Movie ***** Blade Runner – Final Cut (1990)
Fine Rutger Howard performance. A classic for mood and sets.
Fine Rutger Howard performance. A classic for mood and sets.
Well-made detective thriller, where the fish-out-of-water FBI agent is paired with the wilderness-savvy local hunter to unravel an Indian homicide.
Terrible sequel to the pilot Kingsman movie, with unlikely motivations and events throughout.
Careful recreation of the Stephen King classic that made us all afraid of clowns.
Bizarre, with modern bad language, but set in a Middle Age’s convent, with a host of bad nuns, novitiates, and monks. Irreverently funny.
Another set of rave reviews by critics, but less than amazing in the theater. Though the intellectual idea of architecture as therapy was intriguing and the filming visually superb, the story was as spare as the architecture, and the dialogue almost non-existent. The movie crept forward at a snail’s pace,…
Although given rave reviews by critics and audiences, I was disappointed. The best feature was the filming, but again editing and sound were terrible. Overlong sequences of confusing air combat with garbled dialogue (I guess the masks over the pilot’s faces didn’t help). Also, I was interested in how the…
Nice version of the standard Indian parental prejudice/bride-selection story. The marriage of fiction and documentary was well handled.
Good sequel, but could have benefitted from better editing. Overlong sequences of Quill’s mental-spear doing its work, and the Ego story and plot-shift comes (literally) out of the blue.
Theron kicks butt and takes punishment repeatedly, but her acting is spot on as is James McAvoy’s performance opposite her. She’s Madame 007 with as many bodies as a John Woo movie.