Surviving the Game movie review
A thoroughly absurd homeless-men-as-prey-for-gun-happy-rich-schmucks action flick. Lacks all suspense and mystery, though it thinks it has some sort of social conscience. It does not.
Month: March 2004
The Reckoning (review)
It’s kinda like a medieval episode of Law & Order, and I always feel that one simply cannot get too much of Law & Order. Here, the role of the nice Catholic cop Chris Noth played in the series will be performed by Paul Bettany (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World), as … more…
Hidalgo (review)
Two words: Veee-go! If there was any doubt — not that there seems to have been — that Viggo Mortensen could pull off this movie-star thing without cute hobbits and magic rings to prop him up, well, check out *Hidalgo.* This is a spectacular film, as grand as old Hollywood and as fun and as breath-taking and as touching as anything you’ll see at the movies today, and while it’s not all down to Viggo, none of it would have worked without him.
Starsky & Hutch (review)
It’s probably a good thing that there isn’t, cuz the culties would be disappointed in this new *Starsky & Hutch.* The only thing that’s even remotely ‘Starsky & Hutch’ about this goofy adaptation is the red and white Ford Gran Torino.
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The Passion of the Christ, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Monty Python’s Life of Brian (review)
There is nothing ‘just a movie’ about this self-flagellating exercise in inciting mass religious frenzy. In fact, there’s so little that’s ‘just a movie’ about *The Passion* that it cannot even be appreciated on any level, never mind the ‘just a movie’ level, unless you enter the theater already in a state of religious ecstasy.
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights and Twisted (review)
*Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights* is but a misdemeanor, though, when held up next to *Twisted,* which is criminally bad from its opening moments.
