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486,437 | 386,241 | 286,484 | 4 | Hey , pal , hold the camera steady ! | Beautiful LAPD detective Amber Smith and her male partner investigate a series of murders that appear to have been committed by a serial killer known as " The Baptist " . But Smith had already killed " The Baptist " one year earlier . Did she kill the wrong man or is this the work of a copycat ? In the course of the in... |
486,145 | 386,241 | 69,890 | 4 | Routine | This is a thoroughly routine blaxploitation feature , with clumsily edited and often unconvincing fight scenes , an imposing but unsexy female lead , a hammy and nearly ludicrous villainess ( played by Shelley Winters ) , and generally a very dated " feel " about it . About the only thing that keeps it going is some co... |
486,650 | 386,241 | 118,137 | 4 | Werewolves make such bad drivers ! | Inept acting ( Adrianna Miles is the worst offender - she does have a nice body though ; Richard Lynch is the only one who seems to believe in what he's saying ) , awful music score ( mostly funereal violin music ) , bad editing and a pointless script ( almost as pointless as this comment ) make this a weak addition to... |
487,027 | 386,241 | 74,285 | 4 | One of De Palma's worst films actually . | Brian De Palma directs a script based on a Stephen King novel : the ingredients for a guaranteed success are there , but somehow the final product turns out to be hugely disappointing . I usually like De Palma's wild and over-the-top style , but this movie is just annoyingly overdirected , with endless gimmicks used si... |
486,772 | 386,241 | 64,622 | 4 | Terrible . | Hmm , I wonder under the influence of which mind-altering drug the screenwriters were when they concocted this . . . . thing . It does have a couple of moderately funny bits ( the auction scene ) , but mostly it's just a shapeless , disjointed , self-conscious , overly " eccentric " comedy . Recommended only for fans o... |
485,911 | 386,241 | 87,428 | 4 | Almost crap . | They try for something weird , bizarre , unique in this film , but it all goes disastrously wrong - the weirdness seems forced . Right from the opening five minutes you realize that you're stuck for two - seemingly interminable - hours with a collection of unappealing characters and dreary situations , in a movie with ... |
486,033 | 386,241 | 87,425 | 4 | Hot Dog . . . . The Music Video . | Yet another inane mid-80s teen comedy , this one more sexually explicit than most . Some good skiing stunts , lots of ethnic stereotypes and frequent ( well , two or three actually , but those are more than enough ) cameo appearances by the boom mike . If you think about renting this strictly because of Tweed's presenc... |
486,008 | 386,241 | 65,656 | 4 | Poor version of classic story | There is only one good thing about this " Dorian Gray " : Helmut Berger's ideal casting in the title role . Impossibly handsome , he is credible both in his innocence ( early on ) and his corruption ( later on ) . That is the only thing this movie does right , however ; nothing else . The choppy continuity ( Dorian fal... |
486,196 | 386,241 | 113,341 | 4 | Sophia Shinas turns this nothing movie into a something movie | Beautiful , smart , dangerous , ruthless , tai-chi practicing Sophia Shinas is pretty much the only bright spot of this dud . For the story to have any chance of being less than absolutely ludicrous , we have to believe that the male lead can clearly see that the right thing to do is run away from this woman , but he i... |
485,630 | 386,241 | 286,594 | 4 | Doctor Sleep can cause just that . | To describe this film , I will borrow a phrase that the inimitable Pauline Kael had once used : hokum without the fun of hokum . Despite some camera tricks and computer effects , " Doctor Sleep " is plodding . The script is muddled , and Shirley Henderson's amateurish performance as the female detective is a big hindra... |
486,553 | 386,241 | 74,494 | 4 | Don't bother . | Disjointed gangster film that specializes in pointless " destruction of property " scenes . Roger Moore is badly miscast ; he clearly looks uncomfortable to be in an Italian crime movie , and he shows none of his usual flair . Don't go out of your way to see this one . ( ) |
485,945 | 386,241 | 83,024 | 4 | Far below what you'd expect from this cast | How did it go so wrong ? How can a film with such an impressive cast ( Franco Nero , Christopher Lee , Eli Wallach , Sybil Danning , Claudia Cardinale , Martin Balsam , Paul Smith - the torturer in " Midnight Express " - as , you guessed it , a torturer , etc . ) and such colorful location filming around Italy ( Rome ,... |
486,763 | 386,241 | 74,473 | 4 | Don't believe the hype | I had seen the cut version of " Emanuelle in America " once before , and my advice is : skip that version , it's boring and repetitive . Now I saw the complete uncut version , and my advice is : skip this version too , it's boring and repetitive . The pseudo-snuff footage , although undeniably well-executed , is way to... |
487,024 | 386,241 | 109,415 | 4 | Don't bother . | Third " Corn " entry , and there is no compelling reason for you to watch it . Although it's slicker than " Part II " , and occasionally displays some originality in the staging of the killings , it is ultimately defeated by its pointlessness . The " evil " boy in the movie seems obsessed with " He Who Walks Behind The... |
487,472 | 386,241 | 78,806 | 4 | A bore . | Slow , odd film that drags and plods ( I mean really PLODS ) along to its disappointing climax . You may expect some sort of punchline at the end , but there is none . Both Milland and Snodgress give awkward performances ; in fact , the film's weirdness may actually be the only thing it has going for it . The generally... |
486,811 | 386,241 | 74,408 | 4 | Another Franco " goodie " . | Normally one would have the right to call this movie " disappointing " ( after all , it is about the arguably most famous serial killer of all time ) , BUT . . . it's directed by Jess Franco , so how could one expect a good movie anyway ? But even if you can ignore the puerile psychology , the unintentionally funny dub... |
485,942 | 386,241 | 91,752 | 4 | Goes from embarrassingly awful to enjoyably awful . . . . | . . . . and that happens at around the 50-minute mark , when Sybil ( as a character in the film exclaims , " WOW ! " ) Danning appears , well-cast as a fighting alien queen . Up until then " The Phantom Empire " is a plodding , sleep-inducing trek , and the cannibals with Halloween masks over their faces and old rags f... |
486,150 | 386,241 | 113,199 | 4 | Boring | Gordy is a pretty cute little pig ( that also talks , not too convincingly ) , I'll grant you that , but " he " is plugged into an uninvolving , cheerless , funless , far-fetched plot . Frankly , it's hard to believe that a pig's life could be so boring . The film too often seems like an excuse for some professional co... |
486,285 | 386,241 | 60,897 | 4 | Boring and uninvolving sequel . | Return of the Seven has a few good action scenes , and Elmer Bernstein's score is as rousing as ever . Nevertheless , it's a boring film , because it simply fails to involve us emotionally . Mcqueen's absence makes a really bad impression , and the fact that his character here is played by a different ( little-known ... |
486,950 | 386,241 | 64,727 | 4 | A negative verdict for this " Bloody Judge " . | The kind of incompetent filmmaking that can be enlivened only by a few torture scenes . A completely uninvolving film , with a storyline so muddled that you often don't know Who-IS-Who . I watched the ( allegedly ) uncut , letterboxed rereleased version , and apart from an unpleasant rack scene , it's not particularly ... |
485,703 | 386,241 | 96,117 | 4 | Another " Nightmare on Elm Street " wannabe that doesn't have what it takes . | Making the film as dark and visually fuzzy as possible in order to cover up the budget deficiencies is an often-used strategy in low-budget horror films , but this one takes it too far . It is SO poorly lit and murky ( and it takes place almost entirely at night , to boot ) that you often end up virtually looking at a ... |
486,575 | 386,241 | 74,593 | 4 | Pretty dull . | Predictable , by-the-numbers horror film , so reminiscent of " Jaws " ( even in the shots from the bear's point-of-view and the unmistakably similar music score ) that it has to be called a " rip-off " ( and it was probably intended as such ) . The story is too mechanically and monotonously structured , making this fil... |
487,134 | 386,241 | 95,889 | 4 | Yet another rehash . . . | The change of setting and the introduction of some new characters breathe some life into this watchable sequel , but the general familiarity and a very messy script weaken the whole . One thing is for sure : after this third entry , the series had run completely out of steam . If you get bored , try to distract yoursel... |
485,781 | 386,241 | 427,528 | 4 | Slick garbage | Mercenary for Justice is garbage . Sure , it looks slick , with above-average ( by DTV standards ) production values , international locations , and some great stunts . But don't let the looks fool you . The story makes no sense whatsoever from beginning to end , and Seagal's ego-feeding is in full-force here ( he is... |
485,951 | 386,241 | 87,243 | 4 | Disposable - though not disgraceful - slasher movie | Yet another slasher movie from the 80's . This one is set in a sports academy and has the novelty of the killer using a somewhat unorthodox weapon - a javelin . But that novelty wears off after a while . There is not much suspense , no real clues to the " mystery " part , and the ending - especially the motivation of t... |
486,848 | 386,241 | 87,222 | 4 | Low-grade Bronson vehicle . | The Evil That Men Do begins with a truly repellent torture scene , followed , a little later , by graphic verbal descriptions of equally repellent torture methods that the sadistic , heartless villain likes to use . But despite the use of such strictly-for-shock effects , the filmmakers can't really cover up the fact... |
486,852 | 386,241 | 92,147 | 4 | Quite dull . | Not a very successful mix of horror and comedy . Too many dull and deadly stretches , too many endings , too much effort by Grace Jones to little effect . Furthermore , it's an ugly-looking movie , and the bland lead characters never come fully alive . Any good points ? Well , SOME of the special effects are quite impr... |
486,422 | 386,241 | 60,490 | 4 | Muddled plot . | Another film-noir with a very muddled plot . Why does that always happen ? Is it some kind of tradition ? It irritated me here , and it had irritated me in " The Big Sleep " as well . But " Harper " is much slower and more protracted . At least Newman plays the detective quite enjoyably . |
486,839 | 386,241 | 92,112 | 4 | Silly " horror " film . | This movie has a very hard-to-swallow premise , even by this genre's standards . We are asked to accept not only that a record played backwards can bring a dead man back to life , but that the record also contains hidden messages aimed SPECIFICALLY at one kid , when the singer had no connection to the boy when he was a... |
486,837 | 386,241 | 92,115 | 4 | Good effects , but story has no point . | This movie only serves to prove that you can't make a good film based solely on good special effects . The effects are the only selling points of the movie , and they are impressive ( we're talking about old-fashioned , " Howling " - type transformations here , none of that modern " digital " stuff ) . But the story is... |
486,860 | 386,241 | 95,977 | 4 | Low-rent , but maybe worth a rent . | A low-rent , cheaply made police thriller that's kept bearable by some fair humorous bits , the nice chemistry between the two leads and , especially , by James Remar's satisfying turn as a narcissistic , psychopathic ( and , naturally , indestructible ) villain . Obviously a low-quality picture , both visually and dra... |
486,642 | 386,241 | 117,968 | 4 | Surrealistic , strange , talky , flat , confusing . | Raul Ruiz has crafted a genuinely surrealistic film , dealing with such subjects as identity , time , chance and the cyclical pattern of events , but for all his camera tricks ( some of which are outstanding ) , his storytelling is rather flat , and his characters talk too much . Ruiz asks for too much patience and too... |
486,803 | 386,241 | 74,703 | 4 | Pretty dull . | The " possession by a vengeful ghost " storyline had probably gotten to be old and hokey already by 1976 , yet a good movie that can make you feel the emotional drive of revenge could still have made such a story seem new and fresh . Here , the possessed hero seems more concerned with raping and insulting his girlfrien... |
487,388 | 386,241 | 83,296 | 4 | Poorly conceived horror . | Senseless and totally ordinary slasher thriller that seems to " pay homage " to " Halloween II " , which was made one year earlier . It has all the customary elements down pat : the hospital setting , the maniac on the loose , terrified victims-to-be , knives that get bloody . . . . But it shows such shameless disregar... |
486,254 | 386,241 | 74,670 | 4 | A must for all sickos . | Full-frontal nudity ( in " up close and personal " shots ) ; tarantula torture ; flesh-eating ants torture ; breast torture ; arm amputations ; eye gougings ; eviscerations ; bloody beatings ; rape . This is not a film ; it's a catalogue of perversions . It's the first " Ilsa " movie I ever watched , and it's gonna be ... |
487,221 | 386,241 | 83,232 | 4 | Hugely disappointing . | Hugely disappointing , totally unabsorbing , lethargically paced and practically plotless film . The acting is , as you might expect , of a high order , and the closing moments are very fine , but the story generates little interest and the film is about as cinematically exciting as an average episode of an average TV ... |
487,531 | 386,241 | 39,800 | 4 | Slow and stagy . | This snail's-pace " thriller " / mystery seems to have been designed for the theater , not for the movie screen . There is a single set , the various characters ' entrances and exits give the film an extremely stagy feeling and when they talk , they usually utter lines of heavily portentous dialogue . The performances ... |
486,163 | 386,241 | 74,646 | 4 | Lame as a comedy , OK as an action flick . | This " sort of " a sequel to " Black Belt Jones " ( Jim Kelly's character is referred to merely as " Jones " ) is far inferior . The comedy is lame , the acting mediocre and the dialogue often very bad . But there is a continuous stream of action running through the film , and Kelly shows once again that he had the stu... |
486,918 | 386,241 | 102,395 | 4 | Even unfunnier than the first . | You know where you stand with " Mannequin 2 " early on , when you find out that the unfunniest character of the original has returned - and he has a bigger role to boot ! The " romance " part of the film is still kind of sweet , but Ragsdale is no Andrew McCarthy , and Kristy Swanson , unlike Kim Cattrall , doesn't bri... |
486,420 | 386,241 | 79,153 | 4 | Forgettable , muddled thriller . | Forgettable time-waster , without purpose or meaning . It proves that even a few wild car chases and large-scale explosions can't sustain a desperately uninteresting and uninvolving story . The large cast is largely underused . ( ) |
487,264 | 386,241 | 86,947 | 4 | Contrived | Made and acted ( amateurishly ) by unknowns , this bland thriller sets up its contrived main situation right from the opening sequence - and then goes nowhere you haven't been before ( voyeurism , murder , the wrong man suspected , etc ) . All-too-obviously ( and all-too-intentionally ) reminiscent of " Rear Window " ,... |
485,797 | 386,241 | 280,672 | 4 | Stale and illogical slasher . | Right from the stale opening stalking sequence ( which turns out to be a dream to boot ! ) , you know what you're in for : another derivative slasher flick that does what others ( " April Fool's Day " , " Return to Horror High " ) have done before , and better . Supposedly it also wants to satirize the old horror clich... |
485,903 | 386,241 | 64,106 | 4 | A " plodder " from Chabrol . | A distanced , uninvolving movie , apparently regarded by many people as a masterpiece . Well , I have to disagree strongly ; as a drama , it never really pulls the viewer into the story ( which progresses very ploddingly ) , and as a thriller it almost never generates any tension . A tedious movie , only for patient pe... |
486,789 | 386,241 | 113,812 | 4 | Nothing special | Voices of Seduction / " Midnight Confessions " does have some beautiful women in it - the lead , Carol Hoyt , is an elegant redhead - and the premise of a late-night radio show where the listeners call the host and reveal their secret erotic fantasies and desires could make for an effective erotic film with a differe... |
486,363 | 386,241 | 86,987 | 4 | That THING will work , I guarantee you ! | Bo Derek plays a college graduate who is also a virgin - and she's unconvincing on both counts . Yes , her belly-dancing scene is a highlight , but did she have to wear so much make-up all the time ? The rest of the film is a plotless , worthless affair , but at least it doesn't take itself all that seriously ; and it'... |
487,307 | 386,241 | 67,116 | 4 | Monstrously overrated . | I'm glad I found out that there some other people on this planet who ( as their comments show ) consider " The French Connection " to be an incredibly overrated film . The famous chase scene is indeed well-done , but the movie takes 70 minutes to get to it , and those minutes are almost impossible to sit through . At l... |
487,248 | 386,241 | 296,271 | 4 | Pretty bad PPV | Well , the other reviewer certainly described this in great detail , so I'll be more brief : 1 ) Val Venis vs . Steve Blackman . Basic filler . 2 ) Mark Henry vs . D'Lo Brown ( European title ) . Who cares ? ) Jeff Jarrett vs . Chyna ( IC title ) . Probably the most entertaining match of the night . The commentary is f... |
486,629 | 386,241 | 87,018 | 4 | Skippable | The best thing about my DVD version of " Caged Fury " is the tagline : " Alone they are dangerous . . . . together they are deadly " . If only the movie lived up to it ! ( by the way , the picture quality on the DVD is on par with a poor VHS tape ) . The movie starts as a standard WIC ( Women-In-Camp ) drama , with a p... |
485,605 | 386,241 | 87,032 | 4 | Unfocused and long . | This film was really no better or worse than the original , it was essentially more of the same old stuff . Hal Needham still finds plenty of opportunities to fill the screen with stunts and there are several scenes of cars crashing through walls , flying in the air and dragging along entire houses with them , but the ... |
487,421 | 386,241 | 71,617 | 4 | Not worth it , man . | Simply put , there's nothing to be gained from watching " Homebodies " . It's not funny , it's not believable for a minute , it's not entertaining , and it moves ( fittingly perhaps ? ) at the pace of a funeral . The blind guy is creepy , though . ( ) |
487,237 | 386,241 | 64,212 | 4 | Muddled beyond belief . | An ambitious disaster that could only have come out of the sixties ( just like " Doctor Faustus " , " Casino Royale " and probably several others I have not seen ) . The filmmakers must have thought that " De Sade " failed because it was too " avant-garde " for its time . Wrong ! It is too avant-garde for ANY time . It... |
486,998 | 386,241 | 90,196 | 4 | Mediocre horror spoof . | This comedy has some tolerably funny stuff in it , surrounded by a lot of unfunny stuff . Just about every scene involving the servants of the castle and their silly antics is a waste of time . And the plotting is so sloppy that it makes you wonder if they actually had a script ready before they started filming this , ... |
487,056 | 386,241 | 257,510 | 4 | Terrible , but better than the first . | It seems hard to believe , but this in-name-only " sequel " is actually slightly more fun than the original " Crocodile " . Sure , the digital version of the croc looks as embarrassingly fake as it did the first time around ( Jesus does it look fake ) , though the animatronic model looks OK . And the characters are equ... |
487,382 | 386,241 | 113,732 | 4 | Failure . . . . | How low is Burt Reynolds willing to stoop , during this late phase of his career ? Apparently pretty low indeed , judging from this tedious thriller that was barely released theatrically . Reynolds seems miscast in his change-of-pace villainous role , and the snail-like pacing and poor production values remove most of ... |
487,033 | 386,241 | 67,217 | 4 | This one needs hospitalization . . . | I'm amazed that " The Hospital " has been so well-received by the critics and the public . I found it dreary , visually ugly and generally meaningless . After the first virtually unwatchable 40 minutes , the film does improve ( relatively ) , but it remains WAY too far-fetched ( not to mention unfunny ) to be successfu... |
486,854 | 386,241 | 82,525 | 4 | Sprawling and tiresome . | A sprawling , overambitious , plotless comedy that has no dramatic center . It was probably intended to have an epic vision and a surrealistic flair ( at least in some episodes ) , but the separate stories are never elevated into a meaningful whole , and the laughs are few and far between . Amusing ending , though . ( ... |
486,773 | 386,241 | 82,527 | 4 | Stay clear of this hospital - and this movie . | This is the type of film that seems to think that some ( shamelessly gratuitous ) nudity and a few bloody gore effects can fully compensate for an illogical script ( almost every doctor is portrayed as a sadist ) and some of the most ludicrously conceived " false scares " ever seen in a horror flick ( just check out th... |
487,013 | 386,241 | 82,511 | 4 | Watching this film isn't hell . . . but it's close . | I finally got around to watching this one ( it mysteriously proved to be pretty hard to find ) , and it was not worth the wait . It begins with some promise , but soon becomes a forgettable horror thriller , with too dark photography , and a killer who violates all the laws of logic by having to be " killed " about sev... |
486,362 | 386,241 | 64,175 | 4 | Muddled and badly shot Western . | Misleadingly promoted as a " Trinity " film , " Boot Hill " can barely even be classified as a " Bud Spencer-Terence Hill " film , since it gives the two stars very few chances to exercise their teamwork ( Spencer appears after the first half-hour ) . The story is confusing , and the direction is annoying : for one thi... |
486,405 | 386,241 | 75,016 | 4 | An incoherent mess . | Silly , disappointing Disney outing , hampered mostly by Ustinov's terrible performance . As Hercule Poirot , Ustinov has always been superb , but here he overacts embarrassingly ; the same year ( 1976 ) , Peter Sellers also played an inept Oriental guy for laughs , in " Murder By Death " , and he was much more efficie... |
487,078 | 386,241 | 71,247 | 4 | Flat film . | Unremarkable and unmemorable remake of an old , celebrated English film . Although it may be overly maligned as a total disaster ( which it is not ) , it never builds any tension and betrays its TV origins . Richard Burton sleepwalks through his role , and Sophia Loren's closed ( in this movie ) face doesn't display mu... |
485,843 | 386,241 | 67,388 | 4 | Draggy , to say the least . | Essentially a routine revenge tale , but so pretentiously directed that it becomes boring instead of simply routine . Another reviewer stated that he actually stopped watching the film , and I can understand that ; it really is a test of your patience . This thing drags along at a slower pace than its limp hero . Richa... |
485,684 | 386,241 | 71,229 | 4 | An interminable bore . | Michael Caine has always been one my favorite actors , but unfortunately he often starred in mediocre-at-best vehicles and had roles that wasted his talents . " Black Windmill " is such a vehicle : long , confusing , flat , nasty , interminable and thoroughly routine . The picture does show some occasional signs of wit... |
486,608 | 386,241 | 67,329 | 4 | Tedious film . | Tedious , utterly pointless crime yarn . After the five opening minutes , you have already started wondering why this movie was made . The movie ends and it still hasn't provided the answer to that question . Scott is an excellent , magnetic actor , but he is fighting against fourth-rate material here . . . . and he lo... |
486,470 | 386,241 | 114,126 | 4 | Unusually lame Jackie entry . | Thunderbolt is probably Jackie Chan's worst movie since " The Protector " in 1985 . Yes , I know that nobody watches his movies for their stories , but the plotting of this one is unusually lame , even by his standards , and while the fight choreography IS up to his standards , the fight scenes ( the whole two of the... |
486,011 | 386,241 | 102,043 | 4 | Absurd | There's plenty of eye-candy here ( though Mastorakis had the brilliant idea to kill off the gorgeous babe Barbara Lee Alexander halfway through ) , and Brian Thomson gives a funny performance , playing the usual " macho " stereotype and spoofing it at the same time . As an action movie , however , " Hired to Kill " is ... |
486,367 | 386,241 | 75,163 | 4 | Overlong , exploitative and generally boring . | Seeing " Salon Kitty " in its uncut version turned out to be a mixed blessing ; at 133 minutes ( ! ! ) this movie is way overlong . Any chances it might have had of being taken seriously as a historical drama are quickly destroyed by Tinto Brass ' excessive focus on male and female genitalia . Within the first 10 minut... |
486,701 | 386,241 | 82,748 | 4 | Formulaic slasher . | Pieces is a slasher flick that does nothing to differentiate itself from the other slasher flicks . As it usually happens in this genre , there is no plot , no progression , it's simply one killing after another . At least the gore effects are rather crafty , and the liberal gushing of blood was a " nice " touch . Bu... |
487,365 | 386,241 | 113,965 | 4 | Preposterous and by-the-numbers . | This derivative erotic thriller remains watchable most of the way , mainly because a viewer is casually curious about how it will turn out , and because the director , Peter Hall , manages to stage a pretty hot ( and quite bold ) sex scene . But the finale , though unexpected , is preposterous , and the whole plotting ... |
486,925 | 386,241 | 48,937 | 4 | Tedious | I think Rossen tried simultaneously to condense Alexander's adventurous life into a two-hour movie AND to present a revisionist and thoughtful take on the character of that famous historical figure . . . but it didn't quite work . Narrative omissions aside ( where is the middle of the three major battles that Alexander... |
486,644 | 386,241 | 117,394 | 4 | Dreary . | Movies have always shown a fascination for these grim , dreary tales with unredeeming , amoral , warped characters at their center ( especially if the tales are based on true events ) , but OUR fascination with such movies is harder to explain and borders on the masochistic . If there is ONE ( 1 ) thing to be gained fr... |
487,435 | 386,241 | 106,342 | 4 | A warning for the unprepared . | Since this film has received so much praise , I feel the need to issue a warning here for those who expect a masterpiece . The film is actually pretty difficult to get into . The storytelling is very confusing . For at least the first 45 minutes , I couldn't make heads or tails out of what was happening , who was fight... |
487,309 | 386,241 | 75,229 | 4 | Utterly ordinary time-waster . | Utterly ordinary , thoroughly routine and totally forgettable adventure tale that's good only if you want to waste some time - although there are many better time-wasters around . There are no surprises and no attempts at distinguishing this film from dozens of similar films . As for the hand-gliding sequences , many o... |
485,921 | 386,241 | 239,670 | 4 | Mortally overlong . | The premise is good , but the movie isn't . It's excessively talky and fatally overlong . For Christ's sake , man , this thing goes on for what seems like four centuries and never really gets anywhere . The segment about the dead body that has to be removed takes up most of the movie , and it's tiresome ( many movies h... |
487,177 | 386,241 | 106,302 | 4 | Another slice of cheese from Albert Pyun . | Cheesy fun with pretty bad " virtual reality " effects and a very dumb ending . Like some other Albert Pyun films of that period ( especially the " Nemesis " sequels " ) , this is short enough and unpretentious enough to be bearable . . . and that's all . Megan Ward's rather appealing performance is a notch above the r... |
486,012 | 386,241 | 439,238 | 4 | Watchable but derivative " erotic thriller " | Bound By Lies wants to be an erotic thriller and a murder mystery . It fails because it is not very erotic , not very thrilling and not very mysterious . The two stars are rather over-the-hill for the genre . Kristy Swanson is still pretty , but by no means as irresistible as she's supposed to be here . She looked re... |
487,372 | 386,241 | 443,473 | 4 | Blatantly derivative and disgustingly tasteless , but also surprisingly intelligent at times | Mean Guns , " Battle Royale " , " The Eliminator " . . . . this type of story has been done so many times already that the only way a movie that's using it again can be worth the trouble is if a ) it's done REALLY well , or b ) it brings something new to the table . " The Condemned " is not done very well . For one t... |
485,912 | 386,241 | 86,625 | 4 | Moronic vigilante epic . | It begins with a couple of disgusting sex-comedy gags , but soon it reveals its true colors : it wants to be a " Death Wish " clone . I say " wants to " because the script gets so increasingly laughable by the minute that it ends up looking like an absurdist " Death Wish " spoof ! From a love scene in a room inexplicab... |
487,198 | 386,241 | 95,189 | 4 | Unfunny and Unexciting | In the unlikely case that some aspiring directors are reading these comments , I'd like to offer some advice ( free of charge ! ) , from a viewer's perspective . If you want to make a serious exotic adventure film , do it . If you want to make a spoof of exotic adventure films , go ahead . DO NOT try to make both at th... |
485,934 | 386,241 | 86,410 | 4 | Nothing ordinary about this madness at all . . . | While some of the sex scenes here have an undeniable raw force , calling this " a good movie " would be going too far indeed . It's stagnant in its pacing , and the female characters are conceived in a way that has no bearing on reality whatsoever . By the way , Ornella Muti is beautiful but her " performance " is very... |
485,881 | 386,241 | 90,837 | 4 | Cool title , mediocre movie . | The overly familiar " Friday The 13TH " - type premise ( with an extra Sci-Fi note thrown in ) is better executed here , but the movie still amounts to a complete waste of time after it's over . The characters are engaging enough to keep it strangely watchable ( when they die , you may not be moved , but you aren't gla... |
486,990 | 386,241 | 86,476 | 4 | Not very entertaining . | One of Disney's more adult ( in tone and plotting ) films - but " adult " does not necessarily mean " witty " or " entertaining " . Unfortunately , this flat comedy-thriller is neither funny nor thrilling ; ultimately , it's just another " no-big-deal " experience . But I guess it's harmless . . . . if you have time to... |
485,775 | 386,241 | 374,312 | 4 | Sloppy cross between " Hard Target " and " Battle Royale " | The Eliminator is a slightly more professional effort than Bas Rutten's following movie , " The Vault " , but that isn't saying much : it's still not very good . The fights ( the No . 1 reason for anyone watching this ) are few ( maybe 4 in total ) , brief , blurry , and gimmicked-up ( slow motion , fast motion , etc... |
487,091 | 386,241 | 105,616 | 4 | Plodding and disappointing . | This is a disappointing and plodding animated feature . I've always been a fan of this particular cartoon duo , and maybe the fact that here they can speak English wouldn't have bothered me , if Jerry's annoying voice hadn't made him sound so much like a spoiled kid . The film lacks the wit and the fast pacing of the s... |
486,671 | 386,241 | 156,706 | 4 | Killing time - your time ! | Typical horror movie isolates a bland group of characters in a seemingly unoccupied villa ( which they run across after getting lost in the course of a bird-watching expedition ) , then throws some zombies at them trying to spice things up , but unfortunately the gore is none-too-convincing . There are occasional momen... |
485,906 | 386,241 | 95,063 | 4 | Infuriatingly muddled . | Dream Demon features some imaginative visuals and clever camera shots , but is doomed by its terribly confusing , almost indecipherable plot . When it's all over , few answers have been given to the viewer and the rules of the dream-vs-reality game are never explained . This picture remains a blurry enigma from begin... |
486,272 | 386,241 | 377,100 | 4 | Not good , but not terrible | An uninspiring , but not quite terrible , Steven Seagal vehicle . The dreary , unpleasant subject matter ( selling underage girls for prostitution ; not exactly the recipe for a fun action film , is it ? ) , and the standard Seagal ego-stroking ( he can defeat 10 men in a fight in a matter of seconds , he can remove a ... |
485,873 | 386,241 | 71,080 | 4 | Ordinary . | This could have been a fairly entertaining caper movie , but it never comes to life . It has a promising cast , but most of the performers are given nothing to do ; James Mason brings the only traces of humanity to an otherwise very mechanical movie . In the last 15 minutes , the filmmakers even throw in some car chase... |
485,854 | 386,241 | 79,822 | 4 | Inconsequential . | Linda Blair has undergone quite an amazing transformation since the first " Exorcist " , but this inconsequential , goofy , utterly predictable comedy is easily forgotten a few hours after it's over , because it has no plot and no weight whatsoever . Meaningless stuff . ( ) |
485,818 | 386,241 | 86,397 | 4 | Purposeless comedy . | This is another one of those rambling , pointless mid-1980's comedies that keep going on and on , without having anything to say , and without caring if the viewer is still amused or interested . The teaming of Matthau and Williams may appear promising , but it doesn't pay off , and the film is scarcely funny . Halfway... |
485,965 | 386,241 | 75,462 | 4 | Drawn-out , overlong horror film . | This film had the potential to be a chilling horror story , but never really exploits its strong ( if highly unoriginal ) premise ( seemingly innocent kids are actually the bloodthirsty villains ) . The slow-moving , drawn-out script is one of the major drawbacks ; the two main characters fail to win our sympathy becau... |
486,260 | 386,241 | 101,675 | 4 | Inept sci-fi . | The filmmakers apparently had enough money to be able to afford decent makeup effects , but not enough for a creature that would move around and attack convincingly . We never get a chance to see the " monster " move from one place to another - whenever that happens ( supposedly ) , the camera focuses on the " terrifie... |
487,057 | 386,241 | 117,226 | 4 | Tired and tiresome mystery flick . | An Occasional Hell is a low point in Tom Berenger's career . His acting in this picture is so lifeless that when people refuse to tell him what they know about the case he's investigating , he looks as if he's about to say " Fine , what do I care anyway ? " . The script is so slow-moving that at times it doesn't seem... |
487,487 | 386,241 | 86,192 | 4 | Boring . | Revenge of the Ninja got a vote of " 4 " from me , which means that it was a considerable improvement ( I think ) over the the exceedingly dull " Enter the Ninja " , to which I gave . It's still not a very good movie , though . Actually , it's only standard , boring kung-fu stuff , with lots of action and a " who-car... |
486,907 | 386,241 | 94,919 | 4 | Avoid it . | Some changes for the better ( the special effects are more elaborate ) , some for the worse ( Scott Grimes , a likable kid in the original , has turned into an awkward teenager ) , but generally this sequel is about on a par with the original - which doesn't say much . The PG-13 rating is questionable ; although the fi... |
486,532 | 386,241 | 82,350 | 4 | Average Norris . | Chuck Norris , stiff-as-usual , in yet another mind-numbingly predictable action thriller which actually has just as much talk as action , maybe even more . Professor Toru Tanaka is a promising-looking villain , but even he doesn't prove to be a worthy opponent for good ol ' Chuck . And Christopher Lee is wasted , agai... |
485,837 | 386,241 | 116,778 | 4 | Mostly unfunny . | Many people found this movie , the second outing from the Farrelly brothers , to be hilarious , but I thought the funny moments were few and far between . Most of the time , this is a depressingly UNfunny , occasionally tasteless farce , that follows , and supposedly spoofs , the " Rocky " and the road-movie formulas ,... |
486,309 | 386,241 | 94,957 | 4 | Good martial arts , poor everything else | Day of the Panther begins with a young blonde chick taking on several masked thugs at an abandoned building ( in a sequence that would have worked better if it wasn't intercut with other events happening elsewhere - a mistake that the director repeats at the end of the movie ) . She fights quite well , but she gets k... |
486,947 | 386,241 | 82,352 | 4 | Standard early-80s slasher . | Standard slasher film benefits from a strong performance by Lauren Tewes as the capable , smart heroine , but suffers from heavy cuts that were made in order for it to receive an " R " rating . I have to wonder why , since other films of the time ( " Maniac " and " The Prowler " ) displayed Tom Savini's amazingly blood... |
487,116 | 386,241 | 86,264 | 4 | Lowbrow but inoffensive . | A raucous , stupid teen sex comedy that's rather bearable , if you start watching it knowing more or less what to expect . Short on laughs and genuine eroticism , to be sure , but voyeurs may still be pleased , since there's a load of nudity . Nevertheless , it's a generally inoffensive picture . ( ) |
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