Matt Damon plays the anti-Bond of Hollywood action cinema, a man who lost his memory and discovers he was trained to be a killing machine by the people trying to kill him.
Tag: 2002
‘Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams’ on Netflix
The second film in Robert Rodriguez’s junior James Bond fantasies takes them to a sweet mad scientist creating preposterous dream-creatures hatched with a childlike love of puns.
Steven Spielberg’s ‘Minority Report’ on Hulu and Paramount+
Tom Cruise is a cop who arrests criminals before they commit crimes in the future shock crime thriller based on a story by sci-fi visionary Philip K. Dick.
Jason Statham is ‘The Transporter’ on HBO Max
Thank Luc Besson for keeping the sleek, swift, unpretentious action movie alive in the 20th century, beginning with high speed lark.
Last chance: Steven Spielberg’s ‘Catch Me If You Can’ on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video
FBI agent Tom Hanks chases check forger Leonardo DiCaprio in Steven Spielberg’s lively take on the true story of a con man who successfully passed himself off as a pilot, a lawyer, and a doctor, and passed over $4 million in forged checks, all before his 21st birthday.
Last chance: ‘The Pianist’ – the devastating Oscar-winning drama on Netflix
Adrien Brody stars in Roman Polanski’s film of the true story of Holocaust survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman, which won three Academy Awards.
‘Roger Dodger’ – Jaded love on Amazon Prime
Take an uneasy lesson from Campbell Scott’s charismatic cad in this sharply written character study in romantic cynicism. Jesse Eisenberg costars as his young pupil.
‘Men with Brooms’ on Amazon Prime
Men with Brooms (2002) – Think The Full Monty on ice: Canada’s most famous TV Mountie Paul Gross (Due South) puts tongue firmly in cheek as he applies the old underdog sports team formula to that great Northern obsession: curling. (You thought hockey was the national obsession? So did Canada.) Gross directs, co-writes, produces and stars […]
Al Pacino battles ‘Insomnia’ on HBO Max
Between his breakthrough hit Memento and his blockbuster smash Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan helmed Insomnia (2002), the American remake of the icy, sun-bright 1997 Norwegian noir. Relocated to Alaska and starring Al Pacino in the role played by Stellan Skarsgård in the original, it’s built on the same motif: the 24 hour daylight of the […]
‘Changing Lanes’ – Ben Affleck vs Samuel Jackson
Roger Michell, best known for his British period pieces and romantic dramas, directed this overlooked film that delves into anger management, revenge, and culpability.