MAAC Review: Mr-9: Do Or Die
The character of Masud Rana may not be instantly recognizable to U.S. audiences, but he has been featured in over 450 books since his...
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: GODZILLA – KING OF THE MONSTERS
After the debacle that was Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla (1998), it took Hollywood over fifteen years before they would take another stab at the Big...
MAAC Review From Fantasia 2020: THE PAPER TIGERS
The martial arts films shown at Fantasia 2020 have featured lone Samurai’s taking on 500 men, MMA musicals and Donnie Yen battling police corruption....
MAAC Review: Unstoppable
Director Kim Min-ho makes his directorial debut with Unstoppable (2018), a kidnap thriller that is like an everyman version of Taken (2008). Korean cinema...
MAAC Review: Take Cover
While he may have appeared in the recent The Killer's Game (2024), Scott Adkins fans may have been disappointed by how limited his screen...
MAAC Review: The Tai Chi Master
It’s ironic after reviewing the recent Striking Rescue (2024) that my follow up film would be co-directed by the same director. I didn’t know...
MAAC Review: Fast X
The world’s best street racers are back again to save the world in Fast X, an enjoyably silly adventure that turns out to be...
MAAC Review: The Man From Toronto
Having turned recently to more dramatic fare in Fatherhood (2021) and True Story (2021), Kevin Hart is back in comedy mode for his latest,...
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: We Die Young
After his stellar work in The Bouncer (2018), Jean-Claude Van Damme returns with We Die Young (2019), another small scale feature that focuses more on...
MAAC Review: Bodies At Rest
Discounting the derided Cutthroat Island (1995), Renny Harlin directed some of the better Hollywood blockbusters of the 90’s. The likes of Cliffhanger (1993), The...
MAAC Review: Fist Of The Condor
Chilean action star Marko Zaror will no doubt be known amongst martial arts fans, but to the casual viewer he will be less known....
MAAC Review: ABDUCTION
Scott Adkins, the hardest working man in action cinema, returns once again with Abduction, an enjoyably silly sci-fi actioner from director Ernie Barbarash and...
MAAC Review: Project Wolf Hunting
Around a decade ago, writer/director Kim Hong-sun brought us the crime thriller Traffickers (2012). Like his most recent feature, sci-fi actioner Project Wolf Hunting,...
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: 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: Carter
Director Jung Byung-gil made some waves amongst action aficionados some years back with cult actioner The Villainess (2017). The film worked as a perfect...
MAAC Review: NIGHTSHOOTERS
Cheap low budget British action fare where a crappy film team doing a cheap low budget zombie movie gets into trouble when witnessing some...
MAAC Review: Kraven The Hunter
After 6 (mostly awful) films, Sony’s Spiderverse is finally coming to an end with the release of Kraven the Hunter. The release of J.C....
