The stocky Thai stuntman turned action hero has an impressive physique, a steel snap to his delivery, and a gymnastic prowess to his style, and it’s all on display in this endearingly naïve martial arts adventure.
Chiwetel Ejiofor and Sophie Okonedo star in Stephen Frears’ social portrait of London’s sub-strata of immigrants, illegal aliens, and asylum seekers, with a twist of black market caper.
Johnny Depp bobs and weaves his way through this pirate adventure as Jack Sparrow, a black pirate come high seas con man with a heart of tarnished stolen gold.
The original ‘The Matrix’ has become such a touchstone of American pop culture—referenced, copied, parodied, and parroted)—that it’s hard to remember just how new and different and distinctive it was when it debuted in 1999.
