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 | | 2. Chaos | | | Starring: Ryan Phillippe Wesley Snipes Director: Tony Giglio | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/9/2008 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 |  | Chaos (2005) - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/31/2009 7:48 PM | |
Though it ended up going straight to DVD in the U.S. (after earning a total of about $1 million in France), Chaos surprises by opening with a real bang. Might something good actually come of this? The film opens with a big bank heist -- always a reliable crowd-pleaser -- in which Wesley Snipes' Lorenz holes up and makes a bunch of demands, including that suspended cop Quentin Conners (Jason Statham) be brought in to negotiate. But just when things look like they're going to get interesting, Lorenz blows up the bank, the hostages all run out, and Lorenz vanishes... along with the movie's engagement. read the full review | |
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 | | 6. Crank 2-High Voltage | | | Starring: Jason Statham Director: Mark Neveldine Brian Taylor | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/8/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Crank: High Voltage - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 8/28/2009 5:42 PM | |
Jason Statham remains the most mysterious of action heroes. Sure, he's muscular and menacing, with a faade both funny and frightening. But take him away from all the bare-knuckled bedlam, and he's nothing but a ready ripped torso. In films like Death Race and The Transporter, he's often nothing more than a cut clothesline to hang stunts on. The same could be said for his work in the grand guilty pleasure Crank. As a man who must find the antidote to a poison he was purposely given, Statham was all adrenaline and attitude. Lionsgate hopes to continue the cult with the mandatory sequel High Voltage -- and you know what, it's a terrific sleazoid treat. read the full review | |
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 | | 9. War (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Jason Statham Jet Li Director: Phillip G. Atwell | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/1/2008 | | War - DVD Review By: Jesse Hassenger - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 12/22/2007 12:57 AM | |
The problem with being a connoisseur of B-grade action movies is that eventually you start applying the kind of elevated expectations that this genre is supposed to guard against. You get so accustomed to, say, a late-summer Jason Statham movie providing more thrills than many of its big-budget counterparts that suddenly Statham and Jet Li costarring in a chintzy action picture becomes a victim of perhaps unreasonable expectations. That pairing of B-movie titans, somewhat inexplicably titled War, is neither a team-up nor a battle royale; it's actually kind of like a low-budget Heat knockoff, with a far larger cast and a far snakier plot than is warranted by the stars' specific and unpretentious skill sets. read the full review | |
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 | | 11. Bank Job (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Jason Statham Director: Roger Donaldson | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/27/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | The Bank Job - DVD Review By: Chris Cabin - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/4/2008 7:34 PM | |
Based on some unspeakable, super classified bank robbery that took place in 1971 London, the investigation of which yielded no recovered money nor any arrests, Roger Donaldson's The Bank Job throttles its engines and tosses in just enough criminal bottom-dwellers to keep the viewers' minds away from the fact that it's still just another heist flick with a cockney accent and a taste for pints.
Names changed (get this) to protect the guilty, the whole mess breaks out when political revolutionary Michael X (Peter De Jersey) snaps some shots of Princess Margaret getting double teamed by two young men on a secluded island. read the full review | |
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 | | 14. Death Race | | | Starring: Jason Statham Joan Allen Director: Paul Anderson | | Format: DVD Release Date: 4/14/2009 | | Death Race - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 12/12/2008 4:33 PM | |
Set in the apocalyptic future of 2012, Death Race imagines a flawed and brutal penal system where private corporations run prisons for profit and inmates at the Terminal Island Penitentiary are forced to compete in a televised, NASCAR-esque sprint to the death. read the full review | |
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 | | 17. War | | | Starring: Jason Statham Jet Li Director: Phillip G. Atwell | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/6/2008 | | War - DVD Review By: Jesse Hassenger - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 12/22/2007 12:57 AM | |
The problem with being a connoisseur of B-grade action movies is that eventually you start applying the kind of elevated expectations that this genre is supposed to guard against. You get so accustomed to, say, a late-summer Jason Statham movie providing more thrills than many of its big-budget counterparts that suddenly Statham and Jet Li costarring in a chintzy action picture becomes a victim of perhaps unreasonable expectations. That pairing of B-movie titans, somewhat inexplicably titled War, is neither a team-up nor a battle royale; it's actually kind of like a low-budget Heat knockoff, with a far larger cast and a far snakier plot than is warranted by the stars' specific and unpretentious skill sets. read the full review | |
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 | | 23. War (Blu-ray) | | | Starring: Jason Statham Jet Li Director: Phillip G. Atwell | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 1/1/2008 | | War - DVD Review By: Jesse Hassenger - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 12/22/2007 12:57 AM | |
The problem with being a connoisseur of B-grade action movies is that eventually you start applying the kind of elevated expectations that this genre is supposed to guard against. You get so accustomed to, say, a late-summer Jason Statham movie providing more thrills than many of its big-budget counterparts that suddenly Statham and Jet Li costarring in a chintzy action picture becomes a victim of perhaps unreasonable expectations. That pairing of B-movie titans, somewhat inexplicably titled War, is neither a team-up nor a battle royale; it's actually kind of like a low-budget Heat knockoff, with a far larger cast and a far snakier plot than is warranted by the stars' specific and unpretentious skill sets. read the full review | |
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 | | 28. Crank (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Jason Statham Director: Brian Taylor Mark Neveldine | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/9/2008 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Crank - DVD By: Keith Breese - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 12/29/2006 5:45 PM | |
They call it the “Beijing cocktail” and when it’s injected into your bloodstream you’ve got about an hour to live. The science behind the drug is cloudy. But all you need to know is that it slows your heart to a crawl. A deadly crawl. The only solution is adrenalin. Lots and lots of adrenalin. When contract killer Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) is pumped full of “Beijing cocktail” he catches on quick that to survive – see his girl, kill the man who doped him, even some scores – he’s got to keep moving. Keep pumped. read the full review | |
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