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one minute , you think you're watching a serious actioner ; the next , it's as though clips from the pink panther strikes again and/or sailor moon have been spliced in . | 0neg |
what happened with pluto nash ? how did it ever get made ? | 0neg |
we may never think of band camp as a geeky or nerdy thing again . | 0neg |
opens as promising as any war/adventure film you'll ever see and dissolves into a routine courtroom drama , better suited for a movie titled " glory : a soldier's story . " | 0neg |
the result is solemn and horrifying , yet strangely detached . | 0neg |
these spiders can outrun a motorcycle and wrap a person in a sticky cocoon in seconds , but they fall short of being interesting or entertaining . | 0neg |
a less-than-thrilling thriller . | 0neg |
a long slog for anyone but the most committed pokemon fan . | 0neg |
matthew mcconaughey tries , and fails , to control the screen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy . | 0neg |
how on earth , or anywhere else , did director ron underwood manage to blow $100 million on this ? | 0neg |
everyone connected to this movie seems to be part of an insider clique , which tends to breed formulaic films rather than fresh ones . | 0neg |
with a story inspired by the tumultuous surroundings of los angeles , where feelings of marginalization loom for every dreamer with a burst bubble , the dogwalker has a few characters and ideas , but it never manages to put them on the same path . | 0neg |
its lack of quality earns it a place alongside those other two recent dumas botch-jobs , the man in the iron mask and the musketeer . | 0neg |
a benign but forgettable sci-fi diversion . | 0neg |
the plot grinds on with yawn-provoking dullness . | 0neg |
it's never a good sign when a film's star spends the entirety of the film in a coma . it's a worse sign when you begin to envy her condition . | 0neg |
it doesn't help that the director and cinematographer stephen kazmierski shoot on grungy video , giving the whole thing a dirty , tasteless feel . | 0neg |
desperately unfunny when it tries to makes us laugh and desperately unsuspenseful when it tries to make us jump out of our seats . | 0neg |
this film's relationship to actual tension is the same as what christmas-tree flocking in a spray can is to actual snow : a poor -- if durable -- imitation . | 0neg |
john mctiernan's botched remake may be subtler than norman jewison's 1975 ultraviolent futuristic corporate-sports saga . it's also stupider . | 0neg |
director dirk shafer and co-writer greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay porn reaches for serious drama . | 0neg |
borrows from so many literary and cinematic sources that this future world feels absolutely deja vu . | 0neg |
as [the characters] get more depressed , the story gets more tiresome , especially as it continues to mount a conspicuous effort to be profound . | 0neg |
the acting by the over-25s lacks spark , with csokas particularly unconnected . | 0neg |
though howard demonstrates a great eye as a director , this southern gothic drama is sadly a tough sit , with an undeveloped narrative and enough flashbacks and heavy-handed metaphors to choke a horse -- or at least slow him down to a canter . | 0neg |
falters when it takes itself too seriously and when it depends too heavily on its otherwise talented cast to clown in situations that aren't funny . | 0neg |
the fight scenes are fun , but it grows tedious . | 0neg |
anyone who can count to five ( the film's target market ? ) can see where this dumbed-down concoction is going . | 0neg |
all this turns out to be neither funny nor provocative - only dull . | 0neg |
demme's loose approach kills the suspense . | 0neg |
this idea has lost its originality . . . and neither star appears very excited at rehashing what was basically a one-joke picture . | 0neg |
[plays] in broad outline as pandering middle-age buddy-comedy . | 0neg |
the film is itself a sort of cinematic high crime , one that brings military courtroom dramas down very , very low . | 0neg |
nothing more than a mediocre trifle . | 0neg |
a turgid little history lesson , humourless and dull . | 0neg |
too silly to be frightening , too stolid to be funny , it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal star , david arquette . | 0neg |
if kaufman kept cameron diaz a prisoner in a cage with her ape , in his latest , he'd have them mate . | 0neg |
trivial where it should be profound , and hyper-cliched where it should be sincere . | 0neg |
it would be hard to think of a recent movie that has worked this hard to achieve this little fun . | 0neg |
theology aside , why put someone who ultimately doesn't learn at the center of a kids' story ? | 0neg |
all that ( powerpuff girls ) charm is present in the movie , but it's spread too thin . | 0neg |
sometimes smart but more often sophomoric . | 0neg |
the ill-conceived modern-day ending falls flat where it should deliver a moral punch . | 0neg |
collateral damage is , despite its alleged provocation post-9/11 , an antique , in the end . as are its star , its attitude and its obliviousness . | 0neg |
dawdles and drags when it should pop ; it doesn't even have the virtue of enough mindless violence to break up the tedium of all its generational bonding . | 0neg |
its save-the-planet message clashes with its crass marketing . | 0neg |
a great idea becomes a not-great movie . | 0neg |
. . . watching this film nearly provoked me to take my own life . and if the hours wins 'best picture' i just might . | 0neg |
by the end , i was looking for something hard with which to bludgeon myself unconscious . | 0neg |
not a movie but a live-action agitprop cartoon so shameless and coarse , it's almost funny . | 0neg |
feels like six different movies fighting each other for attention . | 0neg |
life is a crock -- or something like it . | 0neg |
made by jackasses for jackasses . | 0neg |
despite a powerful portrayal by binoche , it's a period romance that suffers from an overly deliberate pace and uneven narrative momentum . | 0neg |
the picture is a primer on what happens when lack of know-how mixes with lack of give-a-damn . | 0neg |
bartleby is a one-joke movie , and a bad joke at that . | 0neg |
disjointed parody . | 0neg |
given that both movies expect us to root for convicted violent felons over those assigned to protect us from same , we need every bit of sympathy the cons can muster ; this time , there isn't much . | 0neg |
a bravura exercise in emptiness . | 0neg |
philip k . dick must be turning in his grave , along with my stomach . | 0neg |
despite the premise of a good story . . . it wastes all its star power on cliched or meaningless roles . | 0neg |
all prints of this film should be sent to and buried on pluto . | 0neg |
not only does the movie fail to make us part of its reality , it fails the most basic relevancy test as well . | 0neg |
first good , then bothersome . excellent acting and direction . | 0neg |
this goofy gangster yarn never really elevates itself from being yet another earnestly generic crime-busting comic vehicle -- a well-intentioned remake that shows some spunk and promise but fails to register as anything distinctive or daring | 0neg |
it's difficult to say whether the tuxedo is more boring or embarrassing--i'm prepared to call it a draw . | 0neg |
even as lame horror flicks go , this is lame . | 0neg |
so routine , familiar and predictable , it raises the possibility that it wrote itself as a newly automated final draft computer program . | 0neg |
sunshine state lacks the kind of dynamic that limbo offers , and in some ways is a rather indulgent piece . | 0neg |
even legends like alfred hitchcock and john huston occasionally directed trifles . . . so it's no surprise to see a world-class filmmaker like zhang yimou behind the camera for a yarn that's ultimately rather inconsequential . | 0neg |
a long-winded , predictable scenario . | 0neg |
too close to phantom menace for comfort . | 0neg |
. . . silly humbuggery . . . | 0neg |
although trying to balance self-referential humor and a normal ol' slasher plot seemed like a decent endeavor , the result doesn't fully satisfy either the die-hard jason fans or those who can take a good joke . | 0neg |
too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be truly entertaining . | 0neg |
this movie is about lying , cheating , but loving the friends you betray . | 0neg |
it smacks of purely commercial motivation , with no great love for the original . | 0neg |
melanie eventually slugs the yankee . too bad the former murphy brown doesn't pop reese back . | 0neg |
at the bottom rung of the series' entries . | 0neg |
a real clunker . a well-made , thoughtful , well-acted clunker , but a clunker nonetheless . | 0neg |
a dreary rip-off of goodfellas that serves as a muddled and offensive cautionary tale for hispanic americans . | 0neg |
the picture , scored by a perversely cheerful marcus miller accordion/harmonica/banjo abomination , is a monument to bad in all its florid variety . | 0neg |
good for a few unintentional laughs , " extreme ops " was obviously made for the " xxx " crowd , people who enjoy mindless action without the benefit of decent acting , writing , and direction . | 0neg |
a big , baggy , sprawling carnival of a movie , stretching out before us with little rhyme or reason . | 0neg |
a frustrating combination of strained humor and heavy-handed sentimentality . | 0neg |
lawrence preaches strictly to the converted . | 0neg |
as written by michael berg and michael j . wilson from a story by wilson , this relentless , all-wise-guys-all-the-time approach tries way too hard and gets tiring in no time at all . | 0neg |
will probably stay in the shadow of its two older , more accessible qatsi siblings . | 0neg |
just when the movie seems confident enough to handle subtlety , it dives into soapy bathos . | 0neg |
choppy editing and too many repetitive scenes spoil what could have been an important documentary about stand-up comedy . | 0neg |
. . . the film falls back on the same old formula of teen sex , outrageous pranks and scenes designed to push the envelope of bad taste for laughs . | 0neg |
the only thing in pauline and paulette that you haven't seen before is a scene featuring a football field-sized oriental rug crafted out of millions of vibrant flowers . | 0neg |
if you're looking for comedy to be served up , better look elsewhere . | 0neg |
it virtually defines a comedy that's strongly mediocre , with funny bits surfacing every once in a while . | 0neg |
an instant candidate for worst movie of the year . | 0neg |
despite its title , amy's orgasm is not a porno , though it is as tedious as one . | 0neg |
like a tone-deaf singer at a benefit concert , john q . is a bad movie appearing on behalf of a good cause . | 0neg |
adam sandler is to gary cooper what a gnat is to a racehorse . | 0neg |
what kids will discover is a new collectible . what parents will suspect is that they're watching a 76-minute commercial . | 0neg |
beers , who , when she's given the right lines , can charm the paint off the wall . . . [but] the script goes wrong at several key junctures . | 0neg |
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