F1 Is More Fun Than Jurassic World Rebirth & M3GAN 2.0 And Other Reviews
Dan Mullan. Getty Images.F1, M3GAN 2.0, Ballerina and Jurassic World Rebirth are not trying to be brilliant thought-provoking movies but F1 is the one I can recommend. Reviews of those and one of the absolute worst movies of the year below:
F1 looks and sounds amazing. It has a strong cast led by a very charming Brad Pitt. It seems to care a great deal about everything…except the story. I don’t know if there is a movie this year that is so riddled with cliches.
For all of its story flaws, Joseph Kosinski has now absolutely become one of the best action directors working today. Between this and Top Gun: Maverick, he has an incredible ability of making you feel that you aren’t just watching the action but you are IN the action.
Are great actors like Pitt, Javier Bardem and Kerry Condon wasting their time with such a thoughtless story? I don’t think this movie would have been much different with lesser actors. This isn’t about the people, it’s about the race scenes.
This is a good summer movie. It’s exciting and is escapism junk food. With a better script, it could have been great. It checked nearly every other box.
F1: B
Jurassic World Rebirth was so safe and predictable that I found myself rooting for the bad guys and dinosaurs by the end. I just wanted to feel something. When you look at how smart, scary and morally interesting the first movie was and compare that to the blandness of these movie, you really start to question evolution.
Director Gareth Edwards, who also helmed the great Rogue One, somehow made this. It just feels like a waste of time for everyone involved especially Mahershala Ali and Scarlett Johansson, who are both talented actors.
This isn’t a bad movie. The CGI dinosaurs mostly look real enough. It didn’t feel cheap, just kinda empty. I know this will make a lot of money regardless but if you're going to go through all the trouble of making a big movie like this, why not make something interesting?
Jurassic World Rebirth: C
Ballerina is a movie that can do one thing well and it has the awareness to know that. The problem is that becomes painfully redundant by the end of the movie.
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That good thing is very impressive fight choreography. Director Len Wiseman has a strong sense for these scenes and you never lose track of who is fighting who. Many movies have muddled fight scenes and this is not one of them. Credit should also go to Ana De Armas, who looked like she did a lot of her own stunts.
The problem is by the 100th killing or so, I was bored. I don’t think the John Wick world where every location is a front for contract killing, is very interesting. The story in Ballerina is painfully thin.
I understand many people go to these John Wick/Ballerina movies solely for the fight scenes. That’s not enough for me to find this compelling for 125 minutes.
Ballerina: C
The first M3GAN worked because it was so weird and funny. It always knew it was a Child’s Play rip-off. That and a couple decent scares led the original to be an entertaining watch.
This is not the case with M3GAN 2.0. It’s far too long with a completely needless third act. Instead of a being a funny yet scary movie, the sequel exists to lecture us on the dangers of relying on technology, which they remind us again and again and again.
The new villain was a total bore and the relationship between Allison Williams and her niece just felt redundant this time around.
There’s a reason they never had Freddy or Jason ever become good in those movies. It would make them boring.
M3GAN 2.0: C-
Bride Hard is a movie so awful, that you feel badly for the people in it. When Stephen Dorff showed up halfway through, I winced. He’s a good actor who deserves so much better. Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who just an Oscar (!!!) is in this! Though to be fair, everyone but war criminals deserve better than this movie.
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It’s an action/comedy that is neither. How did Simon West, a man who directed Con Air make something this stupid and sloppy? There are multiple continuity issues throughout. People have makeup in one frame and none in the next. Rebel Wilson is drinking out of a cup and in the next frame, the cup is gone. This happens multiple times.
I’ve now seen 79 movies that have come out in 2025 and Rebel Wilson is in 2 of the 3 worst (she’s also in Juliet & Romeo). This is such an unfunny movie that if you enjoyed it, you’re someone I’d never want to meet. If Bride Hard was made for basic cable, you’d wonder what happened to TNT’s budget. It’s a cheap, lazy, painfully unfunny movie that everyone should avoid.
Since you had to read about Bride Hard, here's a palette cleanse:
2025
1)Sinners
2)Presence
3)The Life Of Chuck
4)Black Bag
5)The Ballad Of Wallis Island
6)Warfare
7)Friendship
8)Mission Impossible 8
9)28 Years Later
10)Novocaine
11)Final Destination 6
12)The Amateur
13)Drop
14)Dangerous Animals
15)Death Of A Unicorn
16)The Accountant 2
17)The Damned
18)One Of Them Days
19)Materialists
20)Lilo & Stitch
21)Paddington 3
22)Thunderbolts
23)F1
24)Clown In A Cornfield
25)Bring Her Back
26)Hell Of A Summer
27)Karate Kid 6
28)Fight Or Flight
29)Valiant One
30)Elio
31)Rule Breakers
32)Heart Eyes
33)Mickey 17
34)The Surfer
35)Last Breath
36)Flight Risk
37)Minecraft
38)Den Of Thieves 2
39)Dogman
40)Companion
41)JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH
42)BALLERINA
43)A Working Man
44)The Last Rodeo
45)Shadow Force
46)The Alto Knights
47)The Penguin Lessons
48)The Chosen Part 2
49)Looney Tunes
50)Opus
51)M3GAN 2.0
52)Becoming Led Zeppelin
53)Captain America: BNW
54)Until Dawn
55)The Chosen Part 1
56)Riff Raff
57)Inheritance
58)The Chosen Part 3
59)The Wedding Banquet
60)The Legend Of Ochi
61)Night Of The Zoopocalypse
62)The Phoenician Scheme
63)Sneaks
64)Ash
65)The King Of Kings
66)The Friend
67)Dan Da Dan 2
68)Snow White
69)The Unbreakable Boy
70)Brave The Dark
71)Wolf Man
72)Hurry Up Tomorrow
73)The Monkey
74)Love Hurts
75)The Last Supper
76)Woman In The Yard
77)BRIDE HARD
78)Juliet & Romeo
79)In The Lost Lands