Long Shot is the latest comedy starring Seth Rogen, Charlize Theron and Alexander Skarsgård.
Directed by Jonathan Levine, Rogen is Fred Flarsky, an unemployed journalist who decides to pursue his childhood crush. The only thing is, his childhood crush is Charlotte Field, one of the most powerful and unattainable women on the planet.
Rogen and Theron together on screen feels quite unexpected, yet I definitely do love them both separately so I hope this really works.
Andy Serkis, Randall Park, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Aviva Mongillo, James Saito and Ravi Patel also star.
Salma Hayek, Alexander Skarsgård and Jesse Eisenberg are the stars of The Hummingbird Project, a Kim Nguyen-written/directed drama about two high-frequency traders facing off with their former boss.
The prize available is serious money in a fibre-optic cable deal.
I’m in for the showdown, because I love Hayek, I want to see Eisenberg in what looks like a more crazed version of his role as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network (2010). And lastly, I have to see more of Skarsgård’s character running.
Michael Mando, Johan Heldenbergh, Ayisha Issa, Sarah Goldberg and Kwasi Songui also star.
Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux are the stars of Mute, a Duncan Jones-directed mystery/sci-fi/thriller about a mute bartender (Skarsgård) who goes up against his city’s gangsters to find out what happened to his missing girlfriend, the love of his life.
The futuristic setting and the resultant visuals are why I’m most interested.
Paul Rudd playing a character who doesn’t appear to be sweet and adorable intrigues me. Then there’s Skårsgard, I’m excited by the emotional range he’s likely to achieve in this role (since he can’t speak) and his impressive stature.
Noel Clarke, Nikki Lamborn, Seyneb Saleh and Gilbert Owuor also star.
Within the first twenty minutes of The Legend Of Tarzan, my thought’s could be summarised with the phrase ‘chop, chop.’ That’s British for ‘hurry up’, ‘move along’, ‘come on!’ etc. The pace was slow and I was eager for the fun jungle action to begin.
Things did eventually start to happen, though certainly not soon enough. Thescene when Tarzan faces off with the massive gorilla is my favourite, thanks to the action, camera work and Alexander Skarsgård’s convincing physicality. Overall, though, the movie proved quite dull and with very little that delighted.
The general structure of the story felt odd and I found myself wanting to see more of the young Tarzan’s experiences – because surely, it was more interesting than what I was watching.
Some might say that maybe I should have opted for The Jungle Book (2015) if the story of a boy growing up in the Jungle sans parents is what I was really after – and to that I say, ‘touché’. Still, that doesn’t mean that what we have with director David Yate’s The Legend Of Tarzan is close to all that it could have been.
The film’s stars Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie and Christoph Waltz didn’t deliver terrible performances; it’s the execution of the story and final product that just wasn’t great.
For those who may be undecided about whether to bother with The Legend Of Tarzan, I say give it a chanceto appreciate Skarsgård’s physical achievements (maybe), for some nice footage of Africa (perhaps) or for the human/gorilla fight action (the best part). You’ll still probably have to go elsewhere for a truly satisfying retelling of writer Edgar Rice Burroughs’s classic story. Especially since the experience of this movie left me and, I’m sure, many others wanting.
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