katejtoney Reviews

Signature Move (2017)

Great story

[10/10 · 21 March 2022]

This movie has a 100% On Rotten Tomatoes and an 89% audience score, so this poor rating here does not reflect how good the film actually is. One fairly unhinged review on this movie is tanking the IMDb score unfairly and that's so annoying cause this movie deserves every award it won and then some.

I was suspended by how much I liked this film. It was heartwarming and enjoyable to watch. I think 89% is the perfect score for it.

I think it's biggest (only?) fault is the Lucha plot feels shoe horned in. I feel like Lucha Libre wasn't really given the respect it deserved and served as little more than a quirky plot device. I would be absolutely floored to find out anyone in the cast/writing team actually knows much about Lucha.

Otherwise this was a really great film and definitely worth a watch.

Vacation Friends (2021)

A true surprise

[10/10 · 31 August 2021]

I hated it at first and was bummed that it was just a ridiculous slapstick comedy with fairly predictable shenanigans. I was wrong. I mean yeah it's ridiculous but it's got so much heart and it subverts expectations at every turn.

It's probably more like a 7 but I'm goin 10 because it was shockingly good, impeccable cast and I never expected to root for these people.

We need more movies like this.