MAAC Review: TERMINATOR – DARK FATE
With 6 movies, a television series and countless video game tie-ins, The Terminator proves to be the franchise that refuses to die. James Cameron’s...
MAAC Review: GEMINI MAN
Gemini Man has taken a considerable amount of time to reach the screen, dating all the way back to the late 90's. The long...
MAAC Review: BATTLE OF JANGSARI
Korean cinema has a good track record when it comes to war epics. The likes of Kang Je-gyu’s Taegukgi (2004) and Jang Hoon’s The...
MAAC Review: THE CLIMBERS
After the lacklustre Time Raiders (2016), Daniel Lee returns to the director’s chair with the solidly entertaining The Climbers. Putting aside the martial arts...
MAAC Review: TOKYO GHOUL S
Based on Sui Ishida’s popular Manga, the first Tokyo Ghoul (2017) took place in a Tokyo where the population knew of the existence of...
MAAC Review: RAMBO – LAST BLOOD
When we last saw John Rambo, he was finally returning home after a long time away fighting other people’s wars. The final shot of...
MAAC Review: THE INVINCIBLE DRAGON
Fruit Chan’s long delayed The Invincible Dragon finally makes its ways to cinema screens, released on the coattails of Chan’s recent Three Husband’s (2019)...
MAAC Review: ANGEL HAS FALLEN
Production company Millennium Films have been involved with some of the more enjoyable action movies to come out of Hollywood in recent years. Like...
MAAC Review: LINE WALKER 2 – INVISIBLE SPY
Jazz Boon returns to the director’s chair to helm the blistering Line Walker 2: Invisible Spy, an in name only sequel to the popular...
MAAC Review: Netflix’s WU ASSASSINS
For a while now television has been the go to place for martial arts fans looking for quality fight action, with AMC’s Into the...
MAAC Review: KINGDOM
Based on Yasuhisa Hara's popular manga of the same name, Kingdom tells of the early days of famed Chinese general Li Xin (Kento Yamakazi)...
MAAC Review: HOBBS & SHAW
Who would have thought that when director Rob Cohen launched Fast and the Furious (2001) that it would go on to spawn what has...
MAAC Review: THE WHITE STORM 2 – DRUG LORDS
Released in 2013, Benny Chan’s The White Storm was an homage to the heroic bloodshed movies that became popular in the 80’s and 90’s,...
MAAC Review: STUBER
The buddy cop genre has featured some of Hollywood’s finest action movies, especially rising in popularity during the golden period of the 1980's. Titles...
MAAC Review: ESCAPE PLAN – THE EXTRACTORS
Rushed into production before the second film was released, Escape Plan: The Extractors has turned out to be a major improvement on the disappointing...
MAAC Review: SPIDER-MAN – FAR FROM HOME
Coming hot on the heels of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man: Far From Home smartly does not try and emulate the large scale spectacle of...
MAAC Review: SHAFT
Created by novelist Ernest Tidyman, John Shaft was first introduced to cinema audiences with Gordon Park's Shaft (1971). Portrayed by Richard Roundtree, its success...
MAAC Review: DAUGHTER OF THE WOLF
After scoring a leading role in Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire (2011), it seemed a sure bet that Gina Carano would become one of Hollywood’s new...
MAAC Review: THE GANGSTER, THE COP, THE DEVIL
Director Lee Won-tae returns to cinema screens with sophomore effort, The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, a lean and mean action thriller that further...
MAAC Review: SHADOW
After a brief foray into blockbuster filmmaking with The Great Wall (2016), Zhang Yimou finds himself back on more familiar terrain with Shadow (2018),...
