Reviews

The Brothers Grimm has an interesting enough concept for a dark fairytale kind of movie, which would be well within the purview of a filmmaker as well-versed in the fantastic as Terry Gilliam would be. ...

This makes him a fairly sensible choice for the director of The Last Stand, a film that feels like a homage to classic Westerns with its plot about a handful of misfits being galvanised by an honourable yet dangerous sheriff into defending a small town against a big bad villain heading straight for ... ...

As far as peripheral characters go, Joe Pantoliano deserves to be in a better movie as he plays the civilian who believes in the existence of Daredevil, while Jon Favreau makes for terrible comic relief as Daredevil's obnoxious, oblivious co-worker. ...

The plot is so thin that it ends up throwing in a left-field twist around the hour mark and, despite subverting my expectations, still ended up making the last third of the film feel like a major drag compared to the relatively suspenseful middle half-hour of the film. ...

After a lengthy prologue involving a space station full of humans (including Mark Wahlberg playing the film's charmlessly stony astronaut protagonist who has a soft spot for his chimp astronaut friend), we are introduced to the titular planet when the chimp's ship disappears into a space-time anomal... ...

Of course, I don't require protagonists to be sympathetic to be likeable or even engaging (especially when it comes to comedies), but the Housos are easily some of the most irritating characters ever committed to film and the fact that there are no serious consequences for any of their actions sucks... ...

I used to think Live Free or Die Hard was a major disgrace to one of the best action film franchises ever - enough so to rank it as one of my ten worst movies ever a few years ago - but in recent years I've more or less mellowed out over it, though I did still consider it the weakest in the series. ...

This much is evident by the movie's finale, which is a recreation of the "I'm F***ing Matt Damon" song featuring every single character in the movie - and even after it's over there's still eleven minutes of closing credits (in a movie that doesn't even reach ninety minutes). ...

The entire concept of Charlie's Angels may have been so campy even in 2000 that they more or less had to give the remake a more pronounced comedic edge, but they still went ahead and proceeded to make the film a fairly straightforward action film with the overtly comic elements seeming like they wer... ...

The only actual laughs I got out of this film happened to come from Tim Meadows reprising his role as the incredibly worn-out and frustrated principal from the first film. ...