Blast from the Past (1999)
A crashed plane is mistaken for a nuclear bomb explosion by an eccentric inventor and his family. In their attempts to get away before the world explodes, they go underground in their massive bomb...
1990s / Comedy / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published August 12, 1999 · Last modified March 3, 2019
A crashed plane is mistaken for a nuclear bomb explosion by an eccentric inventor and his family. In their attempts to get away before the world explodes, they go underground in their massive bomb...
by Vincent Leo · Published August 11, 1999 · Last modified February 11, 2019
Wolf starts off with a book publishing exec (Nicholson, Hoffa) running his vehicle into a wolf in the middle of a desolate road, and when trying to move it out of the way gets bitten in the...
by Vincent Leo · Published August 8, 1999 · Last modified February 11, 2019
Wealthy billionaire playboy Thomas Crown (Brosnan, Tomorrow Never Dies) devises a plan whereby he steals a Monet painting values at over $100 million. An insurance agent (Russo, Lethal Weapon 4) would much rather get the painting back rather...
by Vincent Leo · Published August 6, 1999 · Last modified February 19, 2019
A young man named John blows all of his money in Vegas trying to get $6000 to bury his recently deceased mother. Sitting outside of a diner, an elderly gentleman named Sydney approaches and...
A New York columnist (Gere, The Jackal) hears a scoop about a woman (Roberts, Notting Hill) who ditched several husbands on the altar of her wedding. He writes about her without properly researching the stories and ends up...
1990s / Action / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published July 29, 1999 · Last modified February 8, 2019
If there’s one thing Hollywood needs to learn is that Jaws is the definitive shark terror movie. There has never been another remotely close to being as good and there probably never will be. Deep Blue Sea is...
A small-time private eye (Cage) is hired by a wealthy widow (Carter) to learn the secret to a short 8mm film found in her deceased husband’s safe. It appears to be a snuff film featuring the...
The elderly Jewel “Cookie” Mae (Neal, Hud) misses her husband so much, she kills herself to be with him. One of her daughters hides the suicide note and plants evidence of murder, because no one in...
Some murky lake in the middle of Maine (which isn’t the real Lake Placid) is home to a 30-foot long gargantuan crocodile which is consuming much of the wildlife around it, including a human...
1990s / Drama / Sports / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published July 14, 1999 · Last modified March 1, 2019
A young law student (Damon) spends many an evening playing high-stakes poker because he’s one of the best. He meets his match one day in the form of a Russian gangster (Malkovich) and blows his entire...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.