Yesterday (2019)

"Yesterday skips over the cliche and campy to be one of the best films of the summer." "‘Yesterday’ is the Beatles-themed feel-good movie of the summer." "A glowing tribute to The Beatles and their music, this is both a toe-tapping pleasure to watch and a smart, occasionally scathing look at how we get things wrong."

.......Really?

Okay, to be fair, there's plenty of reviews which reflect the bad things of this film as well, but I hadn't looked up any reviews regarding this film. All I had heard, from word of mouth, were good things about it, which was surprising when I first saw the trailers for this. I mean, one person finds he's the only one who knows the Beetles, which gave me the impression that either something wiped the Beetles from existence, or young people nowadays don't know who the Beetles are, which, believe me, isn't that far fetched.

So yes, 'Yesterday' finds wannabe musician Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) struggling to make it in the music industry. One night during a worldwide power cut, Jack is struck by a bus and admitted to hospital. When he comes to he finds that no-one else remembers the Beetles, and decides to use their music to make a career for himself.

First things first, I really hate this concept. Not the whole "world has forgotten the Beetles" thing, oh no, that's actually interesting. It's the "stealing someone else's work" bit I don't like. It's not like he has a debate with himself whether it's a good thing or not, he spends the evening looking up any references of the music group, then decides to use their music.

That being said, Himesh Patel does a decent job with the role, as well as being a good performer, not really putting a foot wrong. Meanwhile it's always great to watch Lily James (as Ellie Appleton), though she is underused, which is probably because they cut out a love rival which makes some of her actions a bit bizarre. Kate McKinnon meanwhile provides a brilliant performance as the "evil" agent who tempts Jack with success, with some...comments on the music business.

And then there's Ed fucking Sheeran.

Oh boy I did not like him. You know, he's a good musician with some catchy songs, but...he's not the best actor let's say. His performance on 'Game of Thrones' felt out of place and, bizarrely, he feels out of place here. He just seemingly pops up out of nowhere, having saw Jack perform on local television. Even more weirdly, they seem to try and build up his appearance, with his face being obscured by a fancy glass design, this is despite the fact that he was named about five minutes beforehand. The only real decent thing, was watching him having his spirit broken when Jack's "new" song beat Sheeran's new song. Then they went to the other extreme by saying Ed Sheeran was just warming up the world for Jack, effectively saying Ed Sheeran is the greatest musician of our generation.

Really?

I mean, admittedly I can't think of many other musicians who would be better suited for the title. Adele? Taylor Swift? Sam Smith?....Justin Bieber I don't know! It certainly seems like they put in Ed Sheeran's contract "we will name you the greatest musician of our time in exchange for breaking you"

And that actually raises an issue with the film. It's not that the Beetles are wiped from everyone's memories, the timeline has actually been changed. Oh yeah! They do still exist, they just never formed the Beetles. And because of that, that should mean the entire landscape of the music industry should be completely different to what we know now. The Beetles are widely considered the most influential band of all time, so if they never existed, the music industry shouldn't be the same. There should be a much wider impact to removing the Beetles from history.

Speaking of which, by removing the Beetles from history, and then trying to use their songs to kick start your music career, it raises the question of whether the Beetles would actually be successful in today's era. The film sort of touches on this, both in a good and bad way. It praises the Beetles by, as mentioned earlier, saying their songs are vastly superior to Ed "greatest musician of the modern era" Sheeran's, and having people stunned into silence by their songs, but then suggests that their songs are dated, like "Hey Jude" being changed to "Hey dude" due to Jude sounding old, or the names of Beetles' album covers being ridiculed. With the songs originally being released in the 1960s/70s, people can understand the subject matter of the songs. Having them "originally" released in 2019 raises a serious doubt about how successful they would be.

So, to be fair, there isn't anything inherently wrong with the film. It's well acted and the songs are well performed, while the film has an interesting premise. So, why didn't I particularly like it? Well, in all honesty, it's because of a number of issues. I've already touched upon how they treated the Beetles legacy, in particular how Jack basically steals someone else's work to further his own career.

As mentioned earlier, Kate McKinnon's character, Debra Hammer, is a character designed to tempt Jack by promising him success. So it seemed like the film was going to lean towards Jack having fame, success and/or money go to his head, and we've already seen that done a hundred times. 'Rocky III', 'Citizen Kane', 'The Candidate', 'Dead Rising 2: Off The Record'

Hell, it's been done in 'The Lorax'!

But 'Yesterday' is so focused on making Jack likable, they never go all the way. Jack is always hovering on the edge, never really making him become egocentric, but not really debating enough whether he should come clean, therefore it doesn't seem he go through any lessons.

There is one other thing I want to touch upon, but it's basically a spoiler so I'll leave it for the spoiler section.

So, whilst there isn't anything really wrong with the film, it's largely a waste of time. The acting and performances are good, but with a cliche script not really knowing what it wants to do it fails to capture the attention of the audience. It has clever ideas but never fully explains them or go all the way with them, so it's an unsatisfying payoff. And for a film that, primarily for the audience, is supposed to celebrate one of the best bands of all time, it doesn't really do that.

In all honesty, there's not really much that the film offers, there's no real reason why it exists. It's just a karaoke film; someone who can sing really well singing covers of another band's music, for which, again, there's a hundred films like that as well. 'Sing', 'Rocketman', 'Bohemian Rhapsody', any of the 'High School Musicals'. You can get the exact same experience by looking up The Beetles on Youtube, minus the story. If you enjoyed the film, good for you, but I can't see why this film would be considered anything other than background noise.




Spoiler Section

Nothing of consequence happens to Jack. Two people reveal they also remember the Beetles, but rather than tell anyone, they just tell Jack they're happy that the Beetles songs continue to exist, thanks to Jack. So, they could have been cut from the film and nothing would have changed. And then! Jack goes to an Ed Sheeran concert to reveal that he didn't write the songs...but only after he performs again. If he was truly repentant he would surely just tell everyone rather than have one last performance for his ego.

And then! He finally reveals that he didn't write any of the Beetles songs, and that he tricked everyone. He stole other people's work, he plagerised another band's work, he's a fraud, a liar, a thief. But he's in love with Lily James so no-one but Kate McKinnon cares! On top of that, since the Beetles have been wiped from the timeline, no-one knows who Jack plagerised, therefore he gets no punishment! The only thing that happens is that his music career is tanked, but that's a self inflicted wound, Jack knew what he was doing.

So yeah, I wanted to put this into the main conclusion above, but as it goes over the ending, it was a spoiler.

Skyscraper (2018)

So a couple weeks ago, I decided to go see three films across three days. I have a Cineworld unlimited card, why not? Anyway, on the Saturday I saw 'Incredibles 2', it was a great film, probably prefer the first one but that's not to say the sequel wasn't good, it's a great film. On the Monday, because the car park at home was being repainted, I went to see 'The Secret of Marrowbone'. It was alright, early on it generated a great atmosphere but lost it towards the end, but it was still pretty good. In between them on the Sunday I saw 'Skyscraper'. It was stupid.

Oh, yes, the film which started off looking like a reimagining of 'The Towering Inferno', tried to reimagine 'Die Hard', and in the end had no idea which film it was supposed to be, turned out to be a bit of a mess. Most of the things I want to comment on are spoilers so there'll be a spoiler section.

In 'Skyscraper' we find Will Sawyer (Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson), a former FBI hostage rescue team leader but now runs safety checks on buildings from his garage, (at one point they list a whole bunch of stuff off his resume which really makes his career path strange) is tasked by his former colleague Ben (Pablo Schreiber) to assess the world's newest largest building in the world, The Pearl, owned by Zhao Long Ji (Chin Han). However evil terrorists, led by Kores Botha (Roland Moller), threaten to burn down the building and steal something from Zhao. However, Sawyer's wife, Sarah (Neve Campbell), and their kids, are trapped in the building, so Will goes in to save his family.

Now, one of the main problems with this, is The Rock. Yeah, the character's name is Will Sawyer, but let's face it, it's The Rock. Now there's nothing wrong with The Rock, his acting is great, he's probably the best thing in this film. But, the main thing I like to see in a film is the hero facing a challenge. Having the Rock as an amputee helps, but when he climbs a crane at least 97 stories high (the fire is started on the 95/96th floor, details are a bit hazy after two weeks, and the fire has to go up the building) and suffers zero fatigue, as well as pull off so many other implausible stunts, the idea of him being vulnerable is...thrown out the window of the world's largest building. How can we expect The Rock to be in certain danger when he seems invulnerable.

Yeah sure, we've had the same thing in the past, Superman for one, though I've never been a big Superman fan.  There's James Bond, he's saved the world God knows how many times, but he's the best of the best of British Intelligence, he's had years of training. John McClane in the Die Hard films, he's a detective but in the first film they had him run across broken glass and then have to pull out the shards of glass of his feet. The Power Rangers reboot, they had Rita Repulsa beat the hell out of the Rangers before the climatic battle. It's better to see the character or characters vulnerable or fail before they overcome their challenge/s. Not overcome them no matter what from the outset.

Now the other characters....hmm. The only really fleshed out character is Sarah, The Rock's wife, played by Neve Campbell. Sarah, to be fair, isn't the stereotypical damsel in distress, in fact she takes it on herself to do....some things, and Campbell does a good job. Their kids, played by McKenna Roberts and Noah Cottrell,....are there. As someone who did a "most annoying child actors" list they did fine, but they only serve as a rescue plot device.

Then we have our main villain Kores Botha, where again, Roland Møller did a good job. Or at least I've seen worse. The thing with Botha is that he and Zhao have a history and Botha wanted the building to burn down whilst Zhao watched helplessly, whilst stealing from him. The problem is that...why couldn't he have set the building on fire AFTER stealing from him? Wouldn't that have made EVERYTHING easier? There'd be no police presence, no Rock in the building, and you'd be on the way to freedom. Believe me, I'll be coming back to this in the spoiler section.

Supporting cast include Noah Taylor as Mr. Pierce, Hannah Quinlivan as the assassin Xia...I think, I don't think her name was ever mentioned, or at least it's stated only once and never again, Byron Mann as Inspector Wu, and Adrian Holmes as Ajani Okeke. Again, they were alright. Taylor was probably the worse, but they did alright. Although Xia...now that I think about it, I don't think has any lines. She must have had one or two, but most of the time she just does a sexy evil glare towards the camera.

So, overall, the acting isn't the problem, it's how the characters are written. It's the same cliches from 80s and 90s action flicks. Even Mann and another detective, I'm pretty sure it's Elfina Luk as Inspector Han, are the "I'll be the one who wants the whole story while you be the one who automatically assumes The Rock is the bad guy" couple. Taylor is the stereotypical British guy in an American film (again, I'll mention this in the spoilers), in fact, apart from The Rock, and probably Schreiber and Han, we don't actually deal with any other character long enough to develop them. When we're introduced to Pierce and Okeke, Pierce has one line basically saying hi and Okeke says nothing. To be fair, I loved Adrian Holmes, he was great.

The effects, can be hit and miss. The explosions are cool, and who doesn't love explosions, the hollodeck in The Pearl looks stunning, and the views to the ground actually managed to set off my vertigo, but other things like the crane swinging or bridges falling down just don't look good.


So, admittedly looking through that it sounds like I'm overall praising the film doesn't it? Well, to be fair, it isn't that bad. The acting is pretty good, especially from the Rock, but the story is a mess and predictable, the characters are weak, and it adds nothing new to what we've seen a hundred times. That's not to say it's a bad movie, it's okay at best, it's good to have on in the background, but it's a stupid film which has been much better elsewhere. In fact, go watch 'The Towering Inferno' and/or 'Die Hard'.

Now the spoiler section



Spoiler Section

Firstly, when I mentioned when Pierce and Okeke are introduced one is a British guy saying one line and the other saying nothing? Well, it's at this point where I though that the terrorists couldn't pull this off without someone on the inside. Now, who will it be? The British guy or the guy who didn't say anything? Not even sure if it's a spoiler, it's so blatantly obvious.

But it's not just that, they have TWO people on the inside, the British guy, and Ben. Ben was involved in the same incident that took Rock's leg, but left him with a scarred face. This has resulted in Ben being in pain and...somehow in debt with the terrorists. Obviously, the Rock is surely also in pain, he lost part of his leg, but Ben works at one of the most technologically advanced buildings, if not THE most technologically advanced buildings, in the world, how can he be in debt? We are never told why, it's just passed over with Ben saying how Rock got a hot wife and family and Ben got nothing, but that's it. The Rock was working in his garage, surely Ben earned more in a week than the Rock did in a year.

Oh but wait, the biggest stupid thing is yet to come.

At the start of the film, The Rock is given a tablet that biometrically scans his face so only the Rock can use it. Ben orchestrates a mugging of Rock's bag, but it turns out the Rock put the tablet in his jacket pocket and not the bag. So the terrorists, after Ben dies at the Rock's hands, send Xia and a squad to get the tablet. They get the tablet, and then force the Rock to unlock the tablet. What this means is that when they thought they originally had it, they still needed the Rock's face to unlock it! What was the point in stealing it earlier if you still needed his face to unlock the damn thing?!

Now later in the film, the bad guys have the Rock and his daughter (Campbell and his son have escaped). The terrorists want the Rock to open a panic room where Zhao is, because Pierce told them that Rock is capable of opening the door. Why Pierce, one of Zhao's right hand men, isn't capable of this, who the fuck knows. Anyway, Rock tells them that the only way to open the door is either inside, or the anti-fire systems on the floor are activated. Well, then that's fine, the bad guys control the systems...
Botha: You're going to open the door
Me: Uh, what?
Botha: Or else we're going to throw your daughter off the roof
Me: But...but you can just turn on the anti-fire systems to open the door. You control the system!

Yeah! Seriously, the bad guys make the Rock go on a stupid Spider-man climb round the side of the building to a wind turbine to open the door, when all they had to do, was activate the anti-fire systems. The terrorists don't need the Rock! They can just kill him! What, are they worried about the fire not destroying the building they're in? Well, maybe they could have waited until they stole this device they wanted, and THEN set the building on fire!

Now, the reason why they don't just enable the anti-fire, I believe it's because the locked the system down. After unlocking the tablet Xia and her squad go to an off site facility which runs the system for the Pearl. Here, Xia and her squad kill the people there and use a hacker to get into the system to turn off the anti-fire mechanics. After the hacker does this, he enables the tablet for all users, then I believe he says that he put his algorithm into the system so only he can access, he is then shot by Xia. The thing here is, if he was going to enable it so no-one can access the system, why did he enable the tablet to be accessible by ALL USERS?!

Oh! It's because Neve Campbell can't access the tablet otherwise! But wait, that hacker's algorithm means she can't turn the system on, oh well, I guess Rock and daughter are dead. Oh who am I kidding, she saves the day. And how does she do it? Well, imagine the stupidest thing you can do with a computer system that won't work properly SHE TURNS IT OFF AND ON AGAIN.

Are you serious?! This hacker's algorithm, this thing that was supposed to stop people accessing the system, prevent people from turning on the anti-fire systems, was fixed by turning it off and on again?! What the fucking hell?! It's stupid! The film's stupid! Stop being stupid movie! It's not even like the terrorists couldn't figure it out, the instruction came up in English! So they could have just turn the system off and on again, turned on the anti fire systems, open the door, and get Zhao! It's infuriatingly stupid!

Most of the film I could forgive, but this turn it off and on again bit, God!

Trailer Talks: Ghostbusters (2016)

Hey guys! I'm back at the posts! I know I haven't done a post in AGES and I have a tremendous amount of backlog so at this point I might as well wipe the slate clean. Random reviews I will hopefully still get around to but...*clears throat* "new" releases will be scraped. Whether I do these reviews, I doubt it, but won't say I won't.

Now, I'm sure everyone has heard about it by now, but there's a new Ghostbusters on the way, and the trailer came out earlier this week.

Normally I don't really think so much of a trailer, but this one is...it's just so...talkative?

Now, before anyone says anything, no I don't have a problem with an all female cast. Saying that, I would have prefer a mixed gender team, like Extreme Ghostbusters did almost twenty years ago. But I don't have a problem with a team that only allows one gender. What I do have a problem is that if anyone has a problem with Paul Feig's Ghostbusters, they're automatically accused of being sexist. People have bad things to say because the new Ghostbusters looks shit. Got it?

Now I will start this by saying that I didn't hate the trailer...as much as I thought I would. But all the problems I thought it would have are there. Firstly, the cast. Kristen Wiig is her ususal comedic self and Melissa McCarthy is her usual uncomedic self. Yeah, I am not a big McCarthy fan. She generally tends to play the same lovable, clumsy but vulgar character who everyone loves in the end. Granted we don't see THAT character in the trailer except for that clumsy persona.

But my main talking points are on Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones' characters. Firstly, Jones' character Patty, who is only there because, unlike the other people who live in New York, she knows where things are in New York. They have gone down the stereotypical black person route, which is extremely evident in the part of the trailer where McCarthy's character is possessed and Patty exorcises the ghost by bitchslapping McCarthy. I am fucking serious.

You may remember in the original 1984 film Sigourney Weaver's character is possessed by Zuul. Apparently all Billy Murray's Venkman had to do was punch her in the face, can you imagine? It's almost like saying Patty's role is bigger than Winston Zeddmore's and in reality she could be replaced by a bloody sat-nav. Then again a sat-nav wouldn't have been able to do a Southern Baptist impression.

Now McKinnon's character, which is so obviously a rip off of Venkman. The only real difference (apart from being female of course) is that she comes off a bit more...punkier? Either way, she's the Venkman knock off. That's really my only problem with her, but if you're going to do a remake (or reboot, whatever term the kids want to use these days), how about you make the film your own and not rip off the original? There is a returning character though, Slimer, who does look good.

Speaking of the original, it would appear the first ghost the team comes across is the Librarian. And in all fairness, the 2016 Librarian does actually look pretty cool, with the glow and the design, it actually looks pretty scary

until it starts throwing up

and then it looks fucking stupid.

It's really quite amazing how hope is raised here, and then it is quickly dashed. It is the sign where the seriousness of the Ghostbusters franchise is gone and becomes the vulgar and crude Paul Feig comedy which only teenagers should find funny. Which, in relation to my earlier "make it your own film" comment, well, congratulations you made it your own subpar comedy. I'm calling it now, the new film will have a scene where the characters are scared of a spider.

Of course, the original films had its own case of silly looking ghosts, demons, and/or Gods. Like we had;

      um...a dragon?                                                                                              Godzilla?            










     and...whatever this is

But when you have ghost which looks like a weirder thing to see walking around New York than the Stay Puft marshmallow man, you have a problem

Oh, and as you probably heard from the trailer, someone is apparently behind the supernatural phenomena. So it will most likely be Wiig's love interest. Maybe McCarthy's. Also, just want to quickly point out, Kristen Wiig is really the only cast member who can pull off the scientist character to me. McKinnon I've never seen in action before, that's why my only problem is the Venkman rip off, I've no idea how funny she can be. Though if the best she can do is put on a silly wig and hat...admittedly that brought a smile so it may be good. McCarthy though I can't take seriously as a scientist. It's like how they made out to be a superspy in 'Spy', I just can't believe it. Admittedly this is most likely because I absolutely hate Melissa McCarthy.

We also get a glance of the gadgets used in the new film, and like the ghosts, it starts off with a cool factor, before immediately going "what the fuck?". The good bit, are the pistols (I assume we'll just call them proton pistols), which McKinnon's character has to emphasize by licking one of the pistols...which, if they are the same machinery as the proton packs, is actually really stupid to do since they will be radioactive. Also, since we see these pistols don't have a power source like the proton packs, then presumably these will run out of power quickly, or there's no need to carry around the heavy proton packs anymore, unless they charge in the proton packs...I've just written myself out of liking the proton pistols.

Alright, the other gadgets...McCarthy has a proton knuckle duster. I...I can't even...who the hell came up with this?! Who the hell thought "we need McCarthy to punch a ghost in the face to be funny"? Obviously this is supposed to be a joke because no-one would take punching a ghost with a special knuckle duster seriously. Yes, I know this is about women taking on ghosts.

And yet, the proton knuckle duster is NOT the stupidest look gadget in the film. That belongs to the ghost bear trap. I am serious. They develop a bear trap for ghosts. This, I can only assume, is a prototype and nothing more. Firstly, how the hell are they going to carry that thing?! Look at it! It's bigger than their bodies! Secondly, how is it meant to trap ghosts? I'm sure they'll explain/show in the actual film, but for now it looks like the ghost can get through that big gap you see when the trap is closed.

Let's go back to the original films and look at the simple yet effective ghost traps, They look like they can actually trap something, and as shown in the 1984 film, also allows a simple method to put the ghosts in the containment unit, and is easy to carry around.The bear trap looks heavy, complicated, and stupid. It's a clear sign they're going flashy with the gadgets instead of actually thinking about the design.

And that's really all I can say from the trailer. It was more miss than hit for me, and definitely confirms what I was worried about; that they are only doing this for a quick buck, with no thought about the originals and what made the originals so great. Obviously we will need to wait and see what the whole product delivers but right now, it's not good.

Thanks for reading guys, obviously it's something different to what I have posted in the past and I may do more 'Trailer Talks', improving it here and there...and may come up with a different name, who knows. I am sort of thinking of doing one for 'Batman vs Superman', maybe as a way to help get me back into posting regularly.

WrestleMania 31 Predicitions

It's that time of year folks, it is time for WrestleMania! The Show of Shows is once again upon us...and there are some...questionable decisions in the last few months. Particularly at the Royal Rumble. Now, I was one of those pissed off with Roman Reigns winning it, but not because he won it. I was pissed off because of how the WWE did it; by having Kane and Big Show literally dump all the other popular superstars out of the ring (I didn't really mind about Daniel Bryan's early appearance and elimination). However Reigns showed at Fastlane with his match with Daniel Bryan that he can pull off a good match. Let's just hope he can do it again.



Pre-Show: WWE Tag Team Championship Fatal 4 Way

What could have been a potential show stealer (despite featuring the bland Usos, the forgettable Los Matadores, and the even blander New Day) has been kicked to the pre show. Personally I feel its too soon for Kidd and Cesaro to drop the titles. The Usos at the Hall of Fame were said to have dominated the tag team division, but that's only because the rest of the division was weak, and has been for a long long time. The tag team division has one dominant team for a while with them winning the titles, before losing them to another upcoming team, rinse and repeat. The Ascension should have been in this match so that they can put on a good showing, not win the titles, but put on a good showing. Anyway, Kidd and Cesaro to win.

Pre-Show: The Andre the Giant Battle Royal Memorial

Wow, half the roster put on the pre-show. There isn't really a way to accurately predict this, especially since I don't really know who is in it. There's Ryback, Curtis Axel, Damian Mizdow, The Miz, Adam Rose, Erick Rowen, and loads of other people. So I'll do what I did last year and name three candidates. I will go with Damien Mizdow (hopefully dropping the Miz gimmick), NXT's Hideo Itami, and Curtis Axel. I'm one of the #AxelMania people! I actually think he has a chance in this!

AJ Lee & Paige vs The Bella Twins

It's quite amazing how fast the Bella's went downhill after their feud. Seriously Brie's mic skills improved, Nikki's wrestling skill improved, now that they're on the same page again they've gone back down to the same subpar stuff they do. Even the Give Divas a chance hashtag didn't help. AJ Lee and Paige always seem to have that great "frenemy" chemistry, and I definitely prefer them to the Bella's, so I certainly hope they win.

Rusev vs John Cena - United States Championship

It really is weird seeing John Cena fighting for a title that isn't the WWE Title. Even more bizarre is that I saw that Cena gave an interview on WWE.Com that this "might" be his last WrestleMania. Which I seriously doubt. This is kind of tricky, I don't see Cena winning a title that isn't the WWE title (I know he won the Tag Team titles every so often...for about five minutes) but it would destroy Rusev's credibility if he lost...just like John Cena did to Vladimir Kozlov and Umanga, the latter ending up losing to Santino Marella, and the former teaming up with Santino Marella. Personally, I want Rusev to win, by any means. But, I have a feeling Cena will pull out the victory, kind of because this match/result has been building up since Rusev's debut.

7-man Intercontinental Title Ladder match

Do you know the best way to restore a belt's prestige? Have a random number of superstars steal the belt from the rightful owner. Following the shameful result of Bad News Barrett's match against Dean Ambrose, the title has now changed more hands the last month than the Hardcore title when that was around, and yet Barrett hasn't actually lost the championship, he's still the champion. Anyway, with the tag team title match on the pre-show, this might now pip the night as a show stealer, mainly because this is unpredictable and ladder matches always add a bit of excitement. It's almost like a money in the bank match. With R-Truth bizarrely on a WrestleMania card, Stardust completely ignoring his rivalry with Goldust, Daniel Bryan losing out on the main event, and Luke Harper and Dolph Ziggler thrown in for some reason, this could be one hell of a match. Since he should have won the title at Fastlane to get a jumpstart on his career, I'm going to say Dean Ambrose will win.

Randy Orton vs Seth Rollins

Apparently Randy Orton has mentioned that this could steal the show, and who knows, maybe it will. But I am actually expecting a dirty end to this match, a DQ or something...although this is WrestleMania and that shouldn't occur on this show. Despite a pretty week story going into this (seriously Seth, you really believed Orton forgave you for putting him "out of action"?), this is actually a match that I'm looking forward to. Rollins is a tremendous athlete, I love watching him in action, and Randy Orton can pull off some great matches as well. Personally I hope Seth Rollins will win.

Undertaker vs Bray Wyatt

Undertaker will win. I know that was what I said last year and Brock Lesnar won. I'm still undecided as to whether they meant it or it was botched. Although I'm pretty sure they meant it, because of how Michael Cole said "it's over" when Lesnar got the three count. This year, I very much doubt Undertaker will lose twice in a row, even if it's to make Bray Wyatt "the new face of fear"...I need to get the t-shirt. The question is "why are they doing this match?". Undertaker's undefeated streak is over, the magic is gone. Death, taxes, and the streak were meant to be the only things in life, now the whole point of Undertaker's annual match is gone, the only thing I can think of is that it's to pass the torch to Wyatt, but if they wanted to do that then they shouldn't have had the Undertaker lose last year. Sigh, Undertaker to win.

Sting vs Triple H

He's here. The Icon, the Vigilante, Sting, is finally going to wrestle in the WWE, and what a first opponent in the Cerebral Assassin, the Game, Triple H. I have never seen Sting wrestle. Apart from the couple of minutes he and Triple H brawl anyway. I probably should since I have the WWE Network, look at his old WCW stuff. But I'm expecting Sting to win his debut here, I just hope it isn't like that disappointing Mr McMahon vs Bret Hart match a few years ago.

Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns - WWE World Heavyweight Championship

I have never seen Brock Lesnar become a face so quick and with him not doing anything. Okay, maybe not a face, just the one most people want to win. Following Reigns' controversial Royal Rumble win, the pressure has been on him to deliver in the ring and on the mic. The mic, not so much, but his match at Fastlane was a great match. And then they amplified the feud between these two...by having them play a game of tug of war with the WWE Title. That was a stupid idea. With Lesnar signing a new deal with the WWE, the outcome of this match has suddenly been thrown up in the air. However I am expecting Reigns to win the match, but neither men will walk out of WrestleMania with the title. I am expecting Seth Rollins to cash in, I mean, that can be the only reason why he hasn't cashed in yet right? Right? Anyway, Roman Reigns to win the battle, Seth Rollins to win the war.

And those are my predictions for tonight's WrestleMania, I hope it's a good one.