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One-Line Review: Battle Drone (2018), starring Louis Mandylor and Dominique Swain

October 28, 2020 by Peter Schaefer in Reviews

Aggressively sexist and passively racist, Battle Drone fails in every respect except inspiring me to rewatch The Losers, the excellent 2010 alternative to the inferior The Expendables.

October 28, 2020 /Peter Schaefer
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One-Line Review: Kill Order (2017), starring Chris Mark

October 24, 2020 by Peter Schaefer in Reviews

The fight scenes are excellent, as one should expect of a professional stunt man and martial artist directed by a former stunt man, but the script and acting and irrelevant women leave everything to be desired.

October 24, 2020 /Peter Schaefer
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One-Line Review: Real Steel (2011), starring Hugh Jackman and Dakota Goyo

October 02, 2020 by Peter Schaefer in Reviews

This film shamelessly stole the plot of Stallone’s 1987 Over the Top, replacing arm wrestling with giant robot boxing but keeping the unearned emotions and false tension.

October 02, 2020 /Peter Schaefer
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One-Line Review: Project Power (2020), starring Jamie Foxx, Gordon Joseph-Levitt, and Dominique Fishback

September 24, 2020 by Peter Schaefer in Reviews

The great setup—five minutes of superpower from pills mysteriously appearing on the street—is marred by nonsensical “animal genetics” explanations, and by the woman-as-objective that remains so common in stories.

September 24, 2020 /Peter Schaefer
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One-Line Review: Angel Has Fallen (2019), starring Gerard Butler

September 20, 2020 by Peter Schaefer in Reviews

Angel Has Fallen is so basic you’d think Michael Bay directed it.

September 20, 2020 /Peter Schaefer
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One-Line Review: Green Room (2015), starring Anton Yelchin and Joe Cole

September 19, 2020 by Peter Schaefer in Reviews

Green Room is a top-of-the-line modern horror movie that reminds us that the real monsters are Nazis and Patrick Stewart.

September 19, 2020 /Peter Schaefer
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One-Line Review: Realive (2016), starring Tom Hughes

September 19, 2020 by Peter Schaefer in Reviews

“Ours is one hell of a love story,” the main character says at the end, trying to convince itself and us that its frequent, affectless narration and muddled messages don’t make this movie very, very boring.

September 19, 2020 /Peter Schaefer
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