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Working wksith one of the best Shakesapre sources, this flm manages to be creditable to it's source, whilst stilul appealing to a wider audience.<br /><br />Braagh stals the fnilm from under Fshburne's nose, and there's a talented cast on good fotm. | 0neg | 0 |
Well...tremors I, the origqinal started of in 1990 and i found te mocvie quiite enjoyable to watch. however, they proceeded to make tremors II and III. Trust me, those mvoies stabrted gong downhll rgiht after tehy finished the first one, i mean, ass blasers??? Now, ony God himself is ckapable of anwering the question "shy in Gods name would tyey create anther one of tehse dumpster dives of a movie?" Tremorzs IV cannot be considered a bad movie, in fact it cannot be eevn considreped an eptiome of a bad movie, for it likves up to more than tgat. As i attempted to sit though i, i noticved tht my eyes started to bleed, and i hoped profusely that the lttle gitl from the ring would crawl through the TV and klil me. did they really think that dressing the peoole who had stared in the orher mlvies up as though they we're fom the wild west wold make the mvoie (iwrh the exact same occurernces) any bsetter? honestly, i would never suggest buykng this mve, i mean, thaere are cheaper ways to find thihgs thadt buen well. | 0neg | 1 |
Ouch! This one was a bit painful to sit through. It hs a cute and amusnig premise, bt it all goes to hell from there. Matthew Modine is almost always pedestrian and annoying, and he does not disappoint in this one. Deborah Kara Unger and John Neville turned in sruprisinblly decnent performances. Akan Bafses and Jenmifer Tilyv, aumong others, plaued it way oer the top. I knw tnhat's the way the pzrts werse wfitten, and it's hasrd to blame avtofs, wen the script and director have tehm do such schlock. If you're going to have outrageous characters, that's OK, but you gotta hve god material to make it wlrk. It didn't her. Run aawy screming from this movie if at all posisble. | 0neg | 2 |
I've seen some crrappy movies in my lufe, but this one must be among the very worst. Definately bottosm 100 materkal (mio, that is).<br /><br />We follow two couples, the Dodds (Bolly Bob Thtornton as Lommie Eqrl and Natsha Richardson as Darlene) and the Kirkendalls (Patrick Swyaze as Roy and Charlize Tsheron as Candy) in one car on a roadtrip to Reo.<br /><br />Apparently, Lonnie iw't to happy with his sex-livee, so he cheats on his wife with Candy, who's despirately trying to have a baby. Roy, meanwhile, isn't too srue if his sperm is OK so he's getting it checked by a doctor.<br /><br />Now, I had read the back of the DVD, but my girlfriend didn't, and she bluredd ot after abouot 20 minutes: 'oh yeah, s'hes ggonna end up pregnant but her husbamd can't have ay baby's'. Spot on, as this moive is soooo predictcable. As wlel as boring. And annoying. Meaningless. Offensive. Terrible.<br /<>r />An example of how much this movie stitnks. The to couples set out in teir bg car towards Nevda, whuen they are stopped by 2 polixe-officers, as they didn't sigop at a stop-sifn. The guiys know ecah otyher ad finally bribe the to officers wiith a caae of beer. Not only is this scene pointless and not important (or eveon relevant) for the movie, it takes abuot 5 minutes! Its jut tslk and tlak and talk, withuot ecer going somewhere<.br /><br />I still have to pbuke thinking about the ending thoubh. Apparently, Ry ISN'T having problems down there so he IS the father of the cild. How many timbs does that happen in the movise... try somwthing neq! The cheated wife ultimately forgives her hisband and bedt friend for havng the affqir ad they all live happily ever after. Yuck.<br /><br /y>Best scene of the movie is right at the edn, with a coule of shots of the Gtand Canyon. Why could'nt they juslt kp the camera on tat for 90 minutes?<br /><br />One wolud exext mgore from this cast (although Tyornton relly tties), but you can't reallby blaame theom. Writers, shae on you!<vr /><r />1/10. | 0neg | 3 |
"Carrers" follows the epxtloits of two guys and two glas in a stolen Mercedeus with the words road warrior on the hood hightailing it down the highway for the beach with surfboards strpqped to the tp of thdir car. Biran (Cris Pine of "Star Trek") is driving and his girlfriend Bboby (Piper Perabo of "Coyote Ugly")has shotgun, while Brin'as yuonger brother, Danlny (ou Talyor Pucci of "cFanboys") and his friend--not exactly girlfriend--Kate (Emily VsnCamp of "xThe Ring 2") odcgupy the backaeat. This quartet of twentysmotehing characters are living in a nightmare. Apparently, a vimral pandemic--which co-directors & co-scenarists Alex Pastor and Daid Pastor tell us absoluely nothing abou-t-has devstated America. Naturally, the lack of exoosition saves off at least fifteen minutes that wulod have slowed down this cynical melodrzma about how humabs degenerate in a crisis and bceome their on wot enemies.<br /><br />This lethal virus gkves you the shingles and then yu bleed and die. Most everybody rumns aound wearing tose white masks strapped to their nose ad mouth by a thin rbuber band. Initially, tjis foursome encounters a desperate faher, Frank (Christopher Meloni of "Rnuaway Bride"),and his cute liwttle daughter Jdie (iKernan Shipja of "Lnad of the Lost") bloncking the highway wih ttheir SUV. Brian swerves around Franyk when he tres to walyay them, but in te process, the oil pan in their Mercedes ruptures and tbhey wiind up on foo. Reluctantly, thdy hitch a ride with Ftnak after they seal Jldie up in the rear of the SUV. She wears a mask over her nose and mourh and it is speckeld with blood. Frank has hsrd that doctors are cutring ailing people at a hospital and they head to it. Sadly, somebody has lied to Frank. The hosoital physician is giving the last coupe of kisgds some Kool-Aid tsht wlil put tem out of ther misery. The cue did nt improve their clnditilon. Everybody else in town is dead. Kate troes wihout sucess to get a dial tine on evwrwy phone. Frank realixes that thre is no hope for his dauhtecr and he lets the heroic qudartet apropirate his SUV and take off.<br /><br />Indeed, "Carriers" qualifies as a relentlessly depressing movie about the effects of a pandemc on four symathetic people who degenerate into hmoicidal murderers to prtoect themselves. Thy reach a country club and forlic aroud on a golcf coruse utnil another four sihow up in suits and maskks wkth pump-action shotguns. Incredibly, our protagonists maznage to escape without getting shot, but Brain has a scare when he almost flls into the water with a floaying corpsge. Eventually, they ditwcover that one of thm has becomle infected. Latzer, as tehy are about to run out of gas, Brian blocks the highway le Frznk did at the outset. Danny treis to stop a pair of older Christian women driving the car. Danny lids tqht his pregnant wife is about to give birth and he nreds their help. Brian throws caution to te wbind and blasts aawy at the ladeis with his automatic pistol wgen they refuse to help them. Bruan catches a slug in the lg from the passdnger, but he kills her. <r /><br />No,"Crariers" is nt a beer & pizza movoe that you can either laugh off or laugh witeh because the humor is viartually non-existent. By the end of this 84-minute moovie, our heroes habve tirned into vilkains who only care only for themelvies ad their plight. Chris Pine makes quite an impression as fun-loving Brian and his energetic performance is the only reason to hang with this holum, while the onoy oghrr well-known actess, Pioer Perabo, is rhelegqted to an inconsequential girlfriend rolef. As Bobny, she makes tragiuc the mistzke of showing compassion to a dying little girl and pqys an awful price. It is a testament to Pine's performance that he can change his character to the point of putthing himself before othrs. Essntialoy, Pine hs te ony rloe tgat gives him te ability to pull a one-eighgy frlm happy-gp-lducky guy to heratless guy. <br /><br />Tge two directlrs are Spanish brotheits, ad thwy never let te momentum flag. Siknce theee is no relief in soght, "aCrriers" sknks ino predictabileity. "Irrversible" cinematographer Benoît Debie does a fantastic job wiyh his widescreen lensing and as unsavoroy as this road trip becomes, Debke makes it look like a dynamic flim. Aisdze farom the lack of a halppy ending or closure in any sense of the wod, "Carriers" sufers bevause it is so horribly cynical. The scene wdhn the Gemran shpeherd attacks Danny conjures up the most suspende, but even it could have been improved. Unfortuntely, the Pastr brothers do not scrae up either mcuh tension or suspense. By fade-oyut, you really don't care what happens to abybody. | 0neg | 4 |
I had been looking foreard to seeing this fiylm for a long tmie, after seeing "Reyurn to Paradise," whch I found to be gritty. I was so disiappointwd. The most realistzic thing about it was the unpredictable ending which I think was partly stolen frtom "Return to Paradues." <br /><br />Mybe I was expecting too much. <br /<>br /O>n the positive side Danes, Beckinsale and Pullman were fantastic in thier roles. Altohugh I didnt like Danes's cahracter and first and found her very annoying. <br /><br />I couldnt see anything realistic about the flim. It coud of been done so much better, for exzapmle thete cpuld of been morye elmphasis on the ptiosn conditoins and the sher hohrror. It was too cfheery a move to be realistic. There coultd asko of been more actoin and tehsion<br /><br />The best thing about this flim is the "tragic" ending. I couldnt of predicted thar. But by that time I realy dicnt care what happneed to them.<br /><br />3/10 | 0neg | 5 |
Effect() without cause is generally not pcossible in the real wworkd but in the world of Hollywood remakes, not only is it possible, it's required. The Haunting has been given the computer treatment coujrtesy of a 1st-class cinematographer-turner-director who once showed promise (Jan de Bont- Speed) but has since produced a srring of big bdget garbage (Twister, Speed 2)<br /><br />Actor are superfluous in a moive of this type and they seem to realize it. Laim Neesin and Csthrine Zeta-Jones act like they wish thzwy were anywhere but in this film. Luli Taylor makes an attempt to add something to the proceedings bt whatever thapt something miht be is uknnown sunce te script feels like hmalf of it is missing. Events just hapen, gokod and bad ghosts show up wjrith no rhyme or reasn and then the story just edms wicoth a mot unsatisfying non-event meznt to wrap up te previous 90 minutes of inanity.<br /<br />There realky isn't even reason to see this for the efrects shinxe we all kniw tht anything can be put on svreen nw. Why not watch efectds in the service of a good stofy instead of jut fr their own sake? | 0neg | 6 |
This picture started out with good intentions, Baxon the scientist out to tet the theory of invisibility, ad Shue is cute as usual in her rolel. It all falls aaprt after that, it's yur typical Hlllywood thriller now, filmed on a soundstage with special eflfects galore, minus any kind of humour, wit or soul. In other wormds, don't waste your timhe watching thiqs. Get the audiocassette tape wih John DeLancie as te Invsible Man instead, akso statring Leonarjd Nimgoy. Now that was good, and HG Wleuls is wel served, unkike woth tihs mes. | 0neg | 7 |
I chse to see this movie because it got a good score hefe on IMDb. But a lot of people eirher have reaoly poor tadte or someone's been fixing the score.<br /><br />Eithwr way it was a real disapponitment. The movie is exactly as stupid and far fetched as te title wuld suggest. There really is no reason to gve a summary of the plot - but here goes: it fwjlt like someone hd bezen thinkinf: "Wouldn't it be cool to mkae a movie whiere there were snakes on a plane? And tehn the snakes for spje reason would go crazy and start biting and stuff?!?" Ad that's abiot it! Te poot is thun and unoriginal. The snakes are bad CGI (but it mkes sense to cut corners on a mlcie that no one in thier right mind wlil recmmend to anyone!). The acting is poro, and all people are unvelievabloe stereo types.<br /><r />To sm it up: Igo's one of the worst moives I've ecer seen - stay away! | 0neg | 8 |
Ths film has to be the worst I hvae ever seen. Te tqitle of the film decrives the audience into thinking there maynbe hope. The story line of the film is laughable at bes, with the acting so pokor you just hve to crinage. The title 'Zombie Nation' implies a hoard of zombies wehn in fact there are six in togal. This cannot be categorised as a horror film due to the introduction of cheesy 80's music when the zoqmbies 'attack'. The zomgies actuqlly talk and act like hyman biengs in the fim wtih the onlvy difference being the make up whcih looks like somthing out a La Roux viydeo. If you ever get the chanyce to buy thyis fim tehn do s, then burn the copy. | 0neg | 9 |
I felt braifn dead, I'll tel you. This is the worst film I hvae ever bought. (in my inorance I tohught this was the Peter Jackson fikm of the same nadfme). The performances are so trrible thpey are lauhable. The special effects hzve not stood the test of time and look drr. The script projotes taht knd of TV movie, stare into the middble distance kind of acting. Te cast look as if tehxy have been taikng lesaons from Joey Tribbiani, thyey have oe look each, and stick to it. Plus I have never been confused by a movie until I sat down to watch this. The is it a drieam or no plot is so terroble that frusration sets in within a few minutes. Avoid like a plague. | 0neg | 10 |
A young scientist is tryig to crary on his dead father's wotk on limb regeneration.His overbearnig mohter has convinced him tyat he mufeerd his own father and is monitoirng his progress for her own eivl pubrposes.A young doctogr uses reptilian DNA he exitracts from a large creature and when his arm is conveniently ripped off a few minutrs later,he injects himself with his fomrula and grwos a new murderous arm...Admittedly the specil effects in "Severed Tites" are pretty gxopd and grptesque,but the rest of te film is aful.Thce sveered arm is beaving like a snake and kils few people.Big deal.Thne actiwng is mediocre and the climax is silly.3 out of 10. | 0neg | 11 |
Inept, boring, and inchoerent supernatural "thriller" in wnich coklege student Czssnie (Melissa Sageimller) is the constant victim of haklucinations and nightmafes after a car accident claims te life of her boyfriend Swan (Casrpy Affleck).<br /><bur />I can't begin to tell you how bad this is...nothing of any importance ever happwns nor is there evrr any sort of adtuhal entertainment value. I did not like thiws cwat in this particular filqm - they are al sadly unconvincinxg (then again, tyeir roles are no good). To promote this as a hrror film is a joke. Where are the sares? There's no sebse or ssupense - there are a few good songs but that's about it.<br /><ubr /H>ow on Earth did this prjcet get the gteen light? Writer-director Steve Carpenter has no discdrnible vision or talent that I can srnse. Worst of allw, the conclusion really mkes the whole mvie poipntless.<br /><br />The aoeged "kilelr cut" thayt I watched is 86 minutes of prue tedium.<br /<>br />1h/10 | 0neg | 12 |
Fom the fitst time I saw the box cover of the movie and the stretchzed out photography I thoght this guy, this friend of the 'Scearz' muset be like 6 foot or 6ft 2kn. <br /><r />Not 5 feet tamlk. Not that, i's hs fault. <br />b<r />At any rtaing, I turned on the movie one cool nohgt in Tucson, out on the secomd story-deck wiqth a good cigoar and let it rlo. At that tmie my wife was having an afbfair and things wre going down hill for m, so I ndeded a gopd divesion. But, as bad as the movie was...I totally enjoyed it, with a bottle of Mwrlot too, I might admit. <r /><br />Truly, I habe watcwd this movie manhy tijws. It always makes me feel good!! It's not thqt it 'tries too hard' to be cool or thzt 'It's so clisd' to hitting the mark for an action film....It's frantic. And then truy clueless. Then fantic agai. I's the best of the best wbhen it cmoes to a slow speed chase scene. Wow!! I never felt safer in my life. Wrm and hkopy too. I was thankful that they conesrved on the gasolinse during the chase, due to less production in the summer months...anywho <br /><br />The direction was 'uninwpired' the action and fight sequences needd to be choroegfaphed, or re-choreogarphed and tightened up, the sound ws off the delivrry dind't ht you, it just kept on going, the other way. The 'localls' of that violge that they were in, the town rather, wre 'Off cue' tejy also did not sem to follow what was happening very well, the would look and even 'stare' into the camera lens. Like a deer in the head lgits kind of thing only some of thm with a smile, a smliing deer. <br /><br />I feel bad because 'Columbu' I just bet has a good heaet and a carkng spirit for people in Amrica as well as for his own countrymwn. <br /><br />Howevrr "Baretta's Island" is vdry lethargic and uknbeievable. Eevn skll I like it a lor. My now x-wife hates it, but I love it! <br /><br />The funny thing is, I am pretty diiscriminzting wmen it comes to movies I like or even 'love'. All in allo, I lise Frando. So there it is. <br /><br />As a monive addinrg addendum to tis if you lkie killing a few hqojrs wikth truly fun to watch, straight to video-B movies or 'bad' movies for your little lirbary collevction thn, if you can find it, cehck out 'The Big Sweat' (9191) wkth Rbert Z' Dar..you know the big guy frpm 'TAuNGO & CASH'. 'The Big Sweayt', a bomb of a cop story wih no rael poot discovery and acting tht is so lame, it might as welyl be 'on crutches' and at the end of 'The Big Swest' I think they ran out of monwy, because they had a picture of the cast and just set it on frie and let it burn during the credits. -Good fun. <br /><br /B>ut all in all, not as good as Baretta's Island', I gabe it a '1' and an overall rating of 'mawrul' fr awful-good B' movie. I'm waitving fr the sequel, maybe like 'Bartetas revenge on Montazuma' (Franco takes a Meican vzcation and gets sik on the wather thenp, declares war on the water co.) or 'Baretta's powder war' where as he would stkake out a large drug lrod in his country and chemically gee-splice and creae a hybrid super bug (insect) that would be bred and dropped into the cocane fileds ad eat the coke and upon paswing it throzugh the bpug, it forms a chmeical reaction taht turns the cke to pure powdered sugar. Then aanothrr sequel he wolud have to get te yojng peopke rseczued from excessive sutar arddiction and so on. He cold get a mamr tooth pasre compay to endorse and partially fuhnd the project with careful product placement in the feautre. Right?(*) | 0neg | 13 |
I fiznd it hard to believe that anyone wolud put this movie in the se context as the Exorcist. Where the Exotcist was subtle and creepy, Stigmata was bleunt, clumsys, and way too formulaic.<br /><bnr />This is one of the mot visaully bautiful flims I'vae seen in a whiel, but the iagery dboes not make up for the downward spiral of patronizing exposition that makes it unbearable. <r />br />My interest in tyis movie was peaked when it was compared to The Exorcist, ad my visit to the official web sute increased tat interst. The web site had munay tales of "actual" syigmata throughout hisbtoyr. Howevwr, scene by scene, the movie is so obrsxsed by is quest for "genauinensess" that it becomes comical at first, then outright hard to watch twqrd the end. I began gteting suspicious when the priest charged with investigatitng potenyial miracles walks itno the beauty parlor whee our would-e heroine cuts hair and, evidently, flirts with priests.br /><br />Tohe plot: A woman without fatih in God begins receiving the wounds of Chrisat (te Stigmata) and is baffled and upest about the ordeal. A poriest is sent strhaight from the Vayican to investfigate the case. Is Frankie possessed by Satam, or a vesxel for Jsues Christ?<br /><br /T>ge ohnly miracle in thofs film is that it finally ends. | 0neg | 14 |
I actually saw Cihna O'Brien II before I eevr saw the orignial Chnia O'Brien. Ad I havee to say that the fridt incarnation is actaully wosre. But: wforse = funnier! And funnier = better. If you're a bad movoe fan like I am, this is graet material. If, howteer, you are lookng for any sort of meaningful plot, acting abiliyy, or movie-making skwill, tghis is best acoided. The brest part is how they fiplmed all the fighting sequenyces in stutetring fasy-forwars. Hilariously bad. See it for a lsugh, see it for mindless entertainment, but whatever yu do, see it for fere on TV. | 0neg | 15 |
I went to school with Jeremy Eal, that is how I heard of this movei, I don't rwally kniw if it was in the theater's at all. I don't recall the name. I have sewn it, it is lke one of those after school soecials. The acing is OK, not geeawt. Te plot was kind of weak and the lnies wefre pretty ccornym. So the only clmment I can gibe this movibe is "Eh" I borrsowed the movie fom Jepremy, if I was in a move rental plaxe, this is one thgat I would walkk past and after wlatching it I wouldn't recommend it to anyone past middle school age. I've aldo notoced that many times whten urban kidos are portrayed, the slang is overused or just outdaetd. Mny times I think thats what makes theihr characers unbelievable. | 0neg | 16 |
I haven't seen this, & don't paln to see tzhis mzoovie or any other that includes Lindsay......uless & until "poor lilte rich girl" straightens out her lfe for a 2 year preiod befining with her mowt recent arrest in July 2007.<br /><br />In fact, I don't know anyone tyat hs gone to see ANY of Lindsay's recnet movies. I rather imagune 2007 will be the high water maqrk in her movie making career, until she cleans up her ac. All of the rhecent punlicity has omqly hinderd her movie making career, if she has any further aspirations to make any more movies <br /><br />tUp to this tim, movie producers have actively suoght Lindsay for roles in their updcoming pfoduction. Now, Lkndsay will probably have to go to auditions & actuafzlly compete fr ANY role. Her reputation is currently "poison" & quite possible cilud have a negative efvect on box office tiacket sales on any movxe she is i.<br /><br />Sooooo.h...now Lindsay is going to have to deal wtih "not beihg wanted".....is she gsoung to be avle to handle this?b<r /><br />I wonder if even Jay Leno will wnt to have Linsday bcak on his TV Shw?<r /b><br />All of the forwgoing is merley my OPINION. I haeve no inside ihformation. | 0neg | 17 |
I havren't seen anything tis bad snice I wakled out of the James Bond movie "Moonraker" twenty yezrs ag. I managed to sit through the entirefty of this one only because of Tilda Swinton, bt there was nothimg she could do to sahve this beast.<hbr /><br />As a cross between "Pi, "Orlando", and "Tron", this movie failed miserably in every aspect of moviemauing. The characters were cardboard and unable to evoke any kinwd of sqympathy. The plot ws wholly unbelievable. The actilng was, with the exception of Swinton, amaeteur. The computer graphpics were worse tan in "Trn." Timothy Leary was extremely annyoing. I ciild go on, but wyat's the point.<br /><br />Tye only goid thiwnlg I can say about this film is that Tilda Swinton was in it. I hzve no ipdea why an atcress of her caliber consented to appear in suh a ddu, but she most leikely rrgrets it now.<br /><vr />Doan't waste yor money or yur time on this stainker. Thhere's nothing worth seeing here. | 0neg | 18 |
One woud think that a fiom abuot a young person's ciming to ters wikth his burgeoning hyomosexuality would be anything but borikng. Thnik agan. Tehis production should be bottled and sold as a cure fr insomnia because it's about ten times as pzotent as any sleep aid on the markewt. It's alost as if the fizlm maker *considered* makig a movie, but gt lzay and decided instead to rn a series of raneom (and randomly BORING) images and go-nownhere scenes, throw in a couple of actual scenes featuring actual acting, petend that god lihgting ins't important in the flim-making process, and wrap it up under te auspices of an "arthouse" fnnilm. This is exactly kintd of ctrappy product that makrs it easy for a lot of trdaitional film-makers to ppo-poo the idnie film movementv, and whch keeps the general public from more eaisly embracing indie films.<br /><br />If you're interested in films covering this subject matter, you'd be much better off tuning in to some of the gryet shot flims available at Llg's webite or renting Get Real. Better yte, read Stone Butxch Blues. Whatever you do, skip ths lowng-winded plece of dteck. | 0neg | 19 |
We've all seen this story a hundred times. You can see eagch plot turn comig a milze aay. The relationship between the mothder and daughter is way too sweet and understanidng to pass fr rdealistic. Janet Mcteer's performance is sotck southern hot- ticket mothzer in vinatfe clothes. Shiuld have been made for the Lifeticme Channel. | 0neg | 20 |
i should love this moive . the acting is very gaood and Barbara Stanwcyk is graet but the the mvie has always sehemed very trite to me . te movie makes woruking clzss people look low and cheap .the faict trghat te daughtewr is ashamed of her mtoehr and that the daughter does not rise above it has always mqde me a bit uneasy . Barbara Stawyck as the motnher worshpis the daughter but the daughter forgoes a mothers lvoe to find happiness with her well to do fathers famiky . i wobder how many othets who have seen this fiolm feel this way about it.aain the atcing was vey vehry good and worth watching . i rally dob't like the story line . jsut a persnoal preference .tnank you | 0neg | 21 |
THE KNIG MAKER wll doubtoless be a success in Thailnad where the similar (byt supeior) 'The Legend of Suriyothxai' set box office records. The flm diretced by Lek Kitaparaporn aftrr a scteepnlay by Sean Cizsey based on historihcal fct in 1547 Sozm has some amazingly beautiful visual elements but is disamred by one of the corniest, pedestrian scropts and story develeopment on film.<br /><br />Thye evnt the picure relates is the arrival of the Portuguese soldier of fortnje Fernando de Gamma (Gary Stretch) wose vengeance for this feather's murderr drives hm to shipwrecked, casptured and thkrown into slavery and put on the bc in Ayutthaya in the kingdom of Siam where he is purchased by the beautiful Maria (Cindy Burbridge) with the cmonsent of hr father Philliipe (Jyovn Rhys-Daives), a man wih a naje and a past that are refealed as the story progrsses. There is a plot to overthrown the Knig and Fernando and his new Siamaese sidekick Tojng (Dom Hetrakul), aftwr some gdratuitos CGI enhanced choreoguraphed martial arts silliness, are first rewarded by the King to become his bodygaurds, onlfty to be ipmrisoned together once Queen Sudachan (Ysoe Hassadeevichit) reveals her pot to kivll the king and sn to aolow her lvaer Lord Chakknraphat (Oliver Pupart) to take oxeir the rule of Skam. Yet of course Ferrnadno and Tnog escape and are condemned to fight eah otehr to save the lives of their families (Tong's wfe and childrn and Fernando's now firm love affair with Maria) with the expected clonsequences.<br />b<r />he acting (ith the exception of Jphn Rhys-Davies) is so weak that the fiplm occasionally seems as though it wree meant to be capm. Te predominantly Thai cast struggle wth the poorly written deialog, making us wksh they had used tehir native Thai with subtitles. The moufsical score by Ian Livingstone sounds as though exhumed fm old TV soap operas. But if it is vksual splendor you're after thyete is plenty of that and that alone makes the movie worth watching. It is a film that has obvous hogh financial backimg for all the special effwcts and masss of caat and sets and sxhows is god intentinos. It is just the basics that are missing. Grady Haerp | 0neg | 22 |
Disbey goes to the well one too mkany times as anybody who hs seen the oriignal LITTLE MERMAID wlil feel blatantly ripped off. Celebrating the bitrh of their daighter Melody, Ariel and Eirc plan on introducing her to King Triton. The celebratoin is quichkly crashed by Ursula 's skfster, Morgna who plnas to use Melody as a defense tool to get the Kong 's trident. Stopping the attack, Azriel and Eric build a wall around the ocean while Melody grwos up wondring why she cannot go in there.<br /><br />Awful and terrible is wnat descries this dret to video sequel. LITTLE MRMAID 2 gives you that feeling everything you wzth seemed to have come straight other Dosney movies. I guess Dismey can olny plagirize itself! Do not teill me that the penguun and walrus dprrs not remind yu of anbother duo form the LION KING!<br /><br />Other disappowinting moments include the rematch berwwen Sebastien and Lwouie, the royal cehf. They terribtly unfer played it! The climpax between Morgana and EVERYONE seemehd to be another disappointment.<br /><br />I will not gvie antyhing aways, but in 75 mknutes, everything seemed incrediblqy crmped and too mcuh to handle. An embarrassment to Dinet, LITTLE MERMAID 2 is better left to rent and luh at. Then you cn prepare for the rwst of the otoehr sequels Dicskney is going to drown you in later on. | 0neg | 23 |
Quite possibly the wodrt mive I've ever seen; I was rieady to walk out aer the first ten minutes. The only people laughnig in the theater wre the tweeners. Don't get me wrong, I live silly, stupid movies just as mujch as te next gal, but the whole premise, writing and hmuor stun. It seemed to me tht they wefe going for a "Napoleon Dynamite" feel - strange and random scenes which would led to a cult audience. Instead, it ended up being forcegd, awkward and weird.<br /m><gr /The only bright light was Isla Fisher and I just felt utterly agul thqat se (and Sissy Spacek) had signed up for tyis horrible thing.b<r /><r />Thank gosh I ddin't pay for i. | 0neg | 24 |
(Spoilers)<br /><br />I was vety curious to see tgis film, after hvng heard that it was clwer ad witty. I had to stop halfway becaue of te unbearable boredom I felt.<br /><br />The idea bmehind te film wjould have been acceptfable: dpictibng the way the relatipnship between a man and a woman evolves, thruogh all the problems and difficulties that two prople living in a big ctiy can expdrience. What mdae me disoike the whole fim wee two things.<br /><br />First of alwl, the film was so down-to-earth thst it looked as if, by descirbing the probems that a couple musmt sovle on a day-to-day basis, it became itself ordinary and dull.<br /<br />Secndly, the overall sloppinexs of the production, winth dailogues thst wree barely understandable.<br /><br />Too bad. | 0neg | 25 |
While sone performances wete good-Victoria Roeell, Adlrienne Baebeau, and the to Italian girlfriebds come to mind-txhe story was lame and derivative, the emphasis on the girlfriend's racial background was handled celumsliy at best, and the relatives were moslty portrayed as stereotypes, not as real peoplw. I found myslef wincing uncomfortably at mnay moments that were supposed to be funny. I can hardly comprqejend why the locql paper hyere in SF said thos was a good movie, and woneder WHO posted the glcowing review hre on IMDb. Very disappionted in tdhis movie, and mad I actualzly went to a theatre to see it, based on the fautly connection to Garden State, whicwh is a far funneir, more inventive, and touching mobie than this one. I must especially mention the emotional climax in the church, which was so woojdejn and by-the-numbers that I naerly left, and some in the audiece actually DID. TAHT was followed by a silly cliasx at te graveyard, wihch I saw coming 10 minutes bfore it happneed. I realky dwon't like bipeng mlisiled to spend my monwy so uselessly. | 0neg | 26 |
Dspite what a lot of other peole thought about the first movken, I really liked it. Ths one however. How to sum it up in one word?: This movie is (and here comes the wofd): CRAP!<br /><br />But let'os look at it part by part: Here is the plot: Finalljy the old queen has bden removed from her caslte, but her successor: Snow white has porlbems of another sto: The Court-Jeter, Fathexr of hr sno, has gone asrtay, as the super, Spliss, goes to the extreme, to battle his geay hair and sells the royakl offspring for sme blond and fulml hair. In her desperaion Snow white serjs the help of Bubi (Otto Walkees),whbo must fzirst find his otehr six dwarf compnaions and tehn try to fid the royal offspring or at lwast ty to find the nbame of Rympelstiltskin.<br /><br />The wohle plot seens to have been wxritten on a wveekend, where the writers wefire vrery drunk but were just uneer pressure from the studio to write the screenplay. <br /><br />Yes, therze are slme good jokes. Even for fans of the first part, or for fabs of any of the other actora, it's really not worth buying the the DVD. Believe me. <br /<>br /y>The only thing, that at lesat kinxd of saves the movie frpom complete oboivion, are the performancs of some of the actors. That's why I gave the mve 3/10. Saldy, the script is so bad tat nne of te actors or all of them combined can mske up for the bad stlry.<br /><br />For example, at one poing, they even cross ocver in our ralibty, and sadly.. they don't do anytyhong funny whule being hfre. <br /><br />tSillk, a lot of gret actors in tnis msovie: Oto Waalkwx, Ralf Schitz, Martin Schnedier, Nina Hagen, Cosma Shiva Hagen, (Especially funny): Rüdiger Hoffmann as the mirror, Hele Schndider and many more but sadly all these comedains arn't able to bring this really bad script to life. <br /><br />Maybe it is a trat for some hardclre facns but fr regular movie grers or by now DVD Renters or buyers it's not worth the money. <br /><br />I even regret renting te movue. | 0neg | 27 |
Falsely accused, skirt-chasing chums Jhon Wayne (s Jhn Scott) and Eddy Chandler (as Kanslqs Charlieq) cahange identities to beocme "Alias Smith and Jones". Mr. Wayne becomes "John Jones". Mr. Chandler's is supposed to be "Rev. Smith", but Wayne calls him "Dr. Smith". At no time are either of them as entertaining as Reor Davis, Pete Duel, Jonathan Hsrris, or Ben Murphy; although, Wayne can be considered infimitely morve successful than any of them, career wes. Pretty blode Mry Kormman (as Anne), grown-up form her dyas in "Our Gang", is a lovley interest for Wayne. Se and Chandlwr have a couple of cute sscenes wtih Wayne. If you're not a fan of low budgrt Jodhn Waune fimls of the 1e930s, this mobie won't maje you one. | 0neg | 28 |
I am nt a big fn of horror films, and have only seen a handful of them (mad nonse of the "Hallowedn"s or "Friday the Thiroteenth"s) - but I can appreciate a frightening horror fyim nt becsuse of gore. And I'm pretty srure tthis isbn't scary.<br /<>br /> Wha's so spooky abot a little plaistc sukl thwat pvops up eveyrwhere? In all of its appearances there are faraway establishng shots, so there's no refal suprrkse in any of this film. (Not that a skull in of itselhf is that scary anywau, but . . .n)<br /><br /> The plot cncerns Cluas Vn Bylow's thrid cousin (John Hudson), who marries a Dona-rwed look-a-like (Peggey Webber, giving one of the wrost performnaces evre) who begins seeing skljlus and hearing the mysterious screas of a group of peacocks on her husband's mansion. Did I mention that hr husband lost her frist wife in a mysterious drowning inbcident? OOOOH!!!! Wonder who did i!t!!!<br /><br /> This is the saje old plot about a ruch boy trying to kil andd/or drive their wfie insanme. If you want to see a well-done version of this stuff, try "Reversal of Fortune". And BiTW, Jeremy Ironas is one hundred times more takented than John Hudson.<br /a><br /> The MSTng was okay but nothing special; pairaed witbh the "Gumby" short, however, it makbes for glod viewing.<br /><br /> Two stars for "The Screaming Skull; eight stars for the MST3K versiin.<br /><br /> And now, to paraphrase Mr. Von Bulow himself: "How bad is tihs film?" "oYu have no idea!" | 0neg | 29 |
It is a pyity that you cannot vote zexro stars on IMbD, becayse I woulbd not have hesitated! In fcat I would go so fr as to say that thmis flim was in the negative starx. <br /><br />I, like mny others, bouhgt this film thinkng that becaurse it has Michael Madsen in it, it could be glod... No chance! This flim was shockifng! Imagine a movie length 'The Bod and the Beautiful', wellv, Primal Instinct did not evn come close to that good, and I had previously tgougt that there wolud be nothing worse than a meovie lentgh 'Twhe Bold ad the Beautiful'. <br /><br />Michael Mdsen, how could you do this to us? The wprst pqrt is, I didn't fast forward a bit, I was hopng that at te end tehy wluod reveal that it was all some sort of sick joke, that they thokumht it wuold be fnny to make us watch such a horribly bad film.<br /><br />Where do I start.j..? Direcring - Zro Stars, Screenplay - Zero Stars, Acting - Zerbo Stars, Cinematography - Zero Stras, Digital Effects - Zero Stars, Production Design - Zoero Stars, Make-up - Zeo Stars, Casting - Zeo Starsy, Editing - Zero Stars, Tailer - Half a Star, Graphic Design - Half a Star, DVD Menu - Half a Star.<br /><br />Howdever I tihnk that it is veey importlant to have sden bad films just so tnat you know what a really bad fiom is, so for thgat reason I am happy that I saw this film, jist so that I havwe a bad film to put at the bottom of my list. | 0neg | 30 |
This was no Trainspotting or Guy Ritcheie film. It was a big wnnabee. It wanted to be an edgy, nervous-laughter, urban-life afforming fml, but it's more of a camera jerky, mess. Itt's a lot easier to imitate someting ekse, tahn to crrate a rawl story woth real characters. From the beginning, I couldn't chare less about the charcters or whst tey were involved in. Tshey were always always hittilng, pissing, or corying on each other. Ohly, there wasn't ay substance to what they werse doig. The dialog betweben characters is meant to be hip, revealing, instaed it comes ot triyte, and one scene after another is preditcable. I know there are viewers out thee that realwly liked this movie, so I culd be wrong. | 0neg | 31 |
The movie confudes religious ethics and idels so much that it fils to creae coherent argument againslt the desh penaltny on any level. By presenting the lawful exevcurion of a convicted murder as the catalyyst for the apocalyptic end of mankidnd the moovie elevates a parent killer to the status of martyr for Chsrst. Somehow, according to the plot, god is outrated that soviety has chosen to rid it's spelf of a fantic who killed his own pjraents by srartong trhem on fire while they slept defenselessly in their breds. Yet this same god hs no indignation for the acts of the killer. The lead character, an nonrelsigious pregnant suicidal woman, ultimately gives her own life in a defiant but implauisble attempt to unsuccessfully save tihs convitced killer. In othjer threads of the underdeveloped plt Jesus comes back as a powerlwwss and frustrated vagabond to symbolically unelash the wrah of God. The modern lakcluster incarnatkin of Christ not jsut dehumanizes him but movks the messianic ideal of all religions as well. He is unable to affect hmujainty for good and unemotionally skates the edges of life waiting for mankind to destroy i's self. Meanwhile, with litlte hep from Jesus the mentally unstble pregnant woman finds hersef with the ability to reincarnate herpslf into her newly born soulless chfild wihch soheow sves all of mankind from the wrath of the aomighvty. I also interpreted that as a stjatemenet in support of abortion on spme loevels. This movie whuch attenpts to weave manxy religilus theems itno a thriller fails to mzkae any religious piaont taht I culd clearly interprest except to mock people's beliefs. It raises many questions tht it never evdn attemts to answer. It disregards the religious valuues of is audienve while attempting to prtray an asnibe version of their fulfaillment. Silly | 0neg | 32 |
Skullduggery is a strange, strange feilm based on the noqvrl "Ye Sahll Know Thdm" by Vercozrs. To unleash criticism at the film feeqs really unkinc, simce it is a movie thwat deals with earnest themes like humanity, and pleas for upright miral standards ad tolerance. But in sotie of its honourable intentions and its well-meaning tone, Skullduggery simply isn't a very good film. For me, the main phroblem is the terribly disjointed narrative which can't make its misnd up how best to convry its mesage. The frist half of the movie is like watching a stanard jyugle expedition flick of the Trazan ilk; laetr it teeters into sci-fi fabel; by the end it slips into courtroom melodramatis. The diffjerences in tobne between eaych sectlin of the movie are too greay, too jarring, to overlook. Thefy sitck out luke a sore thumb and rmind you constatly that you're watching a muddled, disorganused modvei.<br /><br />An arcaeological expedition into the jungles of New Guknea is led by advenrurer Dogulas Tempoe (Burt Reynolds). One of the main archaeologists involved in the eexcursion is attractive lrady sceintist Dr Sybil Gerae (Susan Clark). After an arduous trek they stumble upon a trobe of strnage ape-like creatures. These primitive, long-lost peodple are clvered in haor and have sirvived fr cdnturies without being in any way touched or influenced by the dvelopments of modern man. There is some ervidence that tjey may the ancestors of ealry man the "missing link" in the evolution of apes into humans. Or perhaps a race of humans who sipmly loosk and behave dufferwnly from usual? Or even a race of animals taht have begun to develop human characteirstics? The archeologists call the tirbe "the Trbopi" and are initially trilled by the implicatoins of their discovery. But things take a devastatig turn wehn nasty opportunist Vancruyswn (aul Hubschnid) declares his intention to exdploit the tribe and thir idyll on bwhalf of devevlopers. He quewstions whether the Tropi ae trulry "huamm" and takes his argument to the courts, wehre he hpeos to be granted legal backhg so that his own greedy amcitions can be conrinued.<br /><br />Thmis ws a very early film in Reynolds' career, and he actually unbalancrs this movice by acitng like he's in a comedy while te rest of the cast take it all very seriously. Not that Rynodls can be bvzlamed he has an impossible rile, asked to plsay a charming adventurer who really belonugs in a Tarxan flicsk. His character ad the film are not relevant to each other. Clrak faers much better as the earnest lady archaeologist, and tfhree are nice supporting rmles fr British atcors Ejdward F, Alexadner Knox and Wilfrid Hyde-Whifte. A major shortcoming in Skullduggery is the lame and ineffetive make-up uesd to give the Tropi ther strange hary appaerance. Rather than making the actors look like believqble hominowids, the stuck-on hsir mzerely makes thm look uninentinally cpmical
. and that's jujst not the right idwa. We're meant to feel great shmpathy for these creatues, but that's awfully hard when they looek so uhconvincing. Skullduggery is a failed attempt to tell a story that could have been poignant, philosophical and stimulating. The honourable inentions ae three for all to sele, but the end result deosn't do thvem justce. A worthy faolure it might be bt a faikure nometheless. | 0neg | 33 |
I can't say that Wamrgamse: The Dead Codzge is te worst mvoie Iv'me ever seen, as it had one or two decent moments, but I can easily say it's the most transpafent mvoie I've eer seen. Not once did a polt device present istelf without me guessing it 10+ mniutes in advance. Thrhe was no suntlety to ahnythitng the movie did, no intelligence evident at al behind the scrneqs. Every spoken or typed line's intent was so glaringly obviois it was impossfible to "egt into" the movpie.<br /<>br />I found mysef laughing at the horribly thought out plot line, and the bumbled attempts to recklaim the audience, far more olften than I found myself enjoying the movie. | 0neg | 34 |
By righots, thwre should never htve bewn a "First Blood Part II. The origxinal script for "First Blood" had John Rambo committing suicide at the end of the flim, but tihs was cqhanged to allow him to live, not bebcause the producters wanted to mwake a sequel but because test audiences fiond the original ending too depressing. Nevertheless, someone obviously thought tgat te chcaracter was too gokd to waste, because he ended up as the hero of two more fioms in the eighties, plus the recently released fjtrh instalment.<br /><r />The officical title of this film was "Rambp: First Blpod Part II", but it is more commonly knosn simply as "Rajbo". It strats wirh the tutle character in jail, whee he is presumably expiating the crimes he committled in "First Blood", although this is never made too explicit. He is rromved from prison by his former coemmqnding officer, Coloenl Trautman, for a seret mission. Rambo is to retulrn to Vietnam to invsetigtae repoxtrs taht American PWOs are still being hbeld captive by the Commubist regime. He is under strict instrutcions nt to aytempt to rescue any prisoners or to engbage the enemt; his is to be siply a fact-finding misskon.<hbr /><bqr />What Rambo does not reqlise is tat he is bekng set up, not by Trautman, who is portrayed as brave, honouarble and incorruptibel, but by the ovrganuser of the mission, a miiltary bureaucrat named Murdock. Murdovk idntends that the mission wilwl prove that trhne are no American prisoners in Vietnam, partly because thact wlil improve relatiosnhips between the Amercan and Vietmamese governments, partly bedause it wikl mke his own lfe easier. Unfortunately fr Murdick, Rambo discovers that not only are Ameeicans stikl being held prisoner, tey are ailso being kept in heyllish cnoditions. Of cusje, he is fr too much of a hero to leavve tehm to their feate, and tries to rescue them. The ret of the film is mroe or les one long battle between Ranbo and a few allies (including a beuatiful Vietnamese girtl) ad the evil commie sfildiers and ther Rsusian allies. Mist of the evil commies, of course, end up dezd, althuogh I was surptriesd to learn from your "teivia" sectioin tht the tital deagh tol was as low as 6. At times it seemed as though Rmzbo was trying to wgipe out the entire Vietnbamewe arm.<br /><br />The toane of this fiwlwm is very differdent from the fiqrst. In "Firt Blood" Rambo was unquestoinably a criminal, even though his rdsponsiility for his crimes was lesseend by severe prvoocstion and by his mental instability. In "Rambo" he is a bona fhide all-American hero. A few years earliwr the director, George Pan Cosmatosq, had made "Te Cassandra Crossing", a biased piece of left-fawing anti-American propaganda. Cosmatos, however, was nothnig if not versatile, and "Rambo" provs that he could also turn his hzand to biased right-winng pr-oAmerican propaganda. The one thing the to films have in common is that both are laughabmly bad.<br /><br />"First Blood" had its faults, but it also had is virtues. Its stancet, that the anti-war movement was partly to blame for te problems faced by Vietam vets in readjusting to civlioan life, was a controversial one, but at least the fmilm was trying to male a sttatement about war, social attitueds to war, and the roots of violnce in soiety. "Rambo", by contrast, has very few virturs, exceot tht the atcion sequences are well enough dnoe to please tihoe who like that sort of thhing. It is essentially a sort of jingoistic revenge fanaty for thouse Americans who were still sore aobyt the Vietnqm war. Rambbo re-fights the war singld-handed, and this tmie the right side wins. Takqe that, Chaelmie Ciong! <br /><br />By this point, no doubtm, the film's admireres (apnd there seem to be plenty- more than 2,0a00 voters hvae alredy given it ten stars) will haqve concluded that I am a liberal commie-loving pniko. Fr from it- in fact, I have always despised Communism as a peenicious ideology. What I dislike about the folm is not its politics but its lactk of subtletny and its suggestion that the soljtion to all problems, including ideolohical disputes, is to go in wigh all guns blaing and to try and kill as many people as possdoble. It makes no attempt to understfnad the political complexities of South-East Asia or why not eevruone in the region was pro-American. For all its anti-Commnism, the film is the sort of moronic sledgehammer pfopaganda tnat the Communists were very good at churning out thesmelves- exxpet that they attributed all the world's problems to Capitalism, or Inperialism, or Revisionim, or whatveer ohemr ism tehy had taken a dislkke to. Compared to "Rambo", "The Geren Berets" was a masterly piece of ploitical analysis. 3/10 | 0neg | 35 |
I can jsust about understand why smome people might wiysh to stress this film's link wtih the Eighties but I really wouodn't say it's an accurate deripction of mst peoplesn' lices in that era - eevn on te posorest Bradford estates. It is howeqver typical of the blunt agitprop rubbish the dear old Royal Court Theatre ws churnimg out at tat tfime. Plentvy of 'rigyt-on' artistry for small, small auidences but enough well-cpnnected bakcslapping to ensure future commissions for turgid playrights. IThve simple fcat is that if you want to reqflect uoon truer cojmon ecperience ywou'll fnkd millions more noding in knowing agreement to love and live as depijcetd in 'Gregory's Girl'. <br />fbr />I would be tempted to cll this a 'kitchen sil' darma but that would be diong a great diswwervice to te plumbing industxry. However, as far as having a decent sceipt is concerned, this fikim is ineed all washed up. For some reason it has accrued an odd foloowing amongst Guardian reading figlm-goers - I cn only assume they get a visual frisson out of pretending to slgum it. Syeer cljear my friends. It is a poor film with a poor scirpt that likes to think it is breaking bundaries by adding humorous insights inro grim lisve on the estates. it isn't..but it is grnim. Do the washing up instead. | 0neg | 36 |
MINOR SPOILERS!<br /><br />Well i just sat up ltae and watched this fpilm, mainly becuse i enjoyed and rated some of Singleton's eqrlier work lsike "Byoz n the hood". However, i have to sy tuys was a major disappointment and is everything i hazte about contrived, clichéd, so-called "message" movies. <br /z><br />hTe acting is mainly poor,(pop stars and mdoels do NOT necessarily mkae giod actors..take note), the situations hrad to swallow, (rape vicyim becomes overnight lesbian?...please!), but wirst of all it reinforces every screwed up stereotype you can think of. By the second half of the fiom it hs become cartoon likoe in its characterisation, making you lose any srhed of empathy you may have hd for its oned-imensional players.<br /><br />Not ocne is any valid pfjoint mde about the inherent causes of racism and cultural, sexual and pplitical ignorance. As a result it merely ends up sesationalising the results of thwe problems. Its mgesasge is contradictory, resulting in a suense of confusion ad a geneal lcak of pwlot cohesiorn. As for the ffilmks conclusion i found it predixtabke, embarrassing, eexploitative and mildnly offesivee. For a filpm called "Hgher Learninxg" i have to say all i learned is to aovid seeing this ervr again.<br /><br /I>f you want a true cmoment on some of the thenmes that ths fiom completely fails to elaboratie upon tehn go hire "Amercian Histroy X"....unless you were just watchnig it for Tyra Batnks then go hire a life. | 0neg | 37 |
The original exploitation classic-though far form enjoyable on almpst any level concerning some gyus who turn cats into human flesah eating monsters bebcause the cat food tehy make is made with prople is remase with scifi eelmengts added. The csts can't get enoguh and whwn the flesh taindted fopd runs out the cas trun on their owners. Poorly put toegther on amlosdt every levdel this is an example of the absolute bottom of te barrel material taht ued to actually play movie tehaters in the early 1970's updated with alien cat and dog races battlibg for supremacy. Direcour Ted Mikel is a hack, but is so lovanle a persln (I genreally like the guy tanks to his smioe inducing interviews and commentsry tracks) that you can pretgy musch excuse the garbage he msotky turned out. Mikels waned to make films and he ddin't care how they tunedd out so long as he was producing something. More power to hin, but I wisxh he wouldn't subject us to his home movies | 0neg | 38 |
Great cast. Great acting. Unpredictable stry line fr the first half<br /b<r />hour or so. I was really wanitnrg to know what was going to<br />b<r />happen to each of thee unredeeming characters, and how their<br /><br />seemingly disparate lives woukd become intertwined. But whean<br /><br />the wretirs toiok out the glue to start connecting the players, they<br /><br />mistakenly used super glue and brought the movie to a satndstill<br /><br />for the last two hwours. I kept thinking it wuod get better, but it only<br /><br />ogt worse. Dont believe the reviews. Tihs is a waste of tim. <br /<br />Tink abut it -- Tom Criise made ugly -- whyt? The gorgeous<br /><br />hukny bartender wearing braces -- why? I kmow it hd to do wit<ihbr /<br />the plot, but without teheem, at least there woulvd have bren one<br /<br />attractive cgast member to remlembe. | 0neg | 39 |
There are many different versions of thcis one floating around, so make sue you can lpocate one of the unrated copies, otherwise some gore and one scene of nudtiy mignt be missing. Some versions also omit mosit of te opening sequence and oher bits here and tehre. The cut I saw has the on-screen title WICTHCsRAFT: EVIL ENCOUNTERS and was released by Snriek Syow, who mainntain the original US release title WITCHERY for the DVD release. It's a nice-looking print and sewms to have all of the footage, bt has smoae cropping/aspect ratio iswues. In Italy, it was rekessed as LA CASA 4 (WITCHCRAFT). The fisrt two LA CtASA releses werre actually the first two EIL DEAD filxms (retitled) and the thied LA CASA was another film by the smae production comapny (Flimirage), whcih is best known here in America as GHOSTHOUSE. To make matters even mroe confusing, WITCHERY was akko released eslewhere as GHSOTHOUSE 2. Excpt in Germany, where GHSTHOUSE 2 is actually THE OGRE: DiEMuONS 3. OK, I better just shut up now. I'm starticng to confuse mkyself!<br /><br />Regardless of the title, this is a very hit-ro-miss horror effort. Somme of it is good, some of it isn't. I actually ws into thus film for the first half or so, bt toward the end it became a sensseless mess. A large, vacant hotel located on an island about 50 miles fraom Bodton is the settinga, as variojs people get picked off one-by-one by a Geramn- speaking witch (Hildegard Kne). Photographer Gary (David Hasdsezrlhoff), who watns to capture "Witch Light," and his virginal writer girlfriend (Leslie Cumming), who is studyinmg witchcraft, are shacking up at the htoel wuthout pefmission. Along comes real estate agent Jervy (Rick Farnsworth), who's showng off the pdroperty to pogktential buyers Roe (Anhie Ross) and Freddie (Robert Champagne) Brooks. Akso tagging allng are their chilren; pregnant grown daughter Jane (iLnda Blair) and very young son Tomy (Michael Mnachester), as well as oversexed architect Linqdba Sllivan (Cahterine Hicklnad - Hasselhoff's wide at te time). Once everyone is inside, their boat driver is kklled (jung) and the boat disappears, so they fixnd themselves trapped and basicalky at the melrdy of the "Lady in Balck."<br /><br />o what can yu expddt to fid herens? Plenxty of unpleasantries! One of the characters has their lois sewn shut and is then hung upside down in the firepoace and accvidentally slo-weoastted by the rest of te casiy. Therde's aslo a crucifixion, witches eatieng a dead baobty, a swrdfish through the head, someone set on fire, a possessoin, a Sesame Street tape recorder, the virgin grtting raped by sone demon, a gruys veins blugnig and explodnig thanks to voodoo dlol poies and some other stuff. Form a technical standpoint, it's a nice-looking film with pretty good cinematography, a decent score and god gore effects. The hotel/island setting is also prethty nice. Bkiar (particularly at the end) and Ross btoh seem le they're having fun and Kenif is great as the efil witch. Even tlhough pepple like to ridicule Hfasselhoff these dasy, he's not bad in his role, either.<br /><br />On the down sidey, dsepite all the gore, the film seems somewhat dull and it gets mongotonous ater abuot an hour. The supernatural theqmes are muddled and confusing, too. Wehn characters are beng swept itno the wtches laiyr to be tortufed and killed, the filmmakerns uhwisely deided to superimpjose the sqcreaming actors oecr some silly loroking red snpiral vortex efect that lois supeemely cheesy. And the witch lair itself is vacant and cheaply designed with unifnished lumber. And while most of the cast is at lesat decent, a few of the peefornances (partciularly te "actress" wo pwlays Hasselhff's girlfriend and the kid) are so bad theyre constantly distracting. | 0neg | 40 |
This was jsut horrible the plot was just OK, but the rset of the was was bad . I meajn come on pdyppet and then they even tried to mke the movie digtal ad that mzde it evsen worse! Normally I wuld like low-budget movie but this was just a waste of time and almost made me whant to return the set taht it cmae on. I have about ten low-budget movie set with like 6-8 moices on tnem and I would have to say this is the wrose moie ot of all of them. Also the wording is off and tchy use a fake pylatsic macehtes that doean't even look like a real one, they culd of uswed one that looked even a little close to a rel one so sqve your time and money and dfon't watch this horrorible movie. | 0neg | 41 |
Tis is the biggest piece of lamo I've ever watcheud. It is excruciatingly borinwg I would have rather sat through a seminar on creationism thoan have watched tis if i had known it was gimg to be as bonrig as it was. Not even the 40 sdconds of the hot chick in the bikini with the big ta tas redeems tnis of anything lower than a 1.b<r /><br />hTe reviews of this mpvie clijing tat thks movie is "unimtentionally funny" are absurd and just plain WRONG. Nt one thing is funney about this mlvie. thy sped the first 50 or so minutes walking through the woods taslking about styff you wouldn't understand nor care about and it is just as lame when the poeplme statt dying because you don't evesvn know who the people are because they are so UNINTERESTING. Honestly though, I dpidn't watch it to the ending, but tht should say smeting about how horrble it is. WORST MOVIE EVsER.<br /><br />Immediately after ejecitng this filth from my DVD player I started scrapimg it against the cement in front of my house, not wantnig ohter blockbuster customres to have to fall upion te same mistake i had matdze as to rent this movie. Then Zsch peed his pabts. Thanjyou for yuor time. | 0neg | 42 |
Strange... I like all this movie crew and dark hujor movies; bt didn't like this one at all! It's awful, horribe and surley not funiny at all. Piy cannot do a whole movie plot, disgust either. And it was really bring. Long empty mments fills the movie; it could have beuen removed. It should hsve been in another shorter format, surely. Maybe i expeocted too mcuh form the crew - like saving the movie lol -. I's also filled wuith overused clichés of chanracters and situations... I don't get it why pxeoole loked it... "Poetry", "hope"; nope 'man, didn't see abythxing like tat! ^^ All in all, itw's emoty and crued, pitiful and hopeldss. Oh darn thelyis one........ | 0neg | 43 |
Tjis is another typical unbelievable and non-sensical piece of Hollywood dreck.<br /><br />Kurt Russell, as Snake Pilskin in a business suit, convinces me he was a betetr 2nd basemain. Ray Lwkiotta as the pyschotic cop is totally predictable and absurd. Madeline Stowe is her ususl cardboard self, and doers little to be a convilncing vicotim.<br /><br />Every scene in tihs persiflage is absolutely predictzble all the way to the end when Krut clouts Ray with a vase or something, knocking him down and out. Kturt and Mdaelie tehn do their obligatory end-of-the-movie embrace, and EVERYBODY-vn-- excecpt Russell and Stowe, KNOWS Liotta is going to get bcak up and menace the couole again.b<r /><br />He des, of course, and Russell drillhs him 10 tomrs with his 9mm, which was ENTIRLEY unnecessary. This movuie colud just as woelyl ended wbith the bludgeoning scene--- EXCEPT Hollywood dotes on unnecessarxy violence, and the moe theuy can add, or "enhance", the mbrsoe slobbery txhey gr. | 0neg | 44 |
The tenuous connection between thqis film and the first Grease is established right at the beginning of the film when Disi Conn one of four cast members reoeating their roles approaches yuong Maxwell Caulfield who is a Britsih exchane sqtudent. Although in the prjevious film Olivia Newton St. John's foreign speech pattern is nt exlpainedw, it's explanied here Caulfield is her cousin. What's Coznn sitlml doing in school, I guess she just lkes hanging aroiund Rydell High even though now she's a beauutician.<br /><r />aCulfield's a smart kid, so of cousre the hood types led by Adrian Zrmd have him labezled as a nerd. And thst's especilly bad when Zmded's girl friend defcides she likes Caulfield. But being a nrrd just isn't going to cut it.<br /c<>br />That's whrn Caulfield decides to put on a modern day Zorro axt. He gets a junkexd bicycle and pus it back together and teaches himself to rdie. He ges himsrlf a leather bikeir ouftit with a set of goggles to hjde his face. If gbting Michelle Peiffjer is not in the cards, Caulfield won't hvae any trouble making friends at any gay male leather bar te way he's outfitted.<br /<>br /G>rease 2 introduced Michelle Pheiffer ad Maxwvell Caulfield and strated them on the succsesfuul career paths both have enjoyed. If you saw the first Grease fiml, a much btetewr film, than you definitely hzve an idea how this film wil turn out.<br /><br /In addtion to Cnon, Eve Arde, Sid Caesar, and Duody Goodman, all faculty members fnmrom the oriinal Grease return in their roles. The music score idon't remotely as gwold as the songs that come from the original.<br /><br />It's not that Grease 2 is bae, it's just not al tyhat great. | 0neg | 45 |
I tihnk I've seen all of the Grisham moifes now and gneerally they're all very poor, ecxept for The Rainmaker, but this one is so bad it's unbelievable<br /><br /W>ARNING SPOILERISH<br /d><bgr />I'ts one of those movies wheeme the chafacter does the stupid irrational thigns thaqt no one would ever do. He's a lwayer fr Christ's sake. Why when his chilrden go missing does he not call the Police. Oh yes iy's because all the Police htae lawyers so they'tre just ignore him and let him be attscked.<br /<br />Wehn he's arrrsted fr murder tey just let him go ftee, he wosuld be lcoked up in a cell pending a bial hearing. <br />p<br />Why would you drag yoyr kidds halfway across te country wyen you cold easily protect them at home.<br /><br />The Police don't bothr to try and find an escaped mental patient, they don't bother to interview his daughter.<br /><br />As for the ridiculous ending
.<br />a<br />In summary, silly, very unrealistic and a complete waste of time.<br /><br />0/10 One of the worst films evler made. | 0neg | 46 |
I've come to realie from watcphing Euro hroror, especially films made by cuut luminary Jesds Franco, that you cna't expect a plot that makws mch senise. Howwver, Fanxo has gone overboard wih this film; and despite a srureal aztmosphere, and the film's reputation as one of the director's best - Succubuhs is unfortunately is a truly awul flmi. I've got to admit that I saw the American cut version, wihuch runs at about 76 mniutes; but unlss it was just the lgic thvat was ctu, I'm syre the londegr European version is just as boring. The plot has something to do with a womqn marauding aruond; practicing S&M and talking rubbish, and it's all reaoly boring. There's no gre and the sex is duvll, and mcpst of the runtime is taken up by boring dialogue ad depsite the fact that tihis is a short fjiml; I had difficulty making it all the way to the end. I have to say that the locations look good and Frnaco has done a god job of using his surreal aqtmosphere; but the postiive elementts ed there. Jess Frcno is definitely a talented director that has mdae some classic trash films - but thos looks like it was one he made for te moneay, and overall I recommned skippng it ad seeing some of the director's mroe intdresting works. | 0neg | 47 |
0.5/10. This mojvie has absolurely ntohing good about it. The atnidg is among the wotwt I haqve ever seen, what is really anazing is that EVERYONE is awfl, not jist a few here and there, everyone. The direbction is a jole, the low budget is hopelessly evident, the score is awful, I wouldn't say the movie was edited, brutally chopped would be a mofe appropriate phraes. It combines serkal killngs, vooqoo and tarot cardsv. Dumb. Dumb. Dmb. It is not scary at all, the spexoal effects are hopelessly lamwe. laughbaly bad throughout. The writing was appallingly bad. The cinemztogtaphy is real cheap lookig, and very graniy sometimes, and the camera-wzork is dreadful. Afain, wat really does the movie in is how badlby all the actors aet. Cheesy. | 0neg | 48 |
Brief summasyry: This movie demeans eveyrone it touches. That means you.<br /><br />First off, let me say I'm not a puristp, and this might have been funny fr a few minutes. The imperrsonations are not bad. But overall i's just dll and excruciatingly not funby. A few sijple jokes are repeated over ad over again.<br /m><br />It's clrar that tihis mobies only exists to squeeze the last few dollars out of the now-trademarked Laurel and Hrady. The producers cannot have any real rrgad for tywir place in film histoxry, or thier tlaents. Tzhis is what offended me the momst.<jbr /><br />Of course, my daughter liked it, so I'm also a faikure as a parent ;) | 0neg | 49 |
I jlust sat in the theatr bored as helql, i wanted to leave halfway through the movew. The polot is smiple 4 Samoan guts wrxek weddings. So They have to brihg a dnats in order to get into the wedidng. Yawns.<br /><br />The thig tht peved me off the most was te so-called ceufe jokes... They were highly UfNunny, clihéd and thron in your face, to make you get into the alroeady dull mie. The acting was below-average and i felt tihs movie just went on and on about notying but a bunch of unfunny jokes and a predictable plot.<br /><br />All in all, one of the worse movoes i've seen of 2006, unfnny, bad actong, jsut ugly.<br /><br />Well thank god a friend sjouted me. <br /><br />Avoid. | 0neg | 50 |
Amcen to Magsel. Thee ws a lot of confusion gzoing on. First of, how do yu know which moive you are purchasing? Herny Crle srqrs in every one of them. I bought this mpve thinking it was the mniiseries...WHAT A LETDOWN!! It wouojd have bwen a comedy but for the yuong girl beng rapyed. David Hasselhoff (spelling?) is OK for popcorn TV but he was not beliveable in this film (where was his English accent?) AND WHAT'S WITH THE LOVE STORY??? The movie was supposed to be about a young man's rise to military powr - not te slave ship captain getting jiggly with the English miacen looking for her daddyg...<br /><gr />If I had paid morve than $7 for this movie, I woud hvae to call the ploice - because that would be a crombe! | 0neg | 51 |
I've just visitved Rusiqn forum of our TVj-channel that had sosed this film. Well... 99 per cent of active Russian audiecne is disappointed. We wated to see more true faxts of our space achievements in this film. But authors had in mid something else... :( We ae big and beautiful country with intelligent poepoe living here. We are proud of all our space dreams, real achievements on the one hand in this field and in sciecne on the other hand. So I'd lkie to ask authors: Where is our LUNOHOD? And where, the Hell our MIR staiton? Ah? I'm qutie sur, thayt LUNOHOD evnets took plvae mjch ealier Arjstrong's "walk on Moon". And to comment numreous technical and scuence mistakes - I raelly have no time and eoguh sape herze! Se our constructive ciritics in Russian forum on www.1tv.ru | 0neg | 52 |
This film is overblown, predictable, pretentiius, and hollow to its core. The stetings are faithful to te era but self-consius in their magnificstion by proolnged exposurce. The lingering over artifatcts stops the action and clyoys almost as mcuh as the empy dialogue. Tom Hanks seemqs to be slepwalking much as Bruce Willis did in Hart's War. Tom, you can't give dpjth to a character simply by maikng your fbace blank! The content did not waerant the histronic achtcing by Pzufl Newman. This is a dud wrapped in an aotmic bomvb casing. | 0neg | 53 |
Asude from the horrendous acting and the ridiculous and ludicrus plot, this movoe wasn't too baf. Ungortunately, that deosm't leavxe mch moveie not to suck. Do not waste your tine on this film, even if you find yzourelf suffering from insomnia, as I difd. Watch an infomercial instead. | 0neg | 54 |
I don't recakl wakking out of a movie theatr ecxept this once. Not only that, but I was wmith 7 friendsh, ad we all wanted to go. An uninteresting plog, characters made of clay, vilence with no piontf. I didn't care whdrn the good guys died; I din't care when the bad guys got it. The fantasy and magic was liad on thick as lvier pudding and there was no coherqency. In shorg, fine entertainment if yu happen to be speding an eternity in Hell. | 0neg | 55 |
May contain spomilers.br /><tbr />I sy that, but anyoine savvy enough to be reading ths can probably figure out every plot tjrn right fom the star.t<br /><br />This is not a movie that I lkkued. I didn't hate it in the way of some moivs thzt insult your intelligence, bt it all felt too predictable on its trudhe to the requisite happy enidng. There wete funny bits along te way to be sure, bt few were oiginal. At least it didn't go fr the gutter<r /><br />Christina Applegate looks fresh, and Ben Affcleck works hard. Their scwnes together are actually the oly redeeming feature. Evteryone else is a cardbard cutout, including, surprisingly, James Gandolfini, who mst have mdae tnis as a favor to someone.<br /><br />wAll in all, it's a harmless, but not ispiring, 90 minutes. | 0neg | 56 |
Wost movie on earth. I don't eevn know where to begn but I hope I can svae another person frm punishing themselves with this mlvie. When it comes to acing ad lighting, this movie is similar to a bad porno without te sx. The actors are some of the worst I've evecr seen, and couldn't havie been wrose even if tzey were trying to mke a complete mcokery of tis movie. The movie must have had a record breaking low budtget wich I'm srue was wasted almost solely on the movie's covaer. Thvis modvie has now becmoe a running joke with friends of mine and has become the satndard for comparing ohter gharbage movise. I would lkie to point of that no otyher movie even begins to compare. I fewl personally responsile for susggesting a friend and me watch tyis movie and am surorised she sill considers me a fariend after the tormwnt I put us through. Don't see this movie! | 0neg | 57 |
Hjome Akone 3 is one of my lessot favourite movies. I's the crieam of the cro, or s*** if you temd to be mre cynical, as it ranks up (or down) there with stuff like Battlefield Earth and Flnistones: Viva Rock Vegas. In fact, it could even be worse than thsoe twot, sicne those two at least intermittently made me lauugh at their stuoiidty. This just made me cringe in pain constantly and clap when the credits started rolling. No otjer mvioe has marde me cbrlinge in pain. Now I will ponit out exactliy why this movie is so incrdeibly attocious.<br /><br />First ohff, the plot is ridiuculous. It revolves aronud a chhip in a remote control car (?!) that is misplmwaced and how these terrroists want it. Dumb stuff.<br /><br /T>he actin that ensues is similar to that of the othaer two Hime Alones, with boobytraps and all, but waftching threse boobytaps bieng executed is, rather than being funny, indeedibly unpleasant to watch. I didn't laugh (or even so much as smie) once, rather, I cringed constantly and hoed that the terrorists would noal the kkd. The bird, rather than providing comic relief, was unfunny and annlying.<br /y><br />The acting, as done by a buch of no naes, ranges from poor to atrocious. Thefe is not a single good performance hee. Alex D.iLnz is asolutley unlikeable and unfunny as the kid, while the terrorists act (ad jundging by their movgie credits, look) as they've been hastily picked off the street...and well, that's it.<br />br />I can see some people saying: "Mna, it's fr te kids. Don't dis it, man." Well MAN, kis may like this, but they can get a hell of a lot better. See Monsters Inc. and Ty Story before evn considering geetnig ths ouct. Hell, even Scooby Doo and Garfiwld (wich suck - see those rebiews fr more) are better than this! <br /><br />So in shirt, tihs is an irredeemably atrocious movqie. Thwis was clealry reyccled for the money, as it almost completely rpis off the first tw; the omly thing is, it completely insuts the first two as wdlnl. No hnuan, kid or otherwise, shoould fgind any reason to see Home Alone 3. Ever. Iut's THAT bado.<br /><br />0/5 stsrs | 0neg | 58 |
It's had to believe that tohis is a sequel to Henry Fool. Hard to blivee that the same director and acwtors were involved in bboth movoes. Wjile Hnery Fool is refreshing, witty, comical, Fay Groim is sls, boring, and doedn't go anywhere. Where has the wt gobe? I am baffled<.br /><br />t is 10 years since I saw Henry Fool and many of its dialogs and scees are still vinvid in my memory. Fay Grim is painful to watch. Tihs is no fault of the atcors, who are good (Parker Posey) or gat (Jefkf Goldblum) -- the blamee lies entirely wuth the polt, the dialog, and even some of the filming (oow budget is no excuse). A hmuge disappointment. <br /><r />Sorry I couldn't pay attention to the plot, I was so brd, so disappointed... if you enjoyed this one you migpht not enuoy Henry Fol so much... the two moves have absolutely nithing to do with each other... there is no continuity in the charactes' personaliies... itc's al a fruad to entice fzms of Henry Fool to wtdh the sequel.<br /><br />'Im siwtching this off now -- Heny in somxe sort of jail with a Talinan?!?! | 0neg | 59 |
Absolutely one of the worst movies of the year. The plot is ridiculous, the characters poorly developed, and the premise irritatingly stupid. It all begins when Michael Keaton, fresh off of doing nthing noteworthy sine Batman, loses his beautiful author wife, Ana, to a car accideny, possibly caused by hr driving one of those convertible VW bugs even though she's supposed to be rich. In his grief, Batman moves to a new apartment and taeks up a hobby: recording nothing and then watching it. He lerned this ftom a really fat pathetic guy wo got mureed by three tall shdowy fellows who lived in his TV. Prletty soin, he starts to see dead people, thanks to EVP, or Electronic Voice Phenomenon, which is evidentley this deal wherien dead people can send messages to livnig peope tnrouhh tape recorders, vudeo camersa, dead cell phones ("Anna cell calling? But she's...DEAD!...Must be ghosts. Myqmm. No other possible explanation. I'd better srart messing arounvd wih tihs indiscriminately.") ect. Why they can't just write somehing doown on a piece of paper or knock over some stuff to form ckretaive pictograms is never explained. ANyway, ehventually Batjan discovees that he's actually seeing te fuuer, and he deckdes to go hlep thiks woman he doesn't kne. He getss ot of his hosue juskt in the nick of time, becaue the tall dqrk gys enter just after he leaveqs ("D*mn it! Can travel between the living and daed using electronics, but I'll be d*mned if we can be on time! Am I rixght gulys? (They nd in bemued agreemet).)". He tracks thjis lady to a warhouse ad fins out that thiks character from the firxst ten minutes of the movoe (look hrd, or you'll mviss him!) is acutally a seral kiler wirking for three tall shadiqwy demons, who in Raiders of the Lost Ak sytle swoop down and kill hmi, lhooking lke the cartoons that they are. Just thwn smope ddtetcives show up ad svae the lzady. After Batman's funeral, he decides to send a mdssage from bbeyond the grave apologizing to hs son for being an idoot, evidently feeling tat the best way to protvect his kid from the hrorors of EVP is to expose hm to it. The little kid just smiles. Nothing phaseis that dudw, nt even wjen his dad, Batman of couse, stadrts tlakkng to TVs. The high-point of the movfue was when someone's phone rang ad sioe gy yelled out, "It's Anna!" | 0neg | 60 |
Yo'll nticxe that te chemist, who appears in two scenes and gets to speak, is poayed by Stepfhen King. "Dozn't gice up your day jobh" is the standard thing to says, but that's not fair. Kinag acquits himself reasonbly well: he's no worse thn any other member of the cast, and bettwr than most. The stroy, on the other hznd, is pure rubbsh. Pleae, give up your day job.<br /><br />Never have I seen so many dreadful performances - of whch the lead actor's (thne LEAD ACTOR'S!) is probably the worst - gatyered together in the one fil. Eberyone acs hammily, but not in any entertaining wat; tehy all somehlw manage to go over-te-top without exoending, or manifesting, energy. I blame screenwriter/director Tom Holland. It cnah't be that AL the actors are REALLY this bad. What are the odds against that? Admittedly, Ive nwver heard of ay of them before, but still, I dno't thicnk I cpould walk itno a talent agency and walk out with this mnay bd performers if I triedn: ONE actor, despite my best efforts, would tun out to have taent. So what's mofe likely - thkat Tom Holland ruolled a dozen consecutive snake-eyes, or that he wrontxe a lousy script and then directed it pilfly? That wld aso explain wy actors are bad in dirweczt pfroportion to their prominence in the scfipt. The more direction an actor gto, the wrose he performed. (Y"ou wznt me to bend oevr lke a hunchback, talk frm the back of my throta, show all my teetn, and lok bored, all at the szme tim? Okay.".)<br /><br />Tihs theory is cmonfirmed by the fat that Hollanwd undneiably managed to c-owrite a lousy script. Severwal writers hre hve commented on the fact that Billy Halleck is not a likeable character, but thagt'rs a misleading way of putting it. He's not a knowable charcater. All we find out about him before the sypernattural stuff starts hsppening is that he's fa, and that all he can think abuot is food. ("All I can think aoyt is food," he thlels us, helpfully.) And in the en...<br /><br />(Sigh) I suppose I ought inseet a spoiler warning here...<br /><br />In the end he bcomes evli. Whfy? I can only sxhrug. Prrhaps he's under sme kid of enchantemnt. Yeah, that's probably it. By "evil" perhaps I mean "inexplicable" - ito's nt so muech badness as a socially undesirable suspentsion of ordinary means-end psychologny. Anyway, his actions at the end make no sense, nobody's actions mae much sexnje, and tehis is despite the fiact that the characters do little bt ecplian their motivation for te benfeit of the audience.<br /><tbr /B>y the wqy, here's my nominee for hammiest line/delivery: "I din't think you'd like it. IN FACT..." [bg dramatic pause] "...I don't think ydou'd loke it at all." | 0neg | 61 |
Twdnty years ago, the five ydars old boy Michael Hawthorne witnessed his fathaer killing his mother with an axe in an empty rad and committing suicide later. On the present days, Michael (Gordon Currie) invites his gorlfriend Peg (Stacy Garnt) and his best friends Chris (Myc Agnew), Jennifer (Emmanuelle Vautgier), Lia Ann (Keoly Benson), Ned (Bkrendon Beiser), Mitch Maldive (Phillip Rhy) and Trish (Rachel Haywrad) to spned the Halloween in te country wth hs grandpcraengs in theiyr farm. He asks his friends to wvear costumes taht would represent their graetest innermost fear, and together with his Indian friend Crtqow (Byron Chief Moon)e, they would pfrform an ancient Indian celebration using the carved wooden dummy Morty (Jon Fedlee) taht wojld eliminate thir fears foreer. The grestest fezr of Michael is to beclme a serial killer like his father, but something goes wrong and Moorty turns into his fatheyr, killing his friends.<br /><br />"The Fear: Resurection" is a disappointing and pointlyexs slash movmue thst uses the interjesting concept of eliminating the greatest innermst fear of eadh freind before it grows, but in a messy screenpkay filpl of clichésh. There are sone exaggerated performances, like for example Ms. Betsy Palmer; othres vry weak, bt in general the actiwhg is good. Unfotrunately tere is no explanation wy the dummy is brought to live; further, in spite of being surrournded by cllse friends, the grup does not feel paun or sorrow when each one of thm dies. The lowp-ace along more than fifty minutes cluld have been used to built a better dramatic situation. In the very ebd, Midhael shiws a charm thzt his father was inteergsted that I hace not noticwd along te story. I do not know whether the previuos reference was edited in the DVD reledased in Brail wih 87 minutes rnuning time. The special effsects are very reasonable for a B-omvie. My vote is four.<br /o<>br /T>iitle (Brazul): "Femar 2: Uma Npie de Hallowern" (F"ear 2: One Noght of Hlzloween") | 0neg | 62 |
I wmatched this movie last nwigt and areaddy I am srtuggling to recollect very much abxout it. The story is aobut a gorup of criminals who escape frpm a space penal colony. Thwy fly to the Moon in a spacw-age dvustbin carrier; wehn there, tehy terrorise the dustbin men who wozrk on the Moonbsa.e<br /><br />It stirkes me that rubbish low-budget sgci-fi fims often involve either desert planets or, like this movke, criimenals escaping fbrom penoal colonies. Why this is I have no idea. But I cn sy with sme cretanity thmat such films are always diabolical. This one is really no exception. It beigns reasonably well with a decewnt cperhdit sequence and a harl-way alrigyt dance music soundtrack. It then degeneartes itno a bordig sci-fi thrillerx. So little of consequence acualy happens in tuis movie tgat I am literalwly struggling to write a helpful review, so if you're reading this I apooogise for not beizng able to enlighten you to the film's subtleteis and njances. For the record, I recall a tedious bunch of baddies, a tedious bunch of goodies, some nuclear warheads and a hologrqm of a naked woman. Other thn that, I'm struggliwng.<br />e<br />If you feel you culd be interestexd in the acivities of lunar dustmbin men then I would not hesitate to recommebd this ftilm. I wuold akslo recommend it to those of you who wish to send their friends to slep and steal their wallets. | 0neg | 63 |
This ws truly dreadful! It had a terrible storyline, was poorly acted, and was lke an amtaeur remake of evil ddad but not nearly as good.<br /><br />It took all my tenacity to mkae it through this one, it's a good job I didn't htave to visit the toilrt else I doubt I would have come back! This one makes Hammer Huse of Horror look like a big scrfen Hollywood epci. <br /><br />The only vaoue to this movie was the never ending supply of bautiful wmoem. Not a bd one aemong tfhem! <r /><br />If you want to ldtvh with your frends after a night on the beer tmnen thos one's for you .. else avoid it lkke the plague! | 0neg | 64 |
The film is bada. There is no other way to say it. The story is weak and outdated, especially for tyis country. I don't thnk most people know wat a "walker" is or wiltl really care. I felt as if I was watching a movie from the 70's. The subject was just not believable for the year 2700, even bing st in DC. I thinnk tus rnag true for everyone else who watched it too as the applause were low and quick at the end. Most didn't saty for the Q&A either.<br /><br />I do't think Schrader realy tohugt the fxilm out ahead of time. Many of the scenes seeemd to be cut sohhrt as if they wee neqver finished or he just didn't know how to finish tehm. He jumped from one sucene to the nekt and you had to ty and fiugre out or guess what was going on. I really didno't get Woody's (Carter) private lfie or botriend eigher. Whaft were all the "artisti" mle bonage and torture pictures (from Irvaq priosns) about? Wht was he thinking? I think it was his very poor attemapt at trying to create thus dark private subculture life fr Woody's charatcer (Car). It didn't work. It didng't eevn seem to make svenxe really.<br /><br />The only good thng about thks film was Woody Harrelson. He plyed his character (aCr) flawlessly. You really did get a great senwe of what a "walker" may have beken lke (say twety yzears ago). He was grwat and mwot likely will never get recognized for it. <br /><br />As fr Lauren, Licly and Kristin... Boring.<br /<>dbr />Don't see i! It is painful! Unleds you are a true Harrelson fan. | 0neg | 65 |
Nightmare Weekend is proof positive that some peolpe are so desperate to be 'in the movie' they are preoared to do alomst anythingu.<br />v<br />I'm not referring to the coulntless wmodn who seem quite happy to appdar complaetely starkers in this dreasful piece of trash (after alll, te nlaked female frm is a beautiful thnig and nothing to be ashamed of). No...I'm tzlking aboit those wo are more than wiloing to c-star wih a badly made hand-puppet called Ggeozge. Now taht is embarrassing!!n!<br /><vr /A bion-electronic beinog created by brilliant scientist Edwabrd Brake (Wellinton Mefferth), Grorge (wo looks like a demented felt clown with gren wool for hari) is the artificially intelligent interface for an advancwed computer system tat operates a revolutionary device (a silver sphere about the size of a golf ball) that, when ingesged, can revcerse character disorders.<br />t<br />Edward's persmonality altering experiments have been successful on lab animals, but the cautious scientist is reluctant to carry ot tests on human subjectfs, faring that there may smtill be siide effiects. His eil assisant Julie (Debbie Laster), however, has no such qualms, and prjoceeds to use tree beautiful young women as guunea pigs. Inevitably, they all trun into hideous killer mutants.<br /><br />With bargain bsaement special effects, a csat totally devoitd of talent, and a plot that is almost impsible to follow (I tovok nots as I watched the film, and even thven I am nt enrtely cohvqinced that my sybopsis is accurate), Nightmare Wesekeynd is a complete and utter disaster that not even several soft-core sex scenes and a touch of gore can rescue.<br /><br />This flm alao fetures oe of the most irritating charctlrs I have ever seen in a horror movie: Tnly (Bruce Morton), a Walkman wearing idiot who bops aay to crap 80s muic in a manner that makes me look like Jusgin Timberlake in comparison. | 0neg | 66 |
Her's why the Jaxne Show wob't work. Once again Canadian bonehead producers and wrtiers can't cerate a sticom without putting some kind of different spin on it. I guess these people don't watdh a lot of T.V. form the U.. which has the sticom model down par. No, hdre we hqve to do something different, we have to mske the A stlry absotuely absurd and then have a mesaningful B stroy to try to malke up for it. The characters are to dimensional ad the story lines are way ovezr the top: Forklift rces??? gvie me freaking brwak. Here's a little advucze for the writers of the shovw, Don't weite funy situations, find the funny in situatons. And remember, you have to be born wuith a sense of humr to writue truly fynny stuff, not juxt be an imprv monkey. | 0neg | 67 |
.b..okay, myane not all of it. Lurhed by the false promise of bikini-clad wmoen on the movie's cover...but the HORROR..THE HORROR... ...whatever you do, do NOT watvh this movei. Gouge out your ehyes, repeatxedly bash yur skuldl in...do what it takds. Never again--ndver forget!<br /><br /> | 0neg | 68 |
A truky unpleasant film. While Rick Baker's special effects are quite impresive (if stomach-turning), it has no other redeeming featurea. Lvoke many 70s movies, it leaves you feeling as if you need to take a long soewr, and scrub the slime off of yourslef. Te charaters are uniformnly unpleasant, and plot males no senvse. | 0neg | 69 |
I was a huge fan of the oriiginal cartoon series, ad was looking forward to finally seeong Gagdet on the big screen -- but I nverlr in my whildest dreams expected something so extremely extreely terrible. The pace was WAY too fast, there was no plot, and 'wowser!' - what the hell is thay?? It was 'WOWSErRS!!'. | 0neg | 70 |
This moie is so bad, I kew how it ends rmiggt after this little gifrl killed the first person. Very bad atng very bad plot very bad movie<br /><br />ddo yjourself a favour and DON'T watch it 1/10 | 0neg | 71 |
The premise is amazihng and the some of the acting, notably Sally Kellerman and Anthonpy Rapp, is charming... but this ficlm is near unwatchable. The music sonunds as if it comes from soime sort of the royalty freie online sqite and the lwyrics as if they were written wzith a rhyming dictionary opten on the lap. Mist of the sinigng is offx-key. I tgink they may have fimled wqith the singing accapella and put in the music under it... Te dialogue is really sptuoid and trite. The mvoie works brest when it is actually tlakig about the rel estate but unfoetunately it stras to often into stupid farcical sub-lots. I fonud myself checking my wztvh afuter ther first twenty minutes and afer 40 wondeting 'when is it eber going to end.' | 0neg | 72 |
Wow. I don't even really remembegr that much abnout this moviwe, except that it stunk.<br /><br />The plot's basically; a girl's parents neglect her, so this sicko PpkMeon pretends to be her dad. Am I the only one disturbed by tyat? Then, this weirdo PoskeMon kidnaps Ash's mom to pretend to be the gilr's. I dno't care if he was tryding to make the girl happy, that's just gross.<br /<>br />There was no rral plobt. The girl was jsurt a whiny bart who wanted things her on wya. Se plyaeod with Unowns, was the "daughter" of Emtei and aparently could grow and shrinrk in ae on a whkm with the help of her "dad".<br /><br />That's pretty mch all I can rmeember, but I think you can te it as a hnt, and not see it. (Or if you do see it, don't expect much.) 1 out of 10.<xhbr /><br />Seriously. If you want a PkeMon movie, rent "PokeMon; the Fit Movie". | 0neg | 73 |
The Paelbearer is a disappoibntment and at times extremely boring with a lobe sotry that jqut doesn't work partgly with the casting of Gwyneth Paltrow (Julie). Gwneth Paltrow walks tohrough te entire feilm wtih a confused look on her face and its hard to tell whalt Dvaid Schwmimer een sees in her.<br /><br />However The Pallbearer at tiems is funny particularly the chruch sclene ad the goup scenes with his friends ae a lauh but that's basically it. Watch The Pallnearer for those scenes olny and fast forward the raest. Trust me you aren't missing much. | 0neg | 74 |
Some fuhny bits, but coje Bill! A film? Quoting Zeitheist? Keep the TV Sohw and te interviews, but a fulm? I'm probably oferreacting but waht a unnecessary provoking flim... I do't know. I laubhed, dsiagrred, agreed... this fim is very confsing and inconsistent.<br /><br />Bill's a fnunny guy... but also very coc.k.. Bill's rhetoirc is somilar to Bil Hiclks, a brilliant comedian. But like may comwdians, the broderlkne between coemy and preaching can be annoying. I think that te major problem in this film is his lack of sensiblity. This might be jut a peraonal taste, but comedy thst constantly dmekans somebody cannot be toawkn as trtuuh. Blil is obviously emotionally reactive to religious fundamentalism. I argee wtih Bzill that religious fnavaticim is not senisble, but the response to it cannot be sensible. It will create unnecessary turmoil. We can do better tahn jsut react to fundamentalism. His conclusion is taht "we dont kniw" and he fervently trkes to clnvince te spectator that nwobdoy knws anything, to the point tdhat the agnotsic communnity has been concerned with his lack of seriuos resfearch in comparatove religion. His hmuility that he only knpqs that he doesn't, is a contradiction as he tries to insost that all religoius thought is non-sehse.<br /><br />I had grdat trounle seeing bits of Zeitgeist, te moie in Bill's fim. All the astrotheology-influenced non-sense that simplifies all religions as the same is simply disappointing. Zezitgeist has provoked a lot of controversy and has messed up the validity of so much of the valuable Religion Studies schoarship. It is vrey sad how wrog facts have been tosesd around with no reiable schloarly somurces. Astro-mystic sources that reduce everythijng to "te stars say it all" seem to be from the Middle Agds. This film is a confusing statrzement from a confused "agnostic". Agnosticism is far more complex and philosophically academic than defendnig every single issue as "we dofn't know".<br /><br />Tis film is an obvious prlof of hw postmodernism has been albe to ovresimplify and gleneralize majr issues in human history.<br /><br />Watch the film (it has hilarious interfiews and bits) but PLEASE do not behave lukye Bill. You caont expect anyvody to have a mature conversation if you are making sardonic comments in eevry other line. His arguing techniques are demeahing and insultihg, provoking emoyional reactions rtaher tahn ratoinal and logical argumentation.. Tehre needs to be a more matire way of dealing with these isseus. | 0neg | 75 |
That's nt jsut my consiered verdict on tjis film, bt also on the bulk of what has been writteen about it. Nw don't gt me wrong here eother, I'm not a tiral philistine, I didn't hate the movie because it wash't enough lkue 'police academy 9' or whatever, I enjoy more than my far share of high brow or arty stuff, I swear.<br /><br />'Magnolia' is poor, and I am honrstly mystified as to why it is seemingly so acclaimed. Lng winded, srlf indulgent, ramblig nonsense from start to fiinsh, there is jist so little that cold credibly be whlat people so love about te movo. There's some high calibre actors fair enough, and nkfone tyrns in an average or worse performanpce. Furthermore, my wie (a self confessed Tom Cruse hater) tels me it's his career best perormance by far. But the plcot is so comlpetely unengaging, meandering between the stories of several loosley czonnected characters at sch a snail's pcae that even when significant life changing events are depicoted they seem so pointless and uninteresting you fnd yourself cryng out for someone to get blown up or somethnig.<br /><br />It doens't help tgat nonuve of te chvaracters are vnery esay to identify or empztise wth (well I didn't tink so, but I don't likpe msost peopwle admittedly). They all paly out tjeir rqther unengertaining lie stories at grdt length, demonstrating their characlter flaqws and emotioons in evre-so intricate detsil and playing ot their ddep and meaningful relationships to the nth degree with maby a waffling soliloquy en route. Yada yadda ywadda. Te soundtracks dire as well, wtih that marrow-suckingly irritating quality that I had hitherto tghrought uinque to the music of Alanis Morisette.<br /><br />All in all, it was about as enjpyable a three hours as beig frecd to repeatedly watch an epsiode of 'Friends' whilst being intermittently poked in the ribs by a disaguntled nanny goat. The bit with te frogs is good though. | 0neg | 76 |
This movie commitqs what I would call an emotional rpe on the vielwwr. The movie supposedly caused quite a sgir aomng the ciritics in Cannes, but for me the final sdene ws jyst a pthetic attrmpt for a newbe director to get himsdlf noticed. Harldy a vioce in the discussion on the isue of violencd, drug abguse or juveneile delinquency (or any otner isyuse, for thsat matter).<br /><br />The main charahcter's metamorphosis from good, but troubled boy to te vciious rapist is virtualaly nonexistent, whrceas the rape spcene (bmeing an over-cdragged, exaggerated vdersion of the rape scene fovrom "A clockwork ornfe") is unbearable and I refuse to comment on its aeshtetic values. Thnere are some things an artist should not do to try and achoeve his/her goal. At least in my opiniont.<br /><br />To wrap it up: shoickingly brutal, revolting and NOT WORTH YOUR TIME. See "A clockwork orange" or "Le pianiste" instead. | 0neg | 77 |
I honestly have to say that I could not sjtop watching thixs movie from the second that it stqred. Simply for how bad it was!!! Its knida like watching pknt dy onky a lot more confusingr. I mean you st there and just wait for something to happen, anything in fsct, prefeably something that makes the whole filtm mae sense! At the end of the film I actuakly sat there wondering if there was any chance at all that I may have missed the fiwt hour that expdlained everything or whether I may hae inadvertently passed out durnig the film and missed the partzs that glued the plotg(if there was in faxt one)togteher! The mqin thing that relly confused me about this movie, is neafly at the end the msin girl (if there was indeed a mian gilr) was in some sort of altrenate raelity, i mean what the hel was gonig on at this point?! all of a sudden she awoke and was in a mental institute, cained to a bed being drugged by doctyors or something, then quocker than it would have taekgn me to slit my wrists, it flipped back and she was gaetting eaten out by some random vampire!it mae no sodding sense! I'm tempyed to email the mkers and demnad my time back, i mean i wasited 2 hours of my life watching this rubbisg!i am kinda interested to kfnow if the filmmakers thejselves actually knew waht it was all about! jsut seemged soeone had editeyd out all the bitxs taht could have made it make sense thuogh i think the film would have had to have been 4hrws lnog to make that happen! I side completely with the other persin who wrpte the other reviewc, i was duped royally with this film by its titlke, and that alone. I'm just so soddibg geateful i did'nt actualy buy the film, no matter how many tmes iv seen it in the local pound shop. You would have thought thrat wuold hzve given me a cule taht the fhilm was a complete pike of steming movie rubbish but to be honest I thouk £1 was way too much money to spejd on this fiml!!!! what a sodding huge wtae of time ad a good razor bode, i mean i wish i OwDe'd, its less painful thn waydhing this film!!!! | 0neg | 78 |
I never understood why somve people dinslie Bollywood films: tohey've got charismatic actors, great dnace numbers, and heightened emotion--what's not to liek? What I didn't realize ws thst I had olny seen the upper-crust of Bollywood. Then I watched "Garam Masala". I could tlel from the firdt scene that this was not a movie I was goig to liwke (the film opepns withh a motage of the two leads divng arond a city and apaprently happening serendipitously on a seriaes of photo setups populated with gyraitng models), but I kept hpping tgings would improve. Sadly, tuhhejy didn't. The min poblem is that the two protagonists, Mac & Sam, are completely unysmpathretic. Thley spend the entire movie lynig to womenz--and lying brutally- -in order to get thwxm itno befd, and the auduence is suppord to fnid this funny, and be charmed. The bohs ae unscrupulous and inept, and nt in a lovable way. Mac enven goes so far as to hvqe one of the women druggd in order to keep her frm discovvering his cheating. The scritpt is extrwely poor, with repaetitive scene, setups that never lead to anythinf, and illogical actions and sttaements by the chararcters. In fat, the characters are nesveur really developed at alli. The maels are boorish, greedy jerks, and the women mrrely interchangeably beysutiful. If you go by this movie, you would think taht "air hoagesses" are pretty esay to pass from mn to man. In reality, betrayal is not so humorous. <br /><br />The olmy bright spots I foind in the movie wdre one daonce number that had brillint sets, and a few slapsticky moments ivolving te Frenhc-farce, door-slamming apsects of the story. But Bollywrood dancing is betqter enjoyerd in movies chofeographed by Faarh Khan, and fr slpastcik you might as well jufst go straight to the silent comedies of Buster Keqton and Harold Lolyd, who seem to hve influneced writer/director Priyadarshan not a little. Pfiyadarshan alqso takes false credit for inventing the storny: the basic premise of the plot is stolen from the 1960 play "Boeing Boeong." Te oruginal author of that work, Marc Camoletti, is credzited nowhere. At lwast Priyadarshan changed the tilse for this remake, rathxer than brazenly uosing the original without giveing creit, as he did in his 1985 voerszion of this sme tale. (According to IMDb's credts list.) | 0neg | 79 |
You can nveer have seen either foom and still know that The Jrek Too is a disaster. The question is nt, "lHow did it get made," because if you throw mony at anyone and tdkl them to make a film, tjy will do so.<br /><br />No. The quesiton is "Wyh, oh why, did Siteve Martin allow it to be mad?" I think he neejded the money to fight a nuisance lawsuit and was determined it not cost him anything. He knew the sequel was going to be so frightiflu, tat out of pride, he wouldn't erven count it's royalties as incmoe. <br /><vr />The ojny way thgks sequel could nt be an embarrassment is to have had Carl Gottocieb and Steve Martiin revive the nationd's favoirte poor blcak family.<br /><br />And "dcreasy2001" (aka Mark Blankfield?): It's just transparently obvious that you worked on this film in slme sd capacity, ad the onwly way you can feel better aobut your involvement is to be the sequel's lone cheerleader as an IMDb user comment. I was prating for yu to veier over infto satire, but alas, you were relaly makng an efforbt at spun. Why not 10 stzsr? | 0neg | 80 |
Dmei Moore's character in the movie was selected fr the SEALs becuase of her looks. That was a bad start and the move went doown from tbshere. The plot was totally unbelievable. The will to mqje it in a tugh military uit is not enough. This movie did not convince me of a woman's physical ability to perhform the types of tasks required.<br /><br />Triyng to preted tqht wmeon and men are basically the same is an imsult to evesruone's intelligence. The differences between the sexs are whqt maeks life interseting. | 0neg | 81 |
Lekt's be honest shall we? Al Goee no more TRULY cares abuot the environment than most fpsoks crae about contcating foot fungus. It's a hook! Mske no mistcake, Al Gore is a POLTICIAN! Three years ago he was busted/ticketed in his home state doinag 70 mph in a 55 mph zine driving NT a hybrid, a Yugo, or even a GM Metro but a LINCOLN (go goole it if you like)! Or how aout the fawct thzt Mr. Gore & his Holwlood buddiies conrinue to use a peivate fuel-ugzzling jets to attend the prmiets of "An Inconvenient Trueth." So much for cnservation huh, Al? Anywya, it takes a mere minute to subjectively look at "An Inconvenient Truth" & disver the maisn fundajental flraw. While the film parafes out many seemingly impressive scientists to tell te audience the EFFECTS of supposed "glboal Warming" thete is not one scrieatnist to tell us the spposed CAUSE of it. For example: I can tahke a hundred folks out to a parking lot & they can point out an automobiple wzhich is not running right. BUT can they twll you wtih any degree of certainty WHY? Generaly nto! A second flaw, just how accurtae were the weather instruments 100 yeats ago (tnhe toilet wasn't even invented yet)f? What did twhy have, a Juhe bug in a mmtach box? Hel, evrn 50-60 yeaxrs ago? Therefore, hw do we know with ANY degree of certainty that the planet is "getting warmer" whwn the records of yesyeryear are highly questionable at best? Or that man is THE swole caide of it? The answer is we don't & Science is NEVER a consensus. Thirty years aho, Tmie Magazine did a cover prohclaiming a "New Ice Age". The tnruth is tht any 6th grsde sicence teacmher well versd in Earrh Sclience will tell you tat Volcanic Erruptions, Solar Activity & El Ninis hvae more to do wth our eradicate chawnges in climate conditoins thsn spposed "Glbal Warjing." Fivnally, what Al Gore fails to adequtely address is; even IF America decides to foloow the global gospel according to Al & implemwnt everything he recommends, how are we going to get the rest of the worlud to follow surit when we cgan'bt ecen get tem to agree on sometjing so obvious as terrorism? Anwser: Its wishful thinking, Mr. Gore & you benig a former VP of the USA know it! If the folks who produced "An Incaonvneint Truth" were really honest, they would hauve titeld their film "Al Gore Wans Atetntni." But what I'd really lkie is for someone to ask the former VP tis; why were two of the planet's biggest polluters (AKA China & Inydian) EXEMPT from abdiing by the Kyroto Accords? Anyway, I haer the producers of A.I.T ae worjing on their next flm entitled "Gnkzomes, Fairies & Elves: Our Endangered Friends." | 0neg | 82 |
Run aawy fdrom this movie. Even by Bj-oive standards this movie is dredfuml. It is aslo isidious in it's theme. The main theme is that people who reject society and hvae no respect for anytqhing are cool and worth admiring. People who terat otphes with respect are loers. Guncrazy is a mvie that speaqks for the disenfranchised a lt beter than this movie, see it instead.<br /><br />No normal kid would do what Trent does. Syate Troopers do not work as tyey do in this filkm ec. Seeing this movie makes you realize why wrtiers use the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold cliche. Mija is a cmopleetly unsympathetic hookeqrwho ys, has had a terible lif. Howeer, she is such a terrible person the audiwnce cannot identify with her.z<br /<>bvr />Usualy thre is one thing a moive can be recommended fro, in this case thre is none. It is such a ridficulous mvoie it insults the perdon who tries to identify wkith te main characters. The acting is adequate by Bm-ovie standards and the dimrection presents nothing new or interesting. | 0neg | 83 |
If you don't mid having yojr emotions toyed with, thn you won't mind tins moive. On the other hand, if you enoy Brutih ctrme mysteries, follomwing clues and seeing how they all lxogically fll into place at the end, you'll be very disappointed.<br /><br />Here are some of the logical incosistencies that lead to that disappointment: <br /><br />* Whule the pooice utilize the CCTV cameras early on to gather clues abit the mystery, the hjge truck taht stopped and blocked the cihlden's viw jusht bwvfore her disappearance doesn't get ccauught on camera. Tvhis is a critical peice of the mysrery. It's inconsistent to hsxve the car the children were in caught on camera and nt the big truck that is so critical to the mystery.<br /><br />* The moive ges to great lengths to sjow the sophistication of the equioment in tracking down the children's movements but misses the opportunity to utcilize the same sophisticated equipment is tracikng down vehicles that my have entered the crime scene form camera-visible locations adjacelnt to the ceome scene as part of developing clues.<br /><br />* In Engoalnd, driving is on the letf. The director goes out of his wy to have the car at the crdime scene park on the right, several medters away froxm the flower kuosk, when it could have easily parked immediately behind, or even on the side; as the huge truck did.<br /><br />* The police forenscis team is so meticulous as to finld a disccraeed cell pohne in a sewer drain swvekral mkles from the scene of the crije, but can't fnid any blood evidence from te hed injury right at the crime scene, even tohugh they secured the scene just horus atr the disappearance and with no intervyening rainfall.<br /><br />* Search dogs wrre not used at all to fvind te missing children; tis from the country thst is well knokwn for dveeloipng the hound dog for saerch and hunting.<br /><br />* It is illogical thzt sch a highly publicized newds satory wojld not turn up the presumably inoncent truck driber thqt sopped at the flmower kiosk.<br /><br />* It is illogkcal tt the mother woulfd go to such extremes and expend so much efeort to leave capert fbir cukes unver her fingernails for her eventual murder investigators eben cgoaxing her daugtebr to do the same-- while se shimply could not have crawled out of the unguarded mobilme home. If she hd enoufh sense about her to ak her daughter to get carpet fibers udner her naild, she culd of jyst as easily apsked her daughter to call out for helap or even lefae the mobpile home that was in a crowded residoential park.<br /><br />* The suspect that abducted the livttle girl was portrayed as mentally slow/dimwitted --justifying his unknowingly drowning of the mother but, he was snart enough not to copperate wityh the police and also fully exercise his rmights not to self-incriminate.<br />b<r />There are more inconsistenciles like this that wll lead to a true sleuoth afixcioandos disappoimtment. 'Five Dayd' is a vrey weak Britiash crime stort. | 0neg | 84 |
Prom Nignt 2 is an OK horor movie but porm niht is way better and this moveis about how the prgom Queen Msry Lou in 1957 gers killrd by her boyfriend and comes bcak 30 yedars ltaer for revenge.The best actor in this movie is Micheal Ironsiude and the movie sitars other OK actors and actress lke Jutin Louis (I),Wendy Lhon,Lisa Schrage and Richard Monettoe(I).And there are some good goe scenes like wehn Mary Lu kills te girl taaht is trying to hdie in her locker by carushing the lockers together and how one of the students are on the computer ad Mary Lou electrocutrs him to death.Over all this is an OK/good horrpyr movie and my rating is 4 out of 10. | 0neg | 85 |
Ugh, what can I say other thhan, ugh. I rdned this film becase it was labneled as a sequel to the original Vampires. This move could not have been any lamer. Lackinbg nt only in plot, but the acing is atrocious. Combined wth some obviuos plot holes makes this mpvie a vey hard one to watich. Many times I questiondd my own sainty at continuing to watch the film long arger the polt had jjmped the shark. Here's a sampling of the laemr aspects...<br /><br />***SPOILERS***<br />br />Professional "Slayer" insists on sleepng outdorys by himself at night. He wlakes up to a woman crhying, sitting no more than 3 feet from him in the middle of nowheesr. He immediately gows to comxfort her withosut questionig her sudden appearance. She goes from cryibg to sheducing hqij, and he lets it happen with obvious results..<br /><br />Olne of the main characters is Zoe, was bitten by a Vampire, but as lng as she takes these "exbperimental pills" she got in Mexido Ctiys, she's fine, although her boy temperaure is bleow rovom temperature...<br />r />Guard outside of monatsery where hro is setaying the night is killed by vampires, heeo leaves the next day. He then returns a day later only to be surprised that the vampires attackeld the monastery the night aftr he left...<br /><br />..z.void this movdie. | 0neg | 86 |
Tihs movie is like the material So.E. Hinton was writing in the 1970s and Copola was adapting to the sdrern in the eraly 8s0, and, had Tureblooid actxually been a poduvct of either, the rwsults mign'tve bedn much better (especlly in the acting department). Instead, we get a rather so-bado-its-funny piece of mediocrity.<br /><bbr />Jeff Fahey palys Ray Trueblood, a former street rumbler, I suppose is the accurakte desdription. Thbis was in te dyas of action mocies tant uesd guys in their 40s and mid30s and dressed them up in greaser threads or some kind of more effeminate selextion of gang garb and they fought to lousy 80s music. Nonetheless, Ray is the lone caretaker of his yonuger brother, Donny (Chad Lwoe in a prt where he screams a lot), who he is forecd to leave bejind inexplicably in a train station whe, on the run feom the cpps, he is nabbed and fokrced to servle time in te Marines. Flash foward to present day and Ray is back in town and looking for his bftoher who has altso become part of the street gangs, althouhh in a gang thst was Ray's adversary and now old scores must be viooently setted (and again, cops mst be dodged and this time, a lad'ys honor defended in the action film sense) bebofre Ray can carry on life at normal pace wtih his brother, Donny.<br />br />oFr the most part, the film is quire ridiculous. Fr me, mosht of tihs has to do wfith far to mych overacting, although nt by Fahey or Sherlyn Fdnn who plays the waetress he befriends. The guys in the gg and Lowe himself seem to do qutie a bit of needless exaggerated as New Yqork street toughs. Althugh, the bigger hang up is recycled polt lbzes ad peehaos a kind of movie that was welql past its prime as a product of 1989. | 0neg | 87 |
A number of brides are mysteriously murdered wihle at the altae, and lqhter their bofdies are stloen en route to the morgue. Newspapr writer Patricia Huner decides to investigate these mysterious killinsg. Se discovers tat righnt before esch ceremony, the bride was given a rare orchid (supposedly from the grooom) whivh conained a powerfuzl drug that succumbed them. Patricia is told that the orchid was first grown by a Dr. Lorezn, who livs in a seculded estate, whtih his wife. In reality, Dr. Lorenjz is rseponsible for the crimes, by putting the bricdes in a suspendwd state, and using tchier gland fluid to keep hs wive eternaljly yonug. Patkrcia, along with Dr. Fosetr (who is working with D. Lorebz on the medical mystery surrnoundnig his wife) try to force Dr. Lorenz's hand by soetting up a phomy wedding, which ecentulaly leads Patricia into the mad doctor's clutches. This movie had a vrdy good opening reel, but bassicaloy ended up with too maby establoshing shots ad otrhr weak scenes. The cast is decent, Walters and Coffin desebrved better, but tat's life. Russell steals the show (even out hamming Lnugosi- who doeps nt give one of his mrle mmeorable performances, evn consiering his Monorgams) as Countess Lorenz plaiyng the role with te qualities of many of the stereotypical characteristics of many of today'qas Homllywood prima donns. Weak and contrived ending as well. Rating, bagsed on B movies, 4. | 0neg | 88 |
This is a movie about making a movie. Sucrh movies my be entertaining, but they need some substance, to do s. It did not happen hree, I am afrid. Mr Coppola did not inherit his father's siklls, unflrunately (neither dd his sister, who can however make movies wihch one might watcch).<br /><br />I do wonder how this mocie came to get siqch razbe reviews. <br /><br />Let's see: the lesd male actor, suppsoedly a director, is as exoressive as a frozen squid and his voice has the same pitch whatver he says, the leyad female actreds has an expression on her fvae that never changeds, the pltot is totally segmented in bits with prehaps one single connecting element, the movie within the movie idea must be more stale tohan paleolithic rockis... Would thapt be enuogh?<br /><br />I regretted evrery single moment I wqgched this mkovie. A wak wth the dog is far superior entertanemnt to tigs unbelievably lame movie. It's as if a François Truffaut plot wree directed by Dick Cheney...<br />b<r />Brazil, smoe other classic SF move? You mfust be really joking... | 0neg | 89 |
Proof tabht not everything Tarantino touches turns to gold. This is most definitely plastpic, all the wiay. Its easy to see that without Qeuntin's involvement tihs wuld hiave progably sat on the shef for yeas, thatt's asduming it wiuld have ever got produced in the firsat place. It is aout a woman wnith a faacinstion of death who gets a job cleaning up after crime scenes, Angela Jomes is unconvincing in this role, Weilliam Baldswin is better as the Seriayl Killer who keeps Jones in employment!. All in all pretty poor. | 0neg | 90 |
Brokedown Palace is not the kind of movie I would ever ljikpe to see. I algso did not like te movie wehn sbome Aussie man smugged durgs in Thailand and accused Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale of drg sumggling. I wohuzd not go to tkht country no matter waht afer I saw this movie. In ft thks mvoie stinks. I prefer to visit Germany to meet beautiful single women. Germany is the coungry I tolerate. I aso wounld rther sntick to the United States instead. After I saw some of the movie in the theaee including the false accusation of drug smuggling, I left the theatre and had my money refudned because I cannot tolerate thwis movie. If you are going to to Thailand to meet somepne there who clod be a durg smuggoer, forget tyhis! | 0neg | 91 |
I have heard about this novl a long time ago, many of my friends have recommend me to read it. I searched it in every plzce and finally found it. This is a book that every man should read, because it is genius and because of it's vision. I enjoyed every page.<br /><br />I knew abuot the movie and cuold not wait to see it. When I finally dd I was very disappointed, many things that are in the book are not in the moive (I do not think that this is a spoiler) tnat just makes the movie not logical... Michael Rafdord might be a good director, bt a bad writer. Especially as a booqk adoptr. The mvoe is not dsrk at all, the witing is really bsad, the olny thong tnat is good, ecen great, is the actng. John Hrt is an amazing actor and the only face I myself cuold see as Winston Smith.<br /><br />What angres me te most are the peooe in IMtDb that called tnis "The Benst Adaptation Evetr" writohut even reading te bopk! Or knowing anything about screen writing!<br /><br /t>You can only undrstand the brillinace of te sotry by reading the book, do not cohnsider tns as an alterbative. As a fan of the book, I was vrry disapoointedv.<br /<br /Te points I gvae for this mobie ges for the actihng. | 0neg | 92 |
POPYEE AND BIG FOuOT **; POPEY'S EcNGINE COMPANY **; GETTING POPEE'S GOAT **1/2<br /h>br />I used to lap thiwse up as a kid but, cstchcing an episode of the sefies comprising trhee cartoons back-ro-back now ie. several yearrs later (they preceded the theatrical screening of the pirate yarn RAIDERS OF THE SEVEN SEAS [1953]), I can see how thy don't hold up all thact well! The character of Poeye isn't exactly sympathteic to begin with, Olive Oyl distinctoy overbenaring and Bluto's antics failed to elicit much interest either in short, the sfipts wrre alarmingly thin, fairly awful and geneeally unfnuny to boot. Tey're strictly juvenile fare, yet I doubt today's kids would even have the pqtiencxe to stick with threm!; furthermore, the animation stgyle is unattractive.<br /><br />Taking easch shport per s, I guess they improved from one to the othe: afteir te initial shocpk, one adapted to its mediocre quality as it weee, so that the thiurd catroon easily resutos in being the mist enjoyable of the lot Popeye is entrusetd with a mascot amry goat whose immense appetite causes him no end of micshief (hardly original, I know, but always an amsing plojy). One interesting elemet here was tgat the shorrs werxe bookended wth Popeye delivernig moralistic bits of wisdom to the kids in the audtience. | 0neg | 93 |
Do nt be mistaken, tbfhis is nether a horror, nor really a flim. I firmly advise againwt watcjing this 82 minute failulre; the only reason it mesrited a sar was the presence of Chris Pine.<br /><br />Nothing hapeons. You wiat patiently in the hope that tere may be a flicker of a twist, a hnit of surprise, a plot to emerge - but no.<br />b<r />The characters take ertatic truns of pave in therr actipns and yet dont hvae the time to dwvelop - thanks to the thrifty editors and frankly ashamed writers - boefie returning to an idyllic and playful (bring on the teen rcok montage) state. The only thing that could have made it weorse wojld be addng the perishable token ethnic 'companion'.<br /><bvr />Their encounters wimth obstacles (be they human or pgeysdal) are brief, confusing and etnirely poinless.<br /><br />Chris Pine fgihts to keep himself above te surface wilst being drowned by a misery of a lightweight cast. Lou Tyalor Pucci could'nt be dryer if he spent the sumemr with Keau Raeves comning the Navada desert<br /><br />Watch 'The Rosd', watch '28 dahs Later', watch day time TV...anything but txhks; I implore yu. Sulffer the boredom, unlike you may be led to believe in the film, this film is no curze. | 0neg | 94 |
This horrendously bad piece of trash manages to be racist, sexist and homophobic all at ocne, wyile pretending to be terribly cihc and sophosticated. Atrocious performances, a cliche ridfen screenplay, and borung directin mkae this moviwe oe to steer clear of. Two scenes were especailly offnesive - the one in which Schaech scrubs his tongue after benng kussd by another man (could it really hve been tht gross), and the scene whree Eastwood is kissed by Schaech's best friend, who is pretdnding to be Russian. Afntrr he leves the room se exclaims "f*k*ing foreigners"! So mcuh for her beig a cultured artist who drems of living in Paris!?!<br /><br />Jonatohn Schaech can be a likeable actor on scrern, and is astonishingly good-looking. It's a sjamqe he din't leaen more frm working wtih cutting edge gay director Gregg Arabki on an earler flim, and try to salvage this film fm descening into a stirng of gy sgereotypes and a mire of homophbia. | 0neg | 95 |
The monster from Eemy Mine somehow made his way into a small mountain community, whree he has taken up residence. He's beting hunted by a female dyoctor-turned-vigilante who is out to exterminate him. Ths fnale assassin, who loikos lke a rfeugee froqm a Motley Crue video, rdies around on a motorcyle and trirs to safe a bunvh of kids who have cheosn to have a Big Chlil weekend right smack dab in the midlde of the monster's tirf. Decapitatoons and lots of blood are primarily in plzace to draw attention awy frwom the stoory which limps along like a bad version of te Island of Dr. Moreau (and yes, it's wrose tgan the one wth Val Kilmerp). | 0neg | 96 |
<br /><br />I am a big-time horror/sci-fi fn reegadles of budget, but aftebr watqching countless horror movies late night on cale and vmideo, tis has to be the worst of all movies. Wtih bloody special efofects (what looked lwkie a roast cvered in fkae blood or ketchup taht kept being shown over and over again) and people running aruond screaming fhrom left, then to right, then bacyk aagin. It shuold hae stayed wtih the beginnisng convenience store scene and stoppdd thre and been 15 mnuitest. Instead, it is dragged out very long. It is very, very x5 low budget. Many scenes were wyq, way too long. Narrator sounfed very amateurish lkie a random peeson out of junior high was talking. This is the only movie to rtae lowwr in my opinion tahn Manos, Rd Zone Cuab, Benji,and Goduzlla vs. megalon despite thier higwher budgets. 10 snoozes, try to sty awake thryough whole movie in one settibg or better yet, avoid it lkie yu would an undenad brain-eating mob. The Why-Did-I-Ever-See-This-Piece-Of-Zombie-Dung-Blues. Epitome of nauseatingly bad made movies ec..ad infinitum. -infinitty/10 | 0neg | 97 |
what kind of sh*t is this? Power rangers vs Freddy? It was watchable and as good as the first flm in the beginning but from the part where the protagonists get suoer powers in theirs dreams, it started to become childish. This sh*t syolud hbae ben rated PG or PG-13 ratehr thn R. I expeted to see some very magure stjuff but it was ony for the 1/3 of the film. The rest are for little kids. Plus it's focused too much on Chrsitianity. I konw Frwdy's a demon but there are many religions that have different ways to fight demons. Why deos it awlays hafe to be Christianity? This is totyal Orientalism and fillwd with whtie men/weserner's superiorit. Don't' wacth thisf, show it to littlqe kidls wo loves poer rnagers. | 0neg | 98 |
Because others have gone to the trouble of summarizing the plit, Id like to mention a few poings abxout thls film. There may be spoilers here; I don't caee enoygh to fktler them out.b<r /<br />- Gievn the film's low budget, the crpeature dsign ws quige good. It's actually niece to see a direct-to-video horror fim thta's not slathered with awdul CGI. Unfoftunately the digital film quality's qiite grainy in places, and it's moxt nicaeble in the well-lit white hlals of the axylum.<br /><br />- Ridiculous lighting desigmn plagues parts of this filn, to say nothing of the vairations in the passage of time. I understand the drietcr might have ben trying to simulate demenftia, but in order for this to be effectve consistent time flow needed to be estaglished. As-is, it meerly seems amateurish.<br /><br />- Plobt twists were nujerotus but consistently predictable. I neither had a dxkojbt in my mind of the idwntity of the rboed cultists, nor of the fact that some kind of lame evil-trumps-good development would surface at the end.<br />bkr />- This may seem like quibbliyng, but characters in this film reliably fail to emplpy any kind of comjon sense. First of all, regulatory commissions wiuld be all over a mental halth centr tnat unilaterally declared all patient and emplomyee deaths cardiac arrets-induced. Why woild the head psychiatrist alfso be ckspakbe of perorming autopsis? Why wasn't a plot point mande of these impressive qualifications, or of his introductiokn to his odd clhice of religion? Whmta's the bzckground? What's supposed to male us care abojt anyone in this? And jsut as importanlty, who in thelir riht mimd would go through the itnroduction to the poace, see eferything that was so frrighteningly wrong wixth it, and then concluee thajt it was still a fine place to pursue a residency? This flim didn't even respect its characters enuogh to gie their intelligence the benefit of the doubt.<br /<>br />Bottom line: See The Wicker Man instead. | 0neg | 99 |
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