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Earnest yet curiously tepid and choppy recycling in which predictability is the only winner .
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Ultimately this is a frustrating patchwork : an uneasy marriage of Louis Begley 's source novel -LRB- About Schmidt -RRB- and an old Payne screenplay .
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The exploitative , clumsily staged violence overshadows everything , including most of the actors .
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We started to wonder if ... some unpaid intern had just typed ` Chris Rock , ' ` Anthony Hopkins ' and ` terrorists ' into some Univac-like script machine .
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Even when Crush departs from the 4W formula ... it feels like a glossy rehash .
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More likely to have you scratching your head than hiding under your seat .
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Bears is even worse than I imagined a movie ever could be .
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When you find yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie , you know the picture is in trouble .
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This is very much of a mixed bag , with enough negatives to outweigh the positives .
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Marinated in clichés and mawkish dialogue .
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Whether it 's the worst movie of 2002 , I ca n't say for sure : Memories of Rollerball have faded , and I skipped Country Bears .
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But this new jangle of noise , mayhem and stupidity must be a serious contender for the title .
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-LRB- A -RRB- boldly stroked , luridly coloured , uni-dimensional nonsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporates like so much crypt mist in the brain .
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Not once in the rush to save the day did I become very involved in the proceedings ; to me , it was just a matter of ` eh . '
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Rollerball IS as bad as you think , and worse than you can imagine .
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The first question to ask about Bad Company is why Anthony Hopkins is in it .
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We assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce , because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low .
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Not exaggerated enough to be a parody of gross-out flicks , college flicks , or even flicks in general .
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It merely indulges in the worst elements of all of them .
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Shame on writer\/director Vicente Aranda for making a florid biopic about mad queens , obsessive relationships , and rampant adultery so dull .
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Violent , vulgar and forgettably entertaining .
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Nothing happens , and it happens to flat characters .
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With a completely predictable plot , you 'll swear that you 've seen it all before , even if you 've never come within a mile of The Longest Yard .
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Remember back when thrillers actually thrilled ?
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Sadly , as Blood Work proves , that was a long , long time ago .
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Blue Crush has all the trappings of an energetic , extreme-sports adventure , but ends up more of a creaky `` Pretty Woman '' retread , with the emphasis on self-empowering schmaltz and big-wave surfing that gives pic its title an afterthought .
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This movie plays like an extended dialogue exercise in Retard 101 .
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What we get in FearDotCom is more like something from a bad Clive Barker movie .
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In other words , it 's badder than bad .
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If they broke out into elaborate choreography , singing and finger snapping it might have held my attention , but as it stands I kept looking for the last exit from Brooklyn .
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A sloppy slapstick throwback to long gone bottom-of-the-bill fare like The Ghost and Mr. Chicken .
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A small independent film suffering from a severe case of Hollywood-itis .
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Where the film falters is in its tone .
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The story alone could force you to scratch a hole in your head .
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Ultimately , Sarah 's dedication to finding her husband seems more psychotic than romantic , and nothing in the movie makes a convincing case that one woman 's broken heart outweighs all the loss we witness .
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Feels more like a rejected X-Files episode than a credible account of a puzzling real-life happening .
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Men in Black II achieves ultimate insignificance -- it 's the sci-fi comedy spectacle as Whiffle-Ball epic .
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A zombie movie in every sense of the word -- mindless , lifeless , meandering , loud , painful , obnoxious .
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It does n't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is a Mormon family movie , and a sappy , preachy one at that .
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Definitely a crowd-pleaser , but then , so was the Roman Colosseum .
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Certainly not a good movie , but it was n't horrible either .
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Although it starts off so bad that you feel like running out screaming , it eventually works its way up to merely bad rather than painfully awful .
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The result is so tame that even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel .
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It appears to have been modeled on the worst revenge-of-the-nerds clichés the filmmakers could dredge up .
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Nothing but an episode of Smackdown !
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It takes you somewhere you 're not likely to have seen before , but beneath the exotic surface -LRB- and exotic dancing -RRB- it 's surprisingly old-fashioned .
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While the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible Anne Rice novel it 's based upon , Queen Of The Damned is a pointless , meandering celebration of the goth-vampire , tortured woe-is-me lifestyle .
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It should be interesting , it should be poignant , it turns out to be affected and boring .
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A tired , predictable , bordering on offensive , waste of time , money and celluloid .
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If Hill is n't quite his generation 's Don Siegel -LRB- or Robert Aldrich -RRB- , it 's because there 's no discernible feeling beneath the chest hair ; it 's all bluster and cliché .
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Stealing Harvard will dip into your wallet , swipe 90 minutes of your time , and offer you precisely this in recompense : A few early laughs scattered around a plot as thin as it is repetitious .
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This is an insultingly inept and artificial examination of grief and its impacts upon the relationships of the survivors .
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` Martin Lawrence Live ' is so self-pitying , I almost expected there to be a collection taken for the comedian at the end of the show .
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The dialogue is cumbersome , the simpering soundtrack and editing more so .
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Never decides whether it wants to be a black comedy , drama , melodrama or some combination of the three .
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It has become apparent that the franchise 's best years are long past .
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Hate it because it 's lousy .
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... better described as a ghost story gone badly awry .
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Like a bad improvisation exercise , the superficially written characters ramble on tediously about their lives , loves and the art they 're struggling to create .
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The filmmakers are playing to the Big Boys in New York and L.A. To that end , they mock the kind of folks they do n't understand , ones they figure the power-lunchers do n't care to understand , either .
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Competently directed but terminally cute drama .
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The big finish is a bit like getting all excited about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling missing .
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Not just unlikable .
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Disturbing .
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Disgusting .
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Without any redeeming value whatsoever .
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This thing is virtually unwatchable .
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Those eternally devoted to the insanity of Black will have an intermittently good time .
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Feel free to go get popcorn whenever he 's not onscreen .
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The self-serious Equilibrium makes its point too well ; a movie , like life , is n't much fun without the highs and lows .
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The work of an exhausted , desiccated talent who ca n't get out of his own way .
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The main characters are simply named The Husband , The Wife and The Kidnapper , emphasizing the disappointingly generic nature of the entire effort .
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In terms of execution this movie is careless and unfocused .
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Swims in mediocrity , sticking its head up for a breath of fresh air now and then .
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The only type of lives this glossy comedy-drama resembles are ones in formulaic mainstream movies .
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The characters ... are paper-thin , and their personalities undergo radical changes when it suits the script .
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The trouble is , its filmmakers run out of clever ideas and visual gags about halfway through .
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- spy action flick with Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu never comes together .
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A so-so , made-for-TV something posing as a real movie .
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Whether this is art imitating life or life imitating art , it 's an unhappy situation all around .
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An uneasy mix of run-of-the-mill raunchy humor and seemingly sincere personal reflection .
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A formula family tearjerker told with a heavy Irish brogue ... accentuating , rather than muting , the plot 's saccharine thrust .
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This is Sandler running on empty , repeating what he 's already done way too often .
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This is as lax and limp a comedy as I 've seen in a while , a meander through worn-out material .
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Time literally stops on a dime in the tries-so-hard-to-be-cool `` Clockstoppers , '' but that does n't mean it still wo n't feel like the longest 90 minutes of your movie-going life .
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The sort of picture in which , whenever one of the characters has some serious soul searching to do , they go to a picture-perfect beach during sunset .
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Has none of the crackle of `` Fatal Attraction '' , `` 9 1\/2 Weeks '' , or even `` Indecent Proposal '' , and feels more like Lyne 's stolid remake of `` Lolita '' .
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A rehash of every gangster movie from the past decade .
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Gaping plot holes sink this ` sub ' - standard thriller and drag audience enthusiasm to crush depth .
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Talkiness is n't necessarily bad , but the dialogue frequently misses the mark .
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The beautiful images and solemn words can not disguise the slack complacency of -LRB- Godard 's -RRB- vision , any more than the gorgeous piano and strings on the soundtrack can drown out the tinny self-righteousness of his voice .
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The stunt work is top-notch ; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny .
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The movie is n't painfully bad , something to be ` fully experienced ' ; it 's just tediously bad , something to be fully forgotten .
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Charly comes off as emotionally manipulative and sadly imitative of innumerable past Love Story derisions .
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What a great shame that such a talented director as Chen Kaige has chosen to make his English-language debut with a film so poorly plotted and scripted .
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No amount of good intentions is able to overcome the triviality of the story .
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The film ... presents classic moral-condundrum drama : What would you have done to survive ?
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The problem with the film is whether these ambitions , laudable in themselves , justify a theatrical simulation of the death camp of Auschwitz II-Birkenau .
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... for all its social and political potential , State Property does n't end up being very inspiring or insightful .
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A film really has to be exceptional to justify a three hour running time , and this is n't .
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