8. Lost in Translation
D: Sofia Coppola
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This movie isn’t really bad, it’s just very boring and overrated. I probably would have liked it more if it was
a short film, but it had too much wordless, pointless filler. I also would have been less disappointed if
people had not gone around pretending it was a comedy when in reality it was a
drama with some very, very mild comic relief.
7. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
D: Jonathan Mostow
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Its great action and funny comic relief makes it like a
good parody of T2, but it’s a
bastardization of that great movie that retcons its optimistic, life-affirming
ending for the sake of cynical profit.
6. Bad Boys II
D: Michael Bay
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The movie has some good action (including an excellent
car chase scene), but its vulgar sense of humor brings it down. I might have been more prepared for the
awfulness of “Transformers” if I had
watched this movie beforehand.
5. Daredevil
D: Mark Steven Johnson
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Though visually stylish, it’s pretty much a low-quality
rip-off of Batman (1989).
4. Underworld
D: Len Wiseman
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A waste of a good premise and visuals. The characters, with the possible exception
of Lucian, were not compelling and the design for the “werewolves” was
terrible.
3. Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
D: McG
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A terrible and grotesquely overstylized action movie only
worth watching for The Thin Man (Crispin Glover). It also plays a pretty good song at one point.
2. S.W.A.T.
D: Clark Johnson
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A forgettable action movie.
1. Bulletproof Monk
D: Paul Hunter
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A mediocre movie with an awesome title and some good moments
of action. Offensively, the movie
asserts that people running Holocaust remembrance museums are secretly Nazis!
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