March Recommendation: Ford v. Ferrari

                     





                       I know I'm late on this latest review even though this movie has came out on Blu-Ray and DVD, and despite the fact that we're all under house arrest due to the Coronavirus. But for the sake of wanting to talk about good movies I figured I want to talk about this latest great racing movie. James Mangold famous for films like Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma and Logan comes a movie about one of the biggest rivalries in auto racing, Ford v. Ferrari staring both Matt Damon and Christian Bale as two great friends with different views but come together in one of the highest endurance races of all time. The 24 hours of Le Mans is the Super Bowl of auto racing where you must drive a French country road way for a whole day. But during the mid-sixties Enzo Ferrari was the king of Le Man until Henry Ford II decided to challenge him for the title. This brings us to this incredible story of friendship and beating the odds at both sides of the race.
                      During the mid-sixties Ferrari was the top sports car that everyone wants to have, but Ferrari was during going bankrupt during his chase of perfection. Henry Ford II decides to make him an offer in buying him out but with no one agreeing to each other's terms. Ford decides to challenge Ferrari himself at the 24 hrs. of Le Mans. Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) the only American whoever raced at Le Mans and one in 1959, becomes Ford's number one recruit in making this challenge happen. Shelby enlists the help of his closest friend Ken Miles (Christian Bale), the ill-tempered British Driver who has a must for the perfect car. With time coming short both friends must break all the odds furthermore the laws of physics in order to beat the unstoppable Ferrari at his own game while holding off the annoying corporation that is Ford Motor. And along the way both Ken and Carroll find out that friendship always win int the end no matter how different you are.
                      I know that it’s a nightmare despite the fact that we're all trapped in our own homes and can't go out to get some fresh air. But for the last day of March, I figured I pick a film of last year so you can have a chance to watch and have a great time, since all of our movie theaters are gone. To be honest what really makes this film great is the fact that they used very less of CGI in this movie and that they used more of the driver in the film then they do with the cars. And thank god High School and College history didn't teach me anything because I would not of been intrigued with this movie although I would despite the fact that it has Matt Damon and Batman aka Christian Bale two of the best actors on the planet. James Mangold director of the film does a great job of bringing this history to life moreover showing a epic side to the racing world at the time to an emotional conclusion to the end of the race. Also he does a great job of showing these character both the emotional side and the excitement side when it comes to racing in these cars and why they continue to do it despite the fact that their likely to die. Furthermore if you haven't seen any of Mangold earlier films like Logan and 3:10 to Yuma, then I would start your movie watching soon and fast. Both Damon and Bale does an excellent job of embodying these legendary racers also provide some great chemistry between them. So since we're all know what if feels like to be in a World War II POW camp by now. And if you’re into a movie to watch in this darkest time in our lives I'd say you need to check out Ford v. Ferrari because hands down I rank this as one of the best movies about auto racing in years.

 

Sonic The Hedgehog

         Yes, I know how late this review is, and yes there really no point in releasing it now because sonic is probably not at your theater. But there is a point that I have been going through my head that until now I wasn’t sure how to express it.  Going to this movie I had the review already typed in my head, something about how sonic dumps James Marsden at the altar, and Jim Carrey should just keep doing his strange TV show that I avoid at all cost.  That was until the lights turned off courts opened, and I was impressed.  I tried to salvage the things I wanted to write going from draft to draft and then it hit me. Honesty is the best policy and that honest opinion is this movie is great. 
The movie opens with Sonic as a little kid running all over the place.  After a quick action sequence, we inter quickly were sent to Green Hills, Montana were Sonic is leaving unseen amongst the people of the small town.  He latches onto James Marsden’s charter Tom and his wife Maddie watching their lives.  As Sonic becomes frustrated, he accidentally causes a blackout witch to bring in Jim Carrey as Dr. Robotnic. 
So here it is this movie is awesome there no way of jumping around it or writing 5 sentences to explain it.  The action is good the special effects are top-notch, and I kneel at Jim Carrey feet and say I am sorry I doubted your o king.  I was laughing in my seat watching Jim Carrey going crazy in a turn back the clock to 1994.  James Marsden has his first leading man movie.  But the real story is the effects of this movie are good after getting off to a bad start in that first trailer. So, all and all since this movie is almost out of theaters and you’re looking for a night out with your kids give this one a look. Three stars or 7 out of 10 or two thumbs up you get the idea.

The Invisible Man

                    I know this sounds very Ron Swanson-ish but when I first saw that they’re going to be another movie about the Invisible Man, I thought to myself "yeah I really don't go for more remakes about the monster movie genre". Unfortunately, when I click on the trailer to watch it and realize that the Invisible Man is an abusive ex-boyfriend my eyes widen and I said to myself "Stop, you had me at abusive ex-boyfriend. And sure, we may have seen this before in other films but defiantly nothing like this, I mean come on a psycho boyfriend stalking you and your invisible, to me that makes perfect sense and if you don't think that's brilliant than there's something wrong with you. I will also go to great lengths to say that this would be a film that Alfred Hitchcock would love if he was still alive.

                    Cecilia Kass (Elizabeth Moss) is somewhat believing that her late, abusive ex-boyfriend is not dead. Though evidence shows that he did kill himself, she still doesn't understand why. Even though it feels good to be rid of him, Cecilia still feels that somebody is stalking her. And yet no one closets to her believes her either. But going to her ex's house she begins to realize that he found a way be invisible. Now with no one backing her story Cecilia takes drastic measure to put a stop to this madness before anyone in her life becomes hurt or killed. 

                     Hands down one of the best films I've seen this new decade, what makes this latest adaption to the Invisible Man amazing is the fact that most people who've experienced abuse in their lives, can understand this kind of fear, furthermore isn't to gimmicky in terms of the visual effects. Leigh Whannell, who a lot of people specifically me have obviously forgotten, co-wrote the very first and only great Saw film, the one where him and Carey Elwes are chained in a store room for the whole movie. Now even I feel bad in not recognizing this man because he deserves tremendous credit for creating in environment where we as an audience can relate to a person whose gone through these abusive experience's moreover creates great suspense moments where there's not a whole lot of music to terrorize the viewer and that's a lesson a lot of horror/suspense films kind of fail at, is not setting up the viewer to be scared when they least expect it, and that's something that Whannell has done a great job at. Even the camera work he does in the movie is excellent because even I was lost in where he was going with some of the jump scares, so huge bonus points for him in setting up those scares. Elisabeth Moss does a tremendous job as well portraying a character who is at first so scared to come out of the house but yet overcomes it at first but soon feels like she gone insane through the course of the film because no one believes her, and she does that in the best possible way she can. For someone got her big break in the Mad Men series I must give her props in holding a movie together despite that show being slow in the first season. A lot of people may be concerned this film maybe to gory with too much blood despite there's only two moments of blood, but I'm going to say that you don't have to worry about that and really think of this film as a movie that Hitchcock would of made into a movie if he was still alive, and that's something that Leigh Whannell did perfectly, was in essence treating it kind of like a film noir, suspenseful movie. Now I'm not going to tell you how to waste your money, but this was an excellent film from start to finish, and hands down one of the best films to start off this new decade so I would not waste time in checking this great film out in theaters. Also, if you found a way to make yourself invisible please try to use your powers for good and don't use your invisible powers for pepping on good looking model's just saying.