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the reason i found myself finally unmoved by this film , which is immaculately produced and has serious things to say , is that it comes across rather too plainly as allegory . | 0neg |
what you get with empire is a movie you've seen many times before , repackaged as new material because there is a latino in the lead . | 0neg |
cho's fans are sure to be entertained ; it's only fair in the interest of full disclosure to say that -- on the basis of this film alone -- i'm not one of them . | 0neg |
looks awfully like one long tourist spot for a mississippi that may never have existed outside of a scriptwriter's imagination . | 0neg |
the period -- swinging london in the time of the mods and the rockers -- gets the once-over once again in gangster no . 1 , but falls apart long before the end . | 0neg |
high crimes miscasts nearly every leading character . | 0neg |
the overall feel of the film is pretty cheesy , but there's still a real sense that the star trek tradition has been honored as best it can , given the embarrassing script and weak direction . | 0neg |
de niro looks bored , murphy recycles murphy , and you mentally add showtime to the pile of hollywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal . | 0neg |
i didn't believe for a moment in these villains or their plot . | 0neg |
another rent installment for the ian fleming estate . | 0neg |
with danilo donati's witty designs and dante spinotti's luscious cinematography , this might have made a decent children's movie -- if only benigni hadn't insisted on casting himself in the title role . | 0neg |
so lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun . | 0neg |
though it draws several decent laughs , it's low-cal woody at best . | 0neg |
has little on its mind aside from scoring points with drag gags . | 0neg |
britney's performance cannot be faulted . lucy's a dull girl , that's all . | 0neg |
" the kid stays in the picture " is a great story , terrifically told by the man who wrote it but this cliff notes edition is a cheat . | 0neg |
well-shot but badly written tale set in a future ravaged by dragons . | 0neg |
sadly , hewitt's forte is leaning forward while wearing low-cut gowns , not making snappy comebacks . | 0neg |
if melville is creatively a great whale , this film is canned tuna . | 0neg |
this film is so slick , superficial and trend-hoppy , that it's easy to imagine that a new software program spit out the screenplay . | 0neg |
just one more collection of penis , breast and flatulence gags in search of a story . or a profit . or some damn thing . | 0neg |
the acting is stiff , the story lacks all trace of wit , the sets look like they were borrowed from gilligan's island -- and the cgi scooby might well be the worst special-effects creation of the year . | 0neg |
enough trivializes an important crisis , reduces it to an almost comic embarrassment . | 0neg |
the makers have forsaken the entertaining elements of the original and , instead , rehash old jokes and leave any life at the doorstep . i like frank the pug , though . | 0neg |
a restrained ribisi convinces as an italian , though if ever a movie needed one of the actor's whiny jags to pump it up , this has to be among the rare ones . | 0neg |
gee , a second assassin shot kennedy ? moot point . | 0neg |
a hysterical yet humorless disquisition on the thin line between sucking face and literally sucking face . | 0neg |
needless to say , the dramatics that follow are utter hooey . | 0neg |
the problem is that rather than dramatizing this premise , mr . desplechin is content to state it . | 0neg |
madonna still can't act a lick . | 0neg |
even the imaginative gore can't hide the musty scent of todd farmer's screenplay , which is a simple retread of the 1979 alien , with a plucky heroine battling a monster loose in a spaceship . | 0neg |
if you pitch your expectations at an all time low , you could do worse than this oddly cheerful -- but not particularly funny -- body-switching farce . | 0neg |
the episodic film makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern life . but the characters tend to be cliches whose lives are never fully explored . | 0neg |
serry does a fine job of capturing the climate of the times and , perhaps unwittingly , relating it to what is happening in america in 2002 . but hard-to-believe plot twists force the movie off track in its final half hour . | 0neg |
don't let your festive spirit go this far . | 0neg |
though the book runs only about 300 pages , it is so densely packed . . . that even an ambitious adaptation and elaborate production like mr . schepisi's seems skimpy and unclear . | 0neg |
hey , at least the title of this film lets you know exactly where it's heading . | 0neg |
intended to be a comedy about relationships , this wretched work falls flat in just about every conceivable area . | 0neg |
sensitive though not quite revelatory documentary . | 0neg |
director brian levant , who never strays far from his sitcom roots , skates blithely from one implausible situation to another , pausing only to tie up loose ends with more bows than you'll find on a french poodle . | 0neg |
. . . perhaps the heaviest , most joyless movie ever made about giant dragons taking over the world . | 0neg |
suggests puns about ingredients and soup and somebody being off their noodle , but let's just say the ingredients don't quite add up to a meal . | 0neg |
i'd give real money to see the perpetrators of chicago torn apart by dingoes . | 0neg |
movies like this are selling the old european candor , the old wink of 'bold' revelation . but in 2002 , such revelations wilt . | 0neg |
the timing in nearly every scene seems a half beat off . | 0neg |
i admire it and yet cannot recommend it , because it overstays its natural running time . | 0neg |
a fairly by-the-books blend of action and romance with sprinklings of intentional and unintentional comedy . | 0neg |
flounders due to the general sense that no two people working on the production had exactly the same thing in mind . | 0neg |
even if you feel like you've seen this movie a thousand times before , it is kind of enjoyable thanks mainly to belushi's easy-going likableness . | 0neg |
the story bogs down in a mess of purposeless violence . | 0neg |
despite some gulps the film is a fuzzy huggy . | 0neg |
mckay deflates his piece of puffery with a sour cliche and heavy doses of mean-spiritedness | 0neg |
a recipe for cinematic disaster . . . part quentin tarantino , part guy ritchie , and part 1960s spy spoof , it's all bad . | 0neg |
the cumulative effect of the relentless horror on parade numbs the movie's power as a work of drama . | 0neg |
another big , dumb action movie in the vein of xxx , the transporter is riddled with plot holes big enough for its titular hero to drive his sleek black bmw through . | 0neg |
aaliyah rarely dampens her diva persona enough to spark genuine chemistry with townsend . when she speaks , her creepy egyptian demigod voice is as computer processed and overproduced as it was in her music . | 0neg |
outrageousness is all plympton seemed to be going for this time . we miss the quirky amazement that used to come along for an integral part of the ride . | 0neg |
much of what is meant to be 'inspirational' and 'uplifting' is simply distasteful to audiences not already sharing [the movie's] mindset . | 0neg |
well before it's over , beijing bicycle begins spinning its wheels . | 0neg |
home alone goes hollywood , a funny premise until the kids start pulling off stunts not even steven spielberg would know how to do . besides , real movie producers aren't this nice . | 0neg |
[nelson's] movie about morally compromised figures leaves viewers feeling compromised , unable to find their way out of the fog and the ashes . | 0neg |
passion , lip-synching , tragedy , and lots of really really high notes . for me , this opera isn't a favorite , so it's a long time before the fat lady sings . | 0neg |
looks like a high school film project completed the day before it was due . | 0neg |
truth to tell , if you've seen more than half-a-dozen horror films , there's nothing here you haven't seen before . | 0neg |
abandons all pretense of creating historical context and waltzes off into a hectic soap about the ups and downs of the heavy breathing between the two artists . | 0neg |
even die-hard fans of japanese animation . . . will find this one a challenge . | 0neg |
filmmakers have to dig deep to sink this low . fortunately for all involved , this movie is likely to disappear as quickly as an ice cube thrown into a pot of boiling water . | 0neg |
the movie gets muted and routine . | 0neg |
the issue of faith is not explored very deeply | 0neg |
it's a bad sign when you're rooting for the film to hurry up and get to its subjects' deaths just so the documentary will be over , but it's indicative of how uncompelling the movie is unless it happens to cover your particular area of interest . | 0neg |
the situations and jokes are as predictable and as lowbrow as the endless pratfalls the boys take in their high heels . | 0neg |
it's frustrating to see these guys -- who are obviously pretty clever -- waste their talent on parodies of things they probably thought were funniest when they were high . | 0neg |
i was perplexed to watch it unfold with an astonishing lack of passion or uniqueness . | 0neg |
k-19 may not hold a lot of water as a submarine epic , but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy saving private ryanovich . | 0neg |
a very stylish but ultimately extremely silly tale . . . a slick piece of nonsense but nothing more . | 0neg |
automatically pegs itself for the straight-to-video sci-fi rental shelf . | 0neg |
black-and-white and unrealistic . | 0neg |
the film is like a series of beginnings and middles that never take off . | 0neg |
feels less like it's about teenagers , than it was written by teenagers . | 0neg |
ja rule and kurupt should have gotten to rap . it would have benefitted the dialogue . | 0neg |
a standard haunted house tale transplanted to the high seas . | 0neg |
elicits more groans from the audience than jar jar binks , scrappy doo and scooby dumb , all wrapped up into one . | 0neg |
it's badly acted , blandly directed , and could have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school . | 0neg |
in the end , white oleander isn't an adaptation of a novel . it's a flashy , star-splashed reduction . | 0neg |
this film , starring anthony hopkins and chris rock , is your typical 'fish out of water' story . you've seen them a million times . just one problem : fish out of water usually die . this one does . | 0neg |
the angst-ridden , affluent slacker characters are more grating than engaging . | 0neg |
a soggy , shapeless mess . . . just a dumb excuse for a waterlogged equivalent of a haunted-house movie . | 0neg |
men in black ii has sequel-itis something fierce . an ungainly , comedy-deficient , b-movie rush job . . . | 0neg |
a combination of standard , stiff tv-style animation and snazzy-looking digital effects that do little to disguise the fact that the characters barely move . | 0neg |
an unsatisfying hybrid of blair witch and typical stalk-and-slash fare , where the most conservative protagonist is always the last one living . | 0neg |
say this for the soundtrack , it drowns out the lousy dialogue . | 0neg |
after seeing swept away , i feel sorry for madonna . | 0neg |
instead of kicking off the intrigue and suspense and mystery of the whole thing , hart's war , like the st . louis rams in the super bowl , waits until after halftime to get started . | 0neg |
two-bit potboiler . | 0neg |
a gob of drivel so sickly sweet , even the eager consumers of moore's pasteurized ditties will retch it up like rancid crème brûlée . | 0neg |
maudlin and melodramatic we expected . boring we didn't . | 0neg |
never quite transcends jokester status . . . and the punchline doesn't live up to barry's dead-eyed , perfectly chilled delivery . | 0neg |
the film's bathos often overwhelms what could have been a more multifaceted look at this interesting time and place . | 0neg |
it almost plays like solaris , but with guns and jokes . | 0neg |
a baffling misfire , and possibly the weakest movie [woody allen] has made in the last twenty years . | 0neg |
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