Although Pain & Gain is based on a true story (the opening narration goes, ‘unfortunately, this is a true story’), Bay treats it as though it was some weird The Three Stooges Go on a Crime Spree filtered through a heightened color palette.
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation is Infinitely Superior to Rise of the Cobra!
G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra was one of the worst films of 2009 so almost anything would have been an improvement. G.I. Joe: Retaliation may have been constrained by plot devices set up in the first film – a Cobra operative in the White House, for example – but it plays off them with […]
Cobra Special Forces Wants You!
In preparation for their plans for world domination, Cobra is recruiting the creme-de-la-creme for their special forces. If you think you have what it takes, follow the jump to check out their recruiting video – then go to CobraSpecial forces.com to strut your stuff. Paramount’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation opens on March 29, 2013.
Trailer: G.I. Joe: Retaliation–Was The Wait Worth It?
The international trailer for G.I. Joe : Retaliation contains a lot of new footage and looks pretty spiffy. The question is this – was the wait for additional footage and 3D conversion worth the wait? We’ll find out on March 29, 2013.
Trailer: GI Joe: Retaliation – A Major Case Of Identity Theft And The Original Joe!
The original GI Joe movie, GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra was so awful – even the trailers were abysmal – that it made my Bottom Feeders list for 2009. GI Joe: Retaliation, however, has gone from terrific trailer to terrific trailer. The addition of Dwayne Johnson and Bruce Willis to the cast seems […]
Fast Five – Just Go With the Supersonic Flow!
The movies in the Fast & The Furious series have never been ‘films’ – they are popcorn flicks in the truest sense. If you want unbridled action with a minimum of dialogue and a lot of hot cars, gorgeous girls and ripped guys, then this is the series for you.
Faster Is A Brutally Effective Revenge Thriller!
Faster opens with a glowering Driver [Dwayne Johnson] being cuffed and escorted to the warden’s office. From Driver’s perspective, the warden’s words slowly fade away into nothingness. Once out of prison, he begins to run, pausing to pick up a car [a pimped out Chevelle SS] and stopping only as long as it takes to […]
BLU-RAY REVIEW: Race to Witch Mountain Disappoints
What happened to Dwayne Johnson career? At one point he was on his way to becoming the next big action star, but somewhere along the way Disney got hold of him and he’s been playing the same character and making the same movie for the last four years. I like The Rock and kind of […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Race to Witch Mountain – Galaxies of Fun!
I have fond memories of the Witch Mountain movies of the seventies [though not so much for the TV version from 1995 – despite the presence of such cult icons as Vincent Schiavelli and Brad Dourif], so I approached this update/re-imagining with no little trepidation. Nostalgia can be a terrible thing. Race to Witch Mountain […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Get Smart: From Analyst to Super-Spy by Sheldon Wiebe
Get Smart could have gone wrong in oh so many ways. Fortunately, rather than parrot the ‘60s hit spy spoof, writers Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember choose to give us the story of how super-analyst Maxwell Smart [Steve Carell] made the shift from computer jockey to field agent. Mixing clever gags with action is […]