Now You See Me 2 (2016)
The makers of the deliberately vapid and highly superfluous Now You See Me 2 have chosen to fully embrace the dumbness of its premise, going full bore into just trying to make it ridiculous to the...
The makers of the deliberately vapid and highly superfluous Now You See Me 2 have chosen to fully embrace the dumbness of its premise, going full bore into just trying to make it ridiculous to the...
Taken in December of 1970, the photograph of the meeting between President Richard Nixon and superstar entertainer Elvis Presley is the most requested among all photographs in the National Archives. Not much is known...
2010s / Action / Drama / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published October 4, 2015 · Last modified July 25, 2018
Emily Blunt (Into the Woods, Edge of Tomorrow) stars as FBI agent and SWAT team member Kate Macer, whose services are voluntarily enlisted in helping out a mysterious group of black ops law-enforcement agents headed...
2010s / Comedy / Drama / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published December 27, 2013 · Last modified July 31, 2018
Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island, Shine A Light) directs the Terence Winter (Get Rich or Die Tryin’, “Boardwalk Empire”) adaptation of the best-selling memoir from multimillionaire stock broker Jordan Belfort, turning it into the closest thing...
2010s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published July 1, 2013 · Last modified July 9, 2018
Bridesmaids director Paul Feig returns for another female-centric raunchy comedy and, for the most part, manages to strike gold yet again, at least in terms of generating requisite memorably funny moments. If you want an...
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...
Keanu Reeves (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, A Walk in the Clouds) plays former college star quarterback Johnny Utah, now an FBI agent, whose latest case is to crack a string of Southern California bank...
1990s / Action / Comedy / Martial Arts
by Vincent Leo · Published August 14, 2007 · Last modified February 25, 2019
Consul Han’s (Tzi Ma, Chain Reaction) 11-year-old daughter is kidnapped and held for a $50 million ransom. The FBI are on the case, but he flies in an old friend and police inspector named Lee...
Al Pacino plays a Seattle college professor and part-time FBI forensic psychiatry expert, Jack Gramm, who made a name for himself as the chief witness for the prosecution in the death penalty case against...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 11, 2007 · Last modified February 11, 2019
Mel Gibson (Lethal Weapon 2 & 3) stars as multimillionaire Tom Mullen, who built his airline fortune from the ground up. Despite allegations that he paid off people in order to stay in his business, he...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.