John Ross

John Ross

Favorite films

  • The Thing
  • Unforgiven
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • Evil Dead Collection

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  • Seized

    ★★★

  • Companion

    ★★★½

  • Only the Brave

    ★★½

  • Deepwater Horizon

    ★★★

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  • Seized

    Seized

    ★★★

    I like how everything in this movie played out but weirdly I feel like it should be more fun. Mario Van Peebles is a pretty great baddie in this and looks great for a 68 year old. It's hard to go wrong with an Issacc Florentine directed Scott Adkins movie.

  • Companion

    Companion

    ★★★½

    Pretty fun. Sofie Thatcher is great as usual. Hope we get sequels.

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  • Godzilla

    Godzilla

    ★★★★

    Thoroughly enjoyed this iteration of the big guy. It takes A while to get to the kaiju goodness with lots of who cares plotting by the game cast but that's par for the course in a Godzilla flick. The set pieces are grand in scale and though I've heard complaints about the lack of coherent action (they cut away when they start fighting!) I thing the big guy and foes get their moments in the sun. I had doubts about…

  • The Lawnmower Man

    The Lawnmower Man

    ★★★

    Super fun and extremely stupid 80s cyber thriller. Jeff Fahey goes full "simple Jack" in his role of Jobe a mentally slow groundskeeper who has his intelligence enhanced by a mad V.R. scientist played by Pierce Bronson and all kinds of really dated digital effects are the result. Good stuff.