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486,298 | 386,241 | 102,128 | 3 | A muddled , self-indulgent film | Iron Maze has an intriguing script : the story of an attempted murder is unraveled through a series of conflicting flashbacks . Sadly , this script has been poorly directed , poorly photographed and poorly acted . The result is a muddled , unpleasant and self-indulgent film . Jeff Fahey is typically obnoxious , while... |
487,111 | 386,241 | 82,818 | 3 | Frightfully slow-paced horror film | The most repulsive , offensive , degrading , gory , depraved and horrifying movie ever made , says a piece of a review on my DVD cover . Not even close . " I Spit On Your Grave " is more offensive . " Caligula " is more depraved . " Maniac " is gorier . And so on . After a somewhat intriguing start , this movie slows... |
485,698 | 386,241 | 114,151 | 3 | This embarrassment completely misses the point of the original . | Embarrassing , totally unrelated " sequel " shamelessly degrades the original . Nobody would ever claim that " Poison Ivy " was a masterpiece , yet it had an intriguing , morbid atmosphere and offbeat , eccentric characters ; it wasn't nearly as trashy as most people believe . This " sequel " is simply a soft-core porn... |
486,242 | 386,241 | 82,910 | 3 | Padded but bearable . | This movie looks unpromising even before you see it : it's a sequel to a ripoff ! The first " Piranha " was nothing more than a low-rent imitation of " Jaws " , yet it was occasionally amusing and extremely bloody . This sequel contains almost equal amounts of blood , but it fails in every other department . It has a l... |
486,700 | 386,241 | 67,355 | 3 | Inexplicably popular Western is fairly dull throughout . | This movie is overrated , to say the least . It's not good as a comedy , and it's not good as a " serious " film either . The pacing is far too plodding for the former , and there is too much lame slapstick for the latter . The only laughs come from some of Bud Spencer's reaction shots when he becomes exasperated by hi... |
486,039 | 386,241 | 140,067 | 3 | Pretty bad . | The miscasting is almost fatal ( Richard Grieco as a police commissioner ? ? ? Whose bright idea was that ? ) , and the storyline is painfully obvious ( we are forever waiting for the thickheaded heroine to figure out what is in clear view ) . Those two factors alone make the movie a waste of time ( and a warning to An... |
485,897 | 386,241 | 79,027 | 3 | Sleep-inducing . | Low-budget and low-grade horror film will only make you want to re-watch " The Predator " , just to remember how you can do this kind of stuff right . The attack sequences here are so poorly filmed that you can hardly see what's happening , and they are separated by LONG , suspenseless , pointless stretches of " plot d... |
486,875 | 386,241 | 94,298 | 3 | She's not exactly a queen and she doesn't fight much . . . | . . . so the title ( and the video cover ) could be described as misleading . Sybil Danning does fight off a couple of attackers at the start , and does decapitate one guy with her sword later on , but that's about it . Her character ( the mistress of the Roman emperor ) barely speaks in this movie . She looks unimpres... |
487,156 | 386,241 | 113,949 | 3 | Nemesis 1 is a masterpiece compared to this ! | Nemesis 3 featured so much recycled footage from " Part 2 " that the story didn't seem to progress at all , and the result was an essentially pointless and useless movie . So Albert Pyun attempted here to drive the series to a different direction entirely . Problem is that by now few viewers still had the patience to... |
486,847 | 386,241 | 64,395 | 3 | The series sinks to new low . | The series that began with " The Magnificent Seven " ( which was great fun ) and continued with " Return of the Seven " ( which was nothing more than a poor imitation of the original ) sinks to new low with this long , very dull and utterly forgettable third installment . As if McQueen's absence wasn't unfortunate enou... |
485,635 | 386,241 | 82,812 | 3 | Low-grade junk . | A low-grade , junky slasher pic , both predictable and preposterous . There are two nice things one can say about it : the music score is atmospheric and there is one pretty surprising ( if irrelevant to the plot ) moment at the end . But it's still not worth your time . |
486,800 | 386,241 | 404,337 | 3 | Pretentious schlock | Although this is a Belgian production , it shares a common flaw with some French fantasy / action / thriller movies : it's not satisfied with just being a good genre picture , no ; it has to be " ART " too . Therefore , we get moments of nonsensical character behavior and downright stupidity to rival any American B-mov... |
487,437 | 386,241 | 75,261 | 3 | Worm-like pacing . . . | Slow-moving horror film , full of stereotypical Southern morons , has a few squirm-inducing moments , but ONLY if you find worms inherently disgusting . If you don't , don't bother with this film , it's not going to change your opinion . If you do , why would you want to see it in the first place ? In any case , if you... |
485,894 | 386,241 | 79,631 | 3 | Dreadful . | Sometimes a little-known movie can turn out to be an undiscovered treasure , but this isn't the case here ; " Nightwing " deserves to be ignored , and isn't worth your time . Lots of talk , lots of padding , few scares . A nice Mancini score and the great-looking cinematography are its only positive qualities . Skip it... |
487,448 | 386,241 | 95,173 | 3 | Pathetic . | I'll put it simply : this Frankenstein spoof ( actually more of a Frankenstein travesty ) doesn't offer enough laughs to merit a recommendation . There is no plot , and there isn't enough material for a feature-length film ; as a result , there are some scenes where the actors are just sitting in front of the camera do... |
486,841 | 386,241 | 114,306 | 3 | Ludicrous horror movie | Well , you'd have to be pretty desperate to tolerate this stupidity , and this comes from someone who actually enjoyed " Leprechaun " ! Actually , the movie that director / writer Mark Jones mostly rips off here is " The Terminator " ! ( if you a fan , you'll recognize at least three " homages " ) . Rumpelstiltskin's p... |
486,994 | 386,241 | 63,595 | 3 | Shoddy . | Shoddy , crudely filmed biker movie with interesting role-reversal concepts , which it completely misuses ( like so many other movies ) . It reminded me a bit of " Faster Pussycat ! Kill ! Kill ! " , but it is much worse . About half the dialogue is literally impossible to understand . The decapitation scene is so bad ... |
486,571 | 386,241 | 222,851 | 3 | Shallow , badly written action / crime flick . | I haven't seen anything else from Takeshi Kitano so far , but I sure hope his fans are right about " Brother " being one of his lesser works , because frankly this is a very bad movie : shallow , choppy , often incomprehensible and gratuitously violent ( i . e , characters who have no bearing on the plot appear out of ... |
485,661 | 386,241 | 90,859 | 3 | Not funny , just repugnant . | Stallone plays a Harry Callahan clone in this absolutely repugnant actioner and gives one of his worst , most one-note performances . Most of his lines are taken directly from " Dirty Harry " , but this is more fascist . |
486,765 | 386,241 | 101,883 | 3 | Boring , cheesy , low-grade action film | In yet another case of misleading marketing , this film is included in a 10-movie DVD set called " Women Who Kick Butt " , but even in its original cover it seems to promise Shannon Tweed in an action role . Actually , during most of the movie Tweed plays the typical whiny and prissy female character who has to be resc... |
486,068 | 386,241 | 82,084 | 3 | Cheap , illogical , sloppy , offensive . | When you make a film with a killer-kids premise , there are two effective ways to approach it ; you can either make it as realistic as possible , creating believable characters and situations , or you can make it as fun as possible by playing it for laughs ( something which the makers of " Silent Night , Deadly Night "... |
485,604 | 386,241 | 82,136 | 3 | Thin at best . | This popular 1981 movie can best be described as a flimsy excuse to string together as many gratuitous car stunts as possible . Hal Needham , an ex-stuntman , made an insipid directorial debut with " Smokey and the Bandit " in 1977 , but then also made one of Burt Reynolds ' best movies , " Hooper " , one year later . ... |
485,807 | 386,241 | 52,077 | 3 | Corny , yes . Awful , no . | This is a bad movie , no doubt about that . What really sinks it is the extremely corny dialogue - I could have swallowed the cheap effects , the director's mistakes , even the " aliens " that look , talk and behave EXACTLY like humans , if the dialogue didn't try - and fail - so much for " self-importance " . But is i... |
485,919 | 386,241 | 75,382 | 3 | A Sunday in the Country ? Take a walk in the park instead . | Words fail to adequately describe how truly boring and depressing this film is . Basically we have to sit there for 90 minutes , waiting to see whether a complete ahole will blow two other complete aholes away or not . Oh , the thrill of it all ! The performances are awful ( Borgnine sleepwalks through his part , while... |
485,773 | 386,241 | 79,734 | 3 | Pretty dreadful - see " A Policewoman In New York " instead | When you sit down to watch an Edwige Fenech film , you can be pretty sure about one thing : she will get naked at least once or twice . And although it's always a pleasure to see Edwige naked ( or dressed , for that matter ) , what really makes one of her films worth watching or not is the context in which she gets nak... |
487,526 | 386,241 | 95,060 | 3 | Worthless . | Dumb trifle about a nerd who becomes an irresistible stud after two aliens ( one of them in the form of a sexy schoolteacher ) test a curious elixir on him . The fact that this movie occasionally seems to be DELIBERATELY bad doesn't make it any better ; even lots of gratuitous female nudity can't save it from being a w... |
486,599 | 386,241 | 101,744 | 3 | Kindergarten-level filmmaking . | This movie is so hopelessly inept , that if it was played in a more tongue-in-cheek manner it might have been considerable fun . Now , it's just corny . The sex scenes are reasonably stylish , but are arbitrarily thrown into various parts of the film , usually under the least likely circumstances . As for the action , ... |
487,060 | 386,241 | 161,083 | 3 | Mediocre comedy . | The basic idea is not bad , but it becomes monotonous . The script is busy , but unfunny . The characters are played by capable comedians , but they range from merely unlikable criminals to truly offensive stereotypes ( low points : each and every appearance of the gay detective , always accompanied by his own " gay " ... |
486,294 | 386,241 | 117,177 | 3 | Couldn't be any worse | Fred Williamson , one of the two or three top blaxploitation stars . Cynthia Rothrock , one of the two or three top American female action stars . Imagine a film with these two together for the first time ! Now imagine THE WORST film that could possibly be made with these two together for the first time . Welcome to " ... |
486,592 | 386,241 | 63,678 | 3 | As meaningless and pretentious as its title . | Impenetrable , confusing , ponderous allegory ( allegory about what ? ) that will be praised mostly by those who are afraid that if they say anything bad about a Pasolini film , they may be perceived as viewers unable to appreciate " great art " . The actors recite their lines mechanically , lifelessly , giving absolut... |
486,410 | 386,241 | 86,383 | 3 | Profoundly offensive . | The fourth " Dirty Harry " installment , and probably the worst one . Actually , this must be one of Clint Eastwood's worst films in general . In some of his other outings , like " Tightrope " , Eastwood seems to try out new things and to avoid presenting his characters as stereotypes . In this one , you get the feelin... |
485,835 | 386,241 | 117,188 | 3 | Not as good as the first . | This sequel to the 1994 actioner " No Contest " ( which I enjoyed much more than I expected to ) is a much inferior film . The fight scenes are not badly choreographed , but all the rest is just SO stereotypical and familiar . Shannon Tweed still is up to the game , but Lance Henriksen does his usual " psychotic villai... |
487,004 | 386,241 | 174,336 | 3 | Revolting " comedy " . | Extremely vulgar and totally forgettable , " Whipped " obviously aspires to be a male version of the popular TV series " Sex and the City " , and indeed , just like that show , seems to be taking place on an alternate universe , where people spend their whole days talking dirty and roaming the streets trying to " stuff... |
486,794 | 386,241 | 105,496 | 3 | Only for those who prefer flying-fu to kung-fu | Whoa ! I don't think I've seen such a collection of beautiful Asian women all in one movie since " The Inspector Wears Skirts " : Cynthia Khan , the young girl that hooks up with the hero , the hero's former girlfriend , the female police officer , the villain's girlfriend ( ESPECIALLY her ) , they all re-affirm my ide... |
487,468 | 386,241 | 66,735 | 3 | A yawner from Argento . | Dario Argento tries to use the camera inventively and playfully , but even all the gimmicks in the world couldn't have saved this excruciatingly dull thriller . The uninteresting plot moves slowly and gets increasingly ridiculous , reaching a real low point when the murdered is revealed and explains his / her motives (... |
486,020 | 386,241 | 110,255 | 3 | Some good fighting ; otherwise garbage | At first , I was hopeful : here is an Albert Pyun movie about a fighting tournament that DOESN'T involve cyborgs or post-apocalyptic wastelands , so there will be fewer distractions from the fighting . Tough luck : Pyun finds a way to screw it up again , with ridiculous one-man-defeats-twenty brawls , gratuitous nudity... |
486,523 | 386,241 | 79,362 | 3 | B-Grade all the way , but what a cast ! | This flick has one of the most incredible casts ever assembled for a B-movie ! You've got Christopher Lee , Donald Pleasence ( fresh from " Halloween " ) , Barbara Bach ( former Bond Girl ) , Woody Strode ( those who've seen " Spartacus " aren't likely to have forgotten him ) , Capucine ( Inspector Clouseau's wife in "... |
487,228 | 386,241 | 82,378 | 3 | Senseless and unpleasant . | Uneven pacing ( too slow at first , then too rushed ) and senseless plot ( not even a hint is given about the killer's motivation ) spoil what could have been a quite watchable " Friday the 13th " ripoff . The result is much more unpleasant than entertaining . |
485,713 | 386,241 | 82,377 | 3 | A huge disappointment | After the wonderful " Omen " and the interesting ( if inferior ) " Omen II " , did we really need this ? It's a huge disappointment , a cheap-looking movie that lacks tension and is full of blah dialogue . The ending will make you angry . |
486,253 | 386,241 | 110,329 | 3 | So bad it makes the first one look like a masterpiece . | This isn't really a sequel to the first " Leprechaun " , it's more of a " Nightmare on Elm Street " wannabe , as the title character appears to possess magical powers that far exceed those he had in the original . It's a meaner and gorier film , but at the same time an even more boneheaded one ; there are some insultin... |
486,062 | 386,241 | 94,850 | 3 | Very poorly thought-out horror film . | John Buechler proves again , two years after " Troll " , that having good special effects in your film DOES NOT automatically mean you have a good film . He may be very good at his main craft ( makeup effects for horror pictures ) , but his storytelling abilities are limited , to say the least . Actually , most of the ... |
486,359 | 386,241 | 70,694 | 3 | It doesn't deserve its great title . | Amateurishly directed , heavy-handedly edited and confusingly put together , this low-budget horror film has only a few frightening and gory scenes to keep you awake . SPOILER - The following note is only for those who've already seen the film - or never WANT to see it . By my calculations , the mad killer in the movie... |
487,185 | 386,241 | 105,881 | 3 | Dreadful | Martian supercop chases Martian supervillain to Earth , and Yukari Oshima's special forces unit has to deal with them - and with warring criminal gangs on the side . " Ultracop 2000 " epitomizes nearly everything that can be bad about Hong Kong cinema - sloppy direction , incoherent script , lowbrow humor , obvious and... |
486,783 | 386,241 | 91,012 | 3 | Grade-Z post-apocalyptic flick | If there is one thing I appreciate about director Cirio H . Santiago , it's that he seems to like strong female characters and includes them in many of his films . In " Equalizer 2000 " we have the sexy Corinne Wahl , who handles her guns with proficiency and adds the only spice to the film . The lead is Richard Norton... |
487,291 | 386,241 | 63,977 | 3 | Women-in-prison schlock . | Surprisingly tame ( at least in the version I saw , titled " Island of Despair " ) , boring schlock from Jess Franco , whose direction is , once again , pretty terrible ( example : we get a flashback regarding the events that led a VERY MINOR supporting character to prison - and Franco inexplicably keeps it going for a... |
487,089 | 386,241 | 21,015 | 3 | A real dud from Hitchcock . | A stagy , extremely talky and deadeningly dull early Hitchcock film . If you thought that this director was unable to make a film so dull that it's practically impossible to sit through , this one will force you to re-examine your opinion . This failure is forgivable , of course : Hitchcock was still very young , and h... |
486,377 | 386,241 | 94,837 | 3 | Inept | This blatant AIDS allegory ( ok , we get it , we don't need to see the entire cast wrapped in plastic throughout the movie ) , is inept and put together with no filmmaking skill ( don't trust me , trust the facts : Nathan J . White hasn't directed another film since 1987 ) . It is set in a provincial town stereotypical... |
487,297 | 386,241 | 90,944 | 3 | A complete waste of time . | Truly terrible , pretentious , endless film . Director Bellocchio seems to be infatuated with the pretty face and figure of his actress Detmers - and who can blame him ? But maybe , just maybe , he should have focused his attention a little more on making a good , engaging film . I hate it when a sex film poses as an "... |
486,514 | 386,241 | 94,835 | 3 | For undiscriminating girls-and-guns fans only | Oliver Reed ( cashing another paycheck and having a nice vacation at the same time , I presume ) plays a powerful ex-general / drug dealer / dictator of a fictional South American country , who kidnaps the daughter of his long-time nemesis Robert Vaughn , along with a bunch of other college girls , and keeps them capti... |
487,021 | 386,241 | 86,143 | 3 | Terrible movie . . . steamy seduction scene | The luminous and talented Phoebe Cates wallows in this embarrassing non-movie , which is not worth seeing from beginning to end ( why ? well , for starters , there is no script and no direction ) , but DOES have some scenes that are worth seeing , even worth taping perhaps : you guessed it , I'm talking about the scene... |
487,429 | 386,241 | 226,919 | 3 | Every bit as bad as " Crocodile " . | It's not like that big mechanical toy , says a character early on , commenting on " Jaws " . Well , " Blood Surf " would only wish to have a beast as convincing as the shark of the " Jaws " series . In other words , the digital special effects of this movie are TERRIBLE . Acting and directing are not much better , ei... |
487,305 | 386,241 | 94,752 | 3 | Dull mess . | Black Roses is a forgettable , low-budget thriller , which looks inevitably dated today , since its premise links - in a superficial way - rock music with evil demons who want to control the minds of teenagers . The effects are weird-looking and amusingly cheap , although there is more nudity than gore . The film's m... |
486,869 | 386,241 | 70,423 | 4 | Shoddy yet somewhat creepy . | Mostly dry and boring horror film , with shoddy special effects - yet quite creepy if you let your imagination do the film's work for you . It all seems quite disturbing on paper ( mutated man-plants , sideshow " freaks " , etc . ) , but the film's only real merit is another good performance by the ever-reliable Donald... |
486,024 | 386,241 | 91,326 | 4 | Pretty dull . | The weak , meandering script is the major - but not the only - flaw of this pretty dull sequel to " Karate Kid " . The pacing is lethargic , but it's not director Avildsen's fault : this script , where almost nothing happens , could only sustain a movie about 30 minutes long . Until the well-done climactic fight , this... |
486,378 | 386,241 | 91,338 | 4 | Too much " Party " and not enough " Killer " . | After a totally disposable first hour , you will be " rewarded " with a rapid succession of gore-less murders and a growling , bumbling demon . In other words , this is one of the worst of the many 80's slashers . The only reason it rates higher than " Zero " is that the three main female characters are fairly likable ... |
487,083 | 386,241 | 65,134 | 4 | A bummer . | Well , Eastwood's rich career has its low points , too , and this 1970 bummer certainly qualifies as one of those . It's a dull and disappointing Western . The main problem is the thoroughly uninvolving story - so uninvolving , in fact , that it makes you wonder why exactly the filmmakers chose to tell it and if they t... |
486,071 | 386,241 | 87,903 | 4 | Strange . | Moronic sex-adventure-comedy with a disconnected script that takes you from one place to another following no logic or pattern , and a certain undeniably trashy imagination ( a four-way fighting match between women wearing heavy-yet-revealing armors ) . Tawny Kitaen is beautiful , but she can't act worth a damn . Check... |
486,060 | 386,241 | 325,214 | 4 | Not an atrocious horror film , just a generic one | Curse of the Forty-Niner doesn't really deserve a long and detailed review , so I'll just make some random observations about it : - Cool opening credits . - No plot . - Is there anyone who's ever seen a horror film before and can't guess , within the first 20 minutes , who will survive and who will not among this gr... |
486,391 | 386,241 | 122,603 | 4 | Strictly by-the-numbers . | Old-fashioned horror film is yet another entry in the " man vs nature " sub-genre , of which the granddaddy was , of course , Hitchcock's brilliant " The Birds " . Don't look for anything comparable here : this strictly by-the-numbers film is barely thrilling , and the computer-animated effects too often look fake ( ev... |
486,411 | 386,241 | 91,178 | 4 | Unredeemable . | Haunted Honeymoon suffers from a classic case of " all setup , no payoff " . It keeps introducing new eccentric characters , then drops them and gives them nothing to do . It has a promising ( and game ) cast , but wastes it . And it can't seem to find a consistent tone ; for example , that brutal fistfight near the ... |
487,427 | 386,241 | 130,192 | 4 | Sluggish thriller . | Albert Pyun's directing seems to be improving with age . This is a perfectly respectable thriller , a movie that you would hesitate to call " inept " in any way - unless of course you're a personal enemy of Pyun's . However , it's also a bit too long and sluggish , and not as exciting as it should be . It jumps to life... |
486,659 | 386,241 | 70,578 | 4 | Disappointing thriller . | The ambitious script deserves some credit for the way it keeps intercutting the past with the present tense , a technique that results in some intriguing effects ; in one scene we see somebody killed , in the next scene there he is , moving and talking ! But , the pace of the film is plodding , the performances detache... |
486,620 | 386,241 | 91,223 | 4 | Low-rent . | Low-rent horror movie with an illogical plot and particularly unconvincing Vietnam flashbacks ( it was all-too-obvious that they were filmed in a studio set ) . Some good comic moments ( especially the hero's meeting with the female neighbour ) can't save this film . |
486,606 | 386,241 | 91,209 | 4 | A huge disappointment . | This film doesn't really live up to its cult reputation . Sure , it's reasonably suspenseful at times , but very short on sense , and , overall , a huge disappointment . Hauer is creepy enough , but the film fails completely when it tries for " depth " : there is no sense of " relationship " between the characters - a ... |
485,761 | 386,241 | 221,218 | 4 | Overlong and transparent . | It has been said before , but I came to the same conclusion so it must be said again : if you've seen the trailer , you've seen the movie . Super-glossy image , decent acting ( though I find Sobieski pretty boring as a lead ) and a good , minimalist music score can't do much when the clumsy screenplay has so many conve... |
485,762 | 386,241 | 78,259 | 4 | A curio . . . and a DUD . | I can't believe that some people actually made sense out of this incomprehensible picture . I just watched it for the second time and I didn't understand a thing . The whole movie is so nonsensical and murky that I wonder if the FILMMAKERS understood a thing . Because I suspect they didn't , and that's what the " artsy... |
487,112 | 386,241 | 87,852 | 4 | Lifeless , low-grade tale . | This is indeed one of the weakest films based on Agatha Christie's work , a lifeless , muddled mystery that clearly lacks the grace ( and the budget ! ) of its predecessors ( " Death On The Nile " , " Evil Under The Sun " ) and Donald Sutherland is a pale shadow of Peter Ustinov as far as screen detectives go ( of cour... |
487,471 | 386,241 | 73,918 | 4 | Languid thriller . | This was probably intended as an " arty " crime thriller , but it fails on both counts - there are few thrills and not enough substance . The plodding pacing makes it hard to sit through , and the occasional action scenes are too sloppily edited and confusingly staged to offer much compensation . At least the level of ... |
486,815 | 386,241 | 105,059 | 4 | Obvious and predictable . | Sweet Helen Hunt is better for bland Andrew McCarthy than sexy-but-bitchy and thoughtless Kelly Preston , but it takes him the entire movie to figure that out . This painfully predictable comedy tries to delay the inevitable by coming up with a series of forced scenes and situations , and it's also visually dreary , de... |
485,788 | 386,241 | 95,556 | 4 | Cannibalism and incest - in a light tone ! | A strange mix of traditional-80s , smartassy , Chevy Chase-type , " every - ten - lines - you - get - a - funny - one " farce and sickie black comedy . Mildly amusing in spots , but utterly tasteless . There is a skiing sequence that includes the fakest-looking back-projections since " On Her Majesty's Secret Service "... |
485,893 | 386,241 | 95,583 | 4 | Nothing you haven't seen before . . . | Maniac Cop is made with enough skill to be watchable , but don't look for anything even remotely original or creative here . It's formulaic stuff , just another pretty basic slice-and-dice entry . It probably had been a quite ambitious project , with an indestructible killer in the Michael Myers - Freddy Krueger trad... |
486,327 | 386,241 | 167,165 | 4 | Colorful - but still terrible - Franco spy porn | Blue Rita is more or less what you'd expect from a Jess Franco film : very explicit - very kinky - very strange - very incoherent - very bad . The plot , as far as I could say , is about some Parisian strippers who double as secret agents : they kidnap enemy ( whose enemy ? Never mind ) spies and use sexual torture m... |
486,935 | 386,241 | 83,960 | 4 | Utterly predictable . | Before you start viewing an early Chuck Norris flick , you certainly don't have particularly high expectations ; you just want to kill two hours painlessly . " Forced Vengeance " is an utterly predictable , formulaic , often boring action film , yet it generally accomplishes its mission . Norris is as stiff as ever , o... |
486,914 | 386,241 | 217,756 | 4 | Get ready for another lame comedy . | Totally misguided " comedy " that has a stupid premise ( basically ripped off from " Rocky III " ) , mostly lame jokes and an overabundance of " comic " violence ( the filmmakers apparently considered the kicks-to-the-groin as their funniest gags ; they even showed us the outtakes of the kicks in the end credits ) . An... |
486,194 | 386,241 | 132,414 | 4 | End of the line for Mimi Lesseos ' film career | Magnificent Mimi ' s acting is not so bad for a former pro-wrestler , but I still think it would've been a better idea for her to try more escapist fare if she wanted to break into the movie industry . The domestic abuse angle is distasteful when it is used not by a serious dramatic picture but by a cheap B-movie pro... |
487,259 | 386,241 | 91,603 | 4 | Familiar and sleazy . | The Naked Cage is a textbook anthology of " Women-In-Prison Drama " cliches ( innocent heroine , sadistic warden , lesbianism , catfights , stabbings , riots , etc . ) . Watching it , you feel as if you're wallowing in a cesspool , and the fact that leading actress Shari Shattuck is not believable for a minute certai... |
485,992 | 386,241 | 801,349 | 4 | The film drags , but Lorin Becker looks GREAT in a bikini | Triple Threat opens with a busty female assassin lounging by the pool , where she receives a call and accepts one last assignment . This beginning ( along with the DVD cover ) teases the viewer with the promise of some girls-with-guns action , but , much like many Andy Sidaris movies , this one promises more than it ... |
486,433 | 386,241 | 202,267 | 4 | Invincible heroes are boring | Well , in response to the previous comment , I am a martial arts fan and I did not like this movie . The main reason is stated in my one-line summary : when the hero slaughters anonymous opponents by the dozen , as he often does here , it's not exciting - it's boring . There are only two good fight scenes in this movie... |
486,181 | 386,241 | 325,560 | 4 | Not too bad for what it is - no-budget shot-on-video fare | I watched " High Kicks " as part of the 10-movie DVD set called " Women Who Kick Butt " . No doubt if that's the first film of the set you watch you'll be disappointed , but if you watch it ( like me ) after such atrocities as " Death Run To Istanbul " or " Flight To Danger " it seems comparatively better . The female ... |
487,260 | 386,241 | 65,398 | 4 | Exceptionally boring film . ( SPOILERS ) | Moderately interesting but maddeningly slow and ultimately sleep-inducing thriller , set in the desolate highways of rural France . Starts off promisingly enough , but then it takes AGES for anything important to happen . The last 30 minutes are essentially a looooong , silent chase , and we are about 90 % sure that th... |
487,218 | 386,241 | 160,401 | 4 | Familiar cop drama . | The title is a misnomer ; " In Too Deep " is shallow and rushed . There isn't one original idea to be found anywhere in this film ; you'll recognize scenes taken from movies you haven't even seen ! The " beginning-at-the-end " structure eliminates most of the suspense as well . But if you insist on watching the film , ... |
487,527 | 386,241 | 87,722 | 4 | Incredibly boring . | This was the first Debra Winger performance I didn't like , and I've seen quite a few . She seems kind of enervated , but then again , who can blame her ? This whole MOVIE is enervated . The plot is uncompelling , the " love story " that motivates the heroine is emotionally uninvolving and unconvincing , and the result... |
487,209 | 386,241 | 91,647 | 4 | Half-baked . | If Brosnan somehow transferred his memories to Lesley-Anne Down , then why do we mostly get a third-person's point-of-view of his life in the flashbacks , with only brief and random intervals of his own point-of-view ? It may sound like a small quibble , but think about it and you'll see that the device simply doesn't ... |
486,268 | 386,241 | 56,601 | 4 | Forgettable murder mystery . | Not having seen any of the previous versions of this story , the film this one reminded me more of is Lucio Fulci's ( ! ! ) 1990 shocker " Voices from Beyond " . The plotlines are different but still share some similarities , as they both involve revenge from beyond the grave , rich families with hidden secrets , a mur... |
486,908 | 386,241 | 95,294 | 4 | Matchlessly gory . | If you watch this one for the first time unprepared , you may actually feel sick to your stomach ( I know I did ) . There is a self-mutilation scene , early on , that goes far beyond anything you've ever seen in , say , " Day of the Dead " or " Maniac " . If you manage to sit through that , you'll probably be able to s... |
487,143 | 386,241 | 70,297 | 4 | Who dreamt this up ? | Maybe it's partly because I saw it late at night , but this film plays like someone's feverous bad dream . Peter Cushing is the only actor who lends a degree of seriousness and dignity in what is essentially incoherent ( even in its original , 89-minute form ) , loopy garbage . And where exactly had the vampires and th... |
487,391 | 386,241 | 100,926 | 4 | Terminally dull . | A terminally dull mystery-thriller , which may sound pretty sound theoretically but plays out very poorly . The ludicrous script is full of ( MINOR SPOILER ) people dying and then coming back to life when the plot requires them to , and the director doesn't seem able to work up any energy and suspense . The gooey seque... |
486,184 | 386,241 | 100,917 | 4 | The wheels of boredom . | Pretty dull thriller . The director chooses an " arty " approach with lots of slow-motion sequences , " poetic " music and minimal dialogue , and it doesn't work . The characters have no personality , the script is virtually non-existent and the suspense is deflated by the fact that the " evil " car's driver ( or the e... |
487,539 | 386,241 | 100,867 | 4 | Garbage , but Ginger makes it smell a little better | Vice Academy 2 is worth sitting through only for Ginger Lynn Allen : she is cute , she appears in black lingerie , she wears a revealing dress , she performs ( along with Linnea Quigley ) a strip dance , and she throws one mean right punch . Other than her , the film is so PAINFULLY drawn-out , so insultingly lame , ... |
485,907 | 386,241 | 83,803 | 4 | These " Games " are no fun . . . | I somehow thought this movie would turn out to be an undiscovered treasure , but no such luck ! Visually murky and poorly plotted , this is basically an oh-so-familiar retread of " Halloween " , though the director shows some talent and tries to surpass the limitations of the script . The lousy ending does not help . (... |
486,379 | 386,241 | 83,801 | 4 | For rat-movie completists only . | There's too much filler between the unexceptional attack scenes , but the special effects work better than you'd expect , considering their " infamous " and peculiar history . A fun bit of trivia that nobody else here mentioned : Robert Clouse , who made this film , was also the director of the last Bruce Lee vehicle ,... |
486,148 | 386,241 | 52,378 | 4 | Acceptable hokum . | This movie may have a strange after-effect on you ; it's so short in length ( only 68 minutes ) and so trivial , that two or three hours after you've seen it , you may have forgotten everything about it . As a sequel . . . . well , it's about on a par with the original . There is no attempt at character development thi... |
485,884 | 386,241 | 206,334 | 4 | If this is the new generation of Hong Kong action cinema , I'll stick with the old one . . . | . . . and here's why : 1 ) The plot is an overlong , unengaging mess2 ) The action scenes are generic ( mostly shootouts in which it's often hard to tell who's shooting at whom , and special effects-enhanced explosions ) . 3 ) The fight scenes are brief and overedited . There is one girl ( Grace Yip ) that appears to b... |
486,101 | 386,241 | 175,694 | 4 | Low-rent blaxploitation / private eye tale | The blaxploitation fad was already in decline in the late 70's , and films like " The Guy From Harlem " were made . " Shaft " or " Black Belt Jones " this is not . It does have a funky score ( " that cat is a baaaaad dude " ) , some beautiful black women and occasionally amusing dialogue . But the production is complet... |
485,596 | 386,241 | 91,499 | 4 | Disappointing | This film had a potentially very interesting concept ( all the machines go on a homicidal rampage ) , but didn't exploit very well . Actually , it did for a while , in some quite inventive scenes ( the " violent " soda machine provides the film's most memorable moment ) , but then falls into a repetitive pattern - truc... |
487,422 | 386,241 | 95,312 | 4 | Complete ( intentional ) crap . Very talky too . | Incredibly cheap , incredibly talky horror comedy that's amusing in the schlockiest way imaginable . It's one of those films that are known as " deliberately " bad ( like " Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes " ) , which means they are easier to take than films that were meant to be good and turned out bad . . . . but they'r... |
485,603 | 386,241 | 65,506 | 4 | Very unslick . | The fact that Henri Charriere , whose life was dramatized in " Papillon " with Steve McQueen in 1973 , wrote the script for this caper film and also has a supporting role in it may make some people willing to check it out , mostly out of curiosity . But don't be fooled ; it's an ( initially ) muddled , padded and unexp... |
487,529 | 386,241 | 95,304 | 4 | Strange , loud fiasco . | Despite some atmospheric moments , some OK special effects and likable performances by Peter O'Toole and Steve Guttenberg ( Daryl Hannah is too " soft " ; Beverly D'Angelo is disappointing ) , this film is a fiasco . It suffers from special effects overkill , and the plot , which potentially contains some interesting d... |
487,384 | 386,241 | 91,828 | 4 | One of Arnie's least remembered movies , and deservedly so . | The premise of this familiar actioner had some potential , with Arnold Schwarzenegger getting to act like a " bad guy " at least for a while , but unfortunately the theme is " explored " in just ONE scene , where he admits that he likes his new lifestyle as the right hand of a mob boss . But eventually he loses his pat... |
487,314 | 386,241 | 91,836 | 4 | Failure . A movie that doesn't know what it wants to be | Neither a serious WIP drama , like director Tom De Simone's earlier " The Concrete Jungle " , nor an outright spoof of the genre in the style of " Naked Gun " , " Reform School Girls " is a film that suffers from identity crisis . The serious , sometimes even cruel moments offset the comedy , and the over-the-top momen... |
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