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 playing.
Read More Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, comedy, David, DVD, family, Furry Vengeance, Ken Jeong, Matt Prokop, PG-, Ricky Garcia, Roger KrumbleI 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.
Read More Brendan Fraser, David, drama, DVD, Extraordinary Measures, Harrison Ford, Keri Russell, PG-, Tom VaughanAs 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 [...]
Read More action, adventure, Alan Silvestri, Arnold Vosloo, Brendan Fraser, Byung-hun Lee, Channing Tatum, Christopher Eccleston, David, Dennis Quaid, DVD, G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra, Jonathan Pryce, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marlon Wayans, PG-13, Rachel Nichols, Ray Park, Sci-Fi, Sienna Miller, Stephen Sommers, thrillerWhile 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 [...]
Read More adventure, Andy Serkis, Brendan Fraser, Cornelia Funke, David, DVD, family, Fantasy, Helen Mirren, Iain Softley, Inkheart, Jennifer Connelly, Jim Broadbent, paul bettany, PG-