Reviews

As an action movie, KOD is very entertaining. I agree, however, with many critics that the movie needed a better script. Also, Jet Li acting is too stiff as a board and there never is any chemistry between him and Fonda's character. Some of Fonda's lines are excessively overbearing and wear down the movie. The action scenes are great, however. The hardcore violence is very entertaining. I like the fact that the bad guys are Frenchmen and that the setting is in Paris.

Enjoy this movie for Jet Li's fighting skills, but do not expect a great plot and script.

This was a really bad movie. I suckered myself into seeing this crap because Star Wars Phantom Menace was just around the corner.

The dialog in the movie is at times incomprehensible. From the get go, I had a hard time making sense of the jibberish spoken. The characters are all unconvincing. Safron Burrows character is especially unconvincing. The monsters/aliens are not seen a whole lot. The action is not very good either. The plot is so banal that it is not worth mentioning. I was sure tempted to walk out of this movie half way through but figured I'd might as well stay since I wouldn't be able to get a refund for my admission ticket.

Take my advice: don't see this movie. Stick to something like Star Wars.

Chameleon 3 is a very good movie which features Bobbie Phillips as Kam-a good femme fatale cyborg. I really enjoyed this movie because Phillips, a beautiful actress, really gets to fight and shoot it out with the bad guys. She gets to do a lot of hand-to-hand combat scenes that really make this movie fun to watch. The first Chameleon movie was too subdued in its action. The movie has pretty decent effects and customes. I particulary loved Kam's tight black outfit and specially-enhanced shades-very sexy! 3.5 stars out of 5.

After I have seen so many poorly written and directed movies, I was so pleased to see an excellent movie as The Insider. This movie is a superb example of what all movies should have regardless of the genre: well-crafted directing, scripting and acting. The Insider provides an intensely sustained drama from start to finish. Russel Crowe and Al Pacino give superb performances. I was even delighted with Christopher Plummer's performance as Mike Wallace. If you haven't seen this gem of a movie, GO SEE IT!!

5 stars!!!

This remake of the Planet of the Apes was okay. I feel the movie was not well-written. The characters are way too underdeveloped (especially Wahlberg's). The movie does have a great sense of artistic direction (the scenery, make-up and props are very enticing and alluring). However, I feel the movie moved at a way too easy by-the-numbers pace. There was never any real drama or suspense invested into the script. The interaction between the characters is often stale and almost wishing to be something more redeeming. Another aspect that really confused me was regarding the humans on the ape planet. These humans were obviously able to speak, thus they were intelligent. So, why were these humans unable to have formed a much stronger resistance to the apes? (In the original Planet of the Apes movie, the native humans were more underdeveloped like cavemen who still could not speak.) The ending of the 2001 remake was too weak and only guarantees us the possiblity that someone else might provide us with another sequel.

My advice: catch this movie on cable and don't bother to rent or buy it.

I happened to be flipping through the tv and came across this sorry excuse of a movie on HBO. At first, I thought this would be an interesting remake of the Avengers-man was I wrong!

I only saw about 25 minutes of this movie and felt I was going to fall into a coma! The movie tries to be sexy (Emma Peel) and sophisticated but the dialog and acting are beyond atrocious. I did not even bother to stick around and wait for Sean Connery to show up! The mind-numbing banter of Finnes' character really grinds this movie into an unbearable desire to watch something (ANYTHING) else. Somehow, my brain cells reactivated themselves from this drek and helped me flick away with my tv remote.

Don't waste your time with this movie!! 0 stars out of 5

I actually wasted money seeing this movie on pay-per-view. The movie was soooooooooo boring that my brother decided to fall asleep and told me to wake him up when something exciting happened.

After seeing this movie, I read in an issue of US magazine, that Sigourney Weaver was responsible for the way the movie was scripted. She demanded that the script not contain any firearms (hence the boring and dank prison environment which unusually had no weapons-go figure). She really messed this Alien pic up big time!!! Aliens success (in my opinion) was that action provided by the weaponary. Also, Alien 3 was more a sorry excuse to end the Alien saga on a wishy-washy sentimental note. For me, the movie failed miserably.

The attack scenes are unbelievably predictable. I felt like like I knew 15 minutes in advance of who was going to get killed by the alien. The alien creature itself is rather dull and unimpressive. The plot is geered more towards a soap opera audience than a sci-fi movie. This movie failed to provide anything exciting or rewarding. I remember the printed advertisements for this movie were saying stuff like: "3 times the terror". GIVE ME A BREAK! This movie was more like 3,000 times the disappointment.

My advice, stick to Alien and Aliens for true satisfaction and don't even bother to watch Alien 3!

Quite simply, The Thing rocks! This is a most-see movie for horror fans. The movie has an excellent plot with eye-popping visual effects. Kurt Russel acts his role perfectly has a savvy human trying to undermine the intentions of the malicious Thing! If you haven't seen the Thing, go do it now. I have seen this movie at least 25 times and it never ceases to entertain. Perhaps, I wonder, if this movie could be remade using today's state-of-the-art special effects.

This movie was such a bore!! The movie does not move at warp speed but at Heinz ketchup speed coming out of a new bottle! What a boring plot-way too infantile and profoundly philosophical! Hideous uniforms! Kirk's make-up was ghastly! And grotesquely sub-par special effects made this Trek less exciting than watching an ant carry food back to its hole. This movie has got to be one of the worst Trek films along with Star Trek V!!!! The chemistry between the characters is virtually defunct! Spock really looks and acts more as a Spook! Whoever wrote this garbage forgot the meaning of the word ACTION!

It is truly amazing more Star Trek films were made after this rubbish!

1 out of 10 stars!

This Batman movie was soooooooooo bad I could only watch the first 15 minutes. After that, I emphatically hit the stop/eject button to get this rubbish out of my VCR. The acting and writing was beyond infantile and unbearable. Stick with the first Batman movie and forget this load of crap! Clooney has no business trying to be a caped hero, maybe he should try and do a remake of Shazam or just stick to that ER thing!

-1* out of *****

Horror Planet is one of the most pathetic "horror" (if you can call it horror) movies I have ever scene for the following reasons: The plot is infantile. The scenery is so cheesy and does not convince us that the movie takes place in outer space. The acting is atrocious Whoever wrote this garbage had no clue how to write at least meaningful character dialog. The special effects are non-existent (e.g. motorcycle helmets are used for space helmets!) The music is sooooo bad you will be taking plenty of aspirin.

I will be talking a little bit about the movie's plot and scenes, so if you really want to torture yourself. Stop here and go see this lame movie.

Well, well. Space explorers on an alien planet. They wake up an alien from a hibernation. Alien wakes up hungry and horny and decides to eat on guy and rape a woman. What horror! What is so funny is when this "alien" (which looks like a Jabba-the-Hut clone) attacks the two explorers, you never get a sense of the creature!! All I saw was someone run across the set in dark lighting. And I see a human hand push the guy and woman. We never see how the "alien" (yeah right) eats the guy. Obviously devoid of any money for special effects, the director use very dark lighting, so we have to use our imagination. It doesn't work. The guy (Mitch) is shown screaming while globs of steaksaucy liquid is poured and spattered all over. The music during this scene is Awful!!! Pretend you are listening to two guys hitting a radiator with wrenches! The "alien" which seems invisible decides to take off Mitch's motorcycle helmet and throw it away. Of course, we don't see this happen. Instead, we see a helmet rolling on the ground. The director could of at least try to fake a decapitated head!!! The woman(Sandy) gets raped with some green (Mountain Dew) fluid. I guess this scene was greatly edited because I saw it on the Sci-Fi channel.

She ends up waking up back in the space station. The crew act as if nothng wrong has happened. Despite the fact that Mitch's steak sause covered cadaver was brought back too, the crew pretty much act like "Alright it's back to work!" The rest of the movie is excruciatingly long as Sandy freaks out and pretty much kills and eats everyone except Mark, who ends up strangling her. As for our mysterious alien, it or he blows up his place. I guess the alien was so bored that it had nothing else better to do in this movie that it killed itself. Sandy does give birth to two ugly little critters that take out the remaining crew members. Yawwwn!!! At the end, two spacemen visit the space station and pretty much show no remorse or emotion that everyone is dead/mutilated. The two idiots end up taking back a box which has the two little monsters in it! I guess they forgot to look inside the box and see what they were carrying! Yawnnn!!!!!

Take my advice- DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME IN SEEING THIS GARBAGE!!!!

Deadly Angels is an entertaining movie, but it could have been better. The movie presents us with three very attractive female officers who go undercover to stop some criminals. The three women are experts at the martial arts, And each has a particular weapon she uses to fight with. The movie's premise starts out good (in showing the three angels has unbeatable femme fatales) but later shows the agents as not so unbeatable. That's where I think the movie went wrong. The angels should have been unbeatable all the way through. I want to talk about a particular scene of the movie which illustartes my point so you may not want to read on. The scene is early in the movie where the three agents (one Chinese, one Korean, one Japanese) are called upon to display to their superior officers that are truly tough policewomen. So, the three agents have to show some shooting skills as a team. That part is okay. But then the three agents are confronted with male attackers. This is the best part of the movie because the angels show how ferocious their fighting skills are. No, women are not the weaker sex. The Chinese agent easily kicks and chops her opponent. The Korean agent,wearing long black boots, delivers an impressive kicking performance, by sweep-kicking her male opponent, trying to stomp him, and eventually giving him a kick in the chest. The sexiest agent is the Japanese agent, named Liu Ping. She is also (in my opinion) the toughest of the three agents. Liu-Ping is attacked by two attackers. In a instant, Liu -Ping is shown grabbing one (overweight) attacker by the arm and delivering a judo flip. As the overweight attacker gets tossed like a garbage bag by the smaller policewoman, another attacker attempts to dleiver a hand blow. Liu-Ping, however, stops his punch with one arm and delivers a rocketing kick to the man's chest. The director shows a nice frontal view of her nice leg and foot going to whack her opponent. The man someone gets up again ,but is obviously sill feeling the impact of her high-heeled shoe. He tries to attack her again, but Liu-Ping stops his feeble blow and delivers a quick punch in his lower stomach. As he falls over in pain, Liu-Ping quickly turns around and grapples with the overweight attacker again. He tries to overtake her with some hand chops, but she is obviously too fast and just as strong (if not stronger). She slaps away at his arms. The director does a nice job of showing a close-up of the furious contact as her red-nailed fingers stop the man's attack. After this, the men regroup and pull out some knives and charge at the three women. The Chinese woman flips her attacker with her foot and proceeds to pull out a spiked-ball weapon. She easily wins. The Korean agent delivers a kick to the head and pumps her opponent with three shoots from a cross-bow weapon. Once again, Liu-Ping delivers the strongest and most feminine performance. She takes off one of her shoes and beats her two attackers. After taking off her shoe, she adeftly whacks the overweight attacker by hitting him once in the leg and once in the back. As he reels from the blows, the other attacker tries to close in on Liu-Ping. But she uses her shoe to whack at his arm (with the knife in hand). The two attackers end up on each side of Liu-Ping and try to draw their knives on her. But Liu-Ping, once again, is too quick and strong. She blocks their arms (with the knives) with her arms and simultaneously hits the two attackers. The smaller attacker gets planted with her shoe in the chest and the overweight attacker receives a fist in the chest. As the two clumsy atackers get sent falling over the edge of the fighting plane, the director gives a nice close-up of Liu-Ping taking apart her shoe to make a slingshot weapon with her earnings as explosive bombs (what imagination)! She slings a bomb past the two attackers who franactically jump out of the way. The earings end up explode a shack behind them. Liu-Ping then smiles pleasantly and rejoins the other two women. I feel that up to this point, the movie was great. But later on the angels are not shown as dominant fighters. They end up getting scenes where they are just barely able to survive confrontations. This is where the movie suffers.