2010s / Action / Adventure / Horror / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published August 11, 2018 · Last modified August 15, 2018
Jon Turteltaub (Last Vegas, National Treasure: Book of Secrets) directs this big action and mild horror flick, seemingly pulled out of the 1990s adolescent-minded blockbuster cycle, about a megalodon, a massive 75-foot shark long thought...
Blake Lively (The Age of Adaline, Accepted) stars as Nancy, former medical school student from Galveston, TX, who travels to her recently deceased mother’s favorite secret surfing spot in a lush spot on the Mexican...
At the beginning of 1979, comedian Chevy Chase joked to a couple of junior execs at Universal Pictures, Thom Mount and Sean Daniels, that they should combine their two biggest recent successes and make,...
Following Jaws 3D, which had begun as a National Lampoon project to make the third Jaws film a tongue-in-cheek comedy named Jaws 3, People 0.”, the idea came around again for a humorous effort for the fourth...
Shortly after the monumental success of Jaws, Universal Pictures wanted Steven Spielberg to follow up with another entry as part of a four-picture deal he signed with them. He didn’t bother to entertain that...
1970s / Adventure / Horror / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published July 3, 2005 · Last modified May 25, 2020
Nearly a year prior to its publication in February 1974, film producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown, in collaboration with Universal Pictures, acquired the rights for a screen adaptation of “Jaws,” a novel being...
by Vincent Leo · Published December 27, 2004 · Last modified May 16, 2019
Unlike some other critics, I didn’t go into The Life Aquatic with any expectations of greatness. I’ve only fallen asleep while watching two movies in my lifetime, and one of those movies happened to be Wes...
Open Water is an attempt at a realistic thriller, which some have compared to The Blair Witch Project, but I have to disagree with this comparison. Blair Witch tried to push forward a notion of realism to the...
Just when you thought things couldn’t possibly be worse in the Smokey and the Bandit saga than Part II, along comes Part 3 to remind you that no matter how bad things can be, someone can always come...
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...
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.
