Weekend, is it?
Yeah, it’s the weekend.
Take some time out on this Friday night (5 October) and pick from any one – or more if you’re feeling especially wild – of our six movies choices for your viewing pleasure.
Enjoy…
Die Hard 4.0 – E4 – 9pm
First, the problems.
It’s a bit subdued due to the American PG-13 rating, the villain is a bit rote and John McClane officially becomes invincible in this one, but Die Hard 4.0 deserves a lot more love than it gets.
Fast-paced, genuinely funny and legitimately action-packed; the fourth worst day of McClane’s life is highly entertaining. And it has parkour. Remember parkour?!
The Green Mile – Film 4 – 9pm
If the words ‘supernatural Tom Hanks prison drama’ don’t do it for you, I don’t know how else to sell this.
Lethal Weapon – RTÉ 2 – 10.05pm
When was the last time you watched Lethal Weapon? It’s incredible.
No, really. It’s an excellent, excellent film that not only embraces the highest reaches of 80s action nonsense, but transcends them.
Mel Gibson may have turned out to be a questionable human being, but his portrayal of a suicidal cop on a self-destructive rampage really is one for the ages.
Rush Hour – ITV – 11.15pm
If much lighter buddy cop fare is more your thing, the debut outing for Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan is a solid, tight affair.
Presumed Innocent – RTÉ One – 11.45pm
Harrison Ford on trial. Or rather, his character is. It’s like The Fugitive but more courtroom and less jumping out of sewer pipes into the water some 200 feet below.
Seriously, how did he survive that?
Red State – Film 4 – 2.15am
Kevin Smith tries to make A Serious Film for a change and the results are… alright?
Red State is clearly informed by the dealings of the Westboro Baptist Church – as seen on that Louis Theroux documentary that time – and makes a decent fist of satire and dark humour.
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