Tag Archives: Jason Statham

Fast X review — 10 x dumb, mostly fun

May 19, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Louis Leterrier | Written by Dan Mazeau and Justin Lin | 141 min | ▲▲▲△△ | In Cinemas So, what is my Fast & Furious ranking — I hear nobody ask. I'll get to that, but if you'd like a fuller picture — I did a franchise review on this well-oiled machine about… Read More

Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre review — Fizzy action cocktail, hold the caring

April 22, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Guy Ritchie | Written by Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies | 114 min | ▲▲△△△ | Amazon Prime The painful and much postponed journey of this action comedy from bad boy Brit director Guy Ritchie to the (small) screen might make for a more entertaining picture than this one. Apparently, this awkwardly… Read More

Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw review — Lots of calories, no nutritional value

August 16, 2019 flawintheiris

Directed by David Leitch | Written by Chris Morgan and Drew Pearce | 137 min | Netflix Makes a lot of sense that the stuntman-turned-filmmaker Leitch (John Wick, Atomic Blonde) would be called to extend the Fast & Furious brand in this spin-off. It features two of the three bullet-headed stars of the globally popular… Read More

Reviews from The Vault: Vol. 6 — Quirky Gems

August 7, 2019 flawintheiris

From 2005 to 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, every Sunday morning hosting The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I do now here on FITI. I still have a lot of… Read More

The Meg review — Big, bad shark has no bite

August 27, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Jon Turteltaub | Written by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, and Erich Hoeber, based on the book by Steve Alten | 113 min | Netflix A giant, prehistoric shark movie arriving in late summer? You give it a lot of rope. It's fair to expect a likely ridiculous but a fun time-waster, especially given… Read More

The Fate Of The Furious review — Pistons pop and fizzle

April 16, 2017 flawintheiris

Directed by F. Gary Gray | Written by Chris Morgan, based on characters by Gary Scott Thompson | 136 min We've been promised a final trilogy of movies to take us across this franchise's finish line—and that we even got this far is kind of amazing. This whole shooting match started as a low-budget exploitation picture,… Read More

Spy review — Solid spoofery of espionage entertainment

June 7, 2015 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Paul Feig As I mentioned on Friday, I haven't seen a lot of Melissa McCarthy's films since Bridesmaids, though that one, also with director Feig, was a lot of fun. This one is, too. It functions as a spoof of long-held spy movie tropes while being a genuinely fun action movie. Do… Read More

Furious 7 review — More is more, more or less

April 4, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by James Wan, written by Chris Morgan, from characters by Gary Scott Thompson | Netflix Hot Car: Lykan Hypersport, the $3.4 million supercar. If the successive entries in this increasingly popular franchise have shown us anything it's that more is more. More cars, more stunts, more characters, more arm butter, more slo-mo, more macho attitude,… Read More

In Cinemas. August 15, 2014

August 16, 2014 flawintheiris

I have a real soft spot for Men On A Mission-style movies, and on paper I really like the idea of action legends Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, Jet Li and their buddies getting together to shoot a lot of huge guns. Then why was The Expendables (2010) so dull? I suppose because you can't… Read More

Homefront review

November 29, 2013 flawintheiris

Directed by Gary FlederWritten by Sylvester Stallone, adapting a novel by Chuck LoganYeah, you read that right: Sly Stallone is responsible for this script. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Homefront was at one time imagined as a closing chapter of his Rambo saga, presumably telling the tale of John Rambo's return to the US to… Read More