Alex Corey Reviews!!

The saga to X-Men continues as we get closer and closer to the release of Logan . Luckily, Origins: Wolverine didn't see to the end of this franchise. This new trilogy mixed in with The Wolverin e was able to infuse energy back into the X-Men  we know and love and those are the films we'll be discussing. Here's Part 2 of the X-Men Retrospective: X-Men: First Class (2011) -  Folks, this is how you do a prequel. This is one of the best prequels of all time and definitely was one of the best in the entire franchise. Like the original trilogy, the casting is still flawless. James McAvoy as Charles Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Magneto, Nicholas Hoult as Beast and Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique were all brilliant resembling the characters we know and love, but they also brought something new and different as younger versions of these characters. I think an unsung hero, well, really a villain, was Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw, who gave his character great screen presenc...

Hey gang! So with the release of Logan approaching us in the next couple weeks, I thought for the fun of it to go back and revisit the films that started it all in the X-Men universe. I didn't actually have plans of reviewing these films, but I had a sudden knack of watching these films again and just getting my thoughts out before the big release. Starting this retrospective off I'll be discussing the original X-Men trilogy and X-Men Origins: Wolverine . Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show, bub! X-Men (2000) - What boggles my mind is the fact that this was one of the first films to kick off the trend of Hollywood developing big budget comic book movies. It proved that even comic book properties that aren’t as well-known as Batman and Superman can be made into blockbuster films. Granted, this doesn’t discount Blade , released in 1998, but it seems X-Men made more of an impact garnering a larger and wider audience than the R-Rated Blade . Now, as far as X-Men goe...

*Directed by Chad Stahelski *Starring Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ruby Rose, Laurence Fishburne, Common, and John Leguizamo THE PLOT: After taking care of some unfinished business revolving around his past, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) decides to retire from this chaotic life as a hitman. Then, all of a sudden, a former ally forcefully persuades him to go off on assignment, which leads him back into the life he deemed himself to walk away from. However, this assignment has repercussions, which causes Wick to fight for his life in light of some very unexpected troubles. I have written a review for the first John Wick film and it took me a little while to finally see it, but to sum up my thoughts I really loved that movie. I thought it was an action film done right with a story that you could be really invested in and there was a very solid lead performance in Keanu Reeves. Seeing that film felt incredibly refreshing to see an action film done with such ca...

*Directed by Chris McKay *Starring Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Ralph Fiennes, Rosario Dawson, and Zach Galifinakis THE PLOT: Batman (Will Arnett) is always awesome at being the best vigilante in Lego Gotham City, but his personal life isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. He’s lonely and grieving the loss of his deceased family and not ready to start a family of his own. However, an orphan named Dick Grayson (Michael Cera) enters his life, which reluctantly makes Batman a father and they have to team up to face off against the evil forces led by a villain who's the worst of the worst in all of Gotham, not according to Batman, The Joker (Zach Galifianakis). Now, I was a big fan of 2014’s The Lego Movie . It was a very entertaining, energetic and all around hilarious movie. I still really love watching it to this day and with The Lego Batman Movie being released I was incredibly optimistic and excited to see how this high energy adventure and hilarious tone that worked for The L...

*Directed by Chad Stahelski and David Leitch *Starring Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allens, Willem Dafoe, Ian McShane and John Leguizamo How’s it going, guys? So I feel when the perfect opportunity comes I want to get out reviews for films that pertain to a new release. Like if a sequel to a film is about to release and it’s an anticipated film I want to see and I enjoy, or love, the original, I’ll try and review the previous film/films before the next installment. So, in honor of this week’s release of John Wick Chapter 2 , I thought what better way to prepare for the next installment then to go back and watch the first film. Here we go! THE PLOT: A former hitman named John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is on the loose to seek vengeance after a few criminals decide to strike and kill his pet dog given to him from his recently deceased wife. Unfortunately, when this film released in late 2014 I was not able to get around to seeing this film in the theaters. I tried to see ...

*Directed by Malik Vitthal *Starring John Boyega, Rotimi, Glenn Plummer, De'aundre Bonds, Ethan Bonds, Justin Bonds, and Keke Palmer THE PLOT: A young man named Bambi (John Boyega) is finally released from prison after serving years of crime with his family. He’s dirt poor living in a car within the projects and not wanting to be involved with crimes despite his uncle forcing it upon him. He has a desire to have a changed life while also raising his younger son. He’s passionate about pursuing writing yet he deals with the difficulties of poverty and finding a rightful job to provide for himself and his son.  My first exposure to this film was actually a couple years ago when John Boyega posted a teaser for the film on his Instagram page. I do remember actually thinking it looked solid but didn’t think much of actually seeing it because I think the caption of that video mentioned the film only being played at a certain film festival that year. I don’t remember what festival i...