Open Your Eyes (1997) / Abre Los Ojos
Before being remade in the US as VANILLA SKY, there was this gem by Alejandro Amenabar, who would later direct the equally excellent flick in 2001, THE OTHERS. This is a hard film to review,...
Author: Vincent Leo
Bandits (2001)
Bandits is one of those films that doesn’t really have anything really bad about it, yet for some reason it doesn’t really score a lot of points in the excitement department either. While the script...
Iron Monkey (1993)
Right before director Yuen Woo-ping would direct his almost equally amazing WING CHUN, and six years before he would become the choreographer for THE MATRIX and CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON, Yuen Woo-ping delivered this cult gem of Hong...
Training Day (2001)
After some over-stylized attempts at making action movies with mixed results, Training Day heralds director Antoine Fuqua’s maturity in the field. The former music video director has always seemed to have a flair for visual...
Joy Ride (2001)
I am a little surprised that some of the professional critics give high marks to this slick trash. Since I like to review movies, instead of giving a good director credit no matter what...
Someone Like You… (2001)
After watching Someone Like You, you might wonder why they slapped on such a generic title when the title of the book it’s based on is called “Animal Attraction” (which is also what the film...
Zoolander (2001)
Ben Stiller’s first directorial effort in five years sees the comedic actor improving in terms of comic imagery, but taking a step down in comic execution. Zoolander is an occasionally funny film that could have actually...
Help!!! (2000)
HELP!!! is Hong Kong’s answer to ER (in fact the intro spoofs the well-known TV show), only heavier on the comedy, specifically broad satirical humor regarding the way hospitals put financial considerations above the...
Heartbreakers (2001)
I seem to remember having seen HEARTBREAKERS before…I think it was called DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS back then though. Of course, it’s a little different here since the main con artists are female, and also...
Cast Away (2000)
While finding many scenes of Cast Away to be fascinating, I must say that as a whole I was less than impressed with the end result. Tom Hanks gives an incredibly self-sacrificing performance, and is...