Atomic Blonde
Theron looks great smoking cigarettes under neon light – but style counts for nothing when you care not a jot for your protagonists, or when their story is so palpably dull.
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Tag Archives: Action/Adventure
Baby Driver
This film is constructed with incredible precision, and the direction is on point too. It’s just such a shame it’s wrapped up in such a banal story.
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Spider-Man: Homecoming
The funny thing is, I would have liked this movie just fine without all the Marvel crossover stuff that the fans have been dreaming of for the better part of a decade.
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The Mummy
Unlike Edge of Tomorrow, which masterfully handled the smarmier side of the trademark Cruise persona, here he’s just a dick.
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Wonder Woman
If you only see one superhero movie this year, make it this one.
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John Wick Chapter 2
The secret-society-hiding-in-plain-sight aspect intensifies with this sequel. There are so many assassins standing on street corners that it’s a wonder there’s anyone left to kill.
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Alien: Covenant
The pacing is decent, and the characters feel consistent in a way that those of Prometheus never did. The main issue is how predictable it becomes.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The complete lack of threat is really what kills this film for me. People dangle off the end of spaceships that are crashing through forests, or fall several stories to the ground with nary a bruise.
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Ghost in the Shell
The visual effects vary from the iffy to the sublime, whilst the action scenes are well-shot, if brief.
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Kong: Skull Island
I’d even go so far as to say this is a better Jurassic Park sequel than the mystifyingly popular Jurassic World.
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