American Sniper: Clint Eastwood triumphantly returns to directing with perhaps his best film in years. Bradley Cooper does his finest work as cowboy turned Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. The war scenes are taunt and expertly executed. It's a gut punch of a film that grabs you by the throat. Not unlike last years excellent Lone Survivor. A
Taken 3: Or Tak3n apparently. Like it's title, the movie tries to be so clever it ends up just looking stupid. Liam Neeson does his Liam Neeson impression but even he hardly cares enough to disguise his Irish accent anymore. The action is good if repetitious, the characters no more or less developed then before, and twist are eye rollingly predictable. It's sad this franchise has to end on this stinker. Here's to never being Taken again. D-
Inherent Vice: One good thing about Taken 3 that I forgot to mention: It's not Inherent Vice. It should have really been titled: Incoherent Mess. The directing is outstanding and the acting is acceptable and that's all the praise I can muster for this all over the place movie. And that's obviously the intent of the filmmakers. They wanted to make a movie as confusing and weird as a drug trip, unfortunately this was a bad trip dude. F+
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