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ActionFest Film Review: 13 Assassins (2010)
…h-blah until you get to the hack-slash. The story was interesting for a little while, but the film is 141 minutes long with no action until the end! The Action Chick requires more Actiony sustenance than that! I would definitely recommend 13 Assassins because of the incredible end action scene, but get your fast forward ready or suffer a long, long wait before you get to the good stuff. Action Rating: 1 ½ Assassins, out of 5 This is the Action Fli… Continue reading
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Tagged 13 Assassins, Action Film Festival, Action Flick Chick, action movie, Actionfest, foreign, Goro Inagaki, independent film, Japanese film, Koji Yakusho, Lord Naritsugu, Samurai, Shinzaemon, Shogun, Takashi Miike
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ActionFest 2011 Preview: 13 Assassins (2010)
This year at ActionFest 13 Assassins will be having its regional premiere! Sunday to be specific, and I will be there to bring you reviews some of the films. This film is about 13 assassins who are sent on a suicide mission to kill an evil lord. Sounds simple enough to satisfy me. Be prepared to read, though, as this is a foreign film with subtitles. However, if this is a good action film, we shouldn’t be reading very much! I’ll let you know. Dir… Continue reading
Best Assassin-Protagonist Movie? with Game of Death (2011) DVD Giveaway
…echanic.” · Harold Burman: Bourne trilogy and Long Kiss Goodnight. But the assassins stopped being assassins, a la memory loss, so not sure they count. · Christoffer Andersson: Léon (or The professional, whatever title you’re accustomed to). Saw it the first time when I was 12 years old and since then I’ve had an undying crush on Natalie Portman · Alex Langley: None. They’re all the same… Not really, but a lot of them are really, really similar. ·… Continue reading
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Wanted (2008) Bullets, Rat Bombs, and Angelina Jolie
…, “I’m sorry.” Best Suicide: Big Spoiler Alert: Toward the end, all of the assassins are standing in a circle with McAvoy in the middle and are faced with a decision to either kill McAvoy or maybe themselves. Right as they are about to fire on McAvoy, Jolie shoots first. Instead of killing McAvoy, she curves a bullet so that it goes around the whole circle going through every assassins head. Meanwhile, time slows down and she throws McAvoy a gun t… Continue reading
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Tagged * Comics *, action, Angelina Jolie, Assassin, assassins, Bend Bullets, Chris Morgan, Common, Derek Haas, Guns, J. G. Jones, James McAvoy, Mark Millar, Michael Brandt, Morgan Freeman, Partial Nudity, R-rated, sexuality, strong bloody violence, suspense, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann, thriller, Timur Bekmambetov, Universal Studios, Wanted
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Accident Man (2018): An Explosive Display of Stunts and Farts
…up getting her once warm, alive heart devitalized by one of Mike’s fellow assassins. He ditches his all-business approach to work and gets personal to find out who killed his ex-girlfriend so he can enact his no-so-accidental revenge. The hitmen society leader, Big Ray (Ray Stevenson), calls for all hands on deck to make the Accident Man look like an accident. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t go well for them. Accident Man is a stunt performer’s movie…. Continue reading
Posted in * all movie reviews *, 3.5 kabooms, action, movie, R-rated
Tagged Accident Man, Accident Man Cast, accident man netflix, Accident Man Trailer, action, action chick, Action Flick Chick, Amy Johnston, Brooke Johnston, Michael Jai White, movie, R-rated, Ray Park, Ray Stevenson, Ross O'Hennessy, Scott Adkins, violence
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Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday (2022): Is This Vacation Worth Taking?
…for Mike keeping her son, Dante (George Fouracres), safe from the army of assassins after him. Again, Mike must fend off some of the world’s greatest hitmen, only this time he’s doing it with the power… of friendship! Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday pours a welcome dose of comedy into the fertile soil of its action, growing an oasis for action lovers. Much like the sun allows verdant leaves to bloom, the fight sequences illuminate the experienced… Continue reading
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Tagged Accident Man 2, Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday, Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday spoilers, action, action chick, Action Flick Chick, Beau Fowler, Flaminia Cinque, George Fouracres, Hitman's Holiday, Hitman's Holiday review, killer clown, movie, Perry Benson, R-rated, Sarah Chang, Scott Adkins, Stu Small, Viking Samurai, violence
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Don’t Believe the Buzzard: Wanted 2 Production Proceeds Minus Angelina Jolie
…o learns his father was the world’s greatest assassin and a brotherhood of assassins called the Fraternity want to recruit and train him to kill people that Fate has determined should die. In the end, every killer gets killed except for Wesley and his father’s weaponsmith (Terrence Stamp). The Fraternity’s leader Sloan (Morgan Freeman) and the woman who recruited Wesley into the Fraternity, Fox (Angelina Jolie), both die from gunshots to the head…. Continue reading
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Interview: Amber Hale, Supermodel (Zuda Competitor)
…ruining the whole comic, but I can’t. But I can say we’ll find out who the assassins are and why they’re after her. Lewis: Amber is one of Black Halo’s essential characters. She represents all of us who don’t understand ourselves and who are searching for that missing element to explain our existence. We’ll see Amber’s “abilities” come out more. Although she’s not artificial in the sense of cyborgs with mechanical parts that enhance their physical… Continue reading