Category Archives: crime

No Country for Old Men

Posted on March 24, 2008

Seriously, how did this win the Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Director of 2007? Maybe there were subliminal messages embedded in the theatrical or screener version that I missed watching on DVD. The only other reasons I can think of … Continue reading →

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Shoot 'Em Up

Posted on March 22, 2008

After a career mostly spent writing children’s animated dinosaur movies and writing and directing fluffy romantic pics, Michael Davis steps up and, in my book, scores a near bullseye with a misunderstood satire of the recent Jason Stathem/Vin Diesel ultra-violent … Continue reading →

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Lucky Number Slevin

Posted on January 13, 2008

Paul McGuigan takes an American spin on the gangster revenge flick he did so well a half decade earlier in Gangster No. 1. The result here is good but while it is no doubt funnier lacks the vicious edge that … Continue reading →

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Let's Go to Prison

Posted on October 6, 2007

This 2006 piece of dreck comedy was so boring that I hit stop after 15 minutes (right after Will Arnett’s character’s trial opens). I expected more from Let’s Go to Prison since it stars Arnett and Dax Shepherd, was written … Continue reading →

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The French Connection

Posted on October 6, 2007

Released in 1971, The French Connection was part of the post-hippy hardedged wave of films including The Godfather and Serpico that did a hard reset on American, and especially New York, cops and robbers police procedurals. This movie, directed by … Continue reading →

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War

Posted on September 2, 2007

Teaming up for the second time, Jet Li and Jason Stathem are the opponents in a movie that matches the latest trends in extreme violence. FBI agent Hank Crawford (Stathem) gets in the middle of a war between a Triad … Continue reading →

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Dirty Work

Posted on August 31, 2007

I only watched this movie because there was nothing else even remotely interesting and Lance Reddick is so good on The Wire. Reddick is a dirty cop but we’re supposed to think that’s only due to some bad luck and … Continue reading →

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Rush Hour 3

Posted on August 21, 2007

After taking down Vegas and Hong Kong, the unlikely pairing of LAPD detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) and Hong Long PD Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) are after the biggest game of all in Paris, the leaders of the Hong … Continue reading →

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Miami Vice

Posted on August 7, 2007

Twenty years on Crockett and Tubbs finally make it to the big screen, with Colin Farrell replacing Don Johnson and Jamie Foxx in place of Philip Michael Thomas and a budget commensurate with their star power. Since Michael Mann created … Continue reading →

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Essex Boys

Posted on July 15, 2007

BBC America had this 2000 mobster flick on their Brit Movie night last Sunday. It’s got Sean Bean, Alex Kingston and Tom Wilkerson in what I saw posited as an English Goodfellas, and I loves me my Goodfellas. In the … Continue reading →

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