Sharlto Copley

Oldboy (2013)

Oldboy (2013)
Rating: ★
Nov 29, 2013Imprisonment and Revenge
Spike Lee's English-language remake of the ultra-violent Korean revenge film is an abortion. Park Chan-Wook directed the original with an insane energy, whereas Lee only delivers a formula action film. While the script is surprisingly faithful to the original, it signposts everything in a way that blows the big twist ending
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Maleficent (2014)

Maleficent (2014)
Rating: ★★
May 31, 2014Live-Action Prequel to Disney's Sleeping Beauty
Another in the early 2010s fad for fairytales rewritten as dark adult fantasy films – in this case, a version of Disney's Sleeping Beauty (as opposed to the original fairytale version) told from the viewpoint of the witch. Nicely produced, not much substance – the most interesting parts are when it gets to mess around with the fairytale
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Chappie (2015)

Chappie (2015)
Rating: ★
Mar 7, 2015Artificial Intelligence/Robot Becomes Self-Aware
Neill Blomkamp's film about A.I. turns into Short Circuit dropped into the militarised future of RoboCop. Of all the rich possibilities in the idea, all we get is a goofy comedy with a pimped-out carjacking robot
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Hardcore Henry (2015)

Hardcore Henry (2015)
Rating: ★★★½
Apr 16, 2016Cyborg/First Person Action Film
The most intense kick of pure adrenaline in some time. Imagine a version of The Six Million Dollar Man shot First Person Shooter style by hyper-adrenalised parkour junkies dragging the audience through a series of death-defying stunts
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The Last Days of American Crime (2020)

The Last Days of American Crime (2020)
Rating: ★★
Jun 19, 2020Near-Future Heist Film/Action Film
This belongs to a dying genre of film these days – the action film, which has almost entirely vanished from screens in the 2010s. This is a heist film set against the backdrop of a near-future USA where a group of criminals are preparing a last big caper before the activation of a mind control device that will make crime impossible
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