Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Remember at the end of the Departed, when Matt Damon's character just got shot and a rat runs along a windowledge? And it's like the movie turns to you and goes "He's a rat, get it? Like, a rat, the animal? But also how mafia types call people rats? He's the rat. The rat on the ledge. The rat is him. Get it?"
Alien Romulus is what happens if you made a whole movie with that ethos, and wove it…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
An adequate but often unexceptional Cheng Pei-Pei & Elliot Ngok vehicle, cashing in on their success in Come Drink With Me. Plays many of the same beats (Cheng Pei-Pei as a great martial artist, but no Sword Wizard, Elliot Ngok as a Sword Wizard who comes to her aid, a swamp refuge, a 1 v Many inn fight). The inn fight has more visual spectacle than Come Drink With Me 's did, and there's a great tension-building scene in a gambling…