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Reel Badass : Movie Highlights

Posted by absolutebadasses on October 12, 2025

Posted in: Reviews. Tagged: cinema, films, korean, korean movies, like movies, love films, movies, one battle after another, prisoner of war, Scott Adkins, yadang the snitch. Leave a comment

Sometimes you get to watch a movie on the big screen and it just blows your mind and Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is one such movie… the pace is electric, the humor is dark & relevant, the road chase towards the back end of the film is unlike anything you will see on the big screen, and the narrative really makes you think and talk about ICE, refugees, revolutionaries and the fucked up white supremacists of the world… you also get to watch THREE titans of the screen produce three remarkable & captivating performances in one picture and if the words Semen Demon, Jungle Pussy & LockJaw don’t tickle your inner Tarantino there’s no hope for you ! ★★★★★

Louis Mandylor’s PRISONER OF WAR is an old-school actioner that delivers in sentiment, revels in it’s fight choreography, has a whole bunch of compelling characters & WOW those scenes between Scott Adkins RAF Wright & Peter Shinkoda the proud yet brutal Colonel are EXPLOSIVE !! A bit like Chuck Norris in Vietnam back in the 80s with Missing in Action, it’s great to see War Movies mix with Martial Arts and if done the right way the combination can be dynamite, hats off to Mandylor & Adkins SUPERB ★★★★

Jeeeez what a film… YADANG: THE SNITCH is everything I love about Korean movies… the premise is OUTRAGEOUS, the flighting and action scenes are INSANE and there are many moments of humor that you know you shouldn’t be laughing at but you do anyways… THIS is one Grizzly, Nasty and Unflinching action packed movie with a STAND-OUT performance by Kang Ha-Neul that will have you on the edge of your seat throughout !! ★★★★

Alive (2020) : Movie Thoughts

Posted by absolutebadasses on September 19, 2020

Posted in: Movie Reviews, Reviews. Tagged: actors, actress, alive, cinema, comedy, film website, filmmaking, horror, Jo Il-Hyeong, korean cinema, korean movies, korean zombie film, korean zombie movie, love cinema, love films, movie blog, netflix movie, netflix movie alive, new movies, Park Shin-hye, Won-ho Son, Yoo Ah-in, zombie. Leave a comment

A city is infected by a mysterious virus, which causes it’s people to spiral out of control. Two survivers struggle to survive in an isolated apartment complex from those infected with the virus : Jo Il-Hyeong’s Korean thriller ALIVE is everything you’d like from a new movie in the Zombie genre, utilising the digital age in a smart, inventive way and has a whole shit load of savy special effects that make your eye’s twitch with nervous excitement : Yoo Ah-in is bloody brilliant as the gamer kid Joon-Woo who lives for his technology but fails to converse much with the outside world, that is until one day he has too, his dopey appearance & care free attitude endears himself to the viewer and his tag team partner Park Shin-hye’s Yoo-bin is my type of girl, fighting off the undead with everything from an axe, gun and home made killing trolley and oh yeah did I say that these zombie’s are not slow either but more like the hyperactive speed demons from World War Z, Won-ho Son’s work in capturing these delightful creatures rampaging through the apartment blocks is glorious & a sight to behold : ALIVE is SMART, INSANE and FLESH EATING FUN ★★★★

Snowpiercer (2014) – Movie Review ★★★★½

Director: Joon-ho Bong – Cast: Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, John Hurt, Ed Harris, Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer, Ah-sung Ko, Kang-ho Song & Alison Pill – Synopsis: This is the first English-language film from the exciting South Korean director Joon-ho Bong (Mother & The Host) – Based on a French graphic novel and set in the future where the only survivors of a failed global-warming experiment try to exist on-board a speeding train known as the Snowpiercer – Verdict: If your one of these people (and there are many) that watch a movie and shout disbelief at the screen till the end credits then don’t watch Snowpiercer, the movie is based on a graphic novel and like all comic book adaptions there are many moments during this film that scream WTF at you – leave your negativity at the door, relax and enjoy the smart creative vision that this film has in abundance and then praise the undoubted genius that is filmmaker Joon-ho Bong on a picture that from start to finish is a visual feast of apocalyptic delight with enough colorful characters and dark content that could have filled a trilogy of movies let alone this one – the exciting, stylish design of the train caught my eye, from it’s dark, gloomy carriages at the back of the train where the lowest on the social ladder would reside to the school, night club and brilliance of the fish tank aquariums that one would find in carriages further up the train – Joon-ho Bong also filled the picture with superb character actors from Jamie Bell’s rebellious second in command, John Hurt’s old, wise mentor, Chris Evans rugged & somewhat reluctant leader and Tilda Swinton’s hilarious turn as one of the movies villains, the whole cast are tremendous in bringing a somewhat realism to the story – overall just like the Snowpiercer this movie runs at 200mph, it’s visually out of this world, action packed with some incredible fight scenes and a scifi flick that will stand the test of time – for me the films only negative is that it had to end….

Oldboy (2013) – Movie Review

Posted by absolutebadasses on December 9, 2013

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OLDBOY – (2013) – Movie Review ★★★¾

Cast – Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L Jackson and Sharlto Copley – the film is a remake of Chan-wook Park’s 2003 Korean masterpiece directed by Malcolm X’s Spike Lee – the year is 1993 and Joe Doucett (Brolin) is a not a very nice guy, he’s a drunk and a father of a three year old he never visits – after a business meeting goes south Doucett get’s drunk and crawls through the neighborhood looking for someone to share his miserable insistence with – the next morning he wakes up in a strange bed, in a room that contains a shower and TV but no door or exit – it then dawns on Doucett that he has been kidnapped and locked in some kind of solitary confinement and there he spends the next 20 years of his life, writing letters of regret to his daughter and thinking of nothing else but seeking vengeance on his captors VERDICT let’s be honest Spike Lee was on a hiding to nothing when attempting to remake one of the finest Korean movies in decades – but in fairness Lee’s remake is a descent thriller that not only looks stylish but has some classy nods to it’s original and a performance by Josh Brolin that has you purring right to the end credits – my favorite scene in the movie has to be the devlishly fun, over the top fight scene with Brolin’s character facing down dozens of baddies – my only negative about Spike Lee’s remake is that if you have seen the original then you know the punchline and know when it’s coming so sadly that blow to the gut you may would have felt during the original movie is reduced to a slight whimper – overall OLDBOY is an enjoyable, extremely violent and well acted movie remake – it’s also Spike Lee’s best directed movie since 2006’s Inside Man and one I’d certainly recommend….