Tag: Vin Diesel

To space they go, and thankfully F9: The Fast Saga carries enough of a self-aware wink to make some of the absurdity tolerable - but not all.

The unrelenting cynicism and Vin Diesel's manufactured cool leave Pitch Black overly repetitious.

Bloodshot doesn't want to consider the ethical quagmire behind its story, so aims its attention on hokey action scenes instead.

Loyalty on Trial Vin Diesel plays mobster Jackie DiNorscio in Find Me Guilty. It’s a true story. New York prosecutors sought to take down the mob, DiNorscio defended himself, …

Moral Reality Saving Private Ryan’s greatness comes from confronting war’s cruel lethality. It’s not only gore or the cinema verite camerawork. In among the multitude of expertly threaded small …

Well Guarded It’s a shame to see science fiction played without rules yet stay so close to formula. If director James Gunn waited his entire life to expend creative energy …

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. …

Name the Sequel XXXX During a motorcycle chase partway through XXX: Return of Xander Cage, Chinese martial arts superstar Donnie Yen jumps a transforming motorcycle into the ocean. Giving …

War, Money, Oil, and Brawls If or when Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk functions as intended, the satirically tinged stare down with post-9/11 American war policy has bite. Steve …

Classic Metal On an unassuming October evening in 1957, a giant landed on Earth. On August 8th, 1999, no one went to see that giant’s story in theaters. There …

Hopefully the Last What begins as a hokey, masculine story of fire swords and witches quickly winds down. Last Witch Hunter morphs into an investigation procedural where the undying …

Seven times Faster Inside of his car, falling down the side of a mountain, glass and rocks splintering from the impact, Vin Diesel survives. Not only does he survive, …