Reviews

The effects work is bad, as is the writing that barely makes me care about the lead characters (except maybe in the case of Rachel True's character, who suffers some ridiculously racist bullying from Christine Taylor's stereotypically bitchy character, but that doesn't last long as she joins in with... ...

someone is still left to kill Damon's character and give the film a "happy" ending, which I absolutely hate when it comes to this film because it seems like an easy way out for Damon's character, who is clearly so miserable by the end of the film that letting him live with his mistakes would seem to... ...

I can understand why the makers wouldn't want to do a film that focused primarily on Hawking's disability, but the fact that the film frames the main conflict as Hawking trying to complete his work before succumbing to his disease fails to set up any urgency whatsoever. ...

Otherwise the film is full of some boring Mafia caricatures - bosses, heavies, etc. ...

The slickness of the filmmaking does little to make this film pass by any quicker and the fact that Jung is humanised much more than the average crime-story protagonist doesn't make much of a positive difference to an extremely generic film - if anything, it might actually hinder the film. ...

I think there needs to be some sort of shorthand term for sequels that have good ideas that would've been great in the context of their source films but they just end up being disappointingly executed in a sequel of generally lesser quality. ...

There's the "Butcher" character who gets to bring us the film's most disturbing act of violence but is otherwise a bad caricature, while Kyle's rival sniper Mustafa has enough hints towards being an interesting character (such as winning an Olympic gold medal for shooting before joining the insurgen... ...

I get that Tarantino's films revolutionised contemporary cinema to the point where every filmmaker and their mum was trying to copy his style, but Two Hands is probably the first instance of a film that feels like it's trying to copy a film that was already trying to copy Tarantino. ...

While I have to respect the fact that whoever put together this DVD pack would do something as unorthodox as including such a film on this DVD (surely leaving a lot of action fans baffled in the process), it doesn't guarantee that the resulting film is any good. ...

I liked House on Haunted Hill as an amusing piece of '50s schlock, so I was hoping the other two films would also deliver. ...