Bringing us back not so long ago to the fateful 2013 Boston Marathon comes Patriots Day, a thriller-oriented re-enactment of the events that transpired, with some embellishments to help the project commercially. One of those embellishments...
Deepwater Horizon depicts the events leading up to and during what would eventually become the worst oil spill in the history of the United States, where the titular drilling rig, the largest in the world...
Will Ferrell (A Deadly Adoption, Get Hard) stars as New Orleans smooth jazz ratio station exec Brad Whitaker, who has a loving wife in Sara (Cardellini, Avengers: Age of Ultron), and two stepchildren who haven’t quite...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published June 27, 2014 · Last modified August 13, 2018
It’s becoming more difficult by this fourth entry in the Transformers series to criticize it when it delivers exactly what its fans expect, namely, incessant explosions, sparkly bits, gratuitous cheesecake, and a plot and dialogue written...
2 Guns is a meat-headed buddy action comedy that sports a few twists and turns, and a smattering of solid yuks, but fails to truly connect due to Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur’s lack of...
2000s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published June 15, 2008 · Last modified January 6, 2020
If I had thought, even for one second, that writer-director M. Night Shyamalan was making a spoof of end-of-the-world sci-fi thrillers from the 1950s, I might give The Happening much more credit than I’ll be...
“Marky Mark” Wahlberg must have been kicking himself in the fanny after passing up the chance to be in the immensely entertaining Steven Soderbergh heist flick, Ocean’s Eleven. His commitment to the critically panned remake...
by Vincent Leo · Published October 26, 2002 · Last modified April 4, 2019
I’ve often referred to movies as “half-baked” but it’s a rare instance when I find one that I can label as “over-cooked.” The Truth About Charlie is one of those instances. It’s actually quite a shame...
Chalk this up as another in Vince’s seemingly never-ending list of guilty pleasures. I suppose it should be said that a great deal of why I give Rock Star as good a review as I...
2000s / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published July 28, 2001 · Last modified March 22, 2019
Remaking one of the best sci-fi films of all time was bound to be an arduous task, and the fact that this new incarnation of Planet of the Apes is pretty solid entertainment even if it...
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.
