For anyone looking for a sense of script (forget plausibility), Empire is a Trojan horse.. A grand yarn with a sense of the weight of history and an awareness that the winners are often those who have lost the most.. The mere existence of 300: Rise of an Empire is worthy of note, especially the inventive means by which the story has been advanced.. The spectacularly brutal fighting is the film's main...
To End All Wars (2001) Online Streaming
. A vivid but uneven film.. . More grueling than rewarding.. An ensemble effort that recalls other great POW movies, Wars boasts many superb performances.. ... 0243...
Utopia (2015) Play Streaming
The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography,...
Stalingrad (2013) Download Movie
Without much charge and even less depth.. This is so generic as storytelling that it fails even as a basic history lesson: it's hard to believe that the stock conflicts on-screen have any connection to real events.. An inspiring, rousing tribute to the heroic, history-changing Tuskegee Airmen and World War II movies of the '40s, "Red Tails'' would probably be acclaimed as a minor masterpiece if it...
The Last Legion (2007) Watch Streaming
In The Last Legion, Rome doesn't fall. But it does look like it would rather be lying down and taking a nap.. Ultimately, The Last Legion isn't horrible, certainly not bad enough to keep it away from critics, which its distributors have unfortunately done.. I have too much respect for Kingsley and Firth to believe they did this for anything other than the money, and to their credit, they give their...
American Sniper (2014) Play Streaming
A shrewd and very well-made picture.. American Sniper romanticizes Kyle, whose bestselling memoir, which put him on talk-show appearances, included boastful stories of dubious authenticity. What remains is distilled and dramatized, a story of loss, the story of the universal soldier.. There's a difference between a film about a man reluctant to acknowledge the psychological toll of what he endured...
Red Dawn (2012) Full Movie Streaming
Indecently exploits 9/11 and throws in autism and canver for unscrupulous measure.. Could be fun, you might think. No. Bad acting and worse dialogue quickly put an end to that notion.. North Koreans? Falling from the sky? Seriously?. Just really, really lame, right down to the Communist symbols that adorn the revised Stars and Stripes.. Take that, screaming North Koreans with no agenda!. Scenes are...