Reviews

Standard summer action flick. Intriguing story. Great action. Many plot holes and inconsistencies. Neither main character would have survived each of the 2 falls off the building. And what a totally lame love scene. And how did top ex-commando security let an armed girl back into the facility ??? And just where was the hospital that perspective clients were visiting? - no parking lot for those guests either... Sure maybe Ewan needed some action after playing old fogie Obi-Wan but after the latest string of Oscar and Golden Globe nominated performances why did Scarlett bow to do this fluff ??? Another great character actor goes for the paycheck over the plot I guess. And they could have made some cool cars for the movie instead of using last years concept cars right off the autoshow stage. It was a wild ride but it still a standard summer movie and unfortunately very forgettable. Roeper was right this plays like 2 completely different movies. They should have concentrated on one of them and made it better. Yes Scarlett Johansson is a babe but also a wonderful actress and deserves much better than this movie.

Jeff Daniels has made a career of playing straight laced boring dweebs who only need a tiny little push in the opposite direction to make them go wild - he does it again here nicely. Michael Richards is basically playing "Kramer" here but it is funny and likable. And the ever wonderful Rip Torn playing a bad guy you just gotta love. Last but not least, there is the fantastic, pre-Oscar Charlize Theron who lights up the movie with a sweet, naive, free-spirited character whose simple life is something we all wish for sometime in our lives.

A great cast rounds out a lighthearted, good-natured, mellow yet cheerful little comedy. You wont be sorry to spend the time with this movie.

3/5 Stars

Anyone got the recipe for a Paradise Manhattan ?

Excellent photography, excellent music, excellent sets, excellent action, excellent costumes, excellent movie.

Some people have said the ending was weak and hollywood-ish. I dont think its that bad but it does seem like the last scenes were torn on which way to go just like Japan was in the story.

****

Fairuza Balk is brilliant. What a wonderful modern adaptaion and continuing story. Of the almost 100 "Oz" movies this one stands out. Dorothy returns to Oz meets a new bunch of colorful characters and sets off on another adventure. Many top notch fantasy films made in the 80s and they did not even need a computer. I wonder if Jack Skellington of "A Nightmare Before Christmas" be a reference to Jack Pumpkinhead?

Megan Ward is a fantastic actress and is underutilized in Hollywood in general. Wes Craven is a great writer, although he is instead credited as executive producer here. Maybe this movie helped those with acrophobia I don't know. I figured out the entire plot in the first 5 minutes of the movie. Watching the rest of it to see the pieces fall into place was, unfortunately, boring. There was a cute reference to Megan's 1st movie "Crash and Burn". And the character of Dr. Paul Sadowski appears to be named after the associate producer Peter Sadowski? Most of the scenes competently conveyed the overall sense of fear and paranoia, they just were not all that scary. Anyway not too bad for a TV thriller I guess, just way to predictable.

Toss up between this and Insurrection as the best of the Generation movies. The others just seemed blah.

Engaging story and action. More warmth between the crew than any other Generation installment.

But you can see the small budget, only like 3 or 4 sets and normal 15 year old special effects. Of course Paramount knows this is a cash cow and treats it like such.

But why oh why did they trash the Enterprise when they started the movies ? Since Generations the ship has looked like something from Pontiac, all gussied up with cheap plastic hanging all over serving no purpose.

In interviews the cast says its not the final voyage but with Data dead and Riker and Troi gone it seems unlikely. Although there is a chance they can make the "B4" into Data, he does have all his memories...

If it is the last STNG movie it was a good one Score 3.5/5

I thought this movie was about a family spooked by crop circles and possible hint of Extra-Terrestrials. Wow was I surprised when the aliens started walking around and breaking into peoples houses.

Very suspenseful. Great job of portraying a family coping with fear and death.

But could have still done all that and been a great or better film without the special effects. I think it could have been done subtly like just hinting that ut was real aliens and giving the audience a choice to decide what to believe was happening in the end.

Anyway great movie overall. But crop circles can be done by a couple of drunk guys with boards and ropes - but does that mean that all of them were pranks.......???

You Decide !

Absolutely the worst piece of trash filmmaking ever created. These 3 jokers are laughing all the way to bank knowing they have ripped off the world with their very artistic and extremely horrible junk. Simply not scary even for one second not one single bit. Not worth the time the effort or the admission price. I could go on all day about how this movie sucks but I wont waste any more of my time.