“Hey, John, that was a pretty good fight, huh?”
Near the end of the first act a battered and bruised Wick is getting his first chance to breath without the incoming threat of combat, walking through the backs stage dressing rooms of some kind of ballet-assassin school. We pause for a moment as John glances over as one of the trainees rips her chewed up toenail off her bloody, marred toe.
Art is pain.
Stahelski and company put their blood,…
“This is not mission difficult, Mr. Hunt, it's mission impossible. Difficult should be a walk in the park for you.”
Usually labeled “the worst Mission Impossible movie”, M:I-2, 2000’s highest grossing action film, works perfectly as a capstone to 90’s action cinema. John Woo infuses the film with all of his signature trade marks and uses Tom Cruise as his American Cho Yun-Fat stand in to be the duel wielding catalyst for the action, filling into those shoes with ease.…
Film series has morphed into “Fast and Furious, but you know for the kids” with this entry.
Watched with the kids. Found the first one super grating, second not as bad, had some charm, but still not for me, but this one kinda won me over.
Carrey in peak 90’s form and the cartoony animated characters are well rendered into a real world setting and they really relegate the human friends to a c plot with less screen time (getting more of a Ludacris/Gibson treatment).
Harmless fun!
Handsomely made mid tier adult programmer with a bunch of people you recognize.
We use to get one of these every couple weeks, but now that it’s a rarity to see it in theaters, it has to be elevated to the upper echelon of filmmaking.
Thought the “twist” was pretty silly and there’s no exploration of the ideas it presents once it’s revealed. Just kinda drops it and cut to credits. Looked up the book to see if there was…
If you are an angsty filmbro between the ages of 15-21 with a stack of the most basic Criterions, this is the film for you.
