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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) Movie Review

I will first grant you that I find the main premise behind Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within to be just a little silly, with its focus on the Earth as a “living being” with a spirit and other such New Age nonsense. Then again, what did you expect going into a movie called Final Fantasy? [...]

March 14th, 2002 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Soldier (1997) Movie Review

Soldier is not a deep movie. It’s a sometimes too-violent film, but it’s never boring. At least, I never found it to be boring. The plot is a simple one: old supersoldier Todd and his group of supersoldiers, trained since birth to be killing machines, are replaced by another group of supersoldiers led by Cain [...]

February 11th, 2002 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Pitch Black (2000) Movie Review

“Pitch Black” is a Last Stand in a Haunted House movie with a couple of variations on the formula: the haunted house is a sun-scorched planet with 3 suns and the ghosts are alien creatures that shuns light. Writer/director David Twohy, who chooses a bleached-out look for the film, gives the impression that the alien [...]

January 21st, 2002 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Evolution (2001) Movie Review

Evolution is an odd movie. It’s a movie with science fiction elements and bathroom-level humor. The characters are cardboard cutouts and not a single one of them should be doing what they’re doing in the movie. For instance, Orlando Jones’ character, a geologist and professor, acts, talks, and has the motives of a 5-year old [...]

January 13th, 2002 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace (1999) Movie Review

Selling a Star Wars movie to the moviegoing public is like selling blood to vampires. You know they want it, they know they want it, and not any amount of bad press or bad reviews about the movie (or blood) is going to put them off from getting it. This is the dilemma (if you [...]

December 27th, 2001 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Ghosts of Mars (2001) Movie Review

Ghosts of Mars is officially called John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars. This is because John Carpenter is a horror fan favorite, and the horror fans are a group of people who are known for their fanatical dedication to the genre regardless of quality (or lack thereof).
Ghosts of Mars has an intriguing plot: it’s [...]

December 26th, 2001 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

The One (2001) Movie Review

In The One, we are told there are 125 universes parallel to our own (another take on the tried and true sci-fi The Parallel Universe movie), and in each universe there is a copy of us who shares our energy, or life force. When one of our doppelganger dies in another universe, his life energy [...]

December 26th, 2001 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

The Matrix (1999) Movie Review

So why am I writing a full review of a movie everyone has already seen and likes enough that the producers are already at work on Parts 2 and 3? For one, I am personally at odds over the movie. Like millions of fans out there, I adore the movie for its mixture of Eastern [...]

December 14th, 2001 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Fight Club (1999) Movie Review

“Fight Club” is, in my mind, the best movie to never gain an audience. It’s one of those movies that people either “get” or “didn’t get.” That isn’t to say those who “didn’t get” the film is stupid, but merely that “Fight Club” is what you would call “hit and miss” — you either like [...]

December 11th, 2001 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Dark City (1998) Movie Review

“Dark City” is one of my favorite movies of the ’90s. It is one of the most atmospheric and creatively stimulating movies I have ever come across. Forget the fact that director Alex Proyas is a visual genius, because the acting is spot on, the cinematography is awe-inspiring, and the production design is mind-blowing. The [...]

December 4th, 2001 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

Cube (1997) Movie Review

“Cube” is a strange, but good, movie. It’s one of the more creative movies I’ve seen in a long time. The film is Canadian in origin, and was finished, I believed, with the help of money raised to help Canadian filmmakers. I’m sure there’s a name for this particular program, but it escapes me at [...]

September 23rd, 2001 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More

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