The Good Boy 2025/2026 [alternative names Good Boy, Komasa or Heel] by AverageMansReviews

The Good Boy 2025/2026 [alternative names Good Boy, Komasa or Heel]  by AverageMansReviews

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On a night out: briefly; Tommy [Anson Boon:] this individual embodies everything that is wrong with our society today in 2026 and beyond, unless something drastic with changes, which I don't see happening any time soon. But I digress; from out of nowhere he gets taken and held hostage, until he learns to be a better person; he gets taken by Chris [Stephen Graham:] he and his family kidnap/adopt Tommy as their own.

Generally speaking: the storyline/script is good; it clearly points out that you can basically be an unpleasant person, getting away with this kind of behaviour because it is the modern culture for doing things for content; the likes and so and so forth and coinciding we get some exposition before the opening title. But and I am not condoning any of what you may see in this film, but the message is clear that; we aren't going to put up with this garbage anymore; if you have been around cinema as long as I have; this movie definitely falls into the category of; if we are going to make this film, let's go the whole hog so that there is no confusion about some of this film. The framework and pacing of this 110 minutes film is good; as I was just referencing; it has a very clear outlay of what it wants to do and just gets on with it.

Action and art; there is torture and much later on we now this pleasant staged location for a romantic scene; I like the usage of the bulbs lighting.

Character developments and performances; the character developments are good for what they are, but we never find out what actually happened to this member of the family, which is really disappointing; because I'm not justifying what takes place in this location; but then again it is one of those types of things where you go; that explains a lot. Whilst we are in this location and throughout this film; the four crucial characters all have good chemistry and should be very happy with the results of this project and based on these performances I have decided to award this film another mark.

This film receives: 7/10, this film is good; if you like weird films this will suit you down to the ground. This film also has some awards accredited to its name such as 2 Winners Valladolid International Film Festival 2025 Seminci Joven Award

Best Feature Film Jan Komasa and 2 Nominees which also include but not limited to from the same award ceremony/event  Punto de Encuentro Award Best Feature Film Jan Komasa (director)

Taking Care of Business 1990 by AverageMansReviews

Taking Care of Business 1990 by AverageMansReviews

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I am going to the ball game, I just have to get out of here first: briefly; Jimmy Dworski/other characters [James/Jim Belushi:] is currently a convict prison that has won the once-in-a-lifetime tickets to see if his beloved Chicago can win the big one in the final of the World Series of baseball, but that would require having an early release of some days, I mean he even asked the Warden Frank Toolman [Héctor Elizondo:] he is a warden is very strict and he rules this prison with an iron fist. Meanwhile we have Spencer Barnes/other characters [Charles Grodin:] he is a very regimental character that works for Bentley Advertising, but one thing is for certain for the next couple of days it is going to be a rough ride for him.

Generally speaking: the storyline/script, character developments framework and pacing; the storyline/script and character developments is broadly speaking is one of those types of trading places and situations; where Dworski gets to experience the high life, whilst Barnes gets to experience the standard of let's just go with it difficult and relentless standard of life; the framework and pacing of this 108 minutes film as we have this kind of back and forth thing going on, for some strange reason it does take some time to find itself, don't get me wrong after this is all good and it works really well, but before this things feel really slow and dry; it is a good thing that eventually its find its groove.

Action and comedy; a game of double tennis doesn't exactly go according to plan, when one player holds a tennis racket like a baseball bat, whilst another character in desperation to return the ball runs into the back of the court and then sometime later at this dinner meeting; they have this very frank discussion about these products and admire a chest and finally a little later on we have this showdown between Dworski vs. Spencer; but let's be honest it goes away you expected it going; but it is all very good fun really.

Character developments and performances; as I referenced earlier we have a trading places outlying going on, with other surrounding good character types of what they are meant to be, with good chemistry throughout the cast; but between Belushi and/or Grodin they lead the cast excellently and on reflection based on that I am going to award this film another mark

This film receives: 8/10, this film is excellent; this film is good fun, yes it does take this film sometime to warm up, but it is harmless good fun and there is an ongoing sequence underneath the closing credits

 

Mike Bassett: England Manager 2001 by AverageMansReviews

Mike Bassett: England Manager 2001 by AverageMansReviews

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England's Manager for the 2002 World Cup is: briefly; Mike Bassett [Ricky Tomlinson:] begins life in this movie as the Norwich City Manager, he takes the England job, he is a good man, but as a football manager this is possibly one step too far for him as he is completely out of the depths, alongside Dave 'Doddsy' Dodds [Bradley Walsh:] Bassett's/England first team coach that repeats or flat land agrees with his governor; yes he does that kind of shtick and Martin Bashir [Martin Bashir:] as himself he provides narration to this mockumentary movie and interviews Bassett and others at some points as well: important addition; I said to myself if I included Bashir in this content I would also make it known that Bashir is now a disgraced interviewer for his breeches of rules as it relates to his legendary and infamous interview with Princess Diana for Panorama in 1995.

Generally speaking: the storyline/script is as I have already referenced this mockumentary movie, with exposition character developments and the framework and pacing of this 89 minutes film is good

Art, action and comedy; we get football graphics [commonly used on any team sport; to set up and talk about the formation and personnel that kind of thing,] we have split-screen into small squares to try and incorporate the sense of occasion or Bassett has to sell what is happening at this specific time when we are looking at just at him for cues on what is happening, obviously the action is the football and for a little taste of the comedy which I do have a wide sense of humour and in-depth too, I did find it a little bit too dry for me. But for one example of that is where this match didn't go too well for England so Bassett indicates something to the effect of making genuine points of criticism; so this is what two England football fans do; they give genuine and well constructed criticism about their team and were then maybe a second or two; the viewing audience can see Bassett go by his body language and mannerisms; actually that is fair criticism.

Character developments and performances; let's be completely honest here and say; what with the character developments being a paint by numbers version of what they were clearly going for here, mixed with broadly speaking solid performances throughout the cast and Tomlinson and/or Walsh having good chemistry as well; at minimum solid work is what we have here.

This film receives: 5/10, this film is mixed; it is a solid film for what it is, I just find like I have already said the comedy a bit dry, a bit too dry for me, there are ongoing extra bits and pieces underneath the ending credits and finally this film also has 1 Nominee to its name; Empire Awards, UK 2002 Empire Award Best British Film

 

Saipan 2025/2026 by AverageMansReviews

Saipan 2025/2026 by AverageMansReviews

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Republic of Ireland 2002 World Cup journey didn't exactly go smoothly: briefly; this film focuses on the infamous/legendary breakdown between Manchester United & Republic of Ireland Captain Roy Keane [Younger: Zachary Murdiff/Older: Éanna Hardwicke:] he has always been a highly dedicated football/soccer player, that has demanded the best from himself and those around him and the surrounding components to achieve this. Mick McCarthy [Steve Coogan:] he has put the kit on many years ago to represent the Republic of Ireland, but nowadays is the manager of the national and my reputation is a firm but fair manager/coach.

Generally speaking: the storyline/script; we get some exposition character developments on Keane's as a young child and onwards, the framework and pacing in conjunction with the artistic visions and action are broadly speaking good, as we have this countdown to the World Cup, real-life images of these events of that time in history, some images have been adapted/interpreted with these performers in them and the action; being football/soccer obviously. But there are some occasions where, it can also be seen as tacky and of low budget, which as you will see later on is not the case and this film goes on for roughly 90 minutes

Comedy, character developments and performances, we have a moment of comedy where the Irish squad decides to set up Keane to receive cheese sandwiches instead of his usual breakfast of egg on toast or something to that effect, from an overview perspective the character developments of the surrounding characters and their performances are good for what they are; but that is not our focus point of this movie.

The character developments of Roy Keane the fully grown one; for maybe 10 minutes of his opening section for his Irish accent is lacking and then suddenly it comes through loud and clear, he doesn't really look like Keane; but Hardwicke really does absolutely 110% carry this film with is authentic mindset personality, mannerisms basically everything that made Keane; Keane; I want to make this crystal clear if the next section wasn't so bad, this project based on the performance from Hardwicke would have ensured this title would have been in the mixed section of my marking system.

But Steve Coogan as Mick McCarthy is the worst performance I have ever seen him do; at no point does he actually make any effort to embody McCarthy; you see McCarthy has a very distinctive rural and down to earth speech pattern, language and tone; it is one of those voices that as someone that you interested in football/soccer, once you have heard his voice enough in one occasion it would be quite difficult to forget how he speaks and communicates, so what we are left with is basically this performance of Coogan performing as Coogan that couldn't be bothered to at minimum half posterior his way through this performance and man there is one particular scene in this project that he just completely sucks the energy out of this crucial point of events; where Keane/Hardwicke goes off on one big-time and trust me when I say you will know precisely when it happens; the difference between character developments and performance levels in this one sequence of events; couldn't be much more wider than Coogan staying on earth whilst Hardwicke is standing on the moon, I hope Coogan didn't get paid too much for this role? Basically I hope it was a performance related pay kind of deal, where he could only put in perhaps only 2% of effort to match his contract for this role, because that would explain a lot and likewise just for the record Coogan also looks nothing like McCarthy either.

This film receives: 2/10, this film is poor; I can't believe this film had a very substantial budget of £4.5 million, what precisely did they spend the money on? Because it only recouped/box office takings of £772,281, I mean if you are interested in football/soccer it is well worth a look as it covers this particular story from beginning to endand Roy Keane was and is absolutely right about this situation; this was and is completely unacceptable for an international team to go for this and just for the record I am not Irish; and the same that Keane wasn’t wrong, there are some extra bits and pieces and yes this film does have some awards accredited to its name such as; 1 Winner Irish Film and Television Awards 2026; IFTA Award Best Actor in a Lead Role - Film Éanna Hardwicke and 12 Nominees; from the same award ceremony/event Best Actor in a Lead Role - Film Steve Coogan

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu 2026 [alternative name The Mandalorian and Grogu] by AverageMansReviews

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu 2026 [alternative name The Mandalorian and Grogu] by AverageMansReviews

Related content: Mortal Kombat II 2026 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2026/05/mortal-kombat-ii-2026-by.html

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Full disclosure I haven't watched the TV program: briefly; Din Djarin/The Mandalorian/other adaptions of this name [Pedro Pascal/Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder set doubles:] he is a mandalorian, veteran Bounty Hunter, but is the guardian of Grogu [voiced by: Unknown performer:] he is a baby yoga, that definitely has the force inside him; they are associated with the New Republic; where The Mandalorian has just completed his latest content for them; Colonel Ward [Sigourney Weaver:] she is a leader of the New Republic's Adelphi Rangers, that in short informs The Mandalorian, we/meaning he will be working for the Hutts; Rotta the Hutt [voiced by: Jeremy Allen White:] he is Lord Jabber the Hutts' son that has been kidnapped, so The Mandalorian's contract is; rescue him and return him home to the Hutts and in return they will give us valuable information; The Mandalorian is not exactly thrilled by these turn of events, but he does it anyway.

Generally speaking: storyline/script, character developments and framework and pacing; this storyline/script serves its purpose to be naughty, very naughty, because without giving too much away; it kept now and again making reference to times are changing between The Mandalorian and/or Grogu; so I stress this is just heavy speculation/heavy opinions based; if I had to guess they are either going to make a sequel or a sequel so it makes it a trilogy or they are going to expand this part of the universe; but have them at different stages of life. But then again this all depends on if this film makes a reasonable return; as of the first creating this content by the end of the weekend will have made budget back of the $165 million; but for me it needs to make somewhere between 4 to $500 million for them to be satisfied at minimum; the framework and pacing of this 137 minute film broadly speaking is good [I will discuss it again later on in this content.]

Art, action and comedy; the slow art is broadly speaking what you come to expect from a big franchises such as Star Wars, highly detailed, splendid and breathtaking; such as the scenery, set designs, costumes and accessories; yes we do have some minimum AT-AT Walker [The All Terrain Armored Transport Walker;] our lead partnership hi-jacks one of them to complete a contract with Grogu indicating furiously that the one they are currently has been rigged to explode, The Mandalorian is aware of this, but he needs to complete the contract or of sorts.

Now unfortunately this is where I have to be a negative nelly on reflection on any frantic or heavy usage of computer animation sequence of events minus momentarily under the water; this movie falls into a very large trap and consistently so; it is where you could have a lot happen on-screen at one time or something massive; if you are like me... you will know what you are looking for or when it happens, because even though I praised or somewhat praised AT-AT Walker it starts from the closing stages of this sequence; obviously you're going to need a bit of substance; so basically it is like watching an old computer trying to keep up with the new program in the sense of at best it is going to try and keep up with the program, but ultimately so old computer is going to struggle. So in a film sense you are going to see a whenever this film speeds up or bulky sequences as it relates to computer animation; vehicle chasing sequence either the background and foreground has clear separation [so it comes across as a pop-up book] or/and on top of that we have a wash of colour; so in essence we have too much happening on the screen and it just can't handle it; incredibly messy or we just have a clear divide between the background and foreground or in other words the green-screen; when The Mandalorian is going one-on-one with this beast; it sticks out like a sore thumb when he is looking around.

But then again this project does much better when it is fully packed, granted I am open to the idea that some of these sequences are noticeably more darker as in visually darker than others meaning I can't see the problems; but when we have a better paced sequence meaning slower but still impactful so we could still have lots of characters on screen such as without giving too much away The Mandalorian and Rotta teaming up; it is excellent fun.

You see this is why Mortal Kombat II 2026 is in the related section of this content; because strangely enough they have one thing in common and that is this; everything I said about MK II 2026 and its visual representation for the budget of $80 million is now even more justified based on everything I feared for the MK sequel if they had the budget of $165 million and it came out like Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu 2026; where I have quite clearly stated it looks wonderful and all that; because we have a large budget comes a certain expectation, so by and large Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu 2026 as soon as you want to do anything bulky or/and multipurpose it struggles.

Character developments, performances and voice performances; The Mandalorian and Grogu; their character developments and on-screen chemistry; are all good with performance and voice performers; formulaic; but still good: Now we come to another problem; even though I have just said something to the effect of all good as it relates to our lead partnership; the fact that there are 5 characters/performances/voice performances which are much better rounded, consequently stronger is a problem and in no particular order; a mystery bounty hunter and his intimidating presence including terrifying pet [I should point out that this pairing says very little,] so it leaves the things such as presence, demeanour and other contributing elements to bring them to life, Rotta; he is his own person; he wants to get out from underneath his father's legacy and he has a natural bond with Grogu; granted to begin with he just had to feed him, but still it is natural bond, Sigourney Weaver as Colonel Ward: she has very limited appearances in this film; but as they say a top-class performance is fleeting, class is permanent [she even gets involved in an action sequence; that is all I can say, because I can tell they wanted to make that it treats for Star Wars fans;] excellent performance and finally we have this interaction with this helpful character that helps out Grogu consequently The Mandalorian; this is another limited character that for what they bring to the table is spot on excellent; if I have made this clear enough all 5 of these characters/performances/voice performances are excellent and I have to give a little shout out to these little engineers they were very good characters and had very good chemistry with Grogu: so the moral of the story is; when you're being outshone in your own movie there is a problem such as if it is just our lead partnership and they are doing anything but sharing dialogue or communications with one another; this is where the film really does slow down they need someone or anyone just to put the focus on, so we can have good pacing at minimum back again.

This film receives: 8/10, this film is excellent; it clearly does have problems, but anything less than this mark, just feels a little bit disrespectful based on all of the positive visual representation, action, comedy and surrounding cast. 3 Nominees which include but not limited to Golden Trailer Awards 2026 Golden Trailer AwardBest Fantasy/Adventure "Hope", The Walt Disney Studios, AV Squad

 

 

Innerspace 1987 by AverageMansReviews

Innerspace 1987 by AverageMansReviews

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This experiment doesn't go according to plan: briefly; after this laboratory gets it by this rival scientist and her associates, this other scientist on the run has to jab someone unexpected to try and keep this work safe; this work in this case is miniaturisation; you see in this syringe; is this Lieutenant Tuck Pendleton [Dennis Quaid:] nowadays is a test pilot in this little science fiction one person craft for this experiment/mission which should have ended up in a rabbit, but instead he ended up in a human; by the name of Jack Putter/other character [Martin Short:] he works as the Junior Manager of this store, is a pushover and a hypochondriac, nice guy still a hypochondriac, after Lieutenant Pendleton makes some adaptions inside Putter; he can hear, eat or see what he sees and on top of that he can consume whatever  Putter consumes, but they only have a very short window to get Lieutenant Pendleton out of Putter and retrieve the stolen hardware before Lieutenant Pendleton's air supply runs out and consequently he dies, so they go to this one person he trusts Lydia Maxwell [Meg Ryan:] Lieutenant Pendleton's ex-girlfriend that finally got fed up with his out-of-control drinking habits, but they are much better under control these days and she is a news reporter for this newspaper as well.

Generally speaking: the script is predominantly all good, but for one massive detail which I will discuss much later on, the framework and pacing of this 120 minutes film is good, but having said that; it does need a driving force behind it; which at some point I will also discuss in this content

Art, action, character developments and comedy; art is of the most high standard possible as we get to see around Putter's internally and now and again Lieutenant Pendleton takes a rough ride in Putter's body which is very much depending on what is going on in the outside world as well, so we will have these kind of character developments/comedy of Lieutenant Pendleton trying to talk to Putter, because he doesn't realise that someone is inside him he goes down a rabbit hole of voices may be in his head and consequently we have this beautifully timed back and forth between two other patients in the waiting room with Putter where it is one of those back and forth's that are designed to get confusing quickly or/and Putter feeling incredible pain on the back of his one or both of his eyes due to the adaptions being made or Putter/Short dancing something to the effect of even Mick Jagger would be proud of in this one sequence With him drinking with his new on-board companion Lieutenant Pendleton. 

Character developments and performances; now obviously away from what I have just been discussing broadly speaking the character developments and the performances are good; and a special mention has to go out to Quaid, Short and Ryan; between trio or/and pairings or individually; they are driving force behind the project and without them this film would have really crumbled in essence they all bring different enthusiasm to this project; I would really like to give them another mark, but because of another situation I can't.

This film receives: 7/10, this film is good; I mean if you have never seen this film it is a good watch and as I have already referenced the artistic visions are amazing, but likewise I can't stand the closing of this film as it clearly suggests our story is not over yet, but this film doesn't have a sequel and there is an ongoing sequence underneath the closing credits. This film does have some awards accredited to its name such as 2 Winners; which includes but not limited to  Academy Awards, USA 1988 Oscar Best Effects, Visual Effects Dennis Muren Bill George Harley Jessup Kenneth Smith and 5 Nominees which also include but not limited to Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA 1987 Golden Reel Award Best Sound Editing - Feature Film Mark A. Mangini Innerspace

 

They Will Kill You 2026 by AverageMansReviews

They Will Kill You 2026 by AverageMansReviews

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10 years later: briefly; we meet Asia Reaves/another name [Zazie Beetz:] she is an ex-convict that has recently gotten out of prison, that has gotten into this job at this high rise location as a member of the maid/cleaner stuff she is also on a secret mission.

Generally speaking: the storyline/script and the many components/elements to this film have many traits of other well-known titles such as Kill Bill: Volume 1 & Volume 2: 2003 and 2004, The Evil Dead Trilogy between 1981-1993, The Raid/The Raid: Redemption 2011 and this film is very much a flavour of Oriental martial arts films mixed together to bring this film to live; so obviously with all those being referenced; the framework, character developments and pacing of this 95 minutes film is tight and free-flowing, exposition on the character developments with a pacing which is always constructively moving and simultaneously coinciding with the framework to bring these chaotic to the forefront with spot on rotations and sometimes slow-motion effects being used.

Action, art, comedy, character developments and performance; now if you didn't know this; by the film's I have already referenced that this film is heavily graphic in one way or another; so all three of these components coincide one another as in insanely non-stop action, incredibly visual and consequently sometimes comical, as an example we have the character's eye spying on this ongoing situation, as it has the ability to obviously roll around, but it also has the ability to scale up this air vent; basically this film has so much happening in it that... you can't get bored with it, but it does leave me a little bit stuck what to put in this content; just because of its graphic nature which I myself have no problem with it; it just leaves me a bit short on what is safe but in this content though, I have just remembered we have our lead role going on this dark room with this axe on fire, to use as a torch and as a weapon; this is truly firstly manic action, which in turn turns into exquisite art, which turns into perfect comedy and simultaneously perfect character developments and performance.

Character developments, performances and voice performance; by and large these character developments are well rounded versions of what they are meant to be, which are performed excellently to a foundation level, Beetz already had a good foundation, based on her character's exposition/history, but her character grows more rounded throughout this film as she does deals with this situation and anything that may come away and the voice performers is good as well.

But hypothetically if there is to be a sequel at some point in the future they need to bring back Beetz as she has now made this character/role her very own and as I said earlier or made reference to earlier this feels like just the foundation level of these characters that could be possible to come back in the sequel and yes these would also need the same performers as well

This film receives: 10/10, this film is top-notch entertainment; I think by now I have made it crystal clear that at minimum this film moves, but more often than not it is all gas and no breaks carnage, there is to begin with engaging art in the ending credits and then an extra little thing they sound effect at the end of the ending credits and yes this film does have an awards accredited to its name; SXSW Film Festival 2026 Audience Award Headliners Kirill Sokolov [but it has to be said this film does at minimum it does deserve more nominees, because it doesn't seem right that they put this level of effort into making this film not to have at least 5 positive nominees to its name.]