video review : Hell Or High Water

video review : Hell Or High Water

The Tanner and Marcus characters; a bank robber and Texas Ranger; are a bit over the top. It’s their partners; one in crime, the other in justice; that serve as their relatively normal counterparts if there is a such thing as normal people in Texas.

Hell Or High Water is a game of cat and mouse that’s both fun and mildly riveting from the start. That’s mainly due to the plot’s balance of humor and tension money-rolled with a tender backstory that’ll have you rooting for the purported bad guys.

my rating : 4 of 5

2016

video review : Horrible Bosses 2

video review : Horrible Bosses 2

This movie isn’t horrible. It’s as okay as the first one. The title makes less sense now as it refers not to the people the main characters work for but the guys themselves. Nick, Kurt and Dale have become potential entrepreneurs by quitting their jobs and inventing a bath product called The Shower Buddy.

The opening scene has them on the set of a morning TV show to promote it. What happens from there takes the plot into an assortment of wacky twists and turns, all for the sake of comedy. Is it funny? Sometimes. But not nearly as often as it tries to be. Is it stupid? Usually. But so was the original.

my rating : 3 of 5

2014