The film seems to have cobbled its set pieces together from a series of close-ups edited as if by random selection.
Empowerment porn for those who long for the Cold War’s clarity of purpose and American dominance in this murky age of terror.
Taken 2 offers a modest reversion on the established formula.
Colombiana is a self-righteous misstep from the usually reliable Luc Besson action-film factory.
Luc Besson’s pulp-fiction assembly line churns out another adequate ass-kicker with Colombiana.
This remake doesn’t show any signs that its creators believe the Eastern self-improvement mumbo-jumbo its characters espouse.
The Karate Kid looks and feels as innocuous and thoughtlessly conceived as the dozens of films its influenced.
Liam Neeson kicks physical and moral ass in Taken.
This is the equivalent of a sexy McDonald’s ad where someone is munching on a Big Mac while drinking pink desert wine.
Never has a film with Luc Besson’s fingerprints on it popped so little.
This “Special Delivery” DVD re-release is mostly a thinly disguised rehash of previously existing material.
Transporter 2 is a martial arts-obsessed action movie inadvertently reconceived as cartoonish parody.
This is probably the closest to a Franco experience as its Freedom Fries-eating target audience is likely to get.
The Transporter is little more than a cheap knock-off of John Woo’s The Killer.