Triple Threat
A hit contract is taken out on a billionaires daughter intent on bringing down a major crime syndicate. A down and out team of mercenaries must take on a group of professional assassins and stop them before they kill their target. No plot or character development.... just fight scene after fight scene. It's like a 10 year old wrote it:
"we have them fight, then they run away. We make them look cool and walk towards camera. Oh! And add explosions in the background. Then they fight some more and say one liners... let's cast Iko Uwais, Tony Jaa, Tiger Chen, Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White and Michael Bisping... because they fight really good!" I really want this 10 year old to write more movies because I loved it
exactly what it says on the tin
8/10
Where did you manage to see this? I can't find it on Sky, Netflix, Amazon Prime or Xbox Live. Same with The Head Hunter. Which is annoying, there's too many subscription services now.
22 Mile or Mile 22.... I can't remember which and it doesn't matter anyway.
A film where Marky Mark Wahlberg plays the same shouty wanker he plays in every film. There are several scenes where he just berates people loudly right into their face and not one of them tells him to feck off. His character is a genius, that wasn't at all a contrived plot device to stop Iko Uwais and Lauren Cohen outshining him. If you removed his character and gave Cohen his monologues you'd lose nothing. It would probably be a better film, you'd roll your eyes a lot less.
Anyway it's about government operatives and chemical warfare and trying to get a man on to a plane that doesn't seem like he needs help getting on a plane. It might help if they'd stop handcuffing him or if the handcuffs would stop randomly appearing then disappearing. Will he be cuffed or will he have a gun? Who knows? Who cares? Because the editing is so quick it kind of nerfs Uwais anyway. It was a bit shit and not the action-fest that the trailer promised.
3/10
Lockout
A film based on an original idea by Luc Besson. An original idea he had after watching Escape from New York and wondering how he could rip it off. It even boasts in the credits it's based on his original idea. Like it's self concious about ripping off John Carpenter's plot. As far as rip offs of JC film's go it's not bad. It's decently entertaining.
Guy Pierce gets framed for a crime he did not commit and is sentenced to prison by the President. Prison in space! But the President's daughter Maggie Grace is on the space prison for some contrived reason involving how they store prisoners. It all goes wrong, the prisoners get released and they take hostages. Guy is the guy that gets sent in to rescue the girl. Unfortunately the scariest thing on earth is now the scariest thing in space. The Scottish are on the space prison! Action and adventure ensues.
It's a fairly simple idea, but is very well done for the most part. The CGI motorbike chase at the start was hilariously bad, like a 1997 CD-I game. Just awful. However the rest of it is pretty good and the kind of film that would probably cause outrage today because of something involving the straight white male rescuing the woman and her not rescuing herself something something patriarchy. The one liners are endearingly awful, to the point you suspect the main character is supposed to be a bit simple. It all just works without doing anything particularly special.
Also I remember renting this years ago and it made me whimsical for going to rent films and ending up with some weird nonsense because you couldn't decide what to get.
7/10
