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Rambo

Mecandes — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:29:38 +0000

After Rocky Balboa, I was expecting to see Stallone return to the tones of the original First Blood film here — but alas, no. Nothing but an intensely gory waste of time.

1 star (out of 5)

Charlie Wilson’s War

Mecandes — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:28:16 +0000

The self-congratulatory American-as-apple-pie feel of this film felt irritatingly disingenuous. Hanks and Roberts play caricatures, while Hoffman seems to burst on stage into a completely different film; I’m not sure if that is a strike for or against him… but I think I might have rather seen the film Hoffman thought he was making.

1 and a half stars (out of 5)

War of the Worlds

Mecandes — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:53:53 +0000

This was great, but I’m still waiting for someone to make it set in the same time period as the original book. If you’re going to modernize the story, do it on the cheap with camcorders like The Blair Witch Project.

4 and a half stars (out of 5)