Jake Menez

Lover of three star comedies, Owen Wilson’s #1 fan

Quality of reviews may vary

Favorite films

  • Twins
  • Bottle Rocket
  • Jaws
  • The Muppet Movie

All
  • Captain America: Brave New World

  • Friendship

    ★★★★

  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★★★★

  • The Thing from Another World

    ★★½

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Captain America: Brave New World

2025

Watched

Threw it on out of morbid curiosity because a friend assured me it was “one of the good ones.” If that’s the case, then Marvel movies are even less to my taste than I thought 

Ugly to look at and filled with uninteresting characters facing a generic political conspiracy. Maybe the worst the CGI for these things has ever looked 

Insane that the Red Hulk reveal (which was stupid) was very clearly written into the script as a twist but the marketing focused so heavily on it that it’s just nothing 

Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford are talented actors. How did they get stuck in this?

Friendship

2024

★★★★ Liked Watched

Fun movie! It leans a lot on Tim Robinson’s specific brand of weird charm rather than on Paul Rudd’s more conventional appeal and creates something unique. It’s more than just The Cable Guy meets I Think You Should Leave 

One person in my screening not-so-quietly asked their date “what the fuck is his problem?”

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Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie

2023

★★★★★ Liked Watched

This movie has the exact feel of seeing an old friend for the first time in a while — a little older, a little slower but nothing’s really changed in spirit 

It captures the feel of the show flawlessly despite being off the air for over a decade. The lead actors all slip right back into their roles flawlessly.  Tony Shalhoub especially does a great job returning to Adrian Monk 

In a lot of ways this is just a double…

The Flash

2023

½ 1

Why would the studio stand behind someone as problematic as Ezra Miller when the finished product is this bad? Absolutely nothing about this movie works 

- Phoned in performances

- Poorly-done special effects

- Limp plot bordering on incomprehensible 

- Half-baked, unearned emotional beats. I an the world’s biggest mark for sad mom stories and this one left me cold 

- Immoral, ghoulish CGI recreations of dead (and some living) actors solely for the sake of applause that, in my…