Mac's Movies

UK Release Date:   21 August 2013 Certification:  15 Director:  Neill Blomkamp Cast:  Alice Braga, Sharlto Copley, Matt Damon, William Fichtner, Jodie Foster, Diego Luna, Wagner Moura Rating: 29 % One of Matt Damon's worst movies.  Review: Elysium is one of the worst movies I've watched in the last year. To put it kindly, the movie is terrible.  Genuinely the most appealing factor is that due to the cast members I really wanted to watch  The Martian , The Dark Knight and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story .  The plot is so lazy and is just basic storytelling. More than 100 years in the future - the wealthy live on a space station whilst the poor still reside on Earth. It's an ok premise at best but the movie took way too long to set up the story leaving me bored by the time the action kicked in, which in all honestly was a huge CGI mess.  Matt Damon is one of my favourite actors, featuring in countless incredible movies, so it really frustrated m...

UK Release Date: 26 December 2007 Certification: 15 Director: Francis Lawrence Cast: Alice Braga, Will Smith, Willow Smith, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson-Whitfield Rating: 76%   I Am Legend is based on the 1954 book written by Richard Matheson.  Review:  This blog post is written in week 5 of the lockdown in the UK due to the coronavirus pandemic. I wanted to watch, and review, Francis Lawrence's 2007 I Am Legend, starring Will Smith.  In I Am Legend Will Smith stars as military scientist, Robert Neville one of the few survivors left in an apocalyptic world created by a deadly virus. Although immune to the virus, Neville isn't alone in a seemingly desolate New York City. Mutant victims of the virus - 'Dark-seekers' - lurk in the shadows, transformed into carnivorous monsters.  The parallels with the coronavirus pandemic have lead Will Smith to say that he "felt responsible for a lot of the misinformation about the novel coronavirus." Wil...