This is a Michael Bay movie. I could probably stop the review here because that says all about the movie. Lots of special effects and a mediocre story at best. Continue reading Ambulance – What idiot wrote that script?
I am quite a fan of Jason Statham so I am perhaps a bit biased when it comes to movies he is in but, to me, this was a great action thriller. I very much like Statham playing the silent, mysterious tough guy role. He is perfect in this role. Continue reading Wrath of Man – Great action thriller.
It is not at all a bad movie. It is quite surrealistic and it does indeed take some time to figure out what is really going on. The landscape in which the main protagonist finds himself is weird, depressing and beautiful at the same time. I have to say that I found the special effects quite well done. Continue reading Coma: Not bad actually.
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear. This is a movie you watch for the action and not much less. But then, that not really a surprise is it? Continue reading John Wick 3 Parabellum: Great although rather unrealistic action.
In short the movie is a mix of heavy metal, horror, violence and psychedelic weirdness and I would say that the audience for this movie is a quite small group of people. I’m not really sure that I am in that group. Continue reading Mandy -Weird, psychedelic and somewhat enjoyable.
This is a bit of a strange movie. Part of it feels like a pretty good, dark and gritty thriller, part of it feels like a wannabe Tarantino movie and part of it feels like a comedy. Overall I would classify it as a B-movie but a pretty good B-movie. As strange as the movie is I have to say that I liked it. Continue reading Polar: Strange mix of thriller and comedy.
As a movie it is not too bad but as a Hercule Poirot movie, the classical Murder on the Orient Express no less, it is like buying a piece of prime filet of beef and discovering that the butcher gave you chicken drums when you open the package. Continue reading Murder on the Orient Express (2017): Why?
This is not a James Bond movie! It is a bloody Hollywood drama written by someone with a total lack of respect for the Franchise, not to mention the old Bond fans. My disappointment with this movie cannot be overstated. Continue reading Skyfall: This is not a Bond movie!
I expected a fairly shallow over the top action flick with a sexy but not very bright kick-ass chick as the main protagonist. To my surprise I got something quite a bit more than that. Sure the movie is quite “Hollywoodish”, it is supposed to be a action movie after all, but it is surprisingly well done and Charlize Theron is great as the sexy, not at all stupid and very much kick-ass chick. Continue reading Atomic Blond: Good solid cold war spy action
The movie is quite a low budget one. I can live with that. It is also quite dark. I can live with that as well. Unfortunately I found it to be a slow, boring, illogical and stupid mess. Continue reading The Machine: Unoriginal, abysmal mess.
Not your average revenge/slasher movie. The plot is simple enough, perhaps a bit illogical at times, but it is wonderfully implemented from a cinematic point of view. Personally I found the movie beautiful. Continue reading Final Girl: Not your average revenge/slasher movie, I liked it.
When Jason Statham is good he is very good. In this movie I think he is very good as the silent, deadly killer for hire. It is a straightforward killer/action/thriller. The story is nothing new but it is a well working story which is nicely executed. Continue reading The Mechanic: Good hardass killer thriller.
When I first saw this movie I did not like it at all. My main gripe with the movie was (and is) that it did not feel like a Mission Impossible movie. Now when I watched it for the second time with my son I actually liked it a lot more. I still think it is sad that the script writers felt they had to introduce all these chock elements but trying to look past those this is a pretty good movie. Continue reading Mission Impossible I – I liked it better now than when I watched it the first time.
Killer Elite by Gary McKendry on Netflix My rating: 7 out of 10 stars Loosely based on a true story, Killer Elite pits two of the worlds’ most elite operatives – Danny, a ruthless killer-for-hire (Jason Statham) and Hunter, his longtime mentor (Robert De Niro) – against the cunning leader of a secret society of former Special Air Service operatives(‘Clive Owen’). Covering the globe from … Continue reading Killer Elite – Fairly okay thriller /action flick.
The Raven by James Mc Tiegue on Cine+ Frisson (CanalSat) My rating: 7 out of 10 stars This movie is set in the mid 1800s and involves poet Edgar Allan Poe. A serial killer is on the loose and murdering people using Poe’s descriptions from his published stories and poems. Poe teams up with Detective Fields, a Baltimore policeman to try and catch the killer … Continue reading The Raven – Surprisingly good Edgar Allan Poe based thriller
Non-Stop by Jaume Collet-Serra on Blu-ray My rating: 6 out of 10 stars Bill Marks, a former cop dealing with his daughter’s death by drinking, is now a federal air marshal. While on a flight from New York to London, Marks gets a text telling him that unless 150 million dollars is transferred to an offshore account, someone will die every 20 minutes. Can he find … Continue reading Non-Stop: Okay but not as good as I hoped
The Saint by Philip Noyce on Cine+ Premier (CanalSat) My rating: 6 out of 10 stars Simon Templar has no real family, no real home and Simon Templar isn’t even his real name. Yet Simon Templar , also known as the Saint for his use of creating false identities using the names of Catholic saints,is one of the world’s most successful thieves. Slick, debonair and … Continue reading The Saint: Not really “The Saint” as far as I am concerned but a decent movie nevertheless
Black Sunday by John Frankenheimer on Paramount Channel (CanalSat) My rating: 6 out of 10 stars Terrorist organization Black September is planning an attack on the United States. A woman called Dahlia is the one overseeing the operation. She was in the Middle East with the other members of the organization, discussing the operation when some Israelis came in; the leader, Major Kobakov had his … Continue reading Black Sunday: A quite entertaining political thriller.
Escape Plan by Mikael Håfström on Blu-ray My rating: 7 out of 10 stars Ray Breslin is the world’s foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He’s framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to … Continue reading Escape Plan – Good movie on a rather classical plot theme
Gravity by Alfonso Cuarón on Blu-ray My rating: 6 out of 10 stars Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone – tethered to nothing … Continue reading Gravity – Visually nice movie with mediocre story
The Frozen Ground by Scott Walker on Blu-ray My rating: 5 out of 10 stars Alaskan trooper, Jack Holcombe believes that Robert Hansen is a serial killer who abducts young girls then tortures and sexually assaults them then kills them. But he doesn’t have enough evidence to justify a search warrant of Hansen’s premises. He knows one of his victims, Cyndy Paulsen somehow survived so … Continue reading The Frozen Ground – At best a mediocre thriller in a slightly original setting
Haywire by Steven Soderbergh on Blu-ray My rating: 5 out of 10 stars Mallory Kane is a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by someone close to her in her own agency. Suddenly the target of … Continue reading Haywire – Mediocre, even boring at times
Get Carter by Stephen Kay on 13eme Rue (CanalSat) My rating: 6 out of 10 stars Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother’s funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible. This … Continue reading Get Carter – Nothing fantastic but a nice enough action/thriller flick
Blitz by Elliot Lester on Cine+ Premiere (CanalSat) My rating: 5 out of 10 stars A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers. The blurb in the TV-magazine sounded somewhat interesting and thus this movie was our choice for last evenings TV-watching. I found it to be a decent enough cop versus serial killer and cop-hater … Continue reading Blitz – Fairly average cop vs. serial killer/cop-hater movie.
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