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i think it was plato who said , 'i think , therefore i know better than to rush to the theatre for this one . ' | 0neg |
if damon and affleck attempt another project greenlight , next time out they might try paying less attention to the miniseries and more attention to the film it is about . | 0neg |
this is rote drivel aimed at mom and dad's wallet . | 0neg |
contrived , maudlin and cliche-ridden . . . if this sappy script was the best the contest received , those rejected must have been astronomically bad . | 0neg |
i hate the feeling of having been slimed in the name of high art . | 0neg |
this is more a case of 'sacre bleu ! ' than 'magnifique' . | 0neg |
the kids in the audience at the preview screening seemed bored , cheering the pratfalls but little else ; their parents , wise folks that they are , read books . | 0neg |
whether jason x is this bad on purpose is never clear . but one thing's for sure : it never comes close to being either funny or scary . | 0neg |
yet another weepy southern bore-athon . | 0neg |
i like all four of the lead actors a lot and they manage to squeeze a few laughs out of the material , but they're treading water at best in this forgettable effort . | 0neg |
perhaps the most annoying thing about who is cletis tout ? is that it's a crime movie made by someone who obviously knows nothing about crime . | 0neg |
except as an acting exercise or an exceptionally dark joke , you wonder what anyone saw in this film that allowed it to get made . | 0neg |
this insufferable movie is meant to make you think about existential suffering . instead , it'll only put you to sleep . | 0neg |
who is this movie for ? not kids , who don't need the lesson in repugnance . it's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are 'edgy . ' | 0neg |
a sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue , heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment , and an overly-familiar set of plot devices . | 0neg |
it's so tedious that it makes you forgive every fake , dishonest , entertaining and , ultimately , more perceptive moment in bridget jones's diary . | 0neg |
almost as offensive as " freddy got fingered . " | 0neg |
the gifted crudup has the perfect face to play a handsome blank yearning to find himself , and his cipherlike personality and bad behavior would play fine if the movie knew what to do with him . | 0neg |
it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound . | 0neg |
ponderous , plodding soap opera disguised as a feature film . | 0neg |
cold , pretentious , thoroughly dislikable study in sociopathy . | 0neg |
for the future , one hopes mr . plympton will find room for one more member of his little band , a professional screenwriter . | 0neg |
a cheap scam put together by some cynical creeps at revolution studios and imagine entertainment to make the suckers out there surrender $9 and 93 minutes of unrecoverable life . | 0neg |
reign of fire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise , but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness . | 0neg |
human nature is a goofball movie , in the way that malkovich was , but it tries too hard . | 0neg |
originality is sorely lacking . | 0neg |
the plot's clearly mythic structure may owe more to disney's strong sense of formula than to the original story . but while the highly predictable narrative falls short , treasure planet is truly gorgeous to behold . | 0neg |
though there are entertaining and audacious moments , the movie's wildly careening tone and an extremely flat lead performance do little to salvage this filmmaker's flailing reputation . | 0neg |
ram dass fierce grace moulds itself as an example to up-and-coming documentarians , of the overlooked pitfalls of such an endeavour . | 0neg |
lucky break is perfectly inoffensive and harmless , but it's also drab and inert . | 0neg |
for a story set at sea , ghost ship is pretty landbound , with its leaden acting , dull exposition and telegraphed 'surprises . ' | 0neg |
there might be some sort of credible gender-provoking philosophy submerged here , but who the hell cares ? | 0neg |
what we have is a character faced with the possibility that her life is meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance , in a movie that is definitely meaningless , vapid and devoid of substance . | 0neg |
nothing more than a stifling morality tale dressed up in peekaboo clothing . | 0neg |
i like my christmas movies with more elves and snow and less pimps and ho's . | 0neg |
it all seemed wasted like deniro's once promising career and the once grand long beach boardwalk . | 0neg |
[i]t's certainly laudable that the movie deals with hot-button issues in a comedic context , but barbershop isn't as funny as it should be . | 0neg |
unfortunately , a cast of competent performers from movies , television and the theater are cast adrift in various new york city locations with no unifying rhythm or visual style . | 0neg |
just entertaining enough not to hate , too mediocre to love . | 0neg |
'sophisticated' viewers who refuse to admit that they don't like it will likely call it 'challenging' to their fellow sophisticates . | 0neg |
equilibrium the movie , as opposed to the manifesto , is really , really stupid . | 0neg |
excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromantic . | 0neg |
the film's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes . . . drag the movie down . | 0neg |
it doesn't offer audiences any way of gripping what its point is , or even its attitude toward its subject . | 0neg |
this kiddie-oriented stinker is so bad that i even caught the gum stuck under my seat trying to sneak out of the theater | 0neg |
though impostor deviously adopts the guise of a modern motion picture , it too is a bomb . | 0neg |
cox offers plenty of glimpses at existing photos , but there are no movies of nijinsky , so instead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge . | 0neg |
every note rings false . | 0neg |
when the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of one year directs an equally miserable film the following year , you'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence . | 0neg |
it never rises to its clever what-if concept . | 0neg |
admirably ambitious but self-indulgent . | 0neg |
this story of unrequited love doesn't sustain interest beyond the first half-hour . | 0neg |
this angst-ridden territory was covered earlier and much better in ordinary people . | 0neg |
the entire film is one big excuse to play one lewd scene after another . about half of them are funny , a few are sexy and none are useful in telling the story , which is paper-thin and decidedly unoriginal . | 0neg |
a big , loud , bang-the-drum bore . | 0neg |
grating and tedious . | 0neg |
[less a movie than] an appalling , odoriferous thing . . . so rotten in almost every single facet of production that you'll want to crawl up your own * * * in embarrassment . | 0neg |
the concept behind kung pow : enter the fist is hilarious . it's too bad nothing else is . | 0neg |
hardman is a grating , mannered onscreen presence , which is especially unfortunate in light of the fine work done by most of the rest of her cast . | 0neg |
el crimen del padre amaro would likely be most effective if used as a tool to rally anti-catholic protestors . | 0neg |
interesting and thoroughly unfaithful version of carmen | 0neg |
a serious movie with serious ideas . but seriously , folks , it doesn't work . | 0neg |
there's nothing exactly wrong here , but there's not nearly enough that's right . | 0neg |
the action here is unusually tame , the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest , and the plot offers few surprises . | 0neg |
i couldn't help but feel the wasted potential of this slapstick comedy . | 0neg |
what madonna does here can't properly be called acting -- more accurately , it's moving and it's talking and it's occasionally gesturing , sometimes all at once . | 0neg |
[a] painfully flat gross-out comedy . . . | 0neg |
even if you're an elvis person , you won't find anything to get excited about on this dvd . | 0neg |
the movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dialogue , but there's just not much lurking below its abstract surface . | 0neg |
it's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction . | 0neg |
i'm sure there's a teenage boy out there somewhere who's dying for this kind of entertainment . | 0neg |
the tuxedo miscalculates badly by forcing the star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to come to life . | 0neg |
the film is a confusing melange of tones and styles , one moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama . | 0neg |
obviously , a lot of people wasted a lot of their time ( including mine ) on something very inconsequential . | 0neg |
there's a little violence and lots of sex in a bid to hold our attention , but it grows monotonous after a while , as do joan and philip's repetitive arguments , schemes and treachery . | 0neg |
it drowns in sap . | 0neg |
deliberately and devotedly constructed , far from heaven is too picture postcard perfect , too neat and new pin-like , too obviously a recreation to resonate . | 0neg |
it's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline ; everything that's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot that's just too boring and obvious . | 0neg |
i'm giving it thumbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment . there's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease . | 0neg |
the good thing -- the only good thing -- about extreme ops is that it's so inane that it gave me plenty of time to ponder my thanksgiving to-do list . | 0neg |
the modern-day characters are nowhere near as vivid as the 19th-century ones . | 0neg |
blessed with a searing lead performance by ryan gosling ( murder by numbers ) , the movie is powerful and provocative . it's also built on a faulty premise , one it follows into melodrama and silliness . | 0neg |
uneven performances and a spotty script add up to a biting satire that has no teeth . | 0neg |
director jay russell stomps in hobnail boots over natalie babbitt's gentle , endearing 1975 children's novel . | 0neg |
benigni's pinocchio is extremely straight and mind-numbingly stilted , its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow . | 0neg |
the troubling thing about clockstoppers is that it doesn't make any sense . | 0neg |
with its paint fights , motorized scooter chases and dewy-eyed sentiment , it's a pretty listless collection of kid-movie clichés . | 0neg |
mostly the film is just hectic and homiletic : two parts exhausting men in black mayhem to one part family values . | 0neg |
kicks off with an inauspicious premise , mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper . | 0neg |
a rote exercise in both animation and storytelling . | 0neg |
the material and the production itself are little more than routine . | 0neg |
the movie's major and most devastating flaw is its reliance on formula , though , and it's quite enough to lessen the overall impact the movie could have had . | 0neg |
not even steven spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie . | 0neg |
it's all surface psychodramatics . | 0neg |
the mothman prophecies , which is mostly a bore , seems to exist only for its climactic setpiece . | 0neg |
that frenetic spectacle [on the tv show] has usually been leavened by a charm that's conspicuously missing from the girls' big-screen blowout . | 0neg |
kitschy , flashy , overlong soap opera . | 0neg |
for all the time we spend with these people , we never really get inside of them . | 0neg |
yet another arnold vehicle that fails to make adequate use of his particular talents . | 0neg |
sandra bullock , despite downplaying her good looks , carries a little too much ain't- she-cute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff . | 0neg |
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