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Bangkok Dangerous
'BANGKOK DANGEROUS' AN UNNECESSARY REMAKE
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Heavy on the spice and cheap on the meat, "Bangkok Dangerous" adds plenty of Thai seasoning to the Hollywood lone-assassin recipe, but the result is only mildly pungent. Rehashing certain elements -- including striking location shooting -- that marked their much grittier 1999 feature of the same title, Hong Kong's Pang brothers increase the decibel level of the gunshots and the schmaltz level of the scenario ... Full Review
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Babylon A.D.
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"... Vin Diesel punches, shoots but ultimately dozes his way through [this] sloppy sci-fi actioner ..." Full Review
Traitor
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"... brandishes physical verisimilitude and intelligent seriousness but proves unable to really get inside its chameleon-like central character." Full Review
Death Race
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"As hard as metal and just as dumb ... Basically a souped-up gladiatorial battle on a racetrack ..." Full Review
The House Bunny
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"Elevated via a strong script ... 'The House Bunny' is a blissfully broad comedy that should catapult Anna Faris into a singular kind of stardom ..." Full Review
Hamlet 2
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"... a comedy with a lot of great-in-description ideas that play about half as funny. ... amusing but unevenly inspired ..." Full Review
The Longshots
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"A surprisingly tepid directorial effort by Limp Bizkit nu-metal rocker Fred Durst, the pic seldom deviates from the genre-cliché playbook ..." Full Review
I.O.U.S.A.
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"...an alternately amusing and alarming primer on America's off-the-charts fiscal irresponsibility ... [a] highly informative documentary ..." Full Review
Cthulhu
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"... the acting is so emotionally unhinged and erratic it borders on camp, diluting any suspense ..." Full Review
Tropic Thunder
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"... apart from startling, out-there comic turns by Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Cruise, the antics here are pretty thin, redundant ..." Full Review
The Rocker
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"It's the kind of role ready-made for Jack Black ... and [Rainn] Wilson makes the most of it in this well-crafted, feel-good satire." Full Review
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
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"... will serve its purpose as a quick fix for die-hard fans who simply can't wait for the new Cartoon Network show to debut ..." Full Review
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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"... a sexy, funny divertissement that passes as enjoyably as an idle summer's afternoon in the titular Spanish city." Full Review