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H (2002) Movie Review
The secret to a successful thriller is simple: an involving storyline for the audience to be sucked in by and involving characters to take the audience through that story. Mood and atmosphere will only...
Read More »Silo Killer (2002) Movie Review
Bill Koning’s low-budget, shot-on-video opus “Silo Killer” suffers from schizophrenia, but other than that it’s a surprisingly entertaining first stab at moviemaking. The thing is, had Koning picked a tone and stuck to it,...
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Crazy Marriage (2002) Movie Review
Apparently being a part-time college professor in South Korea is not nearly as prestigious as you would think. The main character in Ha Yu’s “Crazy Marriage” (aka “Marriage is a Crazy Thing”) is Joon-young...
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Sky High (2003) Movie Review
Don’t you just hate it when you’re about to get married and a serial killer and his evil assistant crashes the party and literally rips out your heart? That’s what happens to our heroine...
Read More »Love Object (2004) Movie Review
Wacky horror films don’t get any better than Robert Parigi’s “Love Object”. For fans of the genre used to lazy screenwriting, amateurish acting, and underwhelming direction, “Object” is a good reason why we continue...
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LD 50 Lethal Dose (2003) Movie Review
For about 30 minutes, one almost believed “Lethal Dose” was going to become something great. Alas, an uninteresting Act 1 and a laughably absurd (not to mention wholly clich’d) Act 3 ruined the day....
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Bulletproof Monk (2003) Movie Review
You have to be a really big fan of Hong Kong legend Chow Yun-Fat (“The Killer”) to fully appreciate “Bulletproof Monk”, a derivative film about an immortal Tibetan monk (Chow) who has been protecting...
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Sabu (2002) Movie Review
Apparently Takashi Miike is capable of more than just throwing gobs and gobs of blood, bodyparts, S&M, and the senseless brutalizing of women at the screen. Go figure. “Sabu” is absolutely nothing one would...
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The Bodyguard (2004) Movie Review
Apparently writer/director/star Mum Jokmok thought the only way to follow up on the success of “Ong Bak” was to make a film completely unlike it. The result: an unrestrained action/comedy embolden by a big...
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Jan Dara (2001) Movie Review
As the Thailand movie Jan Dara opens, a note from director Nonzee Nimibutr cautions the viewer that the movie they are about to see is not to be taken seriously, that it’s not meant...
Read More »Repli-Kate (2002) Movie Review
“Repli-Kate” is basically your average College Screwball Comedy. It even has all the standard conventions of the genre, including: the evil dean, the dean’s pet student, the introverted hero, the hot girl he pines...
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Full Metal Yakuza (1997) Movie Review
Takashi Miike is a name I go out of my way to avoid. He joins Chris Tucker, Martin Lawrence, Kate Hudson, and Drew Barrymore as people whose movies I do not care for. After...
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The Alzheimer Case (aka The Memory of a Killer, 2003) Movie Review
Cop films are cop films regardless of the accents of the cops. Rather it’s Dutch, as in the case of “The Alzheimer Case”, or an American product, you can expect the usual conventions of...
Read More »The Eye 2 (2004) Movie Review
Here’s the thing about these “I see dead people” movies: if I woke up one day and realized I was seeing ghosts, I would be scared; at least, for the first couple of days,...
Read More »Toolbox Murders (2003) Movie Review
Serendipity sometimes works in Romantic Comedies, but they almost always come across as manufactured. The same is true for horror movies. In Tobe Hooper’s “Toolbox Murders”, the killer is not the brightest guy in...
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The Punisher (2004) Movie Review
Probably the only thing writer/director Jonathan Hensleigh got right with his big budget version of “The Punisher” is to cast Thomas Jane (“Deep Blue Sea”) in the lead role. With his raspy voice and...
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Troy (2004) Movie Review
The biggest problem modern audiences will encounter with Wolfgang Petersen’s “Troy”, despite its lavish backdrop and elaborate action set pieces, is that the film is adapted from a poem dating back over 2,000 years....
Read More »Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) Movie Review
Movies like “Agent Cody Banks 2″ allow me to break out the old adage: “It is what it is”. And if you happen to like what it is, then you’ll like this movie. But...
Read More »Starsky and Hutch (2004) Movie Review
I’m reasonably certain almost no one had anything nice to say when plans were announced to remake “Starsky and Hutch”, the popular ’70s cop show, into a feature length comedy starring Ben Stiller and...
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