a prequel as follow up. We'll see.

Great movie,always worth a rewatch, just to keep up to date, when The Military on planet earth geniuses do actually come up with a Jacket technology super suit, then we are in deep do do.