The Fast and the Furious franchise departed the whole “Street Racing” element at around the fifth film, and since then they’ve focused mostly on crazy heists with high-octane action sequences — each one trying to outdo the previous entry — and then with The Fate of the Furious, any semblance of reality was gleefully dispatched. Now, with…
Tag: action film
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) – Review
There are a lot of action movies released that are a “one and done” and thus often forgotten about, especially action movies released nowadays, but when John Wick was released back in 2014 it instantly became memorable for those who saw it for the phenomenal action and great revenge tale it was. Fast forward to 2019…
Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018) – Review
What can you expect from a sequel almost two decades late and that goes straight-to-video? Well certainly don’t expect much from Deep Blue Sea 2, as it could either be billed as “The sequel that no one wanted” or, more accurately, “A carbon copy of the original minus the fun.” As this film stars a bunch of…
Psychokinesis (2018) – Review
What would Joe Average do if really given superpowers? This is the question South Korean director Sang-ho Yeon posits in his film Psychokinesis, which deals with a lowly security guard who finds himself gifted with extraordinary powers and then must decide how to use them. With Marvel and DC duking it out to see who…
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2016) – Review
If you were to look up the word “Hubris” in the dictionary one should not be surprised to find the definition altered to now describe it as, “A quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous overconfidence i.e. Warner Brothers and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.”