The Amateur (2*): A Trailer Promising Lots; A Movie Delivering Little.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “The Amateur”. Great potential for a top-class thriller but a wasted opportunity. 2/5.
Laurence Fishburne
Megalopolis (15): Utterly Pretentious Nonsense.
One Mann’s Movies Film Review of “Megalopolis”. Francis Ford Coppola delivers a pretentious dud of unimaginable scale. 1/5.
John Wick: Chapter 4 (15): As a virgin John Wick watcher, are they all this repetitive and soulless?
A One Mann’s Movies review of “John Wick: Chapter 4” (2023). There are some movie franchises that, for whatever reason, I’ve never ever dipped my toe into. “Police Academy”? Nope, not seen a single one. “Transformers”? Nope – – monster robots fighting each other… no interest whatsover. And over on the action-hero side of the … Read more
Rudderless (2014): Grieving to a beat.
A review of “Rudderless” (2014): a guest review on One Mann’s Movies by Manoj Mistry. Dr Bob: This is the first time I’ve welcomed a guest reviewer to include an article on this site, but Manoj expressed an interest in writing retrospective reviews for older films. (If anyone else out there would like to write … Read more
The Ice Road (12): Another tired Neeson pension fund filler.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Ice Road” (2021). So my final inflight film from my recent transatlantic trip was Liam Neeson in “The Ice Road”. Oh dear. Both myself and the illustrious Mrs Movie Man watched it in parallel…. you know the score on a plane… “Ready, Steady, Press!”. But we both thought … Read more