Friday Features, Sept. 14, 2012
Mila Jovovich returns to try to reclaim a star performance after her one and only great role in The Fifth Element. Does that sound bias? I guess it is, since The Fifth Element is my favorite move. Like, ever. (Tell us yours in the comments below.)
Each week, we take a look at Hollywood’s latest offerings and grade them on their Asian-American movie presence, or lack thereof. Will this week be an easy A, or will the flicks have to work for that letter grade? Grab some kettle corn and find out in this week’s Friday Features.
Studio: No. of AA: 7
Rating: A+
After returning home from World War II, a veteran starts a faith-based religion to make sense of the horrors of his experience. His right-hand man, however, begins to question the movement, as it gains a zealous following.
Studio: No. of AA: 2
Rating: C+
Based on the Resident Evil video game franchise, Retribution follows Alice (and Ada Wong) as she seeks to uncover Umbrella Corporation’s deadly virus origins, jet setting from Tokyo, to New York and Moscow, in the process. Screening in both 3-D and regular old 2-D.
Studio: No. of AA: 0
Rating: F
Man goes to jail for bank robbing. Man gets out of jail. Man’s daughter gets kidnapped and ransomed for amount he went to jail for. Man robs bank to get money he doesn’t have. That’s pretty much this low-budget movie in a nutshell. Oh, and there’s a taxi cab and Nicholas Cage.
Ghoulardi Film
Company
Screen Gems
Millennium
Films
Overall rating this week: A
Tags: Ada Wong, Nicholas Cage, Resident Evil: Retribution, Stolen, The Master, video game
