2010s / Science Fiction / Western
by Vincent Leo · Published August 1, 2011 · Last modified January 6, 2020
An extremely loose, glossy adaptation of the relatively obscure 2006 independent studio graphic novel of the same name by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys & Aliens isn’t the first mash-up of Westerns and science fiction (Westworld, Wild Wild...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published July 21, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2018
I am of a mind to think that I should just write one review to cover all of the Michael Bay Transformers series, as the strengths and weaknesses are virtually identical in each respective film. It...
1980s / Action / Science Fiction / Sports
by Vincent Leo · Published July 3, 2011 · Last modified December 11, 2023
Between 1977 and 1985, Stephen King published five novels as “Richard Bachman”. Four were reworked from manuscripts he’d written in high school and college during the 1960s and found languishing in a trunk that...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published June 7, 2011 · Last modified June 12, 2019
Mostly set in the pre-Bay of Pigs Cold War era (early 1960s), X-Men: First Class governs the origin of the X-Men, to be led by Professor Charles Xavier (McAvoy), and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants,...
2010s / Action / Mystery / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 7, 2011 · Last modified July 10, 2018
Oh, how to relate the plot? Jake Gyllenhaal (Prince of Persia, Jarhead) stars as Air Force Captain Colter Stevens, a U.S. pilot in the War in Afghanistan who finds himself inhabiting the body of a...
2010s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 6, 2011 · Last modified January 6, 2020
The Adjustment Bureau is the latest Hollywood adaptation of a Philip K. Dick work, this time of one of his short stories, “Adjustment Team” (one presumes the title was changed to ‘Bureau’ to make the...
2010s / Action / Martial Arts / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published February 28, 2011 · Last modified February 6, 2020
For anyone who ever watched the original Alien and wondered what might happen if the deadly Alien encountered a group of Earth’s elite warriors rather than a hapless commercial vessel full of average joes, we finally...
1980s / Comedy / Romance / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published February 23, 2011 · Last modified January 14, 2019
One of Steve Martin’s (Sgt. Pepper, The Jerk) funniest films, and one which he would co-write. His third collaboration with writer-director Carl Reiner (The One and Only, Fatal Instinct), The Man with Two Brains casts Martin as renowned...
2000s / Horror / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published February 16, 2011 · Last modified March 28, 2019
One of several 2001 straight-to-cable “Creature Features” remade (in name only) from a nearly equally corny American International Pictures flick from the 1950s, How to Make a Monster starts its film with children game testing the...
2000s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published September 1, 2010 · Last modified February 22, 2019
Surrogates is based on Robert Venditti’s comic book miniseries from 2005, which depicts a futuristic society in which the military has conducted wars through the use of “surrogates”, or humanoid robots that are fully controlled...
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.
