Movie Reviews Abound

A stack of movie reviews from Chuck Dixon's files.

Movie reviews abound!

STUCK TOGETHER (2021) — It’s on Netflix. An ensemble cast of Parisians are forced into each other’s company during the covid pandemic.

THE LAST MERCENARY (2021) — It’s a Netflix thing. Jean Claude Van Damme is a former badass on the global stage.

THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (1945) — John Wayne and Robert Montgomery command a PT boat squadron that proves its worth in the Pacific.

CAT BALLOU (1965) — Jane Fonda comes back from boarding school to find her daddy’s ranch under fire from a powerful enemy.

Le Casse / THE BURGLARS (1971) — Jean Paul Belmondo heads up a gang of burglars who travel to Greece to steal a score.

RONIN (1998) — With the Cold War at an end, a band of former operatives accept employment from a terrorist organization.

CRAWL (2019) — It’s on Amazon Prime, folks. A young girl braves a Cat-5 hurricane to look for her dad.

DOOMSDAY (2008) — Scotland is walled off for the second time in history to contain a virulent plague pandemic.

The plot is simplicity itself. It’s the Spring of 1917 and two English tommies are assigned to cross no man’s land.

The town of Bottleneck is under the thumb of land-grabbers Brian Donlevy and Marlene Dietrich. The citizens’ only hope is Destry.

Bogart is broke in wartime Martinique and must accept a hire for his fishing boat from some Free French agents.

It’s on Amazon for those of you who’ve been hiding in a cave somewhere. An army from the future arrives with a warning.