The kind of sleek, precisely constructed genre work that’s gone missing from American summer movies. NO TEARS FOR THE DEAD is yet another...
Category - Action
Action
The Villainess (2017), an ambitious whirlwind that just misses its target, but it’s a helluva ride.
The Villainess is an action film that simultaneously echoes the spirit of 90s Asian action movies, the cinema of Park Chan-wook and even Euro crime...
Action
The hardcore violence at heart the story’s a fairly straight forward investigative mystery, The Bad Guys: Reign of Chaos (2019).
A good recommendation for making people scream and laugh out of excitement, particularly due to creative stunts and escape ideas. Unfortunately not...
Ashfall is very much a disaster film with a touch of extra, so the music is epic in spots and the cinematography shows the disaster loud and clear...
Action
Berlin File (2013), A highly underrated action thriller from South Korea set in the German city of Berlin, off all places.
As soon as “The Berlin File” takes flight with its exhilarating action set pieces, memories of any muddles evaporate amid the tension and...
Action
Well constructed, suitably dark and dangerous and filled with well-honed, visceral scenes, The Man from Nowhere (2010)
The man might be from nowhere but this film could only come from Korea, the land of a million stories of revenge. South Korea may just be the most...