22 Jump Street

Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill are cops once again who are spending their time and a hell of a lot of taxpayers money blowing up stuff in order to look for drug dealers. Their police captain person gets royally cheesed off so sends them to work for Ice Cube again. Mr Cube thinks undercover work is good for them so sends them to college to look for more drugs. At college Channings does sporty stuff and Jonah likes women and art and they may or may not work together in order to find some dude or dudette and blow more shit up.

21 jump street was a lot funnier than it could have been and was a beautiful parody of itself and the genre it fit into. That being said I was a little trepidatious when starting to play the second in the series and was a little worried it would fall flat, good thing I was wrong. Right from the off it is clear Jonah Hill, he wrote it.........or co wrote it or something, is not taking things seriously in the slightest and actively takes the piss out of sequels and how they aren't as good as the originals. I must say that I enjoyed this just as much as the first, Tatum and Hill have palpable chemistry and Tatum in particular has very good comedic chops. Don't get me wrong the writing and direction are on form aswell but Tatum gives his all and it pays off. The supporting cast are wonderfully ridiculous and Ice Cube steals the majority of the scenes he is in and is the butt of probably the best joke in the entire film when the cops first see the interior of 22 jump street.

Not completely without flaws but was more like a well ironed shirt that has wrinkles on the collar. Loved it

Verdict: 4/5

Hercules

The Rock is this big time mega fighter guy who punches lions and smashes boars in the face with bits of tree. Armies of people hear of these feats via his annoying cousin and hire him and his small band of equally awesome fighter people. One of these people is Lovejoy who is a little older than the others but kicks some mega ass aswell. They keep running around killing people until John Hurt hires them to help him slaughter some pesky rebels, or warriors, or somebody, I don't know. Some more smashing of bones and stabby stuff goes down and boredom starts to set in.

On paper this film should, and could, have been awesome. Watching The Rock punch, kick and Rock Bottom the crap out of a bunch of mythical creatures sounds like possibly the greatest fun you could ever have in a cinema, ever. Ok maybe I overdid that a little but the point stands that this film should have been much better than it actually is. Pretty early on you find out that the stories may or may not be made up by The Rocks very irritating and gobby cousin as a very early form of PR. Unfortunately this leads into a disappointingly dull film. Dwayne is solid enough in the lead role but doesn't really have much to do other than flex his muscles. His supporting cast actually give it a little more wellie, in particular John Hurt and Ian McShane who clearly are having fun seeing who can chew the most scenery, but cannot produce much more than fleeting excitement.

I was very disappointed with this film and thats a real shame. I can't even say it was a bad film, it was worse than that, it was just boring.

Verdict: 2/5