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the script isn't very good ; not even someone as gifted as hoffman ( the actor ) can make it work . | 0neg |
walter hill's pulpy , stylized boxing melodrama undisputed nearly overcomes its questionable in-the-ring match-up with solid fight choreography and gritty prison authenticity . | 0neg |
it has all the excitement of eating oatmeal . | 0neg |
it's hard to know whether or not to recommend this film because for every thing it does right there's at least one and occasionally two things it gets ever so wrong . | 0neg |
although there are several truly jolting scares , there's also an abundance of hackneyed dialogue and more silly satanic business than you can shake a severed limb at . | 0neg |
i'll bet the video game is a lot more fun than the film . | 0neg |
star trek : nemesis meekly goes where nearly every star trek movie has gone before . wince-inducing dialogue , thrift-shop costumes , prosthetic makeup by silly putty and kmart blue-light-special effects all conspire to test trekkie loyalty . | 0neg |
like all abstract art , the film does not make this statement in an easily accessible way , and -- unless prewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all . | 0neg |
i don't mind having my heartstrings pulled , but don't treat me like a fool . | 0neg |
. . . although this idea is " new " the results are tired . | 0neg |
i'm guessing the director is a magician . after all , he took three minutes of dialogue , 30 seconds of plot and turned them into a 90-minute movie that feels five hours long . | 0neg |
an unencouraging threefold expansion on the former mtv series , accompanying the stunt-hungry dimwits in a random series of collected gags , pranks , pratfalls , dares , injuries , etc . | 0neg |
the script is a dim-witted pairing of teen-speak and animal gibberish . | 0neg |
its well of thorn and vinegar ( and simple humanity ) has long been plundered by similar works featuring the insight and punch this picture so conspicuously lacks . | 0neg |
for all its impressive craftsmanship , and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos , lily chou-chou never really builds up a head of emotional steam . | 0neg |
don't be fooled by the impressive cast list - eye see you is pure junk . | 0neg |
not since freddy got fingered has a major release been so painful to sit through . | 0neg |
the documentary does little , apart from raising the topic , to further stoke the conversation . | 0neg |
plays like a volatile and overlong w magazine fashion spread . | 0neg |
a better title , for all concerned , might be swept under the rug . | 0neg |
this movie seems to have been written using mad-libs . there can be no other explanation . hilariously inept and ridiculous . | 0neg |
vera's technical prowess ends up selling his film short ; he smoothes over hard truths even as he uncovers them . | 0neg |
[a] shapeless blob of desperate entertainment . | 0neg |
feels too formulaic and too familiar to produce the transgressive thrills of early underground work . | 0neg |
generic thriller junk . teens only . | 0neg |
given how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is , this could be the worst thing soderbergh has ever done . | 0neg |
a by-the-numbers patient/doctor pic that covers all the usual ground | 0neg |
a dumb movie with dumb characters doing dumb things and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going . | 0neg |
stealing harvard aspires to comedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . | 0neg |
pretension , in its own way , is a form of bravery . for this reason and this reason only -- the power of its own steadfast , hoity-toity convictions -- chelsea walls deserves a medal . | 0neg |
with the exception of some fleetingly amusing improvisations by cedric the entertainer as perry's boss , there isn't a redeeming moment here . | 0neg |
it's a grab bag of genres that don't add up to a whole lot of sense . | 0neg |
movie fans , get ready to take off . . . the other direction . | 0neg |
[director] o'fallon manages to put some lovely pictures up on the big screen , but his skill at telling a story -- he also contributed to the screenplay -- falls short . | 0neg |
the intent is almost exactly the same [as the full monty] . all that's missing is the spontaneity , originality and delight . | 0neg |
no one but a convict guilty of some truly heinous crime should have to sit through the master of disguise . | 0neg |
even the finest chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de niro can't make this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy . | 0neg |
there's too much falseness to the second half , and what began as an intriguing look at youth fizzles into a dull , ridiculous attempt at heart-tugging . | 0neg |
it's not without its pleasures , but i'll stick with the tune . | 0neg |
miller is playing so free with emotions , and the fact that children are hostages to fortune , that he makes the audience hostage to his swaggering affectation of seriousness . | 0neg |
despite the evocative aesthetics evincing the hollow state of modern love life , the film never percolates beyond a monotonous whine . | 0neg |
more maudlin than sharp . | 0neg |
this is an egotistical endeavor from the daughter of horror director dario argento ( a producer here ) , but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magnetic . | 0neg |
it's slow -- very , very slow . it's not the ultimate depression-era gangster movie . that's pure pr hype . | 0neg |
characters still need to function according to some set of believable and comprehensible impulses , no matter how many drugs they do or how much artistic license avary employs . | 0neg |
comes . . . uncomfortably close to coasting in the treads of the bicycle thief . | 0neg |
visually rather stunning , but ultimately a handsome-looking bore , the true creativity would have been to hide treasure planet entirely and completely reimagine it . | 0neg |
stealing harvard is evidence that the farrelly bros . -- peter and bobby -- and their brand of screen comedy are wheezing to an end , along with green's half-hearted movie career . | 0neg |
there seems to be no clear path as to where the story's going , or how long it's going to take to get there . | 0neg |
if you're a wwf fan , or you related to the people who watched the robots getting butchered in a . i . , you'll probably like rollerball . | 0neg |
i don't think i laughed out loud once . and when you're talking about a slapstick comedy , that's a pretty big problem . | 0neg |
it's so mediocre , despite the dynamic duo on the marquee , that we just can't get no satisfaction . | 0neg |
slapstick buffoonery can tickle many a preschooler's fancy , but when it costs a family of four about $40 to see a film in theaters , why spend money on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigree instead ? | 0neg |
. . . turns so unforgivably trite in its last 10 minutes that anyone without a fortified sweet tooth will likely go into sugar shock . | 0neg |
the notion that bombing buildings is the funniest thing in the world goes entirely unexamined in this startlingly unfunny comedy . | 0neg |
my reaction in a word : disappointment . his last movie was poetically romantic and full of indelible images , but his latest has nothing going for it . | 0neg |
it kinda works and qualifies as cool at times , but is just too lame to work or be cool at others . | 0neg |
sustains its dreamlike glide through a succession of cheesy coincidences and voluptuous cheap effects , not the least of which is rebecca romijn-stamos . | 0neg |
intriguing documentary which is emotionally diluted by focusing on the story's least interesting subject . | 0neg |
a non-mystery mystery . | 0neg |
feels haphazard , as if the writers mistakenly thought they could achieve an air of frantic spontaneity by simply tossing in lots of characters doing silly stuff and stirring the pot . | 0neg |
what an embarrassment . | 0neg |
for each chuckle there are at least 10 complete misses , many coming from the amazingly lifelike tara reid , whose acting skills are comparable to a cardboard cutout . | 0neg |
in its own way , joshua is as blasphemous and nonsensical as a luis buñuel film without the latter's attendant intelligence , poetry , passion , and genius . | 0neg |
i've always dreamed of attending cannes , but after seeing this film , it's not that big a deal . | 0neg |
the vintage is pure '87 , with a halfhearted twist on its cautionary message : fatal attraction = don't have an affair with a nutjob ; unfaithful = don't if you're married to one . | 0neg |
a workshop mentality prevails . | 0neg |
it cannot be enjoyed , even on the level that one enjoys a bad slasher flick , primarily because it is dull . yes , dull . | 0neg |
pumpkin wants to have it both ways . | 0neg |
director uwe boll and the actors provide scant reason to care in this crude '70s throwback . | 0neg |
[w]hile long on amiable monkeys and worthy environmentalism , jane goodall's wild chimpanzees is short on the thrills the oversize medium demands . | 0neg |
outer-space buffs might love this film , but others will find its pleasures intermittent . | 0neg |
this piece of channel 5 grade trash is , quite frankly , an insult to the intelligence of the true genre enthusiast . | 0neg |
an occasionally funny , but overall limp , fish-out-of-water story . | 0neg |
a bloated gasbag thesis grotesquely impressed by its own gargantuan aura of self-importance . . . | 0neg |
it's mighty tedious for the viewer who has to contend with unpleasant characters , hit-and-miss performances and awkwardly staged scenes . | 0neg |
as a rumor of angels reveals itself to be a sudsy tub of supernatural hokum , not even ms . redgrave's noblest efforts can redeem it from hopeless sentimentality . | 0neg |
new best friend's playboy-mansion presentation of college life is laugh-out-loud ludicrous . | 0neg |
an appalling 'ace ventura' rip-off that somehow manages to bring together kevin pollak , former wrestler chyna and dolly parton . if any of them list this 'credit' on their resumes in the future , that'll be much funnier than anything in the film . . . | 0neg |
the humor is forced and heavy-handed , and occasionally simply unpleasant . | 0neg |
scorsese at his best makes gangster films that are equally lovely but also relentlessly brutal and brutally intelligent ; perdition , meanwhile , reads more like driving miss daisy than goodfellas . | 0neg |
while the script starts promisingly , it loses steam towards the middle and never really develops beyond attacking obvious target . | 0neg |
as the latest bid in the tv-to-movie franchise game , i spy makes its big-screen entry with little of the nervy originality of its groundbreaking small-screen progenitor . | 0neg |
this isn't even madonna's swept away . this is her blue lagoon . | 0neg |
the director knows how to apply textural gloss , but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom . | 0neg |
. . . the film suffers from a lack of humor ( something needed to balance out the violence ) . . . | 0neg |
burns never really harnesses to full effect the energetic cast . | 0neg |
an overemphatic , would-be wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce . | 0neg |
has all the depth of a wading pool . | 0neg |
this is the sort of burly action flick where one coincidence pummels another , narrative necessity is a drunken roundhouse , and whatever passes for logic is a factor of the last plot device left standing . | 0neg |
the so-inept- it's-surreal dubbing ( featuring the voices of glenn close , regis philbin and breckin meyer ) brings back memories of cheesy old godzilla flicks . | 0neg |
. . . the movie is just a plain old monster . | 0neg |
if this disposable tissue has one wild card , it's john turturro , who's simply fab as a spanish butler with a foot fetish . | 0neg |
one long string of cliches . | 0neg |
a noble failure . | 0neg |
fancy a real downer ? [leigh] lays it on so thick this time that it feels like a suicide race . | 0neg |
professionally speaking , it's tempting to jump ship in january to avoid ridiculous schlock like this shoddy suspense thriller . | 0neg |
nelson's brutally unsentimental approach . . . sucks the humanity from the film , leaving behind an horrific but weirdly unemotional spectacle . | 0neg |
weaves a spell over you , with its disturbingly close-up look at damaged psyches and its subtle undercurrents of danger . but its awkward structure keeps breaking the spell . | 0neg |
at once half-baked and overheated . | 0neg |
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