Captain America:Civil War

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OK, it's 3.17am and I've got work in 4 hours. The question is was it worth it? 

Before I get on to that I'll start with the obligatory synopsis...

Starting off we find Captain America and a few of the Avengers chasing down Crossbones (see Winter Soldier). This results in a certain amount of collateral damage and, together with the carnage from previous Avengers missions it's decided that Super Hero's need to be held accountable for their action.  So the Sokovia Accords agreement is drawn up. And this is where it kick's off..

I loved this movie. If it had been a little shorter it would have been 4 1/2 easy.  Having said that I didn't get bored.



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Eye In The Sky

Another one for Graham and myself.

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Demolition

Another Odeon Screen Unseen and another appearance from Mr Jake Gyllenhaal.

At the beginning of this one we see Davies (Jake Gyllenhaal) involved in a car crash which kills his wife (Heather Lind). What then follows is basically the disintegration of his sanity as he realises that up until this point he had been living on autopilot. 

I really enjoyed this one. Jake Gyllenhaal was excellent as expected and there was some nice performances from  Chris Cooper and Naomi Watts as Father-in-law and Customer support person respectively.  It was my sort of odd humour and I laughed out loud on several occasions. Plus it was nice to see that Screen Unseen had returned to form.

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Hardcore Henry

I went into this one kinda blind.. Sure I'd seen the trailer but I'd heard no reviews, good or bad.

The film starts off in a lab and we see through Henry's eyes as he has a prosthetic arm and leg applied by his doctor wife. Suddenly all hell breaks loose and after a bit of toing and froing his wife's kidnapped and he's rescued by Jimmy (Charlto Copley)..

Initially this film was a bit jarring. I'm not a fan of 'shakey cam' and this took 'shakey cam' to it's limit and then some.

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Eddie The Eagle

As I was working this morning I had to put my foot down to get this one in..
This is Dexter Fletchers telling of Eddie Edwards life story (so far). From his humble up bringing as a child with a dodgy knee right up to him coming last in the ski jump at the 1988 Calgary Olympics.

In all fairness it wasn't the cheese fest I was expecting. Tarron Egerton was excellent as Eddie. Even Huge Jackman put in a perfectly acceptable performance as the Eagles alcoholic, non-wolverine, fictionalised coach. It had humour and tension. 

Granted there was cheese, but ultimately it was a feel good movie. Ideal Saturday afternoon fare.. 

Overall ***1/2

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