Overall, «Bunraku» delivers on its promise, with an artful, thrilling, funny, and unique melding
of classic action films.
I think casting Kiefer Sutherland was his last shot to get a real action star in the series that's based on so
many classic action films.
Lovingly styled with a look falling somewhere between Atari 2600 and the NES, Broforce
parodies classic action films and TV shows of the 80s and 90s while pleasantly assaulting players with bro puns and silly humor.
Henry Hathaway, well recognized as an effective director
of classic action films, maintains a veteran's sure hands on the film - allowing it to breath comfortably in the first half and then ratcheting up the action in the second.
Rather than
a classic action film, though there is plenty of mind - spinning action, director David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves have finessed the story into a classic thriller with enormous special effects and a fantastic plot.
Nonetheless, fans of Chan and
classic action films should not miss this.
It's not great, but one gets the feeling that if The Rock gets the right script, he could make
a classic action film.
Speed remains
a classic action film.