Kev's Reviews

Art vs. commerce, guts vs.corporate caution, friendship vs . the world. Based on the incredible true story of legendary car designer Carroll Shelby (Damon) and daring British driver Ken Miles (Christian Bale) fight corporate big wigs, the laws of physics and their own demons to reinvent the race car for the Ford Motor Company to be raced in the 1966 24-hour Le Mans of France. I'm not a motorhead, nor am I a fan of car racing, but you don't necessarily have to like the sport to watch this movie. You just have to appreciate good storytelling. Geared to be a top contender in the box office, forecasting to rack up $100 million domestically through the holiday, Ford vs. Ferrari has gotten a 95 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes among both critics and audiences. According to Forbes' Contributing Writer Mark Hughes, "Director James Mangold’s teaming with Oscar winners Matt Damon and Christian Bale is generating plenty of award season buzz, and looks to be a shoo-in fo

A decade has passed since Jason Bourne turned his back on the CIA. Trying to draw Bourne out of hiding, CIA director Robert Dewy (Tommy Lee Jones) assigns an assassin to kill Bourne. On the run with rogue  employee at the Treadstone Paris safehouse,  Nikki Parsons (Julia Stiles).  Much like The Bourne Supremacy, the termination goes awry and the Dewy's hitman ends up shooting Parsons instead of Bourne which paints a bulls-eye on Dewy's back.  It seems as though the actions taken by the CIA swirl around a network hack "worse than Snowden." - a sign that Paul Greengrass has what I call  Filmmakers Block  - the Hollywood version of  Writer's Block  - blowing a lot of hot-aired action sequences to compensate for the crumbling, over-used plot. I thought,  this isn't the Greengrass-Damon creation that is Bourne. Jason Bourne is not a cliché.  Unfortunately, I was wrong. I was baffled! Then, I figured it out.  Action flicks like this heavily rely on t