Yom Kippur Movie Reviews

I LOVED Julia in this. Excellent story. The real Erin Brockavich must be a pistol!!! The scene when she claimed to have gotten all the signatures via oral sex was funny. But the whole movie was terrific. I hated that she didn't end up with Chris, the biker with a heart, at the end. We always love it when good triumphs over evil and especially so when that good is a passionate crusader against all odds. AND this one is in heels, bustiers, and carrying a toddler on her hip and attitude to spare. What's NOT to love?

But certainly a good message, and excellent acting. Roberts has always been better at the romantic-comedy, but she does well in the role of Erin. Yet the acting is overtaken by the plot; one gets more involved with the story than with the actors (which can be good) and is good in this case. Not a family film, but certainly inspirational.

DVD is good, movie is great. Well deserved A.A. and long overdue.

Ordinary folks triumph in this quite pleasing look at big corporate greed and how the quest for the almighty dollar puts human life in the back seat. Stellar performances from Roberts and the rest of the cast make this an affecting piece.

Very highly recommended!

this is the kind of movie you love when your in middle school but when you watch it again 6 years latter your like man this movie isn't all that good. If you watch it with some friends though it can still be a good movie

This is my favorite movie of all time. It is so funny, you will burst out of your seat crying in a good kind of way. If you dont watch The Pest you are relly missing out on something.

The Pest is a highly silly, comedy adaptation of the short story "The Most Dangerous Game," in which a famous hunter grows bored with hunting animals and moves on to human prey. In this case the prey is a clever latino con-artist, played by John Lequizamo.

Leguizamo's quick wit makes for a very fast paced movie. It didn't drag at all, and I laughed almost every single moment. At first glance, it looks like just a dumb movie for kids (and in a way it is: low-brow humor and fart jokes are dominant,) but if you are in the mood to laugh until your face hurts, watch this movie.

This is one of the best action comedies ever produced. It features an all-star cast, with detective John Spartan played by Sylvester Stallone, his arch enemy Simon Phoenix is portrayed by Wesley Snipes, Stallone's love interest (the lovely Lenina Huxley) of course is played by Sandra Bullock, and if you look closely enough you'll even see Jesse "The Body" Ventura running around as a cryocon.

Stallone plays a detective from 1996 known affectionately as the "Demolition Man", who finally puts away Snipes after years of work. Phoenix has the last laugh though, and Spartan is locked away as well for a crime he never committed. 36 years later, Phoenix escapes from cryoprison and John Spartan is thawed out to reluctantly attempt to reapprehend his old foe.

This movie is packed with the great action scenes you expect to see from Stallone and Snipes, but what really sells it is the comedy. The movie never takes itself too seriously, and scenes like Simon Phoenix in the museum or the information booth, and John Spartan putting the moves on Lenina Huxley get laughs that would make Adam Sandler green. "Demolition Man" is just great entertainment as well as an old personal favorite, and it's obvious that the cast had a blast making it.

Demolition Man is a fun experience. It's idea of the future is inventive and original and also extremely funny. Stallone stars as John Spotten a cop who is framed by a deadly criminal Simon Phoenix. They both get a frozen inprisonment. Phoenix escapes while having a hearing years and years later into the future and Spotten gets thored out to stop him. The future cops need Spotten because they aren't used to dealing with violent criminals because there's zero violence in the future.

It's very funny when Stallone finds out there's no toilet paper in the future and these things called the 3 sea shells in place of them. It's also funny when he gets invited to a high class dinner....at Taco Bell. Stallone surprisingly enough handles the comedy very well. Sandra Bullock is extremely cute as Spotten's partner who unlike the other cops of the future is dieing for some action. Wesley Snipes is a lot of fun as well as the crazy Phoenix, it's one of his more memorable roles.

Sure the film doesn't know whether it's an Sci-fi action thriller or a comedy but it still works as one hell of an entertaining movie. The whole cast is in top form so that helped the movie even more.

This is a good movie that I keep watching. I liked the
society where they ban smoking cigarettes. I can't stand it when other people are smokers. That would be interesting to have comics on people like Denis Leary's character or any of the cops not shown who pursue Simon Phoenix in a city wide manhunt. I have seen this movie a countless number of times. Especially there it is illegal to crack gum. Now that's rude and annoying. It's even illegal to chew gum in this society. One thing is that they never showed Sylvester Stallone vs. Jesse "The Body" Ventura just like we saw Arnold Schwarzenegger take on Jesse Ventura in the Running Man. They should have prequel and sequel books and comics.

I wanted to like this film more than I eventually did. It has some very fine moments, not least Eliza's flight across the ice, which is only just behind Lilian Gish's ice flow scene in Way Down East. This adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin however, has a number of flaws. The biggest difficulty is that it is set just prior to and during the civil war. Stowe's book was published in 1852 and really the story only makes sense when it is depicting a time prior to the 1850's. It must also be said that some of the acting in this film is not too good. James Lowe, who is the only major African American actor in the cast, is very good indeed. His performance is dignified and in the end heartbreaking. But we have to accept a quite absurd Topsy played by a teenage white girl in blackface. Moreover, Eliza (played by the director's wife) is patently too old for the part, she looks about the same age as her mother. Also the makers of this film decided that all of the 'fair-skinned' African American characters would be played by white people with so little make up that they look scarcely different from the white characters. This was to avoid offending contemporary audiences. This leads though, to some initial confusion regarding the status of characters and somewhat undermines the anti-slavery theme of the story. The print used on this DVD is pretty good. I would have preffered some colour tinting, but it is clear and has very little damage. The DVD also has the bonus of two interesting deleted scenes and some stills of some further deleted scenes. The music on the DVD is on the whole fine, but has a number of scenes where there is singing on the soundtrack which does not synchronise with the singer. This is a feature of some late silents, but I must admit I do not care for it. This film is interesting and worth seeing, but it is not the masterpiece the director was intent on making.

Faith is only seen by the beholder. This is what this movie is about. It moved me to my very soul. It was very well directed and the actors were wonderfully picked to fit the characters. It really demonstrated the events in the novel, by the 18oo woman writer Harriet Beecher Stowe. Of course there were some parts taken out of the novel, and some that were added. I was very disturbed by how they took out or replaced scenes from the novel. The movie really brought out the true nature of slavery and how people treat other people, who are different then they are. It was just like the novel, except you were able to see the actual events happen, instead of just reading about them. This is a real work of art that can be loved by people for generations to come. This movie has fantastically displayed all of the emotions of the characters and the situations. It was a movie I would not mind watching over and over, again. I feel that this kind of movie is just the type we need in the world today. It gave a new meaning to the word hope and love. The movie is great for teens to adults. I think that children under the age of 12 will not understand the context of the film. It will not be suitable because of some of the scenes in the movie which contain violence and adult situations. I had a great time watching this movie. The plot was very easy to connect with, and to follow along with. Faith is only seen by the beholder. This is what this movie is about. I give this movie a five stars rating, for the grand display of acting, the perfect selection of casting, and the excellent work with the camera. I really give this two thumbs up.

Didn't really enjoy this to much. It's okay, but really I'm not attached to it in anyway. Some may enjoy it, but sadly most will not. I thought it was okay, but when you sit through the kind of trash I've sat through, this film looks like Citizen Kane! Read other reviews of this movie, cuz I noticed that most tell you the plot, so why should I?

This film I consider is the ultimate "Invisible Man" film. Carpenter had alot of grace and love for this film obviously and Chase's portrail of a stock broker turned invisible fugitive was just right. Chase tends to get alot of heckeling for this movie and his performance but this reviewer finds that same performance to be one of great effort (note his quiet aproch to dramatic situations and his fine comic timing to humorious ones). This film I thought had alot more to do with character and emotions than most filmakers would try on an "Invisible Man" project. One thing's for sure....this movie sure beats the heck outta "Hollow Man" (a movie that made the "Invisible Man" into a phsyco plus the whole movie just had a 2nd rate slasher vibe).

I really enjoyed this movie when it came out and was quite surprised by all the bad reviews. I had read the book several years before I saw the movie and thought they did a great job of transfering it to film.

The funny thing is that most reviews criticize the film makers for their wierd story choices, but the film was just following the book.

Others criticize that the movie doesn't know whether to be a comedy, action thiller or an adventure story? The book was the same way and I thought the book and film did a great job of juggling these different styles.

Who'd have thought that a movie about the guy who inspired the Texas Chainsaw Massacre could be boring? I kept watching in the hopes that it would get better, or at least keep me awake, but to no avail. Re-rent Psycho. It's a 1000X better.

This just looked like it was going to be a bad, cheapie flick, as it had no MPAA rating (indicating that it probably was straight-to-video), no flattering critics reviews to be found, etc. However, I found it to be a very tasteful production of a very tasteless subject. There is not a lot of gore here, but the storyline makes up for that, especially when you consider this is a true story. I have never studied up on Ed Gein, so I can't really say how accurate this portrayal is, but I get the feeling that it is fairly close because the performances and staging are so muted and never over-the-top. Railsback does a pretty good, creepy job of playing the title psycho.

And to think I thought I had seen it all after Silence of the Lambs and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series! So, they've finally got some good nerves to make a movie about the infamous Edward "Ed" Gein, huh? Well, I have'nt really decided to buy this yet, but when I decide it might go well with my Texas Chainsaw saga, I might boogy on back here and buy it! That's all! Just wantin' ta be heard!

First-time director Kevin Yagher pulled his name from this fourth Hellraiser installment and cursed it to the ignominy of being directed by "Alan Smithee" when studio chiefs brought in Joe Chappelle to fill in what they thought were gaps in the movie, and I think he acted prematurely. "Bloodline" is an entertaining little wallow in the ghoulish legendry of the hellish Cenobites, their tormented minions, and the earthly conjurers who hope to bring the Demons into the material world for gain and glory, and end up giving the term "body modification" an entirely new meaning.

"Bloodline" feels like a film created by committee, which it is: it is uneven, and it's evident that Yagher's vision was unfulfilled and his contempt justified. The film begins on a space station, with Science Officer Dr. Paul Merchant (played by French Canadian actor Bruce Ramsay, who does a stellar turn with all of the Le Merchant/Merchant roles) interrupted by a security team while trying to summon the demonic Cenobites using a high-tech version of the infamous Lament Configuration. Interrogated by one of the marines (played by the lovely but underused Christine Harnos), Merchant reveals that he is the last in a bloodline of inventors and scientists, and that his ancestor Phillip Le Merchant was a fabled 18th century French toymaker who first created the hellish Lament Configuration.

Here's my advice: while I bought "Bloodline" for its gaudy, gory imagery and style, I would rent it and watch the first 40 minutes, if only for the fact that Yagher commits to celluloid some of the most graphic, stylish, erotic and disturbing images ever filmed. The story of the toymaker's design and delivery of the wicked box to a French nobleman, hedonist and sadist (played to the wild-eyed feverish hilt by Mickey Cottrell) is both hellacious and eerily beautiful, shot in natural light, the candles and firelight glittering on a palette of flesh, bone and blood. It is beautiful stuff, and I can see why Yagher resigned in disgust when his vision was commandeered by Chapelle.

Oh, and Chilean actress Valentina Vargas is glorious as the demoness Angelique, with or without skin: she can rend my flesh any day of the week.

Other than that, "Bloodline" is forgettable: we move from Le Merchant to his 20th century architect descendant and a skyscraper crammed with Cenobites, and thence to the haunted space station. While some reviewers have complained that the sanguine sequence in which two hapless twin security guards are transformed is both gratuitous and brings the movie to a halt, I enjoyed it: it's a wickedly bloody, gory piece in prime Hellraiser style. Finally, Douglas Bradley is in fine form as Pinhead---but then again, when isn't he?

For the hardcore Hellraiser fan, buy this DVD---if you don't have it in your collection already. For the casual gorehound, a rental might suffice, if only to savor the supple, gorgeous, haunting 18th century prologue.

The director was so disappointed with the final version of the film, that he had his named removed and replaced with the notorious Alan Smithee. Considering that and that the film has enough going on in its plot for two Hellraiser sequels, the film didn't come out all that bad. It's story surrounds the origins of the puzzle box and how its creator's bloodline is cursed through the centuries. It hops form the 1800's, to modern times, and finally ends in the future on a space station. The acting ain't all that great, and more plot holes in Peter Atkins script, but fans will find something appealing about this film.

for some reason or another this movie got alot of undeserved negative reviews.There are alot of petty complaints that theres too much gore or that pinhead should not be in space.First of all,the hellraiser movies are all characterized by extreme violence and gore.Secondly,why is it hard to believe that hell or evil could not exist in space?There just hasnt been many movies that have explored the idea of malevolence in space outside of event horizon.The plot was excellent and pretty much summed up all of the series in one.Pinheads acting is superb and this is his best work of all time.The other actors arent academy award nominess but they do a sufficient job.Visually speaking this is the best movie of all the series.I would highly recommend this movie to any fan of the series because it's worth owning.BUY THIS MOVIE TODAY!!!

Two high school employees end up with an unexpected romance with each other, after one of them suspects the other of having an affair with her husband. When there love affair is outed, their suburban lives are in turmoil. Another reminder of being different in a "staight" community.

This movie planned to be alot better to me. I really had a bad plotline. It almost seamed like it was never going to end.

That being said, this movie is hilarious. Bring in some horrible actors (let's face it, boys and girls, a minor role on Saved by the Bell was probably Patrick Muldoon's best work), a ridiculous plot (I don't care what the details are, any movie in which Taiwan plans to take over China can't be taken seriously), and a laughable script, and you just might have something worth watching... once... okay, maybe twice. This movie joins the ranks of the Scorpion King, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, and the entire genre of soft-core porn as things to be watched only for their mind-boggling (and truly entertaining) awfulness. You've been warned.

Chain of Command is an acceptable,delivering made-for-video action film.Once again,Roy Scheider plays the US president (in slimy mode here)and the plot is strangely more intricate and surprising than you might expect from such a film.Overall,this delivers the goods and is very watchable because of it.