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544,465 | 562,732 | 120,696 | 5 | Is it really THAT bad ? | Well , yes . The curious thing about Hard Rain is that it's so well presented but at the same time it's so superficial and false . I have to admit that I was impressed with the stormy , rainy atmosphere , but at the same time I was struck by how obvious is always was that the whole thing was a setup . I guess part of i... |
544,383 | 562,732 | 89,730 | 5 | Mainstream ? | Strangely enough , I read a review of one IMDb user who asserted that Once Bitten is one of Jim Carrey's best performances since going mainstream . I'm curious as to what this user means by that statement , because Once Bitten was YEARS before Carrey went mainstream . Is this person saying that Carrey's performance her... |
544,914 | 562,732 | 72,271 | 5 | I guess it's just not my thing anymore . | You know , I remember being hugely impressed with this movie when I last saw it when I was in high school . I watched it again recently to get a look at the older movies before watching what I have heard is a " stupid , stupid remake , " and was amazed that I ever enjoyed this movie . I respect it in that it is incredi... |
544,907 | 562,732 | 478,087 | 5 | How to ruin a fascinating true story . | Ah , Las Vegas , the city of lights . The place that probably offers more false promises than anywhere else in the world , Hollywood included . I've never been much of a gambler myself , usually when I go there I plan a given amount of money to gamble with and , once it's gone ( because I understand in advance that I'm... |
544,342 | 562,732 | 357,413 | 5 | I agree with Vince Vaughn . | I finally got around to watching Anchorman last night , one of the most popular and , as it turns out , overrated comedies released in 2004 . I was just on vacation for 6 weeks and while I was away I watched lots of classic comedies , from Buster Keaton , the Three Stooges , and a few Shirley Temple shorts , and it see... |
544,651 | 562,732 | 146,838 | 5 | A good effort , but Any Given Sunday just doesn't work | A good effort , but Any Given Sunday just doesn't work . The film is basically a behind-the-scenes look at professional football . You see the bickering and fighting that goes on among the higher powers up in the box office as well as the conflicts between the players themselves . I think that it was a good portrayal o... |
544,298 | 562,732 | 104,684 | 5 | Evidently , legendary action director John Woo wasn't always as legendary as he is known to be today in the U . S . | Hard Boiled is one of Woo's earlier hardcore action films , and it definitely has no shortage of action . While there can be no question about Woo's skill at staging fast paced action scenes , that very element was probably the main thing that brought Hard Boiled down . Aside from the fact that the acting was terrible ... |
544,886 | 562,732 | 435,705 | 5 | Average Cage thriller . | Next is not so much about seeing the future as it is about the paradoxes involved with seeing it . There are so many paradoxes involved in time travel and looking ahead in time that it is amazing that a movie hasn't come along earlier that deals exclusively with them . Unfortunately , the movie has not been as successf... |
544,642 | 562,732 | 184,894 | 5 | This isn't the east , Chon , it's the west . You should know , you've done this before ! | Jackie Chan returns to do yet another east meets west routine , virtually identical to that in Rush Hour , just in a different time period . As far as its story , Shanghai Noon is completely unoriginal , but the laughs are surprisingly abundant , thanks in large part to the crooked-nosed Owen Wilson . Chan and Wilson m... |
544,606 | 562,732 | 280,486 | 5 | The latest Chris Rock action comedy that apparently doesn't realize that it's a comedy . | Chris Rock stars as a CIA agent and a street hustler , twin brothers separated at birth . When the more successful brother , Kevin ( ironically the one who got his act together and made a life for himself , yet also the one who got himself killed ) is shot escaping a touchy sting operation in which he and his team try ... |
544,613 | 562,732 | 78,437 | 5 | Good clean cannibal fun ! | Last Cannibal World claims to be a true story about a stone-age cannibal tribe living on the Malaysian island of Mindanao who captures a ' modern ' man named Robert Haper , who crash lands on the island . It seems that there is an oil mining crew camping out in the jungle while they search for drilling sites , and when... |
544,343 | 562,732 | 286,244 | 5 | I'll grant that it's a work of art , but certainly not for everyone . | When I looked up this movie on the IMDb the first thing I saw was a review by someone praising Triplets of Belleville as a work of art , which it undoubtedly is . On the other hand , the same review called it captivating , which it's not . At all . I recently returned from being on vacation for 6 weeks , during which t... |
544,798 | 562,732 | 95,956 | 5 | This Film Is Dedicated to the Gallant People of Afghanistan - ' Rambo III ' Review . . . | In preparing to watch the latest installment of the Rambo series , I've gone back and re - watched all of the original three films , which I hadn't seen in probably 15 years . Unfortunately , they are so uniformly bad that it has taken me now over a year to get through the three of them . I finished watching part III t... |
543,758 | 562,732 | 910,905 | 5 | In The Valley of Elah Part 2 ? | Remember that movie In The Valley of Elah ? It was the movie that Tommy Lee Jones starred in before this one . Yeah , this is exactly the same movie . I've been a huge fan of Jones ever since he first came to my attention in Under Siege , but come on man , time to branch out a little bit , you know ? On the other hand ... |
543,834 | 562,732 | 250,310 | 5 | Just about as corky as you would expect . | Corky Romano is obviously a vehicle for the absurd comedic talents of Chris Kattan , but it's good to see that he is able to slow down and be serious when the content of the story calls for at least a tiny bit of seriousness . It's odd that a movie like this , that is clearly made to be goofy and stupid , still manages... |
544,735 | 562,732 | 113,540 | 5 | Kids has a healthy message , but the method of delivery is extremely uncomfortable . | The inner city is one of the worst places in the country to spend your formative years , and the makers of Kids add a bit of crime and self-destructive behavior to that in order to show some of the dangers of this type of lifestyle . Yes , the film has strong messages about drugs , AIDS , violence , and crime , among o... |
544,487 | 562,732 | 113,497 | 5 | Little Man Tate disappears in jungle for 26 years , comes back as Robin Williams ? . | It's interesting to transport yourself back to late 1995 when Jumanji was released into theaters . The movie-going public was still waiting eagerly for another stupendous family adventure to follow Jurassic Park , which blew away audiences of all ages despite some grisly scenes . The badly disappointing Congo had been ... |
544,166 | 562,732 | 107,254 | 5 | I think I liked it better when Jason was just plain old Jason . | Sure , the whole Evil Can't Be Killed thing has been a dead horse for decades , but turning the Friday the 13th series in this completely different direction took something away from the movie for me . Sure , it gave the story a lot more possibilities and opened up nearly endless different routes that it could have tak... |
544,271 | 562,732 | 4,736 | 5 | Chaplin tries directing . | In Chaplin's first film as director , he doesn't come flying out of the gates , instantly showing that he will go on to be a great filmmaker . 20 Minutes of Love is not much different from the films that he made in the months before or after , although it is interesting to see one of the first of his mostly improvised ... |
543,994 | 562,732 | 120,184 | 5 | A strangely disappointing adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel that comes off to a smashing good start but very quickly approaches a precipitous downhill . | Sphere is a science fiction film that starts off with a tremendously fascinating story and ignores all of the possibilities that it entails . Four people ( you know the drill ? a psychologist ( Dustin Hoffman ) , a mathematician ( Samuel L . Jackson ) , a biochemist ( Sharon Stone ) and an astrophysicist ( Liev Schreib... |
543,819 | 562,732 | 80,487 | 5 | Get drunk first . | There are several classic comedies that , at the time of this writing , I've never seen , like Animal House , Groundhog Day , and , until yesterday , Caddyshack . Maybe I just expected more , but I found Caddyshack to be pretty disappointing . The only funny people in the movie are Chevy Chase and Rodney Dangerfield , ... |
544,486 | 562,732 | 449,487 | 5 | Uninspired emotional drama gets totally lost in the second half ? | I have heard that Passengers received little marketing effort because the studio didn't want it to overshadow Anne Hathaway's other 2008 film , the highly depressing Rachel Getting Married . I can only imagine that they would do this because they didn't want her outstanding performance in that film to be juxtaposed wit... |
544,905 | 562,732 | 406,661 | 5 | Jack already kicked a bunch of asses ! | It was with some trepidation that I watched Clementine the other day , because I had heard nothing but a relentless stream of terrible things about it . I was surprised to see that it's a Korean film in every way , given Seagal's background in Japanese martial arts and the fact that he speaks fluent Japanese . But make... |
544,835 | 562,732 | 117,894 | 5 | A faithful adaptation of the novel , but I guess some stuff just doesn't translate to film very well . | Stephen King has obviously had more success in having his books made into movies than any other author . Sure , a lot of his movies are pretty much bottom of the barrel drivel , such as many of his earlier horror films ( such as Creepshow and Night Shift and It , to some extent ) , but there is a distinct brand of horr... |
543,908 | 562,732 | 94,701 | 5 | Why is it that in horror movies , anytime someone finds blood dripping onto them from somewhere above their head , they always turn and look up without moving an inch to any side to get out of the way ? | There is a blood dripping scene in Bad Dreams ( one of the oldest tricks in the horror movie book but one which does not seem to ever diminish with each succeeding horror film , even up to today ) that turns out to be probably the , um , chunkiest one that I've ever seen . Effective , I suppose , on a morbid level , si... |
544,259 | 562,732 | 247,745 | 5 | Failed movie titles : Highway Patrol Academy . | Wow , someone must really have had a bad runin with the police or with the Highway Patrol , since they're both made to look completely ridiculous in this movie . I can't say that the movie is entirely without laughs , because there were several scenes during which I was laughing so hard that I just about fell off the c... |
543,808 | 562,732 | 391,198 | 5 | Effective Japanese horror dulled by unnecessary remake and unnecessary CGI . | In perusing all the negative comments about The Grudge spread out among the IMDb , I'm amazed at how many people , even professional critics , have gotten the basic premise completely wrong . The curse that the movie is centered around is not created when someone dies in a horrible way , it's created when someone dies ... |
543,861 | 562,732 | 67,116 | 5 | Are you now , or have you ever been in any way connected to the French ? ? ? | Wait , lemme check something really quick . Ah yes , here we go , FIVE Academy Awards . WOW . Now , I'm no expert on movies ( note : I am an expert on movies ) but I really can't see what it is about this movie that is deserving of that many Oscars . Never do I get more angry responses to my reviews than when I write a... |
543,879 | 562,732 | 146,316 | 5 | The biggest disappointment of the summer . | I don't play video games , so I don't know anything about the Tomb Raider game or anything like that , so it played no role in the formation of my opinion about the movie . I had very high expectations for the film , because I know how popular Tomb Raider ( and , probably even more , Lara Croft ) is , and because I kno... |
543,812 | 562,732 | 259,324 | 5 | Mugging Victim Unsurprised by Attacker's Flaming Skull . | Johnny Blaze began a career as a stunt motorcyclist while still in his teens , taking after his father , Barton Blaze , who has become a legendary stunt cyclist . In one of those bizarre quirks of irony that life tends to display , his father achieves fame by cheating death , only to be diagnosed with terminal cancer a... |
543,967 | 562,732 | 163,651 | 5 | Can't Hardly Wait To Get Laid . | ( spoilers ) American Pie is yet another goofy teenage comedy full of trashy sex jokes and idiot kids trying to get together with beautiful girls , and in the end , it works for everyone except that weird red-headed guy . I'm so sick and tired of movies like this , and if Sean William Scott had not been in this movie ,... |
544,867 | 562,732 | 133,152 | 5 | Planet of the Oops ! | I'm not entirely familiar with all of the other Planet of the Apes films , but I don't think there could be anything in any of them that would change my mind about the 2001 version . We start off with an electrical storm in space that results in some serious time travel , just like we saw in Lost In Space , which resul... |
544,893 | 562,732 | 285,175 | 5 | Boring and trivial but not entirely inaccurate . | I've lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years and I know the area of the Pacific Palisades as well as the exact area in East LA where the 16th Street Gang supposedly lives , and it's not surprising to me the way these kids in this movie act . Their desperation to be accepted by hardcore criminals is wildly exaggerate... |
543,804 | 562,732 | 88,993 | 5 | Music soothes even the savage zombie . | The third and final installment in George Romero's Living Dead trilogy is surprising in that it comes so close to being a dismal , depressing close to one of the most famous horror film series ' ever made . True , the movie sucks pretty badly and pretty consistently except for the last 20 minutes or so , but that last ... |
544,591 | 562,732 | 259,153 | 5 | Did you read the book ? | And yes , Mr . Baxley , I'm talking to you . You of all people should have read the book . You did , after all , direct the movie . Before I go on , I should tell you that I actually found Craig Baxley's film rendering of Stephen King's novel to be very entertaining , even though it took place almost a century after th... |
544,020 | 562,732 | 204,946 | 5 | This is a cheerleading movie for cheerleading people . | I was sitting in the theater trying to watch The Art of War , and it was at least 20 minutes late in starting ( for the second time ) , so I decided to go watch the only other movie starting within 45 minutes , Bring It On . I had just finished watching The Replacements when I went to see this film , so I was already s... |
544,572 | 562,732 | 261,392 | 5 | The Return of the Jay and Silent Bob Do America . | The only consistently amusing characters from Kevin Smith's films ( films which are not , by any stretch of the imagination , immune to coming out as total garbage ) return to the big screen to inspire great big laughs because the film is able to laugh at itself , which is very important with comedies like this . The p... |
544,559 | 562,732 | 304,711 | 5 | And you will know my name is the Sin-Eater when I lay my vengeance upon you ! | I never really liked movies about religion , especially these creepy thrillers . Stigmata was bad , Bless the Child was worse , Lost Souls doesn't have much promise ( although I'm sure I'll see it eventually ) , Time Changer was a preachy disaster , End of Days was like Terminator in reverse , etc . Luckily , The Order... |
544,239 | 562,732 | 339,291 | 5 | A Series of Unfortunate Bits of Celluloid Edited Together Into A Movie . | Whenever I see a really bad movie , I tend to think about what kinds of things led to such an awful script being put into production . Take some obscure horror movies , like Nightmare Weekend or Graveyard Shift , for example . These movies are so unbelievably bad that it is almost inconceivable to me that someone ever ... |
544,780 | 562,732 | 165,929 | 5 | This is yet another hardcore action kung-fu B-movie , but it does have a few redeeming values . | First of all , there is absolutely nothing to be said for the acting in this film . No one delivered a notable performance at all , so don't expect anything in that department . Jet Li provides some amazing martial arts scenes that are just a lot of fun to watch , but unfortunately most of them were distorted beyond re... |
544,303 | 562,732 | 163,983 | 5 | This is a deeply flawed supernatural thriller that has an even shallower version of good vs . evil than Star Wars . | There's a reason that this movie received such bad reviews , and I think that that reason has something to do with the fact that the movie sucked . Granted , there were a few genuine thrills in the film , but as a whole , this disappointing film parallels the insufficiency of other failed supernatural thrillers , like ... |
544,138 | 562,732 | 99,994 | 5 | What about part II ? | At the end of Texas Chainsaw II , there was something of a variation on the ending of the original film . The girl who spends most of her time trying to escape the family of crazed maniacs with her life ends up holding the chainsaw herself , swinging it around like a lunatic exactly like Leatherface did at the end of t... |
544,575 | 562,732 | 164,052 | 5 | Hollow Man takes an abundance of fantastic special effects and narrative possibilities and reduces it all to an expensive but cheesy horror movie . | Ever since the original Halloween was released in 1978 , there have been countless imitation films that desperately , although primarily unsuccessfully , attempt to feed off of the success of that film by copying its premise of a faceless and unstoppable killer . In the late 90s , there have been a resurgence of these ... |
544,742 | 562,732 | 117,011 | 5 | Well , maximum SOMETHING , anyway ? | Maximum Risk was released in 1996 , the year after Species was released and was , if I remember correctly , a huge hit . I was in high school at the time , and I know it was highly popular with my peers , who are clearly the same target audience that director Ringo Lam was shooting for with Maximum Risk . Van Damme len... |
544,297 | 562,732 | 55,830 | 5 | Classic horror , but badly dated . | Carnival of Souls is the kind of title for a movie that really makes you want it to be scary . It's such a good name , especially for this genre , but this version has lost most if not all of its effectiveness since its release in 1962 . The story is about a girl who manages to survive a car crash , and subsequently cu... |
544,714 | 562,732 | 120,841 | 5 | Species II exists somewhere in what is apparently a barren wasteland between Mission to Mars , Alien , and Terminator 2 . | I quite often see a movie like Species II , which I fully understand is most likely to be an awful movie , and I discover that a lot of people hated it a lot more than I did . On the one hand , sometimes I feel like I am extremely harsh to movies that I can't stand ( read my reviews of Scary Movie 1 , 2 , or 3 , for ex... |
544,272 | 562,732 | 3,805 | 5 | Chaplin misses the mark completely ? | Chaplin famously churned out an enormous number of short comedies for Keystone during his first year in the film-making business , and while the majority of them are pretty sad comparisons to the later films that he would become famous for , Cruel , Cruel Love definitely ranks as one of the less memorable . A lot of pe... |
544,789 | 562,732 | 23,395 | 5 | Hitchcock trying to find his way ? | Rich and Strange seems to have been made during an experimental period in Hitchcock's career , before he discovered and accepted what he was really good at . He had far superior films than this one earlier in his career , so he was no longer learning his craft , but it seems that with this film he tried to do something... |
544,605 | 562,732 | 120,912 | 5 | A huge step down from the original . | Sequels are almost inherently inferior to their original films . The reason that a sequel is ever made is because the original film was a huge success and therefore people want to see more , but at the same time have developed high expectations from the original film , expectations which are rarely if ever completely f... |
544,295 | 562,732 | 118,842 | 5 | Kevin Smith's worst movie ever . | ( spoilers ) Jason Lee was , by far , the funniest guy in this movie ( followed VERY closely by the small part with Silent Bob and especially Jay ) , as was the case in Mallrats and would have been the case in Clerks , had he been in that movie . Unfortunately , his comedic potential was muted and replaced by intense (... |
544,841 | 562,732 | 195,714 | 5 | A relatively interesting premise , but Final Destination ultimately sinks nearly to the level of the mass of bonehead teen thrillers that have been so prevalent in the 90s . | ( spoilers ) Final Destination starts off really well , with our unlikely hero Alex in a great scene where he has a dream that the airplane that he is on with all of his high school friends ( what high school goes to Europe for a senior trip ? ! ) is going to explode upon take off . This is unquestionably the best scen... |
543,729 | 562,732 | 390,384 | 6 | You almost may as well just try to invent time travel ? | There's nothing more disappointing than a film that doesn't have a thought in its head , so in one sense it's nice to see a movie come along that truly has a significant amount of intelligence behind it , but on the other hand it's also a little off-putting to rent a movie about time travel and discover that it is abou... |
544,039 | 562,732 | 264,395 | 6 | Here's a riddle for you ? | What do you get when you cross John Travolta , the great Samuel L . Jackson , and Die Hard director John McTiernan ? Well , something other than this , I thought . I have a feeling that Basic is going to be remembered more for it's confusing screenplay than anything else . One thing you'll notice is that when you read ... |
544,326 | 562,732 | 1,228,933 | 6 | Back to basics of a whole new kind . . . | My first reaction to the first few minutes of Laid to Rest was that it was a cheap , no-budget horror film typical of the direct-to-video nonsense that you so often see populating the new release wall at the video store . Well , that I remember seeing on the new release wall at the video store , anyway . It's been a co... |
544,134 | 562,732 | 734,658 | 6 | Why can't people wish right ? | This episode reminded me of that half-assed remake of Bedazzled with Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley . Remember that ? He would make wishes and something would go wrong and he would make another wish , overcorrecting his mistake in the last wish in the most spectacular fashion . I seem to remember Fraser's characte... |
544,460 | 562,732 | 734,681 | 6 | Works well enough . . . | I have noticed on the IMDb review boards that this is one of the less popular twilight zone episodes . I agree with certain aspects , it's shot on video and comes with all of the limitations that that implies , the set looks cheap and the story is hardly the most interesting thing in the world , but it was interesting ... |
544,764 | 562,732 | 734,674 | 6 | Dumbest super-genius criminals ever . . . | I think the whole " million dollars worth of gold " argument is not necessarily important . I agree that it's the dollar that loses value and not gold ( and even now the manufacturing of gold seems a little too far-fetched even for the twilight zone , although if any society would manufacture one of the world's most va... |
544,526 | 562,732 | 175,880 | 6 | A feast for lovers of abstract art , but others may find it to be too much of a bad thing . | Magnolia had the potential to be a very good movie , and in most ways it was . It opened with a fascinating feature of seemingly impossible coincidences , and as it progressed the viewer realizes that the many separate stories within the film itself come together in amazing ways . In this way it delivered spectacularly... |
544,242 | 562,732 | 345,616 | 6 | Not very enlightening ? | Making the Earth Stand Still is a clever title for a documentary about this movie , and I can see why they would want to give this documentary that name despite the fact that it is not at all about making the Earth Stand Still . A more accurate title would have been Making " The Day the Earth Stood Still , " or , even ... |
544,870 | 562,732 | 116,514 | 6 | Not quite as good as part III , but Bloodline is still a relatively watchable installment in the hugely successful Hellraiser series . | The year is 2127 , and a descendent of the maker of the box that opens the gate to Hell is trying to figure out a way to open the box and trap the demons that come out of Hell . He has commandeered a space station ( that he himself designed ) for this task . He opens the box , lets the demons out , and is detained ( pe... |
544,859 | 562,732 | 250,494 | 6 | Undeniably skilled filmmaking , but the movie doesn't know where it's going . | Legally Blonde is obviously one of those silly comedies in the tradition of the much better Clueless ( what with all of the air headed blondes and big lawyers ) , but the film really loses its way in the final act . Elle Woods , a cutesy sorority president at the charmingly named CULA ( real creative name , guys ) , is... |
543,837 | 562,732 | 120,338 | 6 | Visually , Titanic was a stunning masterpiece , but the story and the acting were mediocre and sometimes just outright bad . | At first glance , Titanic is an epic film . The scenery and cinematogrpahy are spectacular , and it is just a beautifully photographed movie . However , when you look past the superficial beauty of the film , much like Armageddon , its numerous shortcomings become clear . First of all , Titanic suffered badly from the ... |
544,125 | 562,732 | 734,543 | 6 | Fun morality play , but stops making sense near the end ? | Two small time crooks , Chester and Paula , root through their latest haul in a shabby hotel room , lamenting the worthlessness of it all , until one of them stumbles upon one of their stolen items , a seemingly ancient and valueless camera without any apparent place to open it and put film in or take it out . They soo... |
544,554 | 562,732 | 120,347 | 6 | Good action , good acting , idiotic one-liners , a bonehead story , and James Bond at his most reckless . | ( spoilers ) The traditional opening sequence of Tomorrow Never Dies is excellent . Especially when compared to the horrendous opening of the awful film that followed this one , The World Is Not Enough . When we see James Bond steal the bombs from the Nuclear Arms Bazaar in Russia , overcoming every obstacle ( includin... |
544,234 | 562,732 | 70,633 | 6 | The bad parts are pretty bad , but the good parts are creepy as hell . | This made for TV horror thriller is a lot better than it's ridiculous title would have you believe , which is really saying something since the title is actually a pretty apt description of what goes on in the movie . It starts out with a girl acting really strangely , running away something that isn't identified and t... |
544,018 | 562,732 | 191,397 | 6 | Not original in the slightest sense of the word , but good acting and entertaining comedy make this weak story at least a little bit better . | The Replacements , as I am sure hundreds of people have noted already , is yet another football movie . There have been only a few football movies which were very well made and resulted in quality films ( Unnecessary Roughness was fairly well-done , and especially The Program , probably one of the best ) , but it seeme... |
544,199 | 562,732 | 110,725 | 6 | For $350 , 000 I'd do anything once ! | Of course , when I say " do " anything once , I am paraphrasing something else that Seagal says in his first scene in this movie , something that would get my review swiftly booted off the IMDb were I to put the real line up there . But it's the perfect explanation of the character that Seagal plays in On Deadly Ground... |
544,771 | 562,732 | 363,276 | 6 | Average . | I wasn't really sure what to expect when I rented this movie . I tend to be pretty impressed with psychological thrillers ( I loved In Dreams , for example , which was not hugely popular ) , so I thought I would give it a shot even though it seemed to be one of those movies that pops up at the video store , the direct ... |
544,856 | 562,732 | 83,944 | 6 | True models of law enforcement . | First Blood is the unexpectedly simplistic story of a mentally unstable Vietnam veteran who returns to America and is shunned by the people who's freedom he was fighting for , as was so famously the case with so many soldiers returning from that war , regardless of how much or how little they believed in the war itself... |
544,633 | 562,732 | 120,784 | 6 | Payback is a good action movie but that's about all . | Mel Gibson has been so heavily typecast as the good guy that even in a movie for which the tagline is ' Get ready to root for the bad guy , ' he's not the bad guy . Quite the contrary , a premise like this is little more than a way to get people to expect a heightened level of blood and violence in the movie , it gives... |
544,416 | 562,732 | 158,583 | 6 | Almost immediately forgettable , Deterrence is an extremely simply made " thriller " that bores more than it thrills . | I didn't expect much from Deterrence to begin with ( it was recommended to me by someone with consistently ridiculous taste in movies - no offense to him , of course ) , but I was still disappointed . First of all , the entire movie takes place in a diner in some town in the middle of nowhere . As a film student , I re... |
544,198 | 562,732 | 116,421 | 6 | Seagal bleeds his own blood for the first time ! | OK , so the IMDb plot synopsis describes Seagal's character Jack Cole as a " soft spoken , mystical , new age New York cop with a checkered past . " So basically that's Seagal playing himself again , except for the New York cop part ? He's been transferred from New York to LA to help the LAPD with the case of a serial ... |
543,912 | 562,732 | 120,749 | 6 | Mercury sinking ? | Okay , before you condemn Mercury Rising for being what it admittedly is , a cheesy action movie , you should at least consider that it accomplishes what it sets out to do . This movie was obviously never meant to win any Academy Awards ( otherwise they wouldn't have cast Bruce Willis , at least at that stage in his ca... |
544,868 | 562,732 | 95,294 | 6 | Picking up almost exactly where part I left off , Hellraiser II , although also not a great movie in any respect , continues the unlikely but strangely fascinating story started by the original Hellraiser in 19 | Hellraiser II , like the rest of the series , requires an extreme suspension of disbelief . Obviously , horror movies are not meant to portray reality , but there was not a single solitary piece of the real world presented here . Not for even one second of film time did anything resembling real life show up in the movi... |
544,843 | 562,732 | 4,284 | 6 | One of Chaplin's less successful early comedies . | While it's true that not all of Chaplin's short films are as stunningly brilliant as so many of the films for which he later became famous , it is also true that there is a distinct difference in quality between the early films in which he acted as well as directed , and those in which he was directed as an actor by so... |
544,871 | 562,732 | 138,304 | 6 | Not a great film in any sense , The Astronaut's Wife is entertaining in the sense that you feel you are being led up to an excellent climax , but when it is eventually reached , it is disappointing and retrospe | SPOILERS SPOILERS Unfortunately , Charlize Theron has reached the point where she can't really play roles like the disturbed wife because she just comes off as annoying . She was good in The Devil's Advocate ( in almost exactly the same role as she played in The Astronaut's Wife ) , but that was probably just because e... |
544,555 | 562,732 | 143,145 | 6 | Is the 007 series suffering from the same big-budget , low-thought production system that seems to be plaguing the Lethal Weapon series ? | ( spoilers ) The Lethal Weapon series began with a succession of excellent action films , but as of late , particularly in the fourth installment , the content just went overboard and much of the quality was lost . This same thing seems to have happened with the latest installment in the James Bond film series , and al... |
543,934 | 562,732 | 70,328 | 6 | Start the unnecessarily slow moving dipping mechanism ! | Although super-slow and plodding for a 007 film , Live and Let Die is notable as Roger Moore's debut in the role of james Bond , and the first movie with anyone other than Sean Connery as the famous secret agent . It takes a good hour before anything happens resembling any kind of action sequence , even the traditional... |
544,477 | 562,732 | 120,591 | 6 | If you watch Armageddon , only watch it once . If you see it more than that , you'll realize how terrible it really is . | Armageddon definitely sets the record for fooling the most people into thinking it's a good movie . When I first saw it , I was blown away . I loved every second of it ! It was exciting , it was spectacularly done , the acting was great , the dialogue was funny , I couldn't think of a single thing wrong with it . Obvio... |
544,051 | 562,732 | 120,603 | 6 | A valiant and occasionally successful effort , but Beloved is an adaptation of a novel that is far too complex to ever be satisfactorily translated to the screen . | Beloved is a novel that relies heavily upon it's own language and the brilliant writing style in order to have its effect on the reader . One of its strongest points ( and these are countless ) is that it is about the period of American history near the end and immediately following slavery , when Negroes were still co... |
544,470 | 562,732 | 243,155 | 6 | Not as good as some of Hugh Grant's other romantic comedies , but Bridget Jones's Diary stands out as one of the better comedies of 2001 . | First of all , yes , I realize that it sounds kind of ironic to say that Bridget Jones's Diary is not as GOOD as other Hugh Grant movies , but keep in mind that even this hideously charming English actor has come out with some genuinely entertaining and memorable films ( I am thinking , in particular , of films like Fo... |
543,777 | 562,732 | 120,620 | 6 | Excellent performances saved this one from total failure . | ( spoilers ) Brokedown Palace is a very effective and highly emotional film . It succeeds on many levels , but it also fails on many levels . While the film is totally unoriginal ( HEAVY emphasis on ' unoriginal ' ) , it is very well acted and directed , even if nearly every aspect of the story itself has very recently... |
544,252 | 562,732 | 23,694 | 6 | Classy old thriller . | It's amazing how times have changed . When considering the change from the plodding zombies in The Dawn of the Dead into the turbo-charged , sprinting zombies in the 2004 remake , I suppose it can be expected that a zombie film made in the early 1930s might feature some zombies that stand stark still for extended perio... |
544,327 | 562,732 | 93,756 | 6 | Another great movie gangster of the 1980s ? David Spade ! ! | So what's happened so far ? A gaggle of society's goofiest citizens have taken advantage of a new policy to loosen hiring standards at the police force and actually made it through despite efforts from all directions to get them thrown out . They embark on their first assignment , which is to turn around Commandant Las... |
544,655 | 562,732 | 192,731 | 6 | Yes ! Finally some quality cinema from the teen slasher genre ! You see , it seems that someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too ? HEY ! ! | ( spoilers ) In a time when teenage slasher mystery thrillers are in tremendous overabundance , the sequel to the fairly entertaining Urban Legend is fortunately not a complete failure . I watched Urban Legends : Final Cut with very low expectations , which were the result of having heard that the movie was terrible , ... |
544,675 | 562,732 | 419,887 | 6 | This country is not kind to invaders ? | First of all , the hype about The Kite Runner was wildly over-blown , and sadly , the movie is just as disappointing as the book . Most of the novel is outstanding , but it completely falls off a cliff at the end , and then closes with a happily-ever-after ending that seems just as tacked-on as the worst of the Hollywo... |
543,739 | 562,732 | 431,678 | 6 | In-depth look at the history of the cell-phone . | This is an interesting addition to the DVD for Cellular , it's basically a lot of telecommunications engineers talking about the history of cell-phones from the " brick " of the 1970s to the 4 ounce video camera phones that we use today . It's like that educational video about rats that is on the Willard DVD . You have... |
543,956 | 562,732 | 213,149 | 6 | This is just about what I expected . | Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay are back from Armageddon fame to once again present to us another tremendous disaster story interspersed with some elaborate and manipulative romance . The film mainly follows the lives of two life long friends , Rafe and Danny , as they grow up obviously meant to be fighter pilots , a... |
544,534 | 562,732 | 239,395 | 6 | Disappointing . | The thing that really makes a good family film is when it appeals to both children and adults . For example , you have Toy Story , Toy Story 2 , Shrek , The Iron Giant , and even , surprisingly enough , lots and lots of Disney films . Unfortunately , the whole thing about technologically advanced domesticated animals w... |
543,966 | 562,732 | 69,897 | 6 | What the hell does ' blaxploitation ' mean ? | I imagine it has something to do with the weak script and plot that Coffy has , but this movie doesn't exactly exploit African Americans any more than a sex thriller like Poison Ivy or something exploits white people . Coffy isn't really that bad of a movie if you can look past the same old revenge plot and the fact th... |
544,328 | 562,732 | 91,777 | 6 | It's a matter of the mind being mightier than the bosom . | I gotta admit , ladies and gentlemen , I don't really find this stuff amusing anymore , but for some reason the Police Academy movies are still their own brand of fun . I was just reading through some of the message boards about the movies on the IMDb about what peoples ' favorite scenes were from part 3 and from the s... |
544,699 | 562,732 | 349,683 | 6 | Disappointing . | I rented Paparazzi , which looked like the potential for it to suck was pretty high , so I got King Arthur just to have something to fall back on . Besides , I have been meaning to see it for months , since I never got around to seeing it in the theaters . As it turns out , I was completely wrong . Paparazzi was outsta... |
544,400 | 562,732 | 7,145 | 6 | A drunken Charlie trying to get to bed ? | Chaplin playing drunk characters are his weakest roles , and for much of the time I was watching One A . M . I got the feeling that he went in to work and didn't have any ideas , so just decided to play a drunk guy coming home from a big night on the town . The plot is virtually nonexistent , it really does start with ... |
543,841 | 562,732 | 116,136 | 6 | When you watch Dragonheart , keep in mind that it is a FANTASY movie . Evidently in fantasy movies dragons can remove 50 % of their cardiac system and donate it to a human , granting him immortal life , at least | Dragonheart didn't have much promise from the start , which is probably why it is not very well known . Or maybe it's just because it wasn't very good . Okay , it was a fairly entertaining movie , it had amazing special effects , but the entire premise was just asking too much , even for a fantasy movie . I am willing ... |
543,726 | 562,732 | 24,368 | 6 | A curiosity piece but what was the deal with the romance ? | I watched The Mystery of the Wax Museum because I recently watched the House of Wax remake and so of course I had to go back and watch the original even though I didn't really like the remake , and Mystery happened to be a double feature with the original House of Wax . Having not seen the 1953 film yet , I'm impressed... |
543,826 | 562,732 | 199,753 | 6 | The movie falls apart right about the same time that the ship does . | The problem with Red Planet is that there is too much known about it before it begins , and this is not only because of previews , but also because of common sense . About halfway through the film , for example , there is a lengthy scene of completely false tension , where the three survivors are helplessly watching th... |
544,792 | 562,732 | 22,395 | 6 | The film hangs from the script like a sack of potatoes . | In one of Hitchcock's slowest moving films , we see the tense interaction between two feuding families with different plans for the future of their community . There is a piece of land at the center of the dispute , which one family wants to use to preserve a life of family and tradition , and the opposing family wants... |
544,810 | 562,732 | 80,761 | 6 | Classic that has lost all potency as a horror film , but should be respected because the reason that it has lost all potency is because it started so many trends that it has been endlessly duplicated and , hen | Friday the 13th is one of the most recognizable horror movie titles in movie history , but is not the same powerful film that it was in 1980 . It has been ripped off to no end , leaving it little more than a brittle skeleton of its original self , but it was also a rip off of Halloween , so I suppose in a way it has go... |
543,970 | 562,732 | 160,127 | 6 | Who's that guy ? That's George McFly ! | Charlie's Angels is a pretty sad attempt to cash in on the looks of three of the more attractive actresses working today ( although I am sad to say that Drew hardly fits in that category anymore ) , and the film's similarity to the traditional James Bond formula is a little hard not to notice . Cameron Diaz is an absol... |
544,785 | 562,732 | 184,858 | 6 | Reindeer Games attempts to run with the likes of such classics as Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction , but unfortunately it falls significantly short . | Reindeer Games is a good thriller . It is fun to watch , it has a good story , it's entertaining , and even most of the acting is respectable enough . However , as a whole , the film is pretty weak . Ben Affleck is a car thief who is serving a six year sentence in prison . His cell-mate is a man named Nick Cassidy ( Ja... |
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