Showing posts with label Frank Grillo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Grillo. Show all posts

Saturday, August 26, 2017

Wolf Warrior II Improves On The Action Of Its Predecessor But Still Remains Too Generic

For my American readers, it's likely you haven't even heard of Wolf Warrior II, but if you're a resident of China, well, the odds are good you're very much acquainted with this motion picture due to the massive box office success it's experienced in China. Breaking box office records left and right in its home country of China, Wolf Warrior II has become the biggest movie of all-time in China and has amassed the second largest box office sum ever accumulated by one movie in one country, only behind the $936 million grossed by Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the U.S. in 2015. Already one of the ten biggest movies of the year at the worldwide box office, Wolf Warriors II is a phenomenon.


Friday, July 22, 2016

The Purge: Election Year Is A Majorly Forgettable Piece Of Action/Horror Satire

The first Purge movie back in 2013 was a blah movie that was heavy on trite storytelling and low on genuine scares while 2014's The Purge: Anarchy, was a so-so voyage into a Purge night that expanded the narrative scope from its predecessor with some lackluster characters and one or two truly inventive sequences. I wish The Purge: Election Year managed to even hit the moderate hits of that previous entry in this series, when it is instead a major step down in form that's surprisingly low on memorable action or scares.