Rogue One

Prequel to the first Star Wars movie has the rebel bases unifying to fight the evil empire as it developes a death ray that can destroy whole worlds. Non-stop action with all the screw ball characters makes for an easy and fun two hours.2 1/2 bananas

Nocturnal Animals

One of the best movies of the year. Amy Adams , art gallery owner, and Jake Gyllenhaal, budding novelist, are divorced when Adams receives a draft of a novel written by Jake detailing the brutal and gripping murder and rape of Jake's  wife and  daughter. As the movie switches from present to novel, sub plots are everywhere making this a movie that you'd better bring your A brain to keep up with. The first 5 minutes are bizarre and intriguing only to be out done by the ending.
After viewing I'd suggest going to www.slashfilm.com and enter Nocturnal Animals to see just how much you missed in the movie.
The title refers to people who stay up all night.  3 1/2 bananas

Allied

Brad Pitt teams up with an unknown woman French resistance fighter to assassinate a high level Nazi officer in this WWll drama. Once their job is completed they marry, have a child and  he continues to work for the Canadian air force only to be told by his superiors that his wife may be a German spy. Is she or isn't she is the meat of this movie. A couple of very unusual scenes in this spy caper but over all a somewhat dull movie. 2 bananas

Arrival

Amy Adams stars as a linguist brought on by the army to try and communicate with  aliens who have arrived in huge egg shaped space ships. Interesting in the fact that communication is so totally different, exactly what it should be from a foreign visitor. Good, fun Sci-Fi movie.  3 bananas

Hacksaw Ridge

True WW2 story of solider who enlists but refuses to carry a gun hoping to become a medic. What follows is the usual rough stuff in training camp but the heroics of private Doss under fire retrieving 75 men left to die is truely amazing. No big name stars makes this movie shine. 3 1/2 bananas

Inferno

Tom Hanks continues his role as professor Langston. This time he is on the trail of a virus so deadly that half the world population will die. Obviously there are evil forces out there doing battle to prevent Hanks from stopping the virus contamination. Hard to figure out who is the good guy for a long time. Beginning and ending are heart stoppers. 2 bananas

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

2nd movie in the Jack Reacher book series starring Tom Cruise. Reacher is drawn back to his MP days in the military when a Major is jailed to hide a conspiracy at the highest levels. Of all the Reacher books this is one of the weakest. Usual mayhem follows Jack around but Tom Cruise as the 6"4" 240 Reacher is a joke. @ bananas

The Accountant

Ben Affleck is an autistic accountant with a special trade, a deadly killer. While growing up  ben's father seeing he will need to protect himself,  subjects he and his brother to all sorts of physical combat. As an accountant Ben has the rare gift of getting to the bottom of a problem very quickly; thus setting the stage for this movie as Ben is called into a high tech company to examine the books. Finding what what isn't supposed to be found sets off a chain of murders culminating in a somewhat surprising ending. 3 bananas

The Girl on the Train

Emily Blunt is a divorced, depressed, suffering from blackouts alcoholic who rides a commuter train to  work every morning and views from her seat  her ex as well as others who become entangled in a very confusing murder. While the end is not surprising, getting to it is only because the other two women involved look so much alike. Dark and Dreary sets the tone. 2 1/2 bananas

Deepwater Horizon

Incredible recreation of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. May not win best picture of the year but sure is the most INTENSE movie of the year. I found myself holding my breath on numerous occasions. Special effects along with what a deep water drilling rig looks like up close, makes this movie a sure fire see it. Mark Wahlberg stars as a chief electrical engineer. 3 1/2 bananas

The Mechanic: Resurection

If you like Jason Statham, and who doesn't, and want to see an action packed with no holes barred take down movie, see The Mechanic. Statham is retired and living in the South Pacific when an old 'friend'  blackmails him into killing three notorious criminals, as usual no buddy messes with our hero. An entertaining movie for a lousy day.  3 bananas

Jason Bourne

Jason, Matt Damon, after living off the grid for some years  has finally recovered his memory and realizes that his father was killed by the people he once worked for as a killing machine. With a little help from inside sources people will pay for their mistakes. This movie takes non verbal to a new level. Many car and motorcycle chases but over all not up to previous very good  Bourne movies.  2 bananas

Neighbors 2

Where the original was funny this is just plain stupid. Now a sorority has moved in next door and the party begins; creating problems for Seth Rogan who is trying to sell his house next door. Exact same plot as #1 but not funny. Miss it!!! 1 banana

The Nice Guys

Russel Crowe and Ryan Gossling team up in this action comedy looking for a young woman who has made a porno film which more than one person is interested in attaining. Some funny scenes but also some pretty bad acting. 2 bananas

Money Monster

George Clooney and Julia Roberts star in this wall street drama. Clooney and Roberts run a daily TV show called Money Monster and are preparing to go on air when a person hijacks the show and puts a bomb vest on Clooney in order to air his grievances concerning money that he felt had been illegally stolen from him by Wall St. Good cast, sort of a weak plot but entertaining. 2 1/2 bananas

Criminal

Kevin Costner stars as a criminal with no redeeming qualities who is taken from prison and used to transplant memories from a  CIA agent who had hidden some top secret information before he was killed in hopes of recovering it before the other side did. Interesting plot but only see on a rainy day.  2 bananas

Hardcore Henry

Dumbest movie ever made! Made in Russia with English language, a man, maybe, is fitted with super human powers and then is able to kill hundreds if not thousands of like persons. Filmed in the first person as though you are seeing everything through his(?) eyes. The face of this killing machine is never revealed as the same should be said for the movie, don't see it. 0 bananas

Eye in the Sky

Helen Mirren stars as the officer in charge of ordering drone strikes on the enemy. A group of nasty sand eaters are located inside a house that a strike is called on, but  is continually delayed due to the presence of a little girl just outside the house selling bread; As multiple higher ups from different governments weigh in on the issue of collateral damage the suspense that had been building is lost due to the stupidity/complexity of what should be an easy decision in times of war on terrorism. 2 bananas

Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot

A bored TV news producer, Tina Fey, volunteers for a 3 month stint in Afghanistan as a news reporter. In this true story of how 3 months becomes 4 years, Fey is embbeded with a group of Marines as the fighting rages on but the TV interest in the US wanes. Amongst the many parties with other journalists, friendships are made and lost due to self interests. Fey gives a serious performance in this very good movie. 3 bananas

DeadPool

Ryan Reynolds is hilarious in this spoof of the X-Men series from Marvel. Reynolds also known as Dead Pool becomes unkillable and disfigured due to an experiment that was suppose to cure his cancer. He now becomes a costumed anti-hero who kills worse people than himself. Many moments of fun comedy and some great one-liners as he tracks down the people responsible for his situation. 3 bananas

10 Cloverleaf Lane

John Goodman builds a doomsday bunker, kidnaps two people to share it with, while trying to convince his hostages that the world has been destroyed by alien invaders or a nuclear war. Quirky plot has many twists and turns which keep you guessing. Bizare ending leaves room for a sequel. 2 1/2 bananas

London has Fallen

Action, action and more action. The Prime Minister of England dies apparently of a heart attack; as all the world leaders assemble in London to honor him, terrorists with a well planned attacked take out most of the world leaders and much of London's historic buildings. Gerrard Butler stars as a secret service agent in charge of keeping  the President of the U.S.alive. Butler is combination of James Bond and Jack Reacher so you know how this movie ends, but it sure is entertaining. 3 bananas

Spotlight

True story of a special unit of reporters of the Boston Globe who are encouraged by a new publisher to dig deep into the background of the catholic church and its handling of the many pedophile priests in its region. Not good news for the church as a long time cover up is exposed to the highest levels. Well done reporting makes this a grade A movie. 4 bananas

Revenant

Leo DiCaprio stars as a tracker for a 1800's fur hunting expedition. The title should really be "Leo has a Very Bad Year", First he and his group are attacked by Indians, then he is brutally mauled by a bear, sees his son killed, buried alive, falls over a cliff, stranded in snow and eventually stab with a knife. Movie will probably win an Oscar for Leo. Magnificent photography makes this a bloody good  view. 3 1/2 bananas

Finest Hour

Based on actual story of a Coast Guard rescue at Sea in 1952. During a brutal winter storm a loaded oil transport ship  breaks in half with the back half managing to stay afloat. A young  coast guardsman is told to try and retrieve the men aboard the sinking ship knowing that the odds of getting out of harbor over a dangerous reef are next to impossible. Two story lines meld together; how the ship was kept afloat and the coast guard rescue. 3 bananas

13 Hours

Movie is based on true events centered around the 2012 Bengazi uprising. Small group of ex-Seals defend the US consulate that is housing a secret CIA intelligence group. Under manned and with no help from their command center, group fights bravely against a well armed and well directed enemy. Unbelievable that in today's age help could not be sent; Anyone voting in 2016 should view this movie to see how our government fails miserably!! 3 1/2 bananas

The Big Short

Terrifically entertaining as well as based on factual information of what went wrong and who saw the future outcome of the housing/banking crisis of 2008. A few wall streeters dug into how bundled mortgages were being put together and saw that a major bubble was soon to burst on the US economy. Well told story of the few who profited handsomely by shorting incredibly bad mortgage related investments sold by the major banks as AAA rated funds. Great cast makes this  4 bananas

Hunger Games part 2: MockingJay

Katniss Evergreen and her loyal band of outcasts finally get the populace to rise up and dispose of Snow the evil ruler. Not a minute to soon as this movie could have been shot in 20 minutes not two hours. 1 banana

Hateful Eight

Old time western wrapped around an intriguing mystery. 8 very bad men are stranded in a stage coach halfway house by a snow storm in the wyoming wilderness. One is bringing  in a woman to be hanged while someone else is out to prevent the hanging. Movie starts out a bit slow but the 2 hours and 40 minutes get very interesting once the plot is established. Samuel Jackson and Kurt Russel are great in this bloody action packed shootem up. 3 1/2 bananas