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THE MATRIX: RESURRECTIONS

December 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE MATRIX: RESURRECTIONS

THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS balances a vibrant cacophony of action with a criminally flabby script that takes far too long to get where it needs to go. It is a triumph of forthright, even giddy, self-awareness and nostalgia as Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) once again enters the Matrix as a neophyte taking us along for the… Read More »

Tagged With: bad suit choices, false reality, liquid mirrors, self-referential, sequel

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 — PARABELLUM

May 10, 2019 By Leave a Comment

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 — PARABELLUM

There is no doubt that part of the appeal of an action film is the chance to see things out of the ordinary.  Like things being blown up real good, or brawls that shatter the laws of physics.  And so it is with JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 – PARABELLUM, based on the graphic novel series. … Read More »

Tagged With: Casablanca, consequences, graphic novel. Morocco, sequel

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2

February 9, 2017 By 1 Comment

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 starts with Mr. Wick doing what he does best. That would be mowing his way through a horde of adversaries with a cool precision and a lethal effect. While he is doing this, we are reminded, or introduced to, if we haven’t see the first film, just who exactly Mr. Wick… Read More »

Tagged With: assassin, code of honor, debt of honor, hall of mirrors, hitman, marker, martial arts, New York City, Rome, shoot out

JOHN WICK

November 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment

JOHN WICK

JOHN WICK is a sleek and unrepentant film about revenge and redemption.  Set in a parallel world to ours, one populated by criminals who live by a strict set of rules, conventions, and etiquette, it is a dark fantasy of violence in which the hero isn’t the pacifist, it’s the guy who really loves his… Read More »

Tagged With: action, assassins, drama, revenge

47 RONIN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Credit where it’s due. For all its faults, 47 RONIN doesn’t Hollywood-up the traditional ending to the legend that inspired both it and the several other treatments filmed over the years. It also, in those final moments, finds a sweeping, bittersweet poetry that had been missing in the rest of the film. Not that it… Read More »

MATRIX REVOLUTIONS, THE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Why is it that when filmmakers get a whole truck full of money, they always think that they should use it to make things blow up in lots of interesting, cool ways? The thought crossed my mind again as I watched MATRIX REVOLUTIONS, the third and putatively final chapter in the MATRIX cycle. In this… Read More »

CONSTANTINE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

I can see where CONSTANTINE, based on the graphic novel “Hellblazer”, might have seemed like a good idea for a movie. Good versus evil on a cosmic scale, special effects whipping across the screen with a wild abandon not unlike the whirlwind to be found in the second circle of Hell, and a cynical anti-hero… Read More »

THE LAKE HOUSE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

It’s not that THE LAKE HOUSE, based on the Korean film SIWORE, is an insipid bit of romantic fluff, it’s just that it drags by much like the two-year gulf between our chronologically crossed would-be lovers. And when a film is 108 minutes long, that’s not a good thing. Never mind that its own internal logic starts to… Read More »

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008)

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (2008)

There are many reasons for the temptation to remake a classic. There is the one about updating the theme to make it relevant to current events. There is the one about being able to do thematically or visually what one couldn’t have done in a previous era. There is the one about taking a known… Read More »

Tagged With: aliens, DNA analysis, remake

MATRIX RELOADED, THE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

As with all reviews of sequels, the first thing to get out of the way is how well this installment stands on its own. Answer, not at all. If you haven’t seen THE MATRIX, good luck making sense of what’s going on. It wouldn’t hurt to have seen the animation, LAST FLIGHT OF THE OSIRIS,… Read More »

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