Dave Bautista

The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)

The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 20, 2012Martial Arts/Shaw Brothers Homage
RZA of rap group Wu-Tang Clan fame (with the aid of Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino) makes a dual acting/directing appearance with this homage to Shaw Brothers martial arts films … not quite the genuine article but a solid effort where RZA certainly doesn't embarrass himself
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Riddick (2013)

Riddick (2013)
Rating: ★★★
Sep 6, 2013Planetary Survival
The third Riddick film abandons the dark space opera of the less popular Chronicles of Riddick and tries to return to the planetary survival story of Pitch Black. Despite the effort showing at times, the film gets to be a good deal of fun when it gets to the scenes of Riddick outwitting the mercenaries
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Rating: ★★★★
Aug 2, 2014Marvel Comics Adaptation/Space Opera
A triumphal Marvel Comics adaptations that manages to mainline the spirit of the original Star Wars, while in in its wryly, self-deflating culture savvy suggesting a Star Wars rewritten by a 14 year-old Quentin Tarantino
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Spectre (2015)

Spectre (2015)
Rating: ★★
Nov 14, 2015James Bond Film
The fourth Daniel Craig James Bond film welcomely resurrects one of the great nemeses from the series past – only to fall flat on its face. This is a Bond film severely hampered by a director unattuned to the classical elements of the series and the need to cripple everything by giving Bond backstory and character development
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L.A. Slasher (2015)

L.A. Slasher (2015)
Rating: ★
Aug 8, 2017Killer Stalks Hollywood
One of the worst films I've seen in some time. The idea of a killer targeting all that is talentless in Hollywood has some satiric amusement but it is a plotless incoherent film delivered in a series of MTV visuals that feel like whatever was going through the director's coke-addled mind on the day
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The Warriors Gate (2016)

The Warriors Gate (2016)
Rating: ★
Oct 2, 2017Videogamer Transported to Ancient China
Luc Besson written/produced effort where a videogamer kid is transported to Ancient China. A blatant copy of The Forbidden Kingdom that manages to be fundamentally implausible on every level and one of the worst attempts to pander to the Chinese box-office
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 (2017)

Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 (2017)
Rating: ★★
May 20, 2017Marvel Comics Adaptation/Space Opera
Guardians of the Galaxy was an audience winner with its eccentric humour and effortless charm; this sequel feels buried under bloated production overkill where the charms of the original remain thinly drawn
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Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Rating: ★★★★½
Jan 6, 2018Cyberpunk Future/Androids
Blade Runner is a landmark classic but this is well worthwhile sequel from Denis Villeneuve that recreates the fascinating Cyberpunk world in more detail and expands out on the themes laid down in the original. Made with impeccably beautiful detail
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Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Rating: ★★
Nov 3, 2018Marvel Comics Superhero Team-Up
Marvel’s third Avengers film, uniting almost every superhero under their roof, resulting in some thirty characters on screen and a plot that becomes a blur of changing locations and superheroic punch-ups
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Hotel Artemis (2018)

Hotel Artemis (2018)
Rating: ★★
Sep 15, 2019Near-Future Hospital for Criminals
This comes with the promising set-up of the setting of a socially collapsing near-future L.A. where Jodie Foster is a disgraced medic who runs an off-the books hospital that treats the criminal underworld.
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Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Rating: ★★
Aug 10, 2019Marvel Comics Superhero Team-Up
Marvel conclude the cliffhanger they left Avengers: Infinity War on and offer up a bigger-than-big line-up, overspilling with just about every MCU character to ever appear on screen up to that point
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Dune Part One (2021)

Dune Part One (2021)
Rating: ★★★★
Oct 30, 2021Desert World/Intergalactic Politics/Precognitive Messiah
Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic SF novel comes with a determination to give the story and its richly detailed world faithful life on screen. Villeneuve adapts freely in many areas but gets the complexity of the saga
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3 (2023)

Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3 (2023)
Rating: ★★★
Jul 15, 2023Marvel Comics Adaptation/Space Opera
Third of the Guardians of the Galaxy films, this successfully recaptures the nature of the goofy ensemble comedy caper that made the first film such a winner but seemed to be missing in the second
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Dune Part Two (2024)

Dune Part Two (2024)
Rating: ★★★★
Apr 20, 2024Desert World/Intergalactic Politics/Precognitive Messiah
The second part of Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic SF novel Dune, this delves more deeply into the world of the Fremen, although starts to diverge more from the book
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