The Darkest Minds - 闇黑之心

The Darkest Minds (闇黑之心) is an 2018 film. The movie stars Amandla Stenberg and Harris Dickinson. The supporting cast include Skylan Brooks, Miya Cech, Mandy Moore, and Gwendoline Christie. This is also Jennifer Yuh Nelson's first live action film as a director. Yay!



In the future, kids gain super powers and segregated from the rest. The kids are divided up into sub groups based on their power level. When Ruby Daly is brought in, she displays some awesome powers. Green is the most harmless, whereas she's an orange. Someone that can do many things including mind manipulations. Rudy escapes the camp with the help of an underground organization trying to free the children. Along the way, Rudy doesn't feel right about the group and ditches them and bumps into another group looking for a safe haven for escaped children. Chased by bounty hunters because she's an Orange, the adventure begins.

Really fun film. I think my teenage daughter would enjoy this. Because I got this via T-Mobile Tuesday's Redbox Promo, I watched it solo. But I'll try to get a cheap copy for her in the future.

Yuh does a good transition from animation to live action with this film. Really well made and I really felt the emotions of the teenagers. The diversity of the cast didn't seem forced and it added to the realness of their situation. However, this movie did give me the same vibes as another movie from a year early, Logan (羅根). Kids with power trying to escape the government.

Highly recommend watching this.

2019 Febuary Blockbuster Movie Guide

Here are the movies to look out for this month, US Edition.

Cold Pursuit (酷寒殺手)



The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (樂高玩電影2)



Isn't It Romantic



Alita: Battle Angel (艾莉塔:戰鬥天使)



Fighting with My Family (我和我的摔角家庭)



How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (馴龍高手3)



Sources:
IMDB Coming Soon
Box Office Mojo
Wikipedia.org
Taiwan Yahoo! Movies
WMoov Hong Kong

龍虎小英雄 - 龍虎少爺 - Treasure Hunters

龍虎小英雄/龍虎少爺 (Treasure Hunters) is an 1982 film out of Hong Kong. The movie stars Alexander Fu Sheng and Gordon Liu. The movie is action slap stick that would eventually birth Stephen Chow's type in the 1990s.

There a treasure linked to a Monk. The mystery has spread across the martial arts world and many people want their hands on it. Enter a clueless monk, a couple of street thugs, and a sinister mastermind. Death and misunderstandings ensue until the end for the final super long battle.

This movie was towards the end of the Shaw Bros era and where people were sick of kung fu flicks. You'll see the rise of modern flicks from other major studies of the time like Golden Harvest that incorporate kung fu a la Jackie Chan. In comparison, the formula they incorporated here was more the old style super long fight scenes. Which does get tedious and the blood looks real fake.

However, it was still fun to watch while I was washing my dishes. I caught this via Amazon Prime.

Mile 22 - 拳力逃脫

Mile 22 (拳力逃脫) is an 2018 film. The movie stars Mark Wahlberg, John Malkovich, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais, and Ronda Rousey.



A specials team group is sent in to retrieve caesium before the substance can be weaponized. However, they do not and there are some out in the open market now. 6 months later, in a Indocarr, a South East Asian country, a police man with knowledge of the caesium turns himself into the US consulate. Indocarr's leadership want him back and actually attack the convoy. They have 22 miles to get to the airstrip to get the police man out. Along the way, the team slowly starts to get picked off, but the police man starts to help them. Can they make it through the 22 miles to the escape plane?

This movie was all sorts of hard to follow. They set the movie in South East Asia, but during the run through the city, it felt like they were in South America or a Latin American country. Not Asia. Form that point on, I just couldn't. Just Can't, pick a meme for that phrase. That's how I felt. I ended up watching it all because of Lauren Cohan and Iko Uwais. Just had too.

Got this movie via T-Mobile Tuesday Redbox Promo.

Uncle Drew - 德魯大叔

Uncle Drew (德魯大叔) is an 2018 film. The movie stars Kyrie Irving of the NBA and Lil Rel Howery. The supporting cast include former NBA players Shaquille O'Neal, Chris Webber, Reggie Miller, and Nate Robinson, as well as former WNBA player Lisa Leslie. Kyrie reprises his Pepsi character of the same name for this movie.

The movie is about Lil Rel Howery' character of Dax Winslow who wants to win the Rucker Classic, a legendary street ball tourney. But he loses his team and than his girlfriend. Seeing Uncle Dew destroy some youngsters in a pick up game. He convinces him to join his team. BUT uncle Drew will only play with his boys. The roadtrip begins of rounding these folks up and playing.

Sweet simple story and a tail of redemption for all the main cast folks. Its hard not to like the movie. The underdog wins!

I picked this up via T-Mobile Tuesday's Redbox Promo