An absolute bog-standard revenge flick elevated by some genuinely good and nastily violent fight scenes alongside a very solid performance by the always excellent Denzel Washington. The character he plays is a slightly odd mix of self-help guru, a do-gooder in a world gone wrong, and a completely cold-blooded killer who has a certain set of skills. As such, it could have been easy to play McCall winking to the camera, nodding to the absurdity of the premise as he…
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A Mighty Wind 2003
Probably my favourite of the Christopher Guest films that I’ve seen so far. That’s not just due to the Spinal Tap reunion as Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer star as The Folksmen - they do have great comedic chemistry and they riff off each other so well - but this one also felt like it had more emotional stakes, and by the end I was oddly invested in the relationship between Eugene Levy’s Mitch and Catherine O’Hara’s Mickey.
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Men of Honor 2000
Quite enjoyable, even if it has the look of a 1990's TV movie and is a rather old fashioned biopic. Cuba Gooding Jr and Robert De Niro are both good in this, but neither are excellent, perhaps due to a slightly lacklustre script. Considering the real life story on which it is based is quite amazing, it is a shame they did not do anything that new or interesting with it.
On a side note, the female supporting characters (the…
