Sabotage
It’s happened. Arnold Schwarzenegger has played a substantial role in a film that isn’t just an Arnold Schwarzenegger star vehicle. Sabotage is a violent action crime thriller about a team of hard […]
Tag Archives: action
The Raid 2
Having just about recovered from the tower block siege of The Raid, Rama (Iko Uwais) goes undercover in a crime family. He spends the rest of the film quietly trying to […]
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Andrew Garfield steps into the famous spandex suit for a second time. Two years on and he’s still dating Gwen (Emma Stone), haunted by her dead father (not literally) whose […]
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
After the events of The Avengers, Steve Rogers AKA Captain America (Chris Evans) is still struggling to adjust to life in the 21st Century. Luckily a flirtatious Black Widow (Scarlett Johannson) […]
The Fifth Element
In the distant past, alien protectors came to earth to defend it in times of emergency, but have remained hidden for millennia. Now, in the future, humans are in need as they […]
Southern Comfort
A hapless band of soldiers in the National Guard are on a training mission in the forests of Louisiana. When a gung-ho member of the team play-fires at a group […]
Judge Dredd
Almost 20 years on, this doesn’t quite deserve its reputation as one of the worst comic book movies ever. In a terrifying dystopian future, where Sylvester Stallone wears painfully tight […]
Robocop (2014)
I can’t describe the plot of this film any better than my co-Goblin Dan did in his recent review of the 1987 original. Therefore I’ve copied and pasted it and […]
The Wild Bunch
A group of renowned outlaws are caught in a set-up and forced on the run to Mexico. There they meet General Mapache (Emilio Fernández), who hires them to steal arms, […]
Kickboxer
JCVD is in safe territory in Kickboxer as he plays Kurt, the younger brother of US kickboxing champion Eric (Dennis Alexio). When Eric is challenged to a fight in Thailaid […]
