Sometimes a movie comes along with a premise so promising, it causes you to uncontrollably salivate like Giger’s Alien at the prospect of experiencing it.
Tag: Action
Gone In 60 Seconds (2000) – Review
The powerhouse producing duo of Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson undeniably changed the face of Hollywood during the 1980s by giving it an unfeasibly glossy
G20 (2025) – Review
When does the Die Hard format of action thrillers finally have enough distinctive entries to officially branch off and form a splinter sub-genre of its
Revenge Of The Ninja (1983) – Review
If I’ve said it once on this site, I’ve said it a thousand times, sometimes the thread marking the barriers between a bad film, a
Cleaner (2025) – Review
Once again we find ourselves dipping our toe into the shallow end of the pool marked “female led action movie that’s premiered on streaming” with
Tarzan’s Magic Fountain (1949) – Review
After ditifully wearing Tarzan’s all purpose loin cloth for an impressive twelve movies, it eventually became time for Johnny Weissmuller to catch the next vine
The Marine 3: Homefront (2013) – Review
While the existence of The Marine franchise may prove to be somewhat perplexing to those who tend to avoid direct to DVD actioners, you can’t
xXx: State Of The Union (2005) – Review
So, to put it mildly, I’ve never been a fan of the original xXx. Oh hey, I’m fully on board with filmmakers trying to come
HAVOC (2025) – Review
Ever since the climax of The Raid II back in 2014, I have been desperately waiting for Gareth Evans to get his hands bloody once
Enter The Ninja (1981) – Review
While the 80s where hardly a fortress of restraint, surely one of the most amusing tropes of the decade was Cannon Films’ insistence that action
Vanishing Point (1971) – Review
Once upon a time, car chase movies were a different breed other than purely flashy, partially CGI glitz-fests. They were gritty, they were real and
Tarzan And The Great River (1967) – Review
If there was a noticable flaw with Mike Henry’s tenure as Edgar Rice Burroughs’ lion grappling, vine travelling adventurer, is that his trio of Tarzan
The Marine 2 (2009) – Review
In 2006, John Cena quit being the Doctor of Thuganomics temporarily in order to become the latest WWE wrestler to leap from the top turnbuckle
xXx (2002) – Review
The year is 2002 and as we await the rather dismal Die Another Day – Pierce Brosnan’s fourth and final turn as super spy James
Novocaine (2025) – Review
2025 so far seems to be the year of the loved-up action movie. Not a few months prior, we watched Ke Huy Quan perform all
A Working Man (2025) – Review
Does anyone else think that David Ayer is going through some elaborate form of mid-life crisis? I only bring it up because after a career
No Escape (2015) – Review
Not to be confused with the Ray Liotta sci-fi action film directed by Martin Campbell (“Ray Liotta sci-fi action film” will never not be a
The Marine (2006) – Review
From the days of watching El Santo and his Luchador buddies bodyslamming martians and vampires, to watching Hulk Hogan make a chauffeur literally shit himself
Fight Or Flight (2024) – Review
Remember the days when all you had to do to describe certain action movies was to finish the sentence “Die Hard in/on a (insert final
Demon City (2025) – Review
Some plots are as immortal as gods, resurfacing time and time again to tell the same story so many times, you’d be forgiven for suffering
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