Hard Target marries John Woo’s wild formalist techniques with a host of late-’80s and early-’90s American action tropes.
Jean-Claude Van Johnson takes aim at privileged urban life and the action-star archetype.
It relies less on in-camera stunts than editing that renders vague gibberish of the altercations.
JCVD may not say it best, but he does say it aptly, when his manically cartoonish baddie caps one murder with the assertion that “shit happens.”
Essentially Lost Highway for a post-UFC world, the film is an intriguing but ultimately rather empty experience.
That John Hyams manages to overestimate the abilities of a Universal Soldier sequel proves undeniably appealing.
You might have noticed that Hollywood’s superhero well is running a little dry.
Even more so than its 2010 predecessor, The Expendables 2 feels like a juiced-up wish-fulfillment fantasy.
Jean-Claude Van Damme has now fully transitioned into being a parodic shell of his former cartoon-badass self.
Jennifer Yuh’s Kung Fu Panda 2 is an exquisite looking but substantially hollow sequel to the smash hit from 2008.
The film shrinks your expectations until you give up out of exaustion.