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427,688 | 3,079,504 | 29,847 | 3 | Not very engaging story of police fighting saboteurs and each other | Sub-par run of the mill story about two guys in love with the same woman . . . sort of . Second billed Dick Purcell is the star of this mish mash of comedy action , romance and espionage . Purcell is a private in an island constabulary who is jealous of his friend , " Horseshoe " , who won great acclaim when he bombed ... |
428,758 | 3,079,504 | 423,977 | 3 | The central character annoyed the heck out of me . | Story of a spoiled rich kid who begins to sell Ritalin and advice to the student body of his new high school . In doing so he begins to find himself and his life . What you think of the film will depend on what you think of Anton Yelchin as Bartlett . To some he's a charming rogue , to me he comes off as an insufferabl... |
427,402 | 3,079,504 | 342,735 | 3 | More of the same | Lar Von Trier picks up after Dogville as the characters drive across country and end up at a plantation where slavery is still in bloom . Deciding to to stay Bryce Howard ( Nichole Kidman previously ) tries to better things and soon finds out that things were better left alone . Intriguing to look at this is simply mor... |
426,943 | 3,079,504 | 369,226 | 3 | Despite the monsters , gunfire and explosions this film is certain to put you to sleep | I have to say that I'm not a Uwe Boll fan . I disliked his House of the Dead so much its on my worst of all time list . That film is a film of bad choices and missed opportunities that could have amounted into a good B horror film . Uwe's at it again here with a film that is even more confusing because on the face of i... |
427,429 | 3,079,504 | 35,386 | 3 | Great cast wasted in a nonsensical mystery turkey of a movie . Its just not worth the time . | Detective Jerry Church returns of Rio after a year and immediately finds himself embroiled in the Dr Rx murders . It seems that some one is killing off the high profile defendants that have been acquitted and leaving a note signed Rx and a number . As the sixth victim falls , in the court room seconds after being acqui... |
428,608 | 3,079,504 | 454,919 | 3 | Some great images can't save a poor remake | This is a remake of the Japanese Kairo , which for me is one of the scariest movies of all time . The story is about a how breach between this world and the next is allowing the ghosts to pass over . Both scrupulously faithful to and painfully dismissive of the original film ( it either copies scenes verbatim or short ... |
427,405 | 3,079,504 | 454,970 | 3 | unpleasant in the worst way | Another bad things happen to people who go to foreign lands picture . Here some tourists in Brazil end up running for their lives when they decide not to wait for the next bus after the bus they are on goes over a cliff . Good looking but a strong case of been there and done that with characters that simply seem to be ... |
427,986 | 3,079,504 | 884,335 | 3 | Not very good nor original | Scifi action film about a cop investigating murders tied to the death of his partner . All roads lead to a weird institute where weird experiments involving memory are taking place . Its a been there and done that sort of a film , especially if you watch any number of dystopian scifi films . What strikes me as kind of ... |
428,889 | 3,079,504 | 69,783 | 3 | Dumb | Turkey of a film . A Filipino fantasy film about the quest for pearls on a secret island where a bunch of bug eyed islanders ( when you see them you'll start laughing and want to turn it off ) are ruled by a beautiful blond who looks normal . The cast includes Patrick Wayne and Sid Haig and is so silly and stupid that ... |
429,028 | 3,079,504 | 78,527 | 3 | Bad taste comedy about Hitler and the rise of the Nazi's is not particularly funny , but worth a look for those who like very off beat or bad movies | What is this movie ? Its a weird weird comedy styled as a documentary about the rise of Adolf Hitler as well as the story of two brothers , one a magician and Nazi , the other an anarchist anti Nazi . It uses old footage , new footage and the mix of the two to create a bizarre , occasionally clever , but never laugh ou... |
427,108 | 3,079,504 | 490,204 | 3 | Unreal characters and cliché handling of events will make you not care | Don Cheadle once again proves he's better than the material in this misfire about a man reconnecting with his college room mate . The room mate , played by Adam Sandler is a shell of his former self , reduced to wandering the streets since took his wive and children . Clearly well meaning this movie is alien in its rel... |
426,888 | 3,079,504 | 442,933 | 3 | See it in big screen 3D or not at all | Wildly uneven on every level retelling of the " classic " poem . I saw this first in 2D and the following week in 3D . I really hated it in 2D I liked it more in 3D If you must see this see it in 3D . The action set pieces , 3 battles with Grendel , the sea monsters and the dragon castle attack are spectacular ( though... |
427,984 | 3,079,504 | 447,619 | 3 | Boring . | Monica Bellucci adopts a young Asian child . Years later Bellucci begins having nightmares and someone or something seems to be interested in her son , who it appears has a great hidden power . I love the idea of Bellucci and Catherine Deneuve in a movie together . I only wish the pairing wasn't in a movie as dull as t... |
428,188 | 3,079,504 | 373,883 | 3 | Remake exists in a twilight world of originality and pure copy never manages to find its own voice , the result is really bad movie movie with a few great moments | Remake / rethink of the classic John Carpenter film is a mistake . Granted in these days of redone 1970's horror classics and not so classics a remake ( after 7 sequels ) was inevitable , but however this got made it shouldn't have . It's too unreal to ever work and too referential of the original to ever not be compar... |
427,453 | 3,079,504 | 102,360 | 3 | Moments of brilliance in an other wise dull film | This is another collection of clips from nitrate films spanning from 1905 to about 1912 that were found in a cinema in Denmark . Grouped together in subjects ( LOOKING is a series of shots " through " telescopes or binoculars , DRAMATIS PERSONAE is introductory shots of actors , CHILDREN is self explanatory , DYING is ... |
428,541 | 3,079,504 | 74,800 | 3 | Even as a time capsule this film is dull and unfunny | The plot has adult film star Linda Lovelace running for President as the only person the leaders of a political party could agree on . She goes on the campaign trail in a film that is full of political and social commentary humor , not to mention jokes of the lowest denominator . The film-making is poor . its the sort ... |
429,096 | 3,079,504 | 1,236,325 | 3 | Not much of anything | The title of the film refers to the low life dwellers of streets ( cops , prostitutes , crooks ) who cling on to the edges of society . Set in a city slum the film deals with a less then clean cop and the people he comes in contact with including a prostitute and a young girl , who dreams of being rescued by a prince .... |
427,049 | 3,079,504 | 300,051 | 3 | George Carlin is the only reason to see this | What happened to Kevin Smith ? This is terrible . At least when he made a bad film it was watchable , this is just a mess . Ben Affleck finds , marries and lose Jennifer Lopez and in the process is left with a little girl to raise . The movie mostly concerns how he is forced to find balance between career and family wh... |
428,693 | 3,079,504 | 60,243 | 3 | Run the slow movie giant crayfish are coming | Edited version of the serial Panther Girl of the Congo really doesn't work . Partly because many of the later Republic serials were too by the numbers to be much of anything but cutting the 12 chapters down to under 100 minutes cut what little life was in the story out . The plot has the title character , given the nam... |
427,082 | 3,079,504 | 55,391 | 3 | Despite Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski a weak Edgar Wallace adaptation | Yet another film in the long running cycle of Edgar / Bryan Wallace films that flowed out of Germany in the 1960's and early 1970's . This time the story concerns a blackmailer who threatens very rich men with death if they don't pay up . The bodies of those that don't pay are dumped in front of Scotland Yard . As with... |
427,041 | 3,079,504 | 373,786 | 3 | A few creepy moments are lost in a movie with a nonsensical plot , non-actors , and video game video effects | Gô Naga's comic story comes to the big screen in a big mess of a live action film . If it were enough to survive on looks alone then this might have had a snowballs chance in hell , but as it stands now this is a movie thats tough viewing . Where do I start ? The plot is whats best described as episodic . Telling the s... |
427,133 | 3,079,504 | 121,488 | 3 | Poor cop comedy / action film | Stupid cop comedy about two hot shot guys who are assigned to the " action squad " of the police force . They are would be romeos and they are uneasy about the woman assigned to be their boss . Vanity project for one of the stars ( he also directed ) who I never heard of , this is a badly made movie with bad " jokes " ... |
428,887 | 3,079,504 | 848,538 | 3 | A mess , though the pieces are much better then the whole | Kid found as a baby in the garbage and raised at a martial arts academy has a knack for sinking baskets . With the help of the man who found him he gets in to college and is promoted to the championship as he searches for his real parents . Infinitely better in pieces action comedy is a real mess as a whole . It seems ... |
428,026 | 3,079,504 | 443,649 | 3 | Film made in a blender is a real mess | Quest For Fire Meets Apocolypto meets Stargate meets the Lost World Cliché ridden blender created tale of an ancient hunter tribe being over run by a more advanced society and dragged off to make " the pyramids " . Give ' em points for having a dark skinned cast in an African setting , take points away for silliness an... |
426,901 | 3,079,504 | 483,200 | 3 | The English version is too badly dubbed and so too confused to amount to much | Nikolai Gogol's story " Viy " has been filmed again and released to home video in the US via Faith Films . The original story concerns a priest who has to watch over the body of a witch with only his faith to protect him . Greatly expanded and set in America , though clearly filmed in Russia ( the houses , clothing and... |
428,970 | 3,079,504 | 280,802 | 3 | Awful | Indonesian ( ? ) jungle film about a hidden tribe on a hidden island that revolts against a god sent leader . Of course a film crew shows up to film them and the " leader : and her band of warriors have to come to their rescue or some such nonsense . Its bad and awful and not in a good way . I lost patience very fast a... |
427,103 | 3,079,504 | 29,544 | 3 | Low budget tale of human smuggling has much to recommend it to the " bad film " lover , however pacing makes it a slow tough haul to get through | ( This may contain a few spoilers ) Socialite who likes to gamble gets mixed up with gangsters smuggling Chinese over the border from Mexico . Jaw droppingly inept this is a movie that even bad movie lovers will have a hard time sitting through . The problem is not that its so bad as to be bad , rather its because its ... |
427,516 | 3,079,504 | 756,703 | 3 | Its not even worth seeing for the music | Guy from the Bronx wants to be a hip-hop star , however he's forced to flee to Puerto Rico when he has a run in with some bed guys . Generally it isn't a good sign when the selling point is that a film is produced by a movie star , in this case Jennifer Lopez . Done on the cheap I kept wondering why they couldn't get m... |
428,113 | 3,079,504 | 51,664 | 3 | Other Worldly Dubbing | This is the biblical tale of Judith saving her people . The version of this film I saw seemed to be dubbed on an alien planet with voices only matching lips rarely . The dub is so awful as to hurt an already leadenly paced film . A grade school version I once saw moved better . Avoid unless in need of sleep . |
428,118 | 3,079,504 | 55,590 | 3 | Good Looking Dud | Good looking spectacle with a cast of tens . You can see that actors are playing both sides in what amounts to a Euro-western set in the ancient world . Its Etruscans vs Romans with the woman taken hostage after they dressed as Roman soldiers after their side lost . The dialog is stupid and the romances wobble any hope... |
427,449 | 3,079,504 | 67,396 | 3 | Atmospheric horror story is too talky for the first hour before heating up for the final thirty minutes | This film made me nod off to sleep . Despite decent film making , some good atmosphere this film just put me out . The problem is that for the better part of an hour nothing really happens . A diverse group of people keep crossing and recrossing each others paths before they end up in a weird mansion in the fog . At th... |
427,477 | 3,079,504 | 129,356 | 3 | Some good location work and a unique monster can't make up for a dreadful plot and terrible production | 1930's sleep inducer about a sailing ship taking a side trip to find a native son of its home port who may be still alive on island in the south seas . They find the man and also battle the title monster which is a giant manta ray . Pure soap opera and hokum that gets points for the early scenes of a harbor full of sai... |
428,216 | 3,079,504 | 25,543 | 3 | The only mystery is how one stays awake | The mental break down of a ships captain happens about the same time a means of remotely steering ships comes into existence . The Captain is locked away and escapes just as a murder is committed . And the audience snores . This is one of the dullest movies I've ever seen . Its a sure cure for insomnia even for small y... |
428,452 | 3,079,504 | 102,057 | 3 | Major Misfire | This return to Neverland was suppose to be a small scale film that writer Nick Castle was going to direct himself . Spielberg came across the script and then proceeded to toss huge sums of money to get the right to direct it , and then to make one of the most wrong-headed films ever made . The plot concerns a grown-up ... |
428,857 | 3,079,504 | 362,084 | 3 | Aliens invade a small bayou town in a not very good film that has only the monsters and some sick humor to recommend it | Loser stuntman shows up at a Beef Pie Festival to jump 40 oil cans and falls in love with the organizers daughter . When the stunt goes wrong he's sent away for 130 years . Breaking out of prison he heads back to his lady love , just in time for the next Festival and an alien invasion . Quirky and one of a kind , this ... |
427,119 | 3,079,504 | 131,515 | 3 | Pretentious sleaze | A group of people come together and talk about transgressive sexual subjects . This is inter-cut with often graphic sex scenes involving rape , torture , bestiality , lesbianism , masturbation and other subjects you may or may not be able to think of . I will freely admit that not being able to really speak Italian wit... |
428,159 | 3,079,504 | 278,084 | 3 | The re-cut version is a mess . Of interest only for Lugosi . | ( This review is of the edited version combining parts one and two ) Early film appearance of Bela Lugosi shows none of his on screen power that would make him an international star 10 years later . The plot has something to do with a Lugosi as a French Millionaire in love with a performer who is really a Russian revol... |
429,048 | 3,079,504 | 121,765 | 3 | The Force is Still Not With It | The continuation of the star Wars saga proves dramatically ( plot wise ) better than the previous film , but is even more wooden and stiff than before . George Lucas simply can not direct , he never could and never will be able to turn out anything other than an okay film . Fortunately for him , that one okay film , St... |
428,673 | 3,079,504 | 35,937 | 3 | Weakest of the Val Lewton " classics " | Richard Dix is the mad captain in one of the series of horror films that Val Lewton produced . Difficult , if not impossible to see ( I purchased several other films over the years trying to get this ) it was recently released on DVD as part of a box set of the Lewton horror films ( soon to be released with a new docum... |
428,967 | 3,079,504 | 781,435 | 3 | Reminded me of the sort of art film that people used to use as examples of why people don't like art films | Henri Balzac's tale of a general and a Duchess who fall in love but mostly never do anything other than pine for each other . Showing on IFC in Theaters I made it through about 40 minutes of this before I turned it off . Beautiful to look at this slow and meandering tale struck me as the sort of " art " film of my yout... |
427,821 | 3,079,504 | 358,605 | 3 | Possibly the blandest , most by the book romance I've ever seen | Man and woman meet at a supermarket . they hit it off . They are going along for awhile until there is a misunderstanding so she runs off to New Zealand with a great guy who loves her . Old boyfriend follows , who will she go with ? Poor romance is so artificial as to be some new form of plastic . Its so clear from the... |
428,844 | 3,079,504 | 144,018 | 3 | Mediocre film of a mediocre play | After a war on a far off Island is won women are recruited to come be with the soldiers and help set up a new colony . Of course things don't go right . Based on a play by Jeff Noon , best known for the Vurt novels , this is a mediocre film based on a mediocre play . I'm a huge fan of Jeff Noon's writing but I really d... |
429,126 | 3,079,504 | 448,157 | 3 | Major misfire with too much going on . Only comes alive in sporadic moments | Major misfire from Will Smith concerning a superhero with a drinking problem who decides to redo his image of destruction . Based on what many have considered a great script " Tonight He Comes " ( which I haven't read but which I've read about ) this is a movie with some really good ideas , which after bobbling them fo... |
428,965 | 3,079,504 | 924,498 | 3 | Laughably bad . Watch it with friends who have quick wits | Laughably bad women in prison / escape / revenge flicks . Made in Hong Kong with an allegedly Anglo Saxon crew ( I somehow doubt that ) , this tells the story of a group of women who get hauled off to a Hong Kong Prison , escape and then go after some of the people who got them into trouble . Poorly dubbed the film is ... |
428,446 | 3,079,504 | 365,686 | 3 | The idea is good . the execution interesting . the result is a pretentious mess | A gambler just released from prison takes a game with a mob boss who never loses because everyone is afraid of him . He wins big and then has to accept help from two loan sharks with an agenda of their own . ( or something like that . ) Form over content from Guy Ritchie . Either you accept this head trip Kabbalah base... |
426,965 | 3,079,504 | 59,659 | 3 | Odd setting makes the film seem unreal | Brightly lit ( ? ) old dark house . . . er . . . well monastery pretending to be an inn thriller from Spain , where someone is out to get a cache of money and kills a number of people to make sure he gets it . Odd in away that Spanish thrillers from the 1960's are ( the basement seems to be filled with vats filled with... |
427,445 | 3,079,504 | 75,343 | 3 | There are times I miss commercials and station breaks this is one of them . | This is the story of a man who is hit in the head with a meteor and there after turns into a lizard like killer when the moon comes out . The authorities are stumped however the Indians may have an answer that will save the man and the mankind . Before cable and the take over of local TV by pretend TV networks this mov... |
428,888 | 3,079,504 | 70,423 | 4 | Great monsters in a slow brooding mess | Donald Pleasence is a mad doctor trying to mix plant and animals , who only succeeds in causing weird mutations . Aiding Pleasence is Tom ( Dr Who ) Baker who is a deformed owner of a circus side show . Slow dull mess that has a great cast , cool effects but a pace that will put you out . I've loved the photos I saw fr... |
427,304 | 3,079,504 | 35,220 | 4 | A not very good comedy based on a classic comic | My first comment is that really Bud Duncan's nose ? I watched this not very good comedy from start to finish simply because I couldn't tell whether Duncan , who plays Snuffy Smith , had on a fake nose or not . Its huge , the type of nose that would make WC Fields jealous . The plot is more a series of connected episode... |
427,926 | 3,079,504 | 436,078 | 4 | A funny joke ruined by awful editing | It begins with a man walking into a theatrical agents office . It ends with the man saying the act is called " The Aristocrats " . The middle is a description of the act which usually involves the most vile things the teller can think of . In the proper hands this is a very funny joke . The makers of this film do not p... |
427,977 | 3,079,504 | 316,654 | 4 | Only Alfred Molina is worth watching ( and worthy of an Oscar ) | I'm apparently in the minority of film goers in that I despise this film . Its simply one of the dullest , most predictable films I've seen in years , and yet people are falling all over themselves with praise for it . Which version did all these people see since it wasn't the one that played my local cinema . Basicall... |
427,059 | 3,079,504 | 78,113 | 4 | Story of a bunch of students looking for primitive tribe starts off promising then descends into bad cave man cliché | Playing like a low rent version of an Italian cannibal movie , but with little nudity , some gore and bad fright wigs this is the story of a group of students who travel deep into the jungle to get material for their thesis . Stopping first with a tribe that has had contact with the modern world , they then move on to ... |
426,915 | 3,079,504 | 26,353 | 4 | Creaky poverty row action film is passable time killer | The problem with some of the low end early sound films is that they feel like they are leadenly paced . Partly this was due to a lack of music and partly it was due to a lack of skill in putting together something special . In The Fighting Pilot its a combination of both , which proves almost deadly to a film thats sup... |
428,481 | 3,079,504 | 26,360 | 4 | Story meanders too much and the leads are unlikable to be much of anything | Young woman plays a game of chicken with a young man speeding down the road unaware that he is racing to a fire . She cuts him off and he crashes into a light post . He takes her car and continues on his way . It's a meet cute that leads into a story of the pair and how it connects to arson and insurance fraud . It's a... |
427,847 | 3,079,504 | 493,402 | 4 | Director Olivier Assayas constructs a complicated tale that leaves his actors completely adrift | Olivier Assayas ' film stars Asia Argento as a woman who had a relationship with Michael Madsen . Madsen is a business man who's in financial trouble . In desperation he is going to sell his share of a business to a company called Golden Eagle , a company from the Far East . As Madsen begins his moves away from his com... |
426,945 | 3,079,504 | 87,903 | 4 | Better with the sound off | Just Jaekin's film based on John Willie's bondage comic The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline . In in the Orient in the 1920's or 30's Gwendoline and her best friend ship themselves over seas in order to find her missing father . Gwen is discovered in a crate and kidnapped and brought to a crime boss . Rescued by accident... |
428,511 | 3,079,504 | 462,395 | 4 | Beyond low brow comedy runs out of steam after 15 minutes and is only sporadically worth seeing after that | Hamlet its not . Funny it is , in the lowest of the low sort of way . Its fart jokes ( and worse ) galore and if you hate them stay away . The plot has Larry getting a new partner and being assigned the ritzy restaurant beat by the mayor . Of course its a set up and of course in the end Larry comes riding to the rescue... |
426,925 | 3,079,504 | 455,195 | 4 | Is this serious or a joke ? | Messy form over content police thriller ( comedy ? ) has a cop , who is trying to come to terms with a long missing girlfriend , lose a witness in an organized crime case to an assassin . How the cop , the girlfriend and the assassins all interrelate is the film . I didn't know whether director Benny Chan was serious o... |
428,224 | 3,079,504 | 38,926 | 4 | comedy ruins the mystery | Second attempt at turning the radio character into a movie series . This time out its Kane Richmond as Lamont Cranston and his alter ego the Shadow . Here he has no power to cloud men's minds , instead he wears a mask and a fedora . Here he is investigating the smuggling of jewels in coffins and the deaths the occur ar... |
428,186 | 3,079,504 | 427,392 | 4 | Rethinking of the classic story removes many of the elements that makes the story so scary | Fourth film version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a misfire . Neither the disaster that most pre-release reviews made it out to be , nor the classic a ( very ) few post release reviews claimed , this is destined to get lost sometime soon . The problem with the film is that in rethinking the story it removed many... |
426,898 | 3,079,504 | 1,083,456 | 4 | The bare minimum that a movie can do to amuse you | One of an increasing trend in American films today , namely a well made but empty and poorly written film that exists purely to generate some sort of cash flow between the various parties where the audience is ripped off both by paying to see it and then by being asked to buy the turkey again on home video ( Perhaps th... |
428,974 | 3,079,504 | 126,456 | 4 | Great black and white photography in a movie that is a good little film until the monster shows up | This movie is one of those movies that should have been better . The basic plot has two room mates going off to a nudist camp for the weekends . One is a nurse at a research lab where an accident produces a nasty mix of chemicals that turns rats mean . The creator knowing its a bad thing , but through a series of contr... |
428,643 | 3,079,504 | 156,610 | 4 | Slow doesn't begin to tell it | This is a painfully slow story about the last days of 1999 when a strange disease breaks out and . . . I stopped caring . This is suppose to be about two people who live over or under each other in an apartment complex . There's a leak and a plumber put a hole in the man's floor so you can see into the woman's below ap... |
427,758 | 3,079,504 | 48,108 | 4 | Just okay movie cut from the old Gangbusters TV show would have been better as individual episodes | Apparently re-cut episodes from the Gangbusters TV show on the big screen . While this was frequently done in the 50's and 60's because people didn't have a TV or a color TV and producers wanted an increased return on their investment ( big screen ticket sales or if it went to the small screen resale of a series that i... |
428,686 | 3,079,504 | 1,204,883 | 4 | Bland dull and completely not needed | Supernatural weirdness on a college campus as a girl sees her room mate commit suicide and there after begins to see the boogeyman doing in her classmates everywhere . This is a bland direct to DVD sequel that isn't as horrible as you might think , but was obviously made for money not love . Its too mechanical to be sc... |
427,849 | 3,079,504 | 964,539 | 4 | Outside of the setting , this isn't anything we haven't seen before | Gross out thriller set in a pathology lab as the the young residents begin to play the game of who can commit the perfect murder . If it was for the cadavers in various stages of autopsy this would be just another thriller about kids trying to get away with murder . At first the idea is promising thanks to its setting ... |
426,937 | 3,079,504 | 225,458 | 4 | Not for most tastes - or those wishing to stay awake | This is a well made beautiful film about the kidnap and torture of women . Its great to look at but I have yet to determine why I should want to watch it . Don't get me wrong it has nothing to do with refined sensibilities , I can enjoy twisted exploitation as well as anyone , but there's simply something wrong . I thi... |
428,880 | 3,079,504 | 841,150 | 4 | Dull | Andy Lau stars in another cop undercover tale . Daniel Wu plays Nick who is working for the cops and is also close to the top of a drug dealing gang ( Lau ) . The movie begins as we watch the police try to make a drug bust only to see it go to pieces . We then are introduced to the young drug addicted mother and her da... |
429,072 | 3,079,504 | 378,394 | 4 | Paul Naschy fans only need apply | Spanish alien zombie comedy gore film isn't very good . Two men escape from prison then make a b-line to retrieve some stolen cash . Ending up double crossed they find themselves up against some alien zombies . Starring Paul Naschy , famous for playing werewolf in a long running series of movies , this is an on the che... |
428,226 | 3,079,504 | 171,388 | 4 | Lesser Euro-Shocker is more soap opera than thrill ride | A killer known as The Hyena of London is caught and hanged . However almost immediately his body goes missing . In a small village outside of London people begin to die in a manner similar to the way the Hyena killed . Italian Euro-horror shocker that bogs down almost instantly into various love triangles and quadrangl... |
427,877 | 3,079,504 | 765,120 | 4 | The pieces work the whole doesn't | Wong Kar-Wai's first English language film . Nora Jones stars as Elizabeth a young woman who walks into Jude Laws Cafe after her boyfriend dumps her . After several nights there eating blueberry pie she heads off on the road where she meets a cop in Memphis and a gambler in Nevada . A decidedly uneven mix of a movie th... |
428,630 | 3,079,504 | 427,229 | 4 | Sarah Jessica Parker ruins an other wise good romantic comedy | Matthew McConaughey is 35 and still lives at home , so his parents hire Sarah Jessica Parker to flirt with him until he moves out . Clearly his parents hate him . A good idea with a mostly great cast is done is by Sarah Jessica Parker who gives one of her worst performances . She's awful . ( She also is beginning to lo... |
428,109 | 3,079,504 | 454,792 | 4 | An admirable film that may put you to sleep | Steven Soderbergh's small little film about the lives of some people working in a doll factory . This is the life of quiet non-existence as Martha and Kyle go through the motions of their dead end lives . One day Rose arrives and it isn't long before things begin to change . This is a bleak film acted by real people in... |
426,957 | 3,079,504 | 65,564 | 4 | Is a TV movie still a TV movie even though its released to the big screen ? | This is a very run of the mill TV movie that somehow got diverted to the big screen . I don't know why , except maybe they had trouble with some of the violence and material when it was first made ( then again this was apparently G rated when it played in theaters ) . The plot has a hit man on the run from both the cop... |
428,157 | 3,079,504 | 12,651 | 4 | Too static a film to be interesting | F . W . Murnau directs a film that seems strangely static . The plot has something about an uninvited count showing up at the home of a Baroness . He is professing his innocence to the killing of the Baroness's first husband and he then sets out to prove he didn't do it . Maybe it was the poor video source I saw which ... |
428,477 | 3,079,504 | 419,887 | 4 | I was bored . Maybe the book was better | Story of redemption that left me bored . The story is of an Afghan writer living in the US . He gets a call from an old family friend which causes him to remember his days growing up in Afghanistan before the Soviets invaded . His inability to help a his best friend when he is attacked by some older boys strains the re... |
427,269 | 3,079,504 | 956,038 | 4 | An okay romance until the final reel | Richard Gere and Diane Lane star in a chick flick romance with the sort of ending I get really angry about . . . lets just say its not my cup of tea , just like the dime store romances are not my cup of tea . The plot has a doctor stopping at an inn and meeting a woman that he has a deep but brief affair with . He goes... |
428,492 | 3,079,504 | 56,954 | 4 | Dull | Class war in Ancient Rome . The plot of Marcus , renamed Coriolanus after a victory , switching sides to expose the evils of Rome's leaders , is a snooze fest . The first third is dull court intrigue . The middle third is great action , that will get your hopes up . Unfortunately the final third is worse than the first... |
427,871 | 3,079,504 | 43,410 | 4 | Nice to look at for a few minutes but I found it dull | ( Review is of the Karloff narrated US release ) A stop motion puppet tale narrated by Boris Karloff . The story is framed by the story of a boy who is restricted by rules and can't leave his home or the grounds of his house . As he falls asleep he dreams the Hans Christian Andersen tale . Its nicely animated in the pu... |
427,105 | 3,079,504 | 481,574 | 4 | Look at artist Matthew Barney and his work is interesting for a brief period before becoming too much of a pretentious thing | Matthew Barney No Restraint is about Barney's filming of Drawing Restraint 9 , a film that he made with his companion Bjork . Its set on a Japanese whaling vessel and , as with much of Barney's work , involves a great deal of petroleum jelly . It begins in Brooklyn where Barney is testing out a tank that will be used t... |
428,422 | 3,079,504 | 29,989 | 4 | Exploitation " classic " is more silly than shocking | Exploitation classic thats more humorous now then either titillating or shocking . This is an anti-child bride film . Yes there was a time when young , even preteen girls could get married to older men . This is the story of a young girl who may be doomed to suffer such a fate . A serious subject , the film is now very... |
428,331 | 3,079,504 | 419,984 | 4 | Some laughs in a one dimensional tale thats been done before | Self-help guru who hated his gym teacher goes home to find his mom engaged to said teacher , stilted merriment tries to ensue . The idea is sound the execution isn't . Woodcock , Billy Bob Thorton's gym teacher character is much too one dimensional to really work since he has one expression the whole time . Sean Willia... |
428,409 | 3,079,504 | 64,647 | 4 | clever but not funny | Proof that Germans are not good at humor and that even Herzog missteps . Various people around a race track talk about protecting the horses from crazy fanatics , while an older man tries to run them off . Surreal tale that doesn't really work . The bits go on way past the point of being funny , though there are some v... |
427,582 | 3,079,504 | 378,194 | 4 | Dull | After the explosive ending of Kill Bill : Volume 1 this movie is a major let down . Granted Volume 1 took a while to get going , but once it got firing there was no stopping it . Or so I thought . I don't care what anyone says this film is a series of sequences that are in desperate need of editing . This movie just go... |
428,289 | 3,079,504 | 122,038 | 4 | It may have great action but its a long slow slog to get to it | A vicious gang of jewel thieves is operating in Hong Kong . Using a cabaret as a front they are smuggling jewels all over the orient , and leaving a trail of dead women who acted as couriers . After a jewel robbery leaves a good number of people dead a special all female unit is formed to see if it can get the goods on... |
428,475 | 3,079,504 | 39,530 | 4 | Supporting Frank Albertson is such a jerk that it makes enjoying the comedy next to impossible | Salesman who can't get a girl , plays it like a tough guy to win himself one . Unfortunately he also looks like a notorious gangster and finds himself in deep trouble . Set in 1931 , the film is clearly the product of the 1940's , no real attempt was made to actually make the film look like when it was set ( clothes an... |
427,721 | 3,079,504 | 408,790 | 4 | Annoying performances and unbelievable plot make this tough viewing | Th plot is simple . During a night time flight Jody Foster's daughter disappears . No one believes her . And it becomes a race to find her missing daughter before they land . This is an unbelievable variation of a locked room mystery . Locked room mysteries are the type of stories where someone is " murdered " in a loc... |
428,476 | 3,079,504 | 39,820 | 4 | Plot twists instead of characters make for a just okay movie | The film opens with a high speed chase at night . the cops are chasing after someone . Shots ring out . The car the cops are chasing crashes ejecting the passengers-a notorious criminal as well as the newly elected DA and his wife . Only the wife survives . A reporter and friend of the gravely injured wife sneaks into ... |
428,818 | 3,079,504 | 765,447 | 4 | I expected so much more from a film with this cast | Cast to die for in a movie that is considerably less . Vanessa Redgrave is dying but before she goes she begins to tell her daughters the story of her life and of her secret love . . . This is one of those movies which has the look and expectations of being a great film simply because they have so many great actors and... |
427,398 | 3,079,504 | 57,160 | 4 | Disappointing thriller starts off great then sort of runs out of steam as not very much seems to happen . | An architect and his wife go to remote castle like house somewhere in California . They are to do a survey of the house for the owners who have know retaken possession of the house after renting the place out for ten years . Once they arrive they find the road to the place blocked off by a makeshift dead end sign . Lat... |
427,938 | 3,079,504 | 765,443 | 4 | Cold mechanical tale of the Russian mafia in England is hard to connect to | Story of a midwife who gets caught up in the fringes of the Russian mob when she attempts to track down the family of a baby when the 14 year old mother dies delivering the child . Well acted , great looking and made with a technical flair that will probably garner many awards comes years end . Unfortunately for me its... |
427,643 | 3,079,504 | 765,460 | 4 | Just misses being good and ends up being a mess | Church going house wife is arrested and charged with murder . Things become complicated as her neat little life begins to unravel and when its clear the Assistant District Attorney prosecuting the case doesn't care if she's guilty since he's looking to win the up coming election . Weakest film directed by actor turned ... |
428,768 | 3,079,504 | 481,369 | 4 | Despite a good turn by Jim Carrey , this film doesn't really work | Jim Carrey turns in a good performance in Joel Schumacher's confused and confusing thriller . The plot has Carrey stumbling upon a book that mirrors his own life and suggests that the world is governed by the number 23 . Murder and madness follow in a not very clear ( its one of those movies that get so confusing that ... |
428,353 | 3,079,504 | 29,830 | 4 | Just okay but rather clichéd | Just okay story of a race driver who loses his nerve after a big crash . He has to find a way to race again when he discovers that his bitter rival has taken steps to assure that he will win the the big race . Okay race drama is very clichéd and by the numbers . Its the sort of film that you can pretty much fill in the... |
427,707 | 3,079,504 | 462,229 | 4 | Cedric need to pick better movies | Cedric The Entertainer needs to find better people to work with . He plays a man who wakes up with no memory and in a room with cash and a dead body . He quickly ends up on the run from people who think he knows something as well as the police . Poor direction does in what could have been a good script ( you can feel t... |
428,919 | 3,079,504 | 1,391,545 | 4 | An old style drive in movie done to day that has none of the quaintness of the passage of time so if you must wait for cable | Shot on video horror film about a killer who gets out of death row and goes looking for revenge and runs into a family and party of teens . This reminded me very much of the odd black and white chillers of the 1960's , specifically of the sort that played in the drive ins . The acting is fair ; there are goofy moments ... |
428,093 | 3,079,504 | 462,322 | 4 | A trip to the grind house of old with great trailers , a fun splatter flick are ruined by painfully dull " car chase " movie thats mostly talk | Two movies in the style of the old grind house double features , complete with trailers . The trailers are great , but are too short to spoil with discussion . They are simply a great deal of fun . The first film is Planet Terror . This is the story of a zombie like take over of the the world due to a chemical weapon .... |
428,633 | 3,079,504 | 940,709 | 4 | Cruel and nasty " kids " film may induce nightmare | Stephen ( Shoalin Soccer , Kung Fu Hustle ) Chow's cruel edged children's film . Stephen Chow is a coolie who works on construction jobs to puts his son into a posh school in order to give him opportunities . Chow's son is still despised because they are so poor they have to make due with thrown away things like sneake... |
427,981 | 3,079,504 | 1,208,647 | 4 | At best a movie for slow days on cable | Direct to DVD sequel to a sequel ( how many behind Enemy Lines are there anyway ? ) about navy seals trapped between factions in Columbia when a surveillance mission goes wrong and the two sides they were watching are blown up . Hunted by everyone it soon transpires that larger forces are at work and that they may not ... |
427,829 | 3,079,504 | 43,080 | 4 | Not particularly much of anything | American sailor has his ship attacked by pirates and ends up ashore in Australia where he falls in love with one of the local women . When the pirates attack the village the sailor has to go off to rescue his lady love . . . only to end up shipwrecked on an island with dinosaurs . Misbegotten adventure film that stands... |
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