hazelhawks
Bio: Is it good? (How good?) Do I like it? (How much?) Am I drunk? (So fucking what?)
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| 83 89% | River (2023) - Rated 20 Aug 2024
"whimsical and absurd bittersweet comedy more about the passing of time than time travel. Fun stuff steeply rooted in Japanese culture. Makes me wanna go there."
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| 56 38% | Parker (2013) - Rated 16 Aug 2024
"I liked it despite looking like half the film ended up on the cutting room floor. For that reason Parker is more disappointing than bad. Should have been one of Statham's best."
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| 63 52% | Charlotte and Her Jules (1960) - Rated 13 Aug 2024 |
| 23 4% | Bad Boys (1995) - Rated 12 Aug 2024
"Some of the most garbage dialogue I've ever heard in a movie. It's like Smith and Lawrence purposefully avoid telling each other what they need to know to make the task at hand far more difficult than it has to be and instead just yell at each other for half the movie. Worst banter ever. The comedy element might have worked if Smith's character WAS a closeted homosexual...that would have been clever, like some screwball French comedy."
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| 79 82% | Drug War (2013) - Rated 08 Aug 2024
"Fast paced but not action packed. Reminds me of earlier Milkyway Image pics like Longest Nite (one of my favorites) and Expect the Unexpected, but far more mature and nowhere near as playful. The film gives nothing outside the procedural narrative and the police were so matter of fact about the events in play that the ending kind of left me cold. It was brilliantly shot to be sure, but I wasn't convinced of Choi making the decision he did given his intense desire to survive."
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| 75 75% | Enter the Fat Dragon (2020) - Rated 05 Aug 2024
"Very loud, very funny, very Wong Jing. Irreverent, old-school, madcap action comedy doesn't care about your feelings, or anything else other than putting as much action as it can on screen. Watching Donnie Yen scale buildings fighting countless Yakuza while wearing a goofy looking fat suit is a sight to behold. Why they had to steal the title from an old Sammo Hung pic is beyond me - but also very Wong Jing."
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| 55 36% | The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) - Rated 23 Jul 2024
"rewatched. Unlike the first 2 Bournes, this doesn't hold up under repeat viewings - nothing feels organic. The plot is built around ridiculous coincidences and contrivances. The antagonism between Strathairn/Allen feels like a forced version of Allen/Cox from Bourne 2. The killing of a journalist in Waterloo - c'mon. Stiles showing up in Madrid - c'mon. Bourne comes and goes for convenience, etc... Brain turned off, its breakneck pace and brutal action entertains, but nothing more."
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| 77 79% | Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) - Rated 22 Jul 2024
"rewatched. That reunion was intense even before Urquidez showed up. All the men seemed so unhappy. Maybe reunions are like that. And I admit big hair has never been my thing but GPB Minnie Driver might be top 5. Nowhere near Salma in Desperado but still..."
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| 76 78% | The Bourne Identity (2002) - Rated 22 Jul 2024
"rewatched. Loved Bourne's disappearing act in Marseille - makes me laugh every time I see it. Also, of all female characters in male-driven actioners, Potente's Marie is as fully realized as any. She's so genuine that she almost deserves to be the point of view for the story. I say this despite the fact that I don't really like the character at all. Her self-involved gypsy schtick is very unappealing, but Potente nails it."
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| 88 94% | The Bourne Supremacy (2004) - Rated 22 Jul 2024
"rewatched. Maybe the best of the contemporary actioners."
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