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Bob Townsend

Bob Townsend

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Biography:
Film Critic, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Publications:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Total Reviews:
83

Worst Reviewed Films

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D- 16% xXx: State of the Union (2005) " Like the original, it's ultra loud and often looks like a PlayStation game. But when the fast and furious bludgeoning and blow-ups wane, the screen may as well be tuned to channel zero." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Apr 28, 2005
D- 1% Alone in the Dark (2005) " Alone in the Dark co-stars perpetual party-girl Tara Reid as an archeologist. That alone should give you some clue as to how bad this movie is." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 27, 2005
D 51% The Fountain (2006) " Aronofsky's long-time-coming version of spiritual wonder is finally more mind-numbing than soul-stirring." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Nov 21, 2006
D 33% Flyboys (2006) " Watching Flyboys, it's hard not to giggle and think of Snoopy vs. the Red Baron." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Sep 21, 2006
D 11% The Man (2005) " Characters are pretty much composites of their previous roles. Think Jackson's Pulp Fiction Jules getting all Ezekiel 25:17 on Levy's American Pie dad." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Sep 8, 2005
D 37% The Skeleton Key (2005) " The Hollywood cliche factory got its mojo working overtime on this one." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Aug 11, 2005
D+ 31% Unaccompanied Minors (2006) " A Christmas lump of coal." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Dec 7, 2006
C- 26% Stomp the Yard (2007) " As expected, there's a final contest that resolves a whole mess of conflicts. But before that, Stomp the Yard flirts with several silly soap opera subplots while twisting its way around to a cursory touch of social consciousness." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 11, 2007
C- 44% Night at the Museum (2006) " Computer-generated things that go bump in the night can't cover for a thin story and less-than-inspired performances from Stiller and Williams." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Dec 21, 2006
C- 31% UNDEAD (2005) " Despite its clever low-budget visual style and campy sensibility, Undead is just too derivative to go on as long as it does." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jul 7, 2005
C- 22% In My Country (2005) " Is it a docudrama about South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings? Or is it love story? The problem with In My Country is that it tries to be both." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Apr 14, 2005
C- 44% National Treasure (2004) " It fakes high concept, but turns into a whole lot of hooey." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Nov 18, 2004
C- 11% Exorcist - The Beginning (2004) " When it was first released, The Exorcist caused nausea, fainting and heart attacks; by comparison, The Beginning elicited waves of giggles and guffaws from a preview screening audience." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Aug 20, 2004
C- 31% Around the World in 80 Days (2004) " A dead-on-arrival movie idea." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jun 15, 2004
C- 4% The Whole Ten Yards (2003) " The story is a formulaic jumble, and the minor characters often appear to have wandered in from another Hollywood set." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Apr 8, 2004
C- 1% Twisted (2004) " What happens when you combine good actors, a talented director and an awful script? Twisted answers that question so quickly it could have been made as a kind of negative case study for film students." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Feb 26, 2004
C- 20% Honey (2003) " Like those irritating TV ads, you know what's going to happen next, and you know you're never actually going to see anything." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Dec 4, 2003
C 19% The Last Sin Eater (2007) " If Sin Eater wasn't so laborious, it might be easier to overlook the movie's predictability. With too many slow-developing subplots, though, it finally illicits a feeling something like squirming in a hard pew during a long-winded sermon." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Feb 8, 2007
C 51% Fast Food Nation (2006) " What's most frustrating about Fast Food Nation is how much it promises and how little it delivers." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Nov 16, 2006
C 3% Crossover (2006) " Compared to those prodigious in-your-face fakes, alley oops and slam dunks, the movie's trite, trash-talking dialogue and drippy do-the-right-thing message fall as flat as an airball." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Aug 31, 2006
C 35% The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) " The adrenaline-charged racing sequences have a kind of brutally modern elegance. But when their fingers slip from the nitro fuel-injection buttons and the teens are forced to say a few syllables, big chunks of the movie come to a tire-screeching halt." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jun 15, 2006
C 32% The Gospel (2005) " When the music isn't pounding in sanctified syncopation, the look and the dialogue of The Gospel are a lot like what you might see and hear on daytime TV." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Oct 15, 2005
C 30% Flight of the Phoenix (2004) " More like a waddling turkey than a soaring bird." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Dec 16, 2004
C 18% After the Sunset (2004) " An occasionally amusing but generally dull heist movie." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Nov 11, 2004
C 4% Godsend (2003) " A weak psychological thriller." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Apr 29, 2004
C 13% The Haunted Mansion (2003) " Director Rob Minkoff tries to strike a balance between funny and scary, but the movie never really generates screams of either kind." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Nov 25, 2003
C 48% S.W.A.T. (2003) " Good cop; bad cop. Bad TV show; bad movie. That about sums up S.W.A.T." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Aug 7, 2003
C 24% Lara Croft Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003) " An action for action's sake movie." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jul 24, 2003
C+ 33% The Baxter (2005) " While trying really hard to make Elliot a lovable loser, Showalter too often just renders him shrill and annoying." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Sep 15, 2005
C+ 55% Lords of Dogtown (2005) " While the actors do a decent job capturing the aura of their characters, the writing, directing and editing stumble." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jun 2, 2005
C+ 65% Unleashed (Danny the Dog) (2005) " Permeated with dark shadows that recall Frankenstein and The Elephant Man, Unleashed features a quite clever premise before detouring into a plot twist that should've been muzzled." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted May 12, 2005
C+ 5% Christmas with the Kranks (2004) " Given the tinsel-thin storyline, the typical seasonal gags only elicit perfunctory laughter." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Nov 23, 2004
C + 17% Hair Show (2004) " Don't expect this stylin' movie to weave more than a few giggles." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Oct 14, 2004
C+ 51% Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004) " Its essential message of emotional healing is a positive one. But as a movie, it floats into a channel-surfing blur of corny scenes and pop psych dialogue that too often confuses the material with the spiritual." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Oct 7, 2004
C+ 18% Suspect Zero (2004) " It never builds characters to care about or a story that gets much better than its tricky, paranormal premise." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Aug 26, 2004
C+ 20% Thunderbirds (2004) " Thunderbirds is another movie that feeds the notion that Hollywood knows how to take the oddest and oldest of material and make it look spectacular -- even if the final product is as empty as a dummy's head." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jul 29, 2004
C+ 43% Mickey (2004) " Unless you're a serious baseball dad or a youngster who dreams of making it to the Little League World Series, it's going to take tenacity to stay focused until the closing credits." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted May 6, 2004
C+ 36% Radio (2003) " Syrupy feel-good movie just doesn't ring true, despite Gooding's quietly dignified performance." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Oct 23, 2003
B- 75% American Blackout (2006) " A powerful piece of political cinema that effectively documents the disenfranchisement of black voters in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Aug 4, 2006
B- 27% Waist Deep (2006) " That sappy sentimentality juxtaposed with plenty of gritty gangster stuff drives both the tone and the plot of Waist Deep." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jun 22, 2006
B- 57% Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) " Sitting through the film's tedious unfolding can be an interesting mental exercise." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jun 1, 2006
B- 26% The Shaggy Dog (2006) " A pretty fair Disney family comedy." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Mar 9, 2006
B- 55% Glory Road (2006) " Glory Road plays fast and loose with some of the facts leading up to that event. But that certainly gives it dramatic punch." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 12, 2006
B- 25% 9 songs (2005) " If you're a fan of the 'now' bands on the soundtrack or an art film buff (or a dirty old man), 9 Songs may appeal." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Aug 25, 2005
B- 64% Fever Pitch (The Perfect Catch) (2005) " It's frequently amusing and awfully sweet." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Apr 7, 2005
B- 65% Coach Carter (2005) " Thank goodness then for go-to guy Jackson. He takes what could have been a cardboard cliche role and puts flesh on it with his flamboyant intelligence." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 13, 2005
B- 10% Elektra (2005) " True to form, Garner creates a strapping action character with as many foibles as muscles." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Jan 13, 2005
B- 39% Birth (2004) " Strangely mesmerizing." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Oct 28, 2004
B- 10% Taxi (2004) " Fallon takes off on a few good funny-man flights." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Oct 7, 2004
B- 43% The Brown Bunny (2004) " Much like Bruno Dumont's equally provocative Twentynine Palms, Gallo's peculiarly earnest film ultimately questions the nature of cinema, that continuum of reality and illusion that starts when the theater dims and the screen lights up." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted Sep 9, 2004
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