The Doctor’s Diagnosis: A- As a general rule when seeing a remake, I try to watch the original first. Wrath of Man is a remake of a 2004 French film titled Cash Truck (or Le Convoyeur, in whatever language the French speak) and, as best as I can tell, this movie is frigging impossible to […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B- I grew up playing Mortal Kombat games (the early ones, 1-4) and it’s hard to explain to younger audiences just how badass Mortal Kombat was in the 90s. There were plenty of fighting games before it, sure, and Street Fighter 2 was objectively the better game. But Mortal Kombat was just […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: B Well, you can’t say that this movie doesn’t deliver what it promises. Godzilla vs. Kong is a big, dumb, fun popcorn flick featuring two of film’s most famous monsters pummeling the shit out of each other. It’s certainly not a smart movie or a perfect movie. The plot is asinine, the […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: A- Nobody is the latest entry in what seems to now be a full-blown subgenre: stories of ordinary-looking guys that are secretly badasses who are pulled out of their normal lives to kick large amounts of ass. If you’ve seen the John Wick or The Equalizer movies, then Nobody is going to […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C+ I have a soft spot for Chinese fantasy films. While I often have no fucking clue what’s happening in terms of plot, Chinese movies are rarely boring and A Writer’s Odyssey is a solid example. Does it make sense? Hell no. Do bizarre plot elements appear and disappear without explanation? Hell […]
The Doctor’s Diagnosis: C Some people mark the passage of time by the changing of the seasons; from the first chill on an Autumn night that warns of the coming winter to the first sunny afternoon in Spring that brings promise of the long, hot days ahead. I instead mark the passage of time with […]
Folks, this is the kind of bad movie that I can get behind. Vanguard is a delightful disaster. Although the action is disappointing for a movie starring Jackie Chan, the film is so inept that its almost charming. From the editing to the performances to the special effects (which I will dwell on shortly), […]
Ever since I started going to the movies weekly in 2014, I’ve kept a list of the films that I see (this is entry #296). I occasionally look over the list and I’m always struck by the movies that I have no memory of seeing. These are the film equivalent of taking that last […]
Unhinged is a perfectly decent thriller that probably won’t stay in your memory bank for very long. This is the kind of thing that I expect to catch on cable after midnight, not as something starring Russell Crowe and playing in thousands of theaters. It’s not something that you will regret watching, but it […]
Movies based on video games don’t exactly have a great track record, so I went into Monster Hunter without particularly high expectations. On the plus side, it’s directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, who directed Mortal Kombat and that’s probably still the best video game film that I’ve seen. On the downside, it’s directed by […]