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the chance it affords to watch jackson , who also served as executive producer , take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad
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's provocative stuff
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builds its multi-character story
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is a disaster , with cloying messages and irksome characters .
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is funny and pithy ,
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rare imax movie
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if the enticing prospect of a lot of nubile young actors in a film about campus depravity did n't fade amid the deliberate , tiresome ugliness
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` cultural revolution
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the soulful gravity
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very compelling , sensitive , intelligent and
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some quietly moving moments and an intelligent subtlety
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toback 's deranged immediacy makes it seem fresh again .
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great equalizer
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it 's defiantly and delightfully against the grain .
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an incredibly irritating comedy about thoroughly vacuous people
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is too picture postcard perfect , too neat and new pin-like , too obviously a recreation to resonate .
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this is rote spookiness , with nary an original idea ( or role , or edit , or score , or anything , really ) in sight , and
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keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils , political intrigue and brushes
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my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures .
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this film , like the similarly ill-timed antitrust ,
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a stab at soccer hooliganism
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no film could possibly be more contemptuous of the single female population .
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visit , this laboratory of laughter
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'' is far funnier than it would seem to have any right to be .
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some body is a shaky , uncertain film that nevertheless touches a few raw nerves .
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to either effort in three hours of screen time
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these ambitions , laudable in themselves
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will undoubtedly play well in european markets , where mr. besson is a brand name , and in asia , where ms. shu is an institution ,
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anyone who welcomes a dash of the avant-garde fused with their humor
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expects people to pay to see it
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the more you will probably like it .
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insignificant
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would go back and choose to skip it .
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going for that pg-13 rating
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heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness
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feels less the product of loving , well integrated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan , thinly sketched story .
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too goodly ,
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wes craven 's presence is felt ; not the craven of ' a nightmare on elm street ' or ` the hills have eyes , ' but the sad schlock merchant of ` deadly friend . '
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high-minded snoozer .
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consistently amusing
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a good noir
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, slapdash disaster .
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the parents -- and particularly the fateful fathers --
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's mildly interesting
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frustrating ` tweener '
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patience
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is perfectly creepy and believable
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to our dismay
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nothing about crime
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do n't work in concert .
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a frustrating ` tweener ' -- too slick ,
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they have been patiently waiting for
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is n't much better .
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a troubled and determined homicide cop
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a successful career in tv
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immature and
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this fascinating look at israel in ferment feels as immediate as the latest news footage from gaza and , because of its heightened , well-shaped dramas , twice as powerful .
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unbearable when it is n't merely offensive
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pacino and williams seem to keep upping the ante on each other , just as their characters do in the film .
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more annoying
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we never feel anything for these characters ,
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a true study ,
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that it seems the film should instead be called ` my husband is travis bickle '
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offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future
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amateurish , quasi-improvised
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has taken quite a nosedive from alfred hitchcock 's imaginative flight to shyamalan 's self-important summer fluff .
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blame eddie murphy
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rare
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erratic career
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rewarded
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on par with the first one
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the biggest problem
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climactic setpiece
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the director 's epitaph for himself
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, ghost ship is pretty landbound , with its leaden acting , dull exposition and telegraphed ` surprises . '
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is n't a bad film
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possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major film studio .
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no pastry is violated
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an unwieldy cast
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sacrifices its promise
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can write and deliver a one liner as well as anybody .
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that stubbornly refused to gel
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flashy gadgets and whirling fight sequences may look cool , but they ca n't distract from the flawed support structure holding equilibrium up
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an authentically vague , but ultimately purposeless , study in total pandemonium .
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engaging criminal
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done that ... a thousand times already
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sweet time building
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he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees
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permitting its characters more than two obvious dimensions and repeatedly placing them in contrived , well-worn situations
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a neat premise
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more than a bait-and-switch
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efficient
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a pretty good team
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no one involved , save dash , shows the slightest aptitude for acting
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offers a glimpse of the solomonic decision facing jewish parents in those turbulent times : to save their children and yet to lose them .
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truly magical
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in an attempt to make the film relevant today , without fully understanding what it was that made the story relevant in the first place
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's also uninspired , lacking the real talent and wit to elevate it beyond its formula to the level of classic romantic comedy to which it aspires
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intolerable
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know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for older fans or a silly , nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick
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