Recent Viewings, Part 2

[lester1/2jr]

Delirium (2023) - Took a late night chance on this one and didn't end up liking it. It was interesting to see Iceland, where it takes place, but there's too little of the scenery and altogether too much of the lead guy. Basically, it's a really downbeat foreign film combined with a found footage type plot about a horrible, evil, cursed box that makes people who have it go crazy (but they are like dying of curiosity about it). It also has a little bit of Memento to it because he is always waking up in a place and doesn't know how he got there.

2.5 /5 I'd say skip it

[FatFreddysCat]

"American Dragons" (aka "Double Edge," 1998)
A tough NYC cop (Michael Biehn of "Terminator" and "Aliens") teams up with a Korean detective to stop all out war in the streets between the local Mafia and the Japanese Yakuza, who want to take control of the city's underworld. Many bullets fly and punches are thrown.

Due to the East-meets-West angle, this direct to video action flick feels kinda like "Rush Hour" if it had been played straight. It's nothing I'll ever watch again, but it was a decent enough time waster.