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one of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch . | 0neg |
the big ending surprise almost saves the movie . it's too bad that the rest isn't more compelling . | 0neg |
charming , if overly complicated . . . | 0neg |
schneider's mugging is relentless and his constant need to suddenly transpose himself into another character undermines the story's continuity and progression . | 0neg |
all very stylish and beautifully photographed , but far more trouble than it's worth , with fantasy mixing with reality and actors playing more than one role just to add to the confusion . | 0neg |
it's probably not easy to make such a worthless film . . . | 0neg |
hope keeps arising that the movie will live up to the apparent skills of its makers and the talents of its actors , but it doesn't . | 0neg |
has no reason to exist , other than to employ hollywood kids and people who owe favors to their famous parents . | 0neg |
for a guy who has waited three years with breathless anticipation for a new hal hartley movie to pore over , no such thing is a big letdown . | 0neg |
constantly slips from the grasp of its maker . | 0neg |
smothered by its own solemnity . | 0neg |
'christian bale's quinn [is] a leather clad grunge-pirate with a hairdo like gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent . ' | 0neg |
might be one of those vanity projects in which a renowned filmmaker attempts to show off his talent by surrounding himself with untalented people . | 0neg |
after you laugh once ( maybe twice ) , you will have completely forgotten the movie by the time you get back to your car in the parking lot . | 0neg |
not one moment in the enterprise didn't make me want to lie down in a dark room with something cool to my brow . | 0neg |
in the era of the sopranos , it feels painfully redundant and inauthentic . | 0neg |
the overall vibe is druggy and self-indulgent , like a spring-break orgy for pretentious arts majors . | 0neg |
breen's script is sketchy with actorish notations on the margin of acting . | 0neg |
there's no question that epps scores once or twice , but it's telling that his funniest moment comes when he falls about ten feet onto his head . | 0neg |
if only merchant paid more attention the story . | 0neg |
at the one-hour mark , herzog simply runs out of ideas and the pace turns positively leaden as the movie sputters to its inevitable tragic conclusion . | 0neg |
. . . too contrived to be as naturally charming as it needs to be . | 0neg |
a simpler , leaner treatment would have been preferable ; after all , being about nothing is sometimes funnier than being about something . | 0neg |
the characters are based on stock clichés , and the attempt to complicate the story only defies credibility . | 0neg |
everything about it from the bland songs to the colorful but flat drawings is completely serviceable and quickly forgettable . | 0neg |
not the great american comedy , but if you liked the previous movies in the series , you'll have a good time with this one too . | 0neg |
a domestic melodrama with weak dialogue and biopic cliches . | 0neg |
mr . goyer's loose , unaccountable direction is technically sophisticated in the worst way . | 0neg |
the movie is so thoughtlessly assembled . | 0neg |
benigni presents himself as the boy puppet pinocchio , complete with receding hairline , weathered countenance and american breckin meyer's ridiculously inappropriate valley boy voice . | 0neg |
plays like some corny television production from a bygone era | 0neg |
the end result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump . | 0neg |
for all the charm of kevin kline and a story that puts old-fashioned values under the microscope , there's something creepy about this movie . | 0neg |
i was feeling this movie until it veered off too far into the exxon zone , and left me behind at the station looking for a return ticket to realism . | 0neg |
producer john penotti surveyed high school students . . . and came back with the astonishing revelation that " they wanted to see something that didn't talk down to them . " ignoring that , he made swimfan anyway | 0neg |
naipaul fans may be disappointed . those who are not acquainted with the author's work , on the other hand , may fall fast asleep . | 0neg |
hoffman waits too long to turn his movie in an unexpected direction , and even then his tone retains a genteel , prep-school quality that feels dusty and leatherbound . | 0neg |
if you're a crocodile hunter fan , you'll enjoy at least the " real " portions of the film . if you're looking for a story , don't bother . | 0neg |
full frontal had no effect and elicited no sympathies for any of the characters . by that measure , it is a failure . | 0neg |
a baffling mixed platter of gritty realism and magic realism with a hard-to-swallow premise . | 0neg |
an affable but undernourished romantic comedy that fails to match the freshness of the actress-producer and writer's previous collaboration , miss congeniality . | 0neg |
sometimes this modest little number clicks , and sometimes it doesn't . | 0neg |
like a pack of dynamite sticks , built for controversy . the film is explosive , but a few of those sticks are wet . | 0neg |
has its charming quirks and its dull spots . | 0neg |
an admitted egomaniac , evans is no hollywood villain , and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he'd gone the way of don simpson . | 0neg |
the audience when i saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times , and that's a bad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective heart attack . | 0neg |
everyone's to blame here . | 0neg |
you get the impression that writer and director burr steers knows the territory . . . but his sense of humor has yet to lose the smug self-satisfaction usually associated with the better private schools . | 0neg |
less a study in madness or love than a study in schoolgirl obsession . | 0neg |
rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them . | 0neg |
it's a bizarre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it fritters away its potentially interesting subject matter via a banal script , unimpressive acting and indifferent direction . | 0neg |
a slight and obvious effort , even for one whose target demographic is likely still in the single digits , age-wise . | 0neg |
sex with strangers will shock many with its unblinking frankness . but what is missing from it all is a moral . what is the filmmakers' point ? why did they deem it necessary to document all this emotional misery ? | 0neg |
you see robin williams and psycho killer , and you think , hmmmmm . you see the movie and you think , zzzzzzzzz . | 0neg |
downright transparent is the script's endless assault of embarrassingly ham-fisted sex jokes that reek of a script rewrite designed to garner the film a " cooler " pg-13 rating . | 0neg |
the movie slides downhill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves . | 0neg |
formulaic to the 51st power , more like . | 0neg |
draggin' about dragons | 0neg |
howard and his co-stars all give committed performances , but they're often undone by howard's self-conscious attempts to find a 'literary' filmmaking style to match his subject . | 0neg |
a respectable but uninspired thriller that's intelligent and considered in its details , but ultimately weak in its impact . | 0neg |
jones helps breathe some life into the insubstantial plot , but even he is overwhelmed by predictability . | 0neg |
the movie just has too much on its plate to really stay afloat for its just under ninety minute running time . | 0neg |
comes off more like a misdemeanor , a flat , unconvincing drama that never catches fire . | 0neg |
cinematic poo . | 0neg |
offers absolutely nothing i hadn't already seen . | 0neg |
" analyze that " is one of those crass , contrived sequels that not only fails on its own , but makes you second-guess your affection for the original . | 0neg |
you might say tykwer has done all that heaven allows , if you wanted to make as anti-kieslowski a pun as possible . suffice to say its total promise is left slightly unfulfilled . | 0neg |
complex , sinuously plotted and , somehow , off-puttingly cold . | 0neg |
first-time writer-director dylan kidd also has a good ear for dialogue , and the characters sound like real people . | 0neg |
. . . an airless , prepackaged julia roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if lopez's publicist should share screenwriting credit . | 0neg |
goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures , and it looks as though jay roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab . | 0neg |
could as easily have been called 'under siege 3 : in alcatraz' . . . a cinematic corpse that never springs to life . | 0neg |
in comparison to his earlier films it seems a disappointingly thin slice of lower-class london life ; despite the title . . . amounts to surprisingly little . | 0neg |
lame sweet home leaves no southern stereotype unturned . | 0neg |
slow , dry , poorly cast , but beautifully shot . | 0neg |
the jokes are sophomoric , stereotypes are sprinkled everywhere and the acting ranges from bad to bodacious . | 0neg |
will give many ministers and bible-study groups hours of material to discuss . but mainstream audiences will find little of interest in this film , which is often preachy and poorly acted . | 0neg |
in its chicken heart , crush goes to absurd lengths to duck the very issues it raises . | 0neg |
this long and relentlessly saccharine film is a clear case of preaching to the converted . | 0neg |
the film is flat . | 0neg |
the movie is a lumbering load of hokum but . . . it's at least watchable . | 0neg |
it's a boom-box of a movie that might have been titled 'the loud and the ludicrous' . . . the pandering to a moviegoing audience dominated by young males is all too calculated . | 0neg |
an unbelievably stupid film , though occasionally fun enough to make you forget its absurdity . | 0neg |
the first fatal attraction was vile enough . do we really need the tiger beat version ? | 0neg |
this bond film goes off the beaten path , not necessarily for the better . | 0neg |
the problem is that the movie has no idea of it is serious or not . | 0neg |
when the fire burns out , we've only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that's where the film ultimately fails . | 0neg |
it would work much better as a one-hour tv documentary . | 0neg |
the elements were all there but lack of a pyschological center knocks it flat . | 0neg |
anemic chronicle of money grubbing new yorkers and their serial loveless hook ups . | 0neg |
simply doesn't have sufficient heft to justify its two-hour running time . | 0neg |
an unsuccessful attempt at a movie of ideas . | 0neg |
queen of the damned as you might have guessed , makes sorry use of aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at things that explode into flame . | 0neg |
this toothless dog , already on cable , loses all bite on the big screen . | 0neg |
it made me feel unclean , and i'm the guy who liked there's something about mary and both american pie movies . oh , and booty call . | 0neg |
not only is it hokey , manipulative and as bland as wonder bread dipped in milk , but it also does the absolute last thing we need hollywood doing to us : it preaches . | 0neg |
it's so crammed with scenes and vistas and pretty moments that it's left a few crucial things out , like character development and coherence . | 0neg |
serving sara should be served an eviction notice at every theater stuck with it . | 0neg |
director roger michell does so many of the little things right that it's difficult not to cuss him out severely for bungling the big stuff . | 0neg |
a loud , low-budget and tired formula film that arrives cloaked in the euphemism 'urban drama . ' | 0neg |
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