THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED – Reviewed by David
Did we really need a new Transporter flick? Well, no, not really. Three Jason Statham-fueled installments and 24 episodes of a TV show with a new guy playing driver-for-hire Frank Martin seemed like...
View ArticleTAKEN 3 – Reviewed by David
Liam Neeson continues his run of financially successful old-man action flicks with the Luc Besson-produced Taken 3, marking the third time he’s played the man with “a particular set of skills,” and the...
View ArticleLUCY – Reviewed by David
Lucy stems, rather surprisingly, from the mind of French director Luc Besson, normally a writer/producer of entertaining action junk like 3 Days to Kill and From Paris with Love. As a screenwriter, he...
View ArticleTHE FAMILY – Reviewed by David
If you cast big enough stars in a movie, Luc Besson will direct it. At least, that seems to be the current philosophy of the Frenchman responsible for La Femme Nikita, Léon: The Professional and The...
View ArticleTAKEN 2 – Reviewed by David
If you’d told me five years ago that Liam Neeson—you know, Oskar Schindler—would have his own action franchise, I would have told you to get lost. But hey, money talks. Audiences were so, um, taken...
View ArticleLOCKOUT – Reviewed by David
There’s great sci-fi, like Moon, and awful sci-fi, like Pandorum, and stuck in the middle is stuff like Lockout, a good but not great bit of futuristic, Luc Besson-produced action schlock buoyed in no...
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TRANSPORTER 3 – Reviewed by David
If ever someone were meant to direct a silly, zero-calorie action flick like Transporter 3, it would have to be the aptly named Olivier Megaton. I’m not kidding. That’s his name, and he actually...
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