 Guys, what's up? Welcome to a brand new movie review today. We're talking Blumhouse's new film upgrade And of course you can see I have a special guest Cody why don't you introduce yourself? They for some reason never seen you on my channel. Hey, what's going on everybody first of all? I gotta thank Zach here for allowing me to be in this review with him If you guys don't know who I am my name is Cody Curtis. I'm on YouTube. I'm a movie reviewer like Zach I do movie reviews movie analysis and of course you guys know that we do the sweet film podcast Yeah, aren't already listening to it. Yeah, so go check it out and he's also done one review on sandwich on films Just like I have which was for nostalgia. Yes. Yes. Yes So if you guys might have seen him on that review as well if you guys watch these videos on the website or even on the sandwich John's YouTube channel, but of course we're talking upgrade today This film is a brand new Blumhouse film Blumhouse tilt though a little bit different kind of their indian stuff And I will say the blast the blast to watch Yeah, like when now does direct it and he is one of the guys who has developed insidious He's developed saw he's made some good horror franchises with Blumhouse before and other studios So, you know, he has a wonderful mind a very grotesque mind Yeah, and I would love to see the guy do a Mortal Kombat film, which we'll talk about Yeah, absolutely. And it also starts Logan Marshall green. Yeah, his name the other Tom Hardy You guys might know him from Prometheus is our spider-man homecoming. He wasn't there for a bit as shocker now Initial thoughts Cody just couple seconds. What are your thoughts about this film thoughts about the film? It's a fun film It's a very very flawed film But it is a blast to watch and if you guys are gonna go watch this which I think Zach and I both recommend that you do Yeah, I recommend it go see it with an audience because this movie is an audience experience kind of movie It is really like our audience was fantastic. Yeah, it was that they were saying out like I'm during one of the action sequences Which will go into again. Um, they are very grotesque. They are Mortal Kombat ask I'll even go into and they are brutal. They are filmed fantastically like Amazingly and this is why I go to say layman L because James Wan is producing a Mortal Kombat film and Them they too are both friends best friends I would totally go with saying get him to direct the Mortal Kombat film I think the way he decided to direct and stylize these action sequences were brilliant And the best thing was was the guy who behind us who won one of the grotesque scenes happen He went fatality. I almost started laughing my ass off during that It was pretty much perfect and there were other moments in there where people were going. Oh, oh, and that's the best So this is a film. I do recommend going seeing we pretty much have the exact same thoughts on this film This film is a flawed film, but a very fun film at that. I put it this one I actually told you this when we walked out of theater. This is a smart sci-fi idea Placed in a dumb grind house B rated action film, which is fine. Yeah, no from the trip. I never saw the trailers I will go as far as say though this film I did expect it being since the sci-fi film and since it was under Blumhouse tilt studios I was thinking it might have been a more smarter sci-fi film going in Did the trailers give that because I didn't watch the trailer So did the tri trailers give that kind of smarter feel or was it more of the B rated? You know from what I saw it just it looked like a B rated sci-fi action movie So that's fine. So I guess that's what it looks to be and maybe that's just my expectations going different But I will say it was a fun film. It's a blast to watch the cinematography is beautiful. Yeah, it's true Zack's absolutely right cinematography is great the performances the performances are fine. They're fine I think Logan Marshall green this is another issues the script. Yeah, you talk about the script Yeah, no the script if you guys remember Deadpool 2 when Deadpool says that's just lazy writing You can pretty much attribute that to every single aspect of this movie because the the script the dialogue everything it's Poorly poorly written which is one of our yeah, which is a poorly Yeah, and maybe if you gave got Tom Hardy or say because this guy does look like Tom Hardy or maybe a Leonardo DiCaprio And they got this dialogue. They might have been able to spruce it up a bit, but Logan Marshall green He's a decent actor I think he's actually underrated because he has actually in a pretty good amount of stuff for me his script though The script for this film at times. It was lazy writing. Yeah, and at times the The dialogue was not that well done. No, not again Not horrible like not like tear my ears out like this is trash It's not 50 shades of gray. No, but it's it's just chugging along Maybe that's cuz the actors do do a decent time with it I just I feel like there could have been some more non-lazy stuff some other subplots taken out because there were Subplots in here that you said that were placed into the film to just get it over to that hour and a half runtime Yeah, honestly when it comes to this film I don't know if Zack and I really disagree on this and I don't generally say this about films that are only an hour and a Half long because this movie is about 90 minutes long I felt there was enough that you could take out that if the film was Filmed to only be an hour and 20 minutes. It would have been perfect. Yeah, see and I think that's where we do this I do I don't hate the subplots. I didn't I think they were unnecessary But it was to add to just a more of this world in the story and I I understand why they were there But I think that's the one issue. I know you've had some pacing issues too, right? Yeah No, this movie felt very very excruciatingly slow to me and see and I didn't I thought the film was just chugging along it again Predictable when the film starts, you know where it's gonna go. Absolutely when the film ends I will say the ending caught me off guard But this is another issue with me and I think we'll talk about this in a bit We're not gonna go into spoilers. No, so and I don't really want to because I think this is a film that maybe you if you Don't get caught off if you do get caught on surprise. That's awesome I hope it does get work for you that way, but um, I do think that the film Does kind of catch you it tries to catch you off surprise But it leads into a kind of a dumb ending where I feel like the the studio I feel like this wasn't a director choice. I feel like this was the studio choice saying hey your audience might be stupid you need to kind of Make this not ending not as smart because there was a place where the ending ended and I was like, oh my god This is smart. Yeah, and then it kept going. I was like, oh god everyone ground Yeah, everyone grown everyone grown in the theater. Honestly, it kind of felt like Generally everybody going into the film had their own ideas while watching it how the film was going to end and then it Ended a very certain way and out of anything I think this was probably the element in the film. That was the laziest out of anything. Yeah And this is where I think the film just kind of died again It's a fun film if you're wanting a great blast. You've already seen every other film in theater I wouldn't say go rewatch another film. I just recommend this film a hundred percent I think upgrade is a total blast in the theater. It's a dumb Fun grind house be rated film in a sci-fi universe the sci-fi universe is really cool and the CGI was great I mean if you guys are looking for just a fun entertaining movie that you can go out and see with your friends And you want a fun movie theater experience. This is completely a movie. You should go see. Oh, yeah, totally I totally agree get as many as your friends as you can go to the biggest opening night theater You can which will be two nights. So I hope you guys get to check it out I want to hear you guys thoughts on this but since we're going off my rating We give it the same rating correct. Yeah, all right. So our rating for upgrade It has some decent performances some fantastic mortal combat ask action Great cinematography great direction some lazy writing in the script the ending was poor But it's a fun blast of the theaters and I cannot deny that I thought I really enjoyed upgrade I didn't enjoy it as much. I think the story was a tad bit better It probably would have enjoyed it even more. Yeah, but the endings where it kind of fell apart for me again Awesome action. I'm blown away some of the best action I've seen this year So with all that said me and Cody will be getting upgrade a C plus Guys so much for watching our review of upgrade if you guys are new here. I want to hear you guys thoughts That's what's important here. I want to hear you guys comments. What do you guys think about upgrade? Are you side for it? Please comment down below and tell me what is your favorite Blumhouse film? What is your favorite Blumhouse film? We were talking about this. Yeah, I'm right out, right? Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is get out so and for me. I don't know that's really tough I might actually put the first or second insidious because I really like those films But there's so many Blumhouse films. I'd have to go through it But I want to hear your guys's thoughts are of Blumhouse. What are your as favorite films by them? And maybe what's even your worst and plus what did you think of upgrade? That's what's the most important thing here Also, make sure to hit that like and subscribe button. That's what means the most Cody tell them where they can find you out Okay, as always guys, you can find me right here on YouTube Just search Cody curse should be the first name that pops up And I'm also hanging out on Twitter and Instagram. 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