This year’s French Film Festival in Prague will close out with the latest from from the acclaimed director of Leon and The Fifth Element.
With a dearth of innovation at the multiplex, here’s a blockbuster overflowing with creativity. Unfortunately, it’s destined to be one of 2017’s biggest bombs
The Transporter Refueled makes the original three films look like paragons of action filmmaking by comparison
Liam Neeson is back in action as retired ex-covert operative Bryan Mills in Taken 3, a preposterous but entertaining sequel
Lucy flies by in a razzling, dazzling whirlwind, barely giving you time enough to think about what you’re actually seeing
Brick Mansions, is just passable action fare for the undemanding; you could do far worse for some brainless late-night thrills
3 Days to Kill has little to recommend it outside of a genuinely appealing performance from Kevin Costner in movie-star comeback mode
The Family is some kind of loopy fish-out-of-water comedy that tries to blend the real-world consequences of its setting into a light-hearted frame
Taken 2 bows with a simultaneous worldwide release that reeks of cash grab: get in, get out, and forget about Taken 3
Lockout is expectedly ridiculous stuff that stretches credibility and then snaps it right off (just wait for the climactic skydiving sequence)
Olivier Megaton’s Colombiana feels like a cross-breed between Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita and Leon: The Professional
From Paris with Love is all loud action and a louder John Travolta performance, and precious little of anything else
Transporter 3 jettisons the goofy, over-the-top fun of its predecessors in favor of a more serious Bourne-lite ride
Taken is the kind of movie you might expect to see from a Bruce Willis or Jet Li. But no, here’s Liam Neeson