Reviews

Robbins and Costner, meanwhile, have a prickly relationship of their own as Costner's new job upon transferring to the Durham Bulls is to teach Robbins how to harness his considerable pitching talent. ...

I know that people will joke about how this managed to be released as part of the Criterion Collection, but in a way it makes perfect sense given its dedication to preserving important films - if ever you needed a stellar example of a big-budget Hollywood blockbuster that sacrifices just about every... ...

It being a Star Trek film, I don't truly hate Nemesis, but it's definitely one of the weakest films in the franchise, if not the weakest. ...

We once again get the "strong female character rescues loser male protagonist and trains him to be more badass than she is" clich which is rapidly becoming an annoying clich ven when it's used in movies I like - and also, there's a horribly forced romantic element to their relationship as well), an ... ...

The film makes endless variations on the same joke about the disparity between the fantastic imaginary world the characters create and the mundane real world they actually inhabit, running it into the ground in the process. ...

Jackson hams it up by playing a wildly opinionated media pundit who serves as a sort of Greek chorus to the film, though it's debatable as to how much these scenes actually contribute to the film beyond some extremely ham-fisted satire (which I should expect given how it's RoboCop, but here it just ... ...

Part of what makes Death Wish II a legitimately bad film is that it falls prey to what I've decided to call "Rocky II Syndrome" because as with that film, it's a sequel whose entire premise rests on undoing the point of its predecessor simply for the sake of producing a whole new film. ...

Criticising this film by comparing it to previous action films may seem like a cop-out, but it's no better than what this joyless excuse for a sequel deserves. ...

It's times like these where my attempt to review a film becomes less an attempt to inform an audience about a film and more a way for me to process the film and articulate just why I felt the way I did about it. ...

The fact that it's a prequel starring a pair of nigh-invulnerable immortals and several other characters who definitely survive to be in the franchise's original installments sucks a lot of tension out of the whole film and it's not like the remaining characters are interesting enough to care about ... ...