Colombiana

Colombiana

Written by Luc Besson and directed by Olivier Megaton, Colombiana is a tale about a young girl who witnesses the death of her parents and is raised by her uncle to exact revenge. Borrowing from many revenge tales from the past, Colombiana pulls from elements that have worked in the past for many movies but inevitably fails for its inability to think outside of...

Sucker Punch

Sucker Punch

Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch was Alice in Wonderland on a landscape of CGI goodness. Judging from the trailers I always us assume that this would be another visual masterpiece similar to that of 300, Sin City, and the other graphic novels turned movies from the past. Emily Browning stars as Baby Doll our Alice in this tale of mental illness delusions and...

Red (2010)

Red (2010)

Red was so ridiculously over the top that if you seriously watched it and argued for realism then you are beyond hope as an intelligent life-form (it was adapted from a graphic novel). Lovers of espionage action, this one is for you, it is within the same family of movies that is James Bond 007, Jason Bourne, Salt, and The American inhabit. It’s the fantasy...

Machete (2010)

Machete (2010)

Machete is a lot of things, it is a kickback to the original Grindhouse project helmed by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, it is fan service to all of the guys who wanted more cheesy gore and flesh and it is a cynical, brown middle finger to anti-immigration laws and the people behind them. When we saw the trailer to Machete during the introduction of...

Salt (2010)

Salt (2010)

Salt is your run-of-the-mill summer action movie with a twisted story akin to The Bourne series or James Bond of old. Like those movies the action is over the top and crazy, guns blaze and sparks fly but the PG-13 rating spares us the blood and guts that should accompany such wicked projectiles. One scene has Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) killing a guy by ramming...