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Repo Men (2010)
There are a lot of people who are going to hate Repo Men. There are even more who are never going to see it just because the marketing and timing of the sci-fi thriller’s release is a bit off. And there are still more folks who just aren’t going to know what to make of the thing even if they do check it out. But for those of us who have a willingness to indulge a filmmaker who’s working both…
The Crazies (2010)
Breck Eisner’s remake of a 1973 George A. Romero creepfest — about the accidental release of a bioengineered virus (it causes insanity) near a small town — has the imprimatur of the master: Mr. Romero is executive producer of the new film. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have his style or sense of humor.
The filmmakers (the tepid screenplay is by Scott Kosar and Ray Wright) seem so determined to make a serious, respectable horror movie that they have only the bare…
Predators (2010)
It’s been a long 23 years for the hardcore Predator fans, and yet they still stay so loyal…
It was 1987 when John McTiernan’s Predator wormed its way into the hearts of sci-fi, horror, and action fans — and the film has proven to be one of the most popular survivors of the late-’80s action craze. Men, women, old, young, Schwarzenegger addicts and non-fans alike … pretty much everyone who’s seen Predator seems to love the flick. Attribute that to…
Inception (2010)
While recounting the detail of one’s own dreams is invariably fascinating, the minutiae of other people’s can be unbearably dull. This is presumably why psychoanalysts are paid handsome sums to appear interested in their clients’ rambles.
It also explains some of the difficulties I experienced with Christopher Nolan’s Inception, a thriller that embarks on a headlong chase through dreamland, often pursuing an interesting idea through patches of frantic and confusing tedium.
The central conceit is that a clutch of highly…
Iron Man 2 (2010)
“Rhodey, get down!” And with those words, a one-second effect, a secret Iron Man weapon that was so stunning and so unexpected and so well rendered, forced the audience to make a noise I’d never heard a group make before:
A cross between a gasp for air and a Scooby Doo “gewuhhhh???”. For a moment, the Chicago reviewers sitting shoulder to shoulder with laymen Q101 contest winners—they (we) were all children again.
That moment was enough to make up for…
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