Reviews

Quantum of Solace may not exemplify every single bad factor about James Bond films (at least Craig's Bond isn't physically abusive towards women like the pre-Dalton actors had a tendency to be) but it showcases enough of Bond's bad qualities and combines them with some of the worst qualities of mode... ...

The reason that Troll 2 is named Troll 2 despite the fact that it has no actual trolls in it is because the powers that be decided that it would be a good marketing ploy to make it a "sequel" to this film. ...

Having the film climax in a massive fist-fight across an entire small town was decent enough but it feels like too little, too late, especially in a film that's even longer than its already-overlong predecessor. ...

Having Rambo team up with the Muhajideen (complete with scenes of him slowly bonding with his newfound allies - including a scrappy young kid to boot - before they are inevitably ambushed) seems rather quaint these days. ...

In my review for Rambo: First Blood Part II I was giving Sylvester Stallone guff for taking his successful serious films such as Rocky or First Blood and giving them sequel after sequel that turned the franchises into abysmal self-parody and tarnished the name of the original. ...

Characters are flat archetypes whose development is predictable at best and inconsistent at worst (the biggest offender being Ford, whose character manages to go from a corrupt landowner willing to physically torture employees over some dead cows to a sympathetic Civil War veteran who slowly bonds w... ...

It had its moments (the "you'll shoot your eye out" running gag was handled well) but overall it's a very flat film (and I don't think watching it before Christmas instead of afterwards is going to make much of a difference). ...

Unlike the first two films, the film seems overly dependent on directly parodying specific movies - films such as The Untouchables, Jurassic Park and Thelma and Louise are ripped on to less than stellar effect, and that's without mentioning the various cracks at the film industry made during the fil... ...

Even though, as with virtually every other film I've seen (and will see) as part of this program, it was quite simply laughable, even the laughs weren't enough to save it (half the time it felt forced, as if I felt like the only way I could get through some horrendous acting and boring scenes was to... ...

There is nothing particularly special about this movie. It's about drugs in New York and how all the ethnically diverse gangs are warring over it. We've heard it all before. In that case, you've got to wonder what the movie can bring in to spice up this well-worn plot. ...