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Jackie Chan’s Who Am I? (1998)
Bad acting, even for a kung fu movie. It’s especially amazing how awful the white, typically Australian actors are. It’s also dumb how everyone, even the executive types, break out with perfect kung fu. How realistic is that? Some decent action on the roof at the end.
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Vertigo 2005: U2 Live from Chicago (2005)
Uninspired, documentary-style footage of a U2 concert. Almost no crowd shots. And why Chicago? It doesn’t seem like a particularly interesting venue. Bono flubbing a few lines didn’t help. A concert film should be more than this. U2 3D did it right.
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The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
Interesting story, but the buildup to the creepy and touching ending is a bit long and slow. Darín is an interesting actor and turns in a nice performance. One of the signs of a good movie is that you feel like you really know and understand the characters by the…
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Gossip (2000)
Nice cast of future stars, but the plot is juvenile and it feels like a low-budget movie from the mid-90’s.
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Drive Angry (2011)
Awful. Is this what Nic Cage and William Fichtner have reduced themselves to?
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Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Interesting concept, but not even a modern treatment is enough to make Shakespeare appealing to me.
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Warrior (2011)
A nicely paced, well-told, real story with real characters. This is a good fighting movie, probably the best since Rocky. Hardy, Edgerton, and Nolte all turn in Oscar-worthy performances. I find it interesting that the two quintessential American tough guys were played by non-Americans. A statement on the sad state…
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I'm a photographer, web developer, travel enthusiast, and movie buff living in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.In the summer of 1993, I started writing reviews for every movie I saw and haven't looked back. I'm up to 2,371 reviews now. This makes me cool or a complete dork, depending on your perspective.
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