Action cinema, at its best, is pure kinetic storytelling: movement, stakes and consequence fused into something visceral. From the disciplined fury of Seven Samurai to the operatic scale of The Dark Knight, the genre rewards directors who treat spectacle as a means rather than an end. Browse Macca's reviews below to see which films clear that bar.
Rating: 3.0★
Let's get one thing straight before anything else: the suit in this film is the best Spider-Man suit ever put to screen, full stop. That textured, crimson-and-blue design, worn by Andrew Garfield's lanky, skater-esque frame, gave the character a kinetic, grounded agility
Rating: 2.5★
I'll hold my hands up straight away: I'm not the biggest fan of the modern superhero industrial complex. There's a formula, and almost everybody sticks rigidly to it. You get your quippy hero, your globe-trotting set pieces, and then, inevitably, a third act
Rating: 2.0★
It took me watching two separate Andrew Garfield-led Spider-Man films to suddenly realise that the director's surname is Webb. I found that delayed epiphany significantly more amusing than anything that actually happens on screen in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. When a sequel leaves you more
Rating: 2.0★
There is a very specific point where a beloved sci-fi franchise stops being a sharp, satirical triumph and simply devolves into a corporate cash grab. RoboCop 3 is that exact point, and I say that as someone who genuinely loves the original and has a soft spot for the
Rating: 4.0★
I'll be honest: seeing Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse sitting at a higher rating than its predecessor on Letterboxd left me genuinely baffled. Not angry, not defensive, just... baffled. Because while this 2023 sequel is an extraordinary piece of work in several respects, I came out of
Rating: 4.5★
I am rarely one to sing the praises of the modern superhero industrial complex. You probably know this about me by now. Outside of the original X-Men trilogy and The Dark Knight, I've almost never handed out a score higher than average to a cape-and-cowl
Rating: 3.5★
I still have a vivid memory of standing in the school playground, clutching a plastic RoboCop action figure, completely oblivious to the razor-sharp, deeply inappropriate satire I was holding in my eight-year-old hands. That memory says everything about the strange cultural place these films occupy. They were
Rating: 3.0★
There is something quietly remarkable about the fact that The Legend of Johnny Lingo exists at all. I came to it the way I come to a lot of films these days: not because anyone was clamouring for me to watch it, but because it was my pick for the
Rating: 2.0★
If you've spent many hours scaling treacherous cliffs and picking through ancient ruins in the Uncharted video game series like I have, sitting down to Ruben Fleischer's 2022 film adaptation feels less like a cinematic reunion and more like a profound betrayal. That's not
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in Dunkirk where the camera simply pulls back and you see it: hundreds of thousands of men, packed onto a beach, staring out at a sea that offers no obvious salvation. No character tells you how bad things are. No general delivers a grim
Rating: 4.0★
It's an absolute statistical anomaly for a legacy sequel to not just match its predecessor but to utterly eclipse it. Yet here we are. I walked into Top Gun: Maverick carrying the reasonable scepticism of anyone who's sat through enough hollow nostalgia grabs, and I walked
Rating: 4.0★
"Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" Honestly, yeah. I just watched what is arguably one of the greatest cop films ever put to celluloid, and I came out the other side buzzing. That line has been quoted, parodied and imitated so many times over the decades
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