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Ben Rawson-Jones

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:: Digital Spy , Sky Movies

Total Reviews:: 142

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
1/5	9%	Piranha 3DD (2012)	" Who'd have thought that a movie entitled Piranha 3DD could be so bereft of titillation?" — Digital Spy Posted May 16, 2012
1/5	26%	The Three Musketeers (2011)	" To be consistent with his previous efforts, Anderson deploys a relentless stream of fight sequences that revert to nauseating and outmoded slow-mo during moments of supposedly heightened tension." — Digital Spy Posted Oct 13, 2011
1/5	38%	Johnny English Reborn (2011)	" Director Oliver Parker displays a shocking inadequacy at generating even a mild titter from a few moments that had the potential to be funny." — Digital Spy Posted Oct 5, 2011
1/5	26%	Eagle Eye (2008)	" As the film drags on, there are several nauseatingly dogmatic moments that make you feel like you're trapped in some kind of uber-liberal rally." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 14, 2011
1/5	2%	Meet the Spartans (2008)	" Meet The Spartans? For those unlucky enough to be lured into the cinema, there's every chance you'll be wanting to meet your maker instead." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 14, 2011
1/5	30%	Sanctum (2011)	" Seriously, you'll find yourself more emotionally and viscerally involved by sticking some Lego men in a water filled blender and watching them go round and round." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 14, 2011
1/5	84%	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	" An execrable movie that's incredibly uninspired." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 14, 2011
1/5	23%	Sucker Punch (2011)	" Just how was this staggeringly poor script given the green light?" — Digital Spy Posted Jul 14, 2011
1/5	53%	The Mechanic (2011)	" Expecting logic from the director of the wonderful Con Air is not the wisest move, yet Simon West frequently depicts events in such a baffling manner that one wonders whether someone snuck into the editing suite with a pair of scissors." — Digital Spy Posted Jan 26, 2011
1/5	10%	Grown Ups (2010)	" Sandler. Schneider. Rock. Spade. Hayek. Hang your heads in shame..." — Digital Spy Posted Aug 26, 2010
1/5	9%	Marmaduke (2010)	" Although comfortably under 90 minutes, Marmaduke is an epic chore to sit through." — Digital Spy Posted Aug 19, 2010
1/5	75%	Heartless (2010)	" The form and content are a perfect match in Heartless. Both are desperately terrible." — Digital Spy Posted May 20, 2010
1/5	15%	A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)	" The remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street only serves to tarnish the legacy of the original franchise, substituting any creative flair with bogstandard writing and direction." — Digital Spy Posted May 6, 2010
1/5	28%	Clash of the Titans (2010)	" Be warned -- you'd be better off picking up a blindfold and ear plugs when entering the cinema than a pair of specs." — Digital Spy Posted Apr 1, 2010
1/5	23%	Case 39 (2010)	" Only the procession of unintentional laughs and an unflinchingly confident turn by youngster Jodelle Ferland as Lilith emerge as reasons not to bury your head in a bucket of popcorn and rue the regrettable moment a certain vault was unlocked." — Digital Spy Posted Mar 15, 2010
1/5	48%	The Book of Eli (2010)	" Doing for Christianity what Battlefield Earth did for Scientology, The Book Of Eli is an ill-conceived, preachy leaden dud that's painfully pretentious and deserves to limp off the cinema screens in a mercifully swift time. Avoid." — Digital Spy Posted Jan 15, 2010
1/5	45%	The Box (2009)	" A certain faecal word certainly sums up the artistic merits of The Box, a tedious and often excruciating production from Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly." — Digital Spy Posted Dec 4, 2009
1/5	7%	Whiteout (2009)	" Devoid of personality and full of characters so one-dimensional that they aren't even worth mentioning in this review, Whiteout is a movie that sees no-one emerge with any credit." — Digital Spy Posted Sep 11, 2009
1/5	18%	Dance Flick (2009)	" Cheap, dire, tedious, unfunny, offensive and desperate attempt to induce laughter. Those are just a small selection of the disparaging adjectives that can be applied to this putrid tripe." — Digital Spy Posted Aug 24, 2009
1/5	39%	Imagine That (2009)	" Ultimately, if you want to watch a dire attempt at comedy revolving around a misguided father and troubled daughter then go off and rent Curly Sue. It's a cut above Imagine That, but that's hardly a compliment." — Digital Spy Posted Aug 14, 2009
1/5	22%	Fired Up (2009)	" Fired Up is a desperate and vacuous attempt at a teen comedy that not only lacks laughs, but even the gross-out moments and shameless nudity used by other such genre offerings." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 10, 2009
1/5	51%	Observe and Report (2009)	" Dark, subversive and politically incorrect humour can be brilliant in capable hands and with the right purpose (like the wonderful South Park), but here it's offensively bereft of any wit and is simply unpleasant." — Digital Spy Posted Apr 24, 2009
1/5	25%	Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)	" This excruciatingly bad attempt at a breezy romcom is an ill-conceived, dreadfully executed mess. Totally bereft of laughs, drama and chemistry between the leads, the movie is so nausea-inducing that it belongs in a sub genre of its own - the vomcom." — Digital Spy Posted Feb 19, 2009
	59%	300 (2007)	" Despite a cracking central premise and outstanding visuals, 300 ultimately leaves you feeling more gutted than some of the disemboweled soldiers on display throughout the movie." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 6, 2010
2/5	36%	Lockout (2012)	" With the exception of Guy Pearce's old school anti-hero Snow, Lockout is a pointless exercise that's bereft of originality in both its plotting and direction." — Digital Spy Posted Apr 19, 2012
2/5	21%	The Raven (2012)	" Squandering a promising premise and depriving John Cusack of sufficient dramatic meat to stake his claim to be the definitive portrayal of Poe, The Raven feels like a hollow shell - without a beating (or tell-tale) heart." — Digital Spy Posted Mar 6, 2012
2/5	18%	Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)	" Nicolas Cage's return to the blazing bike saddle is a distinct improvement on its dire predecessor, although that is hardly a blistering recommendation of its quality." — Digital Spy Posted Feb 17, 2012
2/5	94%	Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011)	" After the infectious fun of JJ Abrams' M:I 3, which sparkled with the wit and charm of his espionage series Alias, the fourth installment is a thudding disappointment." — Digital Spy Posted Dec 14, 2011
2/5	24%	What's Your Number? (2011)	" A waste of talent, it proves that the most important people involved in cinema are those responsible for the scripts. Whether there are flies buzzing around it or not, some turds cannot be polished." — Digital Spy Posted Sep 28, 2011
2/5	49%	Last Night (2011)	" The actors try their best to transcend the flimsy script and unappealing direction, but ultimately the movie offers a mostly hollow experience that delivers a night that you will struggle to remember." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 14, 2011
2/5	17%	Priest (2011)	" There's an overriding sense that many aspects of the movie have either been shockingly underdeveloped... or left on the cutting room floor." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 14, 2011
2/5	29%	Take Me Home Tonight (2011)	" A tonally uneasy mish-mash of stale slapstick and na�ve representations of drug use." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 14, 2011
2/5	4%	The Roommate (2011)	" A storyline that unimaginatively rehashes countless pivotal elements from other stalker-themed movies means that the whole production is a dull and pointless exercise that twists and turns in precisely the manner you expect it to." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 14, 2011
2/5	38%	The Eagle (2011)	" Sadly not a movie about the big-chinned ski jumper Eddie Edwards, this underwhelming feature instead revolves around the 'Ted and Ralph' style bromance between a master and servant during the Roman occupation of England." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 14, 2011
2/5	51%	Get Smart (2008)	" Get Smart certainly has its moments, but suffers badly from an inability to balance the surreal humor and life-threatening terrorist threat." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 14, 2011
2/5	33%	The Ward (2011)	" While a disappointment, The Ward is by no means a complete dud." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 14, 2011
2/5	32%	For Colored Girls (2010)	" Tyler Perry movies certainly have their place in society, as they undoubtedly have a strong moral core and are made with noble intentions. On the evidence of For Colored Girls though, he should leave the serious drama alone." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 14, 2011
2/5	50%	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)	" It's a shame that the painstaking work of the CGI animators was ultimately doomed to failure by the script." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 14, 2011
2/5	35%	Battle: Los Angeles (2011)	" The real battle in this duff alien invasion movie is whether the direction is worse than the writing." — Digital Spy Posted Mar 14, 2011
2/5	50%	Tron Legacy (2010)	" For all of the hundreds of animators who spent over a year painstakingly assembling each pixel in the computer-generated world, not one person was employed who could write a competent screenplay that harnessed their efforts." — Digital Spy Posted Dec 8, 2010
2/5	37%	Eat Pray Love (2010)	" Eat lots of popcorn to distract you, pray for it to end, and love Richard Jenkins. Amen." — Digital Spy Posted Sep 29, 2010
2/5	60%	Frozen (2010)	" The amount of preposterous coincidences that lead to the precarious predicament of the three muppets and their continued suffering also robs Frozen of any remote credibility." — Digital Spy Posted Sep 22, 2010
2/5	73%	The Last Exorcism (2010)	" Anyone with a decent knowledge of horror flicks will surely recoil in terror at how terribly several masterpieces of the genre have been shamelessly ripped off." — Digital Spy Posted Sep 1, 2010
2/5	40%	The Expendables (2010)	" One shouldn't knock the plotting for being distinctly old-school, but criticism deserves to be levelled at the manner in which so much talent is squandered." — Digital Spy Posted Aug 4, 2010
2/5	47%	The A-Team (2010)	" Go and rent the far superior and similarly themed The Losers instead." — Digital Spy Posted Aug 3, 2010
2/5	89%	Zodiac (2007)	" Ultimately the lack of tautness in the storytelling, seemingly stemming from a desire to be as faithful as possible to Graysmith's book, costs the film dearly." — Digital Spy Posted Jul 6, 2010
2/5	35%	4.3.2.1 ()	" Paragraph after paragraph can be spent dissecting the flaws, the portrayal of men as either evil or nerdish, and the cringeworthy decision to make the lead actresses all strip down to their skimpies at various stages of the movie." — Digital Spy Posted Jun 3, 2010
2/5	41%	Death at a Funeral (2010)	" Even if Lawrence was selected to play the corpse at the funeral, he'd have found a way of unleashing his sickly gurning and feral facial expressions to kill any nearby gag." — Digital Spy Posted Jun 3, 2010
2/5	35%	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)	" Despite the efforts of the cast, the lack of creative storytelling flair scuppers the sense of adventure and fun one would expect from a Jerry Bruckheimer summer blockbuster." — Digital Spy Posted May 20, 2010
2/5	50%	Cherry Bomb ()	" A trio of captivating performances from the young leads and a mesmerising soundtrack cannot drag Cherrybomb out of the creative mire." — Digital Spy Posted Apr 22, 2010

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