Reviews
COMMANDO NINJA Review: Bringing back all the joys that made us love cinema
The film bloomed from the mind of French Filmmaker Benjamin Combes, who made it possible through crowfunding in kickstarter from 20 February 2018 to 22 March 2018, expecting to reach €15,000 but succeeding his goal expectations reaching €31,953, making 213% of its original goal.
RAGE Review: A Raw, Chilling Essay In Penance And Forgiveness
Trigger Warning: This review discusses rape, sexual assault and violent crime.
Review: THE DEBT COLLECTOR Pays In Full With Another Solid Adkins/Johnson Package [Reprint/Revisal]
The following review for Jesse Johnson’s The Debt Collector was originally published on May 28, 2018. Click here to read my review for the sequel, Debt Collectors, out in the U.S. on May 29 from Samuel Goldwyn Films.
SPL Review: A Milestone Donnie Yen/Sammo Hung Crime Opus That Still Holds Up
After failing to protect a witness and his family from retribution by ruthless Triad leader Wong Po (Hung,) Inspector Chan (Yam) discovers that he has cancer. Vowing to take down Po no matter what, and seemingly now with nothing to lose, Chan gets a team of like minded officers and begins to resort to illegal means. Hoping to keep things orderly, Chan is assigned a new boss, Inspector Ma (Yen) who has a serious reputation and is more than capable in a fist fight.
THE FANATIC Review: A Twisted, Nihilistic Profile Of Fringe Fandom And Fantasia
If there was ever a film that dove deep into the nebulous trenches of uberfandom, Fred Durst’s third feature film, The Fanatic, certainly achieves its goal. From the outset, the film challenges viewers on what it means to gauge the subject matter, through the perspective of the often overlooked, downtrodden and mentally ill, principally in the city of Los Angeles, or as Leah (Ana Golja) calls it, “the city of bullshitters” where “everything breaks down eventually”.
VILLAIN Review: A Redemptive Anti-Heroic Character Study Of Evil Men
It’s not everyday a man wakes up having to live his life looking over his shoulder. For ex-convict Eddie Franks (Craig Fairbass), it’s been a daily practice since childhood. Such is the grim setup as actor-cum-filmmaker Phillip Barantini’s new film, Villain, comes host to a dark, gritty gangster tale with fair loads of violence and gore, underscored by more than its urban crime bearings.
A CLEAR SHOT Review: Ripped From The Headlines, Mario Van Peebles Battles Politics Amid Crisis
Director Nick Leisure’s small-scale hostage thriller, A Clear Shot, takes off with a crime just moments away, as four armed Vietnamese boys arrive to a packed electronics store with the intent insofar of taking hostages and imposing their will. Over time, their seeming façade is slowly stripped away as the police look into the suspects, and with Sacramento Police Departments’ top hostage negotiator negotiator Rick Gomez (Mario Van Peebles) front and center.
FIST OF LEGEND (2019) Review: The Making Of A Hero
Prequel to the Chen Zhen played by Jet Li, in the essential 1994 classic that shares the same title in English with this production, that tells the story about the early adventures of Chen Zhen in Japan, during his days as student in the university of Tokyo, giving us an insight look of the beginning of his love relationship with the Japanese girl who gave him so many headaches in Jet Li’s “Fist of Legend” and making him, once again, the banner of the rights of the Chinese people against the evil Japanese empire, whom are again the villains in a plot loaded with that stale nationalism that looks so good in this type of movies and that positions the audience next to the hero.
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