Actioner

Film: Land of BadCast: Russell Crowe, Milo Ventimiglia, Liam Hemswort, Luke Hemsworth, Ricky Whittle, Daniel MacPherson, Chika Ikogwe, Robert RabiahDirector: William EubankRating: 2.5/5Runtime: 110 min “Land of Bad” has the presence of two Hemsworth brothers and Russell Crowe, to help shore up its low- budgeted action smarts. Even though Crowe spends most of the movie sitting in a chair staring at a screen and strategising rescue ops with the help of a drone, he manages to make his presence felt. The…

Film: The BeekeeperCast: Jason Statham, Jeremy Irons, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi, Josh Hutcherson, Minnie Driver, Enzo Cilenti, Dan Li, Phylicia Rashad, Jemma RedgraveDirector: David AyerRating: 2.5/5Runtime: 105 min Jason Statham is back in ‘action’ after Guy Ritchie’s “Wrath of Man,” this time in director David Ayer’s (“Suicide Squad,” “Fury”) film scripted by veteran action film scenarist Kurt Wimmer. The screenplay is probably written with…

Image via Paramount If you take a director who’d made history as the first person to win both an Emmy and Directors Guild Award in the same year, hand them a $50 million budget and the adaptation of a popular novel, rope in several recognizable and popular stars, the producers of a legendary multi-billion dollar franchise and then allow them to cut loose in the action thriller arena, The Rhythm Section definitely sounds like a winner. Instead, Reed Morano’s bone-crunching exercise in banality – produced by…

The much-anticipated trailer of Alia Bhatt's debut Hollywood film Heart of Stone was finally unveiled at the Netflix Tudum 2023 event in Sao Paulo. The high-octane trailer is dominated by Gal Gadot and her umpteen action scenes but it hints at Alia being the lead antagonist. Alia has just 5-6 scenes in the trailer but it seems she is the one calling the shots in this story. She was in Brazil along with Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan for the trailer launch. Gal Gadot and Alia Bhatt in stills from Heart of Stone…

Cr. Larry Horricks/Netflix © 2023 Netflix makes a lot of action movies, but the majority of them – at least the ones hailing from the United States and backed by the might of Hollywood, anyway – aren’t anything to write home about. In fact, the majority of them end up getting resoundingly trashed by critics, which makes Extraction 2 a breath of fresh air in more ways than one. The pressure was piled high on the broad and bulky shoulders of Chris Hemsworth and director Sam Hargrave from the beginning, after the…

Film: Extraction 2 ( A Netflix OTT release)Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Golshifteh Farahani, Adam Bessa, Justin Howell, Olga Kurylenko, Tinatin Dalakishvili, Sinéad PhelpsDirector: Sam HargraveRating: 2.5/5Runtime: 123 mins Tyler Rake(Chris Hemsworth) returns for Netflix’s second attempt at ‘cashing in on diversity programming’ in this unremarkable sequel to a rather ordinary and bland original. This film goes over the top without much ado. Tasked with extracting a family who…

via Prime Video Not to pigeonhole an entire subgenre, but international action comedies can often be very strange, but often in the best kind of way. Without the restraints that blight many major Hollywood productions, the key creatives are free to tell whatever story they want however they see fit, with Medellin clearly the result of an unfiltered imagination. After all, how else do you explain the existence of writer, director, and star Franck Gastambide gathering together a multinational ensemble cast –…

via Hulu Disney’s ruthless content purge may have been made for the most cynical of reasons, but the difference in opinions of the creators behind the exiled projects is already proving to be stark, with the writers behind The Princess sharing the complete opposite sentiment from the showrunner of Willow. Whereas Jon Kasdan shockingly admitted he wasn’t entirely against the idea of his legacy sequel series being cast out into the ether for an undetermined amount of time, scribes Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton…

Pathaan X Mission Impossible 5: From Deepika Padukone’s Rubina To John Abraham’s Jim, Siddharth Anand’s Film Is A Copy Of Tom Cruise Actioner? ( Photo Credit – Movie Still; Poster ) Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, and John Abraham starring Pathaan broke several box office records globally and domestically after it was released in theatres. It’s an action drama under the spy universe that has featured a lot of high-quality action sequences between SRK, Deepika and John, and others. It has been more than four months…

via Netflix For a streaming service happy to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a star-studded Hollywood blockbuster, it’s ironic that many of Netflix’s best and most successful original actioners tend to be international productions made for a fraction of the cost, with France’s AKA merely the latest. Following on in the footsteps of genre bedfellows like Vietnam’s bone-rattling prequel Furies and rip-roaring Indonesian action comedy The Big 4, director Morgan S. Dalibert’s fairly routine-sounding story…