Average Joe's Movie Reviews

Annihilation was written and directed by Alex Garland and is the direct adaption Jeff VanderMeer's trilogy Southern Reach. Annihilation stars Natalie Portman as biologist, Lena, who signs up for a dangerous mission leading her into an environmental disaster zone where rules of nature don't apply. Let me be honest and open right up front. I loved Annihilation . Quite a bit, almost everything about this movie was unexpected and masterfully filmed. I will say if you are not a fan of Science Fiction this movie will be very challenging to watch. It is by far a strong genre film. As a fan of Science Fiction I really found this movie to be exciting and a fun watch. My first thoughts on Annihilation were hard to form as this is a film that really pushed me in my suspension of disbelief and willingness to go where the director was taking me. After I bought into the vision that Garland had for this film, I was swept away by a very fun and exciting movie that immediately left me a...

Black Panther was written and directed by Ryan Coogler and follows the story of T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) as he returns home to claim his mantle of King of his beloved land of Wakanda after the death of his father. I was beyond excited for the movie when hearing Ryan Coogler was going to be directing this film. After his work on movies like Creed and Fruitvale Station he quickly grew to be a director I loved. I am also a pretty big Black Panther fan as well. I was always fascinated with him growing up and was a pretty big fan of his comic story arc of The Man Without Fear where he took over defending Hells Kitchen from Daredevil. I had a lot of expectations for this film going in probably more than I have had for other marvel films the story lines available and the directors prior work. Leaving the theater I was very satisfied with the movie we got. I don't think this film could have been done better, it immediately grew to the top of my favorite Marvel films. ...

The Cloverfield Paradox was directed by Julius Onah and is the 3rd installment of the Cloverfield Franchise. It is no secret I am a big fan of the previous Cloverfield films, 10 Cloverfield Lane being one of my favorite films of 2016, so watching the announcement trailer during the Super Bowl was easily the highlight of my evening. After watching the film, I was immediately perplexed by how I felt about this film. Part of me loved it and the other part was a little hesitant to dive into this movie fully. I think the reason for this is this movie is beyond abstract, it is a Sci-Fi horror movie that doesn't deal with conventional Sci-Fi Horror tropes. The Cloverfield Paradox is by far the most far-fetched on the Cloverfield movies.. Which is saying something because the original Cloverfield was a little out there. So as a viewer if you jump on the crazy train along with Onah you will be in for a very fun and exciting ride. Let's dive deep into what worked best for ...