Movie Reviews from Chris

★ ★  out of ★★★★ Eternals (2021) Runtime: 156 minutes MPAA: Rated PG-13 for fantasy violence and action, some language and brief sexuality. Director  Chloé Zhao tries her best to explore and build a story about a group of people named Eternals, but the results are mixed. Several other factors stifle Eternals from being a good film. Sure, it's spectacular to look at, but the plot's a labyrinth, and do the characters connect? Eternals tells a story about celestials and Eternals. The Eternals are supposed to protect the Earth and watch over humans, while fighting against monsters called Deviants. We learn that they arrived 7000 years ago, and have presumably eliminated all Deviants in the year 1500. We cut forward to present day, where the Deviants mysteriously reappear, and have mutated to the point of self-healing. As the group of Eternals, who are scattered across the glode, namely: Sersi (Gemma Chan), Ikaris (Richard Madden), Ajak (Salma Hayek), Gilgamesh (Ma D...

★ 1/2  out of ★★★★ Johnny English Strikes Again (2018) Runtime: 88 minutes MPAA: Rated PG for some action violence, rude humor, language and brief nudity. Yet another flat-out embarrassing pratfall. Isn't a character supposed to learn and change a little, given years and years? It's deterioration of the same formula used in its previous installments. This time, close to absolute silence encompasses the first half an hour of Johnny English Strikes Again. If you're fortunate, you'll only slightly chuckle at the rude and embarrassing pratfalls of English and his sidekick. The first chuckle that is valid enough to be called a 'laugh' is when English ostensibly escapes from a ship, but falls and lands on a lower platform. It's just that the laughs are so infrequent and repetitive, you'll find yourself bored to half-insanity. Strikes Again starts with a situation, where MI7 is a victim of a cyber-attack, initiated by an unknown. The attack has exposed all its ...