Robbery as a political statement. Intelligent direction
Cast: Thomas Jane, David O’Hara, Dexter Fletcher
Director: Bronwen Hughes
Writer: Bima Stagg
Music by The Free Association
Cinematography by Jess Hall
Film Editing by Robert Ivison
Category Archives: action
“The Lovers” by Roland Joffé (Belgium, 2013)
Ambitious but failed
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Tamsin Egerton, Simone Kessell, Bipasha Basu, Abhay Deol
Director: Roland Joffé
Writer: Roland Joffé
Story: Ajey Jhankar
Cinematography: Ben Nott
“Wonder Woman” by Patty Jenkins (USA, 2017)
Good action, but predictable and simplistic romance
Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis
Director: Patty Jenkins
Based on the Characters from DC: Wonder Woman created by William Moulton Marston
Writer (story by): Zack Snyder, Allan Heinberg, Jason Fuchs
Writer: Allan Heinberg
Cinematographer: Matthew Jensen
Editor: Martin Walsh
Composer: Rupert Gregson-Williams
“End Of Watch” (David Ayer, USA 2012)
Extremely active camera can sometimes be dizzying.
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena, Natalie Martinez, Annna Kendrick, Frank Grillo
Written and directed by David Ayer
Music by David Sardy
Cinematography by Roman Vasyanov
Film Editing by Dody Dorn
“Serenity” (Joss Whedon, USA 2005)
Weak scenario
Cast: Gina Torres, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Written and directed: Joss Whedon
Music: David Newman
Cinematography: Jack N. Green
Editing: Lisa Lassek
“Die Hard” (John McTiernan, USA 1988)
Too many clichés!
Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald Veljohnson, Paul Gleason
Directed by John McTiernan
Screenplay by Jeb Stuart
Photographed by Jan de Bont
“Snowpiercer” (Joon-ho Bong, South Korea 2013)
Cast: Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Alison Pill, Octavia Spencer
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Screenplay: Joon-ho Bong, Kelly Masterson
Original Story: Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, Jean-Marc Rochette
Director of Photography: Kyung-Pyo Hong
Original Music: Marco Beltrami
“Total Recall” (Paul Verhoeven, USA 1990)
A potentially good story turned into a stupid action movie with lots of shooting and meaningless violence. A positive point: one of the first movies in which women are physically involved in the action.
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Screenplay by Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon, Gary Goldman
Photographed by Jost Vacano
Edited by Frank J. Urioste
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
“The Space Between Us” (Peter Chelsom, USA 2017)
The key roles given to women do not redeem the awful script and mediocre direction / The original idea deserves a better treatment
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Carla Gugino, Gary Oldman
Director: Peter Chelsom
Writer: Allan Loeb
Writer (story): Stewart Schill, Richard Barton Lewis, Allan Loeb
Cinematographer: Barry Peterson
Editor: David Moritz
Composer: Andrew Lockington
“Ghost In The Shell” (Rupert Sanders, USA 2017)
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Michael Pitt, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche
Director: Rupert Sanders
Based on the comic ‘The Ghost in the Shell’ by Masamune Shirow
Writer: Jamie Moss, William Wheeler
Cinematographer: Jess Hall
Editor: Billy Rich, Neil Smith
Composer: Lorne Balfe