kung fu killer is the Good 10’s donnie yen movie
he isn’t in that scene though lol
also i don’t know if the “ACTION” is good but Drug War is great
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I keep seeing Drug War on top 10 lists of action movies in the past 10/20 years but I have yet to actually sit down and watch it. Maybe this weekend.
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it’s pretty grim just as a general warning
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I do appreciate that. I seem extra sensitive to that sort of thing lately.
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Drug War messed me up for days after watching. That climax, yeeeeeesh.
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Oh man I thought I was alone in finding the action kind of dull
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I thought the action in Dredd was universally considered second to every other aspect of it, personally.
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the action in Dredd (and most of the good parts of that film too) are just a clone of PWSA’s resi movies, it’s just nice to see someone other than him doing action type cinema that is so interested in architecture.
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you just convinced me to watch dredd
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Whoa where can i go to learn about PWSA Resident Evil architecture
The main interest of PWSA i gleaned from those movies was “my wife is like, super hot”
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honestly I think it comes off best in Afterlife because it mostly sticks to one location, but all of his films since he went to 3D have been very interested in space (not that it doesn’t crop up a lot earlier in stuff like AvP and the first Resi)
I think the resi films - for all people hate on them for not being like the games - actually play with really interesting ideas of videogame spaces (the single prison location of 4, the ~levels~ of 5, etc)
his other recent non-resi films emphasise this by bringing a similar approach to other ideas, Three Musketeers stands out for basically turning european politics into a tabletop board game.
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https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/notebook-reviews-paul-ws-andersons-resident-evil-retribution-3d
Anderson’s obsession with space isn’t limited to his visual sensibility; it’s also at the center of his plots (Anderson wrote the screenplay for Retribution, as well as the other four Resident Evil movies). His films have a locked-room quality, where “story” is often synonymous with “setting;” many of them are set largely in a single (preferably cavernous) location: a prison (Resident Evil: Afterlife), a vast underground temple (Alien vs. Predator), a spacecraft (Event Horizon). As eventually revealed, the same is true of Retribution: its doppelganger-populated spaces-within-spaces-within-spaces are all part of a massive testing facility / live-action video game that pits the characters / players against a sinister computer—the Red Queen, named after the character from Through the Looking-Glass (Jovovich’s character is, of course, named Alice).
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I second Man Of Tai Chi
I would add Jack Reacher
Everything else I can think of is, on second thought, actually a thriller :S
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Reacher is real solid. Pinnacle Dad Movie.
I’d say the minor edits to the scene where beardo unisol murders his way through the motel make a surprisingly big difference. It’s a lot more unsettling in the uncut version.
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With excellent villain casting.
Too bad the second one is Not Good.
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I must be getting old cause I thought the movie was bleak enough as is. I wanted to blow my brains out everytime charles xavier opened his mouth. let’s just do a nice thing and save some super kids ok. I loved this movie.
jack reacher 2 wasn’t great or nothing but I liked the family element they didn’t bother to advertise in any of the trailers. it was ok. tom cruise has done something weird to his face and it’s all puffy now though. why!? he was aging just fine
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Train to Busan
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Yeah I would not make any hk comparisons w Reacher, it’s a solidly “American” violence story and that’s just fine. Dunno how it stacks up against Way of the Gun wrt action scenes but that director definitely has a niche
His mission impossible pic was not great unfortunately, broke the bizarre streak of every mi movie being better than the last. (Part One is not good, get over yourself)
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I just discovered that totally fucking bonkers Korean go/baduk (yes, the board game) action/thriller THE DIVINE MOVE is on Netflix in the USA and recommend it to anyone and everyone.
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LOGAN
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