Agree. Quantum is such a fustrating watch for me because it has a great story and memorable bits (like the one you mentioned or the opera house scene, Olga Kurylenko and Arteron) burried under Marc Foster's slap-dashed direction and the overedited action scenes.

Also Johnnie To's Exiled has one of the most over-the-top, ridiculous yet amazingly cool shootouts in cinematic history where the protagonists kick up a soda can, and inbetween the time it falls down they gun down about 30 people in a haze of gunfire, smoke, and blood spurts. It's the type of stuff you only see in…

Nowdays when every more light-hearted franchise is getting the "dark and gritty" reboot, this film is a very freshing reminder what it's like when that take actually has meaning and depth to it. Martin Campbell already displayed a take-no-prisoners and screw-the-clichés attitude with Goldeneye (another Bond favorite…

Not much, although the action is pretty good.

SPL is not only a great, fast-paced, gritty and memorable action film but also without a doubt the single best thing that happened to Donnie Yen's career. Before this film both him and Hong Kong action cinema was in quite a struggle with Yen having many flops in the late 90's (he almost went bankrupt after his…

Watched Baby Driver and it was a fantastic, enthralling and joyful experience that half the time I was waching it with a big dumb grin on my face. I always liked Edgar Wright and sincerely believe this his finest work since Hot Fuzz. Although there is less focus on his trademark visual humor this time, the whole film…

Watched Ryan Gosling's directorial debut Lost River which was mangled by critics when it came out. And while it certianly has the flaws of debuts (overshooting amibitions, self-indulgence, right ammount of tone) I enjoyed it as a wierd, messy yet emotional mixture of later-year Malick, Refn and David Lynch with some…

Agree. I love that film and Nolan, but man he should have broken his own rules and hire a second unit for the fistfights.

Bryan Mils jumping a fence. Done with 20 cuts. Now that's the stuff of nightmares.

The reason why the shakey cam is effective in the Greengrass Bourne's is because he knows how to use it an actual effect. Which means not covering up for choppy choreography and always inserting wider shots inbetween to maintain a sense of geography. What other directors got out from it: "Wow I can just shake the…

Took me a long time, but finally got my ass into the theater and watched Wonder Woman. And it's good. In fact it's really damn good, not just by the DC movie standards. Especially liked the WW1 setting and how the horrors of war clashes with Diana's black-and-white idealism resulting in a better origin story than 90%…

This column continues to be the highlight of my Fridays, with every well written piece making me revisit these classics. I haven't seen Kill Bill on the big screen when it first came out, but when my brother got it on DVD, I was hooked.The blood-spraying, limb-slicing, eye-gouging action was both horrfying yet awesome…

This series is more known for the chaotic, shakey-cam and hectically edited style that Greengrass brought into it with Supremacy (and he's the only one wh can actually make it intense instead of annoying) which makes Identity and its direction all the more underrated. The overall feel of is very much rooted in the…

Nah, already went down that road years ago when my brother had a copy of Silver Slide Up. Never have I ever wanted more badly for him to finally move out.

I don't know whether it speaks about me or the months lineup that the only album that excites me is the Roger Waters album. Okay King Gizzard sounds really good too.

Watched Alien:Covenant and…I liked it? Or I would say I liked certain parts of it. The production design was drop dead gorgeous, Katherine Waterston's lead was likable, Fassbender is great. The most interesting part of it was easily the middle section of where it explored the themes of creation that Prometheus touched…

Got a brutal stomach virus that knocked me flat from Thursday to Saturday. Managed to shat and vomit out almost 5 pounds of my body weight. Still recovering. Watched some movie on the TVm but I was pretty much a braindead state, so I can't remember it. Stay healthy floks.

If you would told anyone that from all the flashy, nonsensical action movies out there The Fast and Furious will outlive its era and become a blockbuster franchise…I can barely wrap my head around it.
Kiss of the Dragon and Fulltime Killer are the only movies that save this year from being an abosulte wasteland of good…

Guns N' Roses - Estranged. Possibly Slash's finest hour.

There are only a few bands that I've listened more times in my teens than Soundgarden. Cornell's raspy voice gave such a strong character and emotional charge to song that they cannot be replicated by anyone else. Huge loss and an absolutely shocking news.