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428,856 | 3,079,504 | 819,765 | 6 | Well made decent into a violent world where there is no hope | A man raised in Cambodia to fight and die in gladiatorial like fights is brought to Hong Kong in order to kill someone . After the hit goes down he finds himself being chased by a police detective who is probably even more messed up than he is . As a technical achievement this film is a triumph . It looks great and has... |
428,192 | 3,079,504 | 664,918 | 6 | Good version of Shakespeare's tale is hurt by the limits of live 1950's TV | Peter Brook directs an abbreviated version ( 75 of the shows 90 minutes ) of Lear for the 1950's TV show Omnibus with Orson Welles as Lear in a live performance that removed all of the subplots and just focused on Lear . Welles makes for a formidable Lear and I would have loved to have seen a version with him on the st... |
428,271 | 3,079,504 | 40,176 | 6 | Lets put on a show is a wonderful record of Black Vaudeville , but not a particularly good movie | This movie is less a film than a collection of routines from the black vaudeville circuit . The results are decidedly mixed as a movie but as a record of the routines and acts it contains its a historical document ( then again many historical documents are not very entertaining ) The plot has Jackie " Moms " Mabley run... |
427,699 | 3,079,504 | 86,936 | 6 | Recruiting the young to fight an adult war | Werner Herzog looks at the young soldiers who make up the Miskito Indian rebel army . The Indians are an abused minority who sided with the Sandinistas in the Nicaragua civil war . However once the Sandinistas won the Indians were once more an abuse minority and had to fight once more for their rights . The first part ... |
428,349 | 3,079,504 | 36,326 | 6 | Barely Feature Length | This is the fore runner of the many of the Disney TV shows of the 50's , 60's and 70's , mixing live action travel footage with cartoons that tie into the subject . It is also the first of the multi-short film that Disney would release as feature through the 1940's and early 1950's , but its one of the better ones sinc... |
426,940 | 3,079,504 | 417,072 | 6 | Do not believe the hype this is not a Korean or supernatural Apocalypse Now | This is being sold as a Korean version of Apocalypse Now . Its not . Other than the plot device of investigating mysterious radio signals there is no similarities at all . Do not believe the hype . The plot concerns a group of soldiers sent to R-Point to investigate a group radio signals from a group of supposedly dead... |
429,044 | 3,079,504 | 178,868 | 6 | Interchangeable With its English Remake | Even for a Japanese film this film is slow . The pacing of the film drains off much of the fear that should be there in a story that could happen to anyone of us who watches video . In some ways this film is slightly better than the remake if only in the fact that its lack of fancy special effects makes it seem like it... |
427,392 | 3,079,504 | 25,262 | 6 | Amusing comedy is unremarkable but clever and interesting enough to make it worth watching | Hollywood publicity agent comes up with the idea to cast a real gangster in the lead of the studio's new gangster movie . The agent , his girl and the director go to a restaurant to find a real gangster and spot the perfect one when he slugs another mobster and then runs into the night . They follow him and convince hi... |
428,239 | 3,079,504 | 144,191 | 6 | Nonsensical mystery of a hunchbacked killer on the loose works on in its own twisted sort of way | A reporter claims to have seen the face of " the Fiend " , a hunchbacked killer dressed in black that is terrorizing a city and a theater in particular by poisoning people by some unknown means . The Fiend naturally makes her his next target and she has to go on the run . Hooking up with a reporter she attempts to find... |
427,465 | 3,079,504 | 844,671 | 6 | I liked it | Three High school kids go to a college orientation weekend and fall in with a bad news frat and are forced to get revenge to save face and self esteem . Low brow college humor that made me laugh . That may not seem like much but lately thats been becoming a rarer event as the jokes in these sort of film get worse and w... |
427,631 | 3,079,504 | 60,215 | 6 | Good pairing of Jess Franco and Eddie Constantine | One of the better Jess Franco films stars Eddie Constantine sending up his tough guy image as a detective chasing the source of mind controlled people carrying out the whims of a mad man . Constantine is clearly having a good time and it carries over to the audience . To be certain the film isn't super spectacular , it... |
426,791 | 3,079,504 | 196,182 | 6 | Somewhat dry and somewhat silly narration counter balanced by images that haven't been over used | Soviet film about the German invasion of Russia during World War Two and the siege of Leningrad in particular . I'm of mixed opinions of this film . The film is at times dry , the story of the battle being told in a much too straight forward manner , since they tell you exactly what happened . At other times the film f... |
427,459 | 3,079,504 | 29,628 | 6 | Enjoyable time passer will probably pass from memory not long after you see it | College professor at an old college is removed from his position by the staff because he isn't up to date enough and into Swing music . Hitting the road he travels the country looking for work ending up mixed up with gangsters at a night club . Good but not great B-musical that mixes songs and mystery . I'll give extra... |
427,338 | 3,079,504 | 486,655 | 6 | I like it not love it-I'm just pecked to death by little flaws . . . which I'll tell you about . . . ( SPOILERS ) | ( Contains lots of spoilers ) Too long ago I read the source novel by Neil Gaiman , or rather half , stopping not because the story was bad but rather because I disliked the way the story is told . I'm of a similar mind concerning the film adaptation . First and foremost I have to say I like the film . Its an okay time... |
428,715 | 3,079,504 | 51,630 | 6 | On its own terms not a bad film . | Boris Karloff as a descendant of the mad doctor who is trying to bring the creature back to life with atomic energy . To get the money he opens his castle to a movie crew and mayhem results . Uneven horror film is very good in the Karloff monster scenes and rather poor in the soapy movie crew scenes . I don't think I'd... |
427,357 | 3,079,504 | 29,541 | 6 | A good cast , some great sequences and spiffy octopus are let down by a plot that goes nowhere . Still its worth a look if you take it for what it is . | Two detectives find themselves on an island looking for a murderer and instead find that they are entangled with a super criminal called the Octopus and a real live giant octopus . Much confusion occurs . Amusing but totally nonsensical " mystery " based upon a stage play of some sort ( I would love to read it at some ... |
427,458 | 3,079,504 | 40,003 | 6 | Nazi and Japanese officers abuse women and try to get their hands on a secret weapon | Pure exploitation film about Nazi's in China nominally to help the Japanese try to win the war and to abuse women . Actually the Nazi's in Asia have come up with a secret weapon that could have helped the Fatherland had they gotten it home before defeat , however Germany has fallen and the Japanese want it only the Ger... |
428,368 | 3,079,504 | 74,920 | 6 | Disturbing | Abused clerk with a doll fetish tries to cope with memories of his abusive father develops a weird fascination for drinking the blood from corpses before amping it up toward murder . Disturbing , but in many ways not very good little horror film that is more than likely going to curl your toes . As with many of these f... |
428,605 | 3,079,504 | 417,225 | 6 | Idle ts not . Wild it is . Some how it manages to be one of the best and worst films of the year at the same time | Idlewild aka the the Outcast musical is quite simply one of the best films of the year and one of the worst . No doubt you've heard that the film has almost too much going on , and to be honest it does . The film is the story of two boyhood friends , one the son of a mortician , the other a criminal on the edge of soci... |
428,007 | 3,079,504 | 293,831 | 6 | Good but unremarkable | Chinese action revenge drama has a group of crooks who steal from other crooks set up and shot up . Hunted by the cops and other crooks they set out to get revenge for the friends who were killed . Good but unremarkable film is the Chinese Crime equivalent to those movies you stumble upon on late night cable that hold ... |
428,851 | 3,079,504 | 486,576 | 6 | Better than the first film this is still a disappointment | While Sue and Reed prepare for their wedding , strange phenomena begin to happen all around the world . The strange happenings are the work of " the Silver Surfer " , herald of Galactus who is coming to devour our planet . Its up to the Fantastic Four to stop the Surfer and Galactus before the earth is destroyed . I ac... |
428,661 | 3,079,504 | 486,583 | 6 | Better then you think it is ( in parts if not as a whole ) and worth a look | Odd mish mash of a movie about Santa's brother Fred . When Fred needs money his brother offers him the cash if he'll come to the North Pole and work for it . Fred arrives just as Kevin Spacey as an efficiency expert arrives to see if Santa can stay in business . An odd mix of low brow humor and clever bits that never q... |
428,307 | 3,079,504 | 756,707 | 6 | Its all about the girl | Boxing promoter in the underground fight game runs across a young woman with the power and ability to take out men twice her size . Hooking up they begin to make inroads into the fight game until the past and emotions begin to spin everything sideways . This fight drama is an okay little film . Its flashy low budget an... |
428,406 | 3,079,504 | 51,706 | 6 | Okay late Karloff can be a bit dull | Boris Karloff is a crusading novelist trying to change the British legal system by looking into the Haymarket Strangler case . Boris is convinced the man hung for the crime didn't do it . Of course his investigation turns up proof that he was right , and that he himself was the killer . Well made and well acted little ... |
428,008 | 3,079,504 | 201,265 | 6 | Offbeat comedy with a serious edge | Man who is the latest husband of a much married woman has to make do when she invites all her previous husbands , their new wives and families , plus some friends , all for Christmas . Things get complicated when his wife announces that she's pregnant . . . something that the husband makes him suspect that he isn't the... |
427,466 | 3,079,504 | 78,910 | 6 | One of the better WW2 set martial arts films | WW2 set story of a Japanese plane shot down with secret plans for the invasion of Shanghai inside . The Chinese have taken the plans and are racing to get the plans into their military hands while the Japanese try to stop them . In films from the 1970's and early 1980's there seems to be only a limited number of martia... |
428,067 | 3,079,504 | 257,076 | 6 | Good action film | The Big Screen version of the small screen cult favorite is a pretty good thriller . No , its not the best movie in the world but a good way to spend two hours . The plot concerns a wanted international criminal who offers 100 million to anyone who will spring him . The action is mostly realistic as are the characters ... |
428,893 | 3,079,504 | 36,046 | 6 | Charlie Chan as Villain | How to sum up this movie simply ? John Carradine and Frank Fenton fight over Gale Sondergaard and over gold that Sidney ( Charlie Chan ) Toler and Rick Vallin have hidden . Its all set in the tropics and has murder , comedy , musical numbers , explosions , deep sea diving , fist fights , romance , and somewhere in ther... |
428,360 | 3,079,504 | 102,142 | 6 | Okay film record of a theater festival aimed at teaching a maharajah's son and warding off evil | Jag Mandir : The eccentric private theater of the Maharajah of Udaipur . The maharajah asked the wisest men in his kingdom what he should teach his young son . He was told to hold a festival where he could show his son all of the arts that will soon be lost to the world . He was also told to have a procession around th... |
426,856 | 3,079,504 | 55,578 | 6 | Nudge Nudge Wink Wink | The print I saw was a very worn black and white one from Sinister Cinema and as the film went on it rapidly became clear that the print's lack of quality and color work against real enjoyment of the film . The good king and queen of some far off kingdom are brought down by an evil invader , however the queen escapes wi... |
428,808 | 3,079,504 | 374,102 | 6 | If you accept the leads great , if not its just okay | THIS MAY OR MAY NOT CONTAIN SPOILERS - - - Two people go diving and get left behind . The story is based on a true story . I didn't like our hero and heroine . I didn't care about them or connect to them in the slightest so I was left to the situation and the film making . Its not bad , but its not great . Its not real... |
428,480 | 3,079,504 | 25,531 | 6 | good but creaky film with a unique setting | During lunch a friend and I watched most of Murder in the Museum , a creaky 1934 movie set in a side show thats called a museum . Actually its closer to what PT Barnum ran for years in New York , except that this museum also deals drugs . The plot has a crusading politician killed while making an inspection of the vile... |
427,422 | 3,079,504 | 25,533 | 6 | Good but not great murder mystery that will keep you interested with the twists and turns of the whys | A student is killed at the top of a tower on a college campus . No one saw anyone come down from the tower and there was no place for the killer to hide . Charles Starrett plays Bill Bartlett a reporter who just happened to be on the scene of the crime . He's interested in a girl who becomes one of the suspects in the ... |
427,234 | 3,079,504 | 408,306 | 6 | Okay but not great retelling of the aftermath of the Munich Olympic tragedy | This is a movie that looks and feels unlike any other Steven Spielberg film . Its a well made and mostly well acted story about the Israeli hit squad sent out to kill the plotters of the terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympics . The problem for me was that I was never emotionally engaged except when we see the recreation... |
427,560 | 3,079,504 | 469,494 | 6 | Final section of the film damages what is other wise a great film | Story of Daniel Plainview a silver miner who switches to oil . The film charts the course of Plainview's life over 30 years as his fortunes rise and he descends into madness . Going into the film I was carrying a great deal of baggage . The promise of a truly great film is tough thing to have to live up to . Hailed by ... |
428,304 | 3,079,504 | 492,044 | 6 | good horror film with great moments | Nominally based on a true story ghost story about a family that moves into a new home so that one of their children with cancer can be closer to the hospital treating him . They are unaware that the house they moved into was a former funeral home and that it is haunted . Good , and at time great horror film that takes ... |
428,938 | 3,079,504 | 443,632 | 6 | Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland go down a well worn road in a good movie that really should have gone straight to cable | Michael Douglas is a secret service agent framed in a plot to kill the President of the US . Kiefer Sutherland is the agent on his tail . Its not a bad movie its just been there done that with form over content film making . There is no real tension because the actors are in roles they've played a dozen or so times bef... |
427,929 | 3,079,504 | 208,911 | 6 | Well acted dark tale of people waiting to be rescued | One of the Dogme 95 , this is the story of a bus load of people who end up lost in the African desert thanks to a non-functioning compass . Stranded at a deserted mining camp the group decides to put on a production of King Lear to pass the time . Tempers and passions flair as emotions become raw and exposed in the bur... |
428,414 | 3,079,504 | 293,478 | 6 | You'll either love it or hate it | A game designer has already been turning the dreams and life of an ex-girlfriend into a video game when she asks him to go with her to visit the house she just inherited . As you can guess things get very strange from there . The plot doesn't have more that I could reveal without spoiler alerts so I won't . The film it... |
426,959 | 3,079,504 | 366,450 | 6 | Eddie Izzard's hysterical portrayal of " It " is his best performance and the only real reason to see this otherwise unremarkable children's film | Five children go to the country to stay with their uncle during the First World War . While exploring the house they come upon a secret door which takes them down to the beach where they meet a " sand fairy " who agrees to grant one wish a day for them . The wishes all go horribly wrong , but in the process the childre... |
428,312 | 3,079,504 | 377,471 | 6 | Not Get Shorty , but not a disaster either | The sequel to Get Shory has Chili Palmer taking on the music business . Its not as good as the first film , but if taken on its own is a good time passer . The problem here is two fold . First the film has a running gag about hating sequels , which would be fine if it was just a joke and didn't extend to the film makin... |
427,808 | 3,079,504 | 179,063 | 6 | Better than most shot on video films is worth taking the time to see | Small town cop in Jamaica returns to Kingston to fight organized crime through his effective but not always nice methods . Normally I dislike shot on video dramas since they come off as ultra cheap an inept , this film however bucks the trend is a pretty good little crime drama . The action is quite good and has a real... |
428,716 | 3,079,504 | 465,502 | 6 | The great pieces never come together | John Cusack does the voice for Igor assistant for one of the mad scientists in the country of Malaria , a country cursed by perpetual darkness . The country is so desperate that every year it holds a mad scientists fair to come up with new invention with which to blackmail the rest of the world . Igor is of course the ... |
428,746 | 3,079,504 | 48,960 | 6 | the Oscar must have been won for how the film plays on the BIG screen | Mike Todd's epic travelogue must have looked spectacular on huge screens of old , but on my 42 inch widescreen TV it was just okay . Yes I've seen the film before but only in pieces or cut up never had I seen it widescreen before , not had I seen in complete in at least a decade . . For the most part its an empty movie... |
427,403 | 3,079,504 | 443,489 | 6 | Over-hyped | One time front runner for many Oscars disappointed me . Sure the music is great as are most of the performances , but in making the Broadway show into something for the screen something was lost . Its clear how the show would play on stage and you understand how " I'm Telling You I'm Not Going " brings down the house a... |
427,513 | 3,079,504 | 60,089 | 6 | Trapped in the mind of Alice | Jonathan Miller adapted the Lewis Carrol work for the BBC's Wednesday Play series . Using music by Ravi Shankar and a style that is truly dreamlike he has deconstructed the novel in such away as to have it play as the unconscious ramblings of a teenage girl . Its profoundly disturbing in its way since almost none of th... |
428,088 | 3,079,504 | 1,179,891 | 6 | See this in 3 | This looks like it was a gas in 3D but seeing it in 2D is disappointing . Its a good updating or rethinking of what happens ten years after a miner goes berserk during a mine collapse , and how the bodies begin to pile up on Valentines day . Well made the film is full of computer generated gore much of which looks comp... |
427,922 | 3,079,504 | 135,363 | 6 | Now very dated film about daredevils touring the country is interesting as a look back at life in the 1970's | Summer on the road with The Death Riders , a group of motorcycle and car daredevils . The group is made up of guys in their late teens and early twenties . They travel around in vans and cars going from state fair to state fair and race track to race track . They jump motorcycles , jump and crash cars , drive through b... |
428,245 | 3,079,504 | 844,489 | 6 | Good | I picked this up in Chinatown because the cover showed a NYC taxi which told me that this was set in the Korean section of New York , its about two blocks from Penn Station . I was interested in the film because I was curious at how a Korean filmmaker would do a story set in New York . The film actually is an American ... |
427,575 | 3,079,504 | 923,824 | 6 | Take it on its own terms and you'll have a good night curled up on the couch | Un-aging community in the words is discovered by a pair of teens . The community remains forever young thanks to black magic and the occasional sacrifices to the title character . Surprisingly good diversion of a film , won't win any awards , but will fit the bill nicely if you want to curl up on the couch and watch a ... |
427,461 | 3,079,504 | 82,762 | 6 | John Woo makes a comedy | Amusing comedy with a priest reincarnated in order to save the soul that a reincarnated disciple of the devil has decided he is going to give to his lord and master . The guy chosen is a sweet schlub of a guy who wants to be a great singer . Better than several recent Hong Kong comedies I've seen , this film actually h... |
428,530 | 3,079,504 | 51,453 | 6 | Great cast delivering big laughs saves a too by the numbers attempt at comedy | As a bunch of new recruits comes in a drill sergeant bets his comrades that he will produce the top platoon before he retires in ten weeks time . Unfortunately for him he ends up saddled with a grand bunch of losers who are probably drive him in sane well before he ever retires . This is the first of the Carry On films... |
428,293 | 3,079,504 | 443,473 | 6 | What kind of movie is this and what is is about ? This film can't make up its mind | WWE remakes running man by mixing it with Battle Royal as a bunch of convicts are dumped on an island for fight to the death on pay per view . What could have been good action film flounders under uneven direction , I don't mean the director is bad , I mean the film doesn't know where it wants to go . Is this a story o... |
428,385 | 3,079,504 | 79,051 | 6 | Clever mystery is handled unevenly | Butterfly Murders This is an early Tsui Hark film with a neat mystery at its core . The basic story concerns the investigation of a series of death said to have been caused by deadly butterflies . It's a investigated by a journalist who enlists the aid of a couple of monks who then journey to a monastery to see what's ... |
427,568 | 3,079,504 | 109,688 | 6 | Strange martial arts film | This review is of the original cutMartial Arts film as spaghetti western . Wong Kar-Wai makes a martial arts film that is a visual wonder-though its mostly close ups-and a bit hard to decipher because the story is told in what could be generously said to be a fragmented style ( and has a great number of close ups ) . I... |
428,219 | 3,079,504 | 29,171 | 6 | How Far is Over the Top ? | This is based on an Agatha Christie story and contains some of the most histrionic acting I've ever witnessed . I never knew that anyone could go so far over the top and not shoot out of the frame and into space . The basic plot concerns a young woman who wins a lottery and soon after meets and falls in love with a " s... |
427,264 | 3,079,504 | 370,547 | 6 | Okay thriller is done in by a poor central character and a joke or two too many | TV writer gets involved with a triad leaders daughter as well as the Japanese woman who is a bit unhinged . Okay comedic thriller suffers from a lead character who is ultimately a jerk . You really can't root for a guy who makes too many stupid choices , and unfortunately this guy makes any number of them , especially ... |
428,916 | 3,079,504 | 962,711 | 6 | good | From one of the directors of the Blair Witch Project comes the story of a Special Ops team that goes into Afghanistan with a CIA agent in the lead . The objective is , according to the CIA guy , to get in and meet with a contact in the interior . Of course there is another more ominous objective that he won't reveal , ... |
428,865 | 3,079,504 | 901,485 | 6 | Machanical and not that clever | Claude Chabrol's thriller about a TV weather girl who is having an affair with an older married writer while at the same time she is being pursued by the slightly unhinged son of a wealthy family . Good but rather mechanical thriller from master director Chabrol . Apparently There was a further mystery involved with th... |
428,545 | 3,079,504 | 949,731 | 6 | Even though the scary moments are wasted thanks to poorly drawn central characters this is the best the director has done in quite a while | M . Night Shyamalan's masterpiece of a misfire about the end of the world . The plot of the film has a sudden rash of suicides on a colossal scale spiraling outward from New York's Central Park . People freeze for a moment and then when they begin to move again do themselves in . In Philadelphia a school teacher and hi... |
427,616 | 3,079,504 | 805,570 | 6 | Good for most of it but the lack of clear explanation hurts it in the home stretch | Photographer who needs to get grittier pictures in order to get a gallery show ends up running into Vinnie Jones who seems to hunt the subway for people to butcher . Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura who gave us Versus , Godzilla Final Wars and several other good films in his native Japan , turns in a nasty little gore film ... |
426,951 | 3,079,504 | 901,488 | 6 | Good but you'll want something else as soon as its over | A Young woman joins the police surveillance unit and begins to track a gang of robbers and their mysterious leader . Good , but really great ( which some are hailing it ) police procedural . More suspense then action this tale of cops and cameras watching everything we do . You'll really have to forgive the lack of det... |
426,930 | 3,079,504 | 482,599 | 6 | Too much plot and not enough running time reduce the scares to a minimum | ( Apparently reasonably faithful ) Remake of a Thai horror film concerns a woman and her photographer boyfriend who seem to be being bothered by the ghost of a dead Asian woman . Complex story is speedily told with varying degrees of success . Interesting but never really scary the films drive to condense a complex plo... |
428,320 | 3,079,504 | 59,764 | 6 | Holmes meets Jack the Ripper in a Technicolor thriller | I have no idea how many times Sherlock Holmes has battled Jack the Ripper over the years but here he is at it again , and in brilliant color to boot . I mention the color since the film , coming as films were rapidly being only made in color , takes great pleasure in showing us the colorful world of Victorian London an... |
428,196 | 3,079,504 | 1,020,055 | 6 | It kind of works | Dream like ( thanks to the extensive CGI exteriors ) modern film noir story starring Steve Zahn , Leelee Sobieski and Danny Glover . Set on a train traveling one night , it comes to pass that a sick man gets on the train . He dies before buying a ticket . Before the conductor , played by Glover , can inform anyone its ... |
428,241 | 3,079,504 | 55,887 | 6 | If you take it on its own terms its not a bad way to spend 75 minutes | Good B movie thriller about a fishing boat that finds a deserted yacht and takes it in . There is no sign of who owns it but the authorities suspect a certain known criminal . The authorities turn the boat over to the fishing boat crew under the laws of salvage but warn them the boats previous owner might want to get i... |
427,886 | 3,079,504 | 455,824 | 6 | Good but too much and too long . At the very least there should have been an intermission | Baz what have you wrought ? This is the story of a titled Lady from England who goes to Australia to join her husband and ends up having to drive cattle across the continent in order to get enough money to keep things going falling in love in the process . Then things get dicey as revenge and the Japanese come calling ... |
428,592 | 3,079,504 | 59,686 | 6 | First of the Jerry Cotton films is okay , but not as good as the later films | ( This is also known as the Violin Case Murders ) First of the Jerry Cotton films is okay but it made me wonder how this spawned numerous sequels . Cotton is an FBI agent who always seems to get the job done . He is described by one character as being able to find clues other people miss . ( I'll come back to that in a... |
428,329 | 3,079,504 | 951,216 | 6 | Better than its reputation | Three women who handle money thats to be destroyed pull off a robbery and then complications set in . Actually we know of the complications from the get go since it begins there and goes back . . . Good cast in a movie that isn't bad . Actually its a pleasant time killer , which completely surprised me because the revi... |
428,858 | 3,079,504 | 413,300 | 6 | Some great action sequences are lost in a film who's script tries to do too much and be all things to all people | Add my voice to those underwhelmed by the latest edition of the Spiderman franchise . While it does contain some of the best action sequences I've ever seen , it is far from the best film ever made . The problem with the film is that there is simply too much going on . First off you have the Peter / MJ relationship bum... |
428,250 | 3,079,504 | 59,707 | 6 | Strange | A genius named the professor robs a bank in Switzerland of its gold deposits . Good but strange caper film that begins with the robbery , which lasts for over an hour of screen time , before becoming a standard well planned caper has complications for the last half hour . Not bad , but very odd in that the film really ... |
428,695 | 3,079,504 | 59,846 | 6 | The awful 1960's Hammond organ score ruins a really good mystery | When an old man dies just after making his will , the attorney carrying the will is killed in a car crash and the will is stolen . The will then shows up just before the estate is to be divided . The vultures of the family then scheme to prevent the rightful heir from taking possession of the estate , but a dark monk l... |
428,199 | 3,079,504 | 460,909 | 6 | The cliché ending ruins an otherwise good film | Hot Shot button pushing filmmaker is touring an abandoned prison when he finds he's not alone . Soon his jailer has turned the tables on the director who loves to film people unaware . Good short film stumbles in the final minutes as it becomes clear that the film is going exactly where so many other films have gone . ... |
428,162 | 3,079,504 | 52,156 | 6 | Long title for a short movie | This has to be one of the dumbest titles ever . Granted it tells you what the plot of the movie is but that seems to be where the cleverness began and ended . This is really low rent Roger Corman . Its far from a good film , but the chuckle factor and the fact that it has different setting makes it worth giving a try f... |
427,032 | 3,079,504 | 421,073 | 6 | Okay thriller had too many cooks and was too long in the oven to as good as it should have been | James Ellroy penned tale of a cop , played by Keanu Reeves , who is a loose cannon sent on the trail of the killer of his murdered partner . Protected by his captain because he can get things done and hounded by Internal Affairs , Reeves soon finds he is descending into a world that he really should not be part of . Re... |
427,878 | 3,079,504 | 222,812 | 6 | Herbert West is back in a wild low brow horror comedy | Comedic Horror film in the HP Lovecraft vein-based on the classic Reanimator film . This is third or fourth in the series and has Herbert West in prison but still continuing his experiments to bring back the dead . Gory and silly , with some genuinely clever bits , this is mostly a splatter comedy of a low brow nature ... |
427,340 | 3,079,504 | 389,722 | 6 | I wanted to love this instead of like it | As the 30 days of night sets in the town finds itself under siege by a group of vampires . Filled with haunting images this film was mixed bag for me . To be certain the build up to the siege is very good . There is something about the way the story is told that keeps you watching even though its not the most logical o... |
427,840 | 3,079,504 | 426,911 | 6 | Search for log buried notebook with Stalin's secrets is taut fun until the secret is revealed and found to be less then thrilling | Daniel Craig stars as a history professor specializing in the fall of communism in the former Soviet Union . A ( not so ) chance encounter on the street sets him off and running on the trail of a long buried secret concerning the death and legacy of Josef Stalin . Its a secret that many would kill for so Craig quickly ... |
428,399 | 3,079,504 | 343,818 | 6 | And I screamed at the screen in frustration . . . . | . . . and continued to scream in this review . . . . This is a good movie that should have been better . This is actually a great film that was tinkered with to the point of becoming middling . This film , inspired rather than based on Asimov's book , is a film of ideas that is corrupted by the need to be a big Hollywo... |
428,359 | 3,079,504 | 756,204 | 6 | If you like your action with a side order of silly this film is for you . | This is a Thai version of Charlie's Angels . Here there are five girls instead of three . Its a total goof . Everything about the film from the plot ( the angels have to protect a little girl who has a rare pearl ) to the characters ( one is a guy in drag ) to the action sequences ( they are sending up action sequences... |
426,883 | 3,079,504 | 368,909 | 7 | Over Hyped Action Film | After the head of a Buddha is stolen , Ting , a young " warrior " from the village , heads to Bangkok to get it back . There he seeks the help of an old friend and is forced to fight various bad guys . The selling point of this film is the action . The hype says that its all pretty much real . I'm guessing with the fig... |
428,680 | 3,079,504 | 427,309 | 7 | Well made feel good story that is weakened by the use of some clichés that have been over used in recent similar films | Denzel Washington directs and stars in the fact based story of the debate team from a small black college in Texas that was so good it beat Harvard and went undefeated for 8 years . That may or may not be too much information , except that this is an Oprah production and is being billed as a feel good movie . Well acte... |
428,766 | 3,079,504 | 792,948 | 7 | A man in search of something | Fictionalized story based on the preparation the director went through making his previous film . The story concerns the director talking to women and auditioning them by having them masturbate or engage in lesbian sex for their on screen role . The women open up to him and during the try outs he finds , at times the w... |
427,552 | 3,079,504 | 462,499 | 7 | Good action film is also disturbingly violent | Probably the only true sequel to First Blood , and another step from the wilderness for Sylvester Stallone as a filmmaker . While not as good as the last Rocky film it is a decent action film that is a bit troubling in the level of its violence . The plot has Rambo in Thailand being hired to take a bunch of missionarie... |
429,052 | 3,079,504 | 56,405 | 7 | Bad Movie Monster Classic | This is the story of what happens when a part of a long dead monster is dug up and allowed to grow to Godzilla proportions before it destroys much of Copenhagen . This film exists in two versions the American release version and the version that was released Europe . The films while telling essentially the same story a... |
427,311 | 3,079,504 | 244,901 | 7 | Decent tale of a diamond mining family would be better had the DVD not removed 70 minutes | The current release of this film on DVD in America is missing 70 minutes from the full running time as a miniseries . This doesn't hurt the film all that much , but somehow I think it would have been better longer . The plot concerns the return of an adopted son back to his mining family and the trouble his being given... |
427,899 | 3,079,504 | 455,326 | 7 | Even though I don't like the TV show I found this very funny | The Cartoon Network series goes to the big screen-or in this case the DVD . Its a strange rambling tale about the groups origins and he quest to stop the Insano-flex exercise machine from destroying the world . Rambling wildly from thing to thing in a logic that can only be described as ADD inspired , this is actually ... |
428,432 | 3,079,504 | 390,336 | 7 | 90 minutes in the company of a completely horrible person | I want to say at the outset that this is a great documentary . Its much better than the 7 I gave it , but I had to knock it down a few because its subject matter , Troy Duffy , is so incredibly unpleasant I never want to see him again . This is the story of Troy Duffy a man who managed to become the hottest guy in Holl... |
428,983 | 3,079,504 | 26,352 | 7 | One of the best Mascot serials | One of the best Mascot serials concerns a couple of marines taking on the Tiger Shark a masked criminal who is trying to steal a gyro compass and prevent his hide out island from being turned into a military base . This is an action packed serial that is better in the chapters then it is in the cliffhangers . The cast ... |
428,817 | 3,079,504 | 424,823 | 7 | Funny spoof of spy and martial arts movies is better on the small screen than it was on the big | Amusing comedy staring Dan Folger who won a Tony for the 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee . The film concerns a Ping Pong Tournament run by madman Christopher Walken . A spoof of films like Enter the Dragon and everyone of those spy films where the FBI or CIA use a regular Joe for a secret mission this is an amus... |
427,114 | 3,079,504 | 466,909 | 7 | Good horror remake is probably going to be enjoyed more if you haven't seen the original | One of the better recent retreads of 1970's horror films . Okay you know the drill The Thorn baby dies in child birth so in order to protect the mother's feelings the father agrees to substitute another newborn , little knowing that the child is literally hell-spawn and will leave a trail of death in his wake . Well ma... |
427,067 | 3,079,504 | 87,915 | 7 | Very good sequel to an exploitation classic makes very little sense but is still a great deal of fun to watch | Sequel to Golden Queen's Commandos is just as action packed , though much more nonsensical . The plot of the film begins with a band of women surrounded in an isolated farm house . They have stolen a large horde of gold which the military wants back . They decide that some will make a run for it with the gold while oth... |
428,847 | 3,079,504 | 35,107 | 7 | Entertaining mystery | Singer Marie Roget goes missing and is believed dead . She then mysteriously reappears after 10 days . Not long after her reappearance her grand mother hears her planning to do in her step sister and calls in ace detective Paul Dupin of the Paris police force . Unfaithful adaption of the Edgar Allan Poe story is a rip ... |
428,189 | 3,079,504 | 462,396 | 7 | Fast moving action film is good but really could have used more time to flesh out some of the plot points | Re-imagining of the Arthurian legends via ancient Rome . The plot of the film has a young boy crowned emperor in literally the waning days of the Roman empire . When the Goths invade he is captured by them and thrown into prison . Rescued he and his few remaining men go to Britain to find the last legion . ( And I forg... |
428,443 | 3,079,504 | 35,123 | 7 | Very good old dark house mystery romance with atmosphere to spare | James Mason stars in the story of two women who go off to try and find out what happened to a friend of theirs a year before when she went off across the moors . While out on the moors the girls get caught in a rain storm and are forced to take shelter in an old dark house where James Mason , a slightly off center comp... |
427,713 | 3,079,504 | 21,820 | 7 | Warner Oland plays Boris Karlov | Since I don't know when this movie was made one can simply assume the name of the character that Warner " Charlie Chan " Oland plays was chosen simply by chance , but its true he does play Boris Karloff , er . . . Karlov . The plot of this movie has Oland getting revenge one of the Russian Royal families for the death ... |
428,499 | 3,079,504 | 299,172 | 7 | Solid , but Forgettable Fare | The tale of three cows going to save the farm is a pleasant way to spend 75 minutes . Although far from the best of Disney's animated features , its equally far from the worst . Its very funny , especially if you get all in jokes and spoofs that it contains . The music is very good , but won't win any awards . The voic... |
427,540 | 3,079,504 | 56,507 | 7 | Tons of Plot , Tons of Action , Just a Tad Slow . | A Roman Tribune , left behind to mind a subdued city , decides to go against orders and ends up becoming a tyrant in order to spread the glory of Rome . The tribune falls in love with a girl who is in turn in love with the leader of the rebellion . This movie is interesting in that the villain isn't really bad , he's j... |
428,805 | 3,079,504 | 91,229 | 7 | Early Michelle Yeoh | It maybe Michelle Khan in the credits but it Michelle Yeoh . ( Chinese Stars often have numerous names by which they are known . ) This is the first in a series of films about a group of police officers who end up on various action packed exploits . I have not watched them all , but I'm told that they are all pretty go... |
428,612 | 3,079,504 | 929,425 | 7 | Haunting portrait of rampant crime in Italy | I saw Matteo Garrone's adaption of Roberto Saviano's best selling book on the criminal organization known as Cammora at the New York Film Festival . Telling five stories ( the book tells " hundreds " according to the director ) the film shows the effects of the criminal organization on life and lives . There is the sto... |
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