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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Olivier Megaton
Year: 2008
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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
Rating:
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
Rating:
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 […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action/Drama
Director: Jacques Audiard
Year: 2005
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When we first meet Thomas (Romain Duris), we come to the conclusion pretty quickly that he’s a complete scumbag. He works in the real estate business, buying up rental properties, driving out the tenants by means of emptying bags of rats and roaches into their apartment […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Luc Besson
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
You’ve got to admit — writer/director Luc Besson has a lot of balls. At it’s heart, Leon is the love story of middle-aged hitman Leon (Jean Reno) and twelve year old Mathilda (Natalie Portman), the only survivor of her family, recently massacred […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Luc Besson
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
There are only two things wrong with Taken: director Pierre Morel and the PG-13 rating.
Director Pierre Morel sticks closely to the Bourne Ultimatum action template, having editor Frédéric Thoraval cut like a madman, and directing cinematographer Michel Abramowicz to move the camera […]
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Country: France
Genre: Drama/Action
Director: José Giovanni
Year: 1975
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The first shot of The Gypsy (Le Gitan) gives you hope that what you are about to watch will turn out to be special. It’s a long tracking shot from a beautiful white sand beach that eventually ends up at the trash […]
