Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Mainstream
Director: Gus Van Sant
Year: 2008

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I’ve got to be honest. Even though I enjoyed Milk, it’s not a very good movie.
Before you get your panties in a bunch, let me explain why.
First of all, I’ve got to acknowledge that there’s a lot of good acting in Milk. Sean Penn […]

Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Romance
Director: Dito Montiel
Year: 2009

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Oddly enough, in Fighting, the background action is more interesting than what the picture is ostensibly supposed to be about.
In it’s bare outline, Fighting couldn’t be more straightforward.
Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard) happens to witness Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum) in a street fight and is […]

Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Martin Scorcese
Year: 1972

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I don’t know what I expected of Boxcar Bertha, but I was still nonplussed by what I got.
Boxcar Bertha’s rambling, episodic narrative structure is a far cry from the laser like focus of Taxi Driver, filmed only four years later. For that matter, Alice […]

Country: United States
Genre: Blaxploitation
Director: D’Urville Martin
Year: 1975

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For a while there, it seemed like Dolemite was going to be a blaxploitation classic. It starts out in fine style, with Dolemite (comedian Rudy Ray Moore) signifying, wearing snazzy ghetto threads, and trying out his (nonexistent) karate moves.
At first glance, Rudy Ray Moore would seem […]

Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Satire
Director: Clint Eastwood
Year: 1975

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The Eiger Sanction was Clint Eastwood’s fourth outing as a director, and it’s not one of his more impressive efforts. Espionage thrillers call for oodles of style, but the plodding, literal Eastwood just isn’t up for it. Actually, one gets the feeling that Eastwood […]

Country: Korea
Genre: Action/Drama
Director: Woo-Suk Kang
Year: 2003

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Silmido starts out like a Korean Dirty Dozen. After a botched North Korean raid, in which the South Korean President is injured, the South Koreans retaliate by creating a commando unit composed of death row inmates, whose purpose it is to assassinate the leader of North Korea, […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Billy Tang
Year: 1989

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Despite having great stars like Jet Li and Dick Wei in their prime, a decent story line, and Stephen Chow not hamming it up with his trademark nonsense comedy antics as usual, Dragon Fight feels remarkably lackluster.
Surprisingly, I’d have to blame it on poor […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Horror/ Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Jeng Kin-Ping
Year: 1992

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Suburb Murder is pretty hard to take seriously. I was sorta willing to overlook the multiple gang rapes (surely one or two would have been enough), the gratuitous visits to massage parlours and so forth, but what really put it over […]

Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: John Madden
Year: 2008
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How much you’re going to enjoy Killshot will depend mostly on whether you buy the characters delineated in the script by screenwriter Hossein Amini, based on the novel by Elmore Leonard. I remember really enjoying the novel, but that might simply mean that the stylized […]

Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Jada Pinkett Smith
Year: 2008
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The Human Contract is that rarest of animals — an interesting, intelligent failure. Most of the time, movies, especially American movies, aim very low and broad, and even then can’t hit the target.
Julian Wright (Jason Clarke) is in brand management. That is to say, he […]