ROTTEN TOMATOES: Critics, Reviews and Previews

December 19, 2009, 11:04 am

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Rating	Movie	Review	Critic

Rotten 2/5	Unforgettable	" The cast is first-rate, but the characters are uninteresting, the whodunit angle obvious thirty minutes in, with a dire lack of genuine suspense and thrills." Posted Dec 15, 2009 07:20 AM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 2/5	Public Enemies	" The characters lack definition, the story takes us on a familiar course, and the execution lacks vitality." Posted Dec 14, 2009 06:29 AM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 2/5	Power	" What starts out as a fascinating behind-the-scenes expose on political campaigning self-destructs with its dire, square-minded morality play." Posted Dec 13, 2009 12:55 PM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Fresh 3.5/5	Hard Time	" *Think of it as a Righteous Kill* with half a brain and two superb performances from Reynolds and Durning who enjoy terrific, unforced chemistry.*" Posted Dec 13, 2009 12:30 PM PST*	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 2/5	The Final Hit	" So loosely scripted and inadequately directed that it's wafer-thin in execution with only a smidgen of decent laughs and charm." Posted Dec 13, 2009 12:26 PM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 1.5/5	Brainscan	" A few intriguing ideas are shoddily developed, and with that and the inept direction, there are neither thrills nor suspense in his wanton sci-fi horror flick." Posted Dec 13, 2009 12:24 PM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Fresh 3/5	Deadly Illusion	" Oh, it's pure junk, make no mistake; but thanks to William's surprisingly ace comic performance and good pacing this a perfectly fine time-killer." Posted Dec 13, 2009 12:20 PM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 1/5	A Taste for Killing	" The underrated Michael Biehn is far classier than this predictable, totally unremarkable crime tale that telegraphs all of its punches." Posted Dec 13, 2009 12:18 PM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 1.5/5	Distant Thunder	" The always-excellent Lithgow shines so much brighter than the terrible scripting and co-star Macchio's typical mediocrity." Posted Dec 13, 2009 12:15 PM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 1/5	Terminator Salvation	" Even though the f/x and stunts are grade-A, this is an overly-mechanical, soulless cinematic endeavor that never stirs the imagination." Posted Dec 11, 2009 12:20 PM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Fresh 4/5	Moving Violations	" Gloriously goofy entertainment that's a lot of fun if you're in an undemanding mood." Posted Dec 11, 2009 08:47 AM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 1/5	Inferno	" As is usually the case with an Argento film, the overall whole is enervating with fancy lighting and sensationalism trying to make up for coherence and mature storytelling." Posted Dec 11, 2009 07:49 AM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 1.5/5	Lord of Illusions	" Listless and disjointed, it's bereft of both scares and suspense, with the actors looking as bored as I was." Posted Dec 11, 2009 07:18 AM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 2/5	The Boogens	" Too protracted and puerile to really score, though the always-welcome Rebecca Balding gives some pluck and spunk to the proceedings." Posted Dec 10, 2009 11:30 AM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 0.5/5	Cross Fire	" *Makes 1984's mediocre Missing in Action* look like a masterpiece with its lame action-staging, ultra-poor dialogue, bad acting, and who-cares characters.*" Posted Dec 10, 2009 10:37 AM PST*	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Fresh 3/5	Lifeforce	" An outrageously entertaining guilty pleasure that possesses atrocious dialogue and indifferent acting yet also oodles of color and energy." Posted Dec 10, 2009 10:21 AM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Fresh 4/5	Married to the Mob	" Not all of it works, and it could've used more energy, but it's very engaging and colorful and filled with inspired performances." Posted Dec 9, 2009 11:34 AM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 0/5	Transylvania 6-5000	" *Like another lame-duck of an attempt at a comedy-chiller, Haunted Honeymoon, there's not a smidgen of either scares or laughs in this cinematic DOA." Posted Dec 8, 2009 11:20 AM PST*	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 2/5	Vision Quest	" Modine is immensely appealing but he and Fiorentino have zero chemistry and the overall structure of the film is both rigid and cliched without much in the way of distinction." Posted Dec 8, 2009 09:49 AM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Fresh 3.5/5	Stunts	" Perfectly entertaining B-movie with good action sequences, a stalwart hero in the person of Forster, and a decent whodunit angle." Posted Dec 8, 2009 08:06 AM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Fresh 3/5	Armed and Dangerous	" While not exactly laugh-out-loud funny, it's good-naturedly appealing and amusing enough to put it over." Posted Dec 7, 2009 10:07 AM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 2/5	Crank High Voltage	" Has some color and wit, but as a whole it's undercooked and not in the least bit exciting." Posted Dec 7, 2009 06:45 AM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 2/5	Train	" Birch is engaging as usual, but the film's another of those bloody-harvesting tales that's more about gore than genuine suspense and is sophomorically predictable." Posted Dec 6, 2009 06:54 AM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 2/5	The Lonely Guy	" Disarmingly cute at times, but it's widly uneven, undercooked, and flimsy to the core despite its fine cast." Posted Dec 5, 2009 12:31 PM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com
Rotten 1/5	Mortuary	" Despite a hugely winning turn by Dan Byrd, this is one hoary horror flick that's amazingly inept as if it were truly intending to be just that." Posted Dec 4, 2009 01:50 PM PST	Jack Sommersby, eFilmCritic.com

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