Tag: Actioner
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Netflix New Actioner Channels ‘John Wick’ on the Top 10 in 70 Countries- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] The lackluster reviews to have greeted spin-off series The Continental has set a dangerous precedent for John Wick spin-offs that don’t have director Chad Stahelski and star Keanu Reeves front and center, with the acclaim to have greeted Netflix’s new action thriller presenting a tall order for next year’s Ballerina to exceed. Not only…
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Gareth Edwards’ Sci-fi Actioner Pits Humanity Against AI Warlords – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Is it too soon to say that I think that Gareth Edwards is an underappreciated genius? Having announced themselves with their small budget sci-fi hit Monsters Edwards was quickly enlisted to take on bigger monsters in the next incarnation in the Godzilla franchise. That was… received. Two years later they directed the stand alone…
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An Actioner That Bombed So Hard It Set Records Avenges on Streaming- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Image via Paramount If you take a director who’d made history as the first person to win both an Emmy and Directors Guild Award in the same year, hand them a $50 million budget and the adaptation of a popular novel, rope in several recognizable and popular stars, the producers of a legendary multi-billion…
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Netflix’s New Actioner Infiltrates the Underworld to Hit #1 in 51 Nations- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] via Netflix For a streaming service happy to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a star-studded Hollywood blockbuster, it’s ironic that many of Netflix’s best and most successful original actioners tend to be international productions made for a fraction of the cost, with France’s AKA merely the latest. Following on in the footsteps…
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An Underrated Actioner Finally Feels the Love 20 Years After Tanking- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] via Sony Dwayne Johnson’s love of making movies set in the jungle has been widely memed for years, but it’s easy to forget that his first trip into the luscious rainforest came back when he was still being billed as The Rock. In fact, Peter Berg’s The Rundown was even known as Welcome to…
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An Actioner So Cheesy It Could Kill the Lactose Intolerant Blows Up on Streaming- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] via 20th Century Fox Every genre needs to evolve and adapt with the times to stay relevant, but that doesn’t mean action junkies can’t hold up the testosterone-fueled days of the 1980s as the best decade there’s ever going to be for cinematic shoot ’em ups, and almost all of them would rank Commando…
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An Unremarkable Ripoff Actioner Unloads a Smoking Gun on Streaming- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] via EuropaCorp If you were asked to name an action thriller co-written and produced by Luc Besson set in, around, and across Europe that featured an aging star playing a retired special agent undertaking one last job in an effort to protect their daughter from unsavory forces, there’s no chance 3 Days to Kill…
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FURIES, A Confused Uber Sleazy Actioner Misses The Mark – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] We all love Ngô Thanh Vân, better known in the West by her professional name, Veronica Ngô. First introduced to savvy genre film fans in the ‘00s through her kickass collaborations with Johnny Tri Nguyen in The Rebel (Dòng máu anh hung) and Clash (Bay rong, one of my very first reviews at this…
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A Gratuitously Gruesome Actioner Hits the Netflix Top 10 in 30 Countries- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] via Lionsgate If you’ve seen The Running Man – the gloriously cheesy 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger cult classic adapted from a Stephen King story and directed by one half of TV’s Starsky & Hutch to hammer home its bizarre credentials – then you’ve got absolutely no reason whatsoever to watch The Condemned. Virtually identical in…