![]() ![]() Tom Cruise is an ice cool hitman and Jamie Foxx his grudging taxi driver/chauffeur in Michael Mann’s slick single night thriller, which despite a polished look conjures a noirish street-side vibe. Is he a robot too? Do androids dream of electric sheep?! The more recent Blade Runner 2049 is also a magnificent and intensely cerebral achievement. Harrison Ford patrols dark and dank streets retiring very human-esque replicants, forming the centre of a philosophically chewy sci-fi with big questions on its mind. Ryan Gosling plays a replicant guiding us through a future that’s bleak, soulful and biblical, in a ghost-in-the-machine sort of way.įew films are as aesthetically influential as Ridley Scott’s dystopian classic, which came to define the look and tone of cyberpunk motion pictures and video games. Denis Villeneuve succeeded magnificently with his atmospherically heavy, Roger Deakins-shot sequel to Ridley Scott’s rain-clogged neo-noir. ![]() Making a sequel to one of the most influential sci-fi films of all time is a piece of piss, said nobody ever. ![]() The story of a decent kid embroiled in a life of crime becomes a quasi-musical and a possessed jukebox of an action movie by matching visual and audio in such a way, Wright made a genuine original. A rich painterly look brings visual flair to an admittedly difficult script-with too much rather than too little plot-following Michael Fassbender as he inhabits the body of an assassin in 15th century Spain.Įdgar Wright’s sassy crime caper follows a getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) who is on the autism spectrum, putting his foot to the floor only if listening to killer tracks on his headphones. Justin Kurzel’s under-rated adaptation of the blockbuster video game is an intensely sombre work that never condescends to viewers, in a genre that almost always infantilises audiences. You can find their current streaming homes by clicking each title. Here we’ve preserved Luke Buckmasters’s short and sweet reviews of action movies that have been moved from their original streaming platforms. ![]()
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