In Theaters: June 16, 2017

There are FOUR wide releases this weekend.

47 Meters Down

Two women on vacation try diving in a shark cage for the first time, and their cage drops (read with emphasis) ****47 Meters Down****.  I wasn't counting the shots in the trailer that showed a shark inches away from eating someone, but - I'm not kidding - it was at least a dozen.  And, as you can see in the poster, there are only two women stuck down there.  So either at least ten other women dive down to rescue them (and they ALL get eaten), or this population of sharks has a spectacular mutation that causes them to grow gummy bears instead of teeth.

47 Meters Down is rated PG-13 for sequences of intense peril, bloody images, and brief strong language.

To be fair, the underwater photography looks solid.

All Eyez On Me

Spoiler alert he dies at the end.

It's a movie about Tupac.  Why?  Because N.W.A. got their own movie and now HE wants one!!

I know very very little about Tupac.  But I know a lot about movies, and in terms of quality this will be a big step down from Straight Outta Compton.  You've been warned.

All Eyez On Me is rated R for language throughout, drug use, violence, some nudity and sexuality.  No surprises there.

Cars 3

In Cars 3 Lightning McQueen is an old race car, near the end of his career, maybe already past.  There are newer, faster, and better race cars out there.  It's a really good angle to take for the story.  And it looks to be a heck of a lot better than Cars 2, which I didn't really enjoy very much.  I'm not the only one either, and that means it's not just Lightning McQueen that has something to prove, but the Cars franchise itself.  Can Lightning - as well as the Cars franchise - be relevant again?  I doubt this parallel is a coincidence.

Cars 3 is rated G.

Rough Night

No matter how bad the movie looks Kate McKinnon still makes me laugh sometimes.

In Rough Night, Scarlett Johansson's character is having a bachelorette party with her friends that includes a male stripper.  The stripper dies in some kind of accident and the movie goes from there.  You know those "wouldn't it be funny if" kind of ideas that sometimes get stretched into WAY longer runtimes than the premise can support?  Yeah.  That's my bet for Rough Night.

Rough Night is rated R for crude sexual content, language throughout, drug use and brief bloody images.

      Big Shot Critic