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Just Getting Started (2017) Movie Review

December 19, 2017 Steve Baqqi
...and you'll be wishing it would just be over. 

...and you'll be wishing it would just be over. 

There’s a genre of film that I’d like to christen the “senior comedy.” Films like The Bucket List, Going in Style, and Dirty Grandpa are examples of this niche that caters heavily to the Baby Boomer dollar. These films are often defined by their willingness to embrace taboos about sex, violence, or just give license to act like a juvenile idiot-which is just fine, if done right. Just Getting Started is just another in the long line of such “senior comedies,” but done wrong. What’s more, Just Getting Started is simply the latest cynical Christmas cash grab, released solely to squeeze profits out of the holiday season.

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Tags Just Getting Started, Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones, Rene Russo, 2017, Movie Review, Bad Movies, Terrible Movies, Christmas, The Bucket List, Going in Style, Dirty Grandpa, Senior Comedy, Cash Grab, Duke Driver, The Man, Van Wilder, Ron Shelton, Hollywood Homicide, Santa Claus, Arizona, Sex, Drinking, Frat Boys, Star Wars
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Criminal (2016) Movie Review

June 8, 2016 Steve Baqqi

What the hell happened to Kevin Costner? I ask because Criminal is anything but a return to form. I mean seriously, he was one of the biggest Hollywood stars at one point in time, appearing in such blockbusters as The Untouchables, Dances With Wolves, JFK, and Bull Durham. Lately though his career has taken a sharp nosedive, as he’s starred in critically panned or commercial failures like Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, 3 Days to Kill, and Draft Day. Now Kevin Costner is back on the silver screen with a fantastically generic title, Criminal. The film is a snoozefest of the highest proportion, and fails on almost every level.

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Tags Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds, The Untouchables, Dances With WOlves, JFK, Bull Durham, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, 3 Days to Kill, Draft Day, Criminal, CIA, Boring, Dull, Bad Movie, Face Off, Bourne Identity
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