LIMITLESS

Its dope.  

This one sounded like it could be a good movie and built up the anticipation enough with the trailers and delivered.  

The story goes as this guy Eddie Morra who is a loser.  Looks like a bum, behind on his rent, his bitch left him, he didn't have any income or any future hope to fix that, his game was shitty, just overall at the bottom of his life .  Then along comes a figure who was in and out this movie quickly. An old relative of his ex-wife his ex-brother in law.  Dude looks like a sleeze ball with loot and Eddie knew dude was a sleeze ball.  This ex-brother in law plays the friendly route like a true dealer and puts ol' Eddie up on the new shit.  A designer drug called MDT.  First one is always free.  You'll be back nigga.  Oh, take this card and keep in touch.


Now MDT is some real fly shit.  Its designed to stimulate the brain's receptors to make the user a an extremely enhanced version of themself.  Tighter mentally and verbally Eddie can game any breezee, connect the dots in his once scattered memory, figure out advanced mathematical equations, come up with complex formulas in dealing with the stock markets, and finish a book he had writers block on in one day, and a bunch of mo shit.  He learned of these abilities after he macked up the landlord's wife while halting her bitching about the rent and focused on what she was really unhappy about which he observed in this beezies presence.  He took her down and helped her with her homework.  So dudes game is on point all because of MDT. It enhances the users own abilities by say 100 percent given Eddie's condition before taking that shit.


So his bro-in law has the connect but has problems.  Thoughtfully he tried not to involve Eddie with that shit before his demise.  He gets murked and Eddie inherits some of his ex-bro in law's shit following his demise, some cash, a book, and the MDT stash.  That stash is upwards of 150 pills in a baggie so he was grateful.  He starts taking those pills daily and with the help of some of his ex-bro guap Eddie's game starts bubbling.  Money starts coming in, he gets fly, bitches start liking him, people generally want to fuck with this dude because he is brilliant, while on MDT.


Eddie's begins to feel this drug maybe attracting negative elements and it does.  People are watching and following this dude.  And on top of that he is taking some shit made in a lab so he begins to learn about side effects.  I would say it's like any drug's side effects from the junkies I seen.  Your gonna lose something teeth, looks, or your life.  So Eddie starts to weigh his new artificial powers against the consequences of his new habit and he has a few examples of former users of the drug to help any of his decisions. 

The thing about this movie is you wonder how it will end.  If he runs out of those pills he runs out of game and Eddie knew that.  How will he maintain the heights he reached via MDT.  Will he completely fall off, die, find another dealer?  Watch it your damn self because I ain't telling you shit!


All in all this is one of the best movies of the year.  I wasn't disappointed at all in this one.  The story worked well and I was cool with the ending. I liked it.


My Rating:
4-4.5/5

On a similar note, I recently had a conversation with a young lady about this.  Being on point comes from within yourself.  Outside influences may assist in you getting sharper but ultimately you have to get you together by knowing yourself to reach your full potential.  Fucking with dope isn't the answer.  You may open new avenues in your mind but those avenues can be reached without the drugs if you work on it.  I once heard if you are bored then you aren't using your mind.  I felt that shit when I read it because I entertain myself with my thoughts daily be they humorous or noteworthy.


I got quote for your ass too


"Inside a mine is where gold is found."
Afrikan proverb
 

Mesrine: Killer Instinct

Un film de gangster (A gangster movie)


This is a biopic on Jacques Mesrine a french gangster who made public enemy number 1, in France, in his heyday.   Never heard of this dude before but he's legit.  

This is a gangster movie where the bad guy doesn't die or go to jail in the end.  At least not in this movie, which is part1.  He has been called the french John Dillinger by some.  Mesrine was thieving conniving, murderous motherfucker.  One scene where Jacques and his homie, who put him on, were robbing a house and the owners came.   


My favorite scene:  

It was an old couple.  They came in on these dudes who crow barred the door open and were in the process of stealing gold, guns, and some mo shit.  

A thief will kill when they think they are about to get caught.  In the middle of a robbery  Jacques homie thought they were done for and I took it he was about to start busting his heat and/or beating this old couple to death. Jacques was cool headed and a quick thinker.  They weren't dressed like thieves they were actually business casual.   Once the couple came in the door they seen the Jacques by their safe with a bag, unbeknownst to them to be full of their shit.  They were shocked and the window of opportunity was only open for a few seconds..  Jacques told them he was the police, a detective a that, and they had just been robbed.  His partner came down with a bag, full of their shit as well.  Jacques asked him if he collected all the evidence and fingerprints and if he was ready.  His partner said yes and Jacques bounced with their shit right in front of them and told them to call the such and such precinct tomorrow after they went over all the evidence and walked out with their shit in front of them.  I though that was a player move on the fly.


Homie was robbing banks, killing, macking new breezies up in his travels.  Jacques went to prison got treated fucked up in their.  He broke out of prison.  Tried to come back a help his partners who helped him break out.  He was a raw frenchman.

Oh yeah its subtitled and in French.  There was a dubbed in english version on the disc, but I only like watching my karate flicks like that and didn't want it to lose its essence.  Good movie though


My rating
4/5

RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE

STR8 BULLSHIT!


Again, I must warn you, I may be bias to the Super White Girl genre movie that this movie fits in but this is wack.  I didn't really like the other ones but they were decent.  This one seemed to be half assed to me.  Like this shit coulda went straight to Syfy channel special movie of the week or something similar.


They are taking this 3D shit to far like that famous played out Matrix camera trick.  Okay,  I admit its dope to see but don't have a week ass verse and end it with a dope punchline and expect me to be like "that's tight".


The story is regular as fuck.   Zombies are taking over. Okay. We gotta save these folks over here.  Okay okay I get it shits fucked up and the day needs to be saved.  What fucks this up for me is the same thing that fucks up all Super White Girl movies for me.  THE BULLSHIT!  I don't know the exact weight on the lead but she isn't more than 115 pounds after eating a #1 from McDonald's and just coming out of a pool with clothes on.   I don't care what special serum this bitch was given I'm not buying this little white girl beating up a 10 foot tall 450 lb beast wielding a hammer that belong on cables on a demolition site.  


And then there's this nigga

He can dodge bullets but not the infamous white boy rush. Really?  You can see 9mm bullets coming but not the angry white boy charging you from 15 feet away. 
Disclaimer:  I may be underestimating the white boy rush.



All in all this is the worst of the Resident Evil franchise in my book.  They don't look like they plan on stopping either.
My Rating
1/5

For Colored Girls

Finally got around to it.

On the fly review Im still watching it


I like to support blacks but goddamn.  Im an hour into this shit and it is without the blow'dest shit I have seen in the last 12 months of my life.  This nigga Tyler Perry has a knack for making some over the top black soap opera shit.


This is the most concentrated niggas-aint-shit-promotion that has been put out, in the last decade, IMO.  Not familiar with where this came from, maybe a play or a perhaps a book(not googling the shit either), but this is crazy.  I don't know where to begin on the craziness.  You got alcoholic wifebeaters, downlow niggas, niggas stealing money from they wives, baby killing niggas, rapists, you think of some negative shit and it might be the next character introduced.


All the women are having or have had major issues with these dudes so far and I am only an hour into the movie

.....to be continued

Continued...

Okay so I finished this movie and he didn't let up with the drama.  I can say that there is one brotha in this movie who didn't have a shady character, the character played by Hill Harper.  Although I was suspecting Hill's character to put up with an illegitimate child by white woman at any time given the direction of this movie. To Tyler's credit this movied took a turn from the normal Tyler Perry styled- bad dark skinned black guy vs. the good wholesome savior light skinned black guy- that is throughout the majority of Tyler's movies.  All the brothas, light and dark, except one, were on some shady shit.  

He comes with the drama on this one.  Like a soap opera and I know that this is, like the title, geared towards (colored) girls.  Women will accept this a lot more than men will.  A lot of the shit I seen in this one had me like "come on nigga".  To put it in a nutshell, I would say you would have to have sat in group rehabilitation meetings for batter women for about a year to run into the shit that is going on with female characters in this movie.  But magically all these women were going through it concurrently and they were all connected in some way.

Not necessarily the men.  Women will be into this one its more focused on issues black women have with their relationship(s) with black men.  I found most of the men characters to be extra'd out like a maf**ka.  About  4 "come on nigga"'s come to mind throughout this movie.


On a brighter side, the acting was on point nothing wrong with the performances in this one.  I think all the women in this one were good in their roles.  Tyler does employ a lot of black talent that seemingly get shelved and/or forgotten about.  That is one thing I love about what he does.   


My favorite of his movies would be Daddy's Girls with Idris Elba.  But this shit... its not it.  The fix for black male negativity should be straight for about 2 years for him after this one.  None of the brothas he puts on for the next 2 years of movie making should have a cough, scuffed sneaker, wrinkle in a shirt, food particle left in teeth, let alone any character flaws in any of his movies for the next 2 years behind this one.

My Rating
2.75/5  The culmination of drama and too many fucked up black male characters shot this one for me, but good acting nonetheless.

As it has been said before "Images Shape Your Reality"

Cyrus

I wasn't feeling this one!

Maybe because I felt it was going to be a good ass comedy. All the ingredients were right for this one 2 of the top Judd Apatow players  John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, and they even found Marisa Tomei. With the track record of Reilly and Hill I thought this was going to be one of those sleeper comedies but something just didn't work out right.  I feel it was the directors fault.


John (Reilly's character) meets Molly (Tomei's character) at a party his ex-wife told him to go to after she caught him masturbating.  John gets with Molly and she has a bit of a secret.  Secret comes out and its her son Cyrus (Hill's character) living at home with her.  He has attachment issues and end up attempting to sabotage their relationship.


All in all I wasn't feeling the movie.  Funny parts here and there but its better shit out there.  You can go back and see Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story with John Reilly that was funny and a sleeper. 


My Rating 
2.5/5  it wasn't it.

Mr. Brooks

OH WHAT A PLEASANT SURPRISE

 Something like a KO punch that snuck past the guard.  That low key spot that doesn't have the biggest crowds but is always poppin.  The seemingly regular breezee who revealed a bad ass body once she got undressed.  

Yeah I liked this one! Okay so I just seen this one.  It came out around 2007 and I don't remember hearing shit about it.  I threw it in the queue, got it, popped it in, and it had me from the gate. 


The breakdown on it goes as a regular guy, no not really regular, let me say.....a man who you wouldn't suspect of doing the shit he does.  Mr Brooks is a highly suscessful businessman and you learn that the first 5 mins into it once he gets a Man of the Year honor in his city .  You also learn that dude is "down low" nut job.  A crazy bastard.  Dude is a schizophrenic/psycho and doesn't show that side of him at all to his family or friends.  The only person who knows who fucking crazy he is Marshall.


You first see Marshall in the car when Mr. Brooks is in a conversation with his wife and BAM some dude is in the backseat.  Not knowing what the movie is about I'm hoping dude isn't going to kill or try to kill anybody because I would have wrote this movie off as bullshit because they shoulda seen this big dude in the backseat.  I didn't give a fuck what the conversation was about "Hey, big creepy nigga in the backseat lets call the cops and not get in the car" is what the scenario shoulda been had that been the case.  

Then Marshall and Mr. Brooks start talking. Mr Brooks' wife isn't in the conversation.  In fact, Mr. Brooks isn't even talking out loud.  This is a conversation he is having in his mind and Marshall is only in existence in Mr. Brooks' mind.

Okay so this niggas crazy. 


Moving on.  Mr. Brooks is a serial killer and Marshall is like that monkey on his back edging him to kill.  Marshall is like the devil and Mr. Brooks has to play himself and the angel to counter Marshall's sinisterosity (Don King moment).  Marshall is like those thirsty internet dudes all they want is ass, except all he wants is the next kill.  Mr Brooks goes to AA meeting to stifle this dude in his head.  Marshall is at the meeting with him talking shit because he doesn't want to be there.  He wants to go on the hunt with his host he's living in.


Like I said CRAZY but not stupid.  Mr Brooks and his alter ego/other personality Marshall and brilliant at what they do.  Something like a perfect tandem.  Whatever Mr Brooks isn't picking up on Marshall is on it.  But Mr. Brooks slips up and gets into a bit of a pickle with some newly acquired baggage and has to elude a little turmoil


I ain't giving up any more info. Wouldn't want to fuck this movie up for any potential viewers because I thought it was dope.  

Don't know why a sequel hasn't been made yet.  But the story would have to be right because the story here was on point.  Wouldn't want to rush that sequel and fuck up the essence on this one.
Good Story.  Good Acting.  Good Direction.


My Rating
5/5

The Next Three Days

Its a thriller.


This is a real touchy rubby dubby what would you do for love type movie.  


You have a couple Lara Brennan and John Brennan(Russel Crowe) doing what couples do.  One day the both of them are chilling at the house playing with their toddler son then you hear KNOCK KNOCK.  John gets the door and the next thing you know the police with their invasive asses bum rush the house and bump his broad up for murder. 


She goes to jail and the next thing you know you see him and his son who is at least 5 years older now going to visit her in prison.  So her ass got bumped up for murder and I think the bitch did it.  They showed a clip with her getting into it with her boss and the next thing you know the boss(a woman) catches an extinguisher to the head and shes outta there.  So her ass exhausted her appeals and isn't getting out.  Shits looking bleak.


Worry not, this is where shit gets interesting.  John who has an issue of letting Lara's ass go then hollas at some ex-prison escapee who gained fame from him circumventing skills.  So he gets some info out of dude(small appearance by Liam Neeson-Taken) for a price and he gets to thinking.  Thinking about what?  Well, breaking his wife outta prison.  Thats right he is going for the gusto.  

This dude starts plotting and planning and studying all types of shit and comes up with the master plan to break his broad outta prison.  Stupid and crazy as hell but dude actually feels it is absolutely necessary for him to free his wife from a life behind bars.  Ahhhhhh and that sweet.


Whats even more blowed is he actually does the shit.  It didn't go quite as smooth as the plan but he did it.  Now all he has to do is stay free and alive.

Replacing her ass would've been whole lot easier but wouldn't have made for an a interesting movie


My Rating 
3/5 ....Shit was disappointing and kinda weak