G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra (2009)

G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra (2009)
Rating: ★★
Aug 25, 2009Futuristic Military Action Team
Stephen Sommers make a film based on the popular action toy line. Barring one exhilarating sequence in the middle, this consists of lots of sound and CGI fury amounting to very little at all

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Rating: ★★
Jun 30, 2011Live-Action Transformer Robots
The third of Michael Bay's Transformers films. While the human scenes opt for a ghastly miscalculated sense of humour, the effects houses are at the peak of their game, even if Bay allows them to drag the mass destruction out to a numbing excess

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Rating: ★★
Mar 27, 2013Futuristic Military Action Team
You can't complain that this is not exactly what you expect it to be – two hours of cartoonish action during which the brain singularly fails to engage. This is less unapologetic about being a military fantasy than the first film

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
Rating: ★★
Jun 28, 2014Live-Action Transformer Robots
Are there any new creative directions that Michael Bay feels he he has to explore for a fourth Transformers film? All the Transformers beating the crap out of each other and copious mass destruction has become hard to tell one of the films from each other

Dead Rising: Watchtower (2015)

Dead Rising: Watchtower (2015)
Rating: ★★
Jul 26, 2023Zombie Film/Videogame Adaptation
Dead Rising was another zombie survival horror videogame from the creators of Resident Evil. Although nowhere near the popularity of the Milla Jovovich films, this was the first of two films based on the game

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Rating: ★½
Sep 23, 2017Live-Action Transformer Robots
The fifth of Michael Bay's Transformers films. This comes with more of an outright comedy focus than any of the other films where Bay seems to be second-guessing his critics and spoofing his own peccadilloes in quote marks, only to produce the silliest entry in the series yet

Replicas (2018)

Replicas (2018)
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Mar 17, 2019Scientist Clones His Dead Family
Whatever you want to say about his acting ability, Keanu Reeves represents a cool and has smarts in the projects he takes on. So when he takes a producing role as here, you feel it is a project you should pay attention to. Instead, the cloning film that he makes is absolutely laughable and should contend for an award for the SF film with the least plausible science in it

Pet Sematary (2019)

Pet Sematary (2019)
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Jul 5, 2019Resurrection of the Dead/Stephen King Adaptation
Remake of the Stephen King novel that opened to very divided reaction. The surprise about the film is bar one central aspect it is surprisingly faithful to the book. On the other hand, the changes make the crucial difference

Doom: Annihilation (2019)

Doom: Annihilation (2019)
Rating: ★★
Oct 6, 2019Videogame Adaptation/Labyrinth of Monsters
This was the second film based based on the Doom game and actually does a far better job of getting the essence of the game and paying fanservice to its elements than the earlier 2005 film did