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Standard awesome Dwayne Johnson fare – set in a 130+ storey high bleeding-edge-tech building, the titular “skyscraper” – and just for shits & giggles Johnson’s character has an artificial leg. Which, y’know, I’m sure was a centrepiece of the original screenplay.
When someone bases a film on the giant-mutant-gorilla/lizard/wolf-centred video game which the designers famously described as “a game that there was really no wrong way to play”, this is exactly what you end up with. Granted, the film had much more plot than the game. So whilst Dwayne Johnson makes the experience a relaxed and…
Did I already mention the weekend movie hierarchy around here? Typically if we’re not watching one of the Tv series we go through, next request will be “Let’s watch a shit movie!”, so it’s either romcoms or disaster films, or ANYTHING starring The Rock. This film was a magnificent exponent of the third category. SO…
I’m not sure how we end up watching so many rom coms involving assassins, but my inability to lose myself in an actor’s performance and instead think of their past works had me thinking about Steve Jobs being an assassin. Katherine Heigl is great fun, but this film really didn’t set fire to any arses.
Guy Ritchie seemingly signs on all his current cool acting mates for another convoluted extensively-casted crime caper, this time with Hugh Grant, Colin Farrell, Charlie Hunnam, Matthew McConaughey et al. Hunnam seems unable to deliver anything nuanced (albeit a much better performance than he turned in in King Arthur), but the real treat I thought…
The combination of Dwayne Johnson, the phrase “based on a true story”, and an IMDB rating of 6.4 probably best convey what this tale of a construction company owner going undercover to free his wrongfully imprisoned son is going to deliver. Severely fails the “Yeah, but you wouldn’t, would you?” test.
Y’know what Jack Burton always says on a dark & stormy night, with the wind howling and the pillars of heaven shaking? Timeless classic that has all the ingredients of AWESOME. Why people even bothered making more films after this came out is completely beyond me. 👍👍
3rd instalment in the “… Has Fallen” franchise, starring Gerard Butler (in this case, looking more like Russell Crowe). Really ought to have called this “Standards Have Fallen”. Liz fell asleep, and I can’t see her dialling back in to catch the bits she missed. Apart from a pretty kickass drone strike sequence to open,…
Vigilante one-man-weapon film that’s a one-woman-weapon film starring Jennifer Garner. I really enjoyed this, although it was very interesting to me how much my brain kept wrestling with the concept that she’d gone from Ordinary Mom in act one of the film to “five years later” in act two being a relentless tooled-up killing machine…
I guess I’ve come to regard John Wick films as the really-violent-film equivalent of opera: there’s not usually much to the story, but the dressing is incredibly rich, and the quality & artistry’s all in the fight sequences. There’s a bit of a false start at the beginning (for me, at least) in the sequence…