Tag: Action
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The Hot Rock (1972)
With Robert Redford announcing his retirement after The Old Man And The Gun, hopefully another earlier film where he played a bank robber will get new attention. I remember seeing the ending to The Hot Rock (1972) and loved Redford’s walk to the jazzy score by Quincy Jones. Finally sat down and watched the whole… Read.
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Battletruck (1982)
While the original poster looks like an epic sci-fi novel painting, the actual movie Battletruck (1982) is a bit more low budget and muted in colours and dimension. It’s another Mad Max knock-off from the Eighties but shot in New Zealand, using that scenery well before LOTR ever did and also featuring a lot of… Read.
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Hard Boiled (1992)
Considering how much I loved The Killer as a teenager, I can’t believe it took me this long to see Hard Boiled (1992), which was the action classic every one said it was, maybe the height of director John Woo’s craft. Well, I still can’t get over Woo thinking “How can I raise the stakes… Read.
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Blade Of The Immortal (2017)
Blade Of The Immortal (2017; Mugen no jūnin) is a two and a half hour samurai action epic with supernatural undertones and ghoulish flashes of humour and violence befitting the reputation of its director, Takashi Miike (his 100th film as director). It’s about a masterless samurai, Manji (played by Takuya Kimura, wonderfully surly) cursed with… Read.
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Mohawk (2017)
Mohawk (2017) is a low budget 90-minute historical-drama-action-horror-thriller set in America during the War of 1812. Two members of the Mohawk tribe – Okwaho (Kaniehtiio Horn) and Calvin Two-Rivers (Justin Rain) – and their British ally (Eamon Ferren, the only recognisable face here from Twin Peaks: The Return) try to push for the Mohawk tribe… Read.
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