Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "one man army"

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Missing in Action ** (1984, Chuck Norris, M Emmet Walsh, David Tress) – Classic Movie Review 10,312

Director Joseph Zito’s 1984 Missing in Action stars Chuck Norris, who chucks himself back into Asian action as Vietnam vet Colonel James Braddock to find men missing in action. Norris is supposed to be an […]

Sep, 16

Commando *** (1985, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya) Classic Movie Review 9496

Director Mark L Lester’s time-passing Rambo-esque 1985 action thriller Commando is a pre-superstardom vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is chucked together, in another of those odd-couple couplings, with Rae Dawn Chong on the trail of […]

Mar, 11

Rooster Cogburn *** (1975, John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Jordan, Anthony Zerbe) – Classic Movie Review 6271

John Wayne re-creates his Oscar-winning one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster J Cogburn act from True Grit (1969) and makes like he is Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (1951) romancing the one and only Hepburn as feisty spinster […]

Nov, 19

Hardcore Henry **** (2015, Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky, Haley Bennett, Tim Roth) – Movie Review

Breathtaking, breathless, bizarre guilty pleasure Hardcore Henry will gross out many people and needs to come with a health warning. And here it is. It is an extremely violent movie with non-stop bloody brutal violence and […]

Apr, 10

Death Wish *** (1974, Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia) – Classic Movie Review 2722

British director Michael Winner’s slick and gritty but unpleasant 1974 vigilante revenge thriller Death Wish finds Charles Bronson in his most famous performance as the initially nice New York City architect Paul Kersey. But he […]

Jul, 19

John Wick **** (2014, Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe, Adrianne Palicki, John Leguizamo, Ian McShane) – Classic Movie Review 2,286

Keanu Reeves stars in the 2014 action thriller film as the ex-hitman John Wick, who comes out of retirement to fight a one-man war against the gangsters who steal his car and kill his dog, […]

Mar, 20

Taken ***** (2008, Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 2199

Liam Neeson is great as retired CIA agent Bryan Mills, who travels to France and uses his old skills to save his 17-year-old estranged daughter Kim (Maggie Grace, actually 25), when she is kidnapped with her friend while on a […]

Feb, 22

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