Jet Li's likability and a few decent stunt fights do a lot of heavy lifting in this very Year 2000 collision of charty hip-hop and martial arts. It wisely doesn't try and get too gritty and is something of a guilty pleasure - highlights including Li trouncing Anthony Anderson with cable ties, humiliating rivals who try to muscle him in a game of park football and using Aaliyah as a blunt instrument when confronted with a female biker assassin.
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Storage 24 2012
Storage 24 made minor internet news by taking $72 on its' US box office run - it was some contract fulfillment thing naturally, but it was probably enough for the thing to turn a profit. A few cookie-cutter characters stumble around a warehouse obviously hiding from a cheap monster and not much else really happens. I like Noel Clarke and there are worst people to headline the thing but this is dull and bad.
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The Trial 1993
Technically this film is faultless - beautifully shot, superbly acted (especially by Kyle MacLachlan; Anthony Hopkins' top-billed role on various DVD covers is just one of several well-honed cameo turns), good costumes, sharp dialogue and so on. It certainly moves better than the Welles version.
However, the thing just looks too normal. Kafka's absurdist novel works better in black and white with visuals cribbed from German silent films; shot like a costume drama it just seems silly rather than satirical.
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A Prayer for the Dying 1987
It goes about as well as a film about Mickey Rourke playing an ex-IRA hitman who falls in love with the blind daughter of an ex-paratrooper priest played by Bob Hoskins can reasonably be expected to go.
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