Assorted recommendations inspired by the multifarious sequel.Sorry, Marky Mark, but you’ve already got a car-based franchise.
By the time you’re done watching The Fate of the Furious, you’re likely to have forgotten some of its distinctly differing parts. The sequel begins as one thing then becomes another and another and another, delivering a thrilling mix of action sequences that don’t quite fit together as a fluid and cohesive whole.
I was reminded of a number of dissimilar movies while watching the eighth Fast and the Furious installment, so this week’s list of recommendations could be an even more mixed assortment than usual. But I have no interest in prescribing bad-tasting medicine like The Game Plan in response to Dwayne Johnson’s soccer dad scene. I’m also ignoring Jason Statham’s cheeky insult reminding Johnson and us all of his dumb Hercules movie.
Instead of going with the usual chronological trip...
By the time you’re done watching The Fate of the Furious, you’re likely to have forgotten some of its distinctly differing parts. The sequel begins as one thing then becomes another and another and another, delivering a thrilling mix of action sequences that don’t quite fit together as a fluid and cohesive whole.
I was reminded of a number of dissimilar movies while watching the eighth Fast and the Furious installment, so this week’s list of recommendations could be an even more mixed assortment than usual. But I have no interest in prescribing bad-tasting medicine like The Game Plan in response to Dwayne Johnson’s soccer dad scene. I’m also ignoring Jason Statham’s cheeky insult reminding Johnson and us all of his dumb Hercules movie.
Instead of going with the usual chronological trip...
- 4/14/2017
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
After having the idea about time-travelling assassins, Rian Johnson then got Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt to play two versions of the same hitman. 'I go to unexpected places,' admits the director
Rian Johnson likes breaking cycles, tearing up patterns. His first film, Brick, looked like a high-school movie, but spoke like a detective story. It was Dashiell Hammett enrolling at Sweet Valley High.
"I go to unexpected places," says Johnson, who's buzzing around a hotel room in uptown Toronto, hyped up on the rave reviews that have greeted his new film, Looper, which just opened the city's film festival. "Going outside of the genre you're working in always seemed like a good way of infusing it with some new jazz."
Johnson's jazz blows wild and free right from Looper's first note. It opens with a crescendo: three tense minutes that stake its claim as one of the...
Rian Johnson likes breaking cycles, tearing up patterns. His first film, Brick, looked like a high-school movie, but spoke like a detective story. It was Dashiell Hammett enrolling at Sweet Valley High.
"I go to unexpected places," says Johnson, who's buzzing around a hotel room in uptown Toronto, hyped up on the rave reviews that have greeted his new film, Looper, which just opened the city's film festival. "Going outside of the genre you're working in always seemed like a good way of infusing it with some new jazz."
Johnson's jazz blows wild and free right from Looper's first note. It opens with a crescendo: three tense minutes that stake its claim as one of the...
- 9/21/2012
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
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