Survivor

A generic spy caper with a 90s flavour, and I don't mean that in a good way. Survivor wants to be a variation on Bourne or The Fugitive, but it has too many weird coincidences for that, an extremely inept villain, and a heroine who survives not by intelligence and her abilities, but by dumb luck and the art of scratching her opponents' eyes out. That Milla Jovovich and James McTeigue are stooges I more or less knew, and I give Pierce Brosnan two more films like this and rank him right up there with them. Survivor is closer to the new Steven Seagal movies than it is to quality action thrillers. (05/31/2015)

Better than November Man, with a smarter script with better characters and their motivations. It starts off very well and those old-school espionage games have always been, are, and will be cool, and at times it seems like it could rival Bourne. Unfortunately, things go downhill and the chase through London is weaker, ending with an utterly ridiculous finale, following the worst script clichés. Thankfully, they realized that Pierce Brosnan is best as a villain, and here he plays a natural born hitman, The Watchmaker was damn cool. Unfortunately, they realized it almost 15 years after his biggest action role as a good guy and ladies’ man. (07/12/2015)