Sicario 2 (2018 film)

Category: Americans vs Mexican drug cartel action thriller

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"There's no way he survived that!"

Those words was the second-to-last thing I said as this movie came to an end. The last thing I actually said was "oh look - they reflected the opening scene in the ending! That's never been done in film-making before!".

It’s also quite possible that I at some stage said (quietly, under my breath) "Damn! Dora looks hot as a schoolgirl!". If you know, you know.

But in all seriousness, if you enjoyed the first Sicario, this is more of the same, but on a bigger scale and now with extra deus-ex-machina thrown in for good measure.

Crazy Rich Asians (2018 film)

Category: Romance drama with comedy elements.

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Maybe this movie should have instead been titled "Crazy Rich Singaporeans Of Chinese Descent" because, in reality, while the movie is titled Crazy Rich Asians, it focuses only on one type of Asian - Chinese - and only in one country - Sinagpore - as if there aren't also wealthy Asians of other ethnicities, be they Indians or Vietnamese or Japanese somewhere in Singapore, let alone the rest the world. Ah well.

To sum up Crazy Rich Asians, I'd call it a romance drama that borrows plot points from Chinese teledrama series. If you happen to be familiar with Chinese (or other Asian) teledrama series, you'll recognise the tropes right away.

The plot of this movie goes as such: Rachel (played by Constance Wu) is an economics professor who doesn't know that the man she is dating in New York, Nick (Henry Golding), is the son of the wealthiest real estate tycoon in Singapore . However, this secret is revealed when the two travel back to Singapore where Nick is the best man at his best friend's wedding.