Director-star Takeshi ‘Beat’ Kitano updates the famed 60s story of the blind swordsman with some over-the-top CGI violence and a Clint Eastwood attitude. The result meanders, but provides a few exciting moments.
Vin Diesel teams up again with director Rob Cohen to re-invent James Bond as (even more of) a video game movie for the ‘Xtreme’ generation. The action comes fast and furious and goes just as quickly.
This proudly preposterous noisemaker fails even by the low standards set by its predecessor.
What’s left if you remove all subtlty, joy and wit from Douglas Adams’ wonderfully whimsical ‘trilogy in five parts?’ This big, noisy mess of a movie.
There are about one and a half good moments in this almost unwatchably cutesy tapestry of tales from writer-director Richard Curtis. It’s disappointing, actually.
What Clint Eastwood’s murder mystery lacks in subtlety it makes up for in bravura performances from its A-list ensemble cast. Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon in particular stand out from the pack – which is really saying something.
How many laughs can you get out of a handful of one-joke characters?
Call it ‘Love, Greek-American Style’: a super-cutesy look at the one independent thinker within the ultimate stereotypical Greek-American family, which ironically suffers from fear of commitment to any of the interesting points it raises.
The films of Albert Brooks are not known for deep statements.
Writer-Director Stephen Sommers continues to set back the cause of Egyptology with a sequel that resurrects his 1999 hit, never straying far from his formula. As long as he keeps the action going – and he does – you can almost forgive the glaring idiocy that runs rampant through the film.
