Tag: Dwayne Johnson

Asinine, ridiculous, and infinitely fun, G.I. Joe Retaliation better gets the brand than the previous film.

Someone’s Overcompensating It figures that in this current and cursed timeline, something like Hobbs & Shaw speaks sensibly. As a brazen, idiotic, muscle-driven action flick, it’s necessary to spell …

Rock Top Two quirks define Dwayne Johnson’s muscled character, Beck, in The Rundown. One, he’s an aspiring chef. By Rundown’s end, it’s assumed that passion led to him opening …

Tall Man There’s much to extract from the slim frame of Walking Tall. Minus the end credits, the total film weighs in at 73 minutes, enough time for Dwayne …

Smash, Boom, Bam Never is Rampage intelligent or smart. It covers the stupid with plenty of boom-boom, crumbling buildings, and monster brawling though. That’s what the entrance fee is …

Let’s Go Monstering No one speaks an intelligent word through all of Rampage. Rather, they blabber on about corporate badness, genetic gobbledygook, and hoo-ra America militarism. Oh well. At …

Jungle Hopping In those moments where Jumanji isn’t over explaining itself, there’s a story with a high moral center. Four high school kids, neatly fitting into standard archetypes, get …

No Watch There’s one overlapping joke in Baywatch – the lifeguards seem unaware they’re not cops. It’s like The Munsters, where the family lives in bliss, oblivious to ther …

Furiosa The Fate of the Furious shot its opening scenes in Cuba, no small feat considering the slew of political sanctions that left the country void of American presence. …

Island Life Considering Disney, Moana is quaint in its antiquated formula – an inspiring story of self-purpose set off by tragedy and loss, starring a lead character looking for …

Intelligent Design Full disclosure: This Blu-ray was provided to us for review. This has not affected the editorial process. For information on how we handle review material, please visit …

Faulty San Andreas features a body count somewhere in the millions, a multitude of those deaths insinuated, some not. As with any blockbuster disaster cinema, audiences are meant to …