Office Space (1999)
Due to a hypnotic suggestion, a young office worker decides not to go into work anymore while his company is in the process of laying off unnecessary employees. Then, to his surprise, he is...
Due to a hypnotic suggestion, a young office worker decides not to go into work anymore while his company is in the process of laying off unnecessary employees. Then, to his surprise, he is...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 8, 2000 · Last modified March 10, 2019
After his monumental breakthrough in Titanic and The Man in the Iron Mask, Leonardo DiCaprio’s first film after taking about a year off from acting doesn’t quite prove worth the wait. This one puts him back in...
DICK is the fictional tale of two fifteen year old girls on a class trip in Washington DC in 1973 become unwittingly witness to the real-life Watergate scandal. They become Nixon’s official dog-walkers and...
1990s / Animation / Family / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published January 31, 2000 · Last modified February 18, 2019
A giant robot (voiced by Vin Diesel, Saving Private Ryan) falls to Earth from outer space and startles the people of a small Maine town called Rockwell in 1957. A young boy (Marienthal, American Pie) encounters the gigantic...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 23, 2000 · Last modified February 18, 2019
A grandiose mansion called Hill House is the setting for Dr. Marrow’s (Neeson, The Phantom Menace) experiments on insomnia, thinking it is one’s fears that keeps them awake, and if they can sleep while in a...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 22, 2000 · Last modified March 17, 2019
“Mr. Madonna”, Guy Ritchie, follows up his splash debut to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels with another wryly comic (and violent) crime piece with Snatch. Like the previous film, it features a cast of almost two...
1990s / Action / Comedy / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published January 21, 2000 · Last modified February 17, 2019
In a city of comical superheroes, its most prominent, Captain Amazing (Kinnear, As Good As It Gets), gets captured by its most feared villain, Casanova Frankenstein (Rush, Elizabeth). A fledgling crew of ineptitude band together to...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 17, 2000 · Last modified April 14, 2019
Why my review of this film seems to be the only negative one I can find is a mystery to me. I’m actually quite surprised myself, since the other films stemming from the God of...
2000s / Horror / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published January 15, 2000 · Last modified March 12, 2019
What starts out as intriguing if derivative sci-fi soon descends into meaningless horror and in the end a real letdown from a cast and crew of professionals who should know better. From the fact...
It should be abundantly clear after the year 2000 that Steven Soderbergh is the best director no one’s ever heard of working in Hollywood today. Arguably his two films (Traffic and Erin Brockovich) could legitimately claim...
Reviews from film writer Vince Leo, covering all eras and genres of films from classics to the latest releases.
Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.