Even by the charitable standards I rate these dumb action movies, I was pretty underwhelmed by Fast X. And that’s despite the impressive roster of usual suspects and returning faces. And despite – or because of – the level of … Continue reading
The Mother is relentlessly dour flick that exists in two parts. One part is an uninteresting action thriller and the other is a slightly more interesting mother/daughter bonding story. The two halves fight with one another and the end result … Continue reading
Watching Polite Society made me feel how my parents probably feel when I make them watch a Marvel movie. They enjoy the flick but they are inherently watching a different movie than me. Or it’s like what I felt like … Continue reading
John Wick’s grandpa sure kicked some Nazi ass during WW2, amiright? That seems to be the premise of this crazy over-the-top action flick that actually kind of lost me with how over-the-top it went. But maybe I’m not the target … Continue reading
Renfield is a fun but slight movie. So slight that it holds it back from greatness. It’s a meta action/horror/comedy hybrid that manages its various genres pretty well. The movie stars Nicholas Holt as Renfield, forever the familiar to the … Continue reading
Kill Boksoon is a South Korean action flick about a professional assassin who tries to keep her fifteen year old daughter unaware of her job. And how she may have made a mistake that turns her corporate assassin overlords against … Continue reading
When I heard that John Wick Chapter 4 was almost four hours long, I got worried. Not because I thought Keanu Reeves was gonna half-ass it. I was worried because I thought there’d be just too much of it. I … Continue reading
At various times, this very adult animated fable wore on my patience and I almost shut it off. But the finale… oh the final twenty minutes are so small-scale apocalyptically cruel and misanthropic that it turned me around. It’s a … Continue reading
Pathaan is an over-the-top Indian spy/action flick full of cool poses, slow-mo, crazy action, and all the explosions and dance numbers you might expect from Indian cinema. It’s technically part of a shared cinematic universe that includes War from 2019 … Continue reading
JUNG_E is a Korean science fiction flick (on Netflix) that borrows heavily from better movies. It is, itself, a decent enough movie with a promising emotional core but with dodgy visual effects and only ok action. Nothing particularly remarkable about … Continue reading