When two Irish brothers, Connor (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murph (Norman Reedus), have a run-in with some Russian mobsters, they begin an unwitting career of vigilantism that makes the Boston Mafia quake in their shoes. Willem Dafoe steals the show as he plays openly gay FBI agent Paul Smecker, whoContinue Reading
Taking place in what seems to be an alternate Earth in the late 1930s, Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow is a light-hearted and engaging action adventure featuring almost completely computer generated sets and effects. The film started as a 6 minute short showing giant robots trampling on NewContinue Reading
The modern action film genre has gotten increasingly tired as of late. So I was surprised to find that The Rundown is a rare treat: an action movie that actually retained my interest until the end credits. Beck (The Rock) is a “retrieval expert” who works for Billy Walker (WilliamContinue Reading
After the Third World War takes place in the early part of the 21st century, it is decided that humanity’s worst enemy is emotion. The highs and lows of human emotion are what causes man to make the mistake of waging wars. By suppressing emotion through the use of aContinue Reading
The Last Samurai tells the story of Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), an American war hero who finds himself in Japan training an army for the Emperor. The Emperor (Shichinosuke Nakamura) is attempting to modernize 1876 Japan in a Western fashion and needs to put down a rebellion by the samuraiContinue Reading
Released in 1987, Predator is an interesting blend of action, science-fiction and Reagan-era machismo. Featuring then box-office king Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by John McTiernan, who would later direct the Die Hard films, Predator is a relatively solid film with only few glaring problems that keep it from being aContinue Reading
The role that propelled Vin Diesel into the limelight was that of Richard Riddick, a psychotic killer who can see in the dark, in the 1999 sleeper hit, Pitch Black. That film featured a somewhat interesting plot gimmick and a fair amount of action to tell its tale of theContinue Reading