Films based on video games tend to be light on substance and heavy on style. Max Payne, in this respect, does not disappoint. Visually, this movie is quite gorgeous – more like a graphic novel adaptation than a video game adaptation. It has a stylized, pushed look, designed with razor perfection, punctuated […]
I seem to recall basically liking the first Lara Croft movie. Not anything earth shattering, just big fun with guns and tombs but nothing to write home about, and the closest thing I can get to Indiana Jones until the DVDs come out this November. I also assumed that after all the press […]
Based on the video game series, Ballistic appears to have been intended for the raging youth demographic. Casting Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu was, theoretically, to draw in the regular people. Banderas is Ecks and Liu is Sever (this takes 40 minutes for the movie to “explain”) and they do go ballistic, so […]
Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy
I was fortunate (if such a word can be used) to see these two thematically similar movies back to back, so I feel they would best be served being reviewed as such. They are both movies based on video games with a smart female protagonist, and for that, we must […]
