This flick turned out to be fun. For a modern film it is relatively tame. There is some violence. It is a hyper-sizzle sort of movie. The special effects lead the way. There are significant chunks of filmtime which are devoted to rendering Robert Downey, Jr., in hightech construction, or tinkering, or ordering his computer-robot […]
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This is an episodic comedy about best friends trying to capture the hearts of their respective dream girls. This last aspect is literal AND metaphorical, as both “Harold” (Cho) and “Kumar” (Penn) each have two or three fantasy scenes with the ones they love. Harold wants “Maria” (Garces), and Kumar moons over “Vanessa” (D.Harris). For these lads there […]
This is an adult, satiric melodrama. The production team had good fun with a story which is alleged to be based on factual events involving a 1971 London bank robbery. If this story–in its broadest sense–is anywhere near being accurate, then it would tend to confirm George Lord Gordon’s comment that truth is stranger than fiction. The story […]
This is a film thriller that I found distasteful. I really thought that I’d find it interesting, but, alas, it was an impaired project from my point of view. I did not realise the focus was at least as much on “sex in Seattle”–perverted at that–as on a man caught in a maniacal countdown. For […]
Anarchy in the UK
Waking up in an empty hospital, realising everybody is missing from an otherwise teeming metropolis. Shocking, isn’t it? But it will be even more frightening when the streets are filled with people again.
28 Days Later… opens with a short sequence, where animal right activists let loose a few chimps, subjects to experiments […]
The big daddy is back again, this time banging his way against Virtual-terrorism. The master cook has presented us a costly sandwich which contains action spread in both the slices. The movie begins in action,progresses in action action and climaxes in action action action. But this time the action gamer uses a computer geek as […]
Danny Ocean’s crew walks in this time earmarking another casino but with a different incitement altogether. The master gang-leader behind this plot, director Steven Soderbergh hits the bulls eye for the third time supported by his same old financier Jerry Weintraub and sets the cash registers ringing at the box office. The writers Brian Koppelman […]