Per the film’s official synopsis, “In The Tomorrow War, the world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester (Chris Pratt). Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist (Yvonne Strahovski) and his estranged father (J.K. Simmons) in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.” Directed by Chris McKay, in his live-action directorial debut, the film also stars Betty Gilpin, Keith Powers, Mike Mitchell, and Sam Richardson.

The Tomorrow War was originally scheduled for release on December 25, 2020, but it was pulled from the schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was later rescheduled for July 23, 2021, taking the release date of Mission: Impossible 7, but it was pulled from the schedule once again. In January of this year, Amazon Studios entered talks to acquire the film for a reported $200 million. The deal was solidified when Amazon announced that the film will now hit Prime Video on July 2, 2021.

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During a talk with “Geek Culture,” Cena said that he can’t wait to come face to face with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in a future Fast film if that possibility arises. The two have met up in the ring as wrestlers but Cena wants the opportunity to have Jakob go head-to-head with Johnson’s Luke Hobbs.

“I don’t know if that’ll happen and that’s very much up to the Fast audience to decide. As the Fast saga grows and evolves, I’m excited for a possible moment like that but there’s no guarantee. I hope it happens and if the audiences around the world hope the same thing, who knows.”

Fans would probably love to see John Cena and Dwayne Johnson duke it out in a future Fast film and marketing possibilities alone would probably make Universal Pictures very excited. Cena was asked what Jakob might say to Hobbs if they ever come across each other and Cena said with a laugh, “The low-hanging fruit answer to that is, ‘You can’t see me.'”

It hasn’t been officially announced if Dwayne Johnson is heading back to the main franchise following the 2019 spin-off Hobbs & Shaw. I imagine that he would return since the next installment is said to be the last of the main franchise and it will be split up into two films to bring the saga to a proper conclusion. I imagine they want every possible person responsible for the success of the franchise to return for the final installment and Johnson is a huge reason the films turned into true worldwide successes beginning with his first appearance in Fast Five. Johnson sat out of Fast 9 and while there was some reported tension involving Johnson, Diesel, and Tyrese Gibson, everyone has squashed the beef and they are on good terms now.

It would also be interesting to see them on screen together because Cena once made some comments about Johnson that are a tad ironic now. Cena once called him a “sell-out” for pursuing an acting career. Last year, Cena walked back on that comment by saying “I said some things there were less than nice. He said some things that were less than nice. And I can assure you, in our line of work there is a grey area where imagination becomes very real and we were right in the sweet spot of that grey area, each watching the other’s every move and not too happy with the other party. It was stupid of me. It genuinely was. That was my perspective at the time.”

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REVIEW: First thing’s first: I wasn’t a huge fan of The Hitman’s Bodyguard but there were things about it that I liked. Mostly, I liked Ryan Reynolds, who was well-cast as the fastidious Bryce, and I enjoyed his chemistry with Samuel L Jackson’s Darius Kinkaid. The movie also had a super-evil villain, played by Gary Oldman, and some fun action scenes, which were well-directed by The Expendables 3 director Patrick Hughes.

While that movie was essentially a straightforward action flick with heavy doses of comedy, the genre’s been swapped here in almost the same way production company Lionsgate did when they made Red 2. It’s an all-out wacky comedy now, with no stakes at all, and absolutely no drama whatsoever. Everything and I mean everything is played for laughs and it doesn’t work. Reynolds works overtime to sell the new comic vibe, but the movie is a total cartoon from start to finish. For instance, there’s a running gag that Reynold keeps getting hit by cars throughout, with CGI showing him being knocked around, only for him to pick himself and brush himself off. It’s like they tried to make him Deadpool or Free Guy, but didn’t bother to throw in the conceit that makes that acceptable in those movies. Granted, a big action movie doesn’t need a ton of logic, but this pushes it.

The premise is basically that Bryce and Kinkaid are brought together by Darius’ wife Sonia, and all three are blackmailed by a CIA officer – played by a ridiculously underused Frank Grillo, to take down a Greek magnate, played by noted Greek thespian Antonio Banderas – note sarcasm- who wants to destroy Europe in a bid to rebuild Greece’s economy. It’s unbelievably stupid, but all involved try hard, with Banderas mugging with the best of them, although seeing him and Salma Hayek together makes you wish for another Desperado rather than…whatever this is.

Hayek’s got a bigger role than she did in the last movie as Kinkaid’s crazy wife, with her being the third lead. The idea is that she and Darius want to start a family but can’t conceive – the closest thing to drama the movie has. I’ll give the movie this – this idea sets up the one really solid joke in the movie, which pays off in the last scene and almost makes me want to see another “Hitman’s something or other”… But not quite.

Reynolds and Jackson still have good chemistry and Hayek is game, but the action is barely passable. Sure, there’s a lot of carnage and they milk the R-rating for gory headshots. However, twenty four hours after seeing it I was barely able to recall any cool action moments, except for a fight that’s noteworthy because it involves eighty-four-year-old Morgan Freeman being a credible badass. He has a top-secret part that’s initially quite clever but turns out to be two-dimensional, a shame as some stakes and a tiny bit of drama might have actually come out of his role.

What’s also insane is that Frank Grillo, who’s turning into a big action star, never gets in on the action at all, with him playing exposition guy. What a waste! Jackson also seems a little less prominent this time, with them relying on him saying mother fucker a lot, where in the first movie, he had an arc and a killer last scene with Oldman’s baddie, who for some reason is credited here despite only showing up in a second of stock footage from the original

Overall, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is a huge misfire and tanks what could have been an ok B-grade side franchise for Reynolds, Jackson and Hayek. Too bad, as the original isn’t a bad little movie and this could have been a fun action flick to kick off the sum

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REVIEW: Rev up the engines. Ramp up the music. Get ready to rumble because Dom Toretto and crew are back for yet another adventure. Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges are ready to roll, and even Jordana Brewster is joining the gang along with a few other notable returning fan treats, and don’t forget the cars and explosions that keep getting bigger. The 9th film in the series goes to places you’d never imagine, for better or worse. And yes, we have villains galore, old and new, trying to destroy the world or whatever. More importantly, they come between family, and you know what they say about “family” in these flicks? Either way, the gang is back so fasten your seatbelts, and strap in, let’s see if F9 is a ride worth taking.

Dom (Diesel) and Letty (Rodriguez) have finally settled into family life. Of course, since this is a Fast and the Furious movie, something is bound to pull them back in. And that someone is Jakob (John Cena), the long-lost, younger brother of Dom and Mia (Brewster). Things get far more complicated for the crew when they realize that their sibling is working with the dangerously wicked Cipher (Charlize Theron). Now we aren’t talking about a simple family squabble. We’re talking power beyond the likes anybody has seen before… well at least since the last F & F flick. This all leads to exactly what you’d expect, and perhaps a few things you won’t. If you are looking for a more spoilerific plot description, I’m certain you can find that and more if you do a simple Google search, but I’ll keep this spoiler-free.

fast 9 review, fast 9 movie reviewF9 is Justin Lin’s return to the franchise after James Wan gave us Furious 7, and F. Gary Gray carried on with The Fate of the Furious. And there are moments here that harken back to Lin’s earlier work in Fast Five and Fast & Furious 6. However, as insane as it was to see a massive safe dragged down a busy street, the new film takes you to some truly outlandish heights. Get ready for Roman (Gibson) and Tej (Bridges) to take you on one of the silliest escapades ever belonging to an already silly franchise, and that’s truly saying something. Even with that, there are certainly a handful of impressive sequences that attempt to raise the already high bar of wild car imagery that is beyond impossible. In the latest, aside from the cast, the cars are the highlight. Especially when they’re a bit more grounded than they have been as of late.

Sometimes Lin’s imaginative ideas worked, but oftentimes they didn’t. If you’ve ever taken the Universal Studio Tour, you might get the feeling you’re seeing some of that popular attraction right here in Dom’s world. Perhaps I’m wrong, but the plane crash from War of the Worlds, as well as a location that looked eerily like Isla Nublar, appeared to make a cameo here. Even though there are a few thrilling moments spread throughout – one involving a much-needed bit of comic relief in London for a chase with one of my favorite characters in the series – a few of these fast and furious moments felt a bit been there, done that. Needless to say, this massive blockbuster occasionally looked as though less of the budget was actually put on-screen.

In addition to taking a stop on the studio tour, there are a few flashback sequences designed to give you an idea of what happened to Jakob’s character. The look of it didn’t quite work. It’d be a safe bet that they were attempting to match the tone of the original film. Instead, these moments felt off and didn’t quite look like they belonged in the same movie. In addition, the extended sequences only added a superficial character arc for Jakob. And remember all the cool locations in the previous installments? Well, here they sometimes appear to be shot on the lot with a handful of impressive establishing shot for whatever part of the world we are about to see. Maybe with all the talent involved, they had to cut the travel expenses, especially because this was in front of cameras pre-pandemic when they ideally could’ve gone anywhere.

fast 9 movie reviewThat’s not to say this is all bad. It was terrific to see Jordana Brewster and Sung Kang back – although I’m not quite sure about the direction they went with Paul Walker’s character. As well, the many other returning actors were a treat, and it’s always fun to see the regulars work together and tear up the asphalt in mayhem-fueled ways. And while this won’t please everyone, it’s likely that if you are already invested thus far, you won’t mind the ridiculously insane script by Daniel Casey and Justin Lin. Since this might be the first movie many of you see on a big screen, the loud booms and the nutso action with a bag of popcorn may be all that you desire. And frankly, there’s not a damn thing wrong with that.

F9 will please fans expecting vehicular lunacy but may simply tire others hoping for something slightly less dopey. Throughout the film, I found moments that started to make the pulse pound, yet on a whole, it just gave out right before the finish line. Still, it’s entertaining to see a few familiar faces return, John Cena broods a bunch, and perhaps a couple of surprises will put a smile on your face. Yet as a whole, this just feels like an in-between rehash saving the best for last – we can hope. right? Considering that the 10th and 11th films appear to be a two-part final chapter, maybe that’s all this needs to be. Well, until they reboot it with a brand new cast of course. If you’re already invested, you’ll probably watch this and maybe even like it a little more. However, if you’ve already started looking for the exit, F9 will hardly keep the wheels in motion.

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