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: One-Percent Warrior
Unlike his previous actioner Crazy Samurai Musashi (2020) where he took on 400 opponents, Tak Sakaguchi has downsized his adversaries for his latest starring...
MAAC Review: XXX – RETURN OF XANDER CAGE
A three-quel to a franchise that nobody really asked for, XXX: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE somehow finds a way to make it justifiable for...
MAAC Review From Fantasia 2020: SPL – SHA PO LANG (2005)
While there are only a handful of martial arts movies showing at the festival this year, the good people at Fantasia 2020 have made...
MAAC Review: MAX CLOUD
The recently released Max Cloud is a clear change of pace and style for leading man Scott Adkins, with his latest being a full...
MAAC Review: THE RAID 2-BERANDAL
WOW. What can I say? This is probably the MOST VIOLENT FILM I have ever seen. In a GOOD WAY though! The first 1/3...
MAAC Review: Sakra
With all the publicity surrounding his supporting role in John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023), many martial arts fans may not have realized that Donnie...
MAAC Review: A Legend
I had heard really bad things about the Jackie Chan vehicle A Legend before viewing it. To be honest, I didn’t find it half...
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 BIG UGLY
I had first become aware of director Scott Wiper through the film A Better Way to Die (2000) which he not only wrote and...
MAAC Review: Hidden Strike
Finally released on Netflix, Hidden Strike is a film I never thought would see the light of day. Entering into production roughly 5 years...
MAAC Review: Carry-On
After the commercial failure of his DCEU entry Black Adam (2022), director Jaume Collet-Serra has scaled down for his newest feature, action thriller Carry-On....
MAAC Review: Eye For An Eye 2
Coming on the heels of the first movie, Eye for an Eye 2 continues the saga of blind swordsman Cheng Yazi (Xie Miao), with...
MAAC Review: ENTER THE FAT DRAGON
It would seem that Donnie Yen never sleeps. It was only a few months ago that he was gracing our screens with Ip Man...
MAAC Review: The Killer
Now 35 years old, John Woo's The Killer (1989) is still heralded as one if the best action films ever made. A bona-fide masterpiece,...
MAAC Review: THE WANDERING EARTH
After saving Africa from terrorists in Wolf Warrior 2 (2017), Wu Jing ups the stakes in The Wandering Earth with the whole world now in...
MAAC Review: KICKBOXER – RETALIATION
KICKBOXER: RETALIATION takes place one year after the events of 'Kickboxer: Vengeance'. Kurt Sloane (Alain Moussi) has left the illegal underground fighting behind him....
MAAC (Spoiler) Review: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Picking up roughly where Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) left off, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness once again finds our titular hero...
MAAC Review: Wolf Pack
Every time there’s a new Zhang Jin/Max Zhang film I get somewhat excited. For years he has been impressing me with his extreme martial...
MAAC Review: VANGUARD
Originally scheduled for release at the start of the year before being delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Stanley Tong’s Vanguard has finally secured...
