A slightly odd confluence of factors make Martin Campbell’s The Foreigner a splendid action thriller. The picture reunites James Bond veterans Campbell and Pierce Brosnan, but then throws in a healthy dose of the Northern Irish troubles and a top-of-his-game Jackie Chan … Continue reading REVIEW: The Foreigner (2017)
Keigo Higashino has carved a considerable reputation as one of Japan’s premier authors of crime novels and thrillers, via popular books like The Devotion of Suspect X and The Salvation of a Saint. His 2012 novel Miracles of the Namiya General Store is markedly … Continue reading REVIEW: Namiya (2017)
Jackie Chan seemed to be everywhere in early 2017 – in Australia, at least. Kung Fu Yoga opened in cinemas just weeks after his period action comedy Railroad Tigers, and that came a few short months after the release of … Continue reading REVIEW: Kung Fu Yoga (2017)
In December 1941 a group of Chinese railroad workers, led by the station porter Ma Yuan (Jackie Chan) engage in carefully staged raids of Japanese train shipments to disrupt Japan’s military efforts to occupy China and invade other Asian nations … Continue reading REVIEW: Railroad Tigers (2016)
In 48 BCE Huo An (Jackie Chan) leads a special squad of soldiers patrolling the Chinese border. When his team is implicated in a gold smuggling operation they are exiled to the isolated border post of Wild Geese Gate. There … Continue reading REVIEW: Dragon Blade (2015)
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