This is not a terrible movie. It's not a great one. But it is not so bad that you should not watch it. Some thoughts while watching:

• Where did they get all this sand? Sand does not just stay put. Wind, you know, moves it. That's how rocks become sand. Do they have some Mexican groundskeeper who just constantly walks all their paths with a wheel barrel full of sand?

• The big weakness for killing the monsters is shooting them in the face with shotguns. REALLY? That's it? I feel like this monster invasion would have been over pretty quickly. And if that is all it takes why do they literally never pull out the gun until the end of the movie? They never tried that one?

• The more I see movies with children in them and the more I hear stories of child actors being abused- I think it is long passed time that the government stepped in and prevented children from being on TV. 

• Lighting fires for the quiet homesteaders to signal each other was cool.

• How did they have power? Was this explained?

• If my options are hacking a monster to death with an axe or letting it eat me- I'm going to be chopping up aliens. 

• These people look way too clean for living off the grid.

• At no point did people go "Hey, these things are attracted to sound. What if I put this radio next to that stack of dynamite." These things can die from buckshot- there is no way they are immune to blowing up.

• These people managed to accumulate everything needed to live off grid and to build/repair sophisticated electronics. So. Why did they only pick up one gun? And why is it the most politically correct looking shotgun possible?

• These people are not great parents. They just let them wander wherever. 

• Apparently there are no old people or other kids that are deaf in this world. Because nobody knew that the monster hate hearing aids until now. 

• One thing that kills a lot of modern movies is dialog. Mainly because most current actors and their writers are fucking terrible. The lack of talking helps this movie a lot. 

• I still do not buy Jim Halpert as a heroic character.

• Emily Blunt should have gotten nude more often when she was young. Same for Jennifer Connelly. She's not in this movie. But still. Damn. Missed opportunities.

The first Jack Reacher movie was pretty good. I remember enjoying it. I may have to re-visit it to do a review. This movie however, is not good.

This movie really should be titled 'Jack Reacher: Women Ruin Everything'. Cobie Smulders i not a good actor. She has no role. She cannot pull off being masculine and she is not pretty enough to be feminine. She is the gross modern woman. Devoid of anything attractive and not fit for anything else. Every time she says 'my soldiers' I laughed sarcastically.

Tom Cruise never made sense for this role, either. He is not a tough guy. He did great in the Mission Impossible movies because it was a quasi bug man spycraft type movie. Making him overly muscular and forcing all these terrible one liners is just awful.

One female was not enough so they throw in another woman who may or may not be Reacher's fairly slutty daughter. You end up with three non alpha actors all trying to look and sound tough and intimidating.

Maybe it could have worked if they had a better script? I have no idea what the point of this movie was. Was this the best Reacher novel? I guarantee you no. It was one where the male character had to deal with a bunch of bitchy women. So that is the story Hollywood went with. It's just bad. It's not worth watching.

This movie was basically just an attempt by women to feel empowered. If you have any progressive female friends on Facebook you probably have seen them all hyped up over this 'women are the new men' crap. It is tired and I think even a lot of women are getting bored with it now.

Can you imagine going from the pretty blonde Rosamund Pike to Yucky Smulders?



Who thought that was a good idea?

After you look at the credits you see the writer of the first movie wrote 'The Usual Suspects' and they guy who wrote this movie also wrote the woeful disaster 'I Am Sam'.

That says about all you need to know.

This movie is terrible. Do not watch it. There is nothing redeemable about it.

• Thomas Jane and Jake Busey have bit parts in this movie. Both of these actors have been in great sci fi movies. They are barely in the film. So if you like these actors- go watch the films you liked them in.

• The Predators are coming to Earth to hunt humans because of global warming. I SHIT YOU NOT.

• Olivia Munn does not get naked. She plays a smart person. Here is one of her hot science takes:
• "Kids with autism are the next stage in human evolution."

• The writing is VERY weak. There is really no reason for this group of people to be working together- other than the government hates them. They are all escaped military criminals and degenerates. Most are non-white as well. 

• The government in the bad guy in this movie. The military escapees are the good guys. This is a very 80s theme. Is it a coincidence that both Trump and Reagan were in power when these themes popup? Both were non-establishment Republican types who came in to reduce the size of government. And their government is the bad guy.

• The giant Predator speaks English.

• The Predator mutant dogs are back. And Munn befriends one of them which helps fight the giant Predator in the climactic battle.

• They take the time to throw in a dysfunctional marriage between the main character and his blonde wife. Adds in the supposed problem of a non-mixed race marriage. They also have a child who is mentally defective. 

• There is a scene in which the autistic boy uses an alien weapon to scare the two White (of course) kids who are bullying him. The director, writers, and producers should be charged with inciting domestic terrorism. Placing a positive scene in which a child uses a gun to scare kids promotes school shootings. Kids do not come up with that crap on their own.

• Inexplicably at the end of the film the main character- far from being imprisoned for killing numerous government employees seems to be in charge of the alien research facility.

Mr. Mom (1983) is probably the best movie you will watch this year. There is nothing this 35 year old movie won't beat when compared to the 2018 line up in it's categories.

This movie is hiraeth. This is the reason the young generation has such a love affair with the 80's. This is a movie for White middles class Americans. This family lives in a mansion by modern standards. They have three beautiful children. And the wife is a full time mom. This is the future we were promised.



This movie deals with White working class problems. Namely weasel employers, money problems, and other men chasing after your wife. The movie always stays family friendly as this loyal man and wife pair navigate life in a failing economy.



Keaton's character loses his job. His wife and he both start looking for jobs to protect their family. The wife gets a job first and now Keaton has to adjust to life as the homemaker.

This is not some female empowerment movie. It is looked at as comical and bizarre that the man is unemployed and his wife works. This is a 'fish out of water' story. At the end the man takes his job back and the woman goes back to the kitchen.

One of the many great things about this movie is how people talk to each other. They fight! They have balls! The men compete with each other. The husband and wife have serious discussions but show each other respect. This is a great, family friendly movie.

Instead of watching whatever new crap is on TV or God forbid go to a new movie. Try this one. And watch it with your family.