Capping off the Wachowski's inscrutable trilogy with one of cinema's most annoyingly opaque endings, The Matrix Revolutions serves neither a

Not just doubling down on the brain gratingly annoying vagaries and pretentiousness that defined the first film, The Matrix Reloaded also manages to just make things even more confusing, as The Wachowskis, very nearly four years later, and having learned nothing, merely amplify everything from the first film, and do so in an uninspired, laborious manner, ending in one of cinema's most infamous cliff hangers. Now employing a wealth of CGI as the technology had advanced quite a bit since 1999, The Wachowskis double down on overwrought slow motion, the already painfully worn gimmick of "bullet time", and CGI models

You know, according to IMDb, this is a better film than Seven Samurai. One of the most infamously oversaturated films to emerge from the 90s, The Matrix served as the big showcase for The Wachowskis, who at the time were known for their relatively little-seen queer-themed indie Bound. Cribbing freely from an array of cyberpunk, anime, and kung fu flicks, The Wachowskis ended up unexpectedly creating a mammoth cultural phenomenon, one who's influence is still felt today. The problem, of course, is that the film itself is, actually, quite bad. The Wachowskis handle both directing and screenwriting, and its here

So, I'm not quite sure why I'm on an unexpected Bad Benicio Del Toro Movie kick, but here we are. Anyways, I saw the 2010 version of The Wolfman, and it's also a mess. Not quite as much of a trainwreck as The Hunted, but by golly, this is no Bram Stoker's Dracula, that's for sure. The first mistake I feel this film made, above all others, was getting patron saint of cinematic mediocrity Joe Johnston to direct. While he's able to create some interesting, suitably gothic visual images on occasion, overall, it's clear that the film's uber gothic source

Captain America: The First Avenger is not quite the level of abominable that such weak MCU films as Age of Ultron or Thor: The Dark World may be, but it is perhaps the most decidedly mediocre. For a film all about the most noble and unapologetically heroic character in the MCU, First Avenger lacks the sincerity or nobility of it's central character, and comes across as a clunky, rather tedious and forgetful affair, which is a shame, since there is potential for greatness here. Perhaps the cause of this plummeting mediocrity is director Joe Johnston, perhaps the Patron Saint of