Soldier (1998)
Apr 29, 1999Programmed Soldier Becomes Self-Aware
Kurt Russell gives a fine performance as a programmed soldier who discovers emotions but under Paul W.S. Anderson the rest of the big-budgeted film collapses into over-inflated cliches
Impact Pictures
The Hole (2001)
Nov 1, 2002Imprisonment and Subjective Truth Psycho-Thriller
British psycho-thriller about teenagers trapped inside a bunker. This does an interesting mid-film twist to offer an entirely different version of the story but in the end never rises above a middle-of-the-road handling
DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)
Nov 10, 2006Videogame Adaptation/Combat Tournament
Videogame adaptation that emerges as a conceptual combination of Charlie’s Angels (2000) – a trio of girls, in kickass poses and jaw-droppingly scanty costumery – and Mortal Kombat
Death Race (2008)
Nov 22, 2008Future Prison/Gladiatorial Road Races
Paul W.S. Anderson's remake of Death Race 2000 strips the satire from the original and turns it into a modern action movie - a to-the-death car chase film set in a prison
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Sep 21, 2010Videogame Adaptation/Post-Holocaust Zombies
Four films in and clear evidence that the Resident Evil series needs to be retired. This consists of tediously borrowed action moves now presented in 3D and a plot of random dead ends that make little sense
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Sep 24, 2012Videogame Adaptation/Complex of Zombies and Mutants
Another unnecessary entry in a creativity-handicapped series, the continuing popularity of which is baffles. This shuffles through the familiar moves, brings back several familiar characters but only leaves me asking why I have invested some nine hours of time following this series