A Year in Review 2018 – Action and Sci-Fi

With 2018 now behind us, it’s time to look back on some of the blockbusters that kept us going to the movies every weekend.

Today, we’ll be looking back at the action and sci-fi movies of this year. And what a year it has been!

We saw distant dystopian futures, a galaxy far, far away, a distant past come back to life, and an end-of-the-world scenario.

We start with Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel, Ready Player One.

The year is 2045. The world is a dreadful place. To escape from their harsh reality, many turn to the OASIS, a virtual world where they can live out their wildest dreams and fantasies.

When the creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a great fortune and the OASIS itself to the winner of his grand Easter Egg hunt

Wade Watts is a teenager looking for the Egg. When he finds the first key, he begins a chase to finish the hunt before a corporation can take over the OASIS for themselves.

Filled with pop-culture references and stuffed with 80’s and 90’s nostalgia, Ready Player One is a fun popcorn flick if you want a trip down memory lane

Pacific Rim: Uprising is a sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 hit, Pacific Rim. Taking place 10 years after the events of the previous movie, the Kaiju have returned once more, and it’s once again up to the few Jaeger pilots remaining to take them down.

It’s sad to say that this movie lacks nearly everything that made the first one enjoyable to begin with.

The plot is highly contrived. The visuals lack the weight of the first movie, making the giant robots and monsters seem more like toys in a playset rather than actual creatures terrorizing a city.

Everything is extremely lacklustre, and the film ends up being a mindless mess of action set pieces and mediocre CGI

Solo: A Star Wars Story is the origin story of everyone’s favourite space smuggler, Han Solo. It explores various aspects of Han’s history, from how he got his name, how he met Chewbacca, and how he acquired the Millennium Falcon.

For most of its duration, Solo proves to be a boring watch. Apart from Donald Glover’s stand-out performance as Lando Calrissian, nothing in this movie is particularly noteworthy or memorable.

Alden Ehrenreich’s portrayal of Han Solo is good, but not good enough to carry the movie. Overall,a disappointing addition to the Star Wars franchise.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is the sequel to 2015’s Jurassic World. The film follows our protagonists in their effort to rescue the dinosaurs from the island they’re trapped on before the volcano erupts.

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard reprise their roles from the first movie, with new entrants making up the rest of the cast.

It’s a generally fun time but it can get a little wonky if you dig into it too much or question some of the characters’ actions.

Another forgettable movie, while you may enjoy it when you watch it, you won’t be thinking about it once you’re done

Mission: Impossible – Fallout is the 6th movie in the Mission: Impossible series, and it may just be the best one yet

Ethan Hunt and his team must track down three missing plutonium cores after a mission goes awry.They are joined by a CIA agent, played by Henry Cavill, who is monitoring their every move.

Fallout has some of the biggest stunts in a Mission: Impossible film till date, and that’s saying something considering previous movies have had Tom Cruise climb the Burj Khalifa, hold his breath for 7 minutes underwater, and hang from the outside of a plane taking off.

In this installation, he takes it even further, becoming the first actor to ever do a HALO jump on camera, and even piloting his own helicopter for a scene.

Non-stop, fast-paced action, witty dialogue, great performances and an incredible soundtrack, Mission: Impossible – Fallout is one movie you don’t want to miss.

And that’s all for today! I hope you enjoyed the show, and I’ll see you in the next episode!

- Open Face Team

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