Reviews

Alright it is not bad for an out of the box late night talk show, but it is not that good either.

The problem is the lack of guests on this show. Not that Rove has no guests, it's more like he has no good guests. Being new and being in Australia Rove must stay alive by picking off the scraps, linking up with satellite to conduct interviews with anybody remotely famous. The guests he does manage to recruit off the street are unheard of, yet Rove manages to make you feel stupid for not having heard of them before.

The skits while amusing at first have quickly become boring and dry and although its in its third year it has yet managed to produce high quality entertainment. Yet for some inexplicable reason I continue to watch this show, probably more out of a lack of alternatives than for any other reason. You see down here in Australia we don't have actors, we just have people who like to think they can act, and therefore we have little need for a show like Rove.

Nevertheless, his titilising yet rare comic mischief is spontaneously refreshing and what the show lacks in depth it makes up in denial. Indeed some segments can, on a good night, be funny. Many viewers tune in simply to watch the so-called 'What-the' segment and switch the tele right off quick-smart. Quite to my displeasment the What-the's have lacked in clarity and humility over the past weeks.

The guests and interview portion of the show does, however, need considerable attention and contemplation. I have often found myself actually feeling embarassed for Rove because his guests are so mundane and he is either unwilling or unable to use them effectively in his show.

Alas Rove Live is an endearing program which appeals to the humoiderous sarmentum of the viewer's heart and attempts desperately to achieve audience oblection.

To have a Roving time? I think not. 5.5/10

Alright it is not bad for an out of the box late night talk show, but it is not that good either.

The problem is the lack of guests on this show. Not that Rove has no guests, it's more like he has no good guests. Being new and being in Australia Rove must stay alive by picking off the scraps, linking up with satellite to conduct interviews with anybody remotely famous. The guests he does manage to recruit off the street are unheard of, yet Rove manages to make you feel stupid for not having heard of them before.

The skits while amusing at first have quickly become boring and dry and although its in its third year it has yet managed to produce high quality entertainment. Yet for some inexplicable reason I continue to watch this show, probably more out of a lack of alternatives than for any other reason. You see down here in Australia we don't have actors, we just have people who like to think they can act, and therefore we have little need for a show like Rove.

Nevertheless, his titilising yet rare comic mischief is spontaneously refreshing and what the show lacks in depth it makes up in denial. Indeed some segments can, on a good night, be funny. Many viewers tune in simply to watch the so-called 'What-the' segment and switch the tele right off quick-smart. Quite to my displeasment the What-the's have lacked in clarity and humility over the past weeks.

The guests and interview portion of the show does, however, need considerable attention and contemplation. I have often found myself actually feeling embarassed for Rove because his guests are so mundane and he is either unwilling or unable to use them effectively in his show.

Alas Rove Live is an endearing program which appeals to the humoiderous sarmentum of the viewer's heart and attempts desperately to achieve audience oblection.

To have a Roving time? I think not. 5.5/10

It is true that Arnold barely speaks in this movie. It would be an interesting activity to go through it again and actually count the number of words he says. This movie is not exactly fantastic. It can be slow and tiresome at times. Its redeeming quality is the soundtrack which plays very well and fits the scenes. The sets are not so bad either. There is a nice mixture between the sandy deserts and snowy mountains, indeed the entire movie was filmed on location in Spain. My favourite scene is when Arnie is practicing with the sword on a hill with the wind blowing his hair and the awesome accompanying tune.

If you are the average Joe Blow you will not enjoy Conan, but if you are a true Arnie fan at heart you might enjoy this. You should appreciate that this is not one of his conventional action films. It is a fantasy type production. I only counted one smart-arse pre-killing comment - when he takes one of the cult leaders behind a mound and letting off a trade mark quote before breaking his arm off.

A previous review mentioned the blood and guts. Yes, there are quite a bit of blood scenes but it is not horrific or anything. The fight scenes are fairly well choreographed. You also get to see at least three naked chicks if that entices anybody as well as Arnie going for it hard rooting a witch.

An okay movie but it could have been better. 6/10

Who Am I contains some of the best choreographed action scenes I have ever seen. This movie ranks up there as one of Jackie's best movies. Suprisingly the plot is not half bad and actually makes sense which is relieving. But everything about this movie works: its pace and flow, the comedy and the action points. As I watched the English version, the dubbing is awkward at the beginning and it does take some time to get used to but eventually you do not even notice. The script is nothing to call home about but I like the fact that the movie gets right into it from the start. If there is one thing I can't stand about films it is a slow start.

All in all the best thing about Who Am I are the action sequences, the best one being the last sequence near the end. Great stuff. 8/10

Shocking, unbearable film by the famous, if not, pityful Jet Li who, quite disturbingly, bears more resemblance to a pirated CD salesman from Sham Shui Po rather than an international superstar.

There really is not much to say about this movie, perhaps it is because the actors only start talking twenty minutes into the movie or perhaps it is because this movie is a fetid stink pot of mephitic rubbish. In retrospect the latter seems to be a more probable explanation.

Quite unfortunately even the likes of the ubiquituos and out-of-place Bridget Fonda cannot pull this movie out of the depths of movie hell. Her place in this movie is as about as unreassuring as her acting in The Point Of No Return, a movie essentially based on the coma-inducing adventures and exploits of the formidable La Femme Nikita. This movie probably passes its point of no return some where in the first 15 seconds of the movie when I realised I just wasted ten bucks which I will never see again. Fonda plays a whimpering unsuccessful hooker in

The plot itself is about as weak as a cafe late from Chinatown. And just when I thought Mission Impossible did not make any sense another movie has to step in. Honestly, can't Jet Li make a decent movie for once? That's what I was asking myself after watching this movie and remembering the mortifying Romeo Must Die film. The answer my friends is really quite simple, no, that's right Jet Li is utterly hopless. He should go back to acting school with Chow Yun Fat and get cracking.

I could go on forever talking about the actors' impossible acents coupled with their mumbling bumbling voices, the poor soundtrack (what is jet li's obsession of rap music during fighting scenes?), down right bad acting, plot for crap, and an all-round BAD movie, so bad you could actually call home about it. But no, I will stop now and let you waste your money going to watch this movie, if you have not already - which you probably have done.

3/10 I was going to give it 2, but I'll give it an extra one point for the good ummm, the good uuuuuummmm. On second thought I ll just give it a 2.

Dear, dear me. What does Spielberg think he is doing? First this then AI. Jurassic Park 3 is no where as good as the original and it is even worse then number 2. The plot is weak as anything, despite the fact that the Jurassic Parks are not exactly well known for their riveting plots. However there are several unrealistic points disregarding the fact that the entire movie is about really angry dinosaurs trying to kill some really stupid people. Along with this are some irritating bits.

First of all Sam Neill's character at first seems hell bent, dead set straight about not returning to the dinosaur island then changes his mind in a couple of ticks after a pair of complete strangers claiming to be multi-millionaires offer him a blank cheque. Oh no, it's not as if you are going to dis-trust a couple of weirdos offering you a hundred million bucks. Like this guy has a moustache and that girl is hot so I can trust them.

When the group predictably and inevitably land on the island Tea Leoni goes screaming her head off for her son like a headless chicken despite Neill's fruitless attempts at shutting her gob. Don't worry its okay I think the man-eating dinosaurs will love my screaming voice. The fact that the audience wanted to bash the supporting actress's head in right from the start did not help.

Then come the dinosaurs. Why the hell are they so angry?! The dinosaurs are seriously pumped up about something or other. They are incredibly mean and aggressive. Okay I understand, these are scary dinosaurs but they are just too aggressive to the point of fakeness - if that's even a word.

Now comes the creme de la creme. This ten year old kid or whatever he is manages to stay alive for some 2 months on this island while two commando ex US marines armed with grenade launchers and SAS assualt rifles are picked off within 10 minutes of arriving on the island. This kid jumps out of no where like jungle boy and saves Neill's life with some tear gas. Like tear gas is not dangerous or anything it just temporarily vapourises your retina. Sure a 10 year old could use that. I m sure his muscular 10 year old baby arms were good at battling the 500,000 tonne spinosaurus with attitude. These dinosaurs really had attitude! Can you believe it - attitude!? This part just made me laugh and the rest of the movie was farcical I just could not take it seriously. The movie lost the atmosphere, it lost its fear factor, it was no longer a movie just a heap of special effects.

The film is fairly short too. It just came and went. I think it just took a couple of months to shoot using old dino models and the rest was done in front of a computer screen.

I watched this in the cinema and the nincompoop of an attendant forgot to turn on the surround sound, which did not help either. I struggled to hear what the characters were saying...this in a so-called state of the art cinnemax theatre. Oh the humanity!

5.5/10

This is actually a very funny movie, one of Steve's funniest movies - up there with Father of the Bride. All the characters, Dan Akroyd, Phil Hartman, even an appearance by Chris Rock make this an extremely enjoyable movie. The Hover Tank was hands down the funniest part. Steve is full of laughs in this movie and acts out the character of Sergeant Bilko superbly. I have watched this movie at least four times and I was still laughing all the way through. This is in fact one of my all time favourite comedies. I have never seen the original and perhaps my judgement of this movie is therefore altered. Yet if you have never seen or even heard of the original and you like Steve's work then you will surely like this. Don't look at the votes rating I'll give this 8/10.

What was this monstrosity of a film? I had hopes for this movie I really did. The amazing part is that this movie actually spawned a sequel. Yet the sequel does not contain Ludgren. He must not have been stupid enough to do a sequel but he was sure still stupid enough to do the first.

The movie itself is about a Russian special forces soldier sent to Africa to assassinate a couple of innocent African tribes men only to defect and join the rebel's cause.

The movie is painfully slow from the beginning and the majority of the action is packed in to the final ten minutes, a syndrome which many action movie flops suffer from.

It will take you at least half the movie to get used to Ludgren's ridiculous hair which looks like a cross between Mr. T and Einstien. Well maybe not Einstien but you get the idea. It is only after he defects from the Russians where it appears that the tribes people must have stepped in and gave him a few fashion tips. It seems silly but it is very difficult to take him seriously with the hair and it absolutely does not suit his character.

The acting is low grade and it is often difficult to understand what the actors are saying in addition to trying to identify whether they are speaking in English, Russian or Swahili.

All in all this movie is deadly boring. Some bits just do not make any sense at all. Its as if Ludgren is trying to...trying to ummmm, I don't know what the hell he was trying to do but he was terrible at whatever it was.

The only good thing about this movie is the end portion oh yeah and the final credits too. The action scene right at the end was actually pretty good. And just when it starts with the entertainment the movie ends. I don't know about you, but I like big guys shooting people with big guns.

I think Ludgren is capable of much more its a pity that he his acting portfolio is not very impressive, no thanks to this movie. Stay away from Red Scorpion, I m giving it two thumbs down and the title of "Stinker Movie of the Month".

2.5/10

There was a lot of pre-release hype surrounding this movie. Before I saw it I was anticipating that it may not live up to its expectations. As it turned out I was wrong. Rush Hour 2 is in fact very funny and works very well.

In many ways Rush Hour 2 is better than its predecessor. Unlike the first, this movie gets right into it from the beginning. One of the things I found disappointing about the first Rush Hour was that it took a while before Chan actually started talking to Tucker and get the ball rolling. The director, Ratner, obviously learnt from the mistakes of the first Rush Hour.

Rush Hour 2 is very funny - the whole way through - which is quite an accomplishment. It is fair to say though, that most of the laughs come from Tucker. The action scenes are not too bad. The scaffolding sequence is pretty entertaining. It is clear that the movie focuses more on comedy than action, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

On the other hand, there is a bit of recycling of the jokes and to a certain extent the plot as well. In fact, the plot itself is nothing to call home about.

I was disappointed at one stage with the special effects. The end truck sequence - where it is blatantly obvious that Chan and Tucker are sitting in front of a blue screen for super-imposed images. For a big budget movie I would not have expected that.

I read that many people liked the acting of Ziyi Zhang from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. To tell you the truth she did not impress me. Perhaps its because I despised the Crouching Tiger movie like the plague or perhaps its because of her impossible name or the fact that she can't speak a word of English. Yet at 21 she still has a lot of opportunity ahead. Enough about her though.

This movie was really great and I have decided that I am going to buy the video when it comes out. This was one of the few films I have seen where the cinema audience erupted in applause at the end. Go out and watch it, if you enjoyed the first you will enjoy this even more - trust me. 8/10