Big Al Reviews

Movie reviews and more by Albert DeSantis

  • Karate Kid: Legends

    Karate Kid: Legends

    4 outta 5 Karate Kid: Legends fits with the Karate Kid series, which is running at 6 movies, a 6 season TV series and a Saturday morning cartoon. This follows the structure of a Karate Kid story, with training by veteran masters culminating with a tournament showdown. But it doesn’t just repeat beats from the…

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  • Mission: Impossible -The Final Reckoning

    Mission: Impossible -The Final Reckoning

    4 outta 5 The 8th, and potentially final, Mission: Impossible film, The Final Reckoning is a fairly bombastic finale for a series that has always been fairly bombastic. Probably a bit too much at a very long 2 hours and 50 minutes running time. It’s as if Tom Cruise saw that all these blockbusters are…

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  • Rust

    Rust

    3 outta 5 Rust is a film that sticks closely to core tenets of the Western genre. The plot involving a cynical elder man looking after a young charge is very much something in Westerns like True Grit and even sci-fi Westerns like The Mandalorian. There is a lot of grumbling and sad cowboys talking…

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