Steven Spielberg’s intended follow-up to Close Encounters of the Third Kind was a darker alien-invasion concept called Night Skies. The story idea came during Spielberg’s UFO research, stumbling across the Kelly-Hopkinsville incident in which aliens...
Tom Hanks (The Polar Express, The Terminal) stars as renowned professor of historical religious symbolism Robert Langdon, who finds himself embroiled in a deadly web of intrigue when an old crony ends up murdered in...
Somewhere underneath all of the nonsense, there seems to be a good movie yearning to break free. Sadly, the script doesn’t even begin to touch on the more exciting possibilities with the main story,...
I’ll preface this review with an admission. I do feel a bit guilty about giving the third Mission: Impossible movie as high a rating as I do. After giving the matter a great deal of consideration,...
1990s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 24, 2006 · Last modified July 1, 2019
Warden: “So, tell me, Rico, what’s the meaning of life?” Rico: “It ends.” The above passage of dialogue could just as aptly be applied to answer what the meaning of the movie is. Judge...
Sharon Stone returns to the role that made her a star, playing Catherine Tramell in this belated sequel to the popular 1992 film, Basic Instinct. At this point in time, both for Stone’s career as well...
Following Jaws 3D, which had begun as a National Lampoon project to make the third Jaws film a tongue-in-cheek comedy named Jaws 3, People 0.”, the idea came around again for a humorous effort for the fourth...
1980s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 16, 2006 · Last modified June 4, 2019
Looker is one of Michael Crichton’s several modern science fiction thrillers that are almost wholly interchangeable in terms of plot developments and general storylines, even if the events that hold them together are all...
Yet another attempt during the 1970s at a disaster film (although not a purist one), Rollercoaster isn’t the worst of its genre, but it’s quite a sizable distance from being the best. What it has...
by Vincent Leo · Published March 7, 2006 · Last modified November 21, 2019
16 Blocks is a passable time-waster thriller, reminiscent in its plot to the Eastwood flick, The Gauntlet, although darker in execution. Director Richard Donner, who made some of the better cop action flicks of the...
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.
