Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
I’m not altogether sure what it is in Nicolas Cage’s relationship with producer Jerry Bruckheimer that keeps him coming back for more, but I wish it would stop. After having to endure the slick...
I’m not altogether sure what it is in Nicolas Cage’s relationship with producer Jerry Bruckheimer that keeps him coming back for more, but I wish it would stop. After having to endure the slick...
2000s / Action / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published June 3, 2000 · Last modified March 22, 2019
A thousand years from now, the dreaded alien race known as the Psychlos, take over Earth and submit those few remaining human beings to prison and slave labor, raping the Earth for its resources...
Chon Wang (Chan) — which not so coincidentally sounds like John Wayne — is an Imperial Guard in China, sworn to protect the Emperor and his family. Princess Pei Pei (Liu) is kidnapped and Chon joins...
Sandra Bullock plays a newspaper columnist who is forced to enter a drug rehab facility or face going to jail after she steals a limo and ends up in an accident. While there, she...
There’s always a lot of natural tension when a movie takes place in a submarine. There’s the fact that what little air and space the men on board have is precious, and any of...
BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER is of the type of comedy that annoys me the most, the type of comedy that tries to achieve laughs merely from tossing together eccentric characters and putting them in...
They may be ready to rumble, but they sure weren’t ready to make a movie. A couple of septic tank cleaners are dismayed when their hero, WCW champ Jimmy the King (Platt), loses a...
A soon-to-be retiring Marine (Jones) is called upon by a Colonel (Jackson) who saved his life under dubious circumstances in Vietnam. Colonel Terry Childers was sent into Yemen to rescue the American ambassador (Kingsley) and his...
2000s / Action / Martial Arts / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 28, 2000 · Last modified April 2, 2019
War erupts between Oakland’s rival African-American and Asian-American crime families when the son of an Asian kingpin is found dead after crashing a Black club. Han Sing (Jet Li), brother of the deceased, escapes...
Libby Parsons (Judd) is convicted for the murder of her husband, Nick (Greenwood), while on a boating trip. She lets her best friend (Gish) adopt her young son while she goes to prison, but when her...
Reviews from film writer Vince Leo, covering all eras and genres of films from classics to the latest releases.
Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.