30,000 Miles To Find A Man..."Baggage Claim"

Baggage Claim (2013)
Rated PG-13 for language and situations

Starring: Paula Patton, Derek Luke, Taye Diggs, Adam Brody, Jill Scott, Djimon Hounsou, Christina Milian

Directed and Written by David E. Talbert

The Story:

Montana Moore (Patton) is a flight attendant who doesn't want to be the oldest, never married female in her family.  She embarks on a 30 day, 30,000 mile quest to find Mr. Right.  Using some of her airline pals, they make sure that she's able to work flights that her ex-boyfriends are on, hoping that maybe they have grown and matured a bit and they can reconnect and make things work this time.

Great plan.

A little fluff of a movie, that could just as easily had been a made-for-tv, Lifetime or BET movie of the week.

Some great actors with varying amounts of screen time.

It's just nothing you really haven't seen before, a million and one times.

You'll predict every twist and turn that the movie throws at you.

And with a next-door neighbor who is the perfect guy/best friend, and he happens to be  named Mr.Wright...

Yeah, you solved the movie 5 minutes into it as well.

:)

Final Grade: Solid C

Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: No purchase, but if I was channel surfing, I could watch again.

What Would Guns N Roses Say? "Welcome To The Jungle"

Welcome To The Jungle (2013)
N/R - Language, Nudity

Starring Adam Brody, Rob Huebel, Kristen Schaal, Jean Claude Van Damme

Directed by Rob Meltzer

The Story:

Chris (Brody) is getting walked over at the advertising agency he works at, especially by his boss, Phil (Huebel).  When the CEO (Dennis Haysbert) organizes an island getaway team-building exercise under the tutelage of Storm (Van Damme).  However, things deteriorate quickly, and it becomes a Lord of the Flies madness when the pilot dies and Storm gets eaten by a tiger!  It's up to Chris to save the castaways, but he is undermined by Phil at every turn.

This isn't your average Gilligan's Island episode!

Those were funnier... : /

Definitely a B movie... maybe closer to a Z movie...

There were a few good lines to be delivered throughout the movie, but otherwise, this was best viewed at 1.5x on the PS3.

: )

Brody does his best to win the picture over on the shoulders of the likeable underdog, but it's an uphill battle from the start.

Van Damme does a nice turn as the motivational leader, having some fun with his image.

They could have tightened up the script a bit, and this would have been a much better experience.

There was a good story buried in there, with flashes of brilliance and what could have been popping through on the screen throughout the movie.

However, there were long stretches of mediocrity in between.

If you've got nothing better to watch, but otherwise, you'll be fine to miss this one.

Final Grade: C-

Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: No thanks, I'm good.