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.5/5
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2%
|
Meet the Spartans (2008) |
"
Inane comedies can be fun when done well, but bad inane comedies are simply embarrassing. You feel pity for the actors making fools of themselves, and flabbergasted that a studio probably passed on making so many other more worthy projects instead."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jan 28, 2008
|
|
1/5
|
16%
|
The Perfect Holiday (2007) |
"
It's deplorable that these two stars have been reduced to appearing in such garbage."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Dec 17, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
9%
|
The Comebacks (2007) |
"
There are a few fleeting moments where you may find yourself chuckling, but it's more out of pity than pleasure."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Oct 19, 2007
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1.5/5
|
——
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Talk to Me (1991) |
"
The story ultimately devolves into a standard "monster in the house" thriller about a woman in peril."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jul 23, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
2%
|
Kickin' It Old Skool (2007) |
"
Kickin' It Old Skool aspires to be Big with break dancing, but it falls flat on its spinning head. Even the break dancing gets tired fast, making the film even more tedious to get through."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 22, 2007
|
|
1.5/5
|
34%
|
DOA: Dead or Alive (2007) |
"
DOA is a bad, cheesy and cheap production that nevertheless has enough goofy appeal to warrant watching with your buddies..."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 20, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
14%
|
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007) |
"
The Dark is Rising is yet another lackluster and derivative entry in the overstuffed genre of youth-oriented fantasy films."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Oct 9, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
23%
|
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"
It's a shame that a movie with so many genuinely funny and talented people involved wasn't better."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Aug 31, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
14%
|
Skinwalkers (2007) |
"
This werewolf flick is all bark and no bite."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Aug 22, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
75%
|
The Dead Girl (2006) |
"
The Dead Girl segues from one turgidly-paced, soul-crushing sequence to another with very little reason to continue watching."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 25, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
53%
|
The Last Mimzy (2007) |
"
Despite its attempt at being well-meaning family genre fare a la E.T., The Last Mimzy simply collapses under the considerable weight of its many bewildering plot elements."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 25, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
8%
|
The Reaping (2007) |
"
If The Reaping had been sown with fresher ideas, you might actually care if the devil went down to Georgia, er, Louisiana."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 25, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
11%
|
Perfect Stranger (2007) |
"
While Perfect Stranger had its moments and wisely made its characters less than perfect, it was a pedestrian yarn better suited for the small screen than the silver one."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 25, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
The Invisible (2007) |
"
The Invisible plays like a self-indulgent adolescent wish-fulfillment fantasy."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 22, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
26%
|
Ghost Rider (2007) |
"
Ghost Rider fails for the same reason every bad movie does: poor storytelling and bad acting."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Feb 16, 2007
|
|
2/5
|
30%
|
Running With Scissors (2006) |
"
Overlong and overdone, Running With Scissors strives to be a Wes Anderson-esque satire, but often feels like a string of skits held together by a compelling premise. This film is a perfect example of a movie whose parts are greater than its whole."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Oct 20, 2006
|
|
2/5
|
9%
|
See No Evil (2006) |
"
Overall, fans of this type of horror film might appreciate See No Evil for the exploitation flick that it is but others will be let down as they will have seen it all before."
—
IGN Movies
Posted May 24, 2006
|
|
2.5/5
|
37%
|
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) |
"
For all its flaws, Zohan remains a tolerable if inane piece of entertainment that scores points for trying..."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 12, 2008
|
|
2.5/5
|
74%
|
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) |
"
The Water Horse's fluctuation between wholesome kiddie flick, complete with silly humor, and dark fantasy/coming-of-age drama ultimately proves too unwieldy for the filmmakers to handle, causing the film to sink under the weight of all its well-meaning bu"
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jan 8, 2008
|
|
2.5/5
|
26%
|
Lions for Lambs (2007) |
"
Lions for Lambs simply isn't fresh or courageous enough to make an impact let alone a difference."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Nov 9, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
50%
|
Angel (The Real Life of Angel Deverell) (2007) |
"
The parts are ultimately greater than the whole in the case of Good Luck Chuck, with the overall chemistry between Cook and Alba proving more memorable than any particular joke or sequence. You may mildly enjoy Chuck as you're watching it, but the film wi"
—
IGN Movies
Posted Sep 21, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
18%
|
Illegal Tender (2007) |
"
Illegal Tender has its moments -- including the aforementioned shootout involving Millie -- but it is ultimately undone by the litany of genre cliches it embraces."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Aug 24, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
14%
|
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007) |
"
Despite its shortcomings, Chuck and Larry should satiate the modest tastes of the run-of the-mill viewer who simply wants some trite entertainment and easy laughs to pass the time with."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jul 23, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
14%
|
Black Christmas (2006) |
"
Black Christmas works best as a campy deconstruction of the genre than it does as a horror film."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 25, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
20%
|
The Hitcher (2007) |
"
While this new Hitcher has its moments, it just doesn't make for as scary or interesting a ride as its predecessor."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 25, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
12%
|
The Messengers (2007) |
"
The problem with The Messengers is that it simply doesn't offer up much of anything new."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 25, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
8%
|
The Number 23 (2007) |
"
The Number 23 is Schumacher's first stab at a scary movie, the end result just doesn't quite add up."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 25, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
19%
|
I Think I Love My Wife (2007) |
"
I Think I Love My Wife doesn't seem to know which choice to embrace (comedy or drama) and ends up being a hit-and-miss affair."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 25, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
71%
|
Fracture (2007) |
"
Fracture has some involving moments and bright ideas, but it's such a pedestrian execution that it could have just as easily been made as a TV movie with Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Kelsey Grammer."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 22, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
28%
|
Next (2007) |
"
While Next has a few fun and inventive moments sprinkled throughout, mostly revolving around the use of Cris' power, it collapses into an exhausting litany of action movie clichés before exposing itself as a total mindjob in the end."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 22, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
15%
|
The Condemned (2007) |
"
The Condemned tries to have its cake and eat it, too, alternately between a preachy scene about the depravity of reality entertainment followed by sequences of remorseless carnage, such as when Vinnie Jones guns down a roomful of unarmed people in cold bl"
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 22, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
63%
|
Day Watch (2007) |
"
Mixing history, sword & sorcery and science-fiction, Day Watch is overstuffed with gimmicks, making it a noisy but nifty-looking mess. Although wall-to-wall action, only a few sequences -- such as the climactic hotel showdown between the forces of Light a"
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 20, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
21%
|
Man of the Year (2006) |
"
Writer-director Barry Levinson had better fortune (and results) with the prescient Wag the Dog than he does with his latest political satire, the uneven and uninvolving Man of the Year."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Oct 17, 2006
|
|
2.5/5
|
20%
|
Employee of the Month (2006) |
"
A surprisingly amusing -- albeit formulaic -- piece of fluff."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Oct 6, 2006
|
|
2.5/5
|
32%
|
The Black Dahlia (2006) |
"
Unfortunately, rather than being his comeback film, The Black Dahlia is just the latest in a long line of disappointments from De Palma."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Sep 15, 2006
|
|
2.5/5
|
26%
|
The Omen (2006) |
"
John Moore's Omen still delivers some good scares here and there, and it is one of the better entries in the recent spate of horror remakes, but not even the Anti-Christ can catch lightning in a bottle twice."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 6, 2006
|
|
3/5
|
67%
|
Honeydripper (2007) |
"
Honeydripper is a decent but lesser entry in the unique and praiseworthy oeuvre of John Sayles, a maverick filmmaker who has done more to showcase America, its pros and cons, and diversity than any other filmmaker alive."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jan 8, 2008
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
The Savages (2007) |
"
Although The Savages is a better film for not being a cloying, schmaltzy tear-jerker, that doesn't mean that it's a movie you will necessarily enjoy."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Nov 30, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
35%
|
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) |
"
If you like your history lessons loud and garish, bombastic and bloody, then Elizabeth: The Golden Age is for you."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Oct 15, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"
Of all the many films about Jesse James, Andrew Dominik's epic may not end up ranking as the most popular or the best film on the subject but it will certainly, flaws and all, be regarded as the most intriguing and ambitious take on the man and his myth."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Sep 10, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
20%
|
Death Sentence (2007) |
"
Death Sentence is a better film than many might expect and also delivers several good doses of action for fans of shoot 'em-ups."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Sep 10, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
64%
|
The Nines (2007) |
"
The Nines is imaginative and intriguing, but not enough so to keep from alienating some viewers who will be bewildered by the film's existential overtones."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Aug 31, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
90%
|
The Simpsons Movie (2007) |
"
The movie does at least broaden the canvas the story is played out on, but fans expecting to see many of the series' usual haunts -- school, Moe's Tavern, the nuclear plant -- will be disappointed to find that they are merely glimpsed here. For all its sh"
—
IGN Movies
Posted Aug 22, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
54%
|
Seraphim Falls (2007) |
"
A solid but formulaic throwback."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 25, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
74%
|
Fah talai jone (Tears of the Black Tiger) (2007) |
"
Tears of the Black Tiger ultimately works best as an exercise in cinematic style, making it not only a quirky little nostalgia trip but a noteworthy cult flick worth checking out."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 25, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
Maxed Out (2006) |
"
The propagandistic Maxed Out is ultimately undermined by the fact that, as vile as many of its corporate interviewees seem, its everyman subjects are often just as culpable in creating and perpetuating the whole mess."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 25, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
47%
|
Shooter (2007) |
"
Despite its slew of genre cliches, Shooter works in fits and starts as a valentine to a simpler era in action films."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 25, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
11%
|
Pathfinder (2007) |
"
For all its flaws, Pathfinder is a unique little action film."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 25, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
56%
|
Vacancy (2007) |
"
Vacancy may not be the most wholly original thriller but it has some heart to it and is directed with gritty, old school style by Nimród Antal. Coupled with the good work done by the leads, Vacancy is worth checking into."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 22, 2007
|
|
3/5
|
29%
|
Lucky You (2007) |
"
Lucky You is a decent and often engaging character study that deserved more respect from critics and the studio than it received."
—
IGN Movies
Posted Jun 22, 2007
|
60%
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