Deight Night Reviews

Back in 2023, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 released in cinemas to a very positive response from critics and audiences alike continuing on the series' penchant for gripping action with death defying stunts performed almost solely by the franchise's lead - in every sense of the word - Tom Cruise. Though it wore the fact it wasn't a complete finale very much on its sleeve, the film did have a more or less complete story even if it did indeed lead more into its follow up than any other film in the franchise, with the film's villains, the Entity and Gabriel (Esai Morales) being very much still at large - albeit with the latter given a big setback having had the key to the doomed submarine, the Sevastopol, and the Entity's weakness taken by Cruise's Ethan Hunt.  Unfortunately for the franchise, Dead Reckoning Part 1 did not perform fantastically at the box office. Many theroised this was due to the film advertising that it wouldn't have a definiti...

Every single Final Destination film has the same story, the main character (who's always a young man or woman) becomes the victim of a random but tragic massacre that occurs due to some form of negligence or another. The film then flashes back to moments before the tragedy begins where the main character realsies they saw a premonition of what's to come and with that new information saves as many people as they can before the inevitable. After they have survived, Death cleans up the mess that has been made by the main character and kills the survivors in the order they were meant to die in various random and harrowing ways, giving audiences new fears of everyday items with each franchise entry.  Final Destination Bloodlines , after five films of recycling the same concept over and over and a 14 year gap, finally switches up the formula with it's brutal and franchise-best opening. Writers Jon Watts, Lori Evans Taylor and Gus Busick take audiences back to the 1950s where a c...

Marvel Studios hasn't had a great start to 2025, it has to be said. While Deadpool and Wolverine performed well and kept fans happy, it has had some retroactive criticism thrown against it; that its story is barely existent and most of its quality comes from blind nostalgia bait. Daredevil: Born Again , also started off as a success but ended its first series on a somewhat sour note leaving fans, especially those of the original Netflix series, disappointed.  Of course, the biggest dent in the studio's reputation this year has been Captain America: Brave New World , which underperformed both financially and critically. It was doomed from the start with a new director who was in over his head, a geriatric Harrison Ford and constant reshuffles of the script. Now with DC Studios finally getting their act together under the control of James Gunn with his very own Superman coming in the summer, Marvel really need a win to get back in the game. Thankfully for them, that seems to ha...

After over a decade of cultivating his craft telling other people’s stories, whether that be in the form of contributing to a franchise ( Black Panther , Creed ) or a true to life drama ( Fruitvale Station ), Ryan Coogler has finally been given a chance to create his own world in the form of vampire horror, Sinners . The film takes place in the American south in the early 1930s and follows gangster twins Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan) who return to their home of Mississippi to organise a huge party celebrating their homecoming. The pair gather their caterers, drinks and musical entertainment but once the party starts it attracts the attention of a band of vampires (led by Jack O’Connell) who are desperate to be invited in.  Coogler’s experience elevating franchises and bringing lesser known stories to the big screen has all led to Sinners . It’s Coogler’s masterpiece and it's already the film of 2025 so far, but it’s far and away the director’s best project, which is saying a ...

Right off the back of depicting a fictional war torn United States in last year's phenomenal Civil War , Alex Garland returns to the war genre with the help of veteran Ray Mendoza to take audiences to the very real war torn Iraq of 2006 in Warfare . The film is an autobiographical account of Mendoza's experience on a mission which saw himself and his platoon of fellow Navy Seals pinned down in a house they had taken as an outpost for reconnaissance when they're overwhelmed by enemy fire. The film follows the events in real time as the platoon try to get out of the house and transported to safety.  Alex Garland makes a big deal of the fact that this film was written from interviews of all the real soldiers that are depicted by the cast and it's no surprise as the authenticity is transparent from the offset. The film opens with the platoon sharing a brotherly moment as they all salivate over the overtly erotic music video of Eric Prydz's Call On Me . This scene would ...