In Theaters: September 29, 2017

BUT FIRST there were three movies that came out last Friday.  I didn't post about them.  I don't remember why I didn't post about them, but I do remember I played in a cornhole tournament last Thursday night and I got second place.  I'm gonna chalk it up to that.

Let's recap.

Friend Request (last Friday)

Creepy girl doesn't get invited to popular girl's party.  Creepy girl turns out to be a psycho witch, or something.  Preferred method of haunting?  Facebook, of course!

Rated R

Kingsman: The Golden Circle (last Friday)

Sequel to the 2015 movie, Kingsman: The Secret Service.  This time the super spies are up against Julianne Moore.

Rated R

The LEGO Ninjago Movie (last Friday)

Another Lego movie.  Instead of plain legos, or Batman, this time it's ninjas.  Ninjago is a Lego property, not a licensed property, like Batman.

Rated PG

PHEW!  Okay.  Now on to this Friday.  Three more.

American Made

Tom Cruise and Doug Liman reunite.

American Made is set in the 1980's and is about an airline pilot who is recruited by the CIA to go undercover and make drug runs for Pablo Escobar.  Expect U.S. Government corruption and irresponsibility to be front and center in this movie.  It's an action comedy, so it's looking at itself as one of those things that's funny, even though it's a real problem.  I would go see it if it wasn't R.

American Made is rated R for language throughout and some sexuality/nudity.

Flatliners

A remake of the 1990 film of the same name.

Five medical students decide it would be a good idea to kill themselves.  They stop each other's hearts and then resuscitate after a matter of seconds, so they can artificially gain near-death experiences.  But it turns out that's bad for you, and it becomes some sort of Final Destination situation.

Flatliners is rated PG-13 for violence and terror, sexual content, language, thematic material, and some drug references.  That's like a buffet of reasons you could earn a PG-13 rating.

A Question Of Faith

Like, don't get me wrong.  I'm glad there's a market for faith-based films.  But we can do better than this.

Three families go through a crisis each.  The white people family has a controlling father who wants his daughter to get a record deal, and a daughter who decides to get brain cancer instead.  The black people family has a dad who is a pastor that spends too much time at work, and a son who gets hit by a bus.  The latino people family has a short-sighted mother who says college is too far and too expensive for her daughter, and a daughter who ends up in jail because it's a trying and tragic experience.  Seriously, I'm pretty sure she was sentenced to serve two years for failure to be an effective plot device.

Man.  It's tough all around, but I say the black people family got it the worst!  Typical Hollywood.

I don't have a crystal ball or anything, but I'm gonna go ahead and predict that the predicaments of the children help the parents see their faults, and they all turn to their faith.

A Question Of Faith is rated PG for thematic elements.

      Big Shot Critic