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Eddie Murphy's career continues its downhill slide in this only intermittently funny movie Action packed and this Keeps your mind off the confusing storyline about the Gods
TITLE SCORE
(1-10)
RATING
American Reunion

4

 R - Profanity, Nudity & Sexual Situations

Time to say bye-bye to “American Pie” sequels
The Cabin in the Woods

7

R - Profanity, Violence and Brief Nudity

Has a lot of twists and turns you don’t expect but it isn’t as clever as it thinks it is

Chimpanzee

6

G

Family friendly story of a baby chimpanzee that is good but not great in its presentation
Dark Shadows

4

PG-13 Profanity & Violence

Depp & Burton’s latest collaboration is one of their worst; just dull & pretentious all the way
The Five Year Engagement

7

R - Profanity & Sexual Situations


A lot more depth in this rom/com than you would expect from a Judd Apatow production
                                    
Hunger Games

5

PG-13 - Profanity & Violence


For those who haven’t read the book(s) the film is a scary look at children killing children
                                    
Lockout

6

 PG-13 Profanity & Violence

A bit like “Die Hard” as Guy Pierce plays a smart-mouthed but proficient man of action

The Lucky One

6

PG-13

Zac Efron has grown up but this movie isn’t the romantic hit it should have been.
Marvel's The Avengers

 8

PG-13 Comic Book Violence

Hail, hail the gang’s all here and boy are they fun to watch and fun to hear!

Mirror Mirror

6

PG - Mild Violence


Julia is great as the evil Queen but this ‘Snow White’ story never rises to the next level
                                    
October Baby

6

PG-13 - Mature Subject Matter


A surprisingly non-preachy story of an abortion survivor baby searching for her birth mother
                                    
The Pirates: Band of Misfits

5

PG - Comic Violence


Grant provides humor as the Pirate Captain but the movie sinks without more fun/excitement
                                    
The Raid: Redemption

4

R - Violence & Profanity


Lots of martial arts fighting but the plot is mediocre as is the acting
                                    
The Raven

4

R- Profanity & Violence

John Cusack just can’t carry a film and in this story about Poe he is the movie
Safe

7

R- Profanity & Violence

Jason Statham can carry a movie and he makes this action adventure work
A Thousand Words

7

PG-13 - Profanity & Coarse Humor

Eddie Murphy’s career continues its downhill slide in this only intermittently funny movie

Think Like a Man

 

 

The cast is good looking and capable of good acting but the storylines are by the book
The Three Stooges

 5

PG - Comic Violence

Stooges started out annoying me; in the end their sweetness & purity of heart won me over
21 Jump Street

7

R - Profanity, Violence & Crude Humor


In this kind of crude and coarse movie you had better bring on the laughs – this one does!
                                    
Wrath of the Titans

 6

PG-13 - Violence

Action packed and this keeps your mind off the confusing storyline about the Gods

Jackie's Rating Scale

Scale of 1 to 10

1 - Make them pay you to see it
2 - Take an enemy to see it
3 - Pick a comfortable seat so you can sleep through most of it
4 - Be alert for the good parts that are few and far between
5 - Not the best, not the worst, but right in the middle
6 - Unexpectedly good
7- Worth telling a friend about
8 - Renews your faith in moviemaking
9 - You'll want to stay put and see it twice
10-You'll come out with stars in your eyes



 
 
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