Big Al Reviews
Movie reviews and more by Albert DeSantis
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (’08 review)
5 out of 5 The excitement of summer movie season has become diluted with every lame Batman sequel or annoying Speed Racer. Happily, director Steven Spielberg, writer/producer George Lucas, and star Harrison Ford have rejoined to make summer movies awesome again with the fourth Indy adventure, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. …
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Extraction 2
3 outta 5 Extraction 2 certainly delivers some large-scale chaos, which comes in lots of different and incredibly messy forms. There’s prisoner riots, rampaging trains, and buckets of nails to the face. No normal human could survive the amount of punishment that is inflicted here on the main character, but no normal human would be…
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Extraction (’20 review)
4 outta 5 Extraction doesn’t have the balletic kinetic art-house pop action of something like John Wick but it does have exceptionally crunchy and messy skirmishes throughout. Sometimes it is exceptionally grim and tries a bit too hard to add pathos which produces some mixed results. Extraction is at its best as intense single ride…
