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586,595 | 783,721 | 157,117 | 4 | Lame | Tokyo Eyes tells of a 17 year old Japanese girl who falls in like with a man being hunted by her big bro who is a cop . This lame flick is about 50 % filler and 50 % talk , talk , and more talk . You'll get to see the less than stellar cast of three as they talk on the bus , talk and play video games , talk and get a... |
586,224 | 783,721 | 116,783 | 4 | Amateurish nonsense | Kissed takes on the daunting issue of necrophilia as it focuses on Sandra ( Parker ) , a necrophiliac who has sex with the dead people in the funeral home where she's employed . If whack job Sandra isn't enough on our plate , the neophytes behind this film serve up an even more whacked out head case in a med student ... |
585,814 | 783,721 | 209,475 | 4 | PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU ! ! | The Wedding Planner is an amateurish and perfectly awful series of contrived situations in which Lopez looks awkward and is upstaged by the more beautiful , poorly cast Nicholson while McConaughey is just his usual one dimensional , zero-depth self . Nothing works in the flick from the stupid statue scene to the ridi... |
586,746 | 783,721 | 277,705 | 4 | Boooooooooooooooring ! | Final tells of an institutionalized man ( Leary ) and his psychiatrist ( Davis ) who sort through his confused mental state only to find the aberrations are more outside his mind than in it . An unfortunate film with much unrealized potential , " Final " starts slow , builds slow , and then fizzles . What could have ... |
587,443 | 783,721 | 296,535 | 4 | Booray for Bollywood | Bollywood Bound will show you some East Indian young adult wanabees who want to make it in Bollywood films . You'll see them waiting around , being interviewed , walking and talking , eating a burger . . . . um , not much else . Pretty boring stuff . ( |
587,213 | 783,721 | 116,851 | 4 | Perfectly awful | Leila is so awful it's painful to watch . The DVD I rented had all the zits and dust of the original film . The video was contrasty and grainy as if the film was " pushed " for speed as most indoor scenes were poorly lighted like a really bad noir . The color was off , the English subtitles were poor translations and... |
586,312 | 783,721 | 174,204 | 4 | Messy , clumsy , convoluted , and weak . | The film " Simpatico " tells its marginally interesting story through a succession of annoying flashbacks and unlikely present-day events . Character development is sufficient to make us realize that we don't much care about what happens to the characters and the drama unfolds like so much chaff from the cutting room f... |
586,193 | 783,721 | 101,478 | 4 | Lame little time waster | Blood and Concrete is a lame little low budget comedy about a small time hoodlum ( Zane ) who hooks up with a neurotic babe ( Beals ) and then learns they have something more in common than mutual admiration . . . specifically a drug called " Libido " . Playing out like something contrived by a bunch of drunken colle... |
585,887 | 783,721 | 94,827 | 4 | Don't call me . I'll call you . | Call Me is all about Anna ( Charbonneau ) who is smart enough to be a NYC newspaper columnist but not smart enough to hang up on an obscene phone caller . A lame B-flick which smacks of indieness and amateurish autuersmanship features a mediocre performance by Charbonneau , Strathrain for a heartbeat , Buscemi in a b... |
585,847 | 783,721 | 90,925 | 4 | The usual broadcast tv miniseries stuff . | Dumbed-down and sanitized for commercial television , " The Deliberate Stranger " turns the sensational story of infamous serial killer Ted Bundy into a very ordinary miniseries . With a run time of 185 minutes , this flick makes for a very long and boring watch . Note - The version I watched on cable had no closed cap... |
586,988 | 783,721 | 153,866 | 4 | Disappointing | I've been looking forward to watching " Wirey Spindell " since having happened across Schaffer's " Fall " . Unfortunately , I found " WS " to be a wandering , unengaging , boring bunch of claptrap pieced together with , what apparently is Schaeffer's signature , a mix of story , narration , and poetry . The film recoun... |
587,147 | 783,721 | 218,043 | 5 | Wrestlers are people too . | Beyond the Mat takes a superficial behind-the-scenes look at professional wrestling with a disappointing conglomeration of the spectacle and the performers and few hard facts . The film gets schmaltzy over the big guys as it shows their human side which we could all pretty much guess anyway . . . the good and the bad... |
587,141 | 783,721 | 264,395 | 5 | Hoo-ah hooey | Basic tells a story about the investigation of murders during an Army jungle training exercise which uncovers layer upon layer of intrigue much of it via flashback . The film offers a good cast under the crop of a good director and manages to build some charisma in its cavalier DEA agent protag ( Travolta ) . That's ... |
585,596 | 783,721 | 126,220 | 5 | Earnest tv flick about an American who lived to die for Vietnam | Bright Shining Lie is a tv miniseries bio-docu-drama novel knock-off which tells of the exploits and adventures of an idealistic , single-minded maverick U . S . Army officer and curious mix of saint and sinner , John Paul Vann ( Paxton ) , who lived for the war which eventually killed him . An earnest journeyman pro... |
586,827 | 783,721 | 368,913 | 5 | Saw it all on CNN . | Osama tells of a fatherless pubescent Afghan girl who has her hair cut so she can impersonate a boy and help her mother get around by acting as the male escort required by the oppressive Taliban regime . Like so many third world films , " Osama " is a slow moving and laconic film with low end production value which ,... |
586,911 | 783,721 | 147,599 | 5 | An amusing journeyman gangster flick for channel surfers | Thick as Thieves follows a crafty professional thief ( Baldwin ) as he does a job , gets ripped off , and seeks retribution . The result involves cops , black and Italian mobs , and the thief all trying to resolve the situation in accordance with their respective agendas . A slightly above average watch , this journe... |
586,602 | 783,721 | 126,261 | 5 | Brain fart | Desert Blue , the nickname of a central character , tells of a handful of young adults in a ramshackle desert town who have too much time and too little to do with it . The film is long on talent but so short on story one can only wonder how it ever got into production much less distribution . Slow , monotonous , bor... |
585,615 | 783,721 | 101,273 | 5 | Peculiar . . . . in a bad way . | Imagine dining at a four star restaurant with wonderful ambiance , service , linen and dinnerware ; great wine ; a superb salad ; and exquisite dessert but a totally botched and messy entree which you can't even identify . Well , that's " The Adjuster " . An excellent film technically and artistically but a mess of a s... |
587,617 | 783,721 | 126,240 | 5 | A big little chutney-flavored film . | Chutney Popcorn is a warmhearted , earnest , sincere story with a subtle sense-of-humor . With all the ear marks of a low budget independent film , this flick moves with serenity and honesty through the lives of some New York City dwellers including a surrogate mother , some Indian-Americans , some lesbians , and som... |
587,252 | 783,721 | 118,603 | 5 | Far from perfekt | American Perfekt is a lukewarm psychodrama which spends its run time on a four travelers of questionable character bound by circumstance and highway in an arid Nevada desert . A slow starter , the film requires a whole lot of faith to get into and a broad attention span to stick with . However , for viewers who can s... |
587,261 | 783,721 | 316,653 | 5 | Long on style . Short on everything else . | Spider's Web tells a convoluted tale of deceit , murder , and other treachery with a woman exec ( Wuhrer ) who falls in love with the son ( Baldwin ) of the wealthy tycoon for whom she works and the sets about to embezzle $40 mil and abscond with the son . . . blaa , blaa . At issues is ; who's scamming who ? The fil... |
585,619 | 783,721 | 248,661 | 5 | A confused mess of a movie . | 3 a . m . shuttles between a half dozen characters having to do with a struggling NYC cab company and a diner frequented by some of the drivers during the reign of terror of a cabby killer . A confused and unsatisfying watch , " 3 a . m . " is a jambalaya of people and circumstances which , for the most part , are un... |
586,493 | 783,721 | 321,442 | 5 | Lame | The Big Empty is not only the title of this movie , it's also an apt description of it . Telling of a struggling actor who runs an errand to a desert town in California for some paranormal weirdo only to become embroiled in a bunch of nonsense which goes no where , this lame comedy is packed with some quality acting ... |
586,616 | 783,721 | 281,718 | 5 | Loses something in the translation | ' Friend " is a very Korean film about four best friend boys who grow up in Pusan ( circa 1970ish ) but take different paths through life . An artistically and technically good treatment of an old theme , this film is a slow moving drama which buries itself in typically Asian melodramatic style in angst and woe over is... |
587,473 | 783,721 | 118,553 | 5 | Okay action B-flick with some personality | Acts of Betrayal , a typical B action flick , tells of a macho FBI agent ( McColm ) who spends the entire film killing bad guys as he protects a federal witness ( Alonso ) from a small army of hitmen . The film has little going for it but does manage some par or better firefights and a kinda-sorta fun relationship be... |
586,903 | 783,721 | 321,416 | 5 | A mediocre history lesson | Benedict Arnold is a typical made-for-tv historical melodrama about a small portion of the life of the American Revolutionary War General whose name has become synonymous with " traitor " . This A & E production takes a squinty look at the man's life , showing only the most historically significant portions which fla... |
587,043 | 783,721 | 268,696 | 5 | Good but over touted | Time of Favor seems to be an earnest attempt to tell a somewhat mundane tale , as films go , of a religious military man who has to weigh matters of faith with conscience , love with duty , sacrifice with fulfillment , etc . - nothing particularly new . The film comes off like a low budget indie with obvious cost cut... |
587,522 | 783,721 | 118,783 | 5 | Over done | A Brother's Kiss tells of two brothers who grow up in the mean streets of NYC and take opposite paths through life still bound by brotherly love through thick and thin . A strong performance by Chinlund ( one of those where - have - I - seen - that - guy - before actors ) is the glue which holds this overwrought frea... |
586,648 | 783,721 | 175,877 | 5 | An action / comedy no-brainer for audiences with no brains . | Made Men is the kind of flick where the shoot-outs expend more ammunition than the shooters could carry . It's the kind of flick where an auto gas tank explodes like a case of dynamite , not 10 gallons of gasoline . It's the kind of flick where a Brit plays a red-neck sheriff with both accents prevalent in his speech... |
585,845 | 783,721 | 118,760 | 5 | More dismal , dreary stuff about Ireland | The Boxer tells of a man ( Day-Lewis ) who returns to Belfast following a 14 year prison sentence for IRA misdeeds and sets about opening a community boxing gym while renewing an acquaintance with the woman he loved before being sent to prison . The film offers solid performances in a doggedly plodding and somewhat u... |
587,452 | 783,721 | 260,320 | 5 | Repli-this ! | In " Repli-Kate " , a college microbiologist clones a beautiful woman , takes her home , and teaches her to be the stereotypical male's ideal : A woman who is a slob , chugs brewskis , burps , curses , gobbles pizza like a pig , wants sex all the time , etc . A surprisingly enjoyable but unsophisticated little comedy r... |
585,688 | 783,721 | 160,574 | 5 | A fun flick about honesty and the dating game . | Nice Guys . . . tells of a 30-something male school teacher who is frustrated with dating because he follows the rules and always strikes out . Well , almost always . This little " sleeper " offers a fresh , honest , and amusing look at the foibles of first dates , doesn't try to out do itself , and knows when to qui... |
586,054 | 783,721 | 191,397 | 5 | Scores a touchdown but no extra points . | The Replacements are a motley bunch of misfits and pro-football scabs who manage to create some funny moments on and off the grid-iron . Hackman is always good and Reeves works in his not too challenging center stage role . The film treads with minimal success into romance , can't quite conjure up the goose bumps the... |
587,621 | 783,721 | 122,529 | 5 | A pretentious , pseudointellectual mediocre indie . | Henry Fool tells of a stoic young garbage man who is encouraged to write poetry by a transient dilettante , Henry Fool . The story has little substance and , with the exception of the principals , is cluttered with sundry characters who serve no useful purpose and whom were not made to care about anyway . The plot is... |
586,679 | 783,721 | 118,668 | 5 | Would you like a little testosterone with your popcorn ? | Back in Business tells of a ex-cop who teams up with his ex-partner to make a drug bust and . . . well , fix everything else which is wrong with his little corner of the world . A marginal action flick at best , " BinB " has very ordinary stunts and action sequences replete with all the usual machine gun wielding hea... |
586,771 | 783,721 | 277,371 | 5 | Could have been better . | Not Just Another Teen Movie is another in a string of slampoons which takes on the teen romantic comedy genre with a kaleidoscope of characters , situations , and scenes borrowed from a host of past teen flicks . A raunchy , vulgar , irreverent morass of exaggerations which tries to maintain story continuity , this f... |
585,832 | 783,721 | 299,163 | 5 | Sitcom quality full length feature | On cable as " Strange Relations " , this romantic comedy with light drama tells of an adopted well to do NYC psychiatrist ( Reiser ) with cancer who goes to the UK in search of his birth mother and marrow doners and gets more than he expected . Reiser delivers a marginal sitcom level performance at the center of this f... |
585,955 | 783,721 | 338,325 | 5 | Pooparazzi | Paparazzi tells of a rising action movie star who suddenly becomes aware of guys which cameras who chase him around because he's a celeb . They chase him in cars so he has to drive like a maniac and then stop in the middle of an intersection and almost gets killed . ( Sound familiar ? ) They are , in fact , so evil t... |
586,234 | 783,721 | 113,149 | 5 | A silly French sitcom with a whole lot of subtitles . | French Twist is a mildly humorous situational comedy about an attractive women , wife , and mother who is married to a womanizer who becomes outraged when his wife falls in with a dyke . From there , the story turns into a series of who-has-the-upper-sexual-hand situations . The film , with more flaws than favors , i... |
587,244 | 783,721 | 160,498 | 5 | A journeyman chick-flick with a Latin heart and flavor . | Luminarias tells of four middle-aged , middle class Latina best friends , Mexican-American women , who meet at the title restaurant in L . A . periodically for conversation . Andrea ( Frenandez ) , a lawyer , is the centerpiece of this slice-of-latin-life flick and also the playwright . A mediocre film as films go , ... |
586,777 | 783,721 | 95,388 | 5 | Precious little " docu " in this docudrama | It would seem that the creators of " Jack the Ripper 1988 " decided to capitalize on the enduring " Ripper " mystery , build a miniseries very loosely around some of the " Ripper " case facts , introduce their own characters and facts so as to make the protracted 3 . 5 hour watch endurable , and then peddled it to the ... |
585,790 | 783,721 | 245,171 | 5 | Tedium ad nauseam | Invincible slogs through a 2 hour fable-of-sorts as it tells of a rural Jewish blacksmith ( Ahola ) who takes up with a theater troupe as a strongman and finds himself embroiled in a variety of Nazi-Jew issues ( Circa 1932 ) . There's little to recommend in this theatrical , obvious , and poorly assembled film save a... |
586,079 | 783,721 | 256,089 | 5 | Subpar cop show | Ihaka : Blunt Instrument is all about Ihaka ( Morrison ) , a New Zealand no nonsense macho Maori cop with a penchant for taking matters into his own hands and solving problems with his fists . In this installment he his shipped off to Australia where he teams up with a beautiful desk jockey cop ( Gibney ) and togethe... |
587,367 | 783,721 | 167,116 | 5 | Another cops vs hitman ho-hummer | Desert Saints is an oddly titled and obviously contrived journeyman drama which tells the tale of a hit man ( Sutherland ) and a female accomplice of questionable allegiance ( Walters ) . The film has all the ear marks of a low budget tv-direct flick with the usual plot holes , staginess , and obvious scripting . Don... |
585,980 | 783,721 | 141,098 | 5 | Ordinary unimaginative fluff from an over worked genre . | The makers of " Forces of Nature " wisely cast Affleck and Bullock in roles which don't require acting and then kept the spotlight on them so they wouldn't be upstaged by a supporting cast with some talent . This ho-hummer is just another mediocre romantic comedy which may have a few moments for die-hard couch potatoes... |
586,733 | 783,721 | 209,958 | 5 | A colossal mess of a movie . | The up side of " The Cell " is good casting , special effects , acting , etc . The downside of this masterpiece of surreal cinematic junk food is the story which is no more than another trite serial killer drama with a sci-fi twist which comes off like an excuse , not a reason , for special effects . The film may find ... |
587,164 | 783,721 | 233,142 | 5 | What a waste . | 3000 Miles to Graceland is a testosterone drenched junk flick with story which doesn't work , numbing excesses of mindless action , and a huge waste of star power and budget bucks . Deserving of the numerous Razzie nominations it garnered , this is one for the dumpster . Nuff said . |
585,727 | 783,721 | 210,065 | 5 | A shallow time wasting wannabe | Gangster No . 1 , a B-movie quality Brit crime flick , spends its first boring hour telling of the rise of a street punk to top mob boss ( Bettnay / McDowell ) before anything interesting happens . Then is suddenly goes into a frenetic mess of infantile nonsense in the guise of drama with dumb effects and overacting ... |
587,247 | 783,721 | 290,795 | 5 | For maximum enjoyment , turn off brain before viewing | Flawed on all levels , " One Way Out " plays out with the look and feel of a low budget t . v . drama . Belushi is at the center as a homicide detective with gambling debts who finds himself on the wrong end of a murder investigation . With pervasive mediocrity , the tortuous plot is the only reason to spend time with ... |
585,775 | 783,721 | 95,274 | 5 | A waste of time | A Handful of Dust is a period film ( circa 1935 approx ) which tells of a woman ( K Scott Thomas ) who becomes restless rattling around in a huge English mansion with her family and servants and decides to take a flat in London for he purposes of a liaison with a handsome young man of dubious character . Her affair r... |
586,262 | 783,721 | 221,559 | 5 | On the edge of what ? | On the Edge is a somewhat flat flick which focuses on a suicidal young man and woman who meet in a mental institution and discover that living and loving may be their most difficult option . The film offers good performances , a solid premise , and little else . An okay Irish flick with unrealized potential for couch... |
587,379 | 783,721 | 171,356 | 5 | A marginally funny spoof about an undercover DEA agent | Neeson is a top undercover DEA agent suffering from loss of confidence and flatulence . In this nominal comedy , he is caught in a crossfire between a Colombian cartel , an Italian Mafia , and DEA corruption . Can his gastroenterologist's beautiful assistant ( Bullock ) bail him out ? That's the question the film sets ... |
585,760 | 783,721 | 151,582 | 5 | A thriller with no thrills . | The Minus Man follows the rather boring activities of Vann ( Wilson ) , a young man who drives into town , settles in a rented room , becomes a postal worker , and apparently kills people . The film gives insights into Vann's off-beat thinking with over-dubs and annoying vignettes which are fantasies or remembrances ... |
587,314 | 783,721 | 312,358 | 5 | Typical sequel ripoff | Anatomie 2 is a typical sequel which attempts to capitalize on the inertia of the popular first edition while not delivering the star power , creative juice , atmospherics or substance . This flick tells of a young medical prodigy ( Metschurat ) who falls in with a secret society of doctors who experiment with human ... |
587,028 | 783,721 | 245,046 | 5 | WWII chick flick | Blanchette turns in a solid performance as the title character of a not-so-solid WWII drama about a British woman who volunteers to work with the French resistance hoping to find her lover who was shot down over France . A kind of lyrical telling of a gritty story , this bland film tries to squeeze too much into the ru... |
585,719 | 783,721 | 217,630 | 5 | A surprisingly enjoyable little " sleeper " . | After such a long string of so-called romantic comedy junk flicks made for the college crowd , " Loser " is a surprisingly enjoyable little film about a very square college newbie's triumph over the cool crowd . Though the film is obvious and predictable it doesn't pander to the audience with gratuitous sex , booze , a... |
587,627 | 783,721 | 156,515 | 5 | Mediocre stuff for the less than mature audience | Entropy is a principle of thermodynamics which has to do with the ever increasing randomness of the universe . It's also a mediocre cult-type flick which Dorff self-narrates in real time and in flashback as it tells about the increasing chaos in his life . A no nonsense , fast moving , get-to-the-point tongue-in-chee... |
587,560 | 783,721 | 95,333 | 5 | Bland , obvious , and lacking in chemistry and personality . | Not unlike a simple-minded Nancy Drew , McGillis plays a nosey but reluctant witness to Nazi war criminal underground railroad skullduggery who foils countless bad guys while falling in like with an FBI agent ( Daniels ) who doesn't carry a gun because they're too heavy . Yeah , right . Good old fashioned melodrama , "... |
586,194 | 783,721 | 285,917 | 5 | Fire cop or fire bug ? | Point of Origin takes the viewer into the life of a workaholic top Los Angeles arson investigator ( Liotta ) who is married with children , having some extracurricular activity on the side , writing a book , and investigating a serial arson case . Jeesh , talk about burning the candle at both ends ! On the upside , t... |
586,752 | 783,721 | 299,422 | 5 | The " 100 Mile Rule " doesn't . | 100 Mile Rule is a comedy about three Detroit salesmen on business travel who become embroiled in scheming and scamming in L . A . This journeyman little low budget B-flick is a nominal no brainer watch for anyone interested in the something to chill to . Just keep expectations low and don't expect any LOL's . Lightw... |
585,898 | 783,721 | 171,308 | 5 | Weak and flawed | The Fall , a technically and artistically okay flick filmed in Budapest , tells of a frustrated American writer ( Scheffer ) who finds himself involved in drama and intrigue when his flat is invaded by a beautiful woman on the run ( de Fougerolles ) . A flawed screenplay with a thin story which doggedly wrestles with... |
586,226 | 783,721 | 289,879 | 5 | Unadulterared crap | Unadulterated as in not made for adults , " Butterfly Effect " offers some marginal performances in a silly make-it-up-as-you-go story which seems to be little more than an excuse to serve up huge helpings of gratuitous garbage for titillation of the those young people Hollywood just loves to rip off . You'll see a p... |
586,450 | 783,721 | 186,932 | 5 | Unoriginal , nominal whodunnit drama . | A homicide investigator ( McCarthy ) finds himself caught between his young daughter's life / death struggle with disease and a serial killer's rampage in this nominally watchable whodunnit drama . An good shoot but one of those flicks which you feel like you seen many times before . Okay material for channel surfers . |
587,630 | 783,721 | 286,493 | 5 | Monster's Ball it ain't | In " The Badge " ( bad title ) , Thornton plays a sheriff in Louisiana's LaSalle Parish who has to solve a murder case involving sexually atypical types whom he regards with contempt . The film attempts to show Thornton's character coming to grips with his prejudices while wrestling with other personal issues such as h... |
585,966 | 783,721 | 264,935 | 5 | Movie by numbers | In " Murder by Numbers " , a miscast Bullock fails to nail the nuances required of her role as a tough homicide cop with issues while awash in a forensic la-la-land trying to wrest confessions from a couple of high school students who think they have committed the perfect murder complete with victim , perp , and clues ... |
586,173 | 783,721 | 221,889 | 5 | Nominal UK dark comedy for the couch potato | Beautiful Creatures is a light-hearted dark comedy which tells of a pair of chance meeting babes who have had trouble with the men in their lives . So , armed with a mix of ditziness and defiance , they decide to do something about it which results in more men , more trouble , murder and mayhem . A not-to-be-taken-se... |
585,734 | 783,721 | 100,797 | 5 | A poor telling of a socially significant story | Too Young to Die tells of an attractive young woman of low intelligence who's raised by a degenerate mother in a low class environment and sexually abused by men resulting in tragedy . This unfortunate flick has a story of some social significance but fails to bring it to the screen with the bitter reality , heart an... |
587,413 | 783,721 | 186,894 | 5 | The wrong actor got on the plane . | Old premise , new film . A reasonable attempt at film making , " Bounce " is fraught with problems not the least of which is casting Affleck opposite a fine actress . This light drama starts okay but fizzles . The chemistry between Affleck and Paltrow is predictably nonexistent . Affleck and Bullock , maybe . Affleck a... |
586,183 | 783,721 | 137,036 | 5 | Shoestring indie snoozer | Jerome , AZ is the destination of this road trip flick about a not too bright welder who walks off the job , leaves his family , and hits the road in his boss's car . A shoestring indie , " Jerome " is one of those shallow character-driven dramas where the camera lingers endlessly over every scene as though we're suppo... |
587,130 | 783,721 | 248,190 | 5 | An Edsel | No Such Thing is an absurd comedy knock-off of the old " Beauty and the Beast " or " Hunchback of Notre Dame " or " Phantom of the Opera " theme where a grotesque and misunderstood male is juxtaposed with a beautiful female who understands him . In this film the monster is a scaly , horned , fire breathing murdering ... |
587,503 | 783,721 | 206,420 | 5 | Sizzle turns to fizzle | Woman On Top tells of a Brazilian woman / chef ( Cruz ) who leaves her husband because he cheats on her because she gets motion sickness and so she conjures a spell from some god of the sea . . . aw , never mind . Suffice it to say this film , which is supposed to be a romantic fable / story laced with sensuous Brazi... |
585,924 | 783,721 | 245,479 | 5 | Just sucks . | Just a Kiss sucks like a Hoover . I only made it about halfway before ejecting . I showed the DVD cover to my SO and she just stuck up her nose at it . Even my cat tried to cover it up . The film has a good cast ( why I rented it ) but no story , goes no place , and really needs to get over itself . It's salted with ... |
587,579 | 783,721 | 96,200 | 5 | Booooooring ! | Sweet Hearts Dance is about a two couples . . . one married , one not . Beyond that there's little worth mentioning . Although the film sports a good cast and is an okay production , it is a movie in need of a story as it wanders from chapter to chapter exploring the vicissitudes of a quartet of people who are probab... |
587,025 | 783,721 | 144,715 | 5 | Inside this film is a good movie trying to get out . | Holy Smoke meanders schizophrenically through comedy , drama , realism , and farce serving only to obscure a sound premise and muddle a potentially interesting plot . Though their characters are as vague as the film's purpose , Keitel and Winslet are the only reasons to spend time with this flick . |
587,505 | 783,721 | 160,182 | 5 | Kookie comedy for young adult females | Something old , something new , something borrowed , and something that blows . . . such is the screenplay of " Desperate . . . " , a kookie comedy about an all night odyssey of two ditzy females through the clubs and parties of Hollyweird . Brewster gets all the good lines and steals the show while Taylor plays straig... |
587,061 | 783,721 | 109,446 | 5 | No mark left unmissed | The Client , another marginal film from the master of the marginal film , is a B flick trying to look like an A flick . Schumacher manages to wrest some second rate performances from an excellent cast and Renfro's debut is no exception . The sweaty Southern noir atmospherics don't work any better than the music which... |
587,254 | 783,721 | 217,355 | 5 | Nice try but no cigar | Dancing at the Blue Iguana goes round and round , showing us snapshots in the lives of a bunch of L . A . " Blue Iguana Club " strippers all of whom are having problems . Apparently this plaintive between-the-acts and behind-the-scenes look at stripping is a brain fart from the director . . . something about improv .... |
586,690 | 783,721 | 257,019 | 5 | Don't hate the director . Hate the movie . | About the only good thing I can say about " Purpose " is it does try to deliver a message about what's important in life on the heels of a boom / bust cycle of a new generation of materialistic status-oriented X-gen yuppies with dot-coms in their eyes . As a film , " Purpose " tries too hard to be hip with a script pac... |
587,095 | 783,721 | 286,635 | 5 | Kid's stuff | Fulltime Killer out of Hong Kong has a silly and convoluted plot which is about two young male assassins and a babe . The relationships between the characters are poorly developed as are the characters themselves and the storyline plays out in a superficial make-it-up-as-you-go manner . The flick is difficult to foll... |
586,594 | 783,721 | 307,351 | 5 | Sex , drugs , rock & roll and other stuff | Prey for Rock and Roll sticks B-movie diva Gershon in the spotlight of yet another B-flick as the lesbo lead of an all-girl small time club rock band . This slice-of-rock-life look at the aging rock musician almost works but can't seem to avoid those oh so very Hollywoodish excursions into lesbian sex , sex for drugs... |
586,682 | 783,721 | 126,965 | 5 | A journeyman mystery / drama worth a look on cable | Indiscreet is a so-so journeyman flick with numerous plot holes which tells of a P . I . ( Perry ) who gets involved with the woman ( Ruben ) he's paid to follow and events leading to murder and more . A good shoot around a mediocre story which spends too much time developing a thin character in Perry only to reveal ... |
586,715 | 783,721 | 245,356 | 5 | Ode de parfum | Perfume is apparently supposed to be a behind the scenes look at the world of high fashion ; designers , models , photographers , gurus , wanabees , divas , dilettantes , etc . all involved in their daily esoteric industry activities in NYC . In spite of an even temperament and a sense of earnestness , this project j... |
586,924 | 783,721 | 96,091 | 5 | Pretty awful | Shattered Innocence , loosely based on the short life of porn star Shauna Grant , tells the story of a girl from the midwest who moves to California , gets into drugs and porn , and commits suicide . There's nothing new here and it's presented in an obvious , watered down , made-for-tv style with annoying over-acting... |
585,730 | 783,721 | 104,567 | 5 | Off beat and unsatisfying | Johnny Suede is a slice of life flick which tells of a peculiar fictitious character , Suede ( Pitt ) , who has a 10 inch pompadour , worships Ricky Nelson , is a wannabee musician / star , is naive or stupid or both , and has little else worthy of mention . The slice the film presents ( the story ) is off-beat and c... |
585,989 | 783,721 | 245,317 | 5 | A middle of the heap romcom | A typical starving artist ( Eigeman ) is unable to sell his paintings until a scam artist creates a mysterious identity for him and proves that one can find wealth and true love through fraud as his art becomes " The Next Big Thing " . There is as little to praise and there is to fault in this easy-going B romcom now o... |
587,355 | 783,721 | 126,938 | 5 | Plenty of Cherot | Hav Plenty is a little Afro-Am romantic comedy which tells of the wax and wane of an unspoken but simmering love between an unemployed writer , Lee Plenty ( Cherot ) , and a beautiful career woman , Havilland Savage ( Maxwell ) . . . hence the title , " Hav " and " Plenty " ( Get it ? ) . The film has a stagey feel f... |
587,149 | 783,721 | 190,874 | 5 | Man , woman , french fries , and a wall . | The Wall lampoons an old conflict between Belgium's Flemish and French populations with a short and marginally humorous story about the owner of a french fry stand , his love interest , and the government's decision to partition Belgium with a wall which happens to run smack through the middle of our hero's one-man b... |
586,301 | 783,721 | 117,824 | 5 | Meager | Taking on the Kennedys is a short 45 minute documentary about the 1994 Rhode Island campaign for Congress which pitted 26 year old Democrat Patrick Kennedy against a 39 year old Republican physician Kevin Vigilante . The film , which has all the ear marks of a one man hand-held minicam shoot with poor quality audio a... |
586,930 | 783,721 | 104,892 | 5 | Mistress misfires | Mistress , a misnomer , tells of a bunch of Hollywood hacks slogging through the process of networking , schmoozing , compromising , and sucking up required to launch a film project . A messy flick with little to offer considering the talent behind it , " Mistress " seems to be trying to make the point that making a ... |
586,370 | 783,721 | 307,507 | 5 | Typical B-flick | The Stickup is all about Spader as a burned out LAPD cop on the run after being shot for robbing a bank in some fictitious small town in California's Sierra-Nevada mountains ( played by Canada ) . Spader takes up with a babe who happens to be a nurse and the ex-wife of the town Sheriff , etc . , etc . Toss in a lame ... |
587,369 | 783,721 | 265,208 | 5 | A movie only a teenager could love | The Girl Next Door is one long series of excuses for serving up huge helpings of sex in an apparent attempt to separate the tween / teen male from the price of admission . This very unromantic lol free comedy tells of an about-to-grad HS student body prez who falls for the house sitting babe next door and then learns... |
585,716 | 783,721 | 130,827 | 5 | A film which proves " creative " is not synonymous with " good " . | Run Lola Run depicts three scenarios , all with the same characters and beginning circumstances but with different outcomes . Each is about Lola running to rescue a small time crook who has lost a large sum of underworld money . The film focuses on Lola running with brief encounters along the way while mixing in some... |
586,541 | 783,721 | 159,995 | 5 | Two stars : One in the head and one in the heart . | Angel's Dance features Belushi as the hitman's guru who tests a young protege with an assignment to " hit " a beautiful but freaky woman , Angel ( Lee ) , selected at random . Both get more than they bargained for in this darkish comedy with some action and lots of quirky humor . The film is fresh in the beginning , ... |
586,724 | 783,721 | 245,634 | 5 | Boring | See Jack take pictures . See Jack bang a babe . See Jack with his mom . See Jack bang another babe . See Jack with his wife . See Jack bang another babe . See Jack get divorced . See Jack bang another babe . Etc . Etc . " Jack the Dog " is a crisp , clean , slick shoot with solid performances . " Jack the Dog " is also... |
586,959 | 783,721 | 260,924 | 5 | Bagger Vance it ain't | A Gentleman's Game is all about a teen boy with a natural golf swing who caddies for a country club and learns there's more to life than golf ( duh ) . This lame little coming-of-age flick is packed with lessons in life such as don't bury your guns in sand traps or it's okay not to swim with half naked babes or don't... |
586,518 | 783,721 | 109,219 | 5 | Kind of like watching grass grow . | Save pure voyeurism , it's difficult to see the entertainment value in a film which simply portrays the pedestrian , sublunary vicissitudes of ordinary people who are probably less interesting than ourselves . " Barcelona " , a journeyman light comedy / drama indie , features postcard shots of the title city , a bevy o... |
586,140 | 783,721 | 232,632 | 5 | Shiner . . . down for the count | Shiner is a gritty character-driven drama all about Caine as the title character ; a shady , unsuccessful , aging British boxing promoter whose world begins to implode when he gambles everything on one fight featuring his son in the main event . The story in this B-flick becomes an overwrought mess as Caine's charact... |
586,709 | 783,721 | 148,421 | 5 | Do-do-do-do-do-do-dee-dee-wop ! | Looking for an Echo is a slice of 50-year-old life flick with Asante as a widower , a bartender , a has-been pop singer / musician , and the father of a daughter with cancer . The flick offers a whole lot of doo-wop singing and carousing with old singing pals while working in side plots involving the daughter's illne... |
586,129 | 783,721 | 95,996 | 5 | Welcome back to whoop , whoop , holler and boom ! | Rikky and Pete are thirtyish Aussie sibs who leave Melbourne to escape a dictatorial patriarch and Pete's problems with a local copper and to seek their fortune in the outback where they take up with silver mining and a bunch of quirky characters . " R & P " is a fun little Aussie comedy romp which wanders without cl... |
586,855 | 783,721 | 109,206 | 5 | Pass | Bandit Queen tells the story of Phoolan Devi ( circa 1970ish ) , a lower caste woman from the boonies of northern India who was abused and mistreated by a male dominated misogynistic culture , rebelled , turned outlaw , and became a folk hero of sorts in her own time . Not much of a movie , this two hour melodramatic... |
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