There's Real Potential In Bad Samaritan That Fails To Get Realized

Despite being a dopey B-movie thriller from the director of Geostorm, there's actually an interesting sociopolitical idea at the center of Bad Samaritan that deserves a more thoughtful movie to inhabit. When one boils down Bad Samaritan to its most basic elements, what we have here is a cat and mouse game whose protagonist is an Irish immigrant while our villain is a white male American who acts arrogantly to everyone who comes near to me and who has his status as a foe reinforced by how he threatens to report immigrant workers to immigration services. This is an intriguing hero/villain dynamic built on real-world elements that, unfortunately, becomes a background detail (and one undercut in effectiveness by certain elements in the film we'll talk about later) for a far more generic thriller.

The First Episodes For The New Ducktales Show Feel Rushed But Also Have A Sense Of Fun To Them

We're only a few years into this recent trend of bringing back popular TV shows from years past (Full House, Mystery Science Theater 3000, the upcoming Will & Grace continuation) and yet I'm still shocked it took Disney this long to get a reboot of Ducktales going. The companies so focused on enhancing and continuing their brand names, you'd think something with an ardent fan base that stars some of the companies most popular characters would have gotten a rejiggering eons ago. Well, here we are anyway, with a new version of Ducktales that looks to captivate new generations of kiddos just as the original Ducktales became a perennial staple of my generation's childhood.

"Don't Be The Hero With Me": Jessica Jones Season 1 Episode 1 "AKA Ladies Night" Review

It's fairly obvious that, in translating Hal Jordan to the big screen in the 2011 motion picture/abomination Green Lantern, someone involved in the project saw how successful Tony Stark had become and decided that some of Tonys most distinctive character traits (namely that of his snark and cockiness) should be implanted into Jordan. This, of course, didn't work, for one simple reason; Stark uses his wisecracks as a defense mechanism of sorts, a way to combat the forces around him that he's all too aware he can't control. Plus, underneath all his flippant remarks is a good person, one who, in the first Iron Man movie, plainly says that protecting people with his Iron Man technology needs to be his only purpose in life.