Thursday 14 August 2014

The Expendables 1 and 2

Hello there. Do you like action movies? Do you like films where guys swear, sweat and fire round after round of bullets from guns that shouldn’t really hold that many bullets?


Do you like seeing actors who made great action films in the 1980s grunt and hit people in the face?
Do you love a film where people have knifes kicked into their chest?
Do you adore films where the plot takes a back seat to banner and things exploding?
Come to thing of it, do you like films where guys blow up things for no reason whatsoever but just because the film have a budget for burning things?
Do you like films with macguffins, where guys yell at each other about where the macguffins is and how much time there is until the macguffins explodes?
Do you like jokes made about much better action films from the 1980s and 90s?
Finally do you enjoy films where people are hit with a single bullet but their bodies erupt with a firework of blood that makes it look like Monty Python had a hand in the making of the film?

Riddick

Hello there. The movie world seems to love a bad boy. Sometimes the villains are far more rounded and interesting than the whiter than white good guys. Riddick has to be one of the baddest boys out there. Vin Diesel loves this character and loves playing him. You can tell in the dark joy he brings to the performance.


The first film was a murky, gritty film that seemed to be cut from the same cloth as the early Alien films. The second on the other hand strayed into the Dune neighbourhood. With it’s huge back story and god like planet dwellers.
Some it was a relief that the third film returned to the realm of the first and forgot about the lore of the second for most of its runtime. Riddick against humans and monsters is what these films do best.
Just set up the world and the danger and watch how the crazy eyed killer is going to escape this time.  The other characters in Riddick are good too. Some realistically coarse performances from the crews of two ships set to hunt for the bounty on Riddick’s head.

I’m more than happy that they have said another film is on the way. Time will tell which route they follow.