Articles in Sci-Fi Movie Reviews
Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death (1999) Movie Review
The Doctor Who series has been many things over the past few decades, but funny has never been one of them. And while director John Henderson and writer Steven Moffat may have only a tentative grasp on the Time Lord, they’ve nevertheless made a wickedly amusing parody sure to leave fans in stitches.
In “Doctor [...]
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993) Movie Review
After a few years of no new Doctor Who, fans of the show would have been tickled to watch Tom Baker read from the Gallifrey dictionary for 2 hours. Instead, they got a 15-minute crossover with the “Eastenders” as part of the Children in Need charity telethon. While quite flawed and illogical, the short is [...]
July 8th, 2004 | Joseph Savitski | 0 comments | Read MoreChronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury (2004) Movie Review
“Dark Fury” is a 30-minute self-contained animated story that takes place between the events of “Pitch Black” and the just released “Chronicles of Riddick”. It’s not really anything necessary, and I suspect only fans of the Riddick character will enjoy the film for what it is — the further adventures of everyone’s favorite nightvision-enhanced killing [...]
June 16th, 2004 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Chronicles of Riddick (2004) Movie Review
As pure spectacle, “The Chronicles of Riddick” is quite an achievement. But as a narrative story, it’s sporadic and unwieldy. For those in the dark (no pun intended), “Riddick” is the sequel to “Pitch Black”, a horror film in the guise of sci-fi. In that earlier incarnation, titular anti-hero Riddick (Vin Diesel) was an escape [...]
June 14th, 2004 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreDoctor Who: The Movie (1996) Movie Review
Ever since “Doctor Who” had its final sign-off in 1989, fans have been clamoring for its resurrection. They got their wish in May of 1996, when a joint BBC/Universal Films production was released on the FOX Television network. While obviously an Americanized version of the classic British series, the film still retained the spirit of [...]
June 14th, 2004 | Joseph Savitski | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Day After Tomorrow (2004) Movie Review
Any film that bears the credit “directed by Roland Emmerich” is not going to be particularly deep. It’s likely to be a vapid, two-hour waste of time. It’s too bad that “The Day After Tomorrow” continues the trend.
The film begins dramatically, with the climate of the Earth rapidly shifting. Tornadoes devastate Los Angeles, severe [...]
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004) Movie Review
Sometimes you wonder why studios make sequels when there seems to be no reason and certainly no creative impetus to do so. Take “Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation”, a movie where the title probably took longer to come up with than the actual script. Even though the screenplay was written by Edward Neumeier, [...]
May 10th, 2004 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Guyver (1991) Movie Review
“The Guyver” was one of the first in a series of Western film adaptations of anime, released in hopes of capitalizing on the success of “Akira”. Given the cold shoulder when initially released in the USA, New Line Pictures gave the film another shot by releasing it as a director’s cut. While the few minutes [...]
May 1st, 2004 | Joseph Savitski | 0 comments | Read MoreThought Crimes (2003) Movie Review
“Thought Crimes” is an origins episode. Even though it’s being sold as a 90-minute movie, anyone familiar with episodic TV can tell you right away that “Thought Crimes” was a 2-hour TV pilot that never materialized into a regular show. Which is an awful shame, because this is one of the better sci-fi/superhero show that’s [...]
April 26th, 2004 | Nix | 1 comment | Read MoreTimeline (2003) Movie Review
For some reason people in “Timeline” are constantly talking over each other. I’m not sure if director Richard Donner (”Lethal Weapon”) planned this, but the end result is irritating as hell. In a lot of ways, it reminded me of the TV show “Southpark”, where whenever characters are talking at once they are actually only [...]
April 4th, 2004 | Nix | 0 comments | Read More
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