As with other After Dark Action offerings, it's well-trod ground, if rendered with polish.
The director is John Hyams, the man behind After Dark Action's "Dragon Eyes".
Although dark, action-drenched dramas are clearly the favorite, occasionally a comedy creeps through.
After Dark Action, a series of B pictures, is aimed at this slam-bang posse and arrives with barrels blazing.
Mr. Adkins's acting has improved since "El Gringo," a Tex-Mex shoot-'em-up released in May as part of the B-film series After Dark Action.
So says Giovanni Manzoni (Robert De Niro), a mobster in hiding, when explaining his pathological behavior in Luc Besson's dark action comedy "The Family".
Man of Steel, the latest iteration of the Superman series, lands on the big screen today with the hopes that the dark, action-heavy film can revive the classic comic book superhero as a Hollywood franchise.
But the drama, created by Charlie Higson of The Fast Show, the Young James Bond novels and a slew of zombie horror tales, is a lavish, dark, action-packed caper with outbreaks of superhuman violence and comedy.
(There are some dissenters: David Denby writes in The New Yorker that "It would be lovely to announce that the new Bond movie is scintillating, or at least rambunctiously exciting, but 'Skyfall,' in the recent mode of Christopher Nolan's 'Batman' films, is a gloomy, dark action thriller, and almost completely without the cynical playfulness that drew us to the series in the first place").
It would be lovely to announce that the new Bond movie is scintillating, or at least rambunctiously exciting, but "Skyfall," in the recent mode of Christopher Nolan's "Batman" films, is a gloomy, dark action thriller, and almost completely without the cynical playfulness that drew us to the series in the first place.
