Blade

Blade

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1998
Horror, Action

When Blade’s mother was bitten by a vampire during pregnancy, she did not know that she gave her son a special gift while dying—all the good vampire attributes in combination with the best human skills. Blade and his mentor battle an evil vampire rebel who plans to take over the outdated vampire council, capture Blade and resurrect a voracious blood god.

I like The Blade trilogy for what it is. It’s just action done with class. The movie has its style, the effects and acting are good and the script is…
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Mad City

Mad City

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1997
Action, Drama, Thriller

A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

Entertaining and well-acted political thriller sacrifices some of its ideas for the easier watching experience, but still leaves you something to think about.
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From Dusk Till Dawn

From Dusk Till Dawn

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1996
Horror, Action, Thriller, Crime

Seth Gecko and his younger brother Richard are on the run after a bloody bank robbery in Texas. They escape across the border into Mexico and will be home-free the next morning, when they pay off the local kingpin. They just have to survive ‘from dusk till dawn’ at the rendezvous point, which turns out to be a Hell of a strip joint.

A classy old school movie from Tarantino. Goes a bit out of control but doesn’t stop the entertainment. You could as well watch it only for Hayek’s dance, heh.
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Escape Plan

Escape Plan

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2013
Action, Thriller

Ray Breslin is the world’s foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He’s framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.

I know Caviazel from the Person of Interest TV series and he is also great in this one. The movie is sharp, fast-paced and not stupid, just like a good…
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The World’s End

The World’s End

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2013
Comedy, Action, Science Fiction

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind’s only hope for survival.

Fun movie when you are out of comedies. Not the best of Edgar Wright, but still has this British style with Nick Frost and Simon Pegg duo.
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Tower Heist

Tower Heist

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2011
Action, Comedy

A luxury condo manager leads a staff of workers to seek payback on the Wall Street swindler who defrauded them. With only days until the billionaire gets away with the perfect crime, the unlikely crew of amateur thieves enlists the help of petty crook Slide to steal the $20 million they’re sure is hidden in the penthouse.

A fun action comedy with the certain patterns of Hollywood, but still having enough of originality to be a good movie on its own. A proper comeback for Murphy, and…
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In Time

In Time

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2011
Action, Thriller, Science Fiction

In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as […]

A good movie from the writer of The Truman Show. Good, but not great. To begin with, the bad guy is very typical. A serious criminal with badass sidekicks in…
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Oldboy

Oldboy

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2003
Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Action

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.

Solid, but overrated movie. Not the best from Chan Wook Park. Technically, his unique style is there, but the movie is just needlessly hysteric, something many Asian films suffer from.…
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Dunkirk

Dunkirk

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2017
War, Action, Drama

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

Amazing achievement in visuals. I watched the whole movie because of it, but it’s not like the movie doesn’t need a better scenario. It does. I understand the idea to…
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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2012
Adventure, Fantasy, Action

Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.

Not quite the same Lord of the Rings. There’s a lot of Americanism in it to please the mainstream, and so it lands among typical Hollywood’s movies.
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