HLS Movie Awards: Top 116 Movies of 2021 Part 2! 100-91
Welcome back to HLS Entertainment! Today we are going to discuss Part 2 of the top 116 movies of 2021, this time 100-91. Part one we discussed many popular well-known movies that flopped quality wise (and box office in some cases) but this next section really begins off with a few more but ultimately are movies we enjoyed but still could have been much better. We might have loved movies you hated, or hated ones you loved, let us know in the comments or on Twitter @HLSEntrtainment or my personal Twitter @HaroldLStokes.
Now like always with every movie I am going to be putting what I personally think is the safest grading scale out there, the IMDB user rating score. Here is a simple breakdown of what their 0.0-10 grading scale means:
Now this is not a gold standard but is a good starting point, on to the movies. On to the movies!
100. Venom: Let There Be Carnage
IMDb Score: 6.0
This movie ages like milk left out in the sun. I remember opening night enjoying it, everyone getting hyped by the post credit scene and then just the longer you think about it, absolutely nothing in this script makes sense. It really feels like Sony felt like they just HAD to get this movie out with ample run up to No Way Home and decided it was cheaper to gut the film and touch up only certain parts. Having just average VFX so it looks fine and just ignore if the story works. I cannot imagine anyone involved was happy about the end product.
99. Snake Eyes
IMDb Score: 5.4
Honestly, I enjoyed this movie and hope to get more GI Joe films branching off from this specific story. But the absolutely horrendous outdated shaky cam just ruined this movie for me. You have so many incredible people working on this movie and any time there is any action involved it looks like a world ending earthquake hit the set. Just so disappointed. PLEASE continue this series with a different approach to filming it.
98. Outside the Wire (Netflix)
IMDb Score: 5.4
5.4 kind of surprises me for this movie, not much I guessed low 6 but there was nothing atrocious about this movie. It was just your normal "made for tv" action flick. Anthony Mackie got to shine and go back and forth between his normal charismatic self to the robotic Leo. No pun intended.
97. Red Notice (Netflix)
IMDb Score: 6.3
If this movie did not have three of the biggest names in Hollywood this movie would have been in the worst of the worst section, and still might deserve to be but the trio of the Rock, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds was charismatic to make this bad movie okay. I am desperately trying to remember details of this forgettable movie and the main memory that keeps popping up is the very obvious stunt doubles running through buildings doing parkour randomly.
96. The Vault (Netflix)
IMDb Score: 6.4
The perfect daytime TNT/USA movie, a film that you might not ever choose to go and rewatch but if it is on you would not be mad at watching it. Sadly, there was a more well-done heist movie (next on the list) that this movie is too easily compared to. This story is paint by numbers heist flick with the cover of the World Cup, but it is still very enjoyable. This is probably the starting point on the list of movies I genuinely enjoyed but had their issues.
95. Army of Thieves (Netflix)
IMDb Score: 6.4
This movie understood what tone was best for the world this series is set in SO much better than Army of the Dead. I was not expecting to be grabbed by this movie, it created such interesting characters alongside being self-aware at the ridiculousness of the stereotypical one-dimensional characters of a heist movie also in a movie like this. Bravo to the director or editor whomever found that perfect tone, I hope we get more from them as I was just not expecting to like this movie at all.
94. Fear Street 1994 (Netflix)
IMDb Score: 6.2
I have Part one and two back to back here and have already spoken on part three so I will be brief. This movie did a great job establishing this trilogy event as self aware and tropey, while not being just yet another slasher flick.
93. Fear Street 1978 (Netflix)
IMDb Score: 6.7
Why did these movies come out during the summer? I mean maybe see if it was a theatrical movie trilogy, but it was not. These should have dropped one a week on Friday nights in October, how did they miss that easy layup. I think this movie was the best of the bunch because it is here where the twist of the trilogy is revealed, while still having the same self-awareness of the other two and just having the strongest story of the stereotypical summer camp slasher flick.
92. Good on Paper (Netflix)
IMDb Score: 5.6
If you love Iliza Shlesinger you will enjoy this movie. Fun little comedy about the terrible modern world of online dating and people catfishing their entire lives.
91. Chaos Walking
IMDb Score: 5.8
I really did not understand the just terrible reviews this movie got. Obviously I did not LOVE it as I have it at 91, but Tom Holland AND Daisy Ridely? And Cynthia Erivo? And Mads Mikkelsen? Of course I want more of these. Feels like the standard quality of young adult sci-fi but instead of no name casts they snagged two of the biggest young names in Hollywood before they blew up, too bad this movie sat on the self in production nightmare for years.
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