Actual amateur hour at Disney Marvel. A lone female warrior attempts to save her dying world at any cost from The Annihilator and their team of unprofessional heroes. Oh wait, that’s the story of the villain. Sorry. Captain Marvel, Ms Marvel, and Monica Rambeau find their powers “entangled”; causing them to swap physical location whenever…
Tag: action
Review: The Creator
A solid science fiction vision; we need more movies like this. Ex-special forces officer Joshua is called back into action in a war against simulants, artificial intelligent lifeforms who co-exist with humans, as a new weapon to end the war has been created. Director Gareth Edwards has shown huge growth and masses of potential with…
Review: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One
Mission: Impossible continues to impress in its penultimate entry. Ethan Hunt and his crew are still seen as rogues who get the job done. But when an algorithmic AI goes missing and appears to be a threat to global digital security, they might be on their most difficult mission yet. Directed and co-written by Christopher…
Review: Spider-Man – Across the Spider-Verse
When the dial is already at eleven, it is going to break if you push it further. Following the events of Into The Spider-Verse, we follow both Miles Morales and Gwen Stacey in their own universes, trying to cope with their own lonely vigils of their cities. However, the Spider-Society, formed over thousands of universes,…
Review: Hypnotic
This is definitely a movie that thinks its smarter than it actually is. Danny Rourke, a cop whose daughter mysteriously vanished without a trace, finds clues to her whereabouts when a bizarre bank heist occurs. But as the strangeness unfolds, his life is turned upside down. Directed and co-written by Robert Rodriguez (a man with…
Review: Sisu
A gory, grisly action movie straight from a time when movies were simpler! In Finland at the tail end of World War 2, a war veteran goes on a rampage against a band of Nazis. Directed by Jalmari Helander, who you may or may not know from 2014’s Big Game starring Samuel L. Jackson as…
Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
In what is a low point in Marvel/Disney’s reception, Guardians Vol. 3 is surprising; both in its quality and its scares. When one of the team is mortally wounded in an attack, the rest of the Guardians need to face down a powerful mad scientist to save their life. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2…
Review: John Wick – Chapter 4
Despite the franchise rapidly running out of road, this entry was a solid effort! After being betrayed by those closest to him, John Wick has recuperated and is out on the warpath to bring down every member of The High Table in hopes of earning his freedom. But those he targets have everyone gunning for…
The MCU 30 Ranked (Phases 1 – 4)
People do enjoy a good list, and what’s better to list than every single Marvel Cinematic Universe movie? They certainly are churning them out now, without signs of stopping any time soon. So this list is Phase 1 through Phase 4.Please be aware that many of these films I have only watched once, and I…
Review: Black Panther – Wakanda Forever
Marvel could have had a real moment here… but the film is found lacking. King T’Challa is dead. Wakanda is left vulnerable to attack from foreign nations vying for acquisition of vibranium, the country’s rare metallic resource. But there is another nation, beneath the waves, that also enters this power vacuum. Losing someone is never…