Gods Of Egypt

I found myself in an interesting situation today.. It was 11 o'clock, I was stood outside Cineworld and genuinely didn't know what to see. I know I would only be able to see the one as, once again Laura had spoken and we had to leave early again. And to be honest there was nothing I WANTED to see. My choices were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, The Boss, The Conjuring 2 or this..
The question is "did I choose wisely?"..

OK, plot.. I've no Idea.. Two God's live in Egypt, one (Bryan Brown) in the posh end and the other (Gerald Butler) in 'stab town' (or the desert). Anyway the one in the rough end decides he's had enough and, on the day Bryan is about to relinquish his power to his son he turns up and spoils the party. He has a right ding dong and, amongst other things he murders his brother, steals someone's eyes and generally annoys the hell out of a lot of people..

From that day forward it goes off the scale 'crazy'.. At one point our "hero's" fly into space where they meet Colin Firths speech therapist floating around on a glass spaceship. It turns out he's Ra, the sun God and his main job is to launch fireballs from his 'staff of power' at a large CGi worm that has escaped from the the movie Dune/Beatlejuice/Tremors (delete as applicable).
Yes, you read that right..

Clearly I didn't choose wisely..

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The Nice Guys

I could have stayed in tonight and watched Shane Black as Hawkins in the legendary 1987 movie Predator.  But as Liz was due to go out on a hen night tonight, I took the opportunity to get a ticket for the only showing in Odeon Hereford of his latest directorial offering instead.

This is my first film for June and, after seeing the trailers I was looking forward to it..

Russel Crowe and Ryan Gosling play thug and private investigator (respectively) in 1970's LA. Their paths cross when Russels character, Jackson Healy is hired to beat up Holland March (Ryan Gosling). They then team up to try and find a missing girl and it goes pear shaped..

I'm fully aware of Mr Blacks previous work (I loved Ironman 3). Not to mention Lethal Weapon and The Last Boyscout.. (I really must look up Kiss Kiss Bang Bang). And this one didn't let me down. Both Crowe and Gosling were very funny and the film didn't linger too long on sentimental backstories. The comedy got a bit slapstick at certain points in the film, but that just helped to emphasis how idiotic they both were..

The supporting roles where good too, particularly Angourie Rice who played Ryan's 13 year old daughter.

Overall an entertaining movie (and a full screening too)

****

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