Deepwater Horizon (2016)
“Never hurts to run a test.” Deepwater Horizon starts with a bang. Not literally – plenty of those are saved for later. The screen is black as we listen to real […]
Category Archives: Action
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
“It won’t sweeten. It’ll only sour” Do yourself a favor and see Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 masterpiece Seven Samurai or even John Sturges’ modest 1960 feature rather than heading out to the cinema for Antoine […]
Suicide Squad (2016)
“I’m known to be quite vexing.” Not long removed from my screening and I’m still struggling to digest the unpalatable artificiality that is Suicide Squad, one of the most poorly written […]
Jason Bourne (2016)
“I remember…I remember everything.” We remember everything too, Jason Bourne. After all, this is the fourth time you’ve delivered the same movie with the same motives in the same manner. Whereas the first […]
Star Trek Beyond (2016)
“Just another day in the fleet.” There really isn’t anything too spectacular about Star Trek Beyond. Not much inflated drama, undervalued stakes, segmented to the point it feels sporadic. The structure is […]
The Purge: Election Year (2016)
“Change can only come from acceptance.” Could a Purge actually ever happen? I’m highly doubtful, and at the same time, deeply disturbed I can’t answer the question with an absolute […]
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
“My husband is no ordinary man.” The Legend of Tarzan whelms us with a turbulent case of the overs and the unders, depicting a stunningly photographed story that’s scantily told, becoming […]
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
“What goes up most come down.” After twenty years of dormant hibernation, the aliens are back bigger and better than ever before. And in full-disclosure, I sort of wish that they […]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
“I’m not crazy. I know what I saw.” Somewhere along the way we come to the realization that this is a movie focused on mutant turtles and not ninja vigilantes. […]
The Do-Over (2016)
“You want people to remember you – maybe get a personality, right?” The latest from Adam Sandler’s mind-boggling 4 picture deal with Netflix wants to take us on a jog […]
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