Reviews

The character of Jar Jar Binks naturally becomes less tolerable with each viewing, especially once I realise how forced his presence is in some cases (this was the viewing where I finally realised how little sense it made for an amphibious creature to be out and about on Tatooine, but hey, this movi... ...

Taking place eight years after the events of the original Highlander (and disregarding the events of Highlander 2 in the process), The Final Dimension starts by showing series protagonist Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) traveling to Japan to visit a wise immortal (Mako) only to be tracked down ... ...

This ends up being a problem when the film focuses on more of their actions than anything else, especially when a good chunk of the film follows the siblings as they visit a motel and terrorise the members of a traveling country band. ...

Deviating this far from the plot of the source material does not automatically guarantee that the resulting film will be terrible, but the sheer number of writers credited with writing and re-writing the film definitely does not bode well and serves to make the film's episodic nature come across as ... ...

Of course, that and other moments of fantastic weirdness are not nearly enough to redeem this complete mess of a film. ...

This only works to add a through-line to a film that is otherwise built out of some extremely patchy vignettes as Braff encounters a variety of eccentric characters living in bizarre domiciles. ...

Every time I watch a film like Wyrmwood (so named for a falling star from the Book of Revelations, which is explained in-story yet feels kind of pointless when the film's subtitle "Road of the Dead" would be a much more honest and comprehensible choice), I do find myself questioning exactly how sinc... ...

Taken 2 already took an extremely easy approach to making a sequel by having the plot be driven by a villain seeking revenge, but that just made the film film feel like an especially flimsy attempt to continue the story of an extremely one-note thriller. ...

The writing in other areas tends to be extremely wanting as the film not only struggles to keep the film going but also fills out its scenes with some rather shoddy writing (especially in the film's third act where the small group of survivors that we're following stumbles upon not one but two viole... ...

In the original film, Neeson's character quite famously stated that he has a very particular set of skills, but between that film and this one it's clear that this does not translate to varied action. ...