Where's the girl?
Where's the girl?
Where's the girl?

Much of my like for Mann's films is based around his capturing of striking imagery and music. And yeah, kick ass action. But here's very little of the former in The Insider, it mostly takes place in beige offices and courtrooms.

Breaking - something happens in movie that wouldn't happen in real life.

This article series would be making a huge oversight if there isn't one Bond movie in there somewhere. Nothing else has shaped action movies as much as Bond. There was talk in the first entry how Goldfinger should have been the first pick.

Ha, yeah I saw some of Doom on TV. He looked positively skinny compared to the permanent Hulk mode he seems to be in these days.

Yeah he has just doubled down on nonstop Action Hero roles lately. Maybe the back-to-back meh response of Jack Reacher 2 and The Mummy will prompt a change of course. Er, after Mission Impossible 6, Edge of Tomorrow 2 and Top Gun 2.

And especially the Dennis Haysbert subplot. Anyone else would have cut that out of the film entirely as it doesn't affect anything really, but it becomes its own mini-tragedy

ACTIVATE THE ASSET!

Yeah its mood mood mood. If you're here for a pure police drama or an action movie it's probably not going to do it for you. But if you're on its wavelength, its a sensual masterpiece

Steven Seagal in GUNLIFTER (2018, 83 mins, available on VOD).

I think both Tropic Thunder and Rock of Ages count as "risks".

It took Bond longer than three movies to become just a checklist of its own cliches tho.

I think the fact that a Collateral/Mann discussion has now completely overrun the comments section pretty much confirms this…!

They shamelessly stole that shoot-reload-shoot again bit from Collateral in John Wick, but it was so damn awesome I didn't mind.

"Guns make me nervous!"

The scene in Heat where Val Kilmer quick reloads his (whatever machine gun it is) is apparently shown in some marines training course where they say if a Hollywood actor can do it this quick, so can you!

"Yo, homie"

I recently saw some of Miami Vice on a 4K TV and it looked incredible, much better than I remember it ever being.

Yeah I should probably give it a rewatch sometime.

I'll throw down! I consider 1-5 all A grade cinema.