While it makes a certain amount of financial sense for certain, modern trilogies to double up on their final two installments (before the arrival part
Tag: Action
The Bourne Supremacy (2004) – Review
Most of the time, when filmmakers tackle a sequel to a sleeper hit, there’s an overriding urge to make things exponentially bigger and crazier than
Robowar (1988) – Review
I think I’m in need of some sort of intervention or something, because I can’t seem to stop searching out and exposing myself to the
Extreme Prejudice (1987) – Review
Walter Hill’s desire to make almost everything he’s ever directed feel like an impossibly gritty western is well documented, but with his dusty, bullet casing
Underworld (2003) – Review
Ever since Dracula and the Wolf Man briefly butted their heads in the closing moments of Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein, Hollywood has sporadically tried
The Bourne Identity (2002) – Review
On a long enough timeline, James Bond will always be the premier name in cinematic spydom simply because he’s lasted the longest and that’s given
Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003) – Review
It’s always a pleasant surprise when a forgotten genre suddenly returns from the dead and enters the awaiting arms of a respective audience – but
Lockout
Cinema as we know it is well over a hundred years old at this point so the recycling of existing ideas is all but accepted
Shocking Dark (1989) – Review
We’ve stumbled across the works of Bruno Mattei – aka. Vincent Dawn – a couple of times on this site before (arguably too much) but
Interceptor (2022) – Review
The continuing battle for equality in the world of cinema has managed to negotiate many hurdles with equal pay and the treatment of women in
Under Seige 2: Dark Territory (1995) – Review
After the success of Under Seige – the Die Hard on a battleship action extravaganza that saw Steven Seagal bitch-slap his way through a healthy
A Better Tomorrow II (1987) – Review
Those who have seen the original A Better Tomorrow would surely concur that that although it contained many of John Woo’s signature themes, it hadn’t
Lightyear (2022) – Review
Those confused by the canonical aspects of Pixar’s latest movie can take a breath, because in that typical manner that boasts the crisp, intuitive storytelling
Under Siege (1992) – Review
It was inevitable, really. After all, Schwarzenegger and Stallone couldn’t remain at the top of the action ladder forever, could they? Sly was licking his
A Better Tomorrow (1986) – Review
These days, the many themes and visual tricks of action maestro John Woo are incredibly well known as his frenetic, slow motion gunplay, religious iconography
Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) – Review
For a franchise whose very inception is about genetically fusing different aspects together to create a being with more teeth than the entire Kardashian clan,
Strike Commando 2 (1988) – Review
We’ve encountered Bruno Mattei on this page before, but for those unfamiliar with possibly Italian cinema’s most blatant rip off artist, here’s a quick run
Blue Thunder (1983) – Review
The helicopter is one of the most important inventions next to the gun and the car when it comes to the action thriller; I mean
Broken Arrow (1996) – Review
After crafting God-level action classics back in his native Hong Kong, John Woo inevitably made the leap to Hollywood after his 1992 epic Hard Boiled
Strike Commando (1987) – Review
Many, many years ago, back in the age of the reassuring clunkiness of the VCR, I owned an ex-rental copy of Michele Soavi’s poetically camp,
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