Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "mercenary"

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Cyborg ** (1989, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter, Vincent Klyn, Alex Daniels, Dayle Haddon) – Classic Movie Review 5,932

Jean-Claude Van Damme gives an impressive, entertaining display of martial arts prowess, killing off bad guys with his bare hands, in writer-director Albert Pyun’s tacky, low-budget 1989 American futuristic fantasy martial-arts cyberpunk film Cyborg. The young […]

Aug, 18

The General Died at Dawn **** (1936, Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 5,585

The 1936 American drama film The General Died at Dawn stars Gary Cooper as a mercenary who meets beautiful Madeleine Carroll while trying to keep arms from vicious warlord Akim Tamiroff in war-torn China. Director Lewis Milestone’s 1936 film-noir adventure crime thriller The General Died at […]

Jun, 11

The Wild Geese **** (1978, Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger, Stewart Granger, Jack Watson, Frank Finlay, Kenneth Griffith, Barry Foster) – Classic Movie Review 5489

Director Andrew V McLaglen’s intense, realistic and enjoyable 1978 all-star British blood-and-guts war adventure movie The Wild Geese stars Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Kruger as Colonel Allen Faulkener, Lieutenant Shawn Fynn […]

May, 24

China Gate *** (1957, Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat ‘King’ Cole) – Classic Movie Review 5383

Writer/ producer/ director Samuel Fuller’s 1957 movie is gung-ho war adventure stuff, but with considerable edge and intelligence, in which a French-led multinational group of adventurers attack a Communist ammo dump in Indo-China in 1954. […]

May, 02

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi *** (2016, John Krasinski, Pablo Schreiber, James Badge Dale) – Movie Review

Director Michael Bay’s 2012-set real-life action thriller is a sterling 2016 account of the attack at a US compound in Libya in which the American ambassador is killed. It focuses on the bravery of a six-man American […]

Feb, 10

Deadpool *** (2016, Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Gina Carano, T J Miller, Ed Skrein) – Movie Review

Based on Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-superhero, this exceptionally grown-up and tough toned Marvel movie tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, played by a totally up-for-it Ryan Reynolds. He is […]

Feb, 09

Hard Target *** (1993, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler) – Classic Movie Review 1,723

John Woo’s 1993 action thriller film Hard Target provides Jean-Claude Van Damme with one of his better vehicles, starring as Chance Boudreaux, a homeless Cajun fighting a human hunting operation in New Orleans. Director John Woo’s 1993 […]

Sep, 30

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