Tag: Vin Diesel

Film review: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL.2, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

The first Guardians of the Galaxy film caused a minor sensation as it broke from the Marvel formula for a wildly different superhero experience. That film unusually but successfully combined elaborate often spectacular special effects, thrilling action sequences, vivid art direction, piss-taking humour and Gen X pop-cultural references including classic 1970’s power pop hits. With the sequel, writer/ director James

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Film review: THE LAST WITCH HUNTER, from ‘Built For Speed’

Put the words ‘Witch Hunter’ in a film title and you’re almost guaranteed a turkey. The optimistically titled The Last Witch Hunter – which stars Vin Diesel, Michael Caine, Elijah Wood and Rose Leslie – isn’t quite as awful as the 2013 abomination Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters but it’s still a ridiculous, incoherent load of codswallop. In an in

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Film review: FAST AND FURIOUS 7, from ‘Built For Speed’

The Fast and the Furious films have always been ludicrous but the latest instalment Furious 7 is as implausible and ridiculous as a Michael Bay film. Never have so many bad guys with machine guns shot so inaccurately, never have so many people survived savage beatings, back-breaking falls, missile attacks and car wrecks that would pulverise a normal human being.

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Film review: RIDDICK, from Built For Speed

Riddick, which sees Vin Diesel return as the indestructible and indecipherable, intergalactic outlaw of the title is one of the least anticipated sequels of recent years.  This is the third instalment in an ersatz trilogy that also includes 2000’s surprisingly effective Pitch Black and 2004’s awful The Chronicles of Riddick. Sitting somewhere between the two in terms of quality and

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Film review: FAST AND FURIOUS 6, from Built For Speed

Fast and Furious 6, which sounds like the title of a ballsier Enid Blyton novel, is an utterly preposterous action film that verges on “so bad it’s good” territory.  This is a film for the computer game generation so forget realism and consequences, just imbibe the hedonistic and unbridled destruction in a film so ridiculous and so disconnected from reality

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