The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C If you aren’t like me at all, you have spent the eight years since the release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 wondering when we would finally get a film explaining the origin of series villain Coriolanus Snow. Well, the day has finally arrived and the completely unnecessary […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: F Yikes. Back in the 90s, it was commonplace for action sequels to be relegated to straight-to-video releases once interest had dropped, the main stars were no longer returning and the budgets were reduced to the level of a high school play. For instance, there are three sequels to Bloodsport that […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C+ I’m a sucker for a good, old-fashioned vigilante movie and the original The Equalizer (from 2014) is one of the better examples of the subgenre from the last decade. The film also fits nicely into the “normal looking guy is actually a trained killer” subgenre that has been oddly popular […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B Mission: Impossible has become one of the most surprisingly consistent and enjoyable film franchises going today, which is amazing considering that it started way back in 1996. I was freaking twelve years old when this series started, for crying out loud! And unlike James Bond, the main lead has never […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C As with everyone else my age, I grew up a huge Indiana Jones fan. I watched the hell out of the first three movies (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom being my marginal favorite; more on that in a minute) and I think it’s a travesty that the series […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: D Following Fast X, The Boogeyman and now Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, the cinematic theme of summer 2023 seems to be movies that are unable to meet even the lowest of expectations. Like Fast X and The Boogeyman, I wasn’t expecting the latest Transformers to be a good movie (does anyone […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: F I’ve seen worse movies than Fast X in the last couple of years. I’ve certainly seen movies that pissed me off more than Fast X did. Halloween Ends does exist, after all. But rarely do movies leave me feeling as empty inside as Fast X did. Not since Grown Ups […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: A- Sisu is the latest entry in the currently popular action subgenre of “don’t mess with a normal looking guy because he might actually be a complete badass and slaughter you.” This oddly specific subgenre is typified by Nobody and the John Wick movies and the trailers even spotlighted this connection […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B As much as I like the John Wick movies, I admit that they have gradually been losing me. The original is a classic action movie and, as with most great action movies, much of the charm comes from the simplicity of its concept. Some guys just fucked with the wrong […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B- Rarely does a film’s title so succinctly summarize the scope of its ambition. For the sake of puns, I was hoping that this movie would be just plain bad. Or just plain good, but I wasn’t really banking on that one. It turns out that Plane is on the better […]