Dark Blue Falls Flat
Grappling with police corruption while trying to simplify it, Dark Blue ends up being nothing… but Kurt Russell is great.
Month: February 2003
Old School Back to School
If you like this kind of comedy, you’ll enjoy Old School… or Back to School… or P.C.U. or maybe Animal House…
An Overstuffed Daredevil
Writer/director Mark Steven Johnson has his fanboy heart in the right place, but his fandom sometimes blocks coherent storytelling.
Oh Those Shanghai Knights
Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson return as an unlikely — and inaccurate — action team that’s more Hope and Crosby than Schwarzenegger.
Lost in La Mancha
Terry Gilliam keeps tilting at windmills as his impossible dream of making a movie without a hitch fails to come true again…
The Recruit Turns Routine
A lot of big Al scenery chewing, with Colin Farrell holding his own, but still The Recruit turns routine…
