I hated this lazy family flick with, well, a vengeance. It’s awful. Basically an hour and a half of star Brendan Fraser being humiliated by a bunch of animals. You might be able to tolerate it if you’re under 9, but adults should try not to look directly at the screen while it’s [...]
0 comments Friday 20 Aug 2010 | blogadmin | kid's & family, movie reviews
I imagine trying to find a cure for a kid-killing disease would be anything but a walk in the park, but you’d never know it from watching Extraordinary Measures, a tepid, by-the-numbers tear-fest starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser that would feel right at home on the small screen.
0 comments Thursday 20 May 2010 | blogadmin | drama, movie reviews
As this year’s other blockbuster action flick to be based on a line of toys and an ’80s afternoon cartoon, The Rise of Cobra turns out to be a disappointingly lackluster affair despite possessing better direction, plotting and editing than you might expect.
It sees good-guy soldiers Duke (Channing Tatum) and Ripcord (Marlon Wayans) joining up [...]
0 comments Wednesday 11 Nov 2009 | blogadmin | action/adventure, movie reviews, suspense/thrillers
While I haven’t read the book by German author Cornelia Funke that inspired this $60 million fantasy starring Brendan Fraser, I can say with some certainty that it’s probably much, much better than the lackluster lump of a movie director Iain Softley makes out of it.
The gimmick here is that Fraser can bring characters in [...]
2 comments Thursday 25 Jun 2009 | blogadmin | action/adventure, kid's & family, movie reviews, sci-fi / fantasy
