In Theaters: July 21, 2017

There are THREE wide releases this weekend.

Dunkirk

From Christopher Nolan comes the movie that looks more like a documentary.

I've come to trust Christopher Nolan, as most people have.  But the trailers for this look DULL.  The trailers suggest no main character, just various characters caught up in the same historical event.  There is no emotional connection offered.  No personal story to attach yourself to.  It's just a bunch of soldiers in WWII trying to get the heck out of dodge.

But it's probably pretty good.

Dunkirk is rated PG-13 for intense war experience and some language.

Girls Trip

No poster on this blog for this movie, because we have standards here at Big Shot Critic.  Four black middle-aged women take a trip to New Orleans to party like a bunch of animals.  It looks disgusting.

Girls Trip is rated R for crude sexual content throughout, pervasive language, brief graphic nudity, and drug material.

Like I said - disgusting.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Okay, this one I actually got to see a test screening for back in April and it was amazing.  Genuinely amazing.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a science fiction movie that takes place seven hundred years or so in the future.  It's more than a little reminiscent of The Fifth Element.  Also written and directed by the same man as The Fifth Element, Luc Besson (who I met briefly, and that was also awesome).

Basically Valerian and his partner are part of a peacekeeping force for the city of Alpha, known as the city of a thousand planets because of its position as a galactic cultural melting pot.  But there's something going down in the city of Alpha that smells rotten and our heroes have to get to the bottom of it.

Before I saw this test screening, I thought Justin Lin was the best action director working today.  And then the big opening action scene of this movie happened in front of me and I was speechless.  Blown away.  Luc Besson is one imaginative and masterful son of a gun.

Unless you outright hate science fiction, I strongly recommend going to check this one out.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and action, suggestive material and brief language.

      Big Shot Critic