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Space Fury (1999)
Fun but not very well made
This movie is kind of like an episode from the new Outer Limits. It's somewhat predictable and fun, but not the best movie made. If you are like me and enjoy the B grade films pushed out by the Corman camp then definatly check it out. Sci-Fi fun with murder and suspense. Definatly a rental if you can find it, otherwise beware before you buy.
Raptor (2001)
Enjoyable monster / action flick
It's a fun movie, the kind you'd expect to see on late night cable TV hosted by a b movie star. The commentary track is a riot, with the director and lead actress getting slightly boozed up and commenting on the movie in a very MST3K sort of way.
Little Miss Millions (1993)
Very good movie, worth seeing anytime
This is a very good movie that I would recommend for anyone, especially those with a family. It has action elements to keep the men entertained and a plot touching enough to make those same testosterone filled men blubber like babies.
Basically the premise is simple, Heather, a young lady played by the enchanting Jennifer Love Hewitt (called simply Love Hewitt in the credits) lives with her stepmother after her birth father passed away. She longs to meet her biological mother so she is forced to run away from home. The stepmother then hires a detective to find her for a large reward. The plot thickens when the stepmother tries to double cross the detective and save the reward money leading to both Heather and the newly hired detective being on the lamb together.
The character development is good, but not great. The characters are mostly two dimensional. The step mother is the typical wicked kind, the FBI agents are stereotypically bumbling throughout. Also the detectives business associate is the typical tightwad. Fortunately the important roles more than make up for the supporting cast.
Howard Hesseman makes a wonderful if not formulaic grouch and Love Hewitt is so adorable you'll like the movie just because she's in it. Their characters start out with a lot of animosity which is to be expected, only to find that they are more alike than meets the eye.
The ending isn't surprising, and the movie flows smoothly along without any unexpected twists. There is a story to de told and the director wisely left the twists out instead focusing on the stars, keeping everything else to a minimum. Not every movie can pull this off, but in this case Hewitt and Hessman are all you care about, so more would have been just that, more. I'm not going to give away too much but that you will leave feeling better for having seen it.
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Not worth your time
This movie had high expectations, and failed miserably at them all. Not only is the sequencing of the movie out of hand making the plot extremely muddled, and hard to follow. It's also filmed in many different styles, with many different film types. Often these artistic tools can be used to display different perspectives, or different states of mind, here they are used only for the lack of anything else to do.
I can see where this movie wanted to go, and I applaud them for coming so close. Natural Born Killers fell short of it's goals and is instead a tangled glob of paint where the masterpiece once sat.
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Cheesy, but with merit
Okay, maybe I'm giving this movie too much credit, but I see art here. Death Race 2000, not only shows us what our world will be when we let our aggression get out of hand, it also shows where the extreme apathy of this world will lead us. This is something that I would recommend everyone view at least once. Some might not get the humor but it's clearly there.