Fantasy Island
Mr. Roarke (Michael Pena) is a gracious and mysterious owner of Fantasy Island. And they chose 5 people to travel to this Mysterious Island, and they can make one wish come true no matter what. Rourke has a secret as well and it stay on the island he can't tell anyone.
Melanie Cole (Lucy Hale), Gwen Olsen (Maggie Q), J.D.Weaver (Ryan Hansen) and Brax Weaver (Jimmy O. Yang) and Patrick Sullivan (Austin Stowell) all appear and they had different secrets that they want to solve at Fantasy Island.
The guests come stay is a beautiful tropical resort, then all of theirs dreams turn into nightmares when they must solve the mystery of the island.
Now I did enjoy the cast I thought man Michael Pena was excellent at playing Mr.Rourke but nobody compares to Ricardo Montalban. I also liked Lucy Hale, Maggie Q, Austin Sullivan and especially Michael Rooker. I like parts of this movie and other times it kind of lagged, I love the look of the movie because it's all set on a tropical island.
I need the story to go somewhere and it just didn't, but other parts it did, which means it's a very uneven script. And I kind of thought that the two characters play by Ryan Hansen and Jimmy O.Yang really didn't add anything to the overall story.
Like I said the performances are good and once I got home and started thinking about this movie I can only give It 2 stars. There was some unnecessary scenes in this movie that made it even more kind of tedious to sit through.
2 out of 4 Stars
The Way Back
Jack Cunningham (Ben Affleck) was an amazing basketball player and helped his team win the state championship, he was supposed to go to Kansas. Cunningham had everything ahead of him and then he just stopped he didn't go to Kansas, and he just walked away from the sport that he loved. Now Cunningham is a part of the construction crew, he separated from his wife and he's stood far away from the sport that he loved, and it goes straight from work to the bar.
And then when the current coach as of heart attack all of a sudden they get ahold of Cunningham and they want him to come in and replace the head coach. Jack comes in it talks to the guy who wants to hire him as a head basketball coach. And he has to know the next day if Cunningham wants to come in and be a head coach of a struggling basketball team and this might be the last chance for Jack do turn his life around as well.
I thought this movie was one of the best performances that Ben Affleck has ever given, we all know the problems that he's went through. And that was all a huge part of this story because I feel like it went through all of this stuff and I thought he did one of the best roles of his life because he lived through all of this. I've always loved Ben Affleck and I'm so excited that he recovered and I like the fact but he said the biggest regret was being divorced Jennifer Gardner and the best part of his life was being back with his children.
I would highly recommend you see this movie this movie is well directed, written by Gavin O'Connor and everybody a part of this movie was outstanding. Bottom line is this movie is one of the best films I will see all year.
4 out of 4 Stars - Don't miss it!