ROTTEN TOMATOES: Ian Waldron-Mantgani

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IAN WALDRON-MANTGANI

"<B> One of his favourite quotes:</B> "Don't be told about what you want, don't be told about what you need... or there's no future for you." --Johnny Rotten"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

Biography: Born in Sligo, Ireland -- also the birthplace of brilliant filmmaker Neil Jordan -- Ian Waldron-Mantgani is the mixed-race son of an Indian-born doctor and Irish-born occupational therapist. He gained access to the internet in 1996 and immediately started posting movie reviews on message boards. After quotes in such publications as the Sunday Times, Ian decided it was time to create his own website. 'The UK Critic' first appeared online at the beginning of 1998, and quickly became Britain's pre-eminent centre of online criticism. On top of schoolwork, sporting activities and personal commitments, Ian reviewed every nationwide release in the year 2000, and continues to update his site weekly with every release of note. He sees the vast majority of films in his own time, with his own money. Despite the lack of monetary compensation, Ian’s reviews are heavily syndicated; he is a DVD reviewer for Apollo Guide, and has in the past served as head critic on CompuServe's UK Entertainment Forum and System Operator for Compuserve’s Empire Magazine forum. Pieces can also be found on entertainmentnutz.com, alltank.com, Reel Talk Movies, GDoggyDog’s Movie Reviews and the rec.arts.movies-reviews newsgroup. Ian makes regular contributions to Ebert’s Movie Answer Man column and provided " of the most amusing entries" to Ebert's witty book of movie cliches "The Bigger Little Movie Glossary". International awards received include four nominations for Online Film Critics Society Member of the Month, and Ian is one of the only British residents in the organisation -- serving the posts of full member, OFCS Mentor, Awards Committee member and Governing Committee member. As of September 2002, Ian has been studying a BA course in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, which has the highest entry requirements of any pure film course in England.

Favorites: Favorite film of all time: 12 Angry Men (1957) Favorite UK cinema releases of 2001: Requiem for a Dream, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Traffic, The Contender, You Can Count on Me, The Pledge, Ghost World, Girlfight, Almost Famous, Quills, Audition, Castaway, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Osmosis Jones, Thirteen Days

Publications: Apollo Guide, ReelTalk Movie Reviews, UK Critic

Total Reviews: 733
Total QuickRatings: 3

Location: Liverpool, UK

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Rotten 10/100	Rotten 0%	The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)	" Manages the amazing feat of seeming to both drag out its material and completely skim over it." — Apollo Guide Posted May 4, 2002
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 10%	Long Time Dead (2003)	" I approached the usher and said that if she had to sit through it again, she should ask for a raise." — UK Critic Posted Jan 31, 2002
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 2%	The Master of Disguise (2002)	" It is cut with all the precision and timing of an irritating kids' TV show, with kids themselves in charge of the production, and their pets operating the equipment." — UK Critic Posted Jan 26, 2003
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 34%	Resident Evil (2002)	" So lifeless, pointless and dank that it manages the amazing feat of making the undead seem boring." — UK Critic Posted Jul 24, 2002
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 3%	Rollerball (2002)	" Such an incomprehensible mess that it feels less like bad cinema than like being stuck in a dark pit having a nightmare about bad cinema." — UK Critic Posted Jul 16, 2002
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 28%	The Time Machine (2002)	" The secrets of time travel will have been discovered, indulged in and rejected as boring before I see this piece of crap again." — UK Critic Posted Jun 4, 2002
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 23%	Snow Dogs (2002)	" A movie full of gestures that would look over-the-top in primary school plays." — UK Critic Posted Jun 4, 2002
Rotten 0.5/4	Fresh 60%	Thunderpants (2002)	" This movie should be shown in prisons so that inmates have a good reason to never return." — UK Critic Posted May 28, 2002
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 10%	Slackers (2002)	" Not so much a movie as an unpleasant presence that sits on the screen." — UK Critic Posted May 14, 2002
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 17%	The Queen of the Damned (2002)	" Muddled, trashy and incompetent" — UK Critic Posted Apr 21, 2002
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 13%	Ordinary Decent Criminal (2002)	" Technically and artistically inept." — UK Critic Posted Feb 8, 2001
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 43%	Rat Race (2001)	" You have to wonder about the mentality of anyone who would want to use the "Cannonball Run" pictures as inspiration." — UK Critic Posted Jan 20, 2002
Rotten 0.5/4	Fresh 62%	Zoolander (2001)	" Listening to the music is the only way to get through this movie without tearing your hair out, but still, the meaninglessly retro soundtrack points to the randomness of the picture's choices." — UK Critic Posted Dec 23, 2001
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 26%	Pearl Harbor (2001)	" A cheerfully offensive rape of history." — UK Critic Posted Sep 10, 2001
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 0%	Kevin & Perry Go Large (2001)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Feb 8, 2001
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 57%	Dr. T and the Women (2000)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Sep 17, 2001
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 9%	Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)	" It's a tortuously rambling attempt at a slasher pic, throwing random scenes at us without purpose, reason or consequence." — UK Critic Posted Feb 7, 2001
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 35%	Where the Heart Is (2000)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Jan 1, 2000
Rotten 0.5/4	N/A	Guest House Paradiso (1999)	" An embarrassing mess of zany movement and occasional loud clonks" — UK Critic Posted Nov 13, 2001
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 27%	Love, Honor & Obey (1999)	" Embarrassingly jumpy shifts from humour to menace... one of the most incompetently made films of all time" — UK Critic Posted Feb 8, 2001
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 0%	Sex Lives of the Potato Men (2004)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Oct 31, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 33%	In the Cut (2003)	" A movie that moves between pretentious and incompetent, a sleazy straight-to-video-style sex and violence crapfest which ends up simply laughable when it tries to go arty." — UK Critic Posted Dec 14, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 36%	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)	" There's a simple philosophy behind a movie like this: Add more squishing, add more screaming, and it'll be better. Or at least it'll make more money." — UK Critic Posted Dec 14, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 30%	Underworld (2003)	" *The astonishing achievement of Underworld* is that it's a movie without a single good moment, and they still managed to make one helluva trailer.*" — UK Critic* Posted Oct 27, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 50%	Luster (2003)	" A character can be intelligent and provocative by pointing out the flaws of sophisticated people, but not by posing like a rebel and ripping into stereotypes." — UK Critic Posted Sep 9, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 70%	Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)	" What sickness in the filmmakers inspired them to go ahead and make this TV movie sludge instead of doing some kind of stab at creating the feel of a "Terminator" film?" — UK Critic Posted Aug 27, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 54%	Veronica Guerin (2003)	" A big and glossy piece of crap that seems to be using the right tricks to get us teary-eyed, but hasn't got any heart." — UK Critic Posted Aug 24, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 21%	Basic (2003)	" The final parts of this movie are the kind that you'd swear were slapped on by the studio, until you realise the whole story must have been built around them." — UK Critic Posted Jul 8, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 33%	Johnny English (2003)	" It's a zero, wandering around itself, benignly hoping that it will make us laugh even though it has not offered funny material or delivery." — UK Critic Posted Apr 20, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 20%	The Life of David Gale (2003)	" An evil piece of junk that uses the death penalty as a gimmick for a dumb thriller." — UK Critic Posted Mar 19, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 71%	Dark Water (2002)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Mar 16, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 71%	Dark Water (2002)	" A horror movie that sits there and drags and seems very full of itself, and is based on the premise that puddles are scary. They're not." — UK Critic Posted Jul 16, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 88%	Russian Ark (2002)	" Less like watching paint dry than like watching it sit on the wall and stay wet." — UK Critic Posted Apr 29, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 36%	She Gets What She Wants (2002)	" Takes one character we don't like and another we don't believe, and puts them into a battle of wills that is impossible to care about and isn't very funny." — UK Critic Posted Oct 22, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 53%	My Little Eye (2002)	" An unholy mess, driven by the pathetic idea that if you shoot something on crummy-looking videotape, it must be labelled 'hip', 'innovative' and 'realistic'." — UK Critic Posted Oct 8, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 7%	The New Guy (2002)	" Tries too hard to be funny in a way that's too loud, too goofy and too short of an attention span." — UK Critic Posted Oct 6, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 44%	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)	" For all the quirky behaviour on display, there is still no personality, merely 'issues', their resolutions and a lot of frickin' ya-yas." — UK Critic Posted Oct 6, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 28%	Scooby-Doo - The Movie (2002)	" There's no way to sort out the mess in our heads and deconstruct where it all went wrong. This is an hour and a half of daydreaming." — UK Critic Posted Jul 24, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 7%	Dragonfly (2002)	" Now I can see why people thought I was too hard on "The Mothman Prophecies"." — UK Critic Posted Jun 10, 2002
Rotten 1/4	N/A	Nobody Someday (2002)	" A superficial, stolid, completely unselfconscious attempt to look deep and probing." — UK Critic Posted May 28, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 79%	Dog Soldiers (2002)	" A grim, flat and boring werewolf movie that refuses to develop an energy level." — UK Critic Posted May 14, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 18%	Collateral Damage (2002)	" Both offensive and flat" — UK Critic Posted Apr 14, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 26%	Formula 51 (2002)	" Thoughtless, random, superficial humour and a lot of very bad Scouse accents" — UK Critic Posted Dec 23, 2001
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 10%	The Musketeer (2001)	" Alexandre Dumas would be rolling around in his grave if this movie were lively enough to wake him up." — UK Critic Posted Jun 25, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 23%	Baise Moi (2001)	" An adolescent little poseur of a movie." — UK Critic Posted Jun 17, 2002
Rotten 25/100	N/A	Beverly Hood (2001)	" The acting is uniformly awful; the technical credits are an embarrassment." — Apollo Guide Posted Apr 27, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 13%	The One (2001)	" Replicates the experience of viewing an arcade demo for the same length of time." — UK Critic Posted Apr 24, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 13%	Thirteen Ghosts (2001)	" A loud, stupid and incomprehensible piece of junk" — UK Critic Posted Mar 24, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 36%	Behind Enemy Lines (2001)	Click here to read article — UK Critic Posted Jan 20, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 60%	Late Night Shopping (2001)	" Sad and forced, delivered in embarrassingly stiff and phoney tones." — UK Critic Posted Oct 16, 2001

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