The last light and Get Hard..reviewed

the Last light is the kind of horror movie I love. There is no crazy serial killer offing college students one by one, no absurd chase scenes..justa good old fashioned fight between good and evil. The movie is visually very appealing, the lighting is in point, the music carefully selected to give just the right feeling of menace. The acting is superb. Seriously spot on. The only technical problem I can find is the ambient sounds were a bit to loud making the fact that they were recorded way to obvious. For a low budget film..this movie is very well done.
In it you have six survivors of..something, something none of them can quite remember. They only know that something is outside. Something that will destroy them if given the opportunity. Now the rest of this review will have *spoilers* because this is the kind of movie you can't really review without giving away major plot points.
Ok they are in purgatory, I caught that right away but I can see how some people may never figure it out. Without that knowledge you really can't understand the film. The problem with the characters is none of them (with the exception of one) has really done anything worth going to hell over. Good lord one lady is there because she left home for a job and almost missed her sisters death. The reasons are never quite given for two of the people there. This really bothers me, it's such a well put together film in every other respect, to have not put more thought into character development is just tragic. Also all they have to do is walk into the light to be saved? When they believe monsters are right outside the door? How does that have anything to do with forgiveness? Don't let these two problems stop you from watching this film though the performances the actors give and the great soundtrack and moody lighting make this film well worth the hour and a half run time.

Get hard
This film is not funny, well at least not most of it. That's pretty much all you need to know but if you want to know why it isn't funny here goes: Will Ferrell and Kevin heart have no chemistry. The best parts of the film are when Ferrell is interacting with annone else but heart. I feel like they keep teaming heart up with people in movies hoping that someone will give him that comedic chemistry he needs. Both Kevin and heat need straight men to play off of. Someone to bounce their actions off of. You can't have two larger than life characters on go at the same time. However Ferrell joining the gang and giving them stock market advice was pure gold. My advice is watch once it hits Netflix.