Flatliners (1990)
Flatliners is a difficult film to pigeonhole. It’s sci-fi, but not really, and it’s horror, but not really that either. It’s more like a supernatural drama/thriller that dabbles with the question of the afterlife,...
1990s / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 1, 2015 · Last modified April 22, 2019
Flatliners is a difficult film to pigeonhole. It’s sci-fi, but not really, and it’s horror, but not really that either. It’s more like a supernatural drama/thriller that dabbles with the question of the afterlife,...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published November 21, 2014 · Last modified February 6, 2020
The Hunger Games films veer off into a different direction with Mockingjay, Part 1, as we no longer have a highly televised arena featuring combatants battling to the death so much as a battle for the people...
1980s / Horror / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published November 19, 2014 · Last modified July 14, 2020
The plot: Set sometime in the near future, we follow a crew of eight on the last few days of their stint working for a deep-sea silver mining operation off the coast of Florida....
2010s / Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published November 7, 2014 · Last modified January 5, 2019
Like most superhero projects that are put up on the big screen, Disney’s Big Hero 6 has its origins from the world of comic books, though this take is very loosely adapted from its inception in...
2010s / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published September 20, 2014 · Last modified November 13, 2019
YA adaptations are really beginning to make me Y-A-W-N. Yet another attempt to mine from a series of sci-fi dystopia Young Adult novels in order to try to replicate the box office success of...
2010s / Romance / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published August 24, 2014 · Last modified March 21, 2019
The One I Love is one of those movies that will likely hold an extra amount of enjoyment going in without any sort of knowledge, so if you haven’t seen it yet, and you like...
2010s / Action / Comedy / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published August 1, 2014 · Last modified July 4, 2018
Peter Quill (Pratt, The LEGO Movie) was a young boy in 1988 when he was abducted by an alien spacecraft flying overhead. He has spent the next few decades working as a ‘junker’ as part of...
2010s / Action / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published July 19, 2014 · Last modified July 23, 2018
The first The Purge had been one of the surprise hits of 2013, earning $64 million on a $3 million budget. What it had was its interesting concept. What it lacked was the budget to really...
1960s / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published July 13, 2014 · Last modified March 22, 2019
Charlton Heston (The Omega Man, Tombstone) stars as American astronaut George Taylor, who is returning back to Earth from a mission that has aged them six months, though many years have actually passed on the...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published June 27, 2014 · Last modified August 13, 2018
It’s becoming more difficult by this fourth entry in the Transformers series to criticize it when it delivers exactly what its fans expect, namely, incessant explosions, sparkly bits, gratuitous cheesecake, and a plot and dialogue written...
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.