Comments on: Director: Gareth Evans https://thegoodsreviews.com Watching and asking: Is It Good? Wed, 07 May 2025 21:18:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Andrew Milne https://thegoodsreviews.com/review-index/guest-review-series/gareth-evans-retrospective/#comment-2347 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:47:25 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=10367#comment-2347 In reply to Hunter Allen.

Thanks! I have some powerfully ambivalent feelings about Apostle! We’ll get there soon enough.

I like the story of The Raid 2, but it wouldn’t work *without* the action. On this, too, I have many, many thoughts forthcoming.

]]> By: Hunter Allen https://thegoodsreviews.com/review-index/guest-review-series/gareth-evans-retrospective/#comment-2344 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:26:05 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=10367#comment-2344 Godspeed, though of my data points for Evans’s career, he’s good at filming martial arts and awful at almost everything else. Admittedly, I’m basing this solely on Apostle. Though I guess I could also base it on the story part of The Raid 2. (I still find The Raid to be a genuinely investing story of a fraternal relationship, though, and Merantau is neutral, so he’s not 0/4 screenplay-wise.)

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