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Complete the following comparison: Eddie Murphy's Norbit is to Dreamgirls As Mark Wahlberg's ________ is to The Departed Yes, Shooter is right up there with Norbit as a shockingly bad film that almos…
The names on the movie poster should make any action-movie fan drool: Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Willis, Li, Lundgren, Statham, Rourke, and on, and on. My god, ALL these ass-kickers in one movie??! Yes…
When making a direct-to-video Steven Seagal film, it's probably best to have a really simple good vs. evil plot that people can follow. That's kind of a good rule of thumb for any movie, but when expe…
Having experienced the legend that is Machete, I was super excited for the sequel, Machete Kills. My boyfriend and I waited for opening day with rising anticipation and then...I got a migraine. And it…
I'm the first to admit that I had no idea of the context of the G.I. Joe franchise, as envisioned by the 1980s line of toys with the "complex background story involving an ongoing struggle between the…
There is really no reason at all to have an all-American cop like Bruce Willis' John McClane in Moscow. But the Die Hard series just won't die easily, after being resurrected in Live Free or Die Hard …
Ahh-nold Schwarzenegger is getting a bit long in the tooth, despite the resurgence of him and his aged 80's action movie buddies in the popular Expendables series. His small-town sheriff, Ray, seems t…
The opening sequence of Assault on Precinct 13 is an assault on the senses. Let me say this: The handheld camera with grainy and contrasty cinematography, combined with MTV-style editing should be use…
Hot women in skimpy clothes? Profanity? More explosions? More gun fights? Lots and lots and lots of initially cool but quickly tiresome and unnecessary slo-mo shots? Then, my friend, you will LOOOOOO…