The movie teases the macho Arnold we've been salivating for, but it just doesn't deliver. His fifteen or so minutes in The Expendables 2 are better than the 107 minutes here in The Last Stand.
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Gangster Squad suffers from a Hollywood system with no new or original ideas to back up the flashy exterior. It poorly attempts to combine the best elements from other gangster movies together and very few things stick.
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Alex Cross is a lazy and uninspired attempt. The readers of the Patterson's crime novels will tell you, the character of Alex Cross is a ripe and rich literary character with many incredible stories and thrilling stories to tell. He deserves better than this uneven effort.
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To watch a movie like Ted, about a foul-mouthed, drug-using, sex-starved, and talking teddy bear that belongs to a guy like Mark Wahlberg, you have to check your reality card at the door.
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The Frighteners is definitely a up-and-down roller coaster ride of comedy and horror. Peter Jackson, with nods to many B-movies, conveys a faster pace, a more chipper spirit, and a more domestic tone than a gloomy-yet-decadent Tim Burton feature.
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, wrongfully on many levels, uses 9/11's tragedy to push a fictional story with fictional emotions to purposefully tug our heartstrings tied to a very real event. Blame the 2005 source novel by Jonathan Safran Foer first, but the 2011 film's exploitative use of such a recent tragedy is a cold ploy and a mean trick.
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To be a successful biographical film, one shouldn't veer too much from the formula. While variety is appreciated in an attempt to break formula monotony from time to time, The Iron Lady, based on the life of Britain's first female and longest serving Prime Minister of the 20th century, Margaret Thatcher, is all over the place.
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Horrible Bosses follows the trend of "2011: Summer of the R-Rated Comedy," meaning that their bumbling schemes and actions cross as many lines of censorship as they do laws. While the premise, of course, has no merit and is intentionally unbelievable, the movie still triggers more eye rolls than big laughs.
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Unlike the trend to make comic book movies plausible and realistic, Green Lantern makes no qualms about being out of this world, literally. You'll be getting starry galaxies and faraway planets, more colorful costumes than a Spider-Man flick, and the most alien species since a Star Wars prequel. You know what. Let it be. It's true to its source material, but, again, you're going to have to suspend your disbelief... not just a little bit... a lot of it...
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To say Kung Fu Panda 2 isn't as good as the original is true, but no entirely fair because of the original's brilliance. It's still a step above a lot of other really bad sequels and, if you stay into the end credits, promises a very interesting third chapter that may redeem the series.
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Water for Elephants is a very long way from other flashback-based romances like The Notebook, LaGravenese's own script for The Bridges of Madison Country, or even The English Patient. Maybe some of that is by design from the novel, but this is no star-crossed love story of unbridled and heart-wrenching passion. Blame the lead performances.
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What if "The Force" and seeing those glowing dead Jedi masters in Star Wars could only be achieved through hallucinogenic drugs? Well, if you've ever been crazy (or high) enough to wonder what it would be like, then Your Highness is the movie for you.
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