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The Matrix (1999): The Wachowskis underpinned their high wire, Hong Kong-indebted martial arts scene with heavy philosophical pretensions. The Rock (1996): Michael Bay made an action star out of Nicolas Cage, and a mess of the idea that action movies were anything but showcases for CGI fireworks. Elsewhere, filmmakers hustle on the fringes to carve out a space for these sorts of movies, sneaking around in the long shadow of the studio mainstream. Lockout has good fun riffing on its hero’s archaic wiseassery, skirting the nudging obnoxiousness of more self-aware genre exercises. president’s daughter from a space prison. His piece was pegged on the wide release of the crackerjack Indonesian martial arts flick, The Raid: Redemption, an Americanized actioner that’s already slated for its own American remake.Ī few weeks after Sternbergh took the pulse, the old-school action hero was revived in Lockout, a French production starring Guy Pearce as an American agent tasked with extracting the U.S. Recently in The New York Times Magazine, Adam Sternbergh declared the American action film “kablooey.” He saw the genre migrating elsewhere, to foreign imports that seem to pick up where movies like Die Hard left off.
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Bloated, high-price blockbusting replaces satirizing of the same. Where blood splatter coloured outside the original’s popcorn fare contours, here flesh-and-blood baddies are largely replaced by an army of easily dispatched robots, keeping the audience-baiting PG-13 rating safely intact. There are no mutant rebels, nor much in the way of quotable one-liners. Nobody goes to Mars in this Total Recall. This one casts Colin Farrell in the Schwarzenegger role, this time caught in a revolutionary crossfire between the United Federation of Britain and the downtrodden colony of “New Asia.” Mortiz’ Original Film (ironically) and shot in and around Toronto, its US$200 million budget gives it the distinction of being the most expensive film ever made in Canada. Directed by Len Wiseman (infamous for spoiling the Die Hard series), bankrolled by Neal H. There’s a new Total Recall in cinemas this weekend. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.