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Four Lions is a dark satire about religious extremism is Britain. The characters are all Muslim, and they plan to commit atrocities “for” Islam, but this is all more incidental than anything else. Director/Co-writer Chris Morris is less concerned with religion as a concept, as he is in the selfishness and stupidity of those who are willing abuse it in order to kill people.

We follow a radicalized, but otherwise mild-mannered family man named Omar (Riz Ahmed) and his dim-witted best friend Faisal (Adeel Akhtar) as they eagerly conspire to terrorize London. They are part of a struggling terrorist cell along with the childishly naive Hassan (Arsher Ali) and the bully/de facto leader Barry (Nigel Lindsay). Omar and Faisal are sent to the Middle East to legitimize their cell by training with insurgents in the field, but after a disastrous case of overconfidence involving a rocket, the two return home in disgrace. Determined to save face, Omar tells his other comrades that, yes, they were given the go-ahead to plan an attack, and should start right away. The group of Londoners then uses everything at its disposal, including “trained” ravens, obnoxious mascot costumes, and each other’s foolishness to send their clear, devastating message… so should they bomb a drug store or a mosque?

These guys are all fools, and we are never lead to believe anything else. However, there is a strange dignity that Morris gives through the framing of his characters, particularly Omar. The man is trying to blow up a bunch of innocent people, but we still get little moments of his family life, like playfully teasing his wife or attempting to frame his failures in the most heroic light possible as a bedtime story for his kid. He just wants to be worth something.

Four Lions is critical of a particular interpretation of Islam, never the religion itself. By focusing the humor directly onto Omar and his men (even the legitimate terrorists look like Navy Seals compared to them), Morris is able to provide an effective satire of an all-too-relevant issue while never being too cruel when choosing the butt of his jokes. Well worth the 97min runtime.
Four Lions
Directed by: Chris Morris
Starring: Riz Ahmed, Adeel Akhtar, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak
97min
2010
Streaming on: Prime, FuboTV, Roku Channel, Hoopla, Vudu, Tubi, Kanopy, Crackle, Pluto TV, Plex
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]]>A review of Disney+’s Raya and the Last Dragon has been difficult to write. Not because there is so much wrong or right with it that I just can’t figure out where to begin, but because it is a decent movie. And that is sorta where my thoughts always end.

Raya and the Last Dragon is set long ago in the mythical land of Kumandra, where humans lived in peace and harmony with magical dragons of all types: water dragons, air dragons, etc. With the graceful and wise dragons as their guardians, the humans did not fear each other and had no need for war, or even borders. That is, until the evil sprits known as the Druun invaded and began to turn everyone, human and dragon alike, into stone. The dragons sacrificed themselves to defeat the Druun, and gave their essence to mankind in the form of a glowing orb to keep the demons gone forever. However, centuries later, human greed broke up the orb into four pieces, inadvertently unleashing the Druun on the world once again.
The titular Raya (Kelly Marie Tran) is a princess of one of humanity’s tribes, who travels the world on her giant rolling beast Tuk Tuk (Alan Tudyk). She is determined to recollect the orb’s pieces and save her father, Chief Benja (Daniel Dae Kim), from his petrification. On her journeys across Kumandra, Raya manages to resurrect a dragon of legend named Sisu (Awkwafina), who isn’t exactly as powerful as the stories about her said. All the while, our hero is being hunted by her fearsome nemesis Namaari (Gemma Chan) who wants the orb’s power for her own tribe’s benefit.

All of this information is given to us in the first act, and I did not even mention the lengthy sequence where Namaari and Raya’s backstories are explored. That is biggest issue that the movie has: pacing. There are fun characters with lively performances from their respective talents (Awkwafina is a definite highlight), but I never felt like the movie gave enough time to enjoy them. Some other adventurers that Raya later recruits, like Benedict Wong’s warrior Tong, end up feeling like they were simply tacked on.
Raya and the Last Dragon has breathtaking scenery, fun action, and great performances, but due to pacing issues these elements do not add up to a truly memorable experience. But it is a decent one.
Raya and the Last Dragon
Directed by: Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada
Starring: Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina, Izaac Wang, Gemma Chan, Daniel Dae Kim
2021
107min
Streaming on: Disney+
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]]>Director Zack Snyder is back, this time with Dave Bautista in the new action-horror movie from Netflix, Army of The Dead. Now, playing in a universe totally separate from that of his DC “Snyderverse,” the famously stylized Snyder has free rein to cinematically take us wherever he wants to go. However, Army of The Dead often feels like far too familiar a journey.

After a military convoy from Area 51 crashes, their secret cargo is set loose in Las Vegas: a fast, strong, intelligent zombie. No one is safe, and the city is soon overrun and zombified. Vegas is walled off, and its rumored that the President wants to nuke the place. Some time later, Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), a decorated hero Vegas’ evacuation, finds himself as a broke, lowly burger flipper. He is approached by mysterious businessman Tanaka (Hiroyuki Sanada), who gives him a proposition: sneak into the city, get to his old casino, break $200 million out of the vault, and you get to keep $50 million of it. Ward is wary of Tanaka, but accepts the deal. He quickly rounds up a team, including: the tough, professional Maria (Ana de la Reguera); the cool, chainsaw-wielding Vanderohe (Omari Hardwick); the wild, zombie-killing influencer Guzman (Raúl Castillo); and the comic relief safebreaker Dieter (Matthias Schweighöfer). While inside Vegas, however, it becomes clear that the deeper you go, the zombies get smarter and tougher. Plus, that nuke will be coming much sooner than anyone thought…

Army of The Dead, as the name implies, has a lot of zombies. It absolutely delivers on the all-important variety of kills, and showcases some really detailed and creative gore effects. In fact, sometimes the amount of gore felt like a welcome throwback to the violently carefree zombie movies of yore like Braindead.
However, there is very little visual flair to distinguish it from every other zombie flick out there, which is unusual for a Snyder film. Although Snyder does include a fantastic montage during the opening credits to set the mood, then he plays it safe the rest of the way. There’s not even a lot of his trademark ultra-smooth slow motion. A lot of the movie just comes down to standard medium shots of people pointing guns offscreen and shooting.

You can love a Snyder film or hate it, but you don’t forget moments a Snyder film. Unfortunately for Army of The Dead, it might be the first Snyder film you will forget.
Army of The Dead
Directed by: Zack Snyder
Starring: Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Ana de la Reguera, Matthias Schweighöfer
2021
148min
Streaming on: Netflix
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]]>The Marvel media machine marches along with Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K., the new adult animation starring uber-geek comedian Patton Oswalt as the titular supervillian. Set in a universe apart from the PG-13 MCU, M.O.D.O.K. is able to push the envelope for Disney’s property in terms of vulgarity, violence, and style.

MODOK (Mental/Mobile/Mechanized Organism Designed only for Killing), a big-headed supervillian and CEO of weapons company AIM, is obsessed with defeating any Avenger that he can get his hands on, but preferably Iron Man (Jon Hamm). While MODOK views Iron Man as his archnemesis, the feeling is clearly not mutual. MODOK knows this deep down, but can’t stand the thought of somebody daring to not be intimidated by his villainy. Unfortunately, AIM is not in a great financial spot due to devoting its resources to the CEO’s Evil Plots of questionable success. Facing the loss of everything, MODOK reluctantly sells the company to the mysterious GRMBL Corporation, and now has to deal with their sickeningly hipster overseer Austin (Beck Bennett), who has no interest in MODOK’s ideas (or dignity). On the home front, MODOK’s marriage has become another casualty of his murderous obsessions. His wife Jodie (Aimee Garcia) kicks him out of the house and into a crappy apartment, making it that much harder to be a good dad to his kids, the angsty Melissa (Melissa Fumero) and the hormonally charged Lou (Ben Shwartz).
In the tradition of other adult animated comedies like Bojack Horseman and Rick and Morty, Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. is about a man who tries desperately to cling to what makes him special, despite how often it conflicts with… well, everything. And the only thing he can think of is to lash out, sometimes with laser blasts.

Made with action figure stop-motion animation à la Robot Chicken (whose team also produced this), M.O.D.O.K. is a treat to watch, and the technique really makes the goofy situations and sudden violence work. It is much easier to take a boss with a giant head blowing an unlucky employee’s arm off if it sort of looks like a kid playing with toys.
Despite the huge stylistic and tonal change from the MCU, Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. is able to tell a twistedly touching story about a supervillian who realizes that he isn’t so super anymore. And maybe he never was.
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Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.
Created by: Jordan Blum, Patton Oswalt
Starring: Patton Oswalt, Aimee Garcia, Ben Schwartz, Melissa Fumero, Beck Bennett
2021
10 episodes, 25min each
Streaming on: Hulu
]]>Now streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video is the new military thriller, Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse, starring the endlessly likable Michael B. Jordan. Jordan plays John Kelly, a Navy SEAL “badass,” as a buddy describes him, who we first meet on a covert operation in Syria with his unit, lead by Lt. Commander Greer (Jodie-Turner Smith). Unfortunately, what should have been a simple fight against your average terrorists becomes far deadlier than expected: nobody said anything about fighting Russians. A squad member is killed because of the faulty intel, and Kelly immediately suspects that the CIA member who accompanied them, the cold and quiet Agent Ritter (Jamie Bell), knew about the danger.

Greer tells Kelly to drop it. Back in the States, members of Kelly’s SEAL team begin to be murdered right outside their houses. Kelly is also attacked, but manages to fight off all but one assailant before slipping into a coma from his wounds. Unfortunately, he was not fast enough to save his pregnant wife (Lauren London). Kelly later learns that the assassins were Russian agents, but the US government will not pursue the missing one in order to avoid an international incident. Outraged, (with an emphasis on “rage”) Kelly begins to take matters into his own hands to find his wife’s killer.
Tom Clancy wrote tense, technically and politically detailed Cold War novels, which became successful films in the 90’s with The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games, movies that emphasized procedure over prolonged action. Recently, Clancy is perhaps more known for video games bearing his name, like the highly-popular shooter Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. These games have a little of the tactical feel that made Clancy big, but have lately focused more on the immediate thrills of combat. Without Remorse is certainly a result of this shift.

Without Remorse has some amazing action set pieces that give you the “sexiness” of precise gunplay, but, like a Call of Duty game, the story itself becomes more of just a segue between the action. In Patriot Games, the audience is walked through every possible scenario and its potential consequences before paying off with satisfying action. Here, we get satisfying action with a brief explanation afterwards.
Jordan gives a great performance as a desperate man who is suddenly tangled up in politics that he must unravel, but I had trouble even appreciating the knots.
Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse
Directed by: Stefano Sollima
Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Jodie-Turner Smith, Jamie Bell, Guy Pearce
2021
109min
Streaming on: Prime Video
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