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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 2023
Less is more. More is too much. Too much is less.
There is absolutely nothing new in this film. It's all been done before. It's just more of everything. And more doesn't mean better to me.
The motorcycle jump might have been impressive if Rick Sylvester hadn't done essentially the same thing on skis in The Spy Who Loved Me, almost 50 years ago.
The previous Mission Impossible films have had some innovative stunts by Cruise, but everything here is…
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Maximum Conviction 2012
It's a Steven Seagal movie, produced by Seagal and directed by his buddy Keoni Waxman. And yet, Steve Austin - who has even less acting ability than Seagal - is more interesting than Seagal. And they say that this is one of the better of Seagal's later movies. Yeah? I think I'll skip the rest of them then.
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth 1970
Movie rating: 2.5 stars. Stop motion rating: 5 stars. How do you weigh that into a combined rating? Well, I guess it depends on how much you like stop motion. So my 4 star rating tells you a little about how I feel about that, I guess.
The best special effects are those that do not draw attention to themselves. That's true for special effects in general, and it's true for stop motion as well. And that's why most people…
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Frankenstein's Daughter 1958
The first time I saw this film was in London in 1964. At the Classic Cinema in Brixton, to be precise. I thought it was the worst film I had ever seen. And quite possibly it was, at the time. Fifty years later, a lot of really crappy movies have flickered before my eyes, and my opinion of this movie is a little more mellow now. It's still a crappy movie, though, but a bit of a guilty pleasure by…