“So horribly sad. How is it I feel like laughing?”

The trailers completely avoid the fantastical elements of the plot, pieces that pull the viewer into space, the metaphysical, Mars, heaven, hell, and a library where portals are suddenly available.

Law Abiding Citizen is more of a test to determine how far an audience is willing to go, at least in the interest of an original, unique concept.

Whiteout, not named after the correctional liquid, is just one of those movies where things like killers trudging through snow dressed all in black happens.

If you’ve figured out who the killers are in Perfect Getaway early, and it’s not that difficult since there are only six real characters in the movie, you’re left with figuring out how writer/director David Twohy is going to explain it logically. He doesn’t.
That leaves A Perfect Getaway as a resume for cinematographer Mark Plummer, [...]

When Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is in trouble, even with the possibility of an anti-matter bomb exploding, tension is limited. The horror of a multi-million dollar movie franchise being sucked into a black hole is simply too ridiculous to consider.
However, when Langdon is involved in the rescue of four Catholic Cardinals across Rome, Angels & [...]

“I’m just a civil service engineer!”
Yes, Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) is just a civil service engineer, but he’s also capable of chasing down a villain through the crowded streets of New York because the police were unable to. Good for him.
The Taking of Pelham 123 is directed by Tony Scott, and comes with all of [...]

It’s nice to see Colin Farrell making a name for himself after disastrous miscalculations like Alexander and Miami Vice. In Pride and Glory, he co-stars with Edward Norton in a gritty, grim, and at times, tense cop drama. Overlong and with a lackluster, forced ending however, the payoff isn’t worth the wait.
Corrupt cop dramas are [...]

Part of the joy experienced while watching Ocean’s Thirteen is that it’s not Ocean’s Twelve. That is a huge relief, and possibly even part of why the film works so well.
Had Ocean’s Twelve never existed, much of the absurd plot and heist aspects in Thirteen would have been harder to ignore. Yet, seeing the Ocean’s [...]

Ocean’s Eleven had a cast of criminals that swept through the three c’s: calm, cool, and collected. In Ocean’s Twelve, those aspects seem lost.
In fact, the characters don’t seem the same, not to mention a script that haphazardly re-introduces everyone before tossing key members in jail. The original let the ensemble cast play off each [...]