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Jordan Farley

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Publications:: SFX Magazine

Total Reviews:: 46

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
4.5/5	——	Ultraviolet (2001)	" A tense, inventive, set-piece-driven detective show with genuinely touching character moments. " — SFX Magazine Posted Apr 25, 2013
2.5/5	28%	G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)	" Retaliation isn't hatefully dumb - it's entertainingly dumb. But even after the umpteen millions it cost to make, it never comes close to capturing the imagination like three 3/4" action figures can." — SFX Magazine Posted Apr 10, 2013
1.5/5	9%	The Host (2013)	" It's a reasonably intriguing premise, but the alien invasion soon takes a back seat to the kind of tiresome teen angst where crucial plot points hinge on a kiss." — SFX Magazine Posted Apr 10, 2013
3.5/5	62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" Unlike Raimi's classic original, it won't be remembered in 30 years time, but it is amongst the best horror remakes of the last decade." — SFX Magazine Posted Mar 13, 2013
1.5/5	——	Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987)	" Crucially, it's self-aware enough to be entertainingly awful rather than offensively dire." — SFX Magazine Posted Jan 23, 2013
2/5	6%	Silent Hill: Revelation (2012)	" It's in too much of a rush, and tries to cram in so much plot that unless you're familiar with the game it's closely adapted from, chances are it will leave you baffled." — SFX Magazine Posted Nov 9, 2012
4/5	73%	Cockneys vs Zombies (2013)	" It might be about as subtle as an axe to the temporal lobe, but Cockneys vs Zombies possesses the kind of comic timing most recent horror comedies would kill for." — SFX Magazine Posted Oct 19, 2012
3/5	25%	Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)	" More so than previous entries in the series, Paranormal Activity 4 plays a great deal of its runtime for laughs. As a result it's not half as scary as you might hope." — SFX Magazine Posted Oct 17, 2012
4.5/5	93%	Marvel's The Avengers (2012)	" As a whole Avengers Assemble emerges as a film that's far greater than the sum of its already admirable parts." — SFX Magazine Posted Sep 19, 2012
5/5	93%	Looper (2012)	" The most ambitious, inventive, downright invigorating film you're likely to see all year. Original science fiction film-making at its very finest." — SFX Magazine Posted Sep 6, 2012
2/5	34%	Battleship (2012)	" It's common to hear bloated, special-effects-driven blockbusters described as 'dumb fun'. Unfortunately there's very little that could be described as 'fun' in Battleship. There is, however, a whole lotta 'dumb'." — SFX Magazine Posted Aug 17, 2012
3/5	51%	John Carter (2012)	" Considering it stems from a story that helped define a genre limited only by imagination, John Carter is a curiously dull film." — SFX Magazine Posted Jun 29, 2012
3.5/5	43%	Storage 24 (2013)	" Never quite scary enough to be a horror, nowhere near funny enough to be a comedy and not exciting enough to be an action movie, but stitches all three elements together into a satisfying whole." — SFX Magazine Posted Jun 29, 2012
2/5	35%	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)	" The giddy fun implied by that preposterous moniker is missing in this almost entirely humourless affair." — SFX Magazine Posted Jun 21, 2012
2/5	41%	Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)	" Fans of intelligent family filmmaking will want to skip this vapid CGI-fest." — SFX Magazine Posted May 25, 2012
3/5	70%	Men in Black III (2012)	" Few things in life are worth waiting a decade for, and this isn't one of them, but after witnessing so many big-screen sci-fi comebacks go so hideously wrong in recent years, Men In Black 3 emerges as something of a triumph." — SFX Magazine Posted May 17, 2012
3/5	38%	Lockout (Unrated) (2012)	" James Mather and Stephen St Leger's debut feature isn't smart, it doesn't have anything to say about the human condition and it never takes itself remotely seriously, but none of that matters with a film this much fun." — SFX Magazine Posted Apr 23, 2012
4/5	68%	Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)	" Defies Hollywood's conventional money-making formula by injecting a fresh shot of creativity into the series... and it's arse-clenchingly scary." — SFX Magazine Posted Feb 27, 2012
2/5	17%	Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)	" Spirit Of Vengeance is madder than a line of designer guinea pig pyjamas and possesses the energy of a pre-schooler on a diet of candy floss and insulin shots." — SFX Magazine Posted Feb 17, 2012
4.5/5	77%	Melancholia (2011)	" Von Trier's most mainstream film and though not exactly laugh-a-minute, easily his most entertaining too." — SFX Magazine Posted Jan 27, 2012
3.5/5	52%	Perfect Sense (2012)	" Beautifully shot, scored and edited. Unfortunately it's hobbled by the central performances, which feel too distant to allow the level of emotional investment required." — SFX Magazine Posted Jan 27, 2012
2/5	26%	Underworld Awakening (2012)	" It's not awful, merely functional and lacking an identity now that the lore of previous entries has been abandoned." — SFX Magazine Posted Jan 27, 2012
2/5	61%	Final Destination 5 (2011)	" Fails to breathe new life into a tired franchise. " — SFX Magazine Posted Jan 3, 2012
2/5	24%	Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)	" It's essentially one insufferably long pregnancy sequence sandwiched between a sweet wedding and gruesome birth" — SFX Magazine Posted Nov 18, 2011
3.5/5	71%	The Dead (2011)	" Ardent zombie lovers will find a lot to admire in the film's tension and unusual atmosphere." — SFX Magazine Posted Oct 12, 2011
3/5	58%	Kaboom (2011)	" there's no method to Kaboom's utter-insanity; it crumbles badly in the final minutes and reveals its central mystery as little more than a meaningless whimsy." — SFX Magazine Posted Sep 16, 2011
4/5	48%	Super (2011)	" Super is the sudden kick in the crotch this summer of square-jawed superheroes never knew it needed." — SFX Magazine Posted Sep 16, 2011
3.5/5	82%	Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)	" There are plot holes to contend with and a handful of potential jump-the-shark moments, but the smart ending and stunning Golden Gate Bridge stand-off ensure you leave on a high." — SFX Magazine Posted Sep 16, 2011
4/5	96%	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011)	" Set pieces so spectacular you'll sit in awe at what the British film industry can achieve these days" — SFX Magazine Posted Jul 10, 2011
2.5/5	36%	Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)	" A series far from its Prime" — SFX Magazine Posted Jun 30, 2011
5/5	90%	Attack the Block (2011)	" Attack The Block is a mini marvel, and the most promising sci-fi debut since Moon. " — SFX Magazine Posted May 13, 2011
4/5	91%	Source Code (2011)	" A movie with an indie spirit and blockbuster sensibilities, Source Code is popcorn entertainment with genuine heft, and proof that the move to Tinseltown doesn't always mean having to sell your soul to the suits." — SFX Magazine Posted Mar 31, 2011
2.5/5	45%	Drive Angry (2011)	" Drive Angry is such an outrageously overblown experience that it almost feels redundant to flag up its obvious shortcomings in the most basic areas: a hopeless lack of logic, dismal dialogue, characters with less personality than the average roadkill. " — SFX Magazine Posted Feb 28, 2011
4/5	72%	Paul (2011)	" That rarest of specimens: a genuinely funny geek-friendly comedy. " — SFX Magazine Posted Feb 11, 2011
5/5	81%	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)	" Arguably the best-judged comic book adaptation to date " — SFX Magazine Posted Jan 10, 2011
3/5	79%	The Hole (2012)	" Hits all the right notes for its target demographic, and Dante still has the chops to make it visually compelling for the rest." — SFX Magazine Posted Sep 20, 2010
3/5	22%	Repo Men (2010)	" Repo Men never quite finds its own identity, abandoning any attempt at serious comment early on in favour of ludicrous levels of lopped limbs, cartilage and claret. " — SFX Magazine Posted Aug 24, 2010
3/5	49%	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)	" David Slade infuses this third entry with the kind of visceral set-pieces, knowing humour and more measured melodrama that the saga has been sorely lacking." — SFX Magazine Posted Jul 5, 2010
2.5/5	35%	The Wolfman (2010)	" Joe Johnston's monster movie remake is a confused mongrel of a film %u2013 half restrained gothic horror, half Hellraiser." — SFX Magazine Posted Jun 4, 2010
3.5/5	35%	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)	" A perfectly enjoyable, albeit flawed, popcorn-friendly blockbuster, it just about takes the crown as the best videogame adaptation to date" — SFX Magazine Posted May 20, 2010
4/5	75%	The Road (2009)	" Relentlessly bleak, but profound and in many ways beautiful, the voyage through The Road's utterly convincing wasteland is a raw, haunting experience but a rewarding one nonetheless." — SFX Magazine Posted May 14, 2010
2/5	15%	A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)	" Unadventurous, devoid of personality and completely lacking any semblance of imagination, Samuel Bayer's new Nightmare is a textbook exercise straight out of generic horror remakes 101." — SFX Magazine Posted May 7, 2010
2/5	71%	Valhalla Rising (2010)	" Bonus points for taking a wide berth around all familiar Viking stereotypes, but since the rest of the film is so alienating, dull and generally unpleasant, it's not just the characters suffering through a hellish experience." — SFX Magazine Posted Mar 18, 2010
5/5	76%	Kick-Ass (2010)	" Quite simply the most successful comic adaptation to date, a flawless take on the rebellious punk sensibilities of the source." — SFX Magazine Posted Mar 18, 2010
2/5	48%	Terra (Battle For Terra) (2009)	" It's the ASDA-price Avatar." — SFX Magazine Posted Feb 8, 2010

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