The Marksman (2021) - Movie Review

Yep. It’s another Liam Neeson movie. Only a couple months after the last one. But what ultimately made me check it out was how, upon reading up on it, I learnt that this isn’t just the latest Neesonsploitation flick. It is also an attempt to crossbreed the overused-set-of-skills of a modern Neeson B-movie… with a Clint Eastwood movie.

Polar (2019) - Movie Review

There are many ways in which a filmmaker can screw up an action flick. Making the hero unconvincing as an action lead, making the villain unconvincing as a viable threat, making the action scenes incoherent or just plain dull to sit through, making the dialogue stringing the action together flat or threadbare, or just making the production as a whole uninteresting. In a genre built on viscera and heart-racing engagement, being boring to sit through is the worst thing an action film can be. Enter this film, which manages to one-up all of that. It’s not just boring; it’s so bafflingly constructed that it should rationally stumble into being interesting purely by accident, and yet can’t even manage to get that far.