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HITMAN: AGENT 47 A Swing and A Miss

August 21, 2015 By Leave a Comment

HITMAN: AGENT 47 A Swing and A Miss

This is not the first time that someone has attempted to bring the video game upon which HITMAN: AGENT 47 is based to the big screen. The last one, HITMAN starring a pre-Justified Timothy Olyphant went down in flames, and this one joins its still-smoldering carcass.  It’s not that making a film out of a video… Read More »

Tagged With: action, assassin, black wool suit, car chase, contract killing, fantasy, genetic engineering, hitman, knifing, missing scientist, secret organizations, video game

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION Rocks

July 31, 2015 By 1 Comment

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION Rocks

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION is lean, mean, and seriously fun. There is not a wasted moment for fans of high-energy, slickly plotted action flicks of the popcorn variety, as this installment of the franchise finds the Impossible Mission Force shut down by the government, but not out of business. Not by a longshot. Their last official… Read More »

Tagged With: action, Alec Baldwin, conspiracy, franchise, Jeremy Renner, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION, narrative, sequel, shadow government, Simon Pegg, Tom Cruise

RUN ALL NIGHT with Liam Neeson

March 22, 2015 By Leave a Comment

RUN ALL NIGHT with Liam Neeson

There is a reason that there is a rigid formula for Liam Neeson action films:  it has a tendency to hit more than it misses.  In RUN ALL NIGHT, the tropes are all present and accounted for with the variations that are permitted within the formula’s rules.  Neeson is the everyman with, you will pardon… Read More »

Tagged With: action, Common, crime thriller, drama, Ed Harris, explosion, father-son relationship, fistfight, gunfight, Jaume Collet-Serra, Joel Kinnaman, Liam Neeson, narrative, New York City, suspense, Vincent D'Onofrio

Gareth Davis and Iko Uwais Undertake THE RAID 2: BERENDAL

January 26, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Gareth Davis and Iko Uwais Undertake THE RAID 2: BERENDAL

The one question writer/director Gareth Evans hates is the one about how a Welshman became the leading light of Indonesian cinema. So I didn’t ask. There was too much to discuss anyway about his masterpiece, THE RAID 2: BERENDAL.  According to both men, it was all about the details, From choreographing a stunning prison riot that… Read More »

Tagged With: action, Alex Abad, Arafin Putra, backstory, car chase, film director, Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Indonesian Cinema, Jakarta, Julie Estelle, martial arts, Oka Antara, sequel, Silat, THE RAID 2: BERENDAL, THE RAID: REDEMPTION, Tio Pakusodewo, YaYa Ruhian

TAKEN 3

January 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment

TAKEN 3

  And so once again we are in the company of Bryan Mills and his very specific skill set as brought to life by the incomparable Liam Neeson.   The one-man demolition squad, trained by the darkest of black ops, is once again called into action when his family is threatened.  Fortunately, this is no irksome… Read More »

Tagged With: action, cinema, film, Forrest Whitaker, Liam Neeson, movie

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR Is A Most Excellent Film

January 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR Is A Most Excellent Film

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR begins, appropriately enough, with its protagonist, Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) running.  Though this is merely jogging through the snowy landscape of 1981 New York, he will spend the rest of the film running more purposefully either literally, figuratively, or both, as he scrambles to overcome fate and the fickleness of human… Read More »

Tagged With: 1981, action, Albert Brooks, cinema, David Oyelowo, ethics, heating oil, Jessical Chastain, Machiavelli, movie, mystery, narrative, Oscar Isaac, thriller

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

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2 begins with a bang and doesn’’t stop. Starting right where the last film ended, it barely has time to catch its breath, or go into florid exposition, before diving right into the final face-off between the boy, now man, wizard (Daniel Radcliffe), embodiment of all that is… Read More »

Tagged With: action, book to screen, finale, magic, sequel, supernatural

PARKER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Patton Oswalt once opined that Jason Statham can make any movie better. He is not wrong. For those who have succumbed to Mr. Statham’s particular appeal as a cool and deadly action hero, his charisma is an umbrella over the rougher patches of all but the most cretinous scripts. In PARKER, he has found a… Read More »

Tagged With: action, caper, heist, Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Palm Beach

THE MAZE RUNNER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE MAZERUNNER, based on the best-selling young-adult novel by James Dashner, makes a satisfying transition to the big screen. If some of the characters are a bit underwritten, never fear, there is a sequel built in to the storytelling with the promise of more depth. As for the film at hand, it’s thumping good adventure… Read More »

Tagged With: action, cinema, Dylan O'Brien, James Dashner, Ki Hong Lee, movie, Sci-fi, THE MAZE RUNNER

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