Year: 2000

Movie review: Double jeopardy

It is always nice to see that some people know how to cast Ashley Judd. While she doesn’t actually know how to act, she does very well in this predictable thriller. Don’t expect too many surprises, but the movie is entertaining enough. Tommy Lee Jones is great as ever, and with Judd in place, the […]

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Movie Review: Kiss The Girls

The only believable murder that takes place in this entire movie is that of the original James Patterson novel of the same title. Based on a close-to-brilliant serial killer thriller by the writer of ‘Along came a spider’, this film fails in almost every respect. Moving way too slow, with a rambling script and terrible […]

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Movie Review: The Green Mile

As far as I’m concerned, King adapations are notoriously awful. (Take any film version of wonderful IT, for example.) But this marathon of a movie, based on – and closely following – the novel of the same name, is all but perfect. With a script that captures both the atmosphere and the story of the […]

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Movie review: Knock off

I’ve seen many a silly and stupid action flick, and would have even given passing marks to some of Van Damme’s work. But this is way too stupid and boring. I watched it in a bus on my way to a skiing holiday, and even with absolutely nothing else to do, this movie could not […]

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Movie Review: The Straight Story

Take a story that spans two months in which hardly anything happens at all… Tell that story in 111 minutes of film and skip the highlights… Shoot the film in Iowa and Wisconsin, in a landscape devoid of anything even remotely resembling an interesting feature… Give all the leading roles in the film to old […]

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