I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again. The moment The Fast & The Furious franchise steered into the skid, fully embracing how ridiculous it is, that’s when the movies started getting good. Continue reading “Fate of the Furious: I’m Still Down for the Ride”
After Agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law) is killed in the line of duty, and the CIA’s top operatives are exposed, desk-bound Agent Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) heads out into the field to find and track Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne), Fine’s killer and the daughter of a European criminal who’s hidden a nuclear weapon. But when Agent Rick Ford (Jason Statham) goes rogue and almost blows Cooper’s cover, Cooper has to go deep undercover with Boyanov. Continue reading “Spy: The Secret Agent Comedy I Didn’t Know I Needed”
Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) and his Expendables are hired by the CIA to take out a weapons dealer named Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), a former Expendable gone rogue. After one of his team is critically wounded, Ross retires the team and hires a newer team with the help of headhunter Bonaparte (Kelsey Grammer). Continue reading “The Expendables 3: The Longest-Running Inside Joke”
