Spy Hunt seems like a fine enough title until you learn that the source material was a novel called PANTHER'S MOON and the story is about a bunch of spies trying to hunt a pair of escaped circus panthers in a spooky alpine lodge. The Third Man it's not but there's an enjoyably told espionage farce in here. The female lead is an admirably competent euro-spy and the guy is an amiable, if useless, American lunkhead, and that's always a…
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Plane 2023
If you were going to remake Last Action Hero in 2023, for good or ill, you'd put Gerry Butler in Arnold role if you knew what was good for you. I'd hear arguments for Keanu Reeves or Nicholas Cage since they both seems to like meta shit and action comedies in equal measures these days. But look within your heart and tell me Butler isn't the king of the simple-premise action movie. The kind of thing 80s and 90s action…
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Ronin 1998
"John Frankenheimer directed two of the best car chases committed to film and they're both in the same movie" is the kind of Film Guy thing I say at parties sometimes and I'm not overjoyed about it but I'm too late in life to change that aspect of my personality.
I've always enjoyed Ronin because it's a completely self-contained shooty spy caper from start to stop. It's got lots of cars and guns and beep boop '90s computers, but the…
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Bullet Train 2022
A lot going on here for a movie that was probably story-boarded with action figures on a GI JOE battle train playset. I'm sure Smokin' Aces didn't get there first (I'll always stan Jet Li's Hitman) but I always think of these kinds of movies as Smokin' Aces-likes, wherein a bunch of eccentric professional killers in fun little outfits converge in a single location and systematically off each other until a grand finale reveals the convoluted circumstances of their improbable…
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