Anna Karenina

Friday 12th February 2016

Director: Joe Wright
Year: 2012
Stars: Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Matthew Macfadyen

Anna Karenina feels, in many ways, an awful lot like the book. Which isn't a compliment. After spending months slogging through the book a few years back, I did not feel satisfied at all with the ending. The film left me with exactly the same feeling. I guess it says something about the movie that it manages to be so faithful to the book...

... in some ways. When Anna Karenina starts, it is very visual and highly stylised. This continues throughout the movie, but somewhere along the way it manages to hone in on the things Tolstoy (I assume) was trying to convey when he wrote the novel - even if the book, at least to me, never really felt very stylised at all.

As my husband pointed out, Anna Karenina feels like something of a bit part in her own story. I imagine that's really on purpose, but it's annoying when she's clearly meant to be the central character. In the novel she bangs on about Kitty a lot. In the movie Kitty hardly features - but then, that's not surprising. Because whilst she's talked about in the novel, nothing  really happens to her. I guess it can't be the fault of the film that I hated the novel - but it has other problems too. Keira Knightley just doesn't seem right for the role of Anna Karenina. She's trying too hard. At times, it felt like she was trying to be Helena Bonham Carter. But Helena Bonham Carter doesn't belong in this movie either.

I would highly advise going and watching (or even reading) something else. Maybe the BBC dramatisation of War and Peace. Or Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Or just Pride and Prejudice. Just not this.

Rating: 2 out of 5

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Thursday 11th February 2016

Director: Burr Steers
Year: 2016
Stars: Lily James, Sam Riley, Bella Heathcote, Sally Phillips, Charles Dance, Jack Huston, Lena Headey, Matt Smith

This is exactly what it says it is. Pride and Prejudice... with zombies. That would have been the pitch for the movie, it's the title of the book, and there's not really any other way to describe this movie. Which is all fine, if you like Jane Austen novels. And zombies. And can see the appeal of marrying the two.

Happily, I like both. And am more than happy for them to be joined together. There are no surprises at all here (save for the fact that the story from Pride and Prejudice, even with the zombies, remains basically intact), and that's fine by me. I knew what I was going to get, and I got it. Whilst I'm sure many would disagree, my Thursday night didn't feel at all wasted.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Brave

Monday 8th February 2016

Director: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
Year: 2012
Stars: Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters (voices)

This was shown on TV at Christmas, and we finally got around to watching it a few days ago. It's a pretty enjoyable Pixar movie - primarily because it's about a girl who doesn't just want to find her Prince. Instead, she wants her freedom. And that's OK.

The majority of the plot concerns her father's fear of bears, her lack of wariness concerning witches, and the curse she ends up having to lift any way she can. Brave is a fun movie with a decent plot, and will keep you watching for its 90 minutes running time. There's not really a lot else to say - watching Brave is simply an enjoyable enough way to spend an hour and a half.

January 2016 films

Just as with the majority of my films from 2015, I have totally failed to blog about any of the movies I've watched throughout January. As we're almost at the end of January, and I've actually managed to watch a fair few movies (if not blog about them), I'm once again going to stick to writing a simple list of those movies, and giving them a basic star rating. I fully intend to start blogging again properly next month, giving each movie the review it deserves! But for now, here is January's list:

Oz the Great and Powerful - 4 stars
Life of Pi - 4 stars
Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger - 3 stars
Puss in Boots - 4 stars
The Hateful Eight - 4.5 stars
Cosmopolis -2 stars
Gambit - 4 stars
Silver Linings Playbook - 2.5 stars
Joy - 2 stars
Side Effects - 4 stars
Now You See Me - 4 stars

2015 Review

Although my film blogging throughout 2015 has, shall we say, left something to be desired, I still wanted to give reviewing the movies I've watched throughout the year a go - I may not have done much blogging, but I have still been watching!

I'm going to attempt to do something similar to the last few years, where I list all the films that score 4 stars or more, and pick my top movies from that list. I'll then list all the films that score 2 stars or less, and list my top films not to waste your time on.

Films of the Year:

5. The Raven (4 stars)
4. The Intern (4 stars)
3. Warm Bodies (4 stars)
2. The Impossible (4 stars)

Film of the Year:
1. Brooklyn (5 stars)

I've kept the list down to 5 movies, instead of 10, this year - primarily because I just haven't watched that much during the course of the year. Film of the Year was exceptionally easy, because I only gave 5 stars to one movie. Brooklyn is a wonderful film, all about an Irish girl who goes to live in New York - and has to decide where her life really is. It's not complex, or particularly edgy, but it's a beautiful movie about an interesting life. And the lead character in a 1950s immigration movie is female. I'm not sure I've seen that before, and the film is all the better for it.

Before compiling a list of bad films, I thought that I hadn't seen very many bad movies at all this year, as I just haven't had time for them. Whilst this does seem to be true, it turns out that I have managed to watch some proper humdingers:

Films Not to Waste Your Time on:

5. Adam (2.5 stars)
4. The Lady in the Van (2 stars)
3. The Bourne Legacy (2 stars)
2. Bad Teacher (2 stars)

Worst Film of the Year:
1. Quartet (1 star)

These films were either boring (Adam), self-indulgent (The Lady in the Van), dull (The Bourne Legacy) or just plain bad (Bad Teacher). However, Quartet was the only film that scored 1 star. And that's because it's boring, self-indulgent, dull and bad. Not to mention totally full of its own importance. Even before I sat down to write this list, it stood out in my head as absolutely the worst movie I have watched all year.

In summary:
Film of the Year 2015: Brookly
Film Not to Waste Your Time On 2015: Quartet

May - December 2015 films

2015 was a busy year. I had a baby, bought a new car, spent 3 months in California... and didn't update this blog once between July and December. What I did do, however, was watch a number of movies. Maybe not during the summer, when we were in sunny California and there were sunny, outdoor things to do (and two children to look after 24/7). But when we got back in September I started taking the baby to baby cinema - and found time for myself occasionally to watch a movie or two on TV. However, I totally failed to write about any of them on this blog. So this is my attempt to make up for that...

Now, writing full reviews of movies I saw 4 months ago now seems a little excessive, so I'm going with a list format, and just a simple star rating:

October
Miss You Already - 3.5 stars
Hancock - 3 stars
The Intern - 4 stars
The Martian - 2.5 stars
Having You -3 stars
Warm Bodies -4 stars

November
Stoker - 2.5 stars
Brooklyn - 5 stars
Spectre - 3 stars
The Lady in the Van - 2 stars
The Hunger Games: The Mockingjay Part 1 - 4 stars
The Hunger Games: The Mockingjay Part 2 - 3 stars

December
The Good Dinosaur - 3 stars
The Bourne Legacy - 2 stars

All of this leads me on to the fact that it is also time (well, it was a month ago) to do my 2015 review. It's unlikely to be as in-depth as previous years, given how well my film blogging has gone this year, but I'll give it a go in the next post...

A Royal Night Out

Thursday 4th June 2015

Director: Julian Jarrold
Year: 2015
Stars: Sarah Gadon, Jack Reynor, Bel Powley, Emily Watson, Rupert Everett

The only film I've seen in the last month (look, I've been, umm, busy, OK?!), I quite enjoyed A Royal Night Out. Admittedly, I probably enjoyed it mostly because I went to baby cinema to watch it. I haven't been to baby cinema since I went with my son about two years ago, and, for the majority of the film, my daughter loved watching the screen. She's 4 months old and already a bigger TV fan than her big brother. Which makes me happy, 'cause I can watch a movie with her!

A Royal Night Out has a fairly simple plot (always a good thing when you're with a baby). It's VE Day, and the then young Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II), wants a night out. She gets what she wants, and all kinds of antics ensure. She and her sister Margaret get lost, separated, end up buses with no money... y'know, all the kind of stuff you'd never do if you were a royal and had somebody looking after you 24/7.

No, it's not complicated - but it is simple and fun. Which I was more than happy with at the time.

Rating: 3 out of 5

The Impossible

Sunday 3rd May 2015

Director: J.A. Bayona
Year: 2012
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin, Oaklee Penderghast

Don't watch this film if you're after something cheerful. Whether or not it ends well, it's a difficult movie to watch. It's possibly not the movie we should have picked to watch with our only free evening in some time - but at least it was good.

The Impossible tells the story of a family of five who were on holiday in Thailand when the tsunami hit in 2004. The title is probably something of a clue as to how the movie ends - but it's the journey the family take to get there that the film focuses on.

This probably isn't a movie that could have been made much sooner than it was - in many ways the tsunami and it's after-effects still feel very recent. But it is a well-told, respectful movie, and does do the subject justice.

Rating: 4 out of 5

February 2015 films

As you can see, this monthly review is two months late. However, in some ways, it's right on time. Because do you know how many movies I've watched since 1st March? Zilch. Nada. Zero. Yep, not one. This may have something to do with the arrival of a new baby - not to mention organising a trip to the USA, buying a new car, dealing with an incredibly stroppy toddler...

Anyways, here are the films I did manage to watch in February, when I was sat at home waiting for a baby to arrive and had a lot more spare time than I do now!

• Cuban Fury (2014) - 3 stars
• All Good Things (2010) - 2.5 stars
• The Avengers (2012) - 3 stars
• American Reunion (2012) - 4 stars
• The Raven (2012) - 4stars
• Quartet (2012) - 1 star

Whilst there are a number of average movies in here, Film of the Month and Film not to waste your time on are both fairly easy.

There are two contenders for Film of the Month - American Reunion and The Raven. Both incredibly enjoyable movies in their own way, they are very different, which does make it difficult to pick one over the other. I'd be happy to watch either of them again, but on balance I think The Raven has to be my Film of the Month. I really enjoyed John Cusack's performance here, and I have to admit that generally I prefer a thriller to a comedy - making me more slightly likely to re-watch this and not American Reunion.

Film not to waste your time on is, however, incredibly easy. Quartet involves watching a bunch of actors run around being ridiculous, and pretending that they're doing it for the sake of acting. This isn't acting, it's just idiocy. Boring idiocy at that.

Film of the Month: The Raven
Film not to waste your time on: Quartet

Cuban Fury

Friday 28th February 2015

Director: James Griffiths
Year: 2014
Stars: Nick Frost, Rashida Jones, Chris O'Dowd

I watched this the day before my daughter was born, so forgive me if I didn't pay full attention or can't remember the details (especially as I'm writing this a full two months later).

Cuban Fury tells the story of Bruce Garrett (Frost), a man who used to be a champion salsa dancer as a child but gave it all up due to a bullying incident. Now in his thirties, he's overweight and thinks his new boss, Julia (Jones) is out of his league. Can you guess where this is going? Yep, to a salsa dance floor.

It's not a complicated movie, and I have to admit it didn't have my full attention, but it was quite an enjoyable easy watch. Not a bad choice if you want something easy-going.

Rating: 3 out of 5

All Good Things

Friday 20th February 2015

Director: Andrew Jarecki
Year: 2010
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella, Lily Rabe, Philip Baker Hall

Well, this was odd - and perhaps not exactly what I was expecting. I still don't know how much I enjoyed it. I hadn't really heard of the movie before, but it sounded interesting when I saw it was on TV, so decided to give it a try. It turns out that the reason I hadn't heard of the movie was because, even though it has some big names in it, it was never really promoted upon its release, and got a very narrow arts-house release.

Upon watching it, it's not hard to see the reasons for the lack of promotion. It's a tough movie to market. It tells the story of David Marks (Gosling), and his relationship with his father (Langella) and his wife (Dunst). It's apparently 'the most notorious unresolved murder cases in New York history' (according to the movie blurb; I had never heard of it so who knows whether or not this is true) - but this is the part of the problem. The murder case is unresolved, meaning there's no closure in the movie. Now, it's clear that the movie thinks it knows what happened, but it leaves a lot of questions in its wake. Not least of which is 'is this what really happened? How much has this movie made up?!'

Overall, the individual performances aren't bad. Individual elements of the script aren't bad. I even spent chunks of the film being quite intrigued and wondering what would happen next. But somehow All Good Things isn't quite the sum of its parts. I can't really recommend it - it's mostly likely to leave you feeling frustrated and confused - not to mention wanting answers you won't get.

Rating: 2.5 out of 5

The Avengers

Friday 13th February 2015

Director: Joss Whedon
Year: 2012
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgard, Gwyneth Paltrow

I wasn't expecting a massive amount from this movie - I knew it was an action adventure hero movie, incorporating a bunch of characters that have previously had their own movies and are associated with Marvel comics (The Hulk, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Black Widow...). Having seen very few of the previous movies (I think I saw Thor?), I also wasn't sure how likely I was to get what was going on.

The movie pretty much met my expectations - in some ways it may even have exceeded them. The Avengers is what you would expect from a hero action movie, but it gets the tone right and does have a semi-decent plot. It's at least believable in the world it's set in. Loki (Thor's brother, played by Hiddleston) wants to rid the world of free will, and Agent S.H.I.E.L.D therefore decide to gather together the aforementioned group of Avengers to stop him in his tracks. Of course, Loki may have been planning for them to do this all along...

The film is happy to poke fun at itself and the genre - if, like me, you find yourself thinking 'this always happens in action hero movies and it's silly', you'll almost certainly be faced with a joke picking up on that very point, just as you're thinking it. Perhaps some people may hate that, but it did endear me to the movie a little bit more. If you like superhero action movies, you won't be disappointed.

Rating: 3 out of 5

American Reunion

Saturday 7th February 2015

Director: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Year: 2012
Stars: Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Seann William Scott, Mena Suvari, Eddie Kaye Thomas, John Cho, Jennifer Coolidge, Eugene Levy

This could have been so awful. Luckily, the filmmakers don't try to simply recreate American Pie. Instead, they treat it like it's ten years later, and like their main actors have grown up and become 30-somethings. Which they have. That's not to say there isn't still silly, gross-out humour, but it never feels out of place.

American Reunion focuses on exactly what the title says - the original American Pie characters come back together for a reunion after 10+ years. Queue lots of awkward meet-ups, reunions with old friends and lies about what you're now doing with your (probably rather unremarkable) life. Just like a real reunion (I imagine; thankfully I've not yet ended up having to attend one...).

The beauty of American Reunion, much like American Pie, is that it ends up in some ridiculous places - but you never really end up questioning how it got there. Somehow, in the context of the movie, it all makes sense. If you enjoyed American Pie when it was released, and like it's characters, are now 15 years older and in your thirties, you'll likely enjoy this - and, to some extent, identify with it.

Rating: 4 out of 5

The Raven

Friday 6th February 2015

Director: James McTeigue
Year: 2012
Stars: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve

I wanted to see this when it was released, the subject matter (Edgar Allan Poe - even if this was clearly going to be fictitious) and genre (thriller/ horror) both appealing to me. It didn't get great reviews, but having seen clips of the movie this didn't really put me off. Unfortunately I never got the chance to see it at the cinema, so when it was shown on TV I was fairly determined not to miss it.

Raven is all about a copy-cat murderer who uses Allan Poe's stories to inspire him. It becomes, to some extent, Poe's (Cusack) responsibility to find the killer, as he knows the subject matter of his stories best.

In my opinion, Cusack does a fantastic job of playing Poe, and is a joy to watch. I've always enjoyed him as an actor, but he really does a great job in this role. The film is pretty gory, and initially I wasn't sure if I was watching a gory horror film or a drama about a writer. This improved though, and by the end of the movie I was really enjoying the story. The film has a fair bit to say about whether or not fiction can lead to real-life horror, but also manages to tell a decent story. I'm not entirely sure why this movie got such negative reviews, but I'm glad I chose to ignore them and watch it anyway.

Rating: 4 out of 5

Quartet

Tuesday 3rd February 2015

Director: Dustin Hoffman
Year: 2012
Stars: Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins, Michael Gambon, Sheridan Smith

Another movie that was shown at New Year, this one took a little longer for me to watch as it was just a bit less appealing. I hadn't really heard of it previously, but it sounded like it could be interesting (or it must have done to me when I chose to record it, otherwise why did I bother? To be fair, that's a question I am now pondering).

Not a lot really happens in Quartet. Jean Horton (Maggie Smith), a retired musician, turns up at an old people's home for musicians, which causes some unsettling amongst the residents. You're meant to care what her back story is, but you can basically already figure it out, and the big 'reveal' ten minutes before the end of the movie is so obvious and bland that if you've lasted this long waiting for it, you're going to be grossly disappointed.

In hindsight, I really have no idea why I recorded this movie. It's dull, grating and full of one-dimensional characters. I would claim they're stereotypical, but they're not well written enough characters to achieve that.Quartet is everything that The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel threatened to be, and thankfully completely avoided. Watch that instead.

Rating: 1 out of 5

January 2015 films

Somehow I've managed to watch five movies this month. This is something of a feat for me at the moment - about a movie a week! This is almost certainly a result of it still being the Christmas holidays at the beginning of the month, and me going on maternity in the middle of the month (and the baby still not having arrived yet - somewhat different to last time, but that's OK - she still has 2+ weeks to go before she's considered late...). In fact, if you look at the list below I watched the first 3 movies in the first 5 days of January.

So, without further ado, what were these movies and how much did I enjoy them?

• Frozen (2013) - 2.5 stars
• Bad Teacher (2011) - 2 stars
• Sinister (2015) - 3 staie.
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) - 3.5 stars
• The Muppets (2011) - 4 stars

So, no awful movies on this list; but nothing mind-blowing either. Film of the Month is pretty easy - The Muppets was clearly the most enjoyable movie on this list. It's a fun, jolly, easy-to-watch romp with some memorable (but not horrendously annoying - see Frozen) songs.

Film not to waste your time on isn't too hard either. As I said, most movies on the list above are pretty average - but Bad Teacher stands out as the worst one on the list. A annoying movie with frustrating characters and very few redeeming qualities. I don't really understand what you're meant to like about this movie.

Film of the Month: The Muppets
Film not to waste your time: Bad Teacher

Frozen

Saturday 31st January 2015

Director: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Year: 2013
Stars: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana, Alan Tudyk (voices)

Considering how popular Frozen is, when a friend mentioned she had this on DVD I figured I should probably ask to borrow it as I still hadn't watched it. She more than happily gave up the DVD, informing me that they had already told their obsessed 2-year-old that it had been lost.

I did actually have the chance to watch this back at Christmas 2013 when it was released (on one of those rare occasions when I actually had the chance to go to the cinema). At the time I chose to go and see Saving Mr Banks, having read reviews and thinking it would be a better movie.

I made the right choice. Frozen does not start well - and I still don't really understand what there is in it for a 2-year-old boy to love (and yes, I do have one). An 8-year-old girl, maybe. There are some very pretty princesses here (oh, maybe that explains it. Two-year-old boys often love princess dresses...). The premise behind Frozen is that one of the princesses can turn everything to snow and ice, but can't control her ability. Queue lots and lots of songs (especially in the first half an hour) and a fair bit of angst.

In fairness, Frozen does improve once the characters stop singing annoying pop songs and the story kicks in properly. There are even some funny moments. Don't get me wrong, I love a good musical. Just not at the expense of any semblance of a story.

In the end, I found Frozen relatively enjoyable, but the first 40 minutes boring me to tears didn't help. Although these are the songs all the kids love, so maybe Disney haven't got it wrong. After all, they're not really trying to appeal to me - although I am the one going out and buying the DVD I guess... (being that my 2-year old can barely sit still and watch an episode of In the Night Garden, which he loves, I doubt he'd care about 1 1/2 hours of Disney movie. He doesn't care for Cars and he loves anything with wheels).

Not a bad movie, but I' still glad I went to see Saving Mr Banks at the cinema, which I really enjoyed.

Rating: 2.5 out of 5

Bad Teacher

Sunday 11th January 2015

Director: Jake Kasdan
Year: 2011
Stars: Cameron Diaz, Lucy Punch, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake

It's taken me a while to blog about this movie - partly because I've been busy, partly because it's just not really that memorable. I have wanted to see this for a while, so made an effort to watch it when it came on TV.

Bad Teacher is all about Elizabeth Halsey (Diaz), a teacher who doesn't really want to be one. All she really wants to do is marry somebody rich and spend their money. This makes her an entirely unlikable character, which is problematic because she is very much the main character of the movie. Whilst the story is not necessarily bad, making the central character this awful makes the entire movie unlikeable.

About the only thing I did enjoy in Bad Teacher was Jason Segel's performance. He plays a cynical, but still caring, teacher, it was the only role that felt like it wasn't entirely one-dimensional. Why he would ever have shown any interest in Diaz's character, however, is beyond me.

Rating: 2 out of 5

Sinister

Monday 5th January 2015

Director: Scott Derrickson
Year: 2012
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Michael Hall D'Addario, Clare Foley

This did turn out to be quite Sinister. At first it felt like your bog-standard horror movie, and wasn't doing a great job of drawing me in. To be fair, this wasn't entirely the fault of the movie - it was clearly aiming for a build-up of suspense, and there's only so much build-up you can get when you're having to pause the movie every five minutes to deal with your own screaming toddler (which is a different type of Sinister all of it's very own).

The movie tells the story of Ellison Oswalt (Hawke), a true-crime writer who moves to a house that children were hanged in to find out what happened, and who the killer was. Eventually (and fairly satisfyingly, being that you know he might not), he does find all this out. Although this is a horror movie of course, so it might have better for him not to know...

Once I actually got to sit down and pay attention to this (for the last 40 minutes or so), I did enjoy it. And it did creep me out, which horror movies don't always have the power to do. Although how much of that was down to the movie, and how much of it down to the fact that children were involved and I was dealing with my own horror child, I'm not sure...

Rating: 3 out of 5

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Friday 2nd January 2015

Director: Peter Jackson
Year: 2014
Stars:  Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish, William Kircher, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Dean O'Gorman, Aidan Turner, John Callen, Peter Hambleton, Jed Brophy, Mark Hadlow, Luke Evans, Ryan Gage, Adam Brown, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lily, Stephen Fry, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Christopher Lee, Slyvester McCoy, Ian Holm

My first cinema since we went to see The Fault in Our Stars back in June for our wedding anniversary (it seems that a cinema once every six months is about what I can expect now), I quite enjoyed the third and final installment of The Hobbit. I suspect this had a lot to do with the fact that I knew what I was getting, because the movie certainly isn't without it's flaws.

For starters, almost the entire movie is one big long battle scene. I don't remember the book that well, but I know that a lot of this movie isn't adapted directly from The Hobbit. In many ways it suffers from the same problems as The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey; it makes the story much, much grander than the book. For example, the orcs here are on a par with those in Lord of the Rings. In terms of the story, this doesn't work - the orcs in Lord of the Rings were meant to be bigger, better and tougher than anything Middle Earth had seen before. But this wouldn't work with the movie, because it's a prequel - so things filmed here have to be bigger and better (or at least on a par with) those that you have seen before.

There are also some very odd plot holes. For example, half the movie is spent talking about an army that will appear from the north. This seems to turn out to be about 100 goblins that, apparently, two dwarves can deal with all by themselves. If there is essentially no army, why mention it at all? (Better than that to introduce another army when the film is already too long - being 8 months pregnant, my back can attest to the fact that this movie was definitely too long).

Not a bad movie, and if you've seen the other two Hobbits (or even The Lord of the Rings trilogy) you'll know whether you're going to fundamentally like this or not. But there's nothing special to recommend it. Equally there's nothing truly terrible about it to warn you to stay away. Mostly average.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5