Tag: action
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HEADS OF STATE is a fun flight of fancy
There have been several Marvel or Star Wars projects, for example, that would’ve benefited from being feature-length films instead of forced episodic chapters. HEADS OF STATE is the opposite.
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F1® THE MOVIE grand in scope, cliche in execution
SPOILER-FREE PLOT SUMMARYWashed up race car driver Sonny Hayes (played by Brad Pitt) is given another chance to get behind the wheel when long-time friend — and former competitor — Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardeem) persuades him to be the second driver on his APXGP Formula 1 racing team. After Hayes reluctantly accepts, his confidence-through-experience comes…
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M3GAN 2.0 update could lead to frustration
If you appreciate a film that doesn’t take itself too seriously, you’ll love M3GAN 2.0.
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FINAL RECKONING ends impressive franchise on average note
In order to stop the Entity — which was introduced in the previous movie, DEAD RECKONING — legendary IMF agent Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise), is on a quest to find the Padkova which houses the Entity’s original source code. The problem is, the Podkova sits on board a doomed Russian submarine laying in…
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BALLERINA surprises, sits atop JOHN WICK franchise
After her father is hunted down and killed in front of her, Eve Macarro (played by Ana de Armas) seeks revenge on the tribe responsible. Newly orphaned, she’s invited to join the Ruska Roma family by Winston Scott (Ian McShane) and The Director (Angelica Huston), who see an opportunity to weaponize her anger by molding…
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HAVOC is a fun, poor man’s JOHN WICK
While there are interesting ways to kill people, seemingly non-stop action and some pretty solid performances, this would’ve been largely forgotten if it were released into theaters.
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Daisy Ridley great, yet again, in CLEANER
During a gala to celebrate a company’s contributions to conservation, a high rise building is taken over by a band of armed activists. While the takeover is happening, former soldier Joey Locke (played by Daisy Ridley) is on the side of the building cleaning windows. When her requests to be brought back up to the…
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LOVE HURTS doesn’t know what it wants to be
There’s a serious crisis of identity with LOVE HURTS and the performances can’t save it.
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Wahlberg makes FLIGHT RISK watchable
A desk agent with the US Marshal Service, Deputy Madelyn Harris (played by Michelle Dockery), is back in the field for the first time in years escorting a key witness in a high profile case. Once she secures Winston (Topher Grace), the informant who’s trying to hide in the Fairbanks area of Alaska, they board…
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DEN OF THIEVES 2 unnecessarily complicated
Los Angeles Sheriff Nick O’Brien (played by Gerard Butler) sees a news report of a diamond heist at the Antwerp airport in Belgium and notices some similarities to unsolved cases in Southern California. After doing some digging, he realizes the burglary was, in fact, led by Donnie Wilson (O’Shea Jackson Jr.), the very man he’s…
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