Hotel Artemis

Hotel Artemis is an 2018 film. The movie stars Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, and Sofia Boutella. The supporting cast include Jeff Goldblum, Charlie Day, Brian Tyree Henry, Jenny Slate, Dave Bautista, and Zachary Quinto. The movie takes place in a futuristic Los Angeles.

In 2028, the water supply of the world becomes the main form of currency. When the private organizations take advantage of this, the public unrest is at a boiling point, resulting in a massive riot. On that same night, criminals are injured and they call upon a underground nurse who runs a hotel for them. Subscription based, you can enter if you're a member. The movie suggest that there are other hotels like this in other cities. A bank robbery goes wrong and one of the parties is injured leading them to the hotel. One of the major bosses of the underworld is injured and goes to the same hotel. During the earlier robbery, the diamonds are from the boss, which they stole. As the night unfolds at the hotel, the boss wants his diamonds back. Can they all survive?

Interesting post apocalyptic take on an future Los Angeles. The characters were pretty interesting. Zachary Quinto's character was so over the top, I had a hard time with the movie after his appearance. Of course, the convergence of all these parties in LA on the same night was very interesting. Leading to lots of action.

Star Trek Beyond - 星際爭霸戰:浩瀚無垠

Star Trek Beyond (星際爭霸戰:浩瀚無垠) is an 2016 film. The movie stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Idris Elba, Sofia Boutella, and Anton Yelchin. This is the third installment of the rebooted Star Trek from 2009 and it's sequel Star Trek Into Darkness. This is also one of Justin Lin's few movies outside of the Fast & Furious film franchise.

Kirk is having a mid life crisis and tries to find meaning in life. Spock seems to be going through some things too. As are the rest of the crew. When they go out for a recovery mission, but everything goes wrong and they get stranded or captured. They must rely on some locals that turn out to be mystery Starfleet crew from long ago that disappeared. When all is said and done, can they all survive and stay together?

I must say that the third time around, I wasn't so interested in their story. I think Justin Lin got dealt a raw deal from Abram's camp. The movie flopped as a result. But its Star Trek, they are successful and than flop and come back again. There's enough of a message in the franchise to keep it going.

Star Trek Into Darkness - 闇黑無界:星際爭霸戰 - 星空奇遇記:黑域時空 - 星際迷航:暗黑無界

Star Trek Into Darkness (闇黑無界：星際爭霸戰) is an 2013 film. The movie stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Benedict Cumberbatch. The supporting cast include John Cho, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, Bruce Greenwood, Peter Weller, and Alice Eve. Leonard Nimoy makes a cameo as Spock Prime. This is the second installment of the current Star Trek film franchise and the last to be directed by J. J. Abrams. Abrams will be moving on to the Star Wars franchise.

James and Doc run through the woods of an planet the Enterprise is exploring. While Spock, Sulu, and Uhara are trying to neutralize an exploding volcano. Instead they reveal themselves to a primitive race. As such, the Enterprise is taken away from Kirk and he's made the 1st captain of Enterprise when its given back to Pike. In the meantime, a certain individual has bombed an library and than attacked senior star fleet officers killing Pike. Kirk has his ship back and they head out to kill this madman. Just one thing though, its in Klingon territory.

This movie was quite awesome. That little summary does it no justice, but I can't give away the main plot points. You need to watch it. On the big screen if you can. The space they travel is quite majestic and the space ships really look like they are from the future. A last hurrah for the bad robot crew as they shift their attention to Star Wars.