The Forger

Rating: 2.5/5

John Travolta is out of jail to live with his ill son before it's too late, but for every favor there is a debt. Cartels don't do favors for free, we've experienced that in a lot of movies. So Travolta has a task of stealing a very important and old painting of Monet to pay his debt. His old man and his son wants to help him do it, so in order to avoid spoiling the movie for you i'm gonna stop here. 
It's actually one of the "that's not bad" movies, not a great one but satisfying enough. Travolta actually, if you avoid looking at the annoying goatee, plays the role neatly and without a glitch, he's the right man for this job. The forger might not be a blockbuster of a movie or a nail bitter thriller, but it will interest you for an hour and a half. 

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Rating: 4/5

Exodus Gods and Kings recites the actions that happened during the rule of the Pharaoh Ramses when Moses, a Hebrew man, is hidden by his sister miriam from the Egyptians upon his birth to save him from getting killed and later found by the Pharaoh's sister who take care of him and the rest is obvious. But one day he is alerted by the Hebrews that he is one of them, and that where it all started. Moses as we all know is the man sent by God himself to liberate his chosen people from the slavery of the Egyptians and get them to Canaan the promise land. 
At first i thought "here we go Ridley Scott is going to make this movie batman in disguise and here he is Christian Bale to take center stage in this." But i was wrong. The beginning of the movie does no justice to what follows. One can think that the story deviates from what was written in the Holy Bible, but as the time passes he discovers that it actually return to the right path in a smooth way. I'm sure at that point no one can take his eyes of the screen. It's so captivating and intriguing. 
At first i was not excited to know that Christian Bale is the star of a film that revolves around a religious story, but as the movie goes along, i was fascinated by how well he plays the role of Moses and how an amazing actor he really is. I mean we all saw his skills in the Batman movies, i admired him a lot in Prestige alongside Hugh Jackman, he put his heart out in American Psycho and 3:10 to Yuma but i was really stupefied to know how well he can adapt to any sort of movies. And i must say i really liked the effort put in by Joel Edgerton in the Ramses role. It's not an easy role to play, and it is the most important alongside Moses. 
Exodus Gods and Kings surpassed my expectations and ticked all the right boxes for me, i can watch it like a hundred times more and not get bored, it that sort of movies that don't come along that often. I advise anybody that wants to do something really useful and exciting for two hours and a half to watch this movie and u'll be sure u'll get entertained for every cent that u pay.      

Jobs (2013)

Rating: 2/5

The first thought that crossed my mind was omg why Ashton Kutcher in the leading role??? Then after watching the first minutes i got my answer. He did it! I didn't understand how but he managed to pull it off surprisingly. Of course i'm not questioning his acting abilities but i see him as a pure comedy actor. Now let's get to the movie itself. First of all i kind of liked the fact that it narrated the university days of steve jobs, the hard working days in his parent's garage to apple in the end. But what shocked me was the fact that at the beginning it seems to be an anti-jobs movie, if you watch it you'll see why, i'm not gonna spoil it for you. Then it gets a little bit dull and slow so you find yourself counting the minutes at the end. The movie can be shorter, some minutes are just added for no reason. 
Overall the movie is not that bad, Ashton Kutcher nails it! still can't believe it, and although i'm not a fan of jobs but the movie tickles your curiosity. It's watchable but not that great.

Horrible Bosses 2

Rating: 2/5

Horrible bosses 1 was a good movie, not a great one but just fine to extract a few laughs out of you. It had that originalty of a new idea on the block and it worked like a charm. Unfortunately for the second installement it got lost a little bit on the way. What steadied the ship was the ingenuity of its actors, Jason Sudeikis is a true master of comedy, he can make a bad movie a good one. Charlie Day has his own style of goofiness mixed with spontaneity. Jason Bateman is the goody two shoes kind of guy, Jennifer Aniston the sex freak and here comes Chris Pine the charming boy to play the kid of a rich man who is targeted by our trio.
Horrible bosses 2 will get you to laugh from time to time but it does not reach the heights of its predecessor.

Unbroken

Rating: 2/5

Unbroken is Angelina Jolie's first movie as a director... so we have to watch it. Sadly there's a but. For a first movie it's not that bad, and a nice try, but there is some plot holes. For example how a person stranded on a boat in the middle of the sea would grow a goatee only and not have a beard, and how will he have a clean shave at the camp he was captured at? Did the Japanese give him a Gillette fusion pro glide? And how on earth when Louis Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) throws a bandage soaked of blood did the sharks avoid it? In real life sharks would rage like hell at first site of blood near it, it would unleash pure rage.
Let's put these minor things aside and move along. Sadly i can't say i enjoyed the movie, it's actions are at a very slow rate, the acting is very simple, although there is not a star name in the movie therefore it's understandable, the message is well received but the movie for me was far from enjoyable. 
It narrates the brutal acts of war in the best way, the actors lost a significant amount of weight to play the role of war prisoners perfectly. 
For Angelina it's a good start, not a great one but yet promising. 
I think we can expect something a lot better from her in the future, i'm not saying the movie is bad, but it's not the blockbuster of a film one would expect from a star name making its debut in directing and also in a war movie, that's not easy for sure, it's the kind of movies that demands a lot, so we'll see what Angelina has in her bag for us in the future.   

Interstellar

Rating: 3.5/5

Interstellar is not your typical movie night film. You can't invite friends over to your place for a movie and some beer and select this movie to watch it. Interstellar needs you to watch alone all by yourself to think deeply into what it offers. This movie offers us a new dimension to what human life can be after 100 years or even more. It offers a solution to save mankind and find a replacement to planet earth. Of course if one has to choose it's the final decision one can select, but nonetheless it's viable. Mathew Mcconaughey (Cooper) delivers the best he has and what we always expect from him like he always do. The movie wouldn't be the same without him. The veteran Michael Caine, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and Matt Damon all of them work together to gift us the perfect sci-fi film of the year. It may be all imaginary, pure fiction, undoable and out of the equation, but Interstellar offers us a way to think, food for thought and a path to consider. Maybe earth wasn't meant to be the planet we will die on. Who knows...

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