Oscar Phat: Nomination Season

PRIMATE

THRILLER

PLOT: Ben an adorable, lovable chimp gets rabies and becomes violent.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  The kills are very gruesome!

WHAT IS WRONG:  You have seen this story before.  The young people want to have a party and the monkey goes nuts.  Only in the movies when an animal infected by rabies they become smart!

You want the young people to survive but they do stupid things.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  They kills are very good but should be ON DEMAND.

 

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

ROMANTIC DRAMA 

PLOT:  Another version of Emily Bronte’s book of the same name.  Heathcliff and Cathy have a passionate, toxic love.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  It is visually dazzling!  Vivid colors and lovely country sides.  Owen Cooper and Charlotte Mellington as young Heathcliff and Cathy are fantastic! Talented actors to look for in the future.

WHAT IS WRONG:  Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as the grown Cathy and Heathcliff are very attractive actors playing the most horrible people you can imagine!  It is hard to feel sympathy for them and what they do to other people.

SHOULD YOU WATCH: If you have never read the novel or seen the movies it might entertain you.  This movie is fan fiction for many things don’t happen in the novel.  Those who read the novel will be in shock!  If you can wait-WAIT!

ZOOTOPIA #2 2025

ANIMATION 

PLOT:  Judy Hoops, a bunny and Nick Wilde, a sly red fox are officially cops on a new dangerous case that involves snakes being abandoned by the city.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  The story is has EVERTHING, comedy romance and suspense and music.  It has talented stars that include Iris Elba, singer Shakira Roman Reigns and CM Punk!

WHAT IS WRONG:  NOTHING!!!

SHOULD YOU WATCH?  ABSOLUTELY!

 

AVATAR #3 FIRE AND ASH 2025

FANTASY/ ADVENTURE

PLOT:    Jake and his family are sadden by the death of their son but new threats are coming  that include Jake’s enemy.

WHAT IS GOOD:  The visual effects are AMAZING as always.  The evil commander Quartich (Stephen Lang) is GREAT and Varang(Oona Chaplin) is equally menacing as leader of her clan who will kill anyone in her quest for power.  The two are the Bonnie and Clyde of Avatar.  The action scenes are fantastic.

WHAT IS WRONG:  There are soap opera elements are there but it does help the story.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  OH YES!  If you are a fan of this movie franchise you will enjoy it.

SPECIAL NOTE:  I wish director James Cameron would make a superhero movie for he knows how to make an epic, exciting film many people would watch.

 

HAMNET

DRAMA 

PLOT:  Based on the novel by Maggie O’ Farrell the writer William Shakespeare had a wife and three children and the son named Hamnet died and he wrote the play Hamlet.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  Paul Mescal (Gladiator 2) is Shakespeare and he is good but it is Jessie Buckley as Agnes, Shakespeare’s wife that is amazing.  Giving child birth alone or with help she shows the agony of it!  The film is slow and sober.  The ending is closure than a happy ending.

WHAT IS WRONG:    It is a novel so much might not be true but could be.  The film may add things that might not have happened.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES!  It is a film about grief and how people deal with it even in olden times.

NOMINATED FOR:

BEST PICTURE

BEST ACTRESS

BEST DIRCTOR

 

FRANKENSTEIN

HORROR 

PLOT:  Another version of the novel of Mary Shelly’s novel of an obsessed doctor creating parts of deceased men to creature new life.

WHAT IS GOOD:  The acting of Oscar Isaac as Dr Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the “creature”!  It is like a father and son relationship!  Frankenstein made something alive that is dead and he is not proud of it.  The “creature” is upset because he came into the world and is hated even by his creator.  It is creepy.  It is very elaborate.  It is a sad tale of man reaching for greatness at what cost!

WHAT IS WRONG:  How did Frankenstein become so strong from dead men?  The monster is not as great as the Boris Karloff version.  It should be better because of AI!

SHOULD YOU WATCH:   YES!  Especially if you like horror and great acting.

NOMININATED FOR:

BEST PICTURE

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

 

TRAIN DREAMS

PERIOD DRAMA 

PLOT:  Robert Grainier is an orphan who lived 80 years and took odd jobs while the world changed around him.

WHAT IS  GOOD:  Joel Edgerton!  He plays Robert in a low key manner.  He does his job, goes home to his wife and child.  That’s it!  He does what most people do.  He sees things doesn’t understand why but does his best in the world he lives in.  You root for him because that’s what most people do.  William H. Macy as Arn, an older explosive expert is comic relief and he does it well.

WHAT IS WRONG:  It is slow moving but that is the point-like life.  It is not exciting like an action movie.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES!  It is a character study about a man with life, loss and change.

NOMINATIONS FOR:

BEST PICTURE

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

SECRET AGENT

DRAMA 

PLOT: A tech expert with a mysterious past return to his home town but there is more danger ahead in Brazil.

WHAT IS  GOOD:  Wagner Moura as the tech expert who wants a peaceful life.  He sees corruption with his sad eyes and wants to remain peaceful.

WHAT IS WRONG:  This is a foreign films and they are different than American films.  This one is no different.  It takes a long while to get going!  You also think with a title like this it is action packed, gadgets and pretty girls.  Not this movie.  It is slow and sober.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  It is good but you must have patience!

NOMINATIONS FOR:

BEST PICTURE

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

 

SONG SUNG BLUE

MUSICAL DRAMA 

PLOT:   Cover singers Mike Sardina (Lighting) and his wife Claire Stengi(Thunder love to sing Neil Diamond songs at various clubs.  The duo is very close to stardom but tragedy gets in the way.   It is based on a true story.

WHAT IS  RIGHT:  Hugh Jackman is great as Mike who once was a soldier and an alcoholic and it is music that saved him. He is charismatic but hurting. He is not nominated for BEST ACTOR but he should have been.  Kate Hudson as Claire is nominated and she is wonderful as well.  She was a fun-loving woman then something bad happens.

WHAT IS WRONG:  Their story is so fantastic you think it was fiction but it is not!

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES! If you like Neil Diamond songs-some I never heard of and the good pairing of Jackman and Hudson is worth the watch.

NOMINATIONED FOR:

BEST ACTRESS

 

BUGONIA

THRILLER/SCI-FI 

PLOT:  Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone) is CEO of a drug company and Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemons), a conspiracy theorist and beekeeper and his autistic cousin Don(Aiden Debis) kidnap her thinking she is an alien.

NOTE:  The title means ancient Greeks folk tale that bees would generate from a dead cow.  If you watch the film .  It might make sense, might not.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  Emma Stone is fantastic as the CEO Michelle Fuller.  She is driven, aggressive and scheming.  You don’t know how far she will go to escape.  Jesse Plemons  is intense as Teddy obsessed that she is really an alien.  Don, his cousin doesn’t believe him but goes along because it is his cousin and he admires him.

WHAT IS WRONG:  The director Yorgos Lathimos is a talented and twisted director!  His films are bizarre to say the least!  Watch the movies, The Favorite 2018 and Poor Things 2023.  This film is very violent and strange.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  The ideas are good and Emma Stone is very good but it is a outrageous film but to me better than Poor Things.

F1

SPORTS DRAMA 

PLOT:  Aging race car driver Sonny Hayes gets to drive again and train a new comer Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris) and has a romance with an attractive, smart technical director Kate McKenna (Kerry Condon).

WHAT IS RIGHT:  The race car driving scenes!  You feel you’re inside the car with them taking the risk!  Javier Bardem who is the APXGP owner who needs Sonny’s help is good and dresses very well. Damon Idris as Joshua who is very confident younger race car driver.  Sarah Miles is great as Bernadette Joshua’s smart, protective mom.

WHAT IS WRONG:  You know the experience older driver helping the cocky newcomer yet it NEVER gets old.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES!  If you like race car driving, Brad Pitt along with a good cast you will enjoy this movie.

NOMINATED FOR:

BEST PICTURE

 

MARTY SUPREME

SPORTS COMEDY DRAMA

PLOT:   Marty (Timothee Chalamet) in the 50s is a chiasmic, determined young man who works at a shoe store but wants to go to Japan to become a table tennis champion.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  The actor Timothee Charlamet who does whatever it takes to achieve his goal no matter what the cost.  He is no hero to cheer for but you watch to see if he is successful.  Odessa A’zion is very good as a married woman who is having an affair with Marty.  Gwyneth Paltrow is Kay Stone an actress married to a very rich man who is horny as hell! 

WHAT IS WRONG:  When they do biography movies many things don’t really happen just to intensify  the film.  You if are interested you read more about the person.  The film could have been cut a slightly.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  If you like Charlamet and the rest of the cast-YES.

NOMINATED FOR:

BEST ACTOR

 

IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU

COMEDY DRAMA 

PLOT:  Linda (Rose Byrne) is a working mother with a sick child and she is a hot mess!

WHAT IS RIGHT:  Actress Rose Byrne is a therapist but she has more problems than her patients! Her emotions are anger, stress, drinking and drugging!  Byrne is great as woman who has too much on her plate.  Stunt casting the comic, late night host Conan O’ Brien is her therapist!  She funny and frightening at the same time. 

WHAT IS WRONG:  The director, Mary Bronstein tells the story in a strange way.  You may not understand it in the beginning but it is explained.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES!!!  If you want to see GREAT acting!

NOMINATED FOR:

BEST ACTRESS

 

BLUE MOON

BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA 

PLOT:  This is a movie about the great songwriter Lorenz Hart who wrote songs like Lady Is a Tramp, Manhattan and Blue Moon.  His partner Richard Rogers who team up later with Oscar Hammerstein to create more outstanding songs.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  Ethan Hawk is fantastic as Lorenz Hart!  He is talented but he drank too much, erratic and could be gay.  The setting is in Sadri’s Restaurant which was popular in the 40s after Hart watch Oklahoma.  He is a sad, creative person.  He wants to be better but his bad habits get in the way.  Bobby Cannavale as Eddie, the bartender is very funny.  He is a supporting character in films but he shines in this one.

WHAT IS WRONG:  It is not wrong but the film is like classic Hollywood.  You find out much about the character through dialogue.  It is like a play on film.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES!  If you like Lorenz Hart, his songs and Hawke’s performance a MUST SEE!

NOMINATED FOR:

BEST ACTOR

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

 

Fall Fantasies, Winter Washouts

Note: Back from a long break, but ready to roll. Let's go!

BLACK PHONE #2

HORROR 

PLOT:  The “Grabber” origin.

WHAT IS GOOD:  Some jump scares and an interesting back-story of Grabber.

WHAT IS WRONG:  Very slow to get started.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:    If you enjoy the first film but is curious about how the Grabber beginnings you will like it but no rush to see this  film.

 

WICKED FOR GOOD

MUSICAL/FANTASY 

PLOT:  The sequel to Wicked.  Elphaba, (Cynthia Erivo) the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda (Ariana Grande) are at odd with each other but still want to be friends.

WHAT IS GOOD:  The two female leads Erivo and Grande! They have great voices.  The costumes are dazzling!

WHAT IS WRONG:  The Tin Man, The Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow origins have been changed and Dorothy !  You NEVER see Dorothy’s face only silhouette but you see her shoes-they are not red! 

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  It is a different telling of the classic story.  It is not bad but not great either. 

THE CONJURING: LAST RITES

HORROR 

PLOT:  The Warrens do their last paranormal investigation and background story about their past. 

WHAT IS GOOD:   It is creepy, scary and suspenseful. There is blood but not what you think.

WHAT IS WRONG:  Even this movie has typical jump scares.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES!!  It is suppose to be the last film of the franchise but I don’t think so.  It is effective but if you’re into slasher the film it may bore you.

 

DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA INFINITY CASTLE

ANIME

  

PLOT:  The Demon Slayer invades a mansion with assorted supernatural beings.  The first of three movies.

WHAT IS GOOD:  It is visually stunning and the sound astonishing!

WHAT IS WRONG:  It is a long anime film.  It is over 2 ½!

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  If you are a fan of the series it is a violent treat.  It is beautiful and bloody!

THE RUNNING MAN

ACTION/SATIRE 

PLOT:   In the distant future people watch selective, ordinary citizens become “runners’ and are tracked and killed by “hunters” while customers love to watch the carnage. The film is based on the Stephen King novel which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987.

WHAT IS GOOD:  The action which is exceptional!  Colman Domingo as Bobby Thompson is great as the host of the violent TV show.  Josh Brolin is good as the evil producer.  Glen Powell is very good as Ben Richards, who doesn’t want to be a runner but does to pay for his child medical bills.

WHAT IS WRONG:  I didn’t see the 1987 version so I can’t compare the two.  It could have been shorter.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  Maybe.  If you like the 1987 movie you might like it better than this one but this movie isn’t bad.

 

PREDATOR: BADLANDS

THRILLER/SCIENCE FICTION 

PLOT:  Dek, a small predator goes to Genna also called the death planet to prove his worth as a warrior.  This is the ninth movie in the popular franchise.

WHAT IS GOOD:   Dek (Dimitrius Schuster Koloamatangi) proving he is worthy of being like his father and brother.  He shows emotion in his alien face.  Thia (Elle Fanning) is amusing, friendly to be a synthetic-looks human but is not who Dek helps on his journey to prove he strong and brave .

WHAT IS BAD:  Many fans are used to the ugly alien is the bad guy but in this film it has feelings and  is the hero.  Not bad but strange.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES!  It’s a different take  on  the Predator series and it does pay off.

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

THRILLER 

PLOT:  Pat Calhoun (Leonardo Di Caprio) an explosive expert who was in a terriost group French 75 is now stays of the grid and get high all the time until his daughter is kidnapped by an enemy from his past Colonel Lockjaw (Sean Penn)

WHAT IS GOOD:   The cast is great but DiCaprio and Penn stand out.  Great mix of  acting and action –very rare today.

WHAT IS WRONG:   It could have told the story shorter.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES!  If you enjoy the talented cast, exciting action.  I am sure there will be Oscar nominations for this film. 

 

SISU 2: ROAD TO REVENGE

ACTION

PLOT:  Jorma Tommila (Aatami Korpi) comes home in 1946.  His family is dead so he takes down his home by himself and moves to a new place to live.  Stephen Lang (Igor Draganov) killed his family and he is jail but they release him to kill Korpi.

WHAT IS GOOD:  First of all Sisu is not the hero’s name.  In Finnish it means sheer determination.  Korpi is determined and cannot die!  Draganov tries to kill him with everything he’s got but Korpi is very resilient!  Stephen Lang starred in Avatar as a villain Colonel so these two attacking each other is just fantastic and bloodly!

WHAT IS WRONG:  The violence is WAAY over the top!  Almost cartoonish.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  If you like the first SISU you will enjoy this!

A Nobody But Bad Guys End of Summer

 

NOBODY #2

ACTION 

PLOT:    The sequel to Nobody.  His family goes on vacation but not crime and soon he is fighting for him and his family.

WHAT IS RIGHT:    Nobody (Bob Oderkirk) is very good as an average man who just wants an average vacation but always in danger.  Sharon Stone the villainess Lendina is great!  She seems to enjoy causing pain and cursing as well.  Daniel Bernhardt is great as her henchman Kartoush.  He is wonderful but unsung as the boss’s henchmen.

WHAT IS WRONG:  You know Nobody will get into trouble and resolve it in violence.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  If you like the Nobody franchise.  YES!

  

BAD GUYS #2

ANIMATION/COMEDY/ ADVENTURE 

PLOT:   The sequel to Bad Guys.  The team wants to be good guys now but it is hard but they are force to do an amazing heist to protect a friend.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  The animated movie is like Mission Impossible full of fun and thrills.  It is very elaborate and clever!

WHAT IS WRONG:  Over done at times.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES!  It has it all!  Action, comedy and excitement.  It is VERY well done.

 

NAKED GUN 2025

ACTION COMEDY 

PLOT:   Frank Drebin Jr (Liam Neeson) stumbles into a case that is global proportions.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  Aging action star Liam Neeson is great as a funny in comedy.  Pamela Anderson is very good as a mature femme fatal. CCH Pound is amusing as Chief Davis.  Danny Huston is still the bad guy but amusing as well.  Actors who usually do mostly dramas or thrillers are fantastic in this!  There is wordplay, slapstick and silly stuff at a rapid pace!

WHAT IS WRONG:  Some of the comedy is raunchy.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES!  It is a great update on the old Naked Gunn franchise.

 

RED SONYA

FANTASY/ADVENTURE 

PLOT:  The origin of the title character.  Different from the comic book and the 1985 film.

WHAT IS RIGHT:    Matilda Lutz (Revenge) is great as Red Sonja!  Yeah I know she is little in size but fierce in the fight scenes!  Robert Sheehan is the evil Emperor Dragan the Magnificent is effective and Rhona Mita as Petra who is in there briefly but was very good.

WHAT IS WRONG:  It is a shame it didn’t have a bigger budget.  It was done well but would have been better with adequate money.   

SUGGESTION:  If they make another Red Sonja I wish they would have her and another female warrior Xenia.  It would be worth watching.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES!  If you like sword and sorcery movies with a female lead  this is not bad.  If you watch the trailer it looks terrible but if you see the movie it is MUCH better.  It is a B-movie but a good B-movie. 

Summer Monsters, Zombies, Superheroes and Requels

LILO AND STITCH

FANTASY/ADVENTURE 

PLOT:   Live action remake of the cartoon.  Lonely young girl adopts a blue dog but it is really a destructive alien and it learns about family.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  The young actress Maia Kealoha as Lilo.  She is cute, spunky and cares about her sister Nani who is played by Sydney Aqudoag who is young, wants to be a good sister, guardian  and trying to work.  Both actress are very good.  Stitch is computer generated and fun to watch even when doing gross things.  He is voiced by Chris Sanders and he is great!

WHAT IS WRONG:  The animated version was great without a remake.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES!   If you enjoyed the animated version this version is just as good.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

FANTASY/ADVENTURE 

PLOT:  Live action remake of another Disney cartoon!  In the town of Berk, dragons are hated by Vikings but Hiccup, a creative young man befriends a dragon and they become good friends.

WHAT IS GOOD:  The visuals!!!  There are sequences of flight that take your breath away!  The cast is very well played.  If you enjoy giant monster fighting that is amazing!

WHAT IS WRONG:  Woke again but just a little.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  OH YES!!!  It is a delight for the eyes and the heart

JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH

ACTION/ADVENTURE

PLOT:  A drug company pays a group of mercenaries to get DNA from hybrid dinosaurs on yet another secluded island.

WHAT IS GOOD:  The dinosaurs  of course.  They are freakish than the past ones.  The fun is the people have to escape one crisis after another.  Scarlett Johansson as Zora is good as well as Mahershala Ali as Duncan leader of the mercenaries.  They become heroes reluctantly.

WHAT IS WRONG:  The first fifty minutes!  It sets up the story but it is slow.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  If you love the Jurassic franchise. YES!  It is fun because of the giant monsters.

28 YEARS LATER

SI-FI/THRILLER 

PLOT:  A small island in the UK successfully protects zombies from attacking them.  On one of Jamie (Aaron Taylor Johnson) and his 12 year old son Spike (Alfie Williams) may have found a doctor named Dr. Ian Kelson to help their sick family member Isla (Jodie Comer)

WHAT IS GOOD:  Alfie Williams as Spike.  He has to learn how to fight, take care of his mom and face danger with his dad. That’s a lot for a 12 year old but Williams pulls it off.  Johnson always finds his ways in movies whether they are successful or not!  Ralph Fiennes as Dr. Ian Kelson is great trying to live and keeps his humanity.  There are beautiful scenes in the film.

WHAT IS WRONG:   It is a downer.  Lots of sadness.  Mental illness, terminal illness and daily survival.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  If you like the first one YES!  It has beautiful visuals and sadistic violence.

  

SUPERMAN 2025

ACTION/ADVENTURE/FANTASY

PLOT:  A VERY DIFFERENT version of the man of steel.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  David Corenswet (!) isn’t bad as Superman.  He truly believes what he is doing is right!  Rachel Bronahan is good as Lois Lane, a reporter and Superman’s love interest.  Nicholas Hoult as the evil Lex Luthor is effective.  He is so obsessed with even Superman wonders what is wrong with him!  Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner, a Green Lantern is very good even if his hair cut isn’t.  Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl is okay even though she doesn’t have much to do but when she does it is brutal!  Krypto, the CGI dog is adorable and annoying!  Ed Gathergi as Mr. Terrific is terrific!  I hope they make a movie about him!

WHAT IS WRONG:  Superman gets beat up often in the movie!  He is resilient  but he is hurt most of the time!  He swears too but not much and he is not Clark Kent a lot either and it is explained why he wears the glasses he doesn’t need.  The worst is Superman is called a bitch and not by Lex but someone close!

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  If you like the traditional Superman movies NO but if you want something new and unique this is for you.

 

M3GAN 2.0

ACTION/SCI-FI 

PLOT:     Megan, an AI robot that was “killed” must come back to fight a military female robot to save the world!

WHAT IS RIGHT:  Megan the robot is great!  She still has lewd humor, still can dance and knows how to kill.  The fights scenes are good.

WHAT IS WRONG:  The first film was a horror movie now it is an action thriller with two fem bots trying to kill each other!  I must say it is different.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  If you like the first movie this one will be a shock!  If you like the change in genre this one is you might like it too.

Final Sins, Reckonings, and Destinations

SINNERS

HORROR/ACTION 

PLOT:    Two black twin brothers buy a place to start a club in the south in 1932 but something evil arrives.

WHAT IS RIGHT:   The music is great as well as the cinematography. Michael B Jordan is good but the villain Remmick played by Jack O Connell is excellent.

WHAT IS WRONG:  Nothing happens for an hour.  It is a slow burn but the second hour is unbelievable!!!   It is something to be seen!  Jaw-dropping!   It is a different vampire movie I have EVER seen!

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  If you want something unique this film is it!

FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES

HORROR 

PLOT:  Young female college student must stop the cycle on her and her family that will be killed by Death.  The 6^th movie in the supernatural series.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  The kills!  The slaughter of people are very elaborate and bloody!  The late Tony Todd in  his final appearance is very brief but good.  The plot does make horrific sense.

WHAT IS WRONG:    You seen one you have seen them all but kills become more imaginative.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  If you like these kinds of films it is better than most of them.  There is a saying in Hollywood that horror in the summer doesn’t sell.  This one is!

 

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FINAL RECKONING

ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLER 

PLOT:  Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team a device that could destroy the world.

WHAT IS RIGHT:    Tom Cruise doing the most fantastic stunts!  The film is over 2 ½ hours but it goes by very fast!  His team has newcomers and the original people from past films.  There is brief sadness in the film but the hero must fight on.

WHAT IS WRONG:  The stunts are great but it almost cartoonish as well as the villain.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  If you are a fan of this franchise YES!  I don’t think this is the last one but if it is it was done very well.