Tag: Action

Taken (2008) – Review

Maybe Liam Neeson’s sudden veer into action movies shouldn’t have surprised us as much as it did back in 2008 when he showed up in

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The Transporter (2002) – Review

These days, Jason “The Stath” Statham is rightly regarded as one of the top action stars of his generation and one of the top three

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Another Wolfcop (2016) – Review

As infantile, ludicrous and utterly lowbrow attempts to gain a cult following go, you’d be hard pressed to find one as obvious as Wolfcop, the

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Hard To Kill (1990) – Review

The inexorable and meteoric rise of Steven Seagal during the early 1990s has often proven to be something that fascinates me to this day. To

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Jackpot! (2024) – Review

The notion of a dsytopian America turned into a vapid, violent wasteland thanks to ignorance and greed is hardly a new one – especially since

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Cyborg (1989) – Review

In a career absolutely jam packed with dystopian futures, marauding robots and probably more crucifixions than are strictly necessary, the indomitable Albert Pyun made it

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Tarzan The Ape Man (1981) – Review

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ legendary literary adventurer has been the subject of many a version that’s cast a more, shall we say, adult version of the

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Revenge (2017) – Review

Love em or hate em, there’s one thing that you have to admit when it comes to the sleezy, morally questionable world of the rape/revenge

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The Union (2024) – Review

Blue collar James Bonds are kind of a dime a dozen these days. I mean, Vin Diesel gave us Xander Cage in xXx, while Kingsman

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Léon (1994) – Review

When it comes to the nature of the mysterious, almost ethereal hitman, no one has cornered the market quite like Luc Besson. You see, while

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Tarzan And The Lost City (1998) – Review

The 90s just really couldn’t get the old pulp heroes right, could they? After Tim Burton created a cinematic sensation with his highly stylized tale

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The Killer (2024) – Review

Is there still a place in modern action cinema for John Woo?As a crazed fan of his revolutionary 80s/90s Hong Kong era and an unabashed

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The Crow (2024) – Review

They say that when a soul travels to the land of the dead, a crow can bring them back to take care of some unfinished

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Borderlands (2024) – Review

For a minute there, I truly believed that the video game adaptation had finally broken through and come of age thanks to the likes of

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Once A Thief (1991) – Review

Even someone who can orchestrate action at the level John Woo was operating at during the late 80s needs to let their hair down at

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G.I. Jane (1997) – Review

There’s a little theory I have concerning the sensational Scott brothers that suggests that they kind swapped roles during the mid-to-late 90s. Ridley, the more

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Another 48 Hrs. (1990) – Review

Way back in the dark ages – or more accurately, 1984 – a movie arrived that not only teed up Lethal Weapon to perfect the

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Out For Justice (1991) – Review

The brief conquest of Hollywood by arch bullshitter and all round lunatic, Steven Seagal, had to peak somewhere, and popular opinion commonly regards Under Siege

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Twisters (2024) – Review

Ok, before we take this movie for a spin, can I take a quick poll? Was there actually a call for a legacy sequel to

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Dante’s Peak (1997) – Review

In hindsight it all becomes staggeringly obvious. Of course you’d send a James Bond actor to tackle a monstrous volcano – after all, don’t most

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