Sorry, fans, this Netflix original is more of a road/buddy film than a disaster movie. There are only two short shots of destruction in action, one of which doesn’t come until the very end of the movie. Director David M. Rosenthal’s film starts out with Will (Theo James, the Divergent series) taking a business trip from […]
Review: Skyscraper (2018)
Skyscraper Built on Solid Rock Skyscraper is the love child of The Towering Inferno and the original Die Hard, updated for today. Dwayne Johnson plays Will Sawyer, an Army vet and former FBI agent who’s now getting a security consulting business off the ground after losing part of his leg in the line of duty. […]
Review: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
It should tell you all something that I procrastinated writing this review. I just didn’t have strong enough feelings for it to dive right in. The fifth entry in the series finds our former park manager Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) working for a nonprofit bent on saving the dinosaurs that are left on Isla Nublar, […]
Review: Rampage Keeps the “Bad Video Game Adaptation” Streak Going
Lord knows we here at TDA love Dwayne Johnson. Starting with The Mummy Returns, he’s usually been the best part of whatever he’s in. This remains true for Rampage, as well. It’s just too bad the rest of the movie lets him down. Rampage was a 1986 Bally Midway arcade game in which players controlled […]
Review: The Hurricane Heist (2018)
The Hurricane Heist has almost everything you want in a disaster movie—improbable physics, inane dialog, Bulgaria standing in for Alabama, terrible American accents, and spectacular visuals. Plus killer hubcabs of death! The only thing it’s missing is a dog in peril. Maggie Grace (Lost, the Taken series) plays Casey, an ATF agent babysitting $600 million […]