What was the last movie you saw...? Part IV

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Bleeding Steel


In near future a police officer is nearly killed when facing off a Bioroid, a man with a mechanical heart and superior healing abilities while trying to protect the inventor of the technology. 15 years later he tries to protect his daughter who begins to have strange dreams about her past.

A rather strange Hong Kong action movie starring the one and only Jackie Chan.

The plot is bit all over the place and it's bit hard to follow but Jackie still does a great job with the fight scenes that are as good as anything he did 20 years ago.

I think this tries to ride the Marvel movie wave but doesn't really catch it. It's a fun little movie but nothing more.


*  *  ½

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THE BLUFF

A former pirate queen is living a quiet life on a caribbean island with her new family but once her husband is captured by her old pirate partner who she betrayed and comes looking for her and the gold she stole, she has to find a way to fight an entire crew of vicious pirates lead by brutal captain Fransisco Connor to keep her family safe.

Priyanka Chopra does a fair job with the lead and she does put herself through a lot but her Rambo act doesn't quite ring true. However Karl Urban as Captain Connor oozes evil and brutality and he does so with great presense and conviction. Temuera Morrison does another fine role as the first mate, he's been getting a lot roles lately and I do enjoy his work...this is no exeption.

The movie is delightfully brutal, which is not something you'd automatically expect these days especially from an Amazon Prime production. The ending fight has maybe little too many similarities to Rambo: Last Blood, but that can be forgiven.

All in all a very entertaining action movie based on a subject matter there aren't that many movies based upon..part from Pirates Of The Caribbean which are of a different genre all together.

*  *  *  ½

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Goodland (2018)

In the small out-of-the-way town of Goodland, a stranger arrives the same day a body is discovered.  So the local sheriff tries to piece together this strange coincidence.

An interesting little story that kept me watching, despite the fact that there was only a moderate amount of action and no recognizable actors in the film.  9/10

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AFTERBURN

Few years after a massive solar flare has destroyed most of the electronics and thus collapsing the civization a treasure hunter named Jake is hired by the new king of England to find Mona Lisa from now Russian madman controlled France. Over there he is brought into a fight that is not his but one he cannot ignore.

Dave Bautista handles the lead very well and is accompanied by Samuel L Jackson as King August and the beautiful Olga Kurylenko as the french resistance fighter Drea. Norwegian actor Kristofer Hivju does a great job as the ultra bad guy General Volkov.

The action is fast and furious and surprisingly brutal but there's enough humor to lighten things up when needed. The post apocalyptic look is well created as well with use of set pieces more than CGI which is commendable.

I didn't have high expectations for this one based on the reviews but I was very pleasantly surprised and enjoyed it immensly. One of the best new movies I've seen in the past year or so.


*  *  *  *

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Irrational Man (2015)

On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor (Joaquin Phoenix) who is unhappy and somewhat depressed finds a new purpose to his life when he enters into a relationship with an admiring student (Emma Stone).

This fine story by Woody Allen, is not going to go as you expect, and definitely worth a watch.  9/10

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I'm sure movie fans remember Kelly's Heroes. 
Well here is a great clip taken during the making of the film.