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1 | The action here is unusually tame the characters are too simplistic to maintain interest and the plot offers few surprises |
1 | I could n't help but feel the wasted potential of this slapstick comedy |
1 | What Madonna does here ca n't properly be called acting more accurately it 's moving and it 's talking and it 's occasionally gesturing sometimes all at once |
1 | LRB A RRB painfully flat grossout comedy |
0 | Even if you 're an Elvis person you wo n't find anything to get excited about on this DVD |
2 | The movie certainly has its share of clever moments and biting dialogue but there 's just not much lurking below its abstract surface |
1 | It 's bedeviled by labored writing and slack direction |
1 | I 'm sure there 's a teenage boy out there somewhere who 's dying for this kind of entertainment |
0 | The Tuxedo miscalculates badly by forcing the star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to come to life |
1 | The film is a confusing melange of tones and styles one moment a romantic trifle and the next a turgid drama |
1 | Obviously a lot of people wasted a lot of their time LRB including mine RRB on something very inconsequential |
1 | There 's a little violence and lots of sex in a bid to hold our attention but it grows monotonous after a while as do Joan and Philip 's repetitive arguments schemes and treachery |
1 | It drowns in sap |
3 | Deliberately and devotedly constructed Far from Heaven is too picture postcard perfect too neat and new pinlike too obviously a recreation to resonate |
1 | It 's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline everything that 's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot that 's just too boring and obvious |
1 | I 'm giving it thumbs down due to the endlessly repetitive scenes of embarrassment |
1 | There 's got to be a more graceful way of portraying the devastation of this disease |
2 | The good thing the only good thing about Extreme Ops is that it 's so inane that it gave me plenty of time to ponder my Thanksgiving todo list |
1 | The modernday characters are nowhere near as vivid as the thcentury ones |
4 | Blessed with a searing lead performance by Ryan Gosling LRB Murder by Numbers RRB the movie is powerful and provocative |
1 | It 's also built on a faulty premise one it follows into melodrama and silliness |
1 | Uneven performances and a spotty script add up to a biting satire that has no teeth |
1 | Director Jay Russell stomps in hobnail boots over Natalie Babbitt 's gentle endearing children 's novel |
2 | Benigni 's Pinocchio is extremely straight and mindnumbingly stilted its episodic pacing keeping the film from developing any storytelling flow |
1 | The troubling thing about Clockstoppers is that it does n't make any sense |
1 | With its paint fights motorized scooter chases and dewyeyed sentiment it 's a pretty listless collection of kidmovie clichés |
2 | Mostly the film is just hectic and homiletic two parts exhausting Men in Black mayhem to one part family values |
1 | Kicks off with an inauspicious premise mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper |
1 | A rote exercise in both animation and storytelling |
1 | The material and the production itself are little more than routine |
1 | The movie 's major and most devastating flaw is its reliance on formula though and it 's quite enough to lessen the overall impact the movie could have had |
0 | Not even Steven Spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie |
0 | It 's all surface psychodramatics |
1 | The Mothman Prophecies which is mostly a bore seems to exist only for its climactic setpiece |
1 | That frenetic spectacle LRB on the TV show RRB has usually been leavened by a charm that 's conspicuously missing from the Girls ' bigscreen blowout |
0 | Kitschy flashy overlong soap opera |
1 | For all the time we spend with these people we never really get inside of them |
1 | Yet another Arnold vehicle that fails to make adequate use of his particular talents |
1 | Sandra Bullock despite downplaying her good looks carries a little too much ai n't shecute baggage into her lead role as a troubled and determined homicide cop to quite pull off the heavy stuff |
0 | An undistinguished attempt to make a classic theater piece cinematic |
0 | too many scenarios in which the hero might have an opportunity to triumphantly sermonize and too few that allow us to wonder for ourselves if things will turn out okay |
1 | There is simply not enough of interest onscreen to sustain its seventyminute running time |
2 | A wordy wisp of a comedy |
1 | Broomfield 's style of journalism is hardly journalism at all and even those with an avid interest in the subject will grow impatient |
1 | LRB Seagal 's RRB strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year 's Razzie |
0 | Has the disjointed feel of a bunch of strungtogether TV episodes |
1 | A series of escapades demonstrating the adage that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander some of which occasionally amuses but none of which amounts to much of a story |
0 | Ozpetek offers an AIDS subtext skims over the realities of gay sex and presents yet another tired old vision of the gay community as an allinclusive world where uptight middle class bores like Antonia can feel good about themselves |
2 | A dopey movie clothed in excess layers of hipness |
0 | The Sweetest Thing is expressly for idiots who do n't care what kind of sewage they shovel into their mental gullets to simulate sustenance |
0 | Sinks so low in a poorly played game of absurd plot twists idiotic court maneuvers and stupid characters that even Freeman ca n't save it |
2 | I realized that no matter how fantastic Reign of Fire looked its story was making no sense at all |
1 | It made me realize that we really have n't had a good cheesy Bmovie playing in theaters since well since last week 's Reign of Fire |
1 | Some movies were made for the big screen some for the small screen and some like Ballistic Ecks vs Sever were made for the palm screen |
1 | SC is an autopilot Hollywood concoction lacking in imagination and authentic Christmas spirit yet it 's geared toward an audience full of masters of both |
2 | After all the big buildup the payoff for the audience as well as the characters is messy murky unsatisfying |
1 | Seems content to dogpaddle in the mediocre end of the pool and it 's a sad sick sight |
4 | It 's refreshing that someone understands the need for the bad boy Diesel with his brawny frame and cool composed delivery fits the bill perfectly |
2 | If all of Eight Legged Freaks was as entertaining as the final hour I would have no problem giving it an unqualified recommendation |
1 | Suffers from a flat script and a low budget |
3 | There are deeply religious and spiritual people in this world who would argue that entering a church synagogue or temple does n't mean you have to check your brain at the door |
2 | The same should go for movie theaters |
0 | Seemingly a vehicle to showcase the Canadian 's inane ramblings Stealing Harvard is a smorgasbord of soliloquies about nothing delivered by the former Mr Drew Barrymore |
2 | The film tries to touch on spousal abuse but veers off course and becomes just another revenge film |
2 | As it stands it 's an opera movie for the buffs |
0 | This franchise has not spawned a single good film |
0 | The crap continues |
1 | Its inescapable absurdities are tantamount to insulting the intelligence of anyone who has n't been living under a rock LRB since Sept RRB |
3 | High drama Disneystyle a wing and a prayer and a hunky hasbeen pursuing his castle in the sky |
1 | Like its script which nurses plot holes gaping enough to pilot an entire Olympic swim team through the characters in Swimfan seem motivated by nothing short of dull braindeadening hangover |
1 | One big blustery movie where nothing really happens |
0 | When it comes out on video then it 's the perfect cure for insomnia |
1 | Like a comedian who starts off promisingly but then proceeds to flop Comedian runs out of steam after a half hour |
1 | The pairing does sound promising in theory but their lack of chemistry makes Eddie Murphy and Robert DeNiro in Showtime look like old familiar vaudeville partners |
2 | Director Chris Eyre is going through the paces again with his usual high melodramatic style of filmmaking |
2 | As it stands there 's some fine sex onscreen and some tense arguing but not a whole lot more |
1 | I could just feel the screenwriter at every moment Tap tap tap tap tapping away ' on this screenplay |
2 | The picture does n't know it 's a comedy |
0 | A stupid derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense |
1 | The rollerball sequences feel sanitised and stagey |
1 | Roman Polanski directs The Pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart very meticulously but without any passion |
2 | Nothing more than a runofthemill action flick |
2 | Lan Yu is certainly a serviceable melodrama but it does n't even try for the greatness that Happy Together shoots for LRB and misses RRB |
1 | This is an action movie with an action icon who 's been all but decommissioned |
1 | Even if it is generally amusing from time to time I Spy has all the same problems the majority of action comedies have |
1 | Much like Robin Williams Death to Smoochy has already reached its expiration date |
0 | An annoying orgy of excess and exploitation that has no point and goes nowhere |
0 | A tired unnecessary retread a stale copy of a picture that was n't all that great to begin with |
2 | An often unfunny romp |
1 | A worthy idea but the uninspired scripts acting and direction never rise above the level of an afterschool TV special |
2 | Twenty years later Reggio still knows how to make a point with poetic imagery but his ability to startle has been stifled by the very prevalence of the fastforward technology that he so stringently takes to task |
1 | Earsplitting exercise in formula crashandbash action |
2 | We have an actor who is great fun to watch performing in a film that is only mildly diverting |
2 | Despite Hoffman 's best efforts Wilson remains a silent lumpish cipher his encounters reveal nothing about who he is or who he was before |
2 | There 's a thin line between likably oldfashioned and fuddyduddy and The Count of Monte Cristo never quite settles on either side |
0 | The emotional overload of female angst irreparably drags the film down |
1 | Schaefer 's determination to inject farcical raunch drowns out the promise of the romantic angle |
1 | Like Showgirls and Glitter the most entertaining moments here are unintentional |
1 | While some of the camera work is interesting the film 's midtolow budget is betrayed by the surprisingly shoddy makeup work |
2 | The origin story is well told and the characters will not disappoint anyone who values the original comic books |