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 From Fantasia 2020: CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI
Tak Sakaguchi (or just Tak as he is now credited) is back once again to unleash all kinds of punishment on many unwitting opponents...
MAAC Review: KUNG FU JUNGLE
Once known as LAST OF THE BEST or KUNG FU KILLER (both very appropriately named), the actual title KUNG FU JUNGLE takes a more...
MAAC Review: Ambulance
Michael Bay brings his brand of Bayhem to the mean streets of L.A. for his latest action thriller Ambulance. Bay’s first film since the...
MAAC Review: Samaritan
Throughout his lengthy career, superstar Sylvester Stallone has played a number of larger than life characters. As part of this he has even found...
MAAC Review: Star Wars – THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
So it has come to this. Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker not only marks the end of the trilogy started four years ago...
MAAC Review: ONE SHOT
In comparison to previous years, 2021 has been a quiet year for Scott Adkins in terms of film releases. This doesn’t mean he 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: JOHN WICK – CHAPTER 3: PARABELLUM
Keanu Reeves returns as the dog living hitman in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. Upping the ante even further than the previous entry,...
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: BIG BROTHER
Domestic and social issues takes precedence over action cinema in Kam Ka-Wai’s well meaning, if somewhat meandering youth drama. Donnie Yen stars as 'Henry...
MAAC Review: GANGS OF LONDON
With the release of The Raid (2011) and its sequel, Gareth Evans proved to be one of the best action directors to emerge in...
MAAC Review: ESCAPE FROM MOGADISHU
To the casual film goers the name Ryoo Seung-wan may not exactly be familiar. Even having directed such action classics as No Blood No...
MAAC Review: Wonder Woman 1984
The seemingly endless Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in countless film releases either being rescheduled or going direct to streaming. One of the most hotly...
MAAC Review: SPEED 4K
I don’t think many would disagree with me in saying that Speed (1994) is a bonafide action classic. Not only did it cement leading...
MAAC Review: BOSS LEVEL
It seems like forever since I remember Joe Carnahan speaking of his latest feature Boss Level. In a way it has been, as Carnahan...
MAAC Review: AVENGEMENT
They have done it again. After working together on recent action classics Savage Dog (2017), Accident Man (2018), The Debt Collector (2018) and Triple...
MAAC Review: MORTAL KOMBAT
It’s hard to believe that it has been 26 years since the release of Paul W.S. Anderson’s Mortal Kombat (1995). While it may seem...
MAAC Review: COPSHOP
After his last feature Boss Level (2020) ended up going the VOD route, Joe Carnahan finally sees his work featuring on cinema screens again...
MAAC Review: Plane
Following on from the disappointing Last Seen Alive (2020), Gerard Butler finds himself on more suitable terrain for action thriller Plane. Coming from Mesrine...