Tag: action
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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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GLADIATOR II expects to be great
GLADIATOR II is a must-see in the theater but, unfortunately, it took it’s laundry list of assets for granted and only gives audiences loads of flavor without much sustenance.
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AMBER ALERT is the perfect horror movie for parents
With a late September release date, AMBER ALERT is a perfect Halloween movie for parents everywhere because the sympathetic horror is undeniable.
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TRANSFORMERS ONE is the spark the franchise needed
TRANSFORMERS ONE might be the best movie of the entire franchise, one that gives future films promise and hope and, quite frankly, that’s a huge improvement.
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THE KILLER’S GAME does not pass Go
A professional assassin Joe Flood (played by Dave Bautista) finds out that he’s been diagnosed with a terminal brain disease right when he begins to settle down with a dancer (Sofia Boutella) that he met immediately following a hit. The doctor tells him that he’ll lose his eyesight, start trembling and become completely dependent on…
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