Category: Action
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Nitro Circus: The Movie Like Jackass, but faster
Nitro Circus: The Movie – 2012 Directors Gregg Godfrey, Jeremy Rawle Cast Travis Pastrana, Andy Bell, Jolene Van Vugt, Jim DeChamp, Erik Roner, Tommy Passamente, Greg Powell Screenplay Godfrey, Rawle and Pastrana Almost 45 minutes into Nitro Circus: The Movie, there is a stunt where one of the guys attempts to roll a car more than “7 and 3/4…
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Fire with Fire: Grades out decently
Fire with Fire – 2012 Director David Barrett Starring Josh Duhamel, Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, Vincent D’Onofrio, 50 Cent, Vinnie Jones, Julian McMahon, Kevin Dunn, Richard Schiff, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson Screenplay David Barrett Josh Duhamel (Jeremy Coleman / Douglas): I like him better than I should. What he’s done thus far has been material that is not real demanding.…
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: An Acceptable Farce
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – 2012 Director Timur Bekmambetov Cast Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell, Martin Csokas, Alan Tudyk Screenplay Seth Grahame-Smith There is something good to be said for just going for it. In the case of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, we have a concept that is ridiculous beyond measure. The 16th…
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Coriolanus: Shakespeare works best in its original Klingon
Coriolanus – 2012 Director Ralph Fiennes Starring Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Cox, Jessica Chastain, Paul Jesson, John Kani Screenplay John Logan based on the play by William Shakespeare Before I say anything else, I must say this: Coriolanus is nonsense. Out of context and out of its time, it is the square peg trying stubbornly to fit within…
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Cool Papa E Reviews James Bond Films of Daniel Craig
Bond is 50, and he gets younger all the time. After a solid start with Sean Connery in the ’60’s and a flirtation with model George Lazenby, and then back to Connery. It’s easy to pick on Roger Moore. Most of his Bond films were crap, but they weren’t necessarily wrong in picking him, they…
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Safe for nobody, except one
Safe – 2012 Written and Directed by Boaz Yakin Starring Jason Statham, Catherine Chan, Chris Sarandon, Robert John Burke, James Hong, Anson Mount Mob war with bad cops in the midst. An ex-cop, ex-boxer and rumored garbage collector. A little Asian girl who is a math prodigy. If it were any more improbable, it would be the…
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Forgotten Gem: Déjà Vu is pure, delightful hogwash
Déjà Vu – 2006 Director Tony Scott Starring Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Jim Caviezel, Paula Patton, Bruce Greenwood, Adam Goldberg Screenplay Bill Marsilii, Terry Rosso When I discovered that Tony Scott had taken his own life, I felt conflicted. He had directed some of the most overrated pulp (Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Man on Fire) I had…
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Battleship: Featuring ships that battle and loud music
Battleship – 2012 Director Peter Berg Starring Liam Neeson, Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna, Tadanobu Asano, Peter MacNicol, Adam Godley, Hamish Linklater, Gregory D. Gadson Screenplay John and Erich Hoeber Early on in Battleship, there is a moment when a very large vessel is raised out of the water. The ship, recently landed on Earth is jutting out of the water hundreds of feet…
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Machine Gun Preacher: A worthy effort about a flawed, good man
Machine Gun Preacher – 2011 Directed by Marc Foster Starring Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Kathy Baker, Souléymane Sy Savané, Rhema Marvanne Screenplay by Jason Keller Sam Childers is not an easy man. His path through early life was drugs, booze, prison and then he graduated to armed robbery for more drugs, and then to attempted murder. Around…
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