Director Kenneth Branagh Staring Chris Pine, Kevin Costner, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Branagh Rated M Score 3.5/6 Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack. On the face of it the Jack Ryan film franchise might appear to be broken, considering that with…
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Red 2
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Director Dean Parisot Starring Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich Rated M Score 3/6 Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. Red 2 seemed to fall into one of the basic problems that all franchise movies seem to…
Far Cry
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Director Uwe Boll Staring Til Schweiger, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Natalia Avelon Rated MA Score 1/6 An ex-special forces soldier turned boatman is hired by a journalist to investigate a top-secret military base on a nearby island. Yes I know there is a general rule ‘never watch a movie directed by Uwe Boll … ever’. But sometimes…
Enemies Closer
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Director Peter Hyams Staring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Orlando Jones, Tom Everett Scott Rated MA Score 2.5/6 Deep within a forest on the US-Canadian border, two sworn enemies must work together to escape a ruthless drug cartel hell-bent on retrieving a drug shipment which went missing there. Considering the director this had the potential to be…
Kick Ass 2
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Director Jeff Wadlow Staring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse Rated MA Score 2.5/6 The costumed high-school hero Kick-Ass joins with a group of normal citizens who have been inspired to fight crime in costume. Meanwhile, the Red Mist plots an act of revenge that will affect everyone Kick-Ass knows. For those of you…
Bula Quo!
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Director Stuart St. Paul Staring Jon Lovitz, Craig Fairbrass, Laura Aikman, Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt Rated M Score 3.5/6 Status Quo witnesses a gang murder in Fiji. They flee with crucial evidence; have they played their last gig? We have been burnt by movies starring real life bands in the past, the first one…
Vikingdom
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Director Yusry Abd Halim Staring Dominic Purcell, Craig Fairbrass, Conan Stevens Rated MA Score 2/6 A forgotten king, Eirick, is tasked with the impossible odds to defeat Thor, the God of Thunder. From the other reviews that I have read about Vikingdom I have found that the opinion about is split, though it seems the…
The Human Race
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Directed by Paul Hough Staring Eddie Mcgee, Trista Robinson, Paul McCarthy-Boyington Rated MA Score 3.5/6 Veronica suddenly finds herself in a surreal and horrifying marathon race. The rules are simple: If you are lapped, you die. If you step off the path, you die. Many will start but only one may cross the finish line…
Last Passenger
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Director Omid Nooshin Staring Dougray Scott, Kara Tointon, Iddo Goldberg Rated M Score 4.5/6 A small group of everyday passengers on a speeding London commuter train battle their warped driver who has a dark plan for everyone on-board. Sometimes it is really great when a filmmaker makes a movie that seems to re-invigorates a plot…
Bounty Hunters / Bail Enforcers
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Director Patrick McBrearty Staring Trish Stratus, Frank J. Zupancic, Boomer Phillips Rated M Score 1/6 A group of down-on-their-luck bounty hunters hit the jackpot one night when they pick up an informant with a hundred thousand dollar bounty on his head. But their world is turned upside down when a mob boss offers them one…