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The Purge Anarchy
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The Purge: Anarchy Review

William McPherson

The Purge (2013) starring Ethan Hawke was one of my big disappointments. I thought the premise (all crime being legal for one night) was bloody brilliant, and had mucho potential for social commentary, plus a ton of groovy action in the vein of Escape from New York. Instead, the whole story took place in the house of one rich family on a rich neighborhood being tormented by other rich socialite college kids. This movie corrects those mistakes at least, as we finally get a good sprawling action…

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The Fate of the Furious
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The Fate of the Furious Blu-ray Review

Gary Smith

Fate of the Furious, the eighth entry in the popular Fast and the Furious franchise, releases on Blu-ray today in the form of a combo pack. You can pick it up for $20 on Amazon, and that'll get you the Blu-ray, DVD, and two Digital HD versions of the film (the theatrical cut and the extended director's cut that is only available digitally). Those of you with a 4K TV or 4K Blu-ray player can spend an extra $5 and the get the 4K Ultra HD combo pack. The theatrical version of the film has a…

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Road House
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Road House Review

William McPherson

Road House is one of the best lousy movies of all time. It can be enjoyed on many levels too, such as the “Plan 9 From Outer Space” laugh yourself silly at how lousy it is level, the standard “turn off your brain” action movie level, a time capsule of goofy 1980s clothing and hairstyles level, and even a pseudo philosophical level too! That’s more levels than they sell at your local hardware store. Anyway, the plot, for lack of a better term; The Double Deuce is the roughest, toughest, and…

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Terminator Genisys
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Terminator Genisys Review

William McPherson

So I finally have seen the new Terminator movie with the asinine spelling of the word Genesis which I will not dignify for the rest of this review. Anyway, this was not bad for an action movie of the “turn your brain off” variety, but it was more on the level of T3 than the first two movies. Well, maybe better than T3 by a smidge or so but nowhere near the level of the first two (and I wouldn't bother comparing Salvation since it is kind of in its own little bubble), although there are some nice…

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John Wick
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John Wick Review

William McPherson

John Wick is a retired mafia hitman living the dream, until one sad day his wife dies of cancer. Before she does though she gifts him with a farewell puppy. Of course, because this is an action movie, you know this puppy is doomed, and also the people who bring doom upon the puppy are equally doomed. It really isn’t rocket science sometimes. All you need is a sympathetic “dangerous” leading good guy, some dumb bad guys working for a higher up bad guy, a ton of bullets, and there’s your movie…

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Death Sentence
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Death Sentence Review

William McPherson

I include this movie as the final entry in the Death Wish review series because in a sense it is kind of a reboot of said series. Once again a white collar business man witnesses an unspeakable tragedy with his family, and fed up with how the law fails to act, decides to take matters into his own hands. There were a few things I definitely felt were strengths with this movie compared to the old Bronson movies. For one thing, Kevin Bacon is certainly no Charles Bronson, which helps as far as…

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Death Wish V
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Death Wish V: The Face of Fear Review

William McPherson1 Comment

Paul Kersey had the worst damn luck of perhaps any movie character in history. I would say tied with John McLane, but all McLane had to worry about was getting trapped in the occasional building. Kersey repeatedly has loved ones mowed down in gruesome life scarring ways. At the time of this movie he is officially a grandpa aged gentleman looking, once again to settle down with his girlfriend, but of course said girlfriend winds up getting attacked, this time by local mobsters and left with…

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Death Wish 4
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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown Review

William McPherson

Paul Kersey is headed west, again for the fourth installment of the Death Wish series. This time around there is a bit more plot, but still just as much action including what is admittedly a pretty awesome finale involving a bazooka. That said, Bronson really started looking to old and worn out for the part by this time and obviously could not have given a shit about this movie. This movie tries to be like a 1980s version of “Fistful of Dollars” (or Yojimbo). Kersey (Charles Bronson), now a well…

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Death Wish 3
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Death Wish 3 Review

William McPherson

Death Wish 3 is as perfect a bad movie as I can imagine. It is completely over the top and makes absolutely no pretenses as to what it is about. Paul Kersey is far removed from the meek and mild architect from the first movie and has now become a professional “neighborhood population control expert”. Armed with a hand cannon (.475 Wildey Magnum for those interested) that makes Dirty Harry’s 44 Magnum look like a pop gun. The basic story here is that a New York City has been overrun with crime…

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Death Wish 2
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Death Wish 2 Review

William McPherson

Death Wish goes west is probably a more appropriate title to this sequel. As a kid in love with macho badasses Charles Bronson was, of course, one of my heroes. And in retrospect it is Bronson’s presence alone that saves this one from being a nearly complete dud, that and cheesy lines every now and then such as “Do you believe in Jesus? (Punk says yeah) Well, you’re gonna meet him (pow pow pow). The story is a direct ripoff of the original, which now living in a time when this genre has been…

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Death Wish
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Death Wish Review

William McPherson

This is unapologetic male revenge fantasy, made all the more powerful and terrifying by how gritty and realistic it is portrayed. The character of Paul Kersey is not the sort of man you expect to see played by Charles Bronson, at first that is. He’s a quiet architect whose politics definitely lean toward the anti-gun side of the fence, but that all changes when he is befriended by an Arizona “gun nut” who gifts him with his first revolver. That gift would have been much more innocuous had…

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True Lies
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True Lies Review

William McPherson

I don’t know if this is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s best action movie, but I believe it may be my personal favorite. This is a good example of a very smart dumb movie. Arnold plays an American version of James Bond by night, and a normal loving boring husband by day, to his wife played by the smoking hot at the time Jamie Lee Curtis. Arnold’s sidekick here is played capably by Tom Arnold in one of the few parts he’s made me not want to punch him in the face for. The story is beside the point. It’s…

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The Dead Pool
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The Dead Pool Review

William McPherson

It had completely escaped my memory that both Liam Neeson and Jim Carrey (in yes, their only movie together) appeared in the fifth and final installment of the Dirty Harry franchise known as “The Dead Pool”. Those are two of my favorite actors for very different reasons, and if any modern actor was going to take over the mantle of Dirty Harry right now Neeson would definitely be it, although at the time of this movie, he was a few decades away from becoming the future action star legend from the…

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Sudden Impact
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Sudden Impact Review

William McPherson

This was the first Dirty Harry movie to be made in the 1980s, and as such the change in tone was very noticeable. This was a time when marketing and product placement became much more obvious in movies, and these kinds of movies more or less became vehicles to establish catch phrases and make flashy trailers, and also tell a story if there was enough budget left at the end of the explosions. Clint Eastwood returns here in his fourth go around in the role, and you can tell he’s just kind of here…

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The Enforcer
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The Enforcer Review

William McPherson

In this the third installment of the Dirty Harry series, Harry Callahan takes on a group of Mayor kidnapping hippy-terrorists known as the People's Revolutionary Strike Force (PRSF), Black Extremists, and also deals with feminism in his own unique way. The feminism bit comes when Callahan is assigned a partner (which never, ever works out well in these movies…) that “happens to be” female played by Tyne Daly. The diminutive Daly spends much of the movie trading barbs with Eastwood, until of…

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Magnum Force
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Magnum Force Review

William McPherson

Force, the second movie of the Dirty Harry film franchise was released just two years after the original, and in many ways is a response to the criticism leveled against it. It is quite strange that the bad guys of this film are vigilante cops gone too far unless you look at it from that lens of responding to the claims of the first movie that Harry Callahan was just a fascist who wanted to rip apart the Bill of Rights and blow baddies away. In this movie Callahan actually has to defend the very…

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Dirty Harry
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Dirty Harry Review

William McPherson

Socially and politically speaking now is probably not the right time to review a movie like Dirty Harry, a movie I have loved since I was really too young to be watching it to begin with. There is an argument made by some that some of the current rash of police violence can be blamed on movies like Dirty Harry because today’s policemen in many cases grew up on them. The thing is, Dirty Harry was never supposed to be a role model. He was a statement, a generational response to the urban violence…

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Kickboxer
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Kickboxer Review

William McPherson

Jean Claude Van Damme is Kurt Sloane, the brother of American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane (Dennis Alexio). Eric travels with Kurt to Thaland to face the dangerous Muay Thai monster known as ‘Tong Po’. Po cripples Eric Sloane, leaving the younger brother hellbent on revenge. Luckily, Mr. Miyagi himself happens to live nearby and, in a series of vignettes, teaches Van Damme how to be a badass so he can go and get some revenge. Also along the way the bad guys rape Van Damme’s girl, kidnap his…

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Con Air
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Con Air Review

William McPherson

A man (Nicolas Cage) catching a plane ride home from a four year stint in prison after accidentally killing the men who tried to attack his pregnant wife finds himself on board a plane full of lifers/death row convicts who take over the plane in an elaborate attempt to gain their freedom. This movie is a perfect exercise in ridiculous excess. There’s too much of everything here. You have pretty much every recognizable character actor from the 1990s stuck on a plane playing prisoners. Seriously…

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No Holds Barred
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No Holds Barred Review

William McPherson

Some movies that you see and love as a child should be left in your childhood and never revisited as an adult, lest you tarnish those memories. No Holds Barred is just such a movie. I knew going in that this movie was not going to be a classic by any stretch of the imagination, but I wasn’t fully prepared for just how bad it was going to be. That said, if this movie does not contain cherished childhood memories it is so laughably bad that it is perversely entertaining. Hulk Hogan, who plays Rip…

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