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Entries Tagged ‘action’

Blu-ray review: Ninja Assassin [2009]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair   Warner Home Entertainment – 99 minutes – 2009 – Rated R – 1080p Widescreen 2.35:1 – DTS HD Master 5.1 Audio Mix     Have you ever had the experience of watching a movie and saying to yourself, “why the hell am I watching this?” Well you may ask yourself […]

Blu-ray review: The Hurt Locker [2008]

 Reviewed by Johnny McNair   Summit Entertainment – 131 mins – 2008 – Rated R – 1080p Widescreen 1.78:1 – Dolby Digital DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio     There have been a good number of films about the war in Iraq, but none of them have stuck to audiences or received high praise from critics. […]

Blu-ray review: The Rundown [2003]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair   Universal Studios Home Entertainment – 104 mins – 2003 – Rated R – 1080p Widescreen 2.35:1 – DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio       Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has made some seriously bad film choices lately, with embarrassing efforts such as Doom, Race to Witch Mountain, and the worse yet…Tooth […]

Blu-ray review: Cliffhanger [1993]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair   Sony Pictures Home Entertainment – 113 mins – 1993 – Rated R – 1080p Widescreen 2.35: 1 – DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio     Way back in the early 90’s, Sylvester Stallone had fallen from grace as the king of the action film genre and was reduced to doing lame […]

Blu-ray review: The Negotiator [1998]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair   Warner Home Entertainment – 139 mins  – 1998 – Rated R – 1080p Widescreen 2.39: 1 – Dolby TrueHD Audio 5.1     Watching The Negotiator is sort of like finding a needle in a haystack, because on average ten out of ten Hollywood action thrillers are either lame or […]

Blu-ray review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine [2009]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair Fox Home Entertainment – 107 minutes – 2009 – Rated PG-13 – 1080p Widescreen 2.35:1 – DTS Lossless 5.1 Audio Mix   The three X-Men movies have made a bundle of loot worldwide, so obviously a studio like Fox is not going to let that cash cow just retire in the […]

Blu-ray review: Blue Thunder [1983]

Reviewed by Johnny McNair Sony Pictures Home Entertainment – 109 mins – 1983 – Rated R – 1080p Widescreen 2.40: 1 – TrueHD 5.1 audio   Obviously during the summer of 1983 there was only one film dominating the box office, and that was Return of the Jedi. But there was another film that rode […]