Willie's View Movie Reviews

  I am a BIG James Bond fan and a bigger fan of the Daniel Craig/James Bond era.  I loved Casino Royale. Wasn't crazy for Quantum of Solace, but it was watchable. Skyfall is my favorite of the bunch. Now comes Daniel Craig's fourth outing as 007 in Spectre, and I'll cut right to the chase. Spectre is the biggest disappointment of 2015. Plain and simple.   Like always, I'll spare you of the plot details and get right to the problem of this film. The story.   There is no character development for James Bond whatsoever in this film. NOTHING that happens in this movie amounts to a hill of beans. NOTHING!!! Basically, James Bond goes looking for answers to his life and when all is said and done, we really don't get any answers of than one. SPOILER ALERT...............Still with me? Don't say I didn't warn you. We find out that the villain of this movie (played by Christoph Waltz) is responsible for everything that happened to Bond in the previous three films. ....

 I admit that I have never seen Hotel Transylvania, but being the movie nut ball that I am, I knew more than enough about the film to be more than familiar with it. I knew it was an animated Adam Sandler film, costarring all of his friends (i.e. Kevin James, David Spade and Steve Buscemi). I knew it was about classic horror movie monsters led by Sandler's Count Dracula, who ran a hotel for monsters. I knew that it was also about his his teenage daughter (voiced by Selena Gomez) who falls in love with a goofy human( voiced by Andy Samberg). And so, to prove to his daughter that he likes humans, he opens his hotel to humans. That was the first one. See? I did pretty good without seeing it,right?   And since the first one was a box office hit, it's inevitable that we would have a sequel. And we do. Shock. Surprise.   I have another admission. I was bored when I picked this movie selection. I figured at the very least that I could stop it if it was awful. To my surprise...

        THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. is based on the 60's television show which followed secret agents  who worked for a secret international counter espionage and law and enforcement agency   U.N.C.L.E.  Now, almost 50 years later, we get the film version, directed by Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes movies and SNATCH) and stars Henry Cavill (THE MAN OF STEEL) and Armie Hammer (THE SOCIAL NETWORK) as rival secret agents-Cavil for the U.S. and Hammer for Russia. The plot centers around the two men having to work together despite their dislike for one another, to protect the daughter of a Professor who has made a nuclear bomb. Their mission-find the missing professor and find the nuclear bomb before the bad guys and destroy the world. Your basic spy movie plot.     What I liked about THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. is the chemistry between the three stars-Cavill, Hammer and Alicia Vikander as Gaby, the daughter of the Professor.Their chemistry and likable ch...