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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Fred Cavayé
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Point Blank AKA A Bout Portant is a thriller about absolutely nothing. By that I mean that there’s no sociopolitical or psychological subtext whatsoever. What you see is what you get.
That said, Point Blank is almost perfectly realized. Director Fred Cavayé […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Mainstream
Director: Jérôme Salle
Year: 2008
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Burma Conspiracy aka Largo Winch II is the second movie I’ve seen within the week to steal plot points from several movies. Let me see…there’s the use of insulin as a weapon and chocolate as an antidote from Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book, the subcutaneous […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Mainstream
Director: Jérôme Salle
Year: 2008
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Generally, I like my movies to be about something, to have something to say about the human condition. Here is the extent of the philosophical content of Largo Winch: “What life gave is one thing. What you do of it is another.” In other words, […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Year: 1994
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WORTH A LOOK
Given their premise, director Bertrand Tavernier and writers Jean Cosmos and Michel Léviant had no choice but to balance La Fille De D’Artagnan AKA Revenge of the Muskateers on the knife-edge between satire and straightforward adventure. That’s a heckuva tricky tone and Bertrand Tavernier can’t quite […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Francis Veber
Year: 2009
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The situation is pure boilerplate. Gangster Ruby (Jean Reno) is having an affair with the girlfriend of his boss, Vogel (Jean-Pierre Malo). He’s also stealing from him. When Vogel finds out, he promptly caps the girl. Ruby wants revenge and Vogel still wants his money […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Year: 2008
Rating:
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 […]