Set during the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese legend (AD220-AD290), the narrative involves a bad-tempered king (Zheng Kai) and a commander (Deng Chao) who rallies against him. Inspired by Chinese ink brush paintings and the tai chi diagram, the production was shot in colour but filled with black and white sets and costumes, with almost all of its colour coming from the actors’ skin. You may not have heard of director Zhang Yimou’s visually ravishing epic, but it was the best action movie of 2018, offering a genuinely fresh aesthetic experience. Honourable mentions: Good Grief (film, 9 February), Dementia and Us (TV, 15 February), How to Paint the Mona Lisa (TV, 16 February), The Missing Children (TV, 28 February). Nicole Chamoun as Amanda and Thomas Jane as Ted in Troppo.
Which leads to a bold question: what if being drunk gave him the audacity to pull the manoeuvre that saved almost everybody? It is an intriguing, potentially fraught way to approach the issue of drug use, in a film that is ultimately about a man confronting his demons and overcoming his addictions. A bona fide hero, right?īut Whitaker, a drug user and alcoholic, was three sheets to the wind at the time. He flips the plane, realigns it, and saves almost everybody on board. Robert Zemeckis’ underrated 2012 drama opens with a spectacular white-knuckle plane crash sequence in which the pilot, Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington), performs a daring crash landing after a mechanical error. This time the protagonist is played by the very buff Alan Ritchson, presenting a version of the character who swings his fists, frowns a lot and can open screw cap bottles by pressing them against his biceps. Like the Tom Cruise movies Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, this eight-part action thriller is based on author Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books, following a former military major who frequently finds himself in rather precarious cloak-and-dagger situations. Honourable mentions: The Fear Index (TV, 11 February), Frank (film, 13 February), Sleeping with Other People (film, 20 February), Counterpart seasons 1 and 2 (TV, 21 February), Primal Fear (film, 25 February), Airplane! (film, 26 February), Babel (film, 27 February).
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