Movies starring Michelle Rodriguez
Screened in standard (non-IMAX) digital 3D. Avatar has been described as a "game-changer," and perhaps it is. I'll leave that for future historians to determine. What I can say with some assuredness is this is the most technically amazing motio...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, ...
The majority of this review is taken from what I wrote in 2009. I have tweaked and edited it to update it for 2022. Following the main review are a few new comments written following my re-watching of the film on September 23, 2022.Avatar has been d...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-09-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, ...
Perhaps it's a backhanded compliment to acknowledge that, as would-be "event" films about alien invasions go, Battle Los Angeles is superior to both Independence Day and Skyline. Nevertheless, the movie is likely to miss the mark for anyone in sear...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-03-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ACTION
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Ramon Rodriguez, Ne-You, ...
I suppose Blue Crush can be viewed as a "guilty pleasure", with an emphasis on the first word of that phrase over the second one. The movie, the latest directorial effort from John Stockwell (Crazy/Beautiful), is redeemed to one degree or another ...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-08-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: John Stockwell
Cast: Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, Matthew Davis, ...
Seemingly taking inspiration from Traffic, writer/director Nicholas Jarecki attempts to use a thematic connection (rather than a narrative one) to tie together three separate stories. (Although two of the segments intersect at the climax.) The...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-02-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Nicholas Jarecki
Cast: Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, ...
In order to be successful, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves needed to achieve at least three objectives: remain sufficiently faithful to its source material not to alienate the core audience, offer a broad enough story to attract non-gamers...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-05-30
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein
Cast: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Rege-Jean Page, ...
(This may contain spoilers. Hard to say with a series like this.)Life may be like a box of chocolates, but Fast and Furious films aren’t. With these movies, you always know what you’re going to get. After two decades of increasingly improb...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-06-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Action
Director: Justin Lin
Cast: Vin Diesel, Sung Kang, John Cena, ...
Fast & Furious brings back the cast of the original The Fast and the Furious in a blatant attempt to reconnect with viewers who have drifted away over the course of two weak sequels. This represents the only time Vin Diesel and Paul Walker hav...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-04-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Justin Lin
Cast: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, ...
"Mindless entertainment": that's a phrase that will be repeated often enough in association with Fast & Furious 6, which exists purely to showcase how idiotically over-the-top action sequences can become when annoyances like gravity are tossed to t...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-05-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Justin Lin
Cast: Vin Diesel, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, ...
Speed, adrenaline, and a distinct lack of intelligence - those are characteristics that could easily be ascribed to street racing, an underground sports phenomenon that keeps the police busy in some communities. The same adjectives can be used to ...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-06-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Rob Cohen
Cast: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, ...