Dubai - Before you buy that cinema ticket, read this first
By David Light
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Published: Thu 30 Mar 2017, 12:21 PM
Last updated: Fri 31 Mar 2017, 11:47 PM
City Times weighs in on some of the movies showing in UAE cinemas this weekend.
Smurfs: The Lost Village
Another sequel no-one ever really asked for, The Smurfs movies are a franchise we just can't really get excited about. Maybe we're killjoys, but they just don't appear as exciting or well thought out as Pixar pictures and we have no attachment to the Smurfs of old. In this one the usual Smurfs, who, bar one, all happen to be male, discover a lost village completely inhabited by female Smurfs. Then that trope gets stretched out for almost two hours. Damning with faint praise, The Holly-wood Reporter's Frank Scheck said: "A mediocre effort that nonetheless succeeds in its main goal of keeping its blue characters alive for future merchandising purposes." We can't wait. Rotten Tomatoes gives it 40% Trivia: Gordon Ramsay plays the baker
Get Out
Now you're talking! this creepy horror/ thriller looks incredible. taking a new look at the genre, the story captures the idea of prejudice and draws parallels to the staples usually found in a horror film. Chris, an African-American man, visits his Caucasian girlfriend Rose's parents at their secluded family estate. As soon as he arrives he begins to feel uneasy despite the parents' outward friendliness. When the mother-in-law offers to hypnotise Chris to calm him down, events begin to go awry. And that is putting it mildly. Rotten Tomatoes gives it 99% Trivia: Written and directed by Keanu's Jordan Peele.
Chips
Don't go see this film. simple as that. it's not funny, it's stupid and provides as much soulful nourishment as spending your ticket money on a litre of high fructose corn syrup and downing the whole lot. A big screen reboot of the late seventies TV show, Chips originally starred Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox as the California Highway Patrol troopers who generally spent most of the 139 episodes riding past accident pile-ups. Now that mantle and those motorbikes have been passed onto Dax Shepherd, Max Pena and Adam Brody, one of the least amusing trios in history perhaps second only to measles, mumps and rubella. Rotten Tomatoes has it at 18%
Fifty Shades Darker
Why even bother releasing this movie here? it's going to be about 25 minutes long. this is an unwelcome return for the pair - Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan - who should have jumped ship after the first one and crossed their fingers people would just chalk their decision to participate up to the need to settle a tax bill. We've really reached the end of our patience what with having to waste ink on Chips, so we'll just say this is, if not worse, at least as brain cell sapping. A poor screenplay, rubbish acting and the bits, if you've read the book, you want to see will be cut out. What's the point? Rotten Tomatoes gives it 9%
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There are also increasing accounts, on social media and online forums, of tourists and residents across the city having to pay inflated prices for taxis
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