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Frailty (2001)
Don't miss this one.
This is one heck of a thriller. The kind of movie that will keep you thinking even after the movie has ended. A well acted, well written dark, dark movie.
I hope Bill Paxton continues to direct, he's off to a very good start. Most horror/thriller movies use a lot of blood, guts, brain and innards spilled on the floor for shock effect. With very minimum of those kind of visual gruesomeness, Paxton managed to transcend the chills of horrific events on to you.
Changing Lanes (2002)
You'd wish they didn't change lanes.
A good plot cannot be saved by bad acting. A bad plot with good acting is often more tolerable... as the case here is. Acting was good, afterall, we are talking about Samuel L. Jackson.
Have you ever rented a movie and after watching it thought to yourself, "What a piece of @#%*! I should have rented the other movie instead of this #@%&". The whole movie is barely bearable. As the story (or lack thereof) unfolds, the plot (or lack thereof) gets worse and worse. When the end credits finally start scrolling up your tv screen, you'd sigh..."thank heavens, it's over."
And as you eject the disc (or tape) out of your player, you'd think, "What a piece of @#%*! I should have rented the other movie instead of this #@%&".
Showtime (2002)
Showtime or Waste Of Time?
I don't care much about Eddie Murphy, he's been not funny for a long long time. And Rene Russo is just another big name. But, this is a total waste of Robert DeNiro's talent.
This movie is soooo awful I didn't finish it.
Shot Through the Heart (1998)
One fantastic movie
This is one fantastic movie. It really gets to you. Superb acting, dialogue. All too natural scenes.
You would expect a high-adrenalin duel between the two sharpshooter, like in 'Enemy at the Gates', and when the events unfold in a different way you would start to think, 'Yeah, that's perfect'. And you would realize that had the final confrontation turned into a John Woo-ish 45-minute-long-butt-kicking nonsense, it would have spoiled the movie.
Collateral Damage (2002)
An okay guy movie
Really, what do you expect from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie? Lots of explosion; he gets beaten at first, gets captured, hogtied, escapes, then he breaks some necks; he takes on a whole army and he wins; he has to go through and kill two hundred extras first before he gets a shot at the lead villain; they recite poems first before they kill each other, like, "you americans are so naive... we kill you because of your messing up with the affairs of our nation..." then Arnie responds, "but you kill innocent women and children...", and then they jump at each others neck; etc., etc., etc. All sorts of ridiculous twists that you know will be there in a Schwarzenegger movie and yet you watch it because afterall it was just an action movie and you just wanted a plain vanilla macho-guy-entertainment, right? Well, you got all those in this movie. So don't believe the bad reviews, you get what you know you will get. And, you don't expect Arnie to stand up in the podium one day and say "I'd like to thank the academy...".
The best part of the movie was the John Torturro scenes. Too bad Torturro's was just a bit part.
The Cure (1995)
A wonderful, very emotional movie.
There was nothing else on tv yesterday afternoon, so I thought "okay, let's watch this." I didn't know the plot and I had no expectation whatsoever, I was thinking in a few minutes or so I will channel surf again. But then story started to unfold, and the characters played beautifully by the two boys. The story did have unrealistic parts and scenes, but overall it was a real good movie. Very well worth watching.
Gosford Park (2001)
What's the fuss and buzz all about?
What's the fuss and buzz all about? To me Gosford Park is an ordinary movie, a yawner actually. I don't dissect a film just because a bunch of film critics said it is good. A good movie is a good movie... and this one is awful. I get a feeling the critics wanted throw a bone to Altman just out of respect. But, really, what can you expect from a film with old British setting?
Hart's War (2002)
An OK film, if you don't have anything else to do.
This film is okay and not a very bad idea if you want to pass time on a lazy weekend afternoon. It's just another run-of-the-mill American heroism propaganda on film -- very Hollywood. If you are debating with yourself whether to watch this film or go mall-strolling, I'd say put on your walking shoes.
Impostor (2001)
Plain boring...
There's not a lot in the story. The chase drags on for one obvious reason -- to add length to the film. Gary Sinise's talent is wasted on this one. I was hoping that the agony of watching the film will be rewarded by the ending, but I was left disappointed. Waste of time. This movie is plain boring.