Barb Wire (1996)
Barb Wire starts off with an inspired but bewildering inclusion of Gun’s cover of Cameo’s funk classic “Word Up!” while Pamela Anderson Lee (“Baywatch”) dances around, displaying her well-crafted assets, and you’d begin to...
Barb Wire starts off with an inspired but bewildering inclusion of Gun’s cover of Cameo’s funk classic “Word Up!” while Pamela Anderson Lee (“Baywatch”) dances around, displaying her well-crafted assets, and you’d begin to...
1990s / Action / Horror / Superhero / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 24, 2003 · Last modified April 30, 2019
Reportedly, director Sam Raimi wanted to film the old comic hero, The Shadow, but couldn’t get the rights, so he created a darker, more bleak version in Darkman. It’s much darker than its big-screen predecessor...
2000s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 20, 2000 · Last modified March 29, 2019
Red Planet is the fourth attempt in the last year to try to make the same storyline work and come up short. Supernova, Pitch Black and Mission to Mars all dealt with an Earth-mission to another planet, only to have...
1990s / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published January 22, 1999 · Last modified March 29, 2019
The crew of a tug boat take refuge from a storm in a seemingly abandoned Russian ship. Terror erupts when they find themselves besieged by a mutating and murderous alien life form intent on...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 3, 1997 · Last modified February 9, 2019
Based more or less on the book and film The Day of the Jackal, this film stars Bruce Willis (The Fifth Element, Beavis and Butthead Do America) as the international terrorist know as the Jackal, who...
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.