Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "based on video game"

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Super Mario Bros ** (1993, Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis, Fiona Shaw, Fisher Stevens, Richard Edson) – Classic Movie Review 10,019

Directors Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel’s 1993 family adventure comedy Super Mario Bros is an ingenious but often dull film of the Nintendo video game, with Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo as Mario Mario and […]

Jul, 09

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within **** (2001, voices of Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Ming-Na Wen, Ving Rhames, Peri Gilpin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, Keith David, Jean Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 8875

Alien ghosts invade Earth in the first totally computer-generated motion capture film to ‘star’ creepy-looking ‘photo-realistic’ humans that won’t put any actors out of work. Based on a hit video game, directors Hironobu Sakaguchi and […]

Sep, 01

Pokémon Detective Pikachu *** (2019, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, voice of Ryan Reynolds) – Movie Review

Director Rob Letterman’s teen action adventure comedy Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) is much better than expected thanks to inventive scripting and a lively atmosphere, throwing in anything and everything that could possibly make this crazy […]

May, 11

Rampage ***½ (2018, Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jake Lacy) – Movie Review

Director Brad Peyton’s monster movie Rampage is daft and disposable but likeable, fast paced, dynamic and a lot of fun, with good effects and a strong score (Andrew Lockington), and a winning central turn by […]

Apr, 13

Tomb Raider * (2018, Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Nick Frost) – Movie Review

Director Roar Uthaug’s Lara Croft videogame franchise reboot Tomb Raider is a nice try, but mostly quite boring, and largely just going through the motions of being exciting. Apart from an ill-judged Nick Frost cameo as […]

Mar, 15

Assassin’s Creed ** (2016, Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling) – Movie Review

Australian director Justin Kurzel graduates from directing Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in Wlliam Shakespeare’s Macbeth (2015) to directing Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in game series spinoff Assassin’s Creed. Well, fair enough, you go where you can. What we have here is a […]

Jan, 05

Warcraft ** (2016, Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Robert Kazinsky) – Movie Review

Let battle commence as 10-ft murderously ferocious orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonise another world invade the land of Azeroth as a portal opens to connect the two worlds. This epic fantasy is all […]

Jun, 02

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