The Wolverine

Uh... what?  You lost me.  Why did you make this movie?  Or rather, why did you make it with Wolverine?  A man getting over the grief and guilt of a loved one lost.  Okay.  An X-Man doing it?  Sorry, but snore.  Verdict: Movie Rental if You Must

Now You See Me

Sigh.  Note to anyone doing another movie about magic : start with a good trick, then build to something phenomenal to leave your audience clapping.  Don't start with your best trick, then hope your audience is wowed by a routine light show and blatant hologram stunt as a "finale".  (I could do a hologram stunt.  Especially since I'll be under no obligation to make it look like anything other than a hologram stunt.)  BUT this movie has bigger problems.  You know how in Sixth Sense, when you find out the twist, you look back over the film and think "Oh!  Of course!  How sly!"  Well, when Now You See Me explained how what happened happened, you just think "Well that doesn't make sense.  If that's the solution, this wouldn't have happened here, and he/she wouldn't have done that there."  The brilliance of unexpected solutions is when you look back on the story armed with explanation, the story makes just as much -- if not more -- sense.  Now You See Me thinks it can pull any explanation out of its butt, as if we just weren't watching at all.  Verdict: Movie Rental if You Must

Star Trek Into Darkness

Blasted spoilers.  I had made a concerted effort with this movie to avoid all press.  Turn the channel when an ad came on.  Turn the page when a review is published.  Cover my ears and run screaming from the grocery store when any nearby person starts speaking about it.  And STILL I had heard what was supposed to be a twist in the plot.  Blasted spoilers.  This movie was fun on its face, yes.  But for as much trouble as the franchise went through in order to free itself to explore any plot lines without being beholden to the established history of the original series... well, let's just say it wasted its own time, as well as yours and mine.  But it had fun while wasting it. Verdict: Discount Theatre

Iron Man 3

I had read a review where it said this movie looks like what would happen if the producers brought the VFX team in for a meeting and said "So... what would you like to do in this movie?  Carte blanche.  It shall be so."  Find that review.  It is apt.  I got a real Transformers-vibe off this movie - and by that, I mean I wasn't always sure who was doing what to whom and where I was supposed to be looking.  But yeah, cool VFX.  However, don't believe the hype that this is the best Iron Man movie yet.  Like I said in my review of Iron Man 2: do yourself a favour, frankly, and just go rent Iron Man 1 again.  Verdict: Movie Rental