Average Joe's Movie Reviews

Official Synopsis:  In the year 2045, the real world is a harsh place. The only time Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) truly feels alive is when he escapes to the OASIS, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spends their days. In the OASIS, you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone-the only limits are your own imagination. The OASIS was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance), who left his immense fortune and total control of the Oasis to the winner of a three-part contest he designed to find a worthy heir. When Wade conquers the first challenge of the reality-bending treasure hunt, he and his friends-aka the High Five-are hurled into a fantastical universe of discovery and danger to save the OASIS. Review Summary: Ready Player One is an exciting and well directed film that delivered with strong and perfectly crafted action sequences. Ready Player One suffer's from over reliance on nostalgia and unnecessary narration that bogs...

Director: Steven S. DeKnight Starring: John Boyega, Charlie Day, Scott Eastwood and Jing Tian Run Time: 1h 51 min MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for sequences of Sci-Fi viloence and action, and some language Grade: C+ Synopsis: Jake Pentecost is a once-promising Jaeger pilot whose legendary father gave his life to secure humanity's victory against the monstrous Kaiju. Jake has since abandoned his training only to become caught up in a criminal underworld. But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear throug h cities and bring the world to its knees, Jake is given one last chance by his estranged sister, Mako Mori, to live up to his father's legacy. Review Summary: Pacific Rim Uprising was an extremely bland movie,that failed to prove to be anything special throughout it's short and poorly paced run time. However, Pacific Rim Uprising did deliver in entertaining and well directed action sequences. 

Game Night was directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein and stars Jason Bateman along side Rachael McAdams as an eccentric couple, Max and Annie, who host a weekly game night with their close friends. When Max's brother arranges a murder mystery party - complete with fake thugs and federal agents - goes wrong all participants of the game night think it's just apart of the game, but soon find out the kidnapping and crimes associated with the game are real. This leads the group of friends into uncharted territory as they attempt to solve the real world crimes happening.  Game Night is an exceptionally funny and creative movie that had the audience in my theater laughing the entire duration of the film. The vision created by Daley and Goldstein was something that really showed strong in Game Night , after their lousy paring with the remake of Vacation I was a little hesitant to engage this film fully. This directing duo did prove me wrong, in the best way possib...