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possibly the most irresponsible picture ever released by a major film studio . | 0neg |
the film's overall mood and focus is interesting but constantly unfulfilling . | 0neg |
. . . a cheap , ludicrous attempt at serious horror . | 0neg |
those of you who are not an eighth grade girl will most likely doze off during this one . | 0neg |
punitively affirmational parable . | 0neg |
befuddled in its characterizations as it begins to seem as long as the two year affair which is its subject | 0neg |
from beginning to end , this overheated melodrama plays like a student film . | 0neg |
the movie would seem less of a trifle if ms . sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine . | 0neg |
it's just not very smart . | 0neg |
like the excruciating end of days , collateral damage presents schwarzenegger as a tragic figure , but sympathy really belongs with any viewer forced to watch him try out so many complicated facial expressions . | 0neg |
imagine ( if possible ) a pasolini film without passion or politics , or an almodovar movie without beauty or humor , and you have some idea of the glum , numb experience of watching o fantasma . | 0neg |
in trying to be daring and original , it comes off as only occasionally satirical and never fresh . | 0neg |
90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay , screeching-metal smashups , and flaccid odd-couple sniping . | 0neg |
sadly , though many of the actors throw off a spark or two when they first appear , they can't generate enough heat in this cold vacuum of a comedy to start a reaction . | 0neg |
never capitalizes on this concept and opts for the breezy and amateurish feel of an after school special on the subject of tolerance . | 0neg |
after a while , hoffman's quirks and mannerisms , particularly his penchant for tearing up on cue -- things that seem so real in small doses -- become annoying and artificial . | 0neg |
this wretchedly unfunny wannabe comedy is inane and awful - no doubt , it's the worst movie i've seen this summer . | 0neg |
it's drab . it's uninteresting . it squanders chan's uniqueness ; it could even be said to squander jennifer love hewitt ! | 0neg |
the movie keeps coming back to the achingly unfunny phonce and his several silly subplots . | 0neg |
this tale has been told and retold ; the races and rackets change , but the song remains the same . | 0neg |
a surprisingly flat retread , hobbled by half-baked setups and sluggish pacing . | 0neg |
forget the psychology 101 study of romantic obsession and just watch the procession of costumes in castles and this won't seem like such a bore . | 0neg |
a film that should be relegated to a dark video store corner is somehow making its way instead to theaters . it's hard to imagine acting that could be any flatter . | 0neg |
new ways of describing badness need to be invented to describe exactly how bad it is . | 0neg |
lots of effort and intelligence are on display but in execution it is all awkward , static , and lifeless rumblings . | 0neg |
when cowering and begging at the feet a scruffy giannini , madonna gives her best performance since abel ferrara had her beaten to a pulp in his dangerous game . | 0neg |
i suspect that there are more interesting ways of dealing with the subject . | 0neg |
decent but dull . | 0neg |
the film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative . | 0neg |
an unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years . | 0neg |
only for young children , if them . their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their ears and put pillowcases over their heads for 87 minutes . | 0neg |
for all its violence , the movie is remarkably dull with only caine making much of an impression . | 0neg |
no matter how firmly director john stainton has his tongue in his cheek , the fact remains that a wacky concept does not a movie make . | 0neg |
a sub-formulaic slap in the face to seasonal cheer . | 0neg |
the action is reasonably well-done . . . yet story , character and comedy bits are too ragged to ever fit smoothly together . | 0neg |
several uninteresting , unlikeable people do bad things to and with each other in " unfaithful . " why anyone who is not a character in this movie should care is beyond me . | 0neg |
thin period piece . | 0neg |
hill looks to be going through the motions , beginning with the pale script . | 0neg |
howard conjures the past via surrealist flourishes so overwrought you'd swear he just stepped out of a buñuel retrospective . | 0neg |
the best thing that can be said of the picture is that it does have a few cute moments . | 0neg |
it's not a bad premise , just a bad movie . | 0neg |
an already thin story boils down to surviving invaders seeking an existent anti-virus . if only there were one for this kind of movie . | 0neg |
by the time the surprise ending is revealed , interest cannot be revived . | 0neg |
the heedless impetuousness of youth is on full , irritating display in [this] meandering and pointless french coming-of-age import from writer-director anne-sophie birot . | 0neg |
a peculiar misfire that even tunney can't save . | 0neg |
watching queen of the damned is like reading a research paper , with special effects tossed in . | 0neg |
i can't remember the last time i saw worse stunt editing or cheaper action movie production values than in extreme ops . | 0neg |
too much of nemesis has a tired , talky feel . | 0neg |
i felt trapped and with no obvious escape for the entire 100 minutes . | 0neg |
when mr . hundert tells us in his narration that 'this is a story without surprises , ' we nod in agreement . | 0neg |
leaves us wondering less about its ideas and more about its characterization of hitler and the contrived nature of its provocative conclusion . | 0neg |
it is that rare combination of bad writing , bad direction and bad acting -- the trifecta of badness . | 0neg |
each scene wreaks of routine ; the film never manages to generate a single threat of suspense . | 0neg |
a soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties . | 0neg |
borstal boy represents the worst kind of filmmaking , the kind that pretends to be passionate and truthful but is really frustratingly timid and soggy . | 0neg |
the film's lack of personality permeates all its aspects from the tv movie-esque , affected child acting to the dullest irish pub scenes ever filmed . | 0neg |
works on the whodunit level as its larger themes get lost in the murk of its own making | 0neg |
crush could be the worst film a man has made about women since valley of the dolls . | 0neg |
4ever has the same sledgehammer appeal as pokemon videos , but it breathes more on the big screen and induces headaches more slowly . | 0neg |
feels like the work of someone who may indeed have finally aged past his prime . . . and , perhaps more than he realizes , just wants to be liked by the people who can still give him work . | 0neg |
trailer park magnolia : too long , too cutesy , too sure of its own importance , and possessed of that peculiar tension of being too dense & about nothing at all . | 0neg |
[a] stuporously solemn film . | 0neg |
viewers of barney's crushingly self-indulgent spectacle will see nothing in it to match the ordeal of sitting through it . | 0neg |
. . . its stupidities wind up sticking in one's mind a lot more than the cool bits . | 0neg |
sayles . . . once again strands his superb performers in the same old story . | 0neg |
the piano teacher , like its title character , is repellantly out of control . | 0neg |
i have to admit i walked out of runteldat . i did go back and check out the last 10 minutes , but these were more repulsive than the first 30 or 40 minutes . | 0neg |
the filmmakers lack the nerve . . . to fully exploit the script's potential for sick humor . | 0neg |
the film wasn't preachy , but it was feminism by the book . | 0neg |
. . . the same tired old gags , modernized for the extreme sports generation . there's already been too many of these films . . . | 0neg |
several of steven soderbergh's earlier films were hailed as the works of an artist . sadly , full frontal plays like the work of a dilettante . | 0neg |
clockstoppers is one of those crazy , mixed-up films that doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up . | 0neg |
although bright , well-acted and thought-provoking , tuck everlasting suffers from a laconic pace and a lack of traditional action . | 0neg |
'the war of the roses , ' trailer-trash style . entertaining but like shooting fish in a barrel . | 0neg |
supposedly , pokemon can't be killed , but pokemon 4ever practically assures that the pocket monster movie franchise is nearly ready to keel over . | 0neg |
white hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures , one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else . | 0neg |
when you resurrect a dead man , hard copy should come a-knocking , no ? | 0neg |
cattaneo should have followed the runaway success of his first film , the full monty , with something different . | 0neg |
the film feels formulaic , its plot and pacing typical hollywood war-movie stuff , while the performances elicit more of a sense of deja vu than awe . | 0neg |
this overproduced piece of dreck is shockingly bad and absolutely unnecessary . hmmm
might i suggest that the wayward wooden one end it all by stuffing himself into an electric pencil sharpener ? | 0neg |
the makers of mothman prophecies succeed in producing that most frightening of all movies -- a mediocre horror film too bad to be good and too good to be bad . | 0neg |
mr . deeds is not really a film as much as it is a loose collection of not-so-funny gags , scattered moments of lazy humor . | 0neg |
how this one escaped the lifetime network i'll never know . | 0neg |
couldn't someone take rob schneider and have him switch bodies with a funny person ? | 0neg |
one of these days hollywood will come up with an original idea for a teen movie , but until then there's always these rehashes to feed to the younger generations . | 0neg |
for all its brilliant touches , dragon loses its fire midway , nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion . | 0neg |
i have to admit that i am baffled by jason x . | 0neg |
a mean-spirited film made by someone who surely read the catcher in the rye but clearly suffers from dyslexia | 0neg |
instead of a witty expose on the banality and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid , we get an ugly , mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many barney videos . | 0neg |
this is a film living far too much in its own head . | 0neg |
the umpteenth summer skinny dip in jerry bruckheimer's putrid pond of retread action twaddle . | 0neg |
national lampoon's van wilder may aim to be the next animal house , but it more closely resembles this year's version of tomcats . | 0neg |
the film thrusts the inchoate but already eldritch christian right propaganda machine into national media circles . | 0neg |
dogtown is hollow , self-indulgent , and - worst of all - boring . | 0neg |
a movie so bad that it quickly enters the pantheon of wreckage that includes battlefield earth and showgirls . | 0neg |
more of a career curio than a major work . | 0neg |
it's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer , squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain . | 0neg |
cox is far more concerned with aggrandizing madness , not the man , and the results might drive you crazy . | 0neg |
to be influenced chiefly by humanity's greatest shame , reality shows -- reality shows for god's sake ! -- is a crime that should be punishable by chainsaw . | 0neg |
taken as a whole , the tuxedo doesn't add up to a whole lot . | 0neg |
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