The Purge (2013)
I wish there were a day every year that we, the audience, could just purge all of the memories of films like this. The premise: In the near future, the United States’ government has...
2010s / Action / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published June 8, 2013 · Last modified July 23, 2018
I wish there were a day every year that we, the audience, could just purge all of the memories of films like this. The premise: In the near future, the United States’ government has...
With a convincing rasping wheeze, Samuel L. Jackson (Home of the Brave, Snakes on a Plane) shows off that he has range beyond playing a bad-ass with Resurrecting the Champ, a well-acted but rather formulaic story...
Filmed way back in 1999, The Third Wheel was kept in movie limbo for many years, finally seeing some theater action in Europe in 2002, years before heading straight to video in the US in 2004. ...
The Vagrant is another of those “suburban nightmare” flicks that came out in the 80s, only a few years too late. Had it come sooner, it might have found a modest audience for those who...
2000s / Action / Comedy / Martial Arts / Sports
by Vincent Leo · Published July 19, 2001 · Last modified March 13, 2019
For purposes of this review, I screened the Hong Kong release in the original Cantonese. It contains approximately 22 minutes of additional scenes, dialogue and different music. I have not seen the dubbed US...
With Honors is a comedy dealing with a Harvard law student (Fraser, The Scout) whose academic career seems bleak when his computer crashes, deleting his hard drive, and along with it, his thesis that he had spent...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.