Returner (2002) Movie Review

Sometimes there’s just no real reason for a movie to be in the first place. Take the South Korean movie “Resurrection of the Little Match Girl”, and now take the Japanese movie “Returner”. Both films are clearly inspired by “The Matrix”, and one can spot the...

March 18th, 2003 | Read More

Children of Dune (2003) Mini-Series TV Review

Let’s get it out of the way first: I have never read Frank Herbert’s “Dune” books. Not a single one. This was the case when I went into “Dune”, the original mini-series produced by the Sci-Fi Channel a few years back, and it’s the case now. The mini-series collects...

March 12th, 2003 | Read More

Event Horizon (1997) Movie Review

“Event Horizon” stars Sam Neill (“Jurassic Park 3″) as Dr. Weir, a troubled scientist who, along with the salvage crew of Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne), are sent to salvage an experimental ship called the Event Horizon that had gone missing years earlier. As the ship’s...

March 12th, 2003 | Read More

Screamers (1995) Movie Review

“Robocop’s” Peter Weller headlines “Screamers” as Hendricksson, the burnt out commanding officer of a futuristic military faction called the Alliance. Hendricksson and his men have been fighting a war against the rival N.E.B. soldiers on an isolated mining planet for the...

March 9th, 2003 | Read More

Heavy Metal 2000 (2000) Movie Review

The only reason that could possibly explain the making of “Heavy Metal 2000″ is the cult following for the 1981 original. Unlike its predecessor, “Heavy Metal 2000: F.A.K.K. 2″ uses traditional cell animation in combination with CGI, as is the trend nowadays. Similar methods of...

March 3rd, 2003 | Read More

Code Hunter aka Stormwatch (2002) Movie Review

At the risk of coming across like some Hollywood elitist, let me just say that low-budget filmmakers should be banned from ever making a movie about virtual reality ever again. I say this after having seen “Code Hunter”, a film that is at least 6 years too late to get in on all the “VR...

February 18th, 2003 | Read More

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Movie Review

It really is not possible to over exaggerate the importance of a movie like “Terminator 2″ to action filmmaking, and just filmmaking in general. Besides pioneering cinematic morphing technology (the technique that mimics one character “changing” flawlessly into another before...

February 16th, 2003 | Read More

Solaris (2002) Movie Review

I’ve never been accused of going out of my way to see the year’s (insert present year here) “most thought-provoking movie”. It’s commonly known that I don’t always need a film to challenge me emotionally or question the way I see things in order to find it satisfying....

February 1st, 2003 | Read More

Minority Report (2002) Movie Review

“Minority Report” takes place in the near future (50 years or so), and stars Tom Cruise as Anderton, the head of a Washington D.C. police bureau in charged of stopping murders before they take place. The bureau of Precrime is a prototype, and D.C. has been using the system for the last 6...

January 8th, 2003 | Read More

Men in Black 2 (2002) Movie Review

“Men in Black 2″ was a bona fide hit even before it hit theaters. Actually, it was a hit even before the studio announced they would be making a sequel to the original. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that “MIB 2″ is more of the same. Which is to say if you liked the...

December 14th, 2002 | Read More

The 6th Day (2000) Movie Review

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “The Sixth Day” is really a Comedy, and anyone who doesn’t want to be bored to death by its oh so routine action sequences should treat the film as such. The film deals with the subject of human cloning, but if you thought this was a serious dissertation...

December 7th, 2002 | Read More

The Truman Show (1998) Movie Review

Peter Weir’s “The Truman Show” was the first movie that former rubberface comedian Jim Carrey served notice to the world that he was more than his talking posterior. Besides satirizing the then-fledging concept of reality TV taken to its most ludicrous degree, “The Truman Show”...

November 30th, 2002 | Read More

Alien (1979) Movie Review

The tagline for Ridley Scott’s 1979 “Alien” is, “In space no one can hear you scream,” and is it ever appropriate. “Alien” is a claustrophobic film that makes you feel just as isolated, desperate, and lonely as its characters. The look, the feel, and the sensation...

November 24th, 2002 | Read More

Alien 3 (1992) Movie Review

David Fincher’s “Alien 3″ made one crucial mistake even before the first shot was put to celluloid. In the screenwriting phase, the writers killed off Hicks, Newt, and Bishop without so much as an apology. For anyone who has gasped and jumped and had their heart crash against his or...

November 24th, 2002 | Read More

Aliens (1986) Movie Review

James Cameron’s “Aliens” is, in my humble opinion, the definitive Humans vs. Aliens movie. As far as I’m concern, every film that has come after “Aliens” are inferior clones. Even the animated “Final Fantasy”, for all of its cinematic breakthroughs, was...

November 22nd, 2002 | Read More

Wing Commander (1999) Movie Review

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that “Wing Commander” is a bad movie; it’s just not as good as it could have been. The script is uninteresting, which is saying a lot since the destruction of Earth by enemy forces is at stake. Seeing as how “Wing Commander” is based...

November 3rd, 2002 | Read More

Scorcher (2002) Movie Review

It probably goes without saying that “Scorcher”, a direct-to-video production, is a terrible movie. Besides that unavoidable conclusion, the movie features one of the most irritating Professional Jerks of all time. A Professional Jerk is a character within a movie (usually action movies)...

September 21st, 2002 | Read More

2009: Lost Memories (2001) Movie Review

Si-myung Lee’s “2009: Lost Memories” is a science fiction movie in the guise of an action flick. Its main premise hangs on a Time Travel concept of altering past events in order to shape the future ala the “Terminator” movies. Of course there are a number of Time Paradoxes...

September 20th, 2002 | Read More

Starship Troopers (1997) Movie Review

The most interesting thing about a Paul Verhoeven film is that, for the most part, they’re satire about human society dressed up as mindless entertainment. Take the bloodbath that was “Robocop,” about media saturation in the face of over-the-top violence; or “Starship Troopers,”...

September 7th, 2002 | Read More

Total Recall (1990) Movie Review

“Total Recall” is a 1990 futuristic actioner about Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger), an Everyman construction worker on Earth who begins to think he’s a super secret agent for a government agency on the (recently colonized) planet of Mars. Quaid’s problems arise when his...

September 7th, 2002 | Read More