David Leitch
Three of the biggest headliners this year’s SXSW Film Festival are action movies, featuring some of the craziest fist fights seeen on the big screen.
Five assassins aboard a fast-moving bullet train find out their missions have something in common.
Jake Tropila chronicles his top ten action films of the last decade.
Overlong, overblown, and painfully unfunny at times, Hobbs & Shaw is a misguided endeavor that struggles to offer a sense of fun.
While popular franchise films utilizing meta-humor still perform well, the longevity of this approach remains unclear as both the Deadpool and Lego franchises are trending slightly downward at the box office.
In Hobbs & Shaw, lawman Luke Hobbs and outcast Deckard Shaw form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-genetically enhanced villain threatens the future of humanity.
Though struggling with its initial attempts to find its footing, Deadpool 2’s overall sense of exuberance and self-aware nonsensicality is still evident throughout, showcasing both David Leitch’s talent to direct action and Reynolds’ commitment to his character.
Atomic Blonde may be sloppy in structure, but it is oozing with immaculately executed action and a finely tuned performance by Theron.
Charlize Theron isn’t abandoning the action genre after the success of Mad Max: Fury Road, taking on a violent, self-sufficient woman with all her appendages intact in Atomic Blonde.