It’s a well established fact that movies don’t have to be technically good for them to be fun. Unfortunately for Hitman: Agent 47, it’s neither. A 96-minute diversion that has all the ingredients on paper for bonkers escapism at its very best, this video game adaptation reboot ends up being a tepid R-rated actioner instead. Not that there isn’t at …

If you I were a betting man, I’d say the good money would always be on a video game feature film adaptation sucking harder than a vacuum machine manufacturers convention. While there are exceptions (see: Silent Hill), history has taught us that most video game to movie adaptations should rather just be scrapped before the cameras start rolling. One such …

I never thought Live Free or Die Hard aka Die Hard 4.0 was a completely merit-free afair. A good movie? No. A good Die Hard movie? Hell no! But as a generic action, skop, skiet en donder kind of flick, it was an okay-ish popcorn muncher. A Good Day to Die Hard, Bruce Willis’ fifth outing as geographically and chronologically confused Det. John …

I’m not quite sure what kind of Australian brand of voodoo Sam Worthington uses (Chickens. It always involves chickens) but the man just keeps landing major roles. He’s been a cyborg who thinks he’s a man, a crippled soldier/giant warrior Smurf, a man on a ledge (literally) and a demigod with some Uncle and Grandfather issues. And in that first …