Ali (2001)
Ali is the type of movie that is hard not to disappoint people with, since Ali is a much loved figure around the world, and one of the most popular personalities of the Sixties and...
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The Sum of All Fears (2002)
If you’re intrigued as to how they could scale back Jack Ryan’s age thirty years (going from Harrison Ford to Ben Affleck, you might take an educated guess and suppose The Sum of All Fears is...
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)
Perhaps a large part of the reason I seem to be enjoying the new STAR WARS arc more than most comes down to my educational background. Having a degree in Classical Civilization, I have always had...
Spider-Man (2002)
Initially, it was somewhat of a disappointment to hear that what once was supposed to be a James Cameron project would eventually digress into the hands of Sam “Evil Dead” Raimi. Raimi was the...
Riders (2002) | Steal
You’d have thought I would have learned my lesson to stay away from any more “extreme sports” movies after suffering through XXX and Extreme Ops earlier this year. I guess I figured that without an “x” in...
The Scorpion King (2002)
Yeah, it seems a bit premature when you hear Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is the Schwarzenegger for a new generation, but if you look at the kinds of films Arnie did in his beginnings,...
The Rookie (2002)
Forget Hardball — The Rookie is the movie to see for truly inspirational baseball action. What’s more, it’s based on the true story of Jim Morris (Quaid), a 35-year-old who thought his pro career was over when...
Blade II (2002)
Although I am a fan of comic books, and enjoy Wesley Snipes’ work even when he is playing an expressionless monosyllabic badass, I was disappointed in the first film in what is now a...
The Cannonball Run (1981)
The Cannonball Run isn’t traditionally a great film. It’s loose, chaotic, silly, and filled with jokes and stereotypes that haven’t aged well. Critics were right to call it tasteless, mindless, sexist, racist, antisemitic, and...
Showtime (2002)
I suppose it may be true that if you’ve seen one buddy movie, you’ve seen ’em all. The “buddies” are usually two people who don’t particularly belong together and throughout have an inability to...