Good cast but what made the 1972 Bronson original so legendary appears to be missing in what looks to be a pretty typical Jason Statham genre pic. The methodical nature of watching Bronson’s “mechanic” ply his trade, the scene where he and his new apprentice (a never better Jan-Michael Vincent) test each other’s cold-bloodedness as a young woman bleeds out, and of course the existential nature of the entire last half. There was a sincere and quite intentional meanness to that story which fit the topic perfectly.
We’ll see what the remake holds in store on January 28th. Screen Rant has more.
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Superb trailer. “Iron Man” director Jon Favreau just gets this stuff. Between this and “True Grit” could the Western see a revival? Here’s hoping.
“Cowboys and Aliens” hits theatres in July.
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Who else is tired of ironic, self-aware, hipster superheroes not played by Robert Downey Jr.?
“Green Lantern” hits theatres this June.
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Hey, maybe a quarter-century after the War on Terror, mainstream Hollywood can be just as unhelpful and late to the party with a film displaying the evils of Islamism.
Couldn’t show the evils of a Soviet gulag in 1985, might help Reagan.
If nothing else, Ed Zwick isn’t directing this, which means it might not suck.
“The Way Back” lands in theatres January 21st.
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