Regardless of your stance of the bewildering longevity of the the Sniper franchise, you have to give Tom Berenger all the props in the world
Tag: War
Sniper (1993) – Review
Cinema has always been stuffed full of ironies, but one of my favorite is that Sniper, a movie about the stealthiest of military professions, somehow
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) – Review
Anyone who has watched the thoroughly unnecessary Dirty Dozen TV movie, Deadly Mission, will probably agree that it’s an extremely pale imitation of an original
Seal Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines (2014) – Review
As long as I’ve been watching examples of needless, cinema bypassing movie sequels to long defunct franchises, I’ll never truly understand why they’re allowed to
Full Metal Jacket (1987) – Review
It may be a supremely callous thing to suggest, but even though the horror of the Vietnam war devastated an entire generation, split a country
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988) – Review
True story. When I watched The Fatal Mission, the fourth and final entry into the thoroughly unnecessary trio of TV movie sequels to follow The
Warfare (2025) – Review
There’s a condition that states that some people just get addicted to war. Be it the constant adrenaline rush of being in a war zone
Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia (2009) – Review
Of all the puzzling questions that arose from the Behind Enemy Lines franchise (Why does it exist? Who wanted more?), surely the most perplexing of
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985) – Review
You just don’t get that many war time sequels, do you?I mean, there’s certainly enough characters who have served in the military who tend to
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis Of Evil (2006) – Review
Anyone who thought that the noughties era of endless, direct to DVD sequels that no one had ever asked for were solely a matter for
Blood & Gold (2023) – Review
While Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds contain a lot of great stuff, one of the best things about QT’s shamelessly revisionist war movie is that it
Behind Enemy Lines (2001) – Review
Hey, remember that period of time when Owen Wilson was an action hero? I’m not just talking about him playing spacey sidekick to Jackie Chan
Wild Geese II (1985) – Review
When it comes to well formulated plans of grizzled dudes going wildly awry, the story behind Wild Geese II manages to somehow match the rather
The Wild Geese (1978) – Review
As the seventies rolled on, one sub-genre of the war movie that seemed to be getting ever more dated was the man-on-a-mission movie that often
Venus Wars (1989) – Review
The issue of style over substance is something that is just as highly subjective to an individual moviegoer as comedy, or what kind of horror
Force 10 From Navarone (1978) – Review
There’s nothing more gripping than a good old Second World War set, men on a mission movie from the classic years that saw a scattering
Zulu (1964) – Review
As time steadily ticks on, it often mean that certain opinions or takes on history tend to fall out of favour when more modern and
The Great Escape (1963) – Review
You can hear it right now, can’t you? The very second you read that title, I’m willing to bet folding money that Elmer Bernstein’s transcendent
Windtalkers (2002) – Review
Once upon a time, the idea of John Woo doing a war movie would be enough to make the hairs stand up on the neck
’71 (2014) – Review
Films that choose to plonk its protagonist in hostile surroundings for the duration of one, endless, unbearably stressful night aren’t exactly thin on the ground
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