Tag: Movie Reviews
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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (’09 review)
3 out of 5 Here’s a test if Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is for you. In one sequence, the heroine suggestively dances with another woman, then the heroine and the woman kung-fu fight in a bathroom as water sprays all over them, then the heroine beats up multiple henchmen over a rap song…
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The Social Network (’10 review)
5 outta 5 Director David Fincher’s movies have either been really good or instant masterpieces. From his unjustly underrated Alien 3 to Seven, Fight Club, Benjamin Button and onward. As a happy surprise it turns out that The Social Network makes for a really compelling film. And you don’t even have to be on Facebook…
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Resident Evil
4 outta 5 Resident Evil by Weapons director Zach Cregger is an intense movie of unrelenting chase and monster scenes with a lot of unexpectedly funny bits. It isn’t exactly the most faithful adaptation of the Resident Evil games, but neither were the first six films. The one faithful Resident Evil adaptation was Welcome to…
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (’21 review)
3 outt 5 Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City is a reboot of the zombie film franchise of the zombie survival horror game franchise which has also rebooted and remade itself multiple times. It ditches the Paul W.S. Anderson helmed series and instead this film is more faithful to the original source material. It’s full…
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Resident Evil: Retribution (’12 review)
3 outta 5 Resident Evil: Retribution is simultaneously extremely lazy and ambitious which is probably the most you can hope for in the number five instalment of a series that has had the same basic creative team driving it for over a decade. It’s sort of a “greatest hits” by rearranging and referencing several past…
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Resident Evil: Afterlife (’10 review)
3 out of 5 The post-Avatar 3D movie binge has been mostly under whelming since almost all live action 3D movies have been post-production jobs where the film is shot traditionally and then converted. The technology to shoot with the same camera system that Avatar used exists, yet been used since until Resident Evil: Afterlife…
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Resident Evil: Extinction (’07 review)
3 out of 5 Each film in the Resident Evil franchise has been slightly different from its predecessor. The first film, the weakest entry, was a somewhat mundane combination of the Resident Evil storyline from the original videogames with new characters for the movie. The second film, Apocalypse, stuck closest to the games storyline and…
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Onslaught
3 outta 5 Onslaught is a horror siege gore action film that tries to say something about veterans and PTSD. This may have good intentions but clashes harshly with undead chainsaw wielding zombies like something out of Evil Dead. There’s also introspection from an isolated and hard-drinking single mother who has difficulty dealing with her…
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Coyote vs. ACME
4 outta 5 After being stuck in a tax hole void for a few years, Coyote vs. ACME has finally been released and it is a very fun time with the Looney Tunes gang in a live-action and animation hybrid with smart meta-commentary about the eternal struggle of Wile E Coyote and commerce. Battling a…
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Toy Story 5
4 outta 5 Toy Story 5 provides another solid Toy Story entry even though, honestly, Toy Story 3 had a fairly definitive ending. However, the specials, shorts, Part 4 and Part 5, all deliver fun continuing adventures of the Toy Story gang. Their plastic life is different now with their former leader leaving, and being…
