The Brink (2017)
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Reckless police inspector Tung (Zhang Jin) is on a mission to crack down on criminal Shing's (Shawn...
David McK (3550 KP) rated The fall guy (2024) in Movies
Dec 6, 2024
Anyway, in this Ryan Gosling plays a stuntman who - after a near fatal accident (or was it?) - broke off all contact with his former co-workers, including his girlfriend (as played by Emily Blunt), until he is eventually pulled back into the making of a new movie, directed by said former partner, after the star of the movie (who he was previously the body double for, pre-accident) goes missing.
This movie, then, is really about a movie-within-a-movie, playing heavy attention to the oft-overlooked role of the professional stuntmen (and women) in Hollywood blockbusters.
Darwin's Journey
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When all you can identify in the horizon for many long days is the line that detaches the sea from...
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
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A galaxy-spanning adventure awaits in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a new 3rd person...
RəX Regent (349 KP) rated Jurassic Park (1993) in Movies
Feb 19, 2019
From the opening scene, the Velosaraptors are clearly formidable, but the film feeds on the overwhelming desire from the audience to see the T-Rex to the point of distraction. And it works, allowing a still awe-inspiring and music-less might I add, T-Rex sequence, and then giving the fourth act over the Raptors.
This film uses every minute brilliantly, maintaining a sense of pace throughout whist not bombarding us with pointless action. I do think that this film has lost some of its standing with a general audience these days, but for no other reason than the fact that is now almost 19 years old!
But even at 19, besides holding together as tight screenplay, it still has the power to bring out that sense of wonder. The moment that the group are introduced to the Brachiosaurs for the first time is still powerful today. Just the idea of being shown a living, breathing dinosaur is just amazing and Spielberg has effectively bottled that feeling of wonder.
Well worth rediscovering…
David McK (3550 KP) rated Resurrectionist (Matthew Hawkwood, #2) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
While <i>Ratcatcher</i>, in many respects, was a straight-forward action/adventure set in Regency London, this novel is more of a mystery/crime novel. This time, Captain Hawkwood is on the trail of body-snatchers - colloquially known as 'Resurrection men' - and of an escaped convict from Bedlam Hospital. Initially believing the two cases to be distinct, this later proves to be far from the case ...
Body-snatching was - and is - a pretty gruesome business, and McGee doesn't shy away from the full import of what the grave-diggers were involved in, with some of the scenes described not for the squeamish! Similarly, the early years of medical science are also touched upon - again, some of those scenes are not for the squeamish.
Skyjacked (1972)
5.5
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Hank O'Hara is as good a pilot as they come. He knows how to handle an airliner in turbulent skies....
The Wild Bunch (1969)
8.3
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The master of the American western, Sam Peckinpah, directs a stellar cast in The Wild Bunch, a...
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Ant-Man (2015) in Movies
Dec 17, 2020
It has a great cast, who all share great chemistry, it has some decent and different action scenes, it's frequently funny (the Thomas the Tank Engine crash is iconic by this point), it deals with the Scott Lang Ant-Man whilst providing a satisfactory backstory for Hank Pym, it's a damn good heist movie, and above all, it's its own thing, even if it does have a scene connecting it to the larger MCU.
It's not perfect - once again another MCU film suffers from an expendable villain, a lot of the plot is just Iron Man (genius scientist gets ousted from his company by an angry bald white man who then tries to kill him whilst wearing a variant of his own super suit), but if you can manage to mute that nagging part of your brain, you'll find an intelligent and hugely entertaining heist adventure, all wrapped up in an MCU filter. It's great.
Alpha Sniper Origin War 3D 2016 - Commando Adventure Attack
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Become the last survival of humanity. Gorilla Commando as a sniper is assign a special target...