Rescue Dawn: The Missing . . . Ingredient
When assessing the relative worth of a drama, the first and final test I apply is directed at my own limbic system . . .
Action Reviews
- Batman Begins: Another Miracle Maker
- Batman Begins: Deep Themes & Loads of Fun
- Batman Begins: High Expectations
- Batman Begins: Once Upon a "Kapow"
- Casino Royale: Best Bond Ever
- Fantastic Four: Cosmic Rays Are Thicker Than Water
- Heat: What's Around the Corner
- Kingdom of Heaven--The Director's Cut: A Journey of Faith
- Miami Vice: Janus Cried
- Mission Impossible III: Plausible Impossibilities
- Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Learning to Dance
- National Treasure: A Real Find
- Pirates of the Caribbean--Dead Man's Chest: "Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'"
- Pirates of the Caribbean--Dead Man's Chest: Thrills and Chills Inside
- Rescue Dawn: The Missing . . . Ingredient
- Sin in the City
- Spider-Man 3: An Error in Judgment
- Superman Returns: Flying, but Not Soaring
- Superman Returns: Salvation in Tights
- Superman Returns: Save You, Save Me
- Superman Returns: Why the World Needs Superman
- The Bourne Identity: Iron Sharpens Iron
- The Bourne Ultimatum: Nausea and the Ethics of Cinematic Violence
- The Peacemaker: A Bit of Grey, Right in the Middle, on Top of the Fence
- Transformers: Nostalgia Lite
- Unleashed: For Freedom Set Free
- V for Vendetta: A Beautiful Way to Die?
- V for Vendetta: Ideas Are Bulletproof
- V for Vendetta: Mohammed and Me . . . and Masks
- V for Vendetta: SubVersive Vindication
- Batman Begins: Batman is Boring
- Casino Royale: Brutality and Reality vs. Emotion
- Mission Impossible III: The Quickening
- Superman Returns: An Immoral Hero
- The Bourne Supremacy: Good Spies, Bad Spies, Amoral Spies
- Three Formulaic Films, Three Different Results
cinekklesia :: Action
March 11, 2008The Bourne Ultimatum: Nausea and the Ethics of Cinematic Violence
If a movie makes a large percentage of its viewers physically ill, can it still be considered a success?
The Bourne Identity: Iron Sharpens Iron
This movie suggests that the journey towards self-knowledge requires intimate community.
The Bourne Supremacy: Good Spies, Bad Spies, Amoral Spies
Just because we don't see the dirty work done in our name doesn't mean we have clean hands.
Transformers: Nostalgia Lite
'Nuff said.
Spider-Man 3: An Error in Judgment
The third film illuminates the power that professional success has to blind oneself to anyone's situation but his own . . .
Casino Royale: Brutality and Reality vs. Emotion
An effort has been made to humanize and emotionalize James . . .
Casino Royale: Best Bond Ever
In Royale, we finally see our hero as a flesh-and-blood man . . .
Superman Returns: Why the World Needs Superman
Despite what we are, what we want to be is Superman . . .
Unleashed: For Freedom Set Free
Louis Leterrier's flick tells a tale of bondage and redemption enlivened by a number of spectacularly choreographed brawls . . .