Category Archives: 2000′s

Rainn Wilson – Super

Posted on January 19, 2012 at 3:31 am by admin

A return to the comedy genre in this post and a recent inclusion in the fairly limited group of vigilante comedy movies.  Super was a low budget 2010 production which cost just $2.5 million to make and somehow manages to … Continue reading →

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Kevin Bacon – Death Sentence

Posted on November 28, 2011 at 3:20 am by admin

One of the more recent ventures into the world of the revenge movie, Death Sentence was released in 2007 and not to much critical acclaim, but it is what it is and, as they say, it does what it says … Continue reading →

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Denzel Washington – Man On Fire

Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:43 pm by admin

It’s all subjective of course but this 2004 tale of revenge in Mexico was a better film than many critics gave it credit for.  Rarely does Denzel Washington turn in a bad performance and this was no exception, although in … Continue reading →

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Liam Neeson – Taken

Posted on May 31, 2011 at 10:44 pm by admin

Taken is a very recent film (2008) but one nonetheless worthy of a place in any list of vigilante movies.  There is a suspicion that when the screenplay was being written a number of obligatory boxes were ticked as to … Continue reading →

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Tony Jaa – Ong Bak 2

Posted on May 17, 2011 at 7:03 pm by admin

This is the first inclusion on this website of a film emanating from Thailand.  Anyone familiar with the Thai film industry will be aware that most of the output, although good quality, is Benny Hill-level slapstick.  The Ong Bak series … Continue reading →

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Christian Bale – The Dark Knight

Posted on May 4, 2011 at 10:44 pm by admin

The character of Batman, originally a comic book hero, has of course appeared in many television programmes and films and we don’t need to list these many productions separately. Personally I regard the 2008 film, The Dark Knight as the … Continue reading →

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Lee Young-Ae – Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

Posted on March 24, 2011 at 8:52 pm by admin

We’ll conclude Park Chan-wook’s vengeance trilogy with this post.  If you’ve already seen and read about Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and Oldboy (2003), you’ll be vaguely familiar with the storyline of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005). Or you might … Continue reading →

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Choi Min-Sik – Oldboy

Posted on March 16, 2011 at 7:54 pm by admin

Easy question then for film fans – if you could name one movie made in South Korea in past ten years that made it onto a global platform what would it be?  Almost certainly Oldboy would be the answer, perhaps … Continue reading →

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Hugo Weaving – V for Vendetta – Part Two

Posted on March 8, 2011 at 8:37 pm by admin

In the first post I rambled on about how Alan Moore’s superbly satirical graphic novel had been ‘tweaked’ by the director James McTeigue, with the intention of making the enemies in the film more contemporary (the original was set in … Continue reading →

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Hugo Weaving – V for Vendetta – Part One

Posted on March 1, 2011 at 7:13 pm by admin

Some comic book adaptations work as films and some don’t, that’s no secret.  The list of really terrible ones is a long and ugly one and includes such gems as Catwoman, Batman & Robin and, interestingly, The League of Extraordinary … Continue reading →

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