What is this? American filmmaker Takashi Doscher embraces his Japanese heritage with this actioner produced by Chad Stahelski, set in a future Manhattan, starring Teo Yoo (Past Lives), Isabel May
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… an entertaining mess of ideas …
6.8
… more successful as an exuberant exercise in genre pastiche than as a story that leaves a lasting emotional impression.
Actress, filmmaker and martial artist Maria Tran completes a blazing Aussie-shot action trilogy with the upcoming release of Five By Five and Echo 8 Beyond. With more than fifteen years
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... will thrill the small group of hardcore fans who already love it and leave everyone else profoundly bewildertained.
8.5
… a striking, original and utterly compelling game …
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Imaginative and kinetic...
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… delivers plenty of well-choreographed gunfire and fighting, occasional humour, and a few priceless scenes …
4.7
… a nearly plotless, depth-avoiding machine that takes good ideas and bludgeons them to death with repetition, repetition, repetition.
In this regular column, we drag forgotten made-for-TV movies out of the vault and into the light. This week: the 1977 superhero flick and TV series pilot The Amazing Spider-Man,