Tekken
Directed by Dwight H. Little; Stars Jon Foo, Luke Goss, Tamlyn Tomita, Candice Hillebrand, Gary Daniels, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Street fighter (Foo) goes up against a team of elite warriors who want to steal the secret of his power.
Beholdthegeek.blogspot.com hails the action as “brutal and intense and Foo pulls his share of the weight in flashy fight scenes.”
Shogungamer.com commends the “costumes that replicate the look of the game characters.”
Cinemablend.com gives this “high-octane” flick a grade of 3 in its Excite-O-Meter.
The Ghost Writer
Directed by Roman Polanski; Stars Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams, Tom Wilkinson
While working on the memoirs of a former UK prime minister (Brosnan), a hack writer (McGregor) is put at risk. Financial Times’ Leo Robson thinks “Polanski’s approach is always magical. Even when diluted.” San Francisco Chronicle’s Mick LaSalle agrees: He “infuses the action with the quality of a waking nightmare.”
The New Yorker’s David Denby describes it “as organically structured—nothing is overstressed and wasted.”
Chloe
Directed by Atom Egoyan; Stars Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried, Liam Neeson, Max Thieriot, Nina Dobrev, Julie Kahner
After a jealous wife (Moore) hires an escort (Seyfried) to seduce her husband (Neeson), her worst fears come to pass.
Film Threat’s Don R. Lewis calls it a “taut, adult thriller.” MTV’s Kurt Loder concurs: “Plot switches … [win] the Hitchcock seal of approval.”
New York Daily News’ Elizabeth Weitzman sums it up as a “lesbian Fatal Attraction that manages to be simultaneously slick and tawdry.”