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Furie 2019

Furie 2019 Written by and directed by Le-Van Kiet. A Vietnamese action film.

Hai Phượng is a ex-gangster and single mother. He's lives in a small town in the countryside and collects debts for a woman. Hai Phượng has a daughter called Mai. The daughter is kidnapped by gangsters and Hai Phượng chases her all the way to Saigon, with the reluctant help of the police the daughter is rescued and the baddies beaten up.

After a bit of set up the daughter is kidnapped and the fighting starts. For the rest of the film it's pretty much chase and fight. It's a fairly good film with good gritty action, a fair bit of which is on a train. It was enjoyable, despite it's rather dark story line, and I'd be happy to watch it again. 

Bermuda Tentacles 2014

Bermuda Tentacles 2014 Screenplay by Geoff Meed, directed by Nick Lyon. A made for the SyFy Channel movie by M. O. B. Movies. I picked up a dollar DVD at Dollar Tree. It said it was produced by SyFy and it had Linda Hamilton and Jamie Kennedy in the cast. I didn't notice it was produced by David Michael Latt, president of The Asylum. The only place the company is mentioned on the film is a tiny notice in the end credits. Deceptive dickweeds.

Air Force One goes down over the Bermuda Triangle, the president is stuffed into a survival pod just before the plane explodes. The pod settles on the ocean floor some 7000 meters down. A Navy warship is sent or organize a rescue, Linda Hamilton is the Admiral on board. The sip gets attacked by a giant tentacled undersea monster.

The effects are poor, the script is poor, the acting is poor, the monster is poor. I gave it a generous 2 on the IMDb where it scores a unrealistic 3.3, it has a large number of 10s. Ludicrous. I wouldn't have picked it up, even for a buck if I had seen The Asylum's logo on it but I got fooled. Don't be fooled.

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Punk Samurai Slash Down 2018 Based on the novel Panku-zamurai, kirarete sôrô, screenplay by Kankurô Kudô, directed by Gakuryû Ishii.

A ronin gets involved with the court squabbles of a small lord and a lot of people and monkeys die. There's a fair bit of action and plenty of comedy, as the movie progresses it gets weirder and weirder. You can get a bit of an idea from the trailer link in the title above.

I enjoyed most of the film but I doubt I would buy a copy of the Blu-ray. I might not get back to it.

The Amusement Park 1975 Screenplay by Wally Cook, directed by George A Romero.

I'm not going to buy a copy of George's film either. The Wikipedia called it an American psychological horror film. Fancy description. It's an hour long short that George produced for the Lutheran Service Society of Western Pennsylvania as an educational film about elder abuse. He shot it in 1973, It premiered at the American Film Festival in 1975 and wasn't released anymore. In 2020 it was restored and we watched the Blu-ray that came out of that work.

An old man wanders around an amusement park, he talks about the plight of the elderly and has plenty of age related issue examples. The park is noisy and filled with people aimlessly milling about, getting in his way. Why anyone would go there is beyond me.

If I saw this on YouTube and George wasn't directing, I doubt I'd sit through it to the end. I got the message loud and clear and it's pretty sad to see there's not been much improvement since. Glad to have seen it but I wouldn't need to see it again.

In Order Of Disappearance 2016

In Order Of Disappearance 2016 Written by Kim Fupz Aakeson, directed by Hans Petter Moland. The Norwegian film that was remade in the US as Cold Pursuit. I enjoyed that so I ordered the original. CP was directed by the same director but has an American screenwriter.

Stellan Skarsgård plays a snow plow driver in a fictional town in Norway. His son is murdered by some drug dealers with an overdose of heroin. Stellan goes after the gang and the movie shows us the death of each gang member in the order they were killed.

Nice and neat, that's how Stellan wraps the bodies of the gang members he tosses over a huge waterfall. Not so nice and neat is the death of the last of the gang. That end scene made me laugh in the remake. The same thing happens in the original and it made me laugh all over again. I know I'll want to watch both versions of the film all over again.

Mission Impossible 6 Fallout 2018

Mission Impossible 6 Fallout 2018 Written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie.

Ethan and the gang have to take down the Apostles, some creeps who were allied with the Syndicate. They are murdering scum and I enjoyed their fiery deaths.

Plenty of the usual with chases, explosions and gun fire messing up where ever they go. This time the guys are in Paris, German, New Zealand, London, Norway and the UAE. Lucky for Asia they stop the nukes from going off at the last second. It's always ticking time bomb time for the IMF.

I enjoyed it as much as the last one. I'd watch the series over again sometime.

Mission Impossible 5 Rogue Nation 2015

Mission Impossible 5 Rogue Nation 2015 Story by Christopher McQuarrie and Drew Pierce, screenplay and direction by Christopher McQuarrie.

I finally got around to watch the last couple of Mission Impossible films. I had watched the first four over again recently and ordered a copy of the 6th film. Someone gave me a copy of the 5th film.

Ethan and the gang have been disbanded and have to find the terrorist group the Syndicate to clear their name. It takes a while, the head of the Syndicate is a smart cookie. He's also a cold hearted killer who likes his work.

There's plenty of action involving cars and motorcycles, plenty of fights and explosions, all the usual stuff. The film travels around Europe and London, shooting people and blowing stuff up.

It was fine and I'd watch it again.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back 2016

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back 2016 Based on the Lee Child novel Never Go Back, screenplay by Richard Wenk, Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, directed by Edward Zwick.

This time Jack is killing baddies in Washington DC. He was there to meet Major Susan Turner, a contact in the military. He arrives at her office to find she's been accused of espionage. Soon after Jack is framed for the murder of Turner's lawyer, he's arrested and taken to the same military jail as Susan, he escapes when he sees two of the baddies headed for Turner's cell. He saves her from being murdered and they go on the run. 

TThings get more complicated with the intro of a young woman who might be Jack's daughter Samantha. The baddies try to kill her but that fails. Jack, Susan and Samantha head for New Orleans, more people get killed, eventually Jack gets what's going on and crushes the baddies plan. Turns out Samantha isn't his daughter. Jack leaves and heads out on the highway, looking for a ride.

As entertaining as the first film. I'd watch this one again too.

Jack Reacher 2012

Jack Reacher 2012 Based on One Shot by Lee Child, screenplay and direction by Christopher McQuarrie. I hadn't read any of the books, they aren't the sort of novel I'm interested in, there's a lot of them, I suspect they're fine for the right reader.

Tom Cruise beats up some baddies in a story about some scummy businessmen who get what they want by intimidation and murder. Lots of punching, running and shooting. Good cast and a decent script. I'd watch it again sometime.

Shockwave: Countdown To Disaster 2017

Shockwave: Countdown To Disaster 2017 Written by Blaine Chiappetta, Rafael Jordan and Ari Novak, directed by Nick Lyon.

A secret government military group has developed a device that creates earthquakes of great magnitude. It's been set off and there's only 2 people who can stop it. a used to be married couple that are experts in some sciencey thing. It's a race against time and the earthquakes get more and more frequent.

It's all pretty much familiar, I don't mind that so much but there's not much here that gets the film to average for me. It scores a 4.2 on the IMDb and that's about it for me. I saw it over on Amazon Prime. Trying to get a random SF movie in to keep up with more current product. At least the product that gets put in the free with Prime section. A lot of the movies don't stay free for long. Not that I think I'm missing anything when they do.

The Last Stand 2013

The Last Stand 2013 Written by Andrew Knauer and directed by Kim Jee-woon. I've only seen one of the director's movies. I enjoyed The Good, The Bad, The Weird.

Arnold is a sheriff in a small town in Arizona. It's right across a canyon from Mexico. Some baddies turn up on Harry Dean Stanton's farm and Harry doesn't last too long in the movie. Peter Stormare is one of the baddies. Luis Guzmán is one of Arnold's deputies, Johnny Knoxville is a colorful local character with a big ass gun collection.

Forest Whitaker is an FBI guy who's in charge of transporting a captured drug lord. The drug lord has a passel of pals and they pluck him out of the street with a giant magnet on a crane. The drug lord drives off in a fast car, headed for the border. He's got more pals and those pals have machine guns. The road blocks don't last long and dead cops litter the highway.

The baddies at Harry's farm have been busy, they've built a bridge over the canyon. The baddies have some trouble ahead as Arnold's deputies have found Harry's body. The drug lord hits the town only to find they're ready for him. The baddies don't fare to well against Arnold and company.

here's plenty of gun fire, car chases, explosions and wisecracking. It's a decent action film that was fun enough to watch. I'd watch it again someday.