CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
Feature: HollywoodChicago.com’s Overrated & Worst Films of 2018
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OVERRATED: ‘Destroyer’ WORST: ’50 Shades Freed’
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Overrated: DESTROYER From the make me ugly school of acting, Nicole Kidman’s ‘Destroyer’ is nothing less than a seemingly interminable slog through the muck. Kidman stumbles around in an awful wig, with a look of extreme constipation as a “grizzled” police detective irrevocably scarred by her experiences deep undercover. An award should go to audience members who can make it through to the end of this deeply ugly and un-redeeming experience.
Worst: 50 SHADES FREED This kinky sex trilogy ended with an anticlimactic whimper. Jamie Dornan – still hoping his abs will make up for his acting – and a clearly bored Dakota Johnson have all the chemistry of a subway sandwich. Now married, the sex scenes of the two stars failed to climax. So the series concluded by throwing in a kidnapping and some indifferent corporate espionage in attempt to spice up the limp proceedings. But everyone, including the stars, seems relieved to be freed from this franchise.
For the TOP TEN films of 2018 by Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, click here.
By PATRICK McDONALD |