Movie Reviews: Skyscraper, Incredibles 2 and First Reformed | Films | Entertainment

Skyscraper, 3/5

A similar phenomenon seems to be playing with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. The former wrestler is huge everywhere but he is inexplicably massive in communist China.

"I am extremely grateful to the Chinese people for embracing me and my films as they have done over the years," he wrote on Instagram. Millions of people have turned to him to see monster pieces in his latest film.

Like Rampage (who made most of his money in Asia), Skyscraper had at least one eye on the fastest world.

It's the Johnson that his Chinese fans know and love; a noble, stoic, dedicated man of action, who does not have time for the crazy power crazy and no truck with the laws of physics.

Johnson plays Will Sawyer, a former one-legged FBI agent now considered one of

In Hong Kong, he consults The Pearl, a new skyscraper (do the Chinese have anything for them? large buildings?) intended to be the largest in history

Zhao Long, developer of billionaires. Ji (Chin Han) also believes that it could be the "safest super-high structure" in the world.

These words come back to haunt him when the evil Kores Botha (Roland Moller) launches a clever plan to install the building

Better not ask why or how. Will Will save the building? The fact that his wife Sarah (Neve Campbell) and her children are trapped inside could focus on her mind.

Did I mention that an earlier incident had left him a prosthetic leg? This does not seem to matter in view of how it behaves and plays the hero of the action.

Fortunately, there is no time to think about the conspiracy holes as Johnson throws himself into a succession of action sequences.

Of course, Western eyes have already seen it in Die Hard of Bruce Willis, Steven Siegal's Steven Seagal and Has Fallen by Gerard Butler

. You might want a little more flair and a lot more originality, but Skyscraper is not trying to reinvent the wheel.

It's a great summer blockbuster. Maybe all fans of nerdy action movies should send gushing messages to "CHINA"? Without Johnson and the Chinese, I'm not sure that many scams are made for $ 125 million.

Incredibles 2, 4/5

It's been fourteen years since we saw the Parrs, but the super-powerful family does not seem to have grown old one day. The Incredibles 2 begin where the original film stopped, with the evil The Underminer (voiced by John Ratzenberger) ripping the city of Metroville inside a gigantic underground exercise.

The following hi-jinks are an orderly way to introduce ourselves to the otherwise natural family – Mr. Incredible / Bob (Craig T. Nelson), Elastigirl / Helen (Holly Hunter) and their children Violet (Sarah Vowell), Dash (Huck Milner) and the baby Jack-Jack (Eli Fucile).

The giant daredevil seems to constantly challenge gravity by swaying on a dilapidated ledge or making an improbable ridiculous leap of a high height to an open window. 19659006] But it turns out that their heroism is not appreciated by the powers-that-be. After destroying the damage done to municipal property while diverting The Underminer, all superheroes are outlaws.

Help telecommunications company mogul Winston Deavor (Bob Odenkirk) and his sister Evelyn (Catherine Keener) who persuade the Parrs that a bit of public relations turnover will change the minds of politicians.

A clever touch is that they only want Elastigirl for their new advertising campaign.

They equip him with a new superbike and a dark gray and a black suit will then take him to face the evil Screenslaver (Bill Wise).

Color cameras will project the action to the public and as the film follows its high-octane adventures, it also cuts scenes showing Mr.

This requires the excretory excretor to flex new muscles. Violet has problems with her boyfriend, Dash is facing a difficult math task and the baby is suffering from a version of superheroes.

Elastigirl's attempt to stop a runaway train is the most exciting part of the film. Jack discovers his own powers while fighting a raccoon is the most memorable.

The familiar plot – and its very predictable twist – is a lot less special. The cinemas are now flooded with Spandex and what was cool in 2004 now feels a bit old.

But never underestimate Pixar's superpowers. In the end, a superb animation, a good voice play and a witty script really make the difference

First Reformed, 4/5

Paul Schrader, the scriptwriter who gave us Taxi Driver , Raging Bull and American Gigolo Pleasures much quieter in First Reformed. In this beautifully written drama, which he also directs, Ethan Hawke plays Ernst Toller, the troubled pastor of the First Reformed Historical Church of Snowbridge, New York

As the majority of the congregation now frequents the nearby mega-church, its job is more to carry tourists around the shop than to save souls.

But her mind is restless when a pregnant woman named Mary (Amanda Seyfried) asks her to advise her husband Michael.

He is a fervent ecologist who believes that the world is irreparable and that a life of misery awaits his unborn child, he wants Mary to have an abortion.

The pastor pleads for hope, but he can not disagree with the scientific evidence.

When he combines Michael's statistics with the Book of Revelations, this soft-cloth man begins to look like Travis Bickle of Taxi Driver in a dog collar. the end will prove divisiv e but the dialogue sparkles, the atmosphere rushes and Hawke plays with the best performance of his career.