The Equalizer 2 brings back Denzel Washington (Fences), along with director Antoine Fuqua (The Magnificent Seven) and screenwriter Richard Wenk (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back), continuing the further adventures of one man’s quest to...
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back continues the saga borne from the novels by Lee Child of the kick-ass drifter who ends up getting embroiled in yet another plot that requires him to use his abilities...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 24, 2016 · Last modified August 6, 2018
The Magnificent Seven is a remake of a classic Western of the same name from 1960, which itself is a remake of a classic samurai masterpiece, The Seven Samurai, by Akira Kurosawa. Antoine Fuqua takes the director’s...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 26, 2014 · Last modified December 16, 2019
The Equalizer is very loosely based on the hit show from the 1980s, starring Edward Woodward, that ran from 1985 to 1989. This new incarnation ramps up the comic book aspects of its premise and...
by Vincent Leo · Published March 7, 2006 · Last modified November 21, 2019
16 Blocks is a passable time-waster thriller, reminiscent in its plot to the Eastwood flick, The Gauntlet, although darker in execution. Director Richard Donner, who made some of the better cop action flicks of the...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.
