Posted on 15 December 2009
G-Force could be a lot of things. In fact, the mish-mash of ideas by themselves could have been great family fare.
Imagine, a secret government experiment that lets guinea pigs become super agents, infiltrating various crime organizations to bring them down.
Or…
Imagine those same guinea pigs lost, delivered to a pet store and forced to live the [...]
Posted on 11 July 2009
Con Air is one of those movies that created a slew of action movie parodies. It’s so absurd, the dialogue so ridiculous, and the premise so utterly incoherently preposterous, you can’t help but laugh. You know what though? It’s enormously entertaining.
Con Air follows a group of the most politically correct villains in the history of [...]
Posted on 04 July 2009
From the moment King Arthur starts, you know Jerry Bruckheimer had a hand in it. Despite a fresh take on the legend, one that is supposedly realistic, the film in this director’s cut form is overlong and glossy, clashing with the atmospheric direction of Antoine Fuqua.
Clive Owen stars at the fabled King Arthur, enthusiastically portraying [...]
Posted on 26 May 2009
Filled with hilariously stupid dialogue, summer Hollywood clichés, and a lighthearted tone that seems to thrive on the latter two points, National Treasure is undeniably fun. Yes, it’s stupid… mind-numbingly so. Still, it has energy and a fun premise – if you can accept it – to get you into this story.
That Declaration of Independence [...]
Posted on 02 April 2009
Glory Road is tiring. It has nothing to do with dramatic content or excitement level. It has everything to do with its cookie cutter approach from its script to its content that moviegoers are continually given at least once a year. There’s nothing refreshing or interesting about it, and it’s even worse if you know [...]
Posted on 02 April 2009
How many lives does Jack Sparrow have? A lot. How many times can Gore Verbinski and Jerry Bruckheimer dip into the Pirates of the Caribbean without failing the fans? Twice apparently.
The third entry into the wildly popular and insanely profitable Pirates series is too much of a good thing. Not the swashbuckling sword fighting, over [...]