Writer John Kelso (Cusack, Bullets Over Broadway) travels to Savannah to write for a magazine on the home of Jim Williams (Spacey, LA Confidential) , but the story turns out to be not so much his house,...
1990s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published April 24, 1998 · Last modified February 14, 2019
Sometime in the near future, as the opening credits state, human beings are genetically produced so that they have the best traits possible. It is expected that these “valid” humans succeed and become mental...
by Vincent Leo · Published April 16, 1998 · Last modified February 3, 2019
Denzel Washington (Courage Under Fire, Devil in a Blue Dress) plays a cop out to catch a serial killer responsible for a several mysterious murders in his city. Only trouble is the murderer may be...
1990s / Action / Comedy / Martial Arts
by Vincent Leo · Published January 17, 1998 · Last modified February 16, 2019
A TV chef (Chan, Thunderbolt) gets embroiled in a plot by dangerous underworld types to get a videotape of a secret drug deal and murder when he accidentally bumps into a reporter who threatens to blow...
1990s / Action / Comedy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published January 10, 1998 · Last modified February 20, 2019
Bad Boys is a movie at odds with itself. The part of it that tries to be a comedy is a smashing success, with Martin Lawrence at his best, delivering line after funny line amid a...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 30, 1997 · Last modified November 30, 2022
The idea for Body Double came when Brian De Palma replaced Angie Dickinson with a body double for a shower scene in Dressed to Kill. He examined many models who’d appeared naked in Playboy, Penthouse,...
by Vincent Leo · Published April 27, 1997 · Last modified November 12, 2019
2 Days in the Valley will probably forever be compared to Pulp Fiction, and probably rightly so. They both have an ensemble cast whose characters initially don’t seem to have anything to do with each other,...
by Vincent Leo · Published April 14, 1997 · Last modified December 27, 2018
Amateur tennis star Guy Haines (Granger, Rope) unwittingly enters into a bargain with lunatic Bruno Antony (Walker, Vengeance Valley) after a chance meeting on a train. The deal is that in order to avoid the motive aspect of...
1990s / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published March 18, 1997 · Last modified March 18, 2019
A San Francisco poet meets an owner of a Meats of the World deli, all the while falling more and more in love with her but also beginning to suspect more and more that...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 8, 1997 · Last modified January 14, 2019
During a blistering heatwave, a small town Florida lawyer (Hurt, Broadcast News) picks up a well-to-do married woman (Turner, The Man with Two Brains) and begins a scorching affair hotter than the weather around them. Things get hotter...
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.
