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Mile 22 絕地22哩 (2018) - USA   Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)     Indonesian martial arts sensation Iko Uwais is the best thing to come out of this uninspiring crime action thriller headlines by Mark Wahlberg. What went wrong begins with director Peter Berg who previously crafted decent crime action thrillers with Wahlberg on several occasions, Lone Survivor, Patriots Day and Deepwater Horizon. However, this film fails from not having an interesting story, lack of sparks and characters that we care or connect with. In the end, the film feels half baked, uninteresting and bland...

Juliet, Naked (2018) - UK / USA   Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)      What I particularly enjoyed about the Rose Byrne and Ethan Hawke romantic comedy is how it all plays out in such a likeable and natural manner where the first half feels like a Chris O’Dowd’s pitfall of modern romance and the 2nd half going the route of “Beside Sunrise”. There is a lot of admire about director Jesse Peretz’s film as Rose Byrne takes centerstage as we see her goes about the motions, going along with the cliches of life, love...

Air Strike 大轰炸 (2018) - USA / China Aka The Bombing / The Unbreakable Spirit Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)     This is a terrible example of a how to make bad movies and expensive one as well. There is so much off-screen drama and scandal that surrounds this film that makes it far more interesting than the WWII war epic itself. With all the top billings in Bruce Willis, Adrien Brody, Fan Bing Bing and all. Only Willis get substantial screen time to phone in a walk in the house VOD performance that he has gotten...

Operation Red Sea 红海行动 (2018) - China   Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)     Before the patriotism and negative Chinese sentiments comes into play for evaluating the latest Dante Lam blockbuster war disaster epic. On a technical level, it is something to be proud of and with a massive budget to play with Lam manages to use every inch of explosives, bombs, bullets, body counts and effects to make a war epic that is so loud and brutal where it matches Hollywood standards in terms of production values. However, what the film sacrifice in the...

Halloween 月光光心慌慌 (2018) - USA   Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)     It’s been a tough ride for the fans of “Halloween” franchise as Michael Myers have become more of a cult than the film series have been churning out low quality films. The great news is that the 2018’s “Halloween” is undeniably fresh, brutally violent, adequately suspense and a return to form for the series, cast and all round Halloween experience. It is what these kind of slasher films are about, haunting and unpredictable villains in the form of the pure evil Michael Myers...