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Guess Who (2005)
Boring Meet The Parents rip-off
No good lines, no good gags, only Bernie Mac trying to save the show. What were they thinking? This is a terrible film, all the more so because it's put together just well enough to stop you leaving the room. You keep waiting for the next scene hoping that it will be just a little bit funnier and it never is. Ashton Kutcher is dire and everyone else, apart from Bernie Mac, merely competent. But even Bernie can't flog this dead horse back to life, because for that, you need a good script. No script, no movie, I thought that was one of the things they taught at film school. Apparently not. What made them think that a blatant and shameless rip-off of a decent film would work when they don't even include a little inventiveness? For inventiveness, read original and fresh gags, situations etc. Their "Big Idea" was to put it in a racial context, the reverse of the one depicted in "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner." That's all. That's the only thing they thought of by themselves. How very original. Don't waste your time with this film.
The Last Horror Movie (2003)
Unoriginal and disappointing
This film seems to be trying hard to grip the imagination of the viewer but my tolerance for its knowing tricksiness and didactic attitude could only have lasted as long as I found it compelling, which was no time at all. The idea of a serial killer making his own personal film or having one made about him was executed to far better effect, both more entertaining and more chilling, in the Belgian film Man Bites Dog. In The Last Horror Movie the film-makers try to challenge our moral position vis a vis violence as entertainment, but this is done in such an unsubtle and hectoring tone that interest wanes very quickly. In Man Bites Dog, this was genuinely achieved through skillful and subtle film-making rather than preaching pseudo-philosophical student claptrap at the audience. It thinks that through its "post-modern" trickery that it includes and involves the viewer directly, just as the killer attempts to "include" his victims in the "project" but the end result for me was bored, irritated alienation. The performances are acceptable but nothing special and Kevin Howarth as Max has his work cut out delivering leaden text to us in tedious video-diary-style scenes, of which there are too many. If you want to see a film with this kind of theme, rent Man Bites Dog and let your conscience lecture you, not some self-regarding film student.
Siege of the Saxons (1963)
Load of stupid rubbish.
"Celts" dressed as Normans fighting uniformed Saxon enemies with truly pathetic horned helmets, (even for the '60's). Atrocious script, third-rate acting and cast. No redeeming features. God knows what caused this film to be made. No merit, even as a warning of what stupidity and vanity can produce when combined with money.