Dragon Blade (2015) Play Movie

It's kind of a mess. That more than 20 minutes have been trimmed for the stateside release may have hurt the film's coherence, but viewers will be thankful for the shorter sit.. Just about everyone seems to get slashed, carved up or skewered, and vengeance rains down upon all. Except, of course, the one villain who truly deserved it. The filmmaker.. In Dragon Blade, East meets West in a murky, mediocre muddle.. [Chan's] acrobatic action sequences remain eye-catching as ever. Veteran star Chan, w...

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The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) Online Streaming

This oafish epic about the End of Days -- as predicted by the Mayan calendar -- operates in a dead zone roughly equidistant between parody and idiocy.. The third outing for a herd of toys that should have stayed in their boxes.. As you might expect with director Roland Emmerich, the movie isn't a patch on the trailer.. Frequently entertaining and sometimes lovely to look at.. This is fear-mongering, sentimental, horror show shtick, but it's also fairly competent, making 2012 a work of awful effi...

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Spy Kids (2001) Download Full

Just wacky enough and gadget-driven enough to appeal to bored kids looking for fresh energies.. Spy Kids may have its faults, but, for adults, it's far from a Mission: Unwatchable.. As drama, After Earth offers no surprises; as action, it's rarely stimulating; as a parenting manual, it seems that Will has thrown Jaden into water that's a little too deep.. A fine, relatively non-violent example of pure family entertainment.. It's just a somewhat mundane coming-of-age story with a terribly miscast...

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Robin Hood (2010) Download Full

There is a whole lot of meanwhile in this crowded, lumbering film.. If it's sword-on-sword with arrows-in-the-air action you want, Robin Hood delivers in a big way.. We never even get to see Robin steal from the rich and give to the poor. That's because the film is a prequel in search of a sequel. With any luck, we won't get one.. The film is pretty, and there are a few solid moments every hour. But considered as a work of cinema, with paid professionals involved, it's an extremely lackluster st...

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Last Knights (2015) Play Movie

This is an unrelentingly dour take on the fantasy genre, ditching the wizards, dragons and rampant nudity - aka, the fun stuff.. This thing is so garbled and goofy it plays like a parody. Except it's not.. As predictable as the wrap-up of one of D.W. Griffith's moralistic epics. What's surprising is how much Last Knights feels as if Griffith's ghost could have directed it.. By the end, the viewers of Japanese director Kazuaki Kiriya's low-budget Middle-Ages riff may end up wondering what they've...

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Superman Returns (2006) Full Movie Streaming

Superman Returns should swoop away with a big chunk of the summer box office, and deservedly so.. ... while I can't call it a home run, I'll say it's a solid base hit.. Superman, born in 1938, is still very much alive in 2006. The Man of Steel has so skillfully bent the bars of our imagination that he seems real to us. And in a sense, he is.. It's clear that Superman Returns wants to lay claim to being a true successor to the first film, not a sequel so much as a full-blooded offspring. But thes...

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Turbo Kid (2015) Play Movie

Brilliant. Epic. Haunting. Grotesque. Great.. The climactic chases, shootouts, and fistfights have been staged, filmed, and edited with insobriety. Visual clarity shouldn't be too much to ask from these movies, even if they fail to achieve ideological coherence.. If you have fond, 33-year-old memories of averting your young eyes from a propulsive parasite critter, Prometheus might just be your kind of return trip.. With a couple of elaborate action set pieces and some trippy, dreamlike sequences...

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Wrath of the Titans (2012) Watch Streaming

A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. I wonder how many meetings they had before they came up with that title. And didn't we just see this movie a couple of weeks ago, and wasn't it called Yours, Mine and Ours?. This feeble followup to 2010's godawful Clash of the Titans sucketh the mighty big one.. Every minute of this action packed movie is amazing. This is the single best movie I have ever seen. All of the actors do great jobs at their roles from the villains to the side...

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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) Watch Streaming

Adults have the choice of either admiring the scenery or taking a nap. There's not much else worth doing. Certainly, paying attention to the story is an exercise in futility, but you're welcome to try.... The sequel to the big family hit Night at the Museum struggles with a big creative challenge. The sense of wonderment you feel in seeing museum displays magically come to life is not as strong the second time around.. The museum sparkles, but the movie is awfully dull.. Pleasant, innocuous and ...

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The Golden Compass (2007) Download Full

Why is it so joyless?. The Golden Compass is a blatant attempt to duplicate the success of the Harry Potter franchise. The only thing missing is richly imagined characters, a comprehensible story line, good acting, and satisfying special effects.. The carefully crafted look, in which fabulous fantasy mingles with hand-woven sweaters, offers a visual feast. The acting is impeccable from performers to voices.. Weitz's film is short, punchy and efficient, and it's full of engaging spectacle.. Will ...

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Watch Streaming

Witherspoon uses her own undoubted discomfort with the physical demands of the role to make us feel Strayed's predicament in our bones.. Alas, there's nothing quite memorable here: much of the combat is just a whirl of movement photographed up close. As the X-Men series has progressed, the startling poetic extravagances of the first film have given way to flesh-pounding clumsiness.. With some dire blue-screen effects, dizzying tonal instability and a total absence of suspense or originality, 'Wo...

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The Expendables 3 (2014) Download Movie

Not as flag-wavingly cheesy as it might have been - but that doesn't make it a good film.. Those first two movies look like Seven Samurai next to The Expendables 3, a sad, bad, parade of uninspired cameos and listless violence.. It's the Walmart of feel-good family films: accessible, cheaply made, useful in a pinch and full of American flags.. Dullness, as well as hoary preachiness, neuters the family-and-their-war-dog drama "Max.". Yakin doesn't condescend to his audience, and infuses his plot ...

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Pompeii (2014) Full Movie Streaming

[The film] runs a reasonable-sounding 92 minutes. Yet those 92 feel like more than enough.. No matter how much lava is afoot, there's always time to impale one more person with a sword.. You wonder if Paul W.S. Anderson is a director who might feel disrespected.. Harington transformed his body for the role, but here's the real disaster: His startlingly defined six-pack abs are the most memorable part of his character.. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water mostly nails what has always made th...

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Into the Blue (2005) Online Streaming

Any potential guilty pleasure is washed away in a sea of icky sermonizing.. Not a thriller so much as an extremely violent swimsuit calendar.. Manages to create a winning Caribbean vibe that stretches into a fun popcorn flick.. I don't think there's anything wrong with an escapist adventure, but if you're rolling your eyes in disbelief at the plot and the dialogue, it makes it hard to enjoy the scenery.. Though marketed as brain-dead youth fodder, it's even worse than it looks.. Too long at 110 ...

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Fool's Gold (2008) Watch Streaming

As a spectacle, The Polar Express looks remarkable. As a film, however, it's the equivalent of an elaborately wrapped Christmas present containing a nice new pair of socks.. Without a trace of real live people, you get special effects that are not special, visual talking points without personality, virtual reality that is anything but real.. It is such a prefabricated, false-feeling, scattered and awkward stab at a romantic comedy you feel embarrassed for everyone involved and sorry for anyone w...

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G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) Watch Streaming

The movie promises to rock you, and much of the time it does.. Ever played a video game with a friend and had to sit there while he hogged it, leaving you to do nothing but watch for what seemed like hours?. Did you think a second G.I. Joe movie was a good idea?. The filmmakers appear to have handed a dozen or so G.I. Joe dolls to a 9-year-old, watched him play for 110 minutes, and then shot a scene-for-scene remake.. Strip away its 14th Century trappings and A Knight's Tale is just a Middle Age...

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On the Road (2012) Full Streaming

Although Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" has been praised as a milestone in American literature, this film version brings into question how much of a story it really offers.. The Adventures of Tintin can be a delight to look at, even if motion capture isn't your particular cup of animation tea.. One gets the sense that directors Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable have their hearts in the action sequences and not in the characters, and that's a problem.. If I wanted to spend two hours watching a plu...

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Avatar (2009) Full Streaming

Cameron and his legion of CGI experts and skilled craftspeople have delivered a lovely, misty, dangerous world.. Cameron has fared better than most in wedding cutting-edge special effects with ... genre storytelling, but Avatar, his supremely goofy science-fiction/action spectacular, finds him lost in a $250 million aquamarine light show.. A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. Whatever way you choose to look at it, Avatar's shock and awe demand to be seen. You've never expe...

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WALL·E (2008) Play Movie

If there's one thing certain in this new instalment of Jurassic Park, it's that the critters are a whole lot smarter, faster and interesting than the Homo sapiens dropping in on them.. The most consistent production unit in Hollywood just hit another home run.. Put simply, WALL-E is about as charming as movies get.. The third time around is at least one time too many.. It doesn't take long to figure out that Shrek is not going to be your ordinary animated fairy tale.. This latest achievement fro...

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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) Play Streaming

Awesome as director this is the first time that they have been together again Since training day powerful movie go see it!!!. This is a grittier webslinger saga, led by a Peter Parker with swagger and angst and a tone defined more by emotional resonance than wide-eyed wonder. It still has plenty of fizz.. Dumbed down, tarted up, and almost shockingly uninspired, it's the worst superhero movie since Green Lantern.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above y...

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