Archive for Release Year: 2002
14 posts from 05 April 2022 to 27 May 2017.
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Woody Allen is not perfect, and this is an example of it. Just like Scoop, this still has chucklegoofs, but the drudge you need to wade through before getting to the good jokes is too much.
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It seems ironic that Spielberg adapts sci-fi stories, when he flatly doesn’t care about the story. Feels like a bet he won, making a blockbuster about something he couldn’t give a shit about.
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The Rules of Attraction as a reluctant thriller.
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That’s Pinocchio, all right.
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The one with Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike and Maddona.
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Undoing the character development in the last film for fun and profit.
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A very good action film with really inventive fight scenes. Has more in common with the old Jackie Chan films than the usual fight-scene driven drivel, but with a better script.
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The 2002 remake. Po-faced ultra-violent silliness. It’s not even a metaphor for NFL, however thinly veiled. The audience uses vuvuzelas, GTFO.
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Half of Dangerous Liaisons, with a not so tragic ending. Not that it ends happily…
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One of Clancy’s roman à clef.
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Wow, Michael Pitt is a psycho killer? Who would have thought? Funny how he plays Games with everyone…
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I had never seen the extended cut. They cut so much Wombosi stuff out, and there was apparently plenty of cuts and reshoots too. Still manages to blow most thrillers out of the water.
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Kinda redundant, an horror film set in The Great War’s trenches. Even if it’s a big purgatory metaphor, and the entity testing the souls is a German POW.
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A letdown compared to the first one. Box-ticking exercise, everybody is just going through the motions.