exam review

i went into exam being told that it was a "mind fuck" by an online community of Netflix recommendations. it is not, the exam is a low budget movie about eight people trapped in a room told to answer one question but the papers they are given has nothing written on it. their prize is merely a job at a fancy company which is nice but not worth murdering people over. the film progresses edging toward an answer for all the questions it makes you ask and then gives the audience one of the dumbest twist's i have seen.

this film is very reminiscent of cube, with none of the fun. the only thing the movie the exam does correctly is make me want to kill myself. the film can be written by any idiot all you have to do is put characters is a confining situation make them go crazy and as they all slowly die off reveal a dumb twist then cut to credits.

Jack Reacher review

Jack reacher is a film that doesn’t try to do anything unique and it still fails. The basic premise is that jack reacher (tom cruise) is a drifter who is called upon by a man wrongly accused of murder to prove his innocence. The film relies entirely on the fact that everyone other than tom cruise is an idiot. For example at one point when two men attempt to attack jack reacher they both smash everything around him with crowbars multiple times and while bringing the crowbar back one hits the other in the head. The movie is like an unfunny three stooges at times.

The film is so ridiculously predictable and clichéd that I was waiting for the next action scene during the dull dialogue but even those were awful. The film had only two action scene and both were hard to follow and nothing made since, like tom cruise almost killing someone with a gun deciding not to and instead have a fist fight which results in tom cruise killing the guy. Another scene prominently featured in trailers is where jack reacher is being chased by the police and escapes into a crowd and members of the crowd hide him and give him a hat allowing him to escape. Why would 20 people in a crowd hide someone who is being chased by the police, they have no idea that he is a good guy and could have helped a serial killer escape.

Jack reacher is a movie with glimpses of well done cinema in it. (one scene where jack has a sniper and rolls over and the camera moves with it) but it is bogged down by a barrage of clichés and characters making bad decisions that the entire time you will wish you saw a better movie.