Trial by Fire
The film plods at points, trudging along, and there are a few misguided narrative "devices" tacked on, but still, "Trial by Fire" bristles with anger.
Robert Knepper
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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
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General Harkness
Matt Zoller Seitz -
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
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Antonius
Matt Zoller Seitz -
R.I.P.D. (2013)
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Nawlicki
Steven Boone -
Hitman (2007)
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Yuri
Roger Ebert
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#175, July 10, 2013
Marie writes: I've been watching a lot of old movies lately, dissatisfied in general with the poverty of imagination currently on display at local cinemas. As anyone can blow something up with CGI - it takes no skill whatsoever and imo, is the default mode of every hack working in Hollywood these days. Whereas making a funny political satire in the United States about a Russian submarine running aground on a sandbank near a small island town off the coast of New England in 1966 during the height of the Cold War - and having local townsfolk help them escape in the end via a convoy of small boats, thereby protecting them from US Navy planes until they're safely out to sea? Now that's creative and in a wonderfully subversive way....
