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Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) - Movie Review

So we have yet another movie based on the popular video game franchise 'Hitman'. This could have been called anything and it wouldn't have mattered as it's nothing like the game. Instead of sneaking or trying to take out enemies quietly, Agent 47 here just goes in guns blazing like Rambo. The acting was bad. The actor who played Agent 47 was serviceable at best in some scenes while being bad in most of the others. The girl was lame and Spock (Zachary Quinto) followed that suite. The story was meh. Also, movie named 'Hitman Agent 47' focused all of its time on a girl rather than the actual agent. The action, terrible. The fight scenes were horribly choreographed and employed extremely rapid zoom cuts, which was annoying as shit. And the car scenes were filled with really fake looking CGI. Not to mention that the time between action scenes was just in your face exposition. The only stuff that I would say I liked was very VERY few bits where Agent 47 felt like...

Warcraft (2016) - Review

Warcraft is a video game adaptation of the popular game series of the same name. In order to escape their dying world, the orcs invade the world of Azeroth, while the inhabitants of that world, namely the humans, try to stop their efforts. Now I have never played World of Warcraft or any other game in the franchise except for Warcraft 3, and that too only online matches with my friends, meaning I have little to no knowledge about this universe, its lore, its characters etc. Having said that, I was still interested in watching this movie as I just love fantasy worlds and this looked like another good one. From the very first scene to the very last, this movie was RUSHED AS HELL. There was literally no breathing room, none at all. This is the core reason for all of my problems with the movie. It felt like they had the material to make two movies, or even a trilogy, but crammed it all into one 2 hour long movie. The movie just went from scene to scene, locations to location, witho...