Year: 2003

Movie review: Godzilla

Now there’s been enough said about the embarassing quality of this movie, so I will refrain from thrashing it some more (except to state that it is, in fact, a terrible, terrible movie). Instead I’d like to focus on whatever it is that Matthew Broderick thinks he is doing all through the entire 140 minutes […]

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Movie Review: The Art of War

On the strength of trailers and a glowing review by an action-lover friend of mine, I rented this movie only to find that I was left with one question after watching: Why? Once upon a time there was a tv series called The Fugitive. Then a marvelous action movie was made of it starring Harrison […]

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You Turn!

Had I lived in LA, I would have undoubtedly died in shooting incidents dozens of times over by now. As things stand, the only thing that suffers from events like the one this afternoon is my adrenaline gland and my faith in the human condition. On the upside, I permit myself a slight feeling of […]

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Movie review: The Matrix reloaded

I guess we had to have this part. With The Matrix an excellent, exceptional prologue to the trilogy, and the Revolutions promising to be a worthy epilogue, it is perhaps sad that Reloaded is such a plain movie. Admittedly, there are a series of very well-executed special effects in the movie. The fighting is great, […]

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Movie Review: Color of Night

When I saw The Man in the Iron Mask through to the end, I thought I’d reached the depth of cinematic embarassment. Color of Night, amazingly, is worse. In this straight-to-trashcan production by Alan Smithee wannabe Rush, Bruce Willis and Jane March co-star in what was probably intended as a psychological thriller, but turned out […]

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