The 5th Wave (2016)
Chloe Grace Moretz stars as Ohioan teenager Cassie Sullivan, who we first meet in a post-apocalyptic world fighting for her survival. We flashback to how this world came to be, starting with the appearance...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published January 23, 2016 · Last modified November 13, 2019
Chloe Grace Moretz stars as Ohioan teenager Cassie Sullivan, who we first meet in a post-apocalyptic world fighting for her survival. We flashback to how this world came to be, starting with the appearance...
2010s / Comedy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published November 12, 2015 · Last modified December 11, 2019
Monty Python’s Terry Jones directs and co-scripts this silly special effects-driven comedy, reportedly inspired by an H.G. Wells story (“The Man Who Could Work Miracles”), that delivers on a few decent laughs, but not...
1980s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published June 27, 2015 · Last modified July 29, 2020
Despite never experiencing the ocean growing up, Cameron became fascinated with marine science after ravenously watching TV documentaries by Jacques Cousteau, getting dive certified at the age of seventeen. He attended weekly lectures at...
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 / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published June 6, 2014 · Last modified July 31, 2018
Tom Cruise in another big-budget science fiction vehicle that’s not easy to readily separate from one of his other recent releases (Oblivion, War of the Worlds, Minority Report), but don’t let its familiar premise or generic...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published November 1, 2013 · Last modified November 13, 2019
Ender’s Game is based on the popular, award-winning novel by Orson Scott Card first published in 1985, set in Earth’s future in which the human race has survived its first alien attack from a...
1980s / Action / Adventure / Horror / Science Fiction / War
by Vincent Leo · Published September 2, 2013 · Last modified August 30, 2019
A leaner-than-customary Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Major “Dutch” Schaeffer, who, along with his crew of elite special ops commandos, is sent to the jungle of a hostile Latin American country on a covert hostage...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published June 16, 2013 · Last modified July 16, 2018
Director Zack Snyder (Sucker Punch, Watchmen), Dark Knight trilogy producer Christopher Nolan and screenwriter David S. Goyer (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Jumper) return Superman on the big screen, and that’s not an easy task to do for a...
1970s / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 21, 2013 · Last modified August 18, 2019
A benchmark science fiction film, Alien is a simple premise but given profound and complex treatment. It’s also one of the scariest horror films of it (or any) era, and though its Oscar-winning visual effects...
2010s / Horror / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published June 8, 2012 · Last modified June 20, 2019
A great science fiction film that disappoints by not delivering enough on its first hour’s initial promise, or the first chapter of an epic masterpiece series? Time will tell. Either way, fairly serious and...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.