Reviews

If you want your main character to go into some dream/alternative sequence, you need to set it up properly. The story was going well until out of nowhere you are stuck in a car with an imaginary character for no rhyme or reason. That killed it for me. That whole scene needs to be edited out.

Overall great acting, funny spoofish characters.

Don't bother reading the negative reviews of the haters. As usual they don't get the product so they decide to write a label. This Murphy produced movie is beautiful visual candy with some nice dance numbers and production values. If you need a tight script and a plot, get a book! Enjoy!

Guy Ritchie is coming into his own. Rich visuals, gorgeous costumes and quick pace dialogue. I like that there weren't your typical gratuitous scenes of violence but more of a Hitchcock type of inferred events. The acting and characters were superb and we were surprised by how much we enjoyed this almost 2hr movie.

Let me start by saying that the greatest actors always need several episodes of craziness to embody some disturbing character studies . Think of Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now, Christopher Walken in the Deer Hunter, Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York, Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia, Omar Sharif in Dr. Zhivago, Keith Ledger as the Joker and the list goes on. The point is Crazy is as Crazy does! Will Mr. Phoenix go find something worthy to bite and chew out in 2021?

In an incredible performance, Joaquin Phoenix, the MAESTRO, has delivered a performance of a lifetime. A new Joker, fresh, showing vulnerability being transformed into pure menace. From his body language, to his dancing the actor becomes the character as he descends into psychopathic nirvana. I don't know why but i kept thinking of Michael Jackson? Am i alone in this?

While i do take issue with the editing, which i found uncomfortably maladroit, I understand the director's intention that we should never feel at ease with Fleck in the room ( as we are often reminded) but i could do without people flicking cigarettes ashes as a metaphor for a twitchy guy unable to deal with past traumas. As for the laughing, i prefer a bad joke delivered with some spray paint vs. gratuitous violence. Some editing is best done by dancing with sharp cunning scissors under the pale moonlight.

The movie has haunted me since seeing it and i promised myself never to see it again for the magic would surely disappear. Like some live performances, they are best not shot with a cellphone but left to linger in your cortex as the best thing EVER!!!!

I do recommend you see it on the big screen without distractions and invest yourself in what surely will carry all the Oscar buzz for the next season

Enjoy!

French period pieces always have a "je ne sais quoi", French artisans can produce great costumes that dress beautiful ladies, grand palaces splendor all lighted up, lighted up to give you a feast for the eyes,

Unfortunately here, the ears are in for an exercise in excruciating pain tolerance! The storytelling, the characters and the acting by Monsieur Cassel are so bad, you keep looking at your watch. As always Monsieur Luchini brings in a nice Master Class of acting with some decent lines with all the pompous demeanor he is adored for,

Just bring some earphones and enjoy the eye candy and you might survive this paint by number dismal script.

Adapted from an Italian movie called Perfetti sconosciuti (2016), it is a story about 7 friends sharing a terrible home cooked meal washed down with copious amount of wine. As they have known each other for so long none should have secrets for each other. That is UNTIL... all must deposit their phones and all incoming messages must be shared out loud for all to hear and then all everything starts going badly as everybody seems to have unflattering secrets, Imagine a whodunnit where the secrets are the victims. The last 5 minutes lack a master's inventive brilliance but overall a delightful evening if YOU can watch a movie without eyeing your phone every ten seconds....

Sometimes a director wants to pay hommage to a past legend. We have seen it many times with talented directors like Tarentino, De Palma and others. You tell a story and you insert scenes like the masters and you move on, please don't ruin the mystique of masters of illusion by doing boring A DAY IN THE LIFE OF.... When you try to shoot biographical episodes, you are doing a high wire act in high winds. You are most likely to fall flat on your face and seriously injure your reputation. This is the case here. PPP was a shock jock whot reveled in visual controversy and in his writings. He was a combo of Bunuel-Dali-Picasso-Zola. To show his last day was about as interesting as reading the one word Twas and closing the book on A christmas carol. Move on people! there is NO story here

From the first Jump scene at 25,000ft landing on the right roof, you know you had to be in suspended disbelief. Every time I try to watch a Tom Cruise movie I leave disappointed and fooled. I guess at $1BB in revenue for a $175MM budget, there might be a lot of people in on the joke who enjoy spotting inconsistencies and nuclear holes in every single script and movie he appears in. Great motorcycle chases, big sounds, lots of explosions, inane dialogue! Call it Action Implausible!

This movie is pure 1960 French action comedy. Kidnap the girl, chase the villains, go far away to exotic places, find buried treasure following clues and artifacts, Campy but fun.

This superb movie was so hard to watch that we had to pause a couple of weeks before we watched the last third. Drug addiction is like a series of scabs that grow exponentially on family members at a greater rate than on the addict him or herself. This movie captures the tragedy of it all perfectly.

A documentary on the life of Rudi is quite an undertaking. Unfortunately this effort should be called an homage because it leaves out glaring omissions on the life of the most charismatic ballet dancer of the 20th century. If you ever had a chance to see Nureyev dance in his prime, it was an unforgettable experience. His unique ability to actually change the speed of his rotations in mid air were legendary. it gave his performances a unique oomph. The discipline, the injuries, the travels and the business side were not properly explored if explained to a public who may not understand the rigors of the art form. The producers were more interested in relating to events outside of the dance world with a heavy bent on politics. That would not have been my choice. Rudi could be a cad in public, charming when needed but also a very good business negotiator. Also MIA were interviews with company/artistic directors to give color to his influence on many companies is lacking. Was he punctual? How many hours would he practice? How generous was he with his time? Did he have any quirky riders on his contracts? Finally the credits ran way too long and should have some scenes incorporated in the actual documentary/

A bit light on the script, great cinematography, amazing sound yet terrible prosthetics. Malek does a fine job as Freddie for a younger generation to introduce them to a BRAND that was Queen. People have forgotten that if anything QUEEN was an ACT where the audience was part of the show where people left happy and elated after the show. None of the other bands of the era had that and the after parties were something else. I highly recommend you watch the 1981 Montreal Concert on youtube to get a feel for a complete show!!!

WEll casted, Harrelson and Hayek do a good job of supporting Brosnan in a well filmed bit of escapism. It felt like you were on holiday with all 3 people! Good product placement for the Atlantis resort and I do wonder if there is such a suite there. I must have a bad case of hitting Middle age because I never got surprised as there was very little suspense or imaginative turns in the sub-par plot. WHat works in this movie is the situation comedy where Harrelson plays the same endearing "Woody" character with just enough smarts to trail the burglar duo. I could have done without the heavy accented sterotyping of the minor island police characters. Anyway I'm a sucker for tall drinks, cleavage and palm trees. I got all three so all in all a good rental!

Good actors, bad uninspired dialogue,no camera work,low production values. This is not dinner with Andre or friends hanging at a diner. Some people may enjoy seeing desperate souls saying mundane things in drab settings. American society of that sort is so uninteresting, I find it funny that such gibberish can get funding and even worse distribution.

Travel my friends! There are millions of places, physical, literary more interesting than wasting your time here.

If I had to grade student films for a living, I would give this film a failing mark. I would want to make sure this type of project was left on the written page.

I rented this movie hoping to hear witty social observations on the human condition and I ended up being treated to a canine gab fest. "Come here Sparky! good sniffing for all" One caveat... I managed to watch only 4-5 scenes... Maybe best to play it in reverse order to limit pain to the afflicted if, as read else where, the better parts were left for the end.

The third installment should be called the poor cousin. Truly horrid, long and pointless dialogue, chase scenes that could have been better edited by a blind person combine to give the absent James Cameron some dignity. Enough with the morphing, already! 20 minutes into the film, as 4 middle aged guys with thousand of movies experience, we couldn't WAIT for this film to end. Bring on the Pirates!

Caveat emptor!

Cookies that leave me hungry for something else.

A typical Hollywood, churn mode, product directed by Danny De Vito who acts in and directs a movie which has characters with no depth and the cardinal sin of no story to tell. Relying on cosmestic changes, this cookie cutter script was not bound to garner dust because the outcome is so predictable, it's bound to be a hit. Do I hear a DOG barking? Hire good set and a costume designers, a dialogue coach for cosmetic vernacular changes, and voila: a factory script was repackaged and unfortunately shot with a decent cast. Any able body person in their sleep could direct this groaner which seems to fit the case for Mr. De Vito but with this script is was already wounded beyond the skills of the best Vet. If you are not turned off by the image of a burning puppy, read on!

Shot in New York City, Robin Williams plays Rudolph, a once famous clown on a fictitious kid TV Network. At the height of his success, he becomes the center of a big scandal which gets him the boot. Destitute, he will seek revenge on his successor. In the meantime, a network executive played by Catherine Keener,the love interest, scrambles to find a more manageable replacement in this hot time slot. In comes, Ed Norton, an actor playing Moochy, a stuffed Rhino a la Barney. The rest of the movie is predictable as everybody wants Moochy's head because of his too nice disposition and laudable health nut, war on sugar, utopic ambitions. The is in the tried and true good vs. greed Hollywood formula. Too many secondary character villains with weak dialogue make for a rambling story. Garnished by a few inspired "Improvs" by Williams which probably made for some good trailer sound bites, I found this movie failed because it had no credible audience. With a script that insults the intelligence of an 8 year old and the verbal sexual content which is inappropriate for most children, which audience was this movie targetting? My answer is a marginal group of adults who watch TV in snippets who don't really care for an original story i.e. box office bomb material!

While some of the visuals including the ice show scenes were grand, in the end, there was no story here worth telling to mass appeal and the non connect left me asking: Was there more than Rudolph's jacket to this movie?" Where can I get that clown jacket for my next gig as a dog trainer? Heel boy, Heel! HAOOOOO!