Saturday, September 23, 2017

The Review: Message From The King/Little Evil


Message From The King 2/10

I watched this movie Message From The King on Netflix. I started yesterday and finished today. It was a struggle. It stars Chadwick Boseman aka Black Panther who gets a call from his sister in Los Angeles needing help from him. He heads there and ends up finding out that she is dead. She got mixed up with some bad drug dealers, bad boyfriend, bad movie producers, bad bad men, and bad dentists. She pretty much came to the city to die. He goes around beating the shit out of everyone with a bike chain and moral support from a single mother that gives blowjobs in a hotel room while her kid is at school.


I'm not sure that whoever directed this has ever been to LA. It was like this super bad version of it. I'm not really sure why Boseman did this movie. It was like they called and said “Hey, Chad, baby! You, uh, you still got that accent? From Black Panther? Ukandan? Oh. Well, it sounds South African-ish, right? No? Well, anyway, you want a paid trip to LA to film a movie? Cool! See you there!” This movie was ass and a half and not worth watching. Just don't. I'm not sure why it was made.


Little Evil 3/10

The movie that was almost really cool. It was directed by the same guy that did Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil. He is like an Edgar Wright-lite the way he shoots things. This is about a guy that marries a woman whose son may or may not be the Devil. He is. Or the Devil is his father. The kid talks backwards, sits all close to the TV talking to it, and does spooky things in general like talking his teacher into jumping out of a window and impaling herself. He gets sent home from school for this. The father wants to bond with him until the wedding videographer shows the tornado that happened during the wedding where shits flying everywhere but not even a hair on the boy, Lucas, head is moving.


This movie could have been way funnier but it felt like something was holding it back. The acting was inconsistent as if some people were in on the joke and others were not and some were far too over the top even for a movie about a demon child. I would have liked if the mother was in on the fact that her son was evil instead of making the father just seem like an asshole. I get when they make parents oblivious to certain things but this was too much. I also would've liked more of the support group because when they show up to help at the end it seemed rushed. Its a good movie to just have on in the background but I wouldn't suggest this to anyone.

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