Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003, Jonathan Mostow)
What’s interesting about Terminator 3-besides the “I’ll be back” references-is the lack of cheap homage to the first two. It’s an all new Terminator movie. It’s crappy, but it’s its own thing. Though...
View ArticleKindergarten Cop (1990, Ivan Reitman)
Apparently, Ivan Reitman didn’t think anyone would be familiar with Arnold Schwarzenegger and, therefore, Schwarzenegger would need a big introduction as a tough guy in a movie called Kindergarten Cop....
View ArticleT2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996, John Bruno, James Cameron and Stan Winston)
Given his rather infamous history of personal problems, one’s got to wonder what having to humiliate himself by acting like a twelve year-old-when nineteen-did for Edward Furlong in T2 3-D: Battle...
View ArticleEscape Plan (2013, Mikael Håfström)
Given how much fun the actors have in Escape Plan, there are a couple big unfortunates. First is director Håfström; he isn’t able to direct the actors through the poorly scripted parts and he also...
View ArticlePredator (1987, John McTiernan)
Predator has a lot going for it. Acting, directing, editing. But not usually all at once. The film opens with a quick introduction–Arnold Schwarzenegger and company are on a special mission in the...
View ArticleTerminator Genisys (2015, Alan Taylor)
Terminator Genisys is an inept attempt at turning the Terminator franchise into a young adult series à la The Hunger Games or Divergent or Twilight or Harry Potter. Only there’s no “literary” source...
View ArticleBatman & Robin (1997, Joel Schumacher)
I’m not going to defend Batman & Robin. It’s not so much a matter of the film being indefensible, it’s just a matter of it being a pointless exercise. And, by defend, I don’t mean identifying who...
View ArticleTerminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, James Cameron)
Director James Cameron opens Terminator 2: Judgment Day with a couple things the audience has to think about when watching the film and isn’t going to see or hear again for a while, so they need to...
View ArticleTerminator: Dark Fate (2019, Tim Miller)
Terminator: Dark Fate is the fourth irrelevant Terminator 2 sequel. It’s not the worst of them, it’s not the best of them. But the poor rights owners just can’t seem to figure out how to franchise and...
View ArticleRed Heat (1988, Walter Hill)
Walter Hill really likes to make movies about racist white cops (oxymoron, sorry, racist even for a movie) partnering with unlikely people and having big action sequences involving buses, huh? The...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....