Three Reasons Why: The Replacement Killers edition

Director Antoine Fuqua has made some pretty interesting and decent films over the years, from Tears of the Sun, Training Day, and Shooter. However one of his earliest films is probably one of his best (Behind Training Day) - and that movie is The Replacement Killers.

This was a film that came out and was quickly forgotten by a lot of people, the standard dvd release included some piss poor transferring of the original film, and no special features. But don't let that bring you down, The Replacement Killers was an awesome action film that had a great plot and good acting, but I'm not going to review it, instead I'm going to give Three Reasons Why this movie was awesome.


Reason One:
This film featured some of the best action sequences around at the time. Not only were they good they were realistic, unlike today's action films which tend to be ridiculous (I'm pointing squarely at you here Transporter 3) . Nothing was too over the top so it kept the film grounded and interesting. I'm not saying wickedly impossible stunts aren't bad, but who didn't die inside a little with Die Hard 4's jet plane sequence? I know I did


Reason Two:
Danny Trejo. Yeah that's right, the best character actor since Clint, Howard Danny Trejo is featured in this film as an assassin sent to kill the main character. Any film featuring Danny Trejo gets extra princess points in my book. I mean come on, this guy is fucking Machete! This guy is an amazing actor, he came from nothing and became one of the toughest guys in the business. Honestly all "tough-guy" actors are pussies in comparison to Danny Trejo.


(This about sums up just how bad ass Danny Trejo is, I'm pretty sure he actually just goes out to the grocery store like this.)


Reason Three:
Mira Sorvino kicks major ass. Coming fresh off the heels of the comedy Romy and Michelle, Sorvino does a major U-Turn in this film and is one sexy ass kicking machine. Her gruff nature and all around toughness really made the film. I can think of other actresses who do tough girl roles, but few who do girly-girly roles, then turn around and are a bad ass. Plus, did I mention she's smoking hot?

(The gun just makes her even hotter)

So yeah, there are my three reasons why The Replacement Killers was a great film. Sure, this list didn't go into technical details because honestly this film wasn't exactly all that memorable. It didn't fare well at the box office and some of the acting was total BS. but I enjoy it and would watch it again in a heartbeat and really in the end that's all that matters. How much YOU like the movie, what made YOU like it, and these three reasons are why I like The Replacement Killers.

(As a side note after some research I found out that this is actually available on BluRay and Standard in an extended edition, I don't know about the special features, but hopefully they put some good ones in there)

Someone pressed the reset button, and it was me!

I have spent a lot of my time watching movies and writing, what I hoped, were insightful reviews of the films I watched. I seemed to have an opinion about everything in them, but kept falling into the generic format trap that I tried so desperately to stay away from. The one thing I wanted more than anything else was a discussion of the films I had watched, someone to bounce thoughts off of, what they liked, what they did not like, and all that good stuff

With this is mind you can understand why I felt so trapped in the conventional medium of review writing, I felt that it was a wasted effort to write reviews on movies I had watched because anyone can write a review, but only a few people can actually do a good job of it.
So it is with that notion that I decided that my review writing days were done, I had officially hung up my hat on review writing and decided to start doing what I loved, talking about movies, not writing generic synopsis of them.

This is where you find me now, with a new ideal in my life on what I want to write. No more generic reviews that are stamped out like license plates, but instead something different. A discussion and my own thoughts on the films I watch.

So from this day forward this blog will be my own personal thoughts and opinions on what I have seen, what made that film good, or bad, and anything else film related that crosses my mind.

For those of you who read my reviews, I thank you and wish to send you to my friend James blog: Whispers of a Cinematic Echo which is an excellent resource for film reviews. James has an amazing amount of reviews and it really is one of the best review blogs out there.

Thank you for checking out my blog and enjoy what you read. If you have a movie suggestion, let me know! And I'll be sure to check it out.

-William