Genre Action
The Losers
With a touch of the heist, loyalty testing and very real and flawed personalities, there is a lot more to this story than merely an inflated comic book caper full of action sequences.
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Robin Hood
The action is kinetic and exciting and I absolutely cannot fault the cinematography, but I wouldn’t expect anything less from the director of Blade Runner. What I would expect is a dose of originality.
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Kick-Ass
Realism is turned way down, the violence dial is stuck on 11, and all is adorned with a vibrant technicolour.
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Centurion
Neil Marshall has now developed a distinctive cinematic voice and he’s showing the older players that there can be other ways of doing things.
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Clash of the Titans
Is it wrong to fault a movie like Clash of the Titans for not making sense? It feels wrong. It is wrong, however, to make a movie like Clash of the Titans uninvolving. Which it is.
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Armored
While fervent action fans should be pleased with the amount of guns, blood and explosions it is really only these and the occasional good performance that lends merit to Armored.
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Avatar
Whilst the technological aspect is well-documented, Avatar is so much more than showcase of innovation. Placed together with a good, albeit familiar plot, and this really is a true form of escapism.
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Sherlock Holmes
Ritchie has become known for his slightly off-beat films (when not helming catastrophic vanity projects), but there are few hints of anything outside of mainstream filmmaking in Sherlock Holmes.
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2012
If you can suspend your disbelief as a man with two flying lessons under his belt pilots a jumbo jet and a family escapes a citywide inferno in a car then it makes for compelling viewing.
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Zombieland
When Mad Cow Disease turned the world into flesh-eaters, there were very few humans left. “My friends, this is now the United States of Zombieland,” our young protagonist tells us.
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