Reviews

Whereas films like Coffy or Foxy Brown showcase the heroine taking revenge on her own and ultimately generate some tension thanks to her putting her life on the line, Sugar Hill lacks any serious tension due to its heroine being able to take down all her enemies using voodoo, which mainly involves z... ...

I'm willing to entertain the possibility that making Duck Soup the first Marx Brothers film that I ever watched was all but guaranteed to make it so that every film of theirs I watched after that would guarantee diminishing returns, even with their other big-name films like A Night at the Opera or H... ...

Initial sequel Highlander 2: The Quickening took the franchise into infamously absurd sci-fi territory; it was reviled so much that third film Highlander: The Final Dimension disregarded its events entirely and ended up being little more than an empty rehash of the original film. ...

From there, the film starts to fall apart as it starts to rehash Pitch Black, first by having Riddick become the film's de facto monster as he proceeds to launch a campaign of guerrilla warfare against his enemies (but with much more violent results) before having the various survivors team up again... ...

It's quite the person who looks at a film like Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring and decides to make a more directly graphic and exploitative version of that, then it's yet another person who decides that said version could use its own remake. ...

I'm not such a big fan of the trend of horror films trying to introduce main characters who are so reprehensible that their gradually being picked off by the film's threat ultimately proves to be cathartic more so than frightening. ...

The Chronicles of Riddick takes place five years after the events of Pitch Black, with Riddick (Vin Diesel) starting the film trying to evade some bounty hunters before eventually making his way to a different planet in search of his fellow survivors from the previous film. ...

As Carpenter's films have shown, that's more than enough of a set-up, and by the signs of this film's incredibly brief length, it's not an overly necessary one. ...

Much like Superbad (which was also written by Rogen and frequent writing collaborator Evan Goldberg), this results in a film that has an admittedly interesting premise but is undone by a variety of factors, especially the individuals involved in the production. ...

Though it's arguably not any worse than the work displayed in The Phantom Menace, the effects shown in Attack of the Clones don't even feel like enough to redeem the film's lesser qualities. ...