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I love sci-fi and am willing to put up with a lot. Sci-fi movies/TV are usually underfunded, under-appreciated and misunderstood. I tried to like this, I really did, but it is to good TV sci-fi as Babylon 5 is to Star Trek (the original). Silly prosthetics, cheap cardboard sets, stilted dialogues, CG that doesn't match the background, and painfully one-dimensional characters cannot be overcome with a 'sci-fi' setting. (I'm sure there are those of you out there who think Babylon 5 is good sci-fi TV. It's not. It's clichéd and uninspiring.) While US viewers might like emotion and character development, sci-fi is a genre that does not take itself seriously (cf. Star Trek). It may treat important issues, yet not as a serious philosophy. It's really difficult to care about the characters here as they are not simply foolish, just missing a spark of life. Their actions and reactions are wooden and predictable, often painful to watch. The makers of Earth KNOW it's rubbish as they have to always say "Gene Roddenberry's Earth..." otherwise people would not continue watching. Roddenberry's ashes must be turning in their orbit as this dull, cheap, poorly edited (watching it without advert breaks really brings this home) trudging Trabant of a show lumbers into space. Spoiler. So, kill off a main character. And then bring him back as another actor. Jeeez! Dallas all over again. | I love sci-fi and am an avid watcher of the Star Trek shows. I'm also a huge nerd and think that all of the sci-fi movies of the 1950s and 60s (i.e. Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still, 2001: A Space ODyssey) were great Sci-Fi cinema. So imagine my joy when I watched this film as a teenager for the first time! It was my first introduction to Star Trek and was blown-away at the first episode I watched. I've been hooked ever since. I can still remember laughing my way through the original series and watching the movies the | I love sci-fi and am always on the lookout for great sci-fi films so whenever possible, I check out this genre; after seeing "Cult of the Cobra" I am no longer looking for "good" sci-fi films. This is no good and I think the makers of this movie think they have somehow made something good as they take the first sentence of the synopsis to be "The good one"! The premise is that the Earth is no longer habitable, there is no oxygen, a new colony is established on a deserted island, there are only 4 people on it (including the director who also stars in the film) and these characters go around | I love sci-fi and am a huge John Carpenter fan. I rented this on DVD and I was extremely disappointed. I would never have thought a great sci-fi writer like William Gibson would put his name on a story that was so poorly made. This wasn't scary, shocking or even interesting, in fact it was a very slow drawn out waste of 52 minutes of life.<br /><br />The lead actor John Rhys Davies (Dr. Who) did an outstanding job and the music was very creepy, but I still am very disappointed with the story. It just didn't play out for me. It was written by one of the best and this turned | I love sci-fi and am always on the lookout for any film that might be a classic. While most of them focus on some kind of alien invasion I have recently enjoyed some films that I was previously unfamiliar with that did not star aliens but still left me mesmerized.<br /><br />The most memorable of these films is one called "The Thing From Another World", later remade as "The Thing." However I saw the original version first, so my fondness for this film is from its original form. The movie is classic in it's simplicity and focus. It is just a simple tale involving a young group of men, one of which is a woman in | I love sci-fi and am a big fan of the original Star Wars. When I heard this movie was going to be coming out I was very excited but when I saw it I was very disappointed. All the new characters were flat and without depth. Their back stories were just thrown in without any emotional impact. And this was true for all the new people in the movie not just Han Solo. Chewie was totally different and made me mad all throughout the whole movie - why did they change him? I was in awe of the visuals but at the end I felt like the entire movie was just a way to show all the neat visuals they could cram into it. The | I love sci-fi and am interested in what the future holds. This film is so dated, the concept of computers, networks, security, data storage would be considered outdated in an 8th grade lab. The fact that it was from the late 60's really brought to mind the time when all of the space exploration happened. It was like reading a book from 1961. When one considers the real problems that the world confronts and has come across in the past 50 years - terrorism, drugs, crime, social and racial inequities, it does make one realize how far we have advanced. If only our political system had | I love sci-fi and am really pleased at the effort made to present a very realistic picture. This is something I've never seen before in TV / movie, and I'm 40 years old already. But some of the "stars" are really overacting. They're not convincing. One gets the impression that the actors are just doing it for fun. That's why I got the feeling that the producers had to go back to the shooting table to create additional tension. A pity. I'm sure the actors had to fight against it.<br /><br />It was interesting to see how the characters interacted. It was difficult to believe that they could stay | I love sci-fi and am one of those people who grew up in a sci-fi boom where everything great was being put on the screen, books were flying off the shelves and the sci-fi writers were making millions. I can honestly tell you the best book I read was Starship Troopers. It wasn't the only one either, but it was probably the one that made the best impact on me and I was about 13. Since then I read probably dozens of really good sci-fi movies, books, short stories, etc. This movie was the first of the few disappointments, being about fifteen when I saw the movie. I saw it twice actually and | I love sci-fi and am always on the look-out for something fresh and exciting, especially when the film is something which hasn't been done before....<br /><br />This film is a bit disjointed, with some scenes just plodding along when it could have been developing something further.<br /><br />However, all the actors give their all and the special effects are good.<br /><br />I am hoping this is not a one-off film. (There are some hints in the end when they mention being part of a long story, which makes me wonder...)<br /><br />All in all it was nice to watch and was not just | I love sci-fi and am in my 40s but this movie is too dumb to watch. There is a plot. OK. It's hard to say how it's done and there are some scenes that show off the acting abilities of Billy Zane. But overall, it's a waste of movie time. And with that, if I ever had the urge to rent another sci-fi movie to watch, I would certainly have it. I have watched all of them, so that's enough. This one is really too much to stand for. | 0.998925 | 0.000493 | 0.99871 | 0.0005 | 0.000486 | 0.998774 | 0.000499 | 0.002876 | 0.99864 | 0.99566 | I love sci-fi and am | willing to put up with a lot. Sci-fi movies/TV are usually underfunded, under-appreciated and misunderstood. I tried to like this, I really did, but it is to good TV sci-fi as Babylon 5 is to Star Trek (the original). Silly prosthetics, cheap cardboard sets, stilted dialogues, CG that doesn't match the background, and painfully one-dimensional characters cannot be overcome with a 'sci-fi' setting. (I'm sure there are those of you out there who think Babylon 5 is good sci-fi TV. It's not. It's clichéd and uninspiring.) While US viewers might like emotion and character development, sci-fi is a genre that does not take itself seriously (cf. Star Trek). It may treat important issues, yet not as a serious philosophy. 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Worth the entertainment value of a rental, especially if you like action movies. This one features the usual car chases, fights with the great Van Damme kick style, shooting battles with the 40 shell load shotgun, and even terrorist style bombs. All of this is entertaining and competently handled but there is nothing that really blows you away if you've seen your share before.<br /><br />The plot is made interesting by the inclusion of a rabbit, which is clever but hardly profound. Many of the characters are heavily stereotyped -- the angry veterans, the terrified illegal aliens, the crooked cops, the indifferent feds, the bitchy tough lady station head, the crooked politician, the fat federale who looks like he was typecast as the Mexican in a Hollywood movie from the 1940s. All passably acted but again nothing special.<br /><br />I thought the main villains were pretty well done and fairly well acted. By the end of the movie you certainly knew who the good guys were and weren't. There was an emotional lift as the really bad ones got their just deserts. Very simplistic, but then you weren't expecting Hamlet, right? The only thing I found really annoying was the constant cuts to VDs daughter during the last fight scene.<br /><br />Not bad. Not good. Passable 4. | Worth the entertainment value of its time, not a classic but still enjoyable.<br /><br />The basic story of four boys in an all African-American church on their way to an important baseball game in Chicago.<br /><br />The story isn't deep but it is a good idea how these kids would feel about what is happening to their churches and the adults. Even for today's standards, the story is good for kids.<br /><br />A very young Whoopi Goldberg stars in this. This was her first on film, although maybe she was a bit too young to fully understand the part she is playing and the emotion the characters is supposed to have. | Worth the entertainment value of those 21 minutes that is when you first feel the intensity of this movie. I believe the best portrayal of war that I have seen. This movie will stay with you for a long time. | Worth the entertainment value of watching Tom Hanks over-the-top impersonation of the legendary figure of Captain Ahab. The story-line is a bit predictable but it's a good time. The film is based on a book by the same author who in the film plays the part of Ishael, Moby Dick's lover. I had never heard of this author before until seeing this movie. It was not the book, though, that attracted me to see the movie. I like watching the story of Captain Ahab's hunt for his lost leg, lost in an ill-fated battle at sea, to kill Moby Dick, the whale that sank his ship and | Worth the entertainment value of a few minutes on the T.V. to check out. <br /><br />Good old fashioned comedy where the rich and famous try to make one rich and famous themselves.<br /><br />It looks like a little more of an 80's movie to me. This is where you would see all the usual elements of these kind of films... the fast paced dancing, lots of loud yelling and over acting. <br /><br />One funny scene (for me anyway) where a guy yells "I'll get ya!" over and over and over. <br /><br /> | Worth the entertainment value of it. I think it is a good show for children. What I really appreciate is that there are no crude humour and nothing with any sex. I like how there is just kids from different walks of life living in the same neighborhood. 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I wanted to try to rent the movie since I am a huge sports fan and my parents were so thrilled with his performance.<br /><br />I have heard other reports and news releases to the effect | Worth the entertainment value of getting the chance to see Sean Young and Robert Wagner in a leading role together again. As an actor whose first film role made him famous a few years later, I'm sure that is a great feeling. The story was a little far-fetched, but at least I didn't fall asleep while I was watching it. This film, with it's story of a young woman with a secret, is very interesting. My personal point of view. | Worth the entertainment value of its premise alone, "Haven't they done this before?" is a delight of a film. It has a nice sense of humor to spare. It moves as fast as it does with wit and flair. One of the very best comedy films ever. It's a shame such quality has fallen by the wayside. The humor is top notch, the pacing just right, the actors are at the top of their game, the story is well conceived. It's just great entertainment. Everyone should see this film, unless they consider themselves too intelligent for this kind of fare (which is a shame, because that isn't the right attitude to | Worth the entertainment value of the story to see what a couple of actors like this must have been like at the beginning of their careers. It is obvious that their talent was already known to the producer and cast the moment they were hired. They must have been like a breath of fresh air for the studio. You almost feel sorry for the rest of the cast who were stuck doing movies with less then A-caliber actors that couldn't act or act in their own right. I think the casting of the two main actors was an accurate choice. In the beginning of their movie you can tell that they didn't know what to expect from the next line and that they had | Worth the entertainment value of seeing Richard M. Ziman in person. He was the best at describing the history of rock and roll and what went on behind and in front of the scenes from 1955 to 1974.<br /><br />Ziman's own autobiography of his experiences are a big part of it as he was at almost every event during this time period and worked for most of the artists he spoke about.<br /><br />Ziman can speak with the best authority on Berry Gordone, Sam Phillips at Sun, Ike and Tina, the Beatles, Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and the list goes on | 0.998631 | 0.998904 | 0.998848 | 0.998917 | 0.998844 | 0.998485 | 0.998937 | 0.998783 | 0.998857 | 0.99893 | Worth the entertainment value of | a rental, especially if you like action movies. This one features the usual car chases, fights with the great Van Damme kick style, shooting battles with the 40 shell load shotgun, and even terrorist style bombs. All of this is entertaining and competently handled but there is nothing that really blows you away if you've seen your share before.<br /><br />The plot is made interesting by the inclusion of a rabbit, which is clever but hardly profound. Many of the characters are heavily stereotyped -- the angry veterans, the terrified illegal aliens, the crooked cops, the indifferent feds, the bitchy tough lady station head, the crooked politician, the fat federale who looks like he was typecast as the Mexican in a Hollywood movie from the 1940s. All passably acted but again nothing special.<br /><br />I thought the main villains were pretty well done and fairly well acted. By the end of the movie you certainly knew who the good guys were and weren't. There was an emotional lift as the really bad ones got their just deserts. 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its a totally average film with a few semi-alright action sequences that make the plot seem a little better and remind the viewer of the classic van dam films. parts of the plot don't make sense and seem to be added in to use up time. the end plot is that of a very basic type that doesn't leave the viewer guessing and any twists are obvious from the beginning. the end scene with the flask backs don't make sense as they are added in and seem to have little relevance to the history of van dam's character. not really worth watching again, bit disappointed in the end production, even though it is apparent it was shot on a low budget certain shots and sections in the film are of poor directed quality | its a totally average film, I have seen much better of that genre than this.., though it has some good acting and good script it was also totally boring., all in all you can see it if you are free but if your looking for something different or exciting then don't waste your time...and if you have the chance to get this as a freebie on DVDs don't loose it you will be thankful you didn't... | its a totally average film with good actors its not a piece of great cinematic art nor is it a boring average movie that you may find watching on TV...it's just an average movie that you can watch in the theater or on a big tv screen at home as a weekend activity....it has a lot of great actors in it including Jessica Alba which is one of the most wonderful actors of our time... I liked the movie and was very impressed by Jessica Alba she's one of the best actors of our era... Jessica Alba is definitely one of those actresses that you are going to hear about for a long long time to come even after most of us | its a totally average film of it's time. but the effects are good for the era it was produced in. especially the effects for the time it was filmed. it's not really a sequel to the original, but a remake, with similar actors, and basically the same plot line, just with a different name for the main villain. with the same sidekick, same 'villain' , and same good guy being able to get through one of the worst villains effects in later history. it was shot perfectly, and acted very well, its great, for a small child. its not really a scary movie, and not really a comedy. but an | its a totally average film, I give it 7 out of 10 for its entertainment value. you will see an average star cast giving average performance. the story it self is not too far fetched, its basically like any ordinary Indian movie. except for the music of course! i think the music of the film is the best thing and the only thing that matters, when it comes to watching an Indian movie. i really enjoyed the music because, though it was a normal music, it had a lot of emotional tunes and beats that made me feel the movie.<br /><br />but since the story is not that gripping, one can't understand what really | its a totally average film.<br /><br />nothing that you haven't seen before in another film.<br /><br />good cast but still... there is nothing new here... you can almost predict what is gonna happen before they happen...<br /><br />but that's really OK because this is just average story and film.<br /><br />we have all seen a few of them but still have not seen them all so why complain about one more added to the pile if its a good film and we get something new from it (even though I don't think we do)<br /><br />so I do not recommend getting excited about this film or | its a totally average film with a simple story of a guy who joins a cult group who he believes is taking revenge to all religious groups (Christians, Muslims and so on..... ) The actors try to give their best and the direction is really good i liked how the film was shot and made the audience feel like they were in the same place as the actors. The performances of the actors are quite good, the lead actors i.e. Kinnear and Cross are always a delight to look at and their characters are well played. I liked the part where the characters go through the woods and meet the crazy guys with the guns i thought that was quite a good | its a totally average film. the plot was predictable, acting was mediocre. some good shots of Australia but it would be a mistake to be taken with the visuals for this film. I hope the actors get another job soon. they will have to compete with the much better cast in the new comedy, wedding crashers. The most surprising thing about this film was its marketing. It's not at all that funny. it was advertised as a romp throughout the film, and I don't see it. it's definitely not funny or raunchy enough for me. you can catch this on Starz, which is a cable network I don't watch often but | its a totally average film about the life and times of an autistic boy who is in his teens, i don't know much about autism, but i have a few people who are autistic and they look at this movie and love it.<br /><br />i love movies like this there just so sweet and it makes me cry i love movies about people who have to deal with the real world and problems in their lives.<br /><br />so i recommend this film. this movie also contains very funny parts.<br /><br />you must have an awesome time watching this 4th grade play with a cast in drag. very funny. | its a totally average film<br /><br />i really dont know what the hell about how this even got made<br /><br />some movies have 30 people involved and they still sucked<br /><br />i like the idea of the movie and the acting was alright<br /><br />i just dont know this movie its just to long there was a long part of nothing just sitting there where they all talk | its a totally average film and the acting is good as long as you do not expect it to be a top notch. i really cant think of a worse film than the one and only "Crap" but there are other bottom ten films i remember so i'll tell you about this one. it has a very weak plot and a weak script but its only average acting and is not the worst i've seen, it really needs something better acting or a better plot to become a bad movie and i don't know how that's possible. you see i really didn't know if it was a comedy or not, i didnt know about any of the characters back story | 0.000488 | 0.000492 | 0.000487 | 0.998207 | 0.998282 | 0.004478 | 0.000485 | 0.998843 | 0.000492 | 0.998802 | its a totally average film | with a few semi-alright action sequences that make the plot seem a little better and remind the viewer of the classic van dam films. parts of the plot don't make sense and seem to be added in to use up time. the end plot is that of a very basic type that doesn't leave the viewer guessing and any twists are obvious from the beginning. the end scene with the flask backs don't make sense as they are added in and seem to have little relevance to the history of van dam's character. not really worth watching again, bit disappointed in the end production, even though it is apparent it was shot on a low budget certain shots and sections in the film are of poor directed quality | [
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STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning <br /><br />Former New Orleans homicide cop Jack Robideaux (Jean Claude Van Damme) is re-assigned to Columbus, a small but violent town in Mexico to help the police there with their efforts to stop a major heroin smuggling operation into their town. The culprits turn out to be ex-military, lead by former commander Benjamin Meyers (Stephen Lord, otherwise known as Jase from East Enders) who is using a special method he learned in Afghanistan to fight off his opponents. But Jack has a more personal reason for taking him down, that draws the two men into an explosive final showdown where only one will walk away alive.<br /><br />After Until Death, Van Damme appeared to be on a high, showing he could make the best straight to video films in the action market. 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He gets little dialogue at the beginning as he struggles to muster an American accent but gets mysteriously better towards the end. All the supporting cast are equally bland, and do nothing to raise the films spirits at all.<br /><br />This is one shepherd that's strayed right from the flock. * | STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning <br /><br />Cillian Murphy is possibly the finest of the British actors working at the moment, and one of the most talented that Hollywood has been able to lure back to our screen since the time of William Powell, Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan, and if he carries off a number of his projects in the coming months - which they say is inevitable - he could easily have as much, if not more, star power than Sean Connery.<br /><br />In 'City of Angels' he shows that he is as at home on the big screen as he is in | STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning <br /><br />An unremarkable low budget slasher flick that you can pretty much guess what will happen by just looking at the poster.<br /><br />It's one of those movies that won't really do too much wrong - but also isn't going to be too exciting either.<br /><br />It's the type of movie that you watch if you're looking for a bit of fun when you don't feel like doing anything much - but don't really want to be bored either.<br /><br />This film could definitely have had a better cast - | STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning <br /><br />It's often tempting to criticise an actor's career as it plods by, because that's exactly what one can do. It's all in the mind after all isn't it? Take a character a person in their early 20's now at 56, just think, in all those times in between that person's been through all the typical and non-typical life experiences. That person's a victim of child abuse or parental neglect in their younger years or someone who has their head in the dirt and not only takes in their experiences | STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning <br /><br />Tom (Gossett), the 25 year old, has just landed a great job working as a private eye in Miami. There's only one problem...he can't remember anything about his past, or what happened to him. And Tom's been at it for years.<br /><br />He's been in the city for a couple of weeks, but he's not exactly settled in. It's not his fault. He meets a doctor, Claire (Bridges, a blonde in her fifties, the likes of which we | STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning <br /><br />Having seen some of the films in the programme for this year's Berlinale one was led to hope that there would be at least one in the selection that would not only make you think, but also make you feel. At the very least it appeared that many of the films were attempting that, and the jury was even attempting to reward those which did, with every effort going to reward films dealing in issues from AIDS and immigration and the effects of globalisation. <br /><br />Unfortunately it seems that the only feeling this year's film selection brought me | STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning <br /><br />The acting was decent. The acting was good. This movie was funny. I loved the movie. I actually laughed out loud multiple times. The dialog was smart. The plot was funny. The jokes were hilarious. I'm not sure what the problem is with this movie....<br /><br />***Major Spoiler Ahead***<br /><br />The problem is that I haven't laughed so much in quite a long time. You know those shows on Friday night that I've come to expect? "The Wedding Crashers" and "Kiss | STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning <br /><br />After suffering an unfortunate and embarrassing loss against the Dallas Cowboys the Minnesota Vikings return to the Metrodome for an important divisional match. This time around the Bears come to town looking to end both a seven game losing streak and the Vikings winning streak. The Vikings are the odds favorites going in (though are still no favorites) and are led by the returning Adrian Peterson who leads the attack. The Vikings start brightly and it's Mike Thomas (***/4) who gets Minnesota off to a good start, intercepting a Rex Grossman attempt and storming | STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning <br /><br />With the cast of The Office and the story behind how it got made, one may be tempted to watch this docu as a reality documentary on early office life in the 19th Century. But for those who don't get off on that sort of thing; the reality here isn't about the 19th Century or the rise of office life; rather it is about the documentary maker capturing the story of the TV show's development through conversations with the principal characters (i.e the 'talent' on the docu).<br />< | STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night Fever **** Friday Night Lights *** Friday Morning Drama ** Sunday Night Massacre * Monday Morning Blues <br /><br />This is really a show-off of the sort of movie that would play best in the private screening rooms of the film studio bosses who had commissioned it. To call this film an "action movie" is something of a misnomer. The plot is convoluted, and it would be incredibly unbelievable if you didn't know, or couldn't see, the way the plot twists and turns to get the unlikely ending, and the "action" is not the reason for watching it.<br /><br />The two central characters | STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning <br /><br />When you have a great cast like John Cusack, Marisa Tomei and Robert Klein, I don't see the point in releasing any movie like this, ever again.<br /><br />"High Fidelity" could have been amazing, but in the end... just lame. Cusack does a reasonable job, but the script doesn't seem that interesting or original. Marisa Tomei, on the other hand, is a brilliant actress, who could have carried the film on her own. Unfortunately, she hasn't got a single word | 0.001306 | 0.000489 | 0.998788 | 0.003767 | 0.997674 | 0.995876 | 0.000505 | 0.998739 | 0.995365 | 0.998264 | STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night | **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning <br /><br />Former New Orleans homicide cop Jack Robideaux (Jean Claude Van Damme) is re-assigned to Columbus, a small but violent town in Mexico to help the police there with their efforts to stop a major heroin smuggling operation into their town. The culprits turn out to be ex-military, lead by former commander Benjamin Meyers (Stephen Lord, otherwise known as Jase from East Enders) who is using a special method he learned in Afghanistan to fight off his opponents. But Jack has a more personal reason for taking him down, that draws the two men into an explosive final showdown where only one will walk away alive.<br /><br />After Until Death, Van Damme appeared to be on a high, showing he could make the best straight to video films in the action market. While that was a far more drama oriented film, with The Shepherd he has returned to the high-kicking, no brainer action that first made him famous and has sadly produced his worst film since Derailed. It's nowhere near as bad as that film, but what I said still stands.<br /><br />A dull, predictable film, with very little in the way of any exciting action. What little there is mainly consists of some limp fight scenes, trying to look cool and trendy with some cheap slo-mo/sped up effects added to them that sadly instead make them look more desperate. Being a Mexican set film, director Isaac Florentine has tried to give the film a Robert Rodriguez/Desperado sort of feel, but this only adds to the desperation.<br /><br />VD gives a particularly uninspired performance and given he's never been a Robert De Niro sort of actor, that can't be good. As the villain, Lord shouldn't expect to leave the beeb anytime soon. He gets little dialogue at the beginning as he struggles to muster an American accent but gets mysteriously better towards the end. All the supporting cast are equally bland, and do nothing to raise the films spirits at all.<br /><br />This is one shepherd that's strayed right from the flock. * | [
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