365 Film Challenge Part 30: This Time, It’s Personal

Sequels are the theme this time around, and action movie sequels at that. Film #107: The Escape Plan 2: Hades The first movie in this series was sold on the basis that it was the first real on screen team up of Stallone and Schwarzenegger, but the Austrian Oak decided not to come back, so …

365 Film Challenge Part 27: Finishing Series

The three films featured are all the missing pieces in their series for me. Film #100: X-Men: Dark Phoenix As Deadpool says, these timelines are confusing. In the last of the X-Men films, we're back to the '80s to see Jean Grey go crazy and die. But, I mean, she's going to come back? So …

365 Film Challenge Part 24: Jack Reacher Series

Film #95: Jack Reacher Tom Cruise stars as an ex-military copper who investigates after a sniper guns down five random individuals. The sniper asks for Reacher by name, but he's a ghost, having gone off the grid. But when he hears about the shooting on the news he comes anyway. Working with Rosamund Pike's defense …

Film Review: Extraction

Note: This is film #79 of my 365 Film Challenge. I remember when this movie came out because it was around the time I realised that cinema trips were pretty much off the table for 2020 and I'd have to rely on Netflix and the other streaming services for movies, and this, an action movie …

Film Review: The Old Guard

Note: This is film #71 of my 365 film challenge Charlize Theron heads up this interesting action flick as one of a gang of immortal mercenaries. She plays Andy, a centuries old warrior who wants to fight for a better world but is becoming increasingly disillusioned. She and her three allies work as a team …

Film Review: Spenser Confidential

I saw the trailer for this movie on Netflix and decided to check it out because it looked fun and Mark Wahlberg is pretty reliable when it comes to action movies. Here he stars as ex-cop Spenser, who is sent to jail after assaulting his captain who he suspected of being involved in a conspiracy …

Film Review: Jumanji: The Next Level

2017's Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was a pleasant surprise, a sequel/reboot which managed to nod at the original film while setting itself up as it's own thing. The plot was simple enough, a group of teenagers stuck in detention discover a video game and are sucked into a jungle adventure game, where they have …

Film Review: Hobbs & Shaw

Or to give it its full title Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. I've always been a fan of the Fast franchise (Tokyo Drift aside), and one of the aspects I've liked is that the series has gone from "Point Break with street racing" to this latest movie, which is a globetrotting buddy action …

Film Review: John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum

Some movies you just know what you're gonna get. The third outing of dog avenging killing machine John Wick (Keanu Reeves) was always going to be a relentless action juggernaut moving from one set piece to the next. This ain't a movie with a lot of nuance, or depth. This is a thrill ride, and …

Film Review: Final Score

During an interview with Jonathan Ross I heard this movie compared to Die Hard, which is fair enough given that this has a similar plot of a lone hero going up against a gang of terrorists. But really the film that this is most like is the Jean Claude Van Damme flick Sudden Death, the …