Tag Archives: action movies

bloody horror (film: Project Wolf Hunting / Neugdaesnyang – Kim Hong Sun, 2022)

Those who will dare to watch ‘Project Wolf Hunting‘ (the original title is ‘Neugdaesnyang‘), the 2022 film written and directed by Korean director Kim Hong Sun will have a good chance to see the bloodiest movie or one of the … Continue reading

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much more than a revenge movie (film: Revenge – Coralie Fargeat, 2017)

‘Revenge‘ is the feature debut of French director Coralie Fargeat, a director who doesn’t seem to be in a hurry. She was already 40+ years in 2017 when this film was made, and only this year, as she approaches the … Continue reading

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the last great swashbuckler? (film: Le bossu – Philippe de Broca, 1997

French literature of the middle and second half of the 19th century offered its readers a treasure trove of mystery and adventure novels with themes inspired by the history of France from the Middle Ages to the period of the … Continue reading

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deadly game, deadly resistance (film: Bacurau – Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles, 2019)

I rarely get a chance to see Brazilian films, but the ones I get to seem all to be special. This is also the case with ‘Bacurau‘ (2019), written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho – a well-known director with … Continue reading

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kill the system (film: Peppermint – Pierre Morel, 2018)

‘Peppermint‘ (2018) is the kind of movie that has a good chances of satisfying action movie buffs while almost all other categories of viewers will avoid it and film critics will turn their noses up in superiority. Personally, I believe … Continue reading

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good in the 1970s, good in the 2020s (film: ‘Le sauvage’ – Jean-Pierre Rappeneau, 1975)

Jean-Paul Rappeneau made only eight feature films in his entire career as a director. However, each of them has a special charm, and in all of them you can feel the hand of a professional director, who knows the secrets … Continue reading

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crime and politics (film: Tueurs – Jean-François Hensgens, François Troukens, 2017)

The Belgian film ‘Tueurs’ (‘Killers‘) made in 2017 has two directors. One of them, who is also the author of the story and co-screenwriter, is called Francois François Troukens and is a former bank robber who spent some time behind … Continue reading

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Luc Besson – Deja Vu (film: Anna – Luc Besson, 2019)

When Luc Besson made ‘Nikita‘ in 1990, he unleashed a veritable avalanche of films whose heroines (or maybe we should say super-heroines) are young and beautiful women who, in extreme and hopeless situations, are recruited by espionage services to be … Continue reading

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a 2 hours + video game (film: Top Gun: Maverick – Joseph Kosinsky, 2020)

I was not a ‘Top Gun‘ fan in 1986 when the original movie was released. I didn’t become a fan even after watching this sequel called ‘Top Gun: Maverick‘ directed by Joseph Kosinski. I like action movies when they are … Continue reading

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a revenge movie like no other (film: Riders of Justice – Anders Thomas Jensen, 2020)

The poster for ‘Riders of Justice‘, the 2020 film by Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen, features a bearded and tough-looking Mads Mikkelsen with a rifle on his back and a pistol in his hand. It could very well be a … Continue reading

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