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the most anti-human big studio picture since 3000 miles to graceland . | 0neg |
the film can depress you about life itself . | 0neg |
i'm sure the filmmakers found this a remarkable and novel concept , but anybody who has ever seen an independent film can report that it is instead a cheap cliché . | 0neg |
the acting is fine but the script is about as interesting as a recording of conversations at the wal-mart checkout line . | 0neg |
its weighty themes are too grave for youngsters , but the story is too steeped in fairy tales and other childish things to appeal much to teenagers . | 0neg |
the plot plummets into a comedy graveyard before janice comes racing to the rescue in the final reel . | 0neg |
sometimes there are very , very good reasons for certain movies to be sealed in a jar and left on a remote shelf indefinitely . | 0neg |
at 90 minutes this movie is short , but it feels much longer . | 0neg |
here's my advice , kev . start reading your scripts before signing that dotted line . | 0neg |
an alternately raucous and sappy ethnic sitcom . . . you'd be wise to send your regrets . | 0neg |
an ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily told it feels accidental . | 0neg |
unfortunately , it's also not very good . especially compared with the television series that inspired the movie . | 0neg |
it wraps up a classic mother/daughter struggle in recycled paper with a shiny new bow and while the audience can tell it's not all new , at least it looks pretty . | 0neg |
glazed with a tawdry b-movie scum . | 0neg |
this is the kind of movie during which you want to bang your head on the seat in front of you , at its cluelessness , at its idiocy , at its utterly misplaced earnestness . | 0neg |
it winds up moving in many directions as it searches ( vainly , i think ) for something fresh to say . | 0neg |
all in all , road to perdition is more in love with strangeness than excellence . | 0neg |
a big fat pain . | 0neg |
a mimetic approximation of better films like contempt and 8 1/2 . | 0neg |
unintelligible , poorly acted , brain-slappingly bad , harvard man is ludicrous enough that it could become a cult classic . | 0neg |
watching the powerpuff girls movie , my mind kept returning to one anecdote for comparison : the cartoon in japan that gave people seizures . | 0neg |
aan opportunity wasted . | 0neg |
an inelegant combination of two unrelated shorts that falls far short of the director's previous work in terms of both thematic content and narrative strength . | 0neg |
to build a feel-good fantasy around a vain dictator-madman is off-putting , to say the least , not to mention inappropriate and wildly undeserved . | 0neg |
with the cheesiest monsters this side of a horror spoof , which they isn't , it is more likely to induce sleep than fright . | 0neg |
mild , meandering teen flick . | 0neg |
though its atmosphere is intriguing . . . the drama is finally too predictable to leave much of an impression . | 0neg |
though this rude and crude film does deliver a few gut-busting laughs , its digs at modern society are all things we've seen before . | 0neg |
although it tries to be much more , it's really just another major league . | 0neg |
astonishing isn't the word -- neither is incompetent , incoherent or just plain crap . indeed , none of these words really gets at the very special type of badness that is deuces wild . | 0neg |
one thing is for sure : this movie does not tell you a whole lot about lily chou-chou . | 0neg |
with a tone as variable as the cinematography , schaeffer's film never settles into the light-footed enchantment the material needs , and the characters' quirks and foibles never jell into charm . | 0neg |
to better understand why this didn't connect with me would require another viewing , and i won't be sitting through this one again . . . that in itself is commentary enough . | 0neg |
cuba gooding jr . valiantly mugs his way through snow dogs , but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy . | 0neg |
diane lane's sophisticated performance can't rescue adrian lyne's unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing . | 0neg |
not at all clear what it's trying to say and even if it were i doubt it would be all that interesting . | 0neg |
storytelling feels slight . | 0neg |
[swimfan] falls victim to sloppy plotting , an insultingly unbelievable final act and a villainess who is too crazy to be interesting . | 0neg |
this remake of lina wertmuller's 1975 eroti-comedy might just be the biggest husband-and-wife disaster since john and bo derek made the ridiculous bolero . | 0neg |
silly , loud and goofy . | 0neg |
why spend $9 on the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby ? | 0neg |
the french director has turned out nearly 21/2 hours of unfocused , excruciatingly tedious cinema that , half an hour in , starts making water torture seem appealing . | 0neg |
the basic premise is intriguing but quickly becomes distasteful and downright creepy . | 0neg |
the pool drowned me in boredom . | 0neg |
it's like an all-star salute to disney's cheesy commercialism . | 0neg |
it's hard to imagine any recent film , independent or otherwise , that makes as much of a mess as this one . | 0neg |
some of the computer animation is handsome , and various amusing sidekicks add much-needed levity to the otherwise bleak tale , but overall the film never rises above mediocrity . | 0neg |
there's an excellent 90-minute film here ; unfortunately , it runs for 170 . | 0neg |
as saccharine movies go , this is likely to cause massive cardiac arrest if taken in large doses . | 0neg |
die another day is only intermittently entertaining but it's hard not to be a sucker for its charms , or perhaps it's just impossible not to feel nostalgia for movies you grew up with . | 0neg |
as is often the case with ambitious , eager first-time filmmakers , mr . murray , a prolific director of music videos , stuffs his debut with more plot than it can comfortably hold . | 0neg |
the mystery of enigma is how a rich historical subject , combined with so much first-rate talent . . . could have yielded such a flat , plodding picture . | 0neg |
it throws quirky characters , odd situations , and off-kilter dialogue at us , all as if to say , " look at this ! this is an interesting movie ! " but the film itself is ultimately quite unengaging . | 0neg |
the inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror/action hybrid . | 0neg |
bad company . bad movie . just plain bad . | 0neg |
it's not only dull because we've seen [eddie] murphy do the genial-rogue shtick to death , but because the plot is equally hackneyed . | 0neg |
avary's film never quite emerges from the shadow of ellis' book . | 0neg |
a poorly scripted , preachy fable that forgets about unfolding a coherent , believable story in its zeal to spread propaganda . | 0neg |
while it is interesting to witness the conflict from the palestinian side , longley's film lacks balance . . . and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context . | 0neg |
woo has as much right to make a huge action sequence as any director , but how long will filmmakers copy the " saving private ryan " battle scenes before realizing steven spielberg got it right the first time ? | 0neg |
it's sincere to a fault , but , unfortunately , not very compelling or much fun . | 0neg |
. . . jones , despite a definitely distinctive screen presence , just isn't able to muster for a movie that , its title notwithstanding , should have been a lot nastier if it wanted to fully capitalize on its lead's specific gifts . | 0neg |
this follow-up seems so similar to the 1953 disney classic that it makes one long for a geriatric peter . | 0neg |
why , you may ask , why should you buy the movie milk when the tv cow is free ? there's no good answer to that one . | 0neg |
this slow-moving swedish film offers not even a hint of joy , preferring to focus on the humiliation of martin as he defecates in bed and urinates on the plants at his own birthday party . | 0neg |
a muddled limp biscuit of a movie , a vampire soap opera that doesn't make much sense even on its own terms . | 0neg |
there's the plot , and a maddeningly insistent and repetitive piano score that made me want to scream . | 0neg |
this is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but two flagrantly fake thunderstorms to underscore the action . | 0neg |
this is amusing for about three minutes . | 0neg |
klein , charming in comedies like american pie and dead-on in election , delivers one of the saddest action hero performances ever witnessed . | 0neg |
it's rare to see a movie that takes such a speedy swan dive from " promising " to " interesting " to " familiar " before landing squarely on " stupid " . | 0neg |
this is the sort of low-grade dreck that usually goes straight to video --with a lousy script , inept direction , pathetic acting , poorly dubbed dialogue and murky cinematography , complete with visible boom mikes . | 0neg |
the direction occasionally rises to the level of marginal competence , but for most of the film it is hard to tell who is chasing who or why . | 0neg |
there are few things more frustrating to a film buff than seeing an otherwise good movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending . | 0neg |
it won't harm anyone , but neither can i think of a very good reason to rush right out and see it . after all , it'll probably be in video stores by christmas , and it might just be better suited to a night in the living room than a night at the movies . | 0neg |
looks more like a travel-agency video targeted at people who like to ride bikes topless and roll in the mud than a worthwhile glimpse of independent-community guiding lights . | 0neg |
given too much time to consider the looseness of the piece , the picture begins to resemble the shapeless , grasping actors' workshop that it is . | 0neg |
they kept much of the plot but jettisoned the stuff that would make this a moving experience for people who haven't read the book . | 0neg |
just because a walk to remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls . | 0neg |
[carvey's] characters are both overplayed and exaggerated , but then again , subtlety has never been his trademark . | 0neg |
it's mildly interesting to ponder the peculiar american style of justice that plays out here , but it's so muddled and derivative that few will bother thinking it all through . | 0neg |
this dreadfully earnest inversion of the concubine love triangle eschews the previous film's historical panorama and roiling pathos for bug-eyed mugging and gay-niche condescension . | 0neg |
brown's saga , like many before his , makes for snappy prose but a stumblebum of a movie . | 0neg |
the boys' sparring , like the succession of blows dumped on guei , wears down the story's more cerebral , and likable , plot elements . | 0neg |
the script by vincent r . nebrida . . . tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot . | 0neg |
the story is so light and sugary that were it a macy's thanksgiving day parade balloon , extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away . | 0neg |
oedekerk mugs mercilessly , and the genuinely funny jokes are few and far between . | 0neg |
since dahmer resorts to standard slasher flick thrills when it should be most in the mind of the killer , it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyche . | 0neg |
only those most addicted to film violence in all its forms will find anything here to appreciate . | 0neg |
cold and scattered , minority report commands interest almost solely as an exercise in gorgeous visuals . that's not vintage spielberg and that , finally , is minimally satisfying . | 0neg |
every now and again , a movie comes along to remind us of how very bad a motion picture can truly be . frank mcklusky c . i . is that movie ! | 0neg |
it's not difficult to spot the culprit early-on in this predictable thriller . | 0neg |
[a] soulless , stupid sequel . . . | 0neg |
. . . a mostly boring affair with a confusing sudden finale that's likely to irk viewers . | 0neg |
the trappings of i spy are so familiar you might as well be watching a rerun . | 0neg |
what starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film . | 0neg |
in the wake of saving private ryan , black hawk down and we were soldiers , you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as cage's war-weary marine . | 0neg |
it is messy , uncouth , incomprehensible , vicious and absurd . | 0neg |
really does feel like a short stretched out to feature length . | 0neg |
hampered -- no , paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script . . . that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire . | 0neg |
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