Jeff's Reviews

Thoughts on every movie I've ever seen.

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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)

Reviewed on Apr 14, 2007

An inspired performance by Rush, but the story is just not good enough. Theron is stunning.

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Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Reviewed on Apr 9, 2007

A group of soldiers are resigned to their deaths at Iwo Jima, but why should we care? Who are we rooting for? I don’t care about what happens because none of the characters are well-developed. What makes other ensemble pieces like Saving Private Ryan and even Love, Actually work is…

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A Bridge Too Far (1977)

Reviewed on Apr 7, 2007

A truly impressive cast, seems like every scene has a famous face in it. Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Gene Hackman, Robert Redford, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Richard Attenborough, Maximilian Schell, Ryan O’Neal, Denholm Elliott, James Caan, Liv Ullmann, Elliott Gould. Granted, the list is a lot more impressive now that…

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Babel (2006)

Reviewed on Mar 27, 2007

Another disjointed but neatly tied together story about the interconnectedness of life, in the vein of Traffic, Crash, Magnolia, and Grand Canyon. Lots of little “oh cool” moments as the story is stitched together, but I wonder if it have been any less enjoyable if it was presented chronologically. The…

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Back to the Future Part III (1990)

Reviewed on Mar 16, 2007

Not as good as the others. It’s starting to get a bit silly.

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Scary Movie (2000)

Reviewed on Mar 15, 2007

The idiotic sex humor is both too immature and too graphic for the 12 year old I watched it with. How can this be rated 14+ in Canada?

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300 (2006)

Reviewed on Mar 11, 2007

Definitely a visual accomplishment, with some very nice visual effects, but some story and character problems. A lot of comical (literally) liberties were taken, and faithfulness to the original comic may explain some of the movie’s other deficiencies. The characters are boring. Aside from Spartan pride, the don’t have any…

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Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)

Reviewed on Mar 9, 2007

Tons of footage. Some great angles, even better editing. Quite possibly the greatest effort ever for a film about the Olympics. Amazingly neutral for a film from propagandistic Nazi Germany.

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Battle of Britain (1969)

Reviewed on Mar 7, 2007

A historic battle, but I don’t care much about it since none of the characters are particularly interesting. The Longest Day had much better characters and a much better build. A few nice aerial shots, but a lot of bad ones, too.

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X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

Reviewed on Mar 2, 2007

Entertaining, but seemed a bit sterile somehow, perhaps because Ratner and not Singer directed this one. Pretty gutsy killing off some of the major characters. Was The Last Stand really The Last Sequel? Lots of nice effects. Jean Grey as Phoenix was awesome. Her eye and face effects were very…

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