Allegiant (2016)
At this point in the Divergent series, the makers have decided that they have little chance of actually coming out of the shadow of the Hunger Games series to be thought of as anything more than a blatant...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 19, 2016 · Last modified February 6, 2020
At this point in the Divergent series, the makers have decided that they have little chance of actually coming out of the shadow of the Hunger Games series to be thought of as anything more than a blatant...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published May 15, 2015 · Last modified May 4, 2019
Film critics appear to be going mad for Mad Max: Fury Road in a way I don’t quite understand, even if I feel that it does deliver the goods, action-wise, with sufficiency. It’s wacked-out fun, and...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 2, 2015 · Last modified August 9, 2018
The Divergent series is like that stick of chewing gum you popped into your mouth before a big meeting that you keep chewing on long, long, long after the flavor has gone. You want to spit...
2010s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 23, 2014 · Last modified November 13, 2019
Comparisons will immediately be drawn between Divergent and The Hunger Games, as both are dystopian sci-fi film series based on a trilogy of young adult novels written by women, featuring teenage female protagonists in an action-thriller scenario...
2010s / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published June 3, 2013 · Last modified January 6, 2020
M. Night Shyamalan’s downward spiral with critics seemingly started with The Village, only for him to respond by making himself the hero and a film critic a heavy in his next film, Lady in the Water,...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published June 7, 2011 · Last modified June 12, 2019
Mostly set in the pre-Bay of Pigs Cold War era (early 1960s), X-Men: First Class governs the origin of the X-Men, to be led by Professor Charles Xavier (McAvoy), and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants,...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.