Over the past couple of years, the much maligned genre of video game adaptations has been crawling ever closer to that elusive four star review
Tag: Action
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) – Review
After squeezing out the lacklustre (yet depressingly profitable) videogame adaptation Resident Evil, Paul W.S. Anderson decided to move onto pastures new when the temptation to
Stone Cold (1991) – Review
As the 80’s faded into a spandex clad, cocaine dusted memory, the action genre was in a state of flux. It’s holy trinity of guiding
Marked For Death (1990) – Review
1990 wasn’t a good year to be a Jamaican male in an American movie; after all, Disney’s Cool Runnings was still three years away and
2012 (2009) – Review
During his long career as Hollywood’s go to disaster artist, Roland Emmerich has probably toppled more landmarks than the entire Kaiju cast of Destroy All
Jiu Jitsu (2020) – Review
Describing a film by simply giving an example of it as one particular movie “meeting” another has becoming the easiest and quickest way to explain
The Purge: Anarchy (2014) – Review
The common consensus concerning the orginal Purge, Blumhouse’s typically political 2013 slasher/thriller, is that it wasted it’s thought provoking premise by restricting it to have
Van Helsing (2004) – Review
Back in 1999, Stephen Sommers updated a genuine horror classic and raised The Mummy from it’s metaphorical sarcophagus thanks to Brendan Frasier’s innate likeability, a
Red Heat (1988) – Review
“I give up, this whole thing’s very Russian!”So speaks Jim Belushi’s swaggering Chicago cop Art Ridzic near the end of this typically brutal action romp
Raw Deal (1986) – Review
Sandwiched between Commando and Predator in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s epic flex of an 80’s resumè lies the mostly forgotten Raw Deal, an action thriller that painfully
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) – Review
One of the most consistently irritating things about the Resident Evil franchise is that they usually end on a massive change on the status quo
Doomsday (2008) – Review
After his exemplary first couple of movies, my expectations for Neil Marshall’s third film, Doomsday, was higher than Snoop Dogg. I mean, could you blame
Resident Evil (2002) – Review
Thanks to the extraordinarily low benchmark for the world of video game adaptations, the Resident Evil franchise is king. A rambling, oddly plotted series of
Godzilla Vs. Kong (2021) – Review
“It’s just so massive… so stupid…” mulls Brian Tyree Henry’s conspiracy theorist during a rare quiet moment during the latest entry into Legendary’s Monsterverse and
Skylines (2020) – Review
If you’d told me as I was leaving the cinema after watching Skyline in 2010 that the execrable sci-fi flick would eventually make it to
Beyond Skyline (2017) – Review
Back in 2010, Skyline descended into cinemas with a low budget and high ambitions. Telling the tale of a blue tinged alien invasion as told
Big Trouble In Little China (1986) – Review
Blame ol’ Jack Burton.While it’s true that the lukewarm reception to the chilling wonders of The Thing initially soured the notoriously independent John Carpenter to
The Expendables 3 (2014) – Review
As the gristly gaggle of action stars once again girded their aging loins (ew) and threw themselves into the breach of a third Expendables movie,
The Expendables 2 (2012) – Review
Bigger, better, faster is usually the go to phrase when crafting a sequel to an earlier hit, but when your first film contained the most
The Expendables (2010) – Review
They’re aren’t many movies that can take a critical licking and yet can keep on ticking, but those that do are usually deemed “critic proof”
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