Category: Rics Reviews

Dick Tracy It’s hard to believe that at one time it was almost considered to be a huge risk for a major studio to greenlight a movie that was based upon a comic book or a comic strip.  Even in the wake of the success that was Donner’s Superman, Hollywood still proved to be pretty […]

Die Another Day It was extremely clear by this point, after 40 years and 20 movies, that the James Bond Franchise as we knew it was dying fast: Every possible concept, idea, and storyline within the formula had been milked to a dry bone, which led to star Pierce Brosnan and the producers screaming for […]

Die Hard Every once in a while we get what comes along that which is known as a “blueprint” movie, one which epitomizes everything that is perfect about a particular genre for all time and thus in doing so lays down the foundation for nearly all the films in that given genre yet to come.  […]

Die Hard 2: Die Harder 1988’s Die Hard stands forever as being the one film that set the modern standard for almost all action movies that have come since, a taut, hard edged shoot em out that saw a building full of Eurotrash terrorists (who in reality were just high tech bank robbers) take on […]

Live Free Or Die Hard The long-awaited fourth entry in the Die Hard series is like a breath of fresh air when compared to the current action fare despite some minor flaws, and while not quite acheiving the greatness of 1 and 2, is leagues better than the shitfest that was 3. The first 20 […]

Die Hard 5: A Good Day To Die Hard Every franchise sells out, sooner or later. Too many sequels, too many attempts to replicate the magic and success of a classic first movie. Case in point with The Die Hard Franchise. They indeed had a nice long run, with Bruce Willis capping asshole bad guys […]

Die Hard With A Vengeance After the rip roaring, smashing successes that were the first two Die Hard films, it was perhaps inevitable that the third film in the franchise was going to be a bit of a letdown, especially given two semi related events that managed to cast a bit of a shadow over […]

Die Screaming, Marianne Watching a Pete Walker movie is sometimes a good film tutorial of how NOT to get the job done, for even when you have the proper tools, you can still manage to muck things up.  Here, Walker gets one of his best leading ladies in Susan George (best remembered as Dustin Hoffman’s […]

Direct Contact When it comes to making the cheesiest, corniest action movies, nobody does it better than the European film industry. And when it comes to starring as an action hero in these same types of movies, nobody (except for the past his prime Steven Seagal) does it better than the one and only Dolph […]

Dirty Harry A riveting classic that was way ahead of its time in 1971 and still asks questions that remain relevant today, director Don Siegel’s Grand Masterpiece is a study of our criminal justice system and the inherent flaws that it contains where criminal’s rights are valued above all else and victim’s rights are often […]