Extraction 2 is about as good as the first Extractions… which is to say it’s very good at what it’s trying to be… and it ain’t trying to be much more than a straight-up action flick. At that, it’s quite … Continue reading
I am absolutely not a fan of the Michael Bay era of the Transformers movies. I found them over-produced noise with a same-iness to all the monotonous action scenes. They left me bored and mentally drained. But I enjoyed the … Continue reading
Mother’s Day is a Netflix-produced Polish action film in the John Wick style. It features an ex-soldier who had to give up her child and go into hiding. Years later, the boy has been kidnapped and she must re-emerge to … Continue reading
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