![]() Takashi Miike has made directed over 100 movies, and this is one of the best, a stylish throwback to samurai cinema of old anchored by the modern filmmaking prowess of one of the best filmmakers alive. O’Connell is fantastic in a film that increases tension with each subsequent scene. The great Jack O’Connell ( Godless) plays a new recruit in the British Army who has basically been stranded behind enemy lines after a violent encounter and is forced to fight his way home. ![]() Yann Demange directed this tight and taut retelling of an event in Belfast during the height of The Troubles in 1971. A great ensemble elevates some admittedly thin material, but no one comes to this for performance or character - it’s about the world blowing up real good and the movie delivers exactly what it promises. Roland Emmerich, the modern King of the Disaster Blockbusters, delivered one of his most ridiculously over-the-top movies in this 2009 tale of the apocalypse foretold to come just three years later.
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