Not sure how Only God Forgives made this list.
The Raid 1 & 2 should be on top.
Far superior films to the John Wick films.
I just soiled my dacks looking at that photo.
Does the list go from 7 to 5?
anyway the man from nowhere is way better than john wick, and im a massive fan of the JW.
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Yeah, I rate John Wick but itâs a little overrated.
Man from nowhere is excellent!
Have you seen I Saw the Devil?
Yup, went on a bit of a korean action kick a few months ago. they do it far better than the west currently, imo.
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Yep, they make some seriously good films on very tight budgets.
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Also loved Predators. Canât wait for the new one.
Saw Tag last nightâŚI actually didnât mind it.
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Koreans do Korean Action far better than the west? Thatâs a shock.
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In town for a few days and there wasnât much on at the cinema that attracted me. Saw the reviews for a film that was on at the Spanish Film Festival, Summer 1993,that had all sorts of great reviews about a little girlâs childhood after the death (from HIV) of her mother and subsequent adoption by her uncle and aunt in the countryside outside Girona.
Well, some of these reviewers should be sacked. I know the English and Latin words, boredom and tedium, but struggling with the French word, for ennui.
Bugger all happened, and it was all in Catalan. There were a few expressions of relief, and dismay, when the novie ended. Relief that there were two hours weâd never get back, and dismay that weâd expended the hard-earned.
A couple of trailers of interest - McQueen, a doco on London fashion designer Alexander McQueen. Iâll be avoiding that like the plague. The fashion industry is THE most useless, self-indulgent industry in the world, bar none. All the tripe his models wear, youâd never see them worn in real society. And Ladies in Black might be of some interestâŚset in Sydney in 1959 and with Noni Hazelhurst and Rachael Taylor.
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Mile 22. 2018. 94 min. 7 / 10
Directed by Peter Berg with Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais, Rhonda Rousey & John Malkovich.
Wahlberg heads up a secret CIA unit, Overwatch. They do dirty jobs that others donât want to do, or unable to complete, a bit like Cruise and MI team, but not as far out there. Malkovich controls the operations from a remote location. They are intent on split second timing, to avoid as much trouble as possible, as the opening scene shows. They are given an assignment to extract an asset (Indonesian action sat Iko Uwais; The Rais 2) from an unnamed country who has information on missing cesium that could be used to make 6 dirty bombs. The location of the missing cesium is on a locked computer drive and only he has the code to open it. The title comes from the distance the team must travel from the embassy to the airport, where they will fly the asset out. So there are elements of Heat, 16 Blocks and The Gauntlet in the plot, while the use of surveillance techniques recalls elements of Enemy of The State. MW also features in other scenes, debriefing after the event, from his comments in those scenes it is clear that things didnât all go to plan.
The good: The movie does a good job of showing the latest technology available. The plot is strong, right until the very end. Iko Uwais is great in his action scenes.
The not so good: The MW portrayal of his character walks a fine line between being credible and going completely over the top, too often he crosses over the line. He also has a tendency to talk too much. The editing is a bit too hectic in some of the fight scenes. The film is set in SE Asia, but filmed in Bogota, Colombia, they could have used a real location.
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is that the guy from The Raid? his fight scenes in that film were some of the best if not THE BEST i have ever seen!
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In Raid 2, AFAIK. l havenât seen either raid movie but an educated guess, says it is the same guy, who is an expert in an Indonesian martial art. His fight scenes are spectacular, and he was he was co-fight choreographer. He was also in Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens.
Yep thatâs the guy. I cannot recommend the Raid films enough. Just brilliantly done.
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Is the meg any good
I havent seen it, but no.
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Thanks Margaret
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Iâd be keener to see it if it had Mila Kunis in it.
Just so I could go, ha!
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