Scream 2 (1997)
Two years after the tragic serial killing of Woodsboro, the killer seems to have returned to terrorize Neve (The Craft, Wild Things) and co. at college. This is a sequel within a sequel, as director...
1990s / Comedy / Horror / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published December 17, 1997 · Last modified January 4, 2019
Two years after the tragic serial killing of Woodsboro, the killer seems to have returned to terrorize Neve (The Craft, Wild Things) and co. at college. This is a sequel within a sequel, as director...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 12, 1997 · Last modified January 18, 2019
Leslie Banks (Jamaica Inn, Henry V) and Edna Best (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Intermezzo) play a happily married couple who go on vacation in Switzerland when a colleague of theirs is assassinated. They...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 3, 1997 · Last modified February 9, 2019
Based more or less on the book and film The Day of the Jackal, this film stars Bruce Willis (The Fifth Element, Beavis and Butthead Do America) as the international terrorist know as the Jackal, who...
1970s / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 29, 1997 · Last modified December 28, 2018
All the President’s Men is the well-known dramatic account about the cracking of the Watergate scandal and the reporters who scooped it, Woodward (Redford, Three Days of the Condor) and Bernstein (Hoffman, Agatha) of the Washington Post. What started...
1940s / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 23, 1997 · Last modified July 10, 2018
The last word uttered by media magnate and multimillionaire tycoon, Charles Foster Kane (Welles, Touch of Evil), was “rosebud”. During preparations for a newsreel story on Kane’s life, the producers determine that they need to...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 22, 1997 · Last modified February 9, 2019
There’s three things you can’t have in order to properly enjoy The Net: (1) a knowledge of computers and/or the internet, (2) a familiarity with the works of Alfred Hitchcock, and (3) an adequate use...
1970s / Action / Science Fiction / Sports / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published October 30, 1997 · Last modified January 16, 2019
In the future, corporations have taken over the world, and together they devise a game that is meant to teach the masses the values they want, namely the team and corporation is more important...
by Vincent Leo · Published October 25, 1997 · Last modified January 28, 2019
After some seismic shifts, part of LA becomes the site of active volcanic fury. Tommy Lee Jones (Batman Forever, The Fugitive) and Anne Heche (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Wag the Dog) try to...
1990s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published October 9, 1997 · Last modified November 13, 2019
A 23rd Century New York cabbie (Willis) has an unexpected passenger in the form of Leeloo (Jovovich), a woman who is the “supreme being” sent to save the universe from death first needing the four...
The plot: A book-reader (Redford) for the CIA steps out to lunch; upon his return he finds all of his colleagues gunned down for reasons unknown. He informs his superiors, who want him to come...
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.