Thomas Kretschmann Archives

The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)

Rating: ★★½

Sep 18, 2000Giallo Psycho-Thriller

One of the less effective films in the oeuvre of Dario Argento. Another giallo thriller, this has the same flourishes of style in sporadic moments but the plot is even more confusing than usual

Director: Dario Argento

Actors: Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi

Category: Horror

18 September 200026 February 2026 by Roog

Prince Valiant (1997)

Rating: ★

Apr 27, 2003Sword and Sorcery/Comic-Strip Adaptation

The classic comic-strip receives a disastrous film adaption where director Anthony Hickox plays everything for campy silliness

Director: Anthony Hickox

Actors: Stephen Moyer, Katherine Heigl, Joanna Lumley, Thomas Kretschmann, …

Category: Fantasy

27 April 200316 June 2022 by Roog

Blade II (2002)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 29, 2002Comic-Book Vampire Hunter

Blade was a solid vampire/action film but the sequel is a quantum leap over that, a visually kinetic and immensely exciting comic-book of a movie thanks to the employment of Guillermo Del Toro in the director’s chair

Director: Guillermo Del Toro

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Leonor Varela, Norman Reedus, …

Category: Horror

29 July 200210 February 2022 by Roog

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

Rating: ★★

Oct 18, 2004Videogame Adaptation/City of Zombies

The first of the Resident Evil sequels and a better film than its predecessor, getting in a series of spectacular, if at times ridiculously silly, action sequences

Director: Alexander Witt

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, …

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

18 October 20047 November 2023 by Roog

King Kong (2005)

Rating: ★★★★★

Dec 15, 2005Giant Ape

Peter Jackson's dream project, a remake of the 1933 film, and his finest work as a filmmaker. Jackson builds the original out considerably and his command of the effects gives us something quite dazzling

Director: Peter Jackson

Actors: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 December 200528 May 2026 by Roog

Rohtenburg (2006)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 31, 2006True-Life German Cannibal

Film based on true-life German cannibal Armin Meiwes who met a man online and by mutual agreement killed and ate his body

Director: Martin Weisz

Actors: Thomas Kretschmann, Keri Russell, Thomas Huber

Category: Horror

31 December 200631 August 2023 by Roog

Next (2007)

Rating: ★

Sep 9, 2007Precognition/Action Film

This adapts a Philip K. Dick story and then throws it out to make a generic action film with Nicolas Cage as a psychic. All the potential of its idea is lost amid a series of ridiculous plot twists

Director: Lee Tamahori

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 September 200718 January 2025 by Roog

Wanted (2008)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 9, 2008Super-Assassins/Action

The film that Hitman should have been concerning a secret world of super-powered assassins, revved up by out of this world visuals from Timur Bekmambetov

Director: Timur Bekmambetov

Actors: James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Marc Warren, …

Category: Fantasy

9 October 200827 December 2024 by Roog

Cars 2 (2011)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 23, 2011Pixar Animation/Talking Vehicles

Sequel to Pixar’s Cars. While the original was a cutely appealing concept with a gentle contemplative message, this plays as more of an out-and-out spy caper making a virtue of its international locations

Director: Brad Lewis, John Lasseter

Actors: Larry the Cable Guy, Owen Wilson, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, …

Category: Fantasy

23 June 201124 March 2020 by Roog

Hostel Part III (2011)

Rating: ★

Jan 21, 2012Sadism and Torture

Third in the Hostel series, an indifferent piece of formula hackwork minus Eli Roth where suspension of disbelief is constantly being disrupted by absurdly contrived scenes

Director: Scott Spiegel

Actors: Kip Pardue, Brian Hallisay, John Hensley, Thomas Kretschmann, …

Category: Horror

21 January 201219 March 2026 by Roog

Dracula (2012)

Rating: ★

Apr 8, 2013Dracula Adaptation

Hard to describe what an utter disappointment Dario Argento's take on the oft-filmed Bram Stoker work is. Argento seems to have entirely lost the mojo and visual flair that made him a cult name. Thomas Kretschmann makes for the screen's mellowest Dracula

Director: Dario Argento

Actors: Thomas Kretschmann, Asia Argento, Rutger Hauer

Category: Horror

8 April 201314 October 2025 by Roog

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Rating: ★★½

May 2, 2015Marvel Comics Superhero Team-Up

The first Avengers film came with a massive anticipation in seeing the characters come together and the snappiness of their interplay; here this seems more flat, while the rest is overrun by wall-to-wall action

Director: Joss Whedon

Actors: Robert Downey Jr, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 May 201521 November 2025 by Roog

Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)

Rating: ★★½

Aug 30, 2015Videogame Adaptation/Action

The second film based on the videogame, more a reboot than a sequel. This is far closer to the game than the earlier film and emerges as the superior of the two due to a slick action movie polish

Director: Aleksander Bach

Actors: Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware, Zachary Quinto, Ciaran Hinds, …

Category: Science Fiction

30 August 201516 March 2026 by Roog

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 9, 2023Adventure Film

At age 80, Harrison Ford returns for what looks like being the last ever Indiana Jones film. It’s not perfect but when you compare to all the other contemporary franchises, this still has the good old adventure spirit

Director: James Mangold

Actors: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Antonio Banderas, …

Category: Fantasy

9 September 202317 April 2026 by Roog

Last Sentinel (2023)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 3, 2023Drowned Future

Film set in a Waterworld styled drowned future aboard a mid-ocean platform between two warring sides. A film that almost entirely exists in terms of finely tuned psychological tensions

Director: Tanel Toom

Actors: Kate Bosworth, Thomas Kretschmann, Lucien Laviscount, Martin McCann

Category: Science Fiction

3 December 20234 December 2023 by Roog