Josh's Reviews

Can this little known action movie be a hidden gem? Let’s find out! The Scores Interest: 8/10 Acting: 8/10 Storyline: 7.5/10 Intensity: 10/10 Fights Guns or Otherwise: 8/10 Nudity: 0/10 Director Score: 8/10 Musical Score: 6.5/10 Dialogue: 6/10 Logic In The Film: 8/10 BuyBust is a 2018 film. The film is two hours and seven minutes long. The genres are action and thriller. The three main stars are Anne Curtis (Known for A Secret Affair, No Other Woman, Baler, and In Your Eyes), Brandon Vera (Known for Kamandag, BuyBust, Magpakailanman, and The Black Eyed Peas: Bebot, Version 1), and Victor Neri (Known for A Short History of a Few Bad Things, TODA One I Love, Panday, and Fillipinas). The Director is Erik Matti (Known for On the Job, Honor Thy Father, Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles, and BuyBust). A quick summary of the film is “A anti-drug law enforcement agency stages a gigantic drug bust in some slums.”...

Interest: 3/10 Acting: 6/10 Storyline: 7/10 Intensity: 5/10 Fights Guns or Otherwise: 7/10 Nudity: 8/10 Crime: 6.5/10 Drama: 6/10 Production Value: 6.5/10 Logic: 5/10 Black Belt Jones 2: The Tattoo Connection is a 1978 sequel for The original Black Belt Jones. Its Run time is one hour and thirty minutes. It takes a more serious tone being an action, crime, drama film. The three stars of the film are Jim Kelly (Known for Enter the Dragon, Black Belt Jones, Black Samurai, and Death Dimension), Sing Chen (Known for Double Impact, Fan Dau Mui, Shanghai 13, and Xiao Sha Xing), and Tao-Liang Tan (Known for Shao Lin men, Breathing Fire, Tornado of Pearl River, and Zui hou yi kou qi). A quick summary of the film is “ An American insurance investigator goes to China to retrieve a near perfect, famous diamond by a local crime organization.” I’m excited about the sequel, to see if it has the same magic the first one did....

Interest: 8/10 Acting: 5/10 Storyline: 4/10 Intensity: 2/10 Fights Guns or Otherwise: 7/10 Nudity: 0/10 Humor: 8/10 Crime: 6/10 Production Value: 4/10 Logic: 8/10 Black Belt Jones is a 1974 film. It is an action comedy film, and while I’m no expert I’d probably consider this a blaxplotation film. The movies run time is one hour and twenty-five minutes. The three stars of the film are Jim Kelly (Known for Enter the Dragon, Black Belt Jones, Black Samurai, and Death Dimension) Gloria Hendry ( Known for Live and Let Die, Freaky Deaky, Black Belt Jones, and Savage Sisters) and Scatman Crothers (Known for The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Aristocats, and Twilight Zone: The Movie) A quick summary of the film is “ A mafia buyout of a karate dojo goes awry, killing the owner. His daughter refuses to sell, and convinces the kids to get revenge, and fights with Jones and the kids against the mafia.” Let’s...

Interest: 7.5/10 Acting: 8/10 Storyline: 8/10 Intensity: 9/10 Fights Guns or Otherwise: 9/10 Nudity: 7/10 Western Elements: 7.5/10 War: 7.5/10 Drama: 8/10 Logic: 8/10 Soldier Blue is a 1970 Western film. Its run time is one hour and fifty-five minutes. Soldier Blue stars are Candice Bergen (Known for Murphy Brown, Miss Congeniality, Bride Wars, and Sweet Home Alabama), Peter Strauss (Known For Rich Man, Poor Man, The Jericho Mile, and Masada) and Donald Pleasence ( Known for Halloween II, Halloween, The Great Escape, and Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers). Also heads up, there is rape in this film, for historical purposes, of how vile we were (and still are). But let’s take a look at the film shall we? Interest: Soldier Blue is interesting as a movie and a social commentary. It shows the hardships of the both Native Americans and the white people. Indians actually tried to live with white me...

Interest: 8/10 Acting: 8/10 Storyline: 8.5/10 Intensity: 8/10 Fights Guns or Otherwise: 9/10 Nudity: 0/10 Action: 9/10 Crime: 10/10 Drama: 8/10 Logic: 10/10 Streets of Fire is a 1984 film. It is considered an action, crime, drama film. Run time is one hour and thirty-four minutes. The movie stars Michael Paré (Known for Gone, The Virgin Suicides, Streets of Fire, and The Lincoln Lawyer), Diane Lane (Known for Unfaithful, Under The Tuscan Sun, Inside Out, and Man of Steel), and Rick Moranis ( Best known for Parenthood, Spaceballs, Little Shop of Horrors, and Little Brews). That’s right, Rick Moranis is in this film, and he did this one the same year (Right before) Ghostbusters! Also Willem Dafoe is also in this film! The quick summary of the film is “A gun for hire is hired to rescue his ex-girlfriend, who has been kidnapped by a motorcycle gang.” Let’s see how this film is shall we? Interest: The movie holds my interest well enough. The mo...

Interest: 7.5/10 Acting: 6.5/10 Storyline: 7/10 Intensity: 10/10 Fights Guns or Otherwise: 7.5/10 Nudity: 10/10 Action: 6/10 Crime: 10/10 Drama: 10/10 Logic: 5/10 Savage Streets is a 1984 film, and the genres it is categorized in is action, crime, and drama. Run time is one hour and thirty-three minutes. The movie stars Linda Blair (known for The Exorcist, Savage Streets, Hell Night, and Exorcist II: The Heretic), John Vernon (known for Dirty Harry, Animal House, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Killer Klowns From Outer Space), and Robert Dryer (Known for Savage Streets, Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow, Dead Men Don’t Die, and The Rousters). The quick summary of this film is “A teenage goes on a revenge killing against criminal scum who raped her handicapped sister and for killing her best friend.” This one seems schlockey but fun, let’s see how it scores shall we? Interest: The movie kept my interest well. It can b...

Interest: 6.5/10 Acting: 8/10 Storyline: 6.5/10 Crime: 6.5/10 Fights Guns or otherwise: 7/10 Excitement: 6.5/10 Drama: 7/10 Nudity: 0/10 Thriller: 7/10 Logic: 7/10 Falling down is a 1993 film that is one hour and fifty-three minutes long. It is a crime, drama, and thriller. This is a fairly well known film that seems to be liked fairly well by most (IMDB, and Rotten Tomatoes give it fair praise, metacritic has it sitting at a 50%) It also stars Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, and Barbara Hershey, among others. The quick summary of this movie is a defense worker that is unemployed, becomes angry at things he sees in society, and begins to lash out at them. Let’s go see if this movie is any good, shall we? Interest: The movie is fairly interesting, unraveling the incredible craptastic day someone is having, and it just goes from bad to worse, and never lets up. I won’t say it had me screaming or drooling fo...