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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Year: 2008
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WORTH A LOOK
Writer/director Mabrouk El Mechri had a genius idea — make a Jean Claude Van Damme movie in which the main character is a version of the actor himself. In El Mechri’s conception, Van Damme is all but washed up as an action star […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Jacques Deray
Year: 1970
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I’ve got to warn you. I saw Borsalino under less than optimal circumstances, which might cloud my judgement on the merits of the film.
The print I saw was copied from a long ago TV broadcast, so the quality was low to start with and the […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Corey Yuen
Year: 2002
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s hard to believe that anyone involved with the ghastly Transporter 3 had anything to do with the original, but it’s true. Luc Besson produced both movies and Besson and his regular screenwriting partner, Robert Mark Kamen, wrote both scripts.
I dunno, maybe Besson has gotten […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé
Year: 2008
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The title Female Agents conjures up the image of a junky, campy romp, featuring scantily clad women seducing Nazis and enduring nipple torture from the SS. Instead, Female Agents is more of a French Dirty Dozen, featuring women.
But that doesn’t really capture the flavor of the […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Olivier Megaton
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Transporter 3 is just a terrible movie, but it didn’t have to be this way. Blame some lazy screenwriting from longtime collaborators Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen and inexcrebable direction from Olivier Megaton.
The story itself is perfectly serviceable. Leonid Vasilev (Jeroen Krabbé), a muckety-muck high […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Jean-François Richet
Year: 2008
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Public Enemy No 1 isn’t quite as compelling as Death Instinct, the film that chronicled the first half of Jacque Mesrine’s two decade criminal career, but that isn’t because the events are any less dramatic. The problem lies more in the directing and screenwriting.
Whereas director Jean-François […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Jean-François Richet
Year: 2008
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Death Instinct takes a kaleidascopic approach to its subject. Jacques Mesrine, the most notorious criminal in France’s history, had a twenty year criminal career. It would be difficult to take the full measure of the man, even over the course of two feature films. Director […]
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Country: France
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Guillaume Canet
Year: 2006
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Tell No One is an update of a kind of thriller that isn’t really made anymore in the United States. And that’s a shame, because it’s great fun.
Pediatrician Alexandre Beck (François Cluzet) has been mourning the murder of his wife for eight years […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Olivier Assayas
Year: 2004
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Every once in a while, a movie surprises you with how good it is. I knew that Maggie Cheung, who stars in Clean, was an excellent actress, but Nick Nolte hasn’t given a decent performance in a long time. I was expecting another […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Comedy / Western
Director: Joachim Rønning/ Espen Sandberg
Year: 2006
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Apparently, Mexican bombshell Salma Hayek and Spanish spitfire Penélope Cruz have been wanting to make a film together for many years. Finally, they got tired of waiting for a suitable project to emerge, so they came up with an idea of their […]