2000s / Action / Adventure / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published September 17, 2003 · Last modified May 2, 2019
To the best of my recollection, there just hasn’t been a good pirate movie made in my lifetime, so it should be easy to guess that expectations were certainly low going into seeing Pirates of...
Call this El Mariachi 3, Desperado 2, or Once Upon a Time in Mexico — whatever the name, nothing is going to make this turd smell sweet. The third and last entry in the Mariachi trilogy proves that...
Perhaps this isn’t the most emotionally gripping romantic comedy ever created, but amid a sea of redundant genre flicks, at least BENNY & JOON tries to be different. It probably could be better if the resulting...
Director Lasse Hallstrom has the distinguished honor of being the director of my pick for the least deserving Best Picture nominee for the last two years (including Cider House Rules). There’s no question of...
Director Tim Burton has a following of individuals who prefer to be dazzled by art design and costumes than through suspenseful cinematic technique. If all it took to be a good movie was to...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 10, 2000 · Last modified February 28, 2019
The return of Roman Polanski, director of the classics Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby, after six years proves to be hardly worth the wait. His latest offering, The Ninth Gate, tells the tale of Corso, an unscrupulous rare book...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 22, 1998 · Last modified February 27, 2019
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is am attempt at a very literal film translation of the infamous 1971 novel by Hunter S. Thompson relating his drug-induced hallucinatory trip through Las Vegas when trying to cover...
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.
