Showing posts with label Clarke Peters. Show all posts
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Sunday, 13 September 2020

Da 5 Bloods (2020)



Four African-American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen Squad Leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.

The full Spike Lee Joint experience: a wildly divergent (in quality and plot coherence) adventure tale with multi-faceted allusions, both cinematic and political, and with a distinct political message for our current time; a bumpy but utterly watchable odyssey.


Tuesday, 10 September 2019

Outland (1981)



A federal marshal stationed at a mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io, uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy.

From memory: Above-average science faction action drama has great production design and some suspense, but it's nothing more than a Western set in space.

Halliwell (no star): "Ludicrous, over-plotted outer-space version of High Noon, in such thick colour that the action is hard to follow."

Maltin**1/2: "Slickly made, but predictable and unpleasant in tone."