Echeverria Reviews

               Ah, the film that has absolutely nothing to do with the book except maybe the plot and will probably forever be recognized as the zombie film with Brad Pitt in it. While this is not a great film by traditional film standards, it is honestly not that bad by zombie film standards, but the bar for those films is pretty low in this generation. World War Z suffers from what several films within this genre suffer from, and that is lack of depth. Outside of the lead being played by Brad Pitt, the rest of the characters are absolutely dull, and even Brad Pitt is not all that great here. He is emotionless, but that is the way his character was written. This film suffers greatly from that.             This film resembles nothing from the book, which is only a problem to fans of the book, but where it affects the film is that a screenplay needs to be written from scratch with nothin...

               With the release of the latest Mortal Kombat film, it is time to revisit the film that gave us the greatest theme song of all time, 1995’s Mortal Kombat . Let us get this out of the way right now, this film features some terrible acting, subpar screenplay, and some of the worst special effects I have ever seen in a film. Having said that, this film is totally wicked, and I love it. Despite these obvious flaws, the film went on to be a major success at the box office, making over 120 million dollars on a budget of only 18 million. Since its release and overall criticism over the subpar acting and laughable dialogue, the film has since been reevaluated and become a cult classic, and for good reason.             One of the reasons why this film achieved cult status is due to its respect towards the source material. Despite its many flaws, and the PG-13 rating, the film still...

               The merc with a mouth finally showed up on the big screen and it was everything that many of us hoped it would be and had anticipated for years upon years. 20 th Century Fox may have botched some comic book films pretty badly over the years, but, with this one it seems like they truly understood who the character was, what he needed to be, who to cast, and the cherry on top was that they embraced the character by making the film rated R. I am not a huge stickler when it comes to ratings because I am not under the impression that a lot of cursing and blood makes a good movie, but in this case, you cannot do the Deadpool character justice without the blood and the mouth. Truthfully, while I have never mentioned it in any of my reviews, I have always been very vocal about my indifference of Ryan Reynolds as an actor. I think he is good, but I do not see him in the same way a lot of people see him. That being said, he was the perf...

               I will always stand by the statement that The Lion King is the best thing that Disney has ever created. I will forever die on that hill. I love everything about this film. It nails every aspect that a Disney film tries to nail. The characters are fantastic, the score is tremendous, the songs are catchy and heartwarming, the story is great, and the ending is truly marvelous. I understand that there is some controversy over the origin of this story, and I welcome you to do the research, but, personally, I do not care. This film is its own thing, and it represents a turning point in Disney, where they pull away a bit from all of the princess tales and start to add more adventure style stories to their repertoire. I will not be getting into what the story is about because by this point, even if you have not seen the film, chances are you know what it is about. Instead, I just want to talk about the reasons why I love this film. ...

               With the release of Godzilla vs. Kong happening this week, I figured I would continue my journey into the MonsterVerse with Kong: Skull Island . I will be honest, having to follow up Godzilla , this film did not do a great job of it. I enjoyed this film to a degree, but I also had some major issues with the film that I will get into later, but first, I want to talk about the film and some of the things that I enjoyed from it. For those that are familiar with the original King Kong film and the Peter Jackson remake, this is not anything like that. It does not follow the basic Kong storyline that you might be used to. This film takes place in the 70s and revolves around an organization named Monarch looking for a place called Skull Island, where coincidentally, they discover Kong. Unlike the original, however, the plans that they develop for Kong are different. The original revolves around someone wanting to find the world’s next...