An action hero movie with Ryan Reynolds who is accidentally recruited as a member of the intergalactic Green Lantern Corps.
Test flyer Hal Jordan (Reynolds) has to get used to his new abilities and ‘status’, but of course with his recruitment to the good cause, there is also an opposite to fight and both are backed by a larger force.
Not boring, but this is just another action here story.
Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx are a cute ex secret service couple that lives a quite life with two kids. Then their past catches up with them and they have to get back in action.
“Back In Action” is not a masterpiece, but the action is descent, there are some amusing Gen X versus adolescents jokes and Diaz and Foxx get to make some fun playing their parts.
I think I saw this old Marvel film before, but apparently I did not review it.
Anyway, Elektra is a one girl contract killing machine. She disobeys during an assignment and is hunted down by both the employer of her victims as by her own employer.
Needless to say that she fights to victory.
I was somewhat exited running into a Rodriguez that I had missed. I expected a female fronted action spectacle, but that is not entirely what “Alita” is.
In some dystopian future there is one “sky city” left and a piece of earth below. The rest of earth was destroyed. The rich live in the sky, the poor at the surface. We follow Dr. Dyson Ido (Christoph Waltz) who repairs robots (cyborgs) in his repair shop. He finds the ‘living’ head of a female-looking cyborg and fixes her to a new body.
Trying to raise “Alita” as his lost daughter, the annoyingly animation-looking adolescent Alita fiends a friend, a game, a purpose and her origin.
Drama, here and there action. The movie is not boring, but not exactly great.
Chuck Norris (RIP) is Eddie Cusack, a good cop in a crooked police force. In a star crew, Davis tells the story of how Cusack tries to navigate curruption among his colleagues and solve a case.
The result is a decent police thriller.
Because every old film has to get a revamp, here we have the follow up of the Dutch classic “Amsterdamned” from 1988.
30 Years after the events of the original film, similar murders occur in the canals of Amsterdam. The officer who was on the original case has long been retired, but he is lured back to the current case.
This is good, because most actors in the film have the unconvincing, Dutch type of acting. Only Huub Stapel saves the film.
The film is mostly a commercial for Amsterdam with lengthy (drone) shots of Amsterdam, scenes in museums, houses near water, etc. The story is similar to that of the original film, so no surprises here.
Not boring, but I am not sure if this will be a new classic.
An action comedy buddy whodunnit heist with a fairly amusing Denzil Washington and Mark Wahlberg.
The two form a hip duo who perform a heist with a much bigger booty than anticipated. For the rest of the film, the two seem to be trying to skim off a part of the booty while the ‘whodunnit’ question keeps shifting. Are they the good guys or the bad guys?
Quite funny.
An action comedy with Idris Alba. I was curious if he would be funny. Well, “Heads Of State” is not a hilarious action comedy, rather an action film with some jokes. Alba does not get to make a lot of those.
The veteran prime minister of the UK (Alba) and the newly elected actor prime minister of the USA (Will Derringer) do not get along well. Still they agree to share the Air Force One for a visit to Poland.
During the flight, terrorists take down Air Force One, but the heads of state survive. They have to try to find their way to a safehouse in Poland. Of course this becomes a cock-fight turning into a buddies type of film with a lot of action and a few jokes.
Not boring, not great.
Of the director of the brilliant “Hardcore Henry” by the way.
The entire film I have wondered if I had not seen it before. Even my girlfriend thought so. Did I dislike it so much that I did not review it, did I just forget to review it or do I mix it up with another film?
In a bit of a “Matrix” type story, Max Wahlberg plays Evan McCouley who is seen as some sort of hero while he does not understand why. Apparently there are people remembering all their previous lives and having maintainted their skills too. McCouley supposedly is one of them, but he does not remember a thing.
The film opens with gigantic action scenes, while McCouley has to flee the enemy that he does not remember. Later he is taken to a place to fresh up his memory.
The action is spectacular, the story not all that bad, but the result is stil but an average action science fiction.
Living in a strange facility, Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) and Jordan Two Delta (Scarlett Johanson) manage to escape. Of course they are chased by the strong arm of the facility that they used to live in. When they manage to make it to LA, they decide to go back and release their fellow inmates.
The underlying theme of the film is somewhat interesting and there are implications that are still valid. Then there is the usual action, shooting, etc. and the friendship/romance of the two main characters.