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Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

Extinction is here and the best one yet.

[4/10 · 11 April 2016]

The underrated director Michael Bay is probably one of the strongest directors yet, after Stanley Kubrick and Uwe Boll, for getting every movie he has made bashed by the media and the mediocrity around the world. Getting bolder after each film, making his strongest movie, Age of Extinction, another segment in the 'Transformation' franchise.

In this adventure we don't have the controversial actor Shia LaBeuf, starting fresh with a new storyline installed. Every actor introduced on the big screen has his/hers moment from beginning to the end and for our Friendly Transformers being hunted down by the government because of the last movie, them starting a war and destroying Chicago. Now we follow the Yeager-family containing Mark Wahlberg and playing as his daughter; Nicola Peltz. Being so believable as a father and daughter, putting other cinematic families under a rock and use their charisma and talent to blow them out, putting them to ever been found.

Intense action sequences and a vaster scope to the series, welcoming other 12 adventures to the Transformers-saga, making it into the most important Cinematic Universe after Peter Jackson's Middle Earth.

Suck by balls.

A Sound of Thunder (2005)

amaze balls

[10/10 · 30 January 2016]

This movie is what Olympus was to the ancient Greeks as it is to us. The actors deliver stunning performances, the cinematography is revolutionary, the CGI is completely bonkers m8. The story follows a brave man, who sets out into the past to discover greatness. Out of the blue, he strays off the path and causes a chain of events that will alter the face of humanity in disastrous ways.

Probably the best part of this movie is the stellar performance delivered by Ben Kingsley. Good ol' Ben hasn't been this good since his amazing acting work done in Schindler's List (also one of the most thought provoking films of our time), but in A Sound of Thunder he completely destroys the scene.

Another thing of the movie, the CGI done in this masterpiece is exactly that, a masterpiece. What man has longed for since the invention of fire, the longing of greatness, for man to be as a God. That has been done with this film's CGI work. The backgrounds are intense, you get sucked into it as if you're there, inside the vast world of this film. Computers are brought to life through detailed computer animation, which rivals even the practical effects of Stanley Kubrick.

I have seen films with good plot, but this one takes the case. Oh boy! Oh golly! This film kept me at the edge of my seat the whole time. The plot is intense and realistic. The characters are tested and true intentions are brought out into the light. Relationships are tested and broken, strained and refined. Who is a true friend and who is a distasteful enemy? You decide.

"That'll do, Donkey. That'll do." - Shrek, 2001.