The script is fairly lame, though you’d be surprised how often lines that must have seemed awful on the page come out as almost decent in the film. Unfortunately, Alfred Molina’s Sheik Amar is regularly embarrassing, as he gets lumped with the majority of the weak comic relief, whilst Ben Kingsley is on autopilot.
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There are only two types of lighting – pitch black and stark white. It may have been a nice idea, but the execution is awful – and I can imagine anyone watching it on DVD would have massive trouble with ghosting of the image.
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Eventually seeming like a contortionist act as it tries to out-trick even the smartest of the audience, it falls into the trap of so many other action films of recent years. Audiences have become more savvy over time, but the constant imperative to make the ending a surprise is becoming tired.
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Ali Larter joins the cast along with returning actors like Oded Fehr, Iain Glen and Mike Epps, and is in charge of the group of survivors whose number swells and shrinks in a seemingly random manner.
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The cards were always stacked against Cristophe Gans. His last film, Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des loups) was easily one of the best action movies of the last decade, and miles ahead of its Hollywood counterparts. As a Continue reading Silent Hill
Fans of the original 1993 PC game ‘Doom’ and its sequels are sure to be amused by the antics of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Karl Urban as they go head-to-head with the mutant scientists, dobermans and marines in the Continue reading Doom
Resident Evil: Apocalypse is the sequel to the surprisingly well-received movie version of the video game. What it lacks in the enclosed-spaces thrills of the first, it makes up for in bullet-spraying action, although there are several times when it Continue reading Resident Evil: Apocalypse