Reviews

Now it's almost a decade later and, because I'm the type of clever little so-and-so who would make sure that Room 237 would be the 237th film I watched this year, of course I would commemorate reaching 300 films with another extremely unnecessary years-too-late follow-up to a hit film based on a Fra... ...

Even then, it still feels oddly unoriginal - there's at least one scene involving a bunch of severed fingers tied together and running around that feels way too much like a knock-off of the possessed hand from Evil Dead II (and it's not the only scene involving violent disembodied body parts, not by... ...

I guess your appreciation for this movie may be determined by your tolerance for wacky B-movie shenanigans and their being given a shiny surface by a modern production, but it's hard not to feel like filmmakers rooting a film this much in post-modern irony are using it as a defence mechanism to hide... ...

The whole thing just blows along with a soundtrack of nothing but hits, some largely lacklustre comedy (the only genuine chuckles I got out of this film were simply based on the presence of a pre-Seinfeld Jason Alexander, while Hector Elizondo is a memorable presence as a stuffy hotel manager who gr... ...

Sure, it doesn't seem to take itself too seriously, but that just means that I don't take it seriously either, not even as a basic old-school action movie with comic elements thrown in so people aren't supposed to think it's trying to be the exact same movie as The Dirty Dozen (which wasn't exactly ... ...

Unfortunately, ten years on and after having watched a bunch of Stone's other movies (to me, this film feels like it mixes the best aspects of JFK with the worst aspects of The Doors) hasn't done enough to further endear me to this film. ...

It may ramp up the carnage and throw in a lot of famous faces, but it's still ultimately the same as its predecessor and, though that film had its moments, it barely had enough to make a semi-amusing feature - this film can't even match up to that. ...

The film follows a romance that blooms between Jennifer Jones' Eurasian doctor and William Holden's American journalist in 1949 Hong Kong, and while it does start off reasonably promising it soon runs out of steam long before its conclusion. ...

About the only thing the film gets right is that it gets back some (but not all) of its original actors, but that doesn't count for much as this film recycles virtually everything from the first one. ...

The same goes for the muddled political aspect of the film as the film can't seem to make up its mind over how justified Harry and his actions are supposed to be. ...