Last year, Chris Pratt showed up in The Tomorrow War. A bland-looking cookie-cutter sci-fi actioner from Amazon Prime. That bland visual look from Amazon is back along with Chris Pratt to deliver a rock’em sock ’em nauseating vengeance trip where the violent ends barely justify the means. This is the meat and potatoes, airport paperback…
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Review: Director Joseph Kosinski takes a step forward with “Only The Brave”
Only The Brave has some heart. I almost got teary eyed during the finale after having spent lots of time getting to know the Hotshots crew. Its personality initially plays like a heftier firefighting version of Top Gun. Only a version that I actually liked. (It’s good to know the long gestating sequel is in this director’s…
“American Assassin” Mini-REVIEW
Is the Assassin film to easy to do correctly? Staking a rare spot in between Jason Bourne, and James Bond, the former 24 Jack Bauer director Michael Cuesta gives an update to the lucrative secret agent formula. The problem is that the film doesn’t go all in on its premise of a hardline assassin’s impact…