Anthony Leong

Anthony Leong

"Film is the literature of the Twentieth Century"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 66% of the time.

Biography:
In addition to being a licensed pharmacist and management consultant, Anthony Leong has been a part-time film critic since 1997. Many of his 750+ film reviews and articles have appeared in books, magazines, and entertainment portals all around the world, as well as on his own entertainment web site, MediaCircus.net. To see examples of his published work, visit his Sightings page (http://www.mediacircus.net/sightings.html). After watching his very first Korean film, "Shiri", Mr. Leong became hopelessly hooked and made a vow to write the very first guidebook to this new and exciting world cinema phenomenon, "Korean Cinema: The New Hong Kong", which is now available. For more information, please visit http://www.mediacircus.net/koreancinema.
Favorites:
Favorite Directors (in alphabetical order): Woody Allen, Luc Besson, James Cameron, Atom Egoyan, Juzo Itami, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Baz Luhrman, David Lynch, Sam Raimi, John Sayles, Oliver Stone, Takeshi Kitano, Wong Kar Wai, John Woo, Ronny Yu Favorite Films (in alphabetical order): Army of Darkness, Ashes of Time, A Better Tomorrow, The Brothers McMullen, Bullet in the Head, Chungking Express, Exotica, Clerks, Fallen Angels, Hard Boiled, The Killer, Strictly Ballroom, Tampopo, Three Colors Trilogy
Publications:
MediaCircus , Reel Site
Total Reviews:
700
Total QuickRatings:
3
Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Worst Reviewed Films

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0/5 11% Freddy Got Fingered (2001) " ... Freddy Got Fingered deserves the finger." — MediaCircus
Posted Apr 21, 2001
1/5 20% Shu shan zheng zhuan (The Legend of Zu) (Zu Warriors) (2001) " Pretentious, confusing, and emotionally cold..." — MediaCircus
Posted Oct 18, 2001
1/5 52% American Pie 2 (2001) " ... this second serving of "American Pie" will probably leave you more nauseated than satisfied." — MediaCircus
Posted Aug 9, 2001
1/5 15% Scary Movie 2 (2001) " ... Scary Movie 2 ends up being a stupid movie too." — MediaCircus
Posted Jul 4, 2001
1/5 9% Say It Isn't So (2001) " ... a story in search of a punch-line..." — MediaCircus
Posted Mar 25, 2001
55% Hamlet (2000) " This latest updating of Hamlet is built on an interesting concept, though it seems that Almereyda didn't go deep enough when it came to staging the scenes or understanding the characters." — MediaCircus
Posted Jun 18, 2002
67% The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) " Brosnan and Russo lack the on-screen chemistry to make their mutual admiration and respect convincing." — AtNZone Entertainment Magazine
Posted Jan 1, 2000
52% Mars Attacks! (1996) " A bloated, slowly-paced, and choppy homage to Invasion flicks with a 60s art deco Dayglo color scheme and inspired moments too few and far-between." — MediaCircus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
45% The Siege (1998) " Instead of being an insightful, allegorical, and cautionary tale, which such a compelling premise demands, The Siege" — MediaCircus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
41% Fallen (1997) " An extremely boring by-the-numbers exercise." — MediaCircus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
83% The Ice Storm (1997) " Though the direction of the material is up to Lee's standards, the material he is working with is not." — MediaCircus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1.5/5 11% Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001) " ... a very pedestrian installment to a franchise way past its prime..." — MediaCircus
Posted Apr 22, 2001
2/5 —— Scent of Love () " ... if you are in search of a worthwhile film that takes romantic melodrama in new directions, you will be better off turning your nose up at Scent of Love." — MediaCircus
Posted Jul 15, 2003
2/5 —— Black Mask 2: City of Masks (2001) " ...unless you like watching bald overweight men in rubber suits beating each other senseless enhanced by CGI and wire work, Black Mask II: City of Masks should remain incognito." — MediaCircus
Posted Mar 20, 2003
2/5 0% Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) " Who would have thought car chases, explosions, martial arts, and shoot-outs could be so boring?" — MediaCircus
Posted Sep 23, 2002
2/5 15% Striking Distance (1993) MediaCircus
Posted Aug 18, 2002
2/5 11% Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002) " ...if it had been only half-an-hour long or a TV special, the humor would have been fast and furious-- at ninety minutes, it drags." — MediaCircus
Posted Jan 27, 2002
2/5 93% In the Bedroom (2001) " Though all the right ingredients seem to be in place... Todd Field's 'slow boil' approach to telling the story ends up spoiling the soup." — MediaCircus
Posted Dec 30, 2001
2/5 67% Ali (2001) " ...it is disappointing to see Smith's assiduous turn being wasted in this bloated bio-pic, a film in dire need of both an editor and a point." — MediaCircus
Posted Dec 27, 2001
2/5 54% Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) " ... this mish-mash of Zucker Brothers' parody, juvenile toilet humor, and Robert Altman-style name-dropping doesn't quite work..." — MediaCircus
Posted Aug 26, 2001
2/5 47% Brother (2001) " ... other than a change of locale, Kitano offers little that is new or compelling with this latest effort." — MediaCircus
Posted Aug 2, 2001
2/5 33% Angel Eyes (2001) " With its careless approach to script, acting, and production, it doesn't take very long for the seams of this formula-driven film to show..." — MediaCircus
Posted May 20, 2001
2/5 32% Exit Wounds (2001) " ...just another hip-hop-karate- chop-beat'em-up..." — MediaCircus
Posted Mar 20, 2001
4/10 8% Valentine (2001) MediaCircus
Posted Feb 13, 2001
4/10 6% Universal Soldier - The Return (1999) MediaCircus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
4/10 4% The Mod Squad (1999) MediaCircus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
4/10 7% I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) MediaCircus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
2.5/5 —— Madeleine () " ...a hollow emulation of a romance with no heart or soul." — MediaCircus
Posted Apr 22, 2003
2.5/5 —— Bichunmoo (2001) " ... never becomes more than a sum of its parts with its lackluster story, manipulative melodrama, and unimpressive action sequences." — MediaCircus
Posted Jul 9, 2002
2.5/5 33% Windtalkers (2002) " ... takes a fascinating and little-known aspect of the Second World War and buries it beneath redundantly redundant scenes of excessive pyrotechnics and battlefield carnage." — MediaCircus
Posted Jul 6, 2002
2.5/5 29% The Time Machine (2002) " ... Wells would probably be shocked by how his work has been bastardized by his own great-grandson..." — MediaCircus
Posted Mar 10, 2002
2.5/5 14% The One (2001) " ... an overblown special effects extravaganza that perfectly illustrates how audiences can accept the impossible, but not the implausible." — MediaCircus
Posted Nov 4, 2001
2.5/5 21% Ghosts of Mars (2001) " ...if "Mission to Mars" and "Red Planet" haven't killed off audience interest in movies about Mars, this one probably will." — MediaCircus
Posted Sep 14, 2001
2.5/5 19% Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (2001) " Tomb Raider n'est pas tres Jolie" — MediaCircus
Posted Jun 17, 2001
2.5/5 43% Evolution (2001) " Evolution is not fit to survive..." — MediaCircus
Posted Jun 10, 2001
2.5/5 33% One Night at McCool's (2001) " One night at McCool's is one night too many" — MediaCircus
Posted Apr 28, 2001
2.5/5 43% Someone Like You (2001) " ... a chore and a bore to sit through." — MediaCircus
Posted Mar 25, 2001
5/10 14% 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) " Reindeer Games redux..." — MediaCircus
Posted Feb 27, 2001
5/10 16% Sweet November (2001) MediaCircus
Posted Feb 21, 2001
5/10 —— Desecration (2000) MediaCircus
Posted Feb 14, 2001
5/10 28% Sugar & Spice (2001) MediaCircus
Posted Feb 7, 2001
5/10 10% Dungeons & Dragons (2000) MediaCircus
Posted Feb 7, 2001
5/10 12% Get Carter (2000) MediaCircus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
5/10 87% Rushmore (1998) MediaCircus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
5/10 13% Book of Shadows - Blair Witch 2 (2000) MediaCircus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
5/10 24% Hope Floats (1998) MediaCircus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
5/10 32% Superstar (1999) MediaCircus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
5/10 15% Random Hearts (1999) MediaCircus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
5/10 9% Virus (1999) Eyepiece Network
Posted Jan 1, 2000
5/10 50% Outside Providence (1999) MediaCircus
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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