The basics of the story remain unchanged, but it's the wanna-be-blockbuster additions that rankle, be it the incoherent direction of first-time feature director Carl Rinsch or the copious CGI beasties who look like rejected Lord of the Rings villains.. Solemn as a funeral march, humorless as your junior high principal, as Japanese as a grocery-store California roll, Keanu Reeves's let's-mope-about-and-kill-ourselves...
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) Download Movie
This is one of those rare instances when a sequel wouldn't just be warranted - it would be welcomed.. It's got all the ingredients - improbable romances, partial nudity, ridiculous escapes - that make it little more than big-sound and big-picture fodder for the Imax screens it will appear on throughout the country.. This is like an Austin Powers movie directed by Wes Anderson, although Ritchie's personal...
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Download Movie
Last time out, in Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson adapted a children's book by Roald Dahl. Now, in Moonrise Kingdom, he's made one of his own.. It's an adventure, a love story, a biblical allegory complete with approaching storm, a mash note to composer Benjamin Britten and a profoundly touching discourse on the needs of troubled children.. It's a fable about what it feels like to be 12 years old...
The Wolverine (2013) Online Streaming
Like most superhero films, "The Wolverine" depends mostly on sheer mechanics -- both in front of and behind the camera -- and on that level it's a resounding success.. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water mostly nails what has always made the character, and his brightly coloured underwater world, so endearing: the abundant innocence, the welcome lack of cynicism and the out-and-out stupidity.....
War of the Worlds (2005) Online Streaming
War of the Worlds' is a picture without a thought in its pretty head: the Tom Cruise movie to end all Tom Cruise movies.. There's stuff to make you go 'Wow!' but nothing you'll remember the next day.. . A spectacular-looking film, but its ambivalent story and viewpoint ultimately drag it down.. The Four Feathers has rewards, from the exoticism of its seas of sand to the fierce grandeur of its sweeping...
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Will Condon's movie convert agnostics to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight cult?. . Melodrama reigns in this supernatural soap opera, even though author Stephanie Meyer's tale takes a decided turn toward the weird and violent.. It all goes wrong just when it should go right.. Kung Fu Panda gets across important and inevitable plot information in ways that are novel and unexpected. Things simply don't happen...
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) Play Streaming
It's not a classic, but it's sturdy enough, thanks to Gyllenhaal and a sly and grousing turn by Alfred Molina as Sheikh Amar, a scoundrel with a heart of gold -- or at least, a ticker very interested in riches.. The sheer whoosh of the story line keeps you watching anyway, and, as the prince, Jake Gyllenhaal has a hearty good-naturedness that comes as a relief amid all the turbocharged antics. He...
Stardust (2007) Watch Full Movie
An overstuffed, overlong epic with a tongue-in-cheek approach that repeatedly begs unfavorable comparisons with The Princess Bride.. Stardust suffers from uneven pacing and some cheesy-looking special effects. But the fine cast keeps things watchable.. . Stardust [feels] episodic and clunky, constantly straining for the impression of overall coherent design that Gaiman renders invisible.. . Everybody...
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) Watch Streaming
. If only director Chris Weitz had managed to tease out the real drama -- Bella's fear of aging -- instead of a tired one.. I am not ashamed to admit that I will be the first in line for Twilight part three.. Weitz's pacing is so limp you're going to need the electricity generated by a live audience to keep from yelling, "Hurry it up!". New Moon offers few of the juicy, go-for-broke romantic pleasures...
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) Online Streaming
Insurgent is not a very good movie, but it's better than it needs to be.. It's got all the ingredients - improbable romances, partial nudity, ridiculous escapes - that make it little more than big-sound and big-picture fodder for the Imax screens it will appear on throughout the country.. While the pale skin tones (bronzer is selectively applied) and haphazard mix of American and British accents is...
Maleficent (2014) Watch Full Movie
This movie is an epic action movie that I believe in a few years from now shall be more appreciated than it is today !!. [It lacks] the sort of nightmarish visions that made Walt Disney's early animation features so powerful. This looks impressive, though, making use of highly imaginative, state-of-the-art 3-D effects while still evoking old-school Disney animation. Music perfectly fits with the movie,...
National Treasure (2004) Play Streaming
As a reworking of one of the great 1960s TV comedies, you'd think being funny would be its main goal. But you would be wrong. Very, very wrong.. Overall this is a limp parade of recycled gags and gadgets: an action movie with no surprises and a comedy with nothing like enough laughs.. So bad on so many levels.. A little more unabashed silliness might have made Get Smart a better movie. As is it's...
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I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the word and I'm not WHO Easily could be convinced with good action no matter how big and famous. I recommend this movie to everyone out there want to see an epic action movie that delivers to every sense of the word and I'm not WHO Easily could be convinced with good action no matter how...
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012) Full Movie Streaming
If anything, this series has gotten dumber and more inert as it has progressed, with this last one finally reaching over into an extended wallow in camp.. I'll probably never understand the popularity of the Twilight movies. They're haphazardly assembled adaptations of awful books.. While parting involved no sorrow, it was sweeter than expected.. As billion-dollar Hollywood franchises go, this is...
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...
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...
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Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) Full Movie Streaming
A movie that lacks the jingoistic bravura of earlier editions ... but hasn't replaced it with meaningful historical revisionism appropriate to our post-colonial age.. It's an essentially stupid movie.. A movie bearing as faux-naive a title as this has to make a pretty good case for itself. This it decidedly does not do.. At times the whole thing is a hippie's beard whisker away from a clueless pop...
The Beach (2000) Watch Streaming
Much of Will's dialogue consists of life lessons imparted to the boy, and they sound like a motivational seminar.. Ultimately, it seems more bland than bad.. The Beach wears its self-importance on its sleeve, but never truly earns it.. It's impossible to take this movie seriously, certainly not as seriously as it takes itself.. . Tedious and unsatisfying.. A film in which the text and subtext-an effortlessly...
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Alexander (2004) Online Streaming
A lunk-headed train wreck that looks like a tag sale in a 323 B.C. supermarket in old Peking.. Farrell plays all this as if he means it, but he seems slight in the role and without great physical presence.. At a reported cost of $155 million, Alexander qualifies as a super-spectacle in every respect but one -- namely in its neurotic, confused and sexually ambidextrous hero.. This is Stone's weakest...
The Host (2013) Full Movie Streaming
The Host isn't very good as a romance. There's not very much passion on screen, which makes the film a poor cousin to Twilight.. Get Smart is likable and very funny -- at least a two-to-one ratio of excellent gags to clunkers -- but it's not, for better or worse, Get Smart.. Instead of the show's wacky, slapstick tone, Get Smart presents itself as an action-filled spy movie that just happens to be...