Victim (1999)
Victim marks a return of sorts back to Hong Kong for director Ringo Lam that can be viewed either as a success or a failure, depending on your point of view. It’s a success because...
Category: Thriller
Century of the Dragon (1999)
The duo that brought you the infamous Naked Killer are back with an altogether different kind of actioner in Century of the Dragon, reminiscent more of the Goodfellas/Casino kind of filmmaking Martin Scorsese is known for than anything...
The Beach (2000)
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...
The Haunting (1999)
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...
Snatch (2000)
“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...
Conman 1999 (1998)
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...
Traffic (2000)
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...
Stir of Echoes (1999)
A blue collar man (Bacon) undergoes hypnosis as a prank, and a suggestion is left that he have an open mind. Shortly thereafter he begins to see frightening visions involving a young girl named Samantha...
Arlington Road (1999)
ARLINGTON ROAD is an extremely farfetched thriller that delivers loads of tension but little logic. If all it took to be a great thriller were edge-of-your-seat theatrics, ARLINGTON ROAD would be a sure-classic, as the impressively taut...
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
When his wife (Kidman) reveals to a young Manhattan doctor (Cruise) fantasies of infidelity with a strange Navy man from years ago, it kicks the doctor off into an odyssey of sexual fantasies of his own,...