Ken McIntyre

Ken McIntyre

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

Publications:
Total Film
Total Reviews:
66

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1/5 22% The Words (2012) " Its long, dry patches of colourless storytelling suggest it makes more sense as a book, one to read before you fall asleep to dream of better movies." — Total Film
Posted May 2, 2013
3/5 36% Dead Man Down (2013) " A jagged, unbalanced (in every sense) revenge flick that nonetheless offers up twists and brooding noir-ness." — Total Film
Posted Apr 22, 2013
4/5 74% Chimpanzee (2012) " Chimpanzee intermittently veers into Disney-esque cheese - seriously, a 'bad' monkey named Scar? - but is otherwise a delight." — Total Film
Posted Apr 22, 2013
48% Olympus Has Fallen (2013) " An orgy of bloody explosions that'd be tough to endure if it weren't so inadvertently self-parodic." — Total Film
Posted Apr 12, 2013
3/5 35% Dark Skies (2013) " In this doomy surburban horror the real terrors don't come from space." — Total Film
Posted Mar 22, 2013
3/5 58% Snitch (2013) " A thoughtful, slow-boiling, politically charged thriller. It takes an hour for Dwayne to become The Rock, but it's worth the wait." — Total Film
Posted Mar 22, 2013
3/5 13% Stolen (2012) " Loud, predictable fun from Simon 'Con Air' West." — Total Film
Posted Mar 15, 2013
2/5 20% Identity Thief (2013) " A wasted opportunity: put the two leads in a movie that didn't lazily rely on its high concept to do the work, and you'd really have something to laugh about." — Total Film
Posted Mar 7, 2013
3/5 65% Mama (2013) " Fairytale horror that is low on scares and velocity but buoyed by the syrup-thick atmosphere and the creepy stares of the young actresses." — Total Film
Posted Feb 4, 2013
2/5 32% Won't Back Down (2012) " The leads are fine, but the movie's about as fun as summer school." — Total Film
Posted Jan 21, 2013
3/5 81% Pitch Perfect (2012) " Gleeks and Glee-haters alike should rally around this raucous musical comedy." — Total Film
Posted Nov 23, 2012
3/5 49% The Man With the Iron Fists (2012) " Grisly and goofy, this ode to the Shaw Brothers' '70s-era kung fu epics serves up 96 minutes of murder and mutilation and not a lot else." — Total Film
Posted Nov 23, 2012
2/5 39% Here Comes the Boom (2012) " 105 painful minutes of a fat guy getting punched in the face and falling down." — Total Film
Posted Nov 15, 2012
2/5 56% People Like Us (2012) " Fans of Pine's eyebrows will enjoy all the bushy furrowing, but otherwise, there are more important things to cry about." — Total Film
Posted Oct 30, 2012
2/5 58% Sparkle (2012) " Sparkle isn't Dreamgirls - but fans of schmaltzy showbiz fairytales should enjoy it." — Total Film
Posted Sep 28, 2012
3/5 37% Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) " Very weird fun." — Total Film
Posted Sep 3, 2012
3/5 51% Savages (2012) " Savages is punishing in places, but there are enough colourful characters and careening twists to make it worth the effort." — Total Film
Posted Sep 3, 2012
3/5 65% The Campaign (2012) " Although only slightly more outrageous than reality, The Campaign is a funny, pacy peek behind the political curtain." — Total Film
Posted Sep 3, 2012
2/5 21% That's My Boy (2012) " They're estranged. Tired antics ensue." — Total Film
Posted Aug 28, 2012
2/5 20% Chernobyl Diaries (2012) " Diaries is dark and gruesome, but with little in the way of genuine shock or surprise, you should expect the expected." — Total Film
Posted Jun 21, 2012
2/5 38% Lockout (Unrated) (2012) " Luc Besson's clunky, space-bound actioner apes '80s B-flick excess but skimps on all the good parts." — Total Film
Posted Apr 19, 2012
2/5 8% 11-11-11 (2011) Total Film
Posted Apr 12, 2012
3/5 50% Grave Encounters (2011) " Despite its meagre budget, Grave Encounters boasts surprisingly solid acting, vertigo-baiting hand-held camera antics and enough [REC]- style shock-horror to keep your pulse throbbing throughout." — Total Film
Posted Apr 10, 2012
2/5 6% The Devil Inside (2012) " A low-budget, low-watt belly botherer saved from history's dustbin by a few gruesome moments and a gob-smack of an ending that (almost) makes it worth the slog." — Total Film
Posted Feb 20, 2012
2/5 2% One for the Money (2012) " Heigl's fine and there's some zingy dialogue, but the violence jars with the comedy and, despite being written and directed by women, it still comes off as needlessly sexist." — Total Film
Posted Feb 13, 2012
3/5 12% The Darkest Hour (2011) " If you can get past the hokey premise, then you could be in for a good time with this lumbering 3D disaster-porn noisemaker." — Total Film
Posted Jan 10, 2012
1/5 16% Shark Night 3D (2011) " [Leaves] you with nothing more than a few poke-y moments and wistful memories of Piranha 3D." — Total Film
Posted Sep 27, 2011
2/5 19% Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer (2011) " Graham is lovely and Beatty a natural, but if you're not seven years old, it's one long headache." — Total Film
Posted Sep 12, 2011
2/5 47% Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011) " Carrey fans will be let down by the rubber-faced one playing straight man to a pack of penguins. While kids may find the plot p-p-past its sell-by date." — Total Film
Posted Jul 27, 2011
1/5 55% Jumping the Broom (2011) " This extremely formulaic time-waster offers little beyond its lame Hallmark greeting-card platitudes." — Total Film
Posted Jun 7, 2011
3/5 29% Take Me Home Tonight (2011) " A potential cult hit in the making, call this Dazed And Confused for the Members Only set." — Total Film
Posted May 10, 2011
1/5 20% Beastly (2011) " A tween-baiting update that sullies the elegant fairytale with privileged brats in penthouses. Beastly is a crass, spirit-sapping bore." — Total Film
Posted Apr 15, 2011
3/5 11% Red Riding Hood (2011) " Red Riding Hood is actually a fun, goofy ride, albeit one lathered in chintz and froth." — Total Film
Posted Apr 11, 2011
2/5 64% Tomorrow, When the War Began (2012) " If teens battling soldiers sounds like your cup of tea, drink deep. If not, stick with Red Dawn." — Total Film
Posted Mar 30, 2011
1/5 4% The Roommate (2011) " Cat lovers may be unnerved, but fright fans will just yawn their way to the exit." — Total Film
Posted Mar 30, 2011
3/5 43% Faster (2010) " Although they're all indebted to some other film, there are some nice touches here." — Total Film
Posted Mar 14, 2011
3/5 37% The Resident (2012) " Generic, yes, but gleeful with it." — Total Film
Posted Mar 9, 2011
2/5 13% Yogi Bear (2010) " Any potential retro-charm is quickly rubbed out by creepy CGI, a tired reality-TV conceit and failure to grasp that Yogi's appeal lies in his delivery and quick wit, not eye-stabbing 3D gimmicks or life-like depictions of picnic-basket heists." — Total Film
Posted Feb 11, 2011
4/5 73% Megamind (2010) " A retro-stylised fantasy-satire that balances knowingness with affection, winning kids and olds over in the process. Wry, spry and very funny." — Total Film
Posted Dec 2, 2010
2/5 17% You Again (2010) " Directed with bland efficiency by the typically family-friendly Andy Fickman (Race To Witch Mountain, The Game Plan), You Again never seems to find the tone it's aiming for." — Total Film
Posted Nov 10, 2010
1/5 4% Vampires Suck (2010) " It's marginally sharper than the likes of Meet The Spartans -- yes, that good -- but essentially as tatty as a porn parody, without all the best bits." — Total Film
Posted Oct 14, 2010
1/5 12% Jonah Hex (2010) " To quote Clint Eastwood's Monco in For A Few Dollars More, you people need a new sheriff." — Total Film
Posted Sep 9, 2010
2/5 18% The Tooth Fairy (2010) " There isn't a kid alive who could possibly buy into the soulless treacle that serves as sentiment here. Forgettable mush." — Total Film
Posted May 27, 2010
2/4 19% Gentlemen Broncos (2009) " Classic underdog vs smug establishment stuff, you might think. But it's all played out in puke-slathered anti-comedy sketches better suited to no-budget YouTube videos than a multimillion-dollar film." — Total Film
Posted May 6, 2010
3/5 12% The Spy Next Door (2010) " Filled with slapstick guffaws, dodgy accents and copious pratfalls, Brian Levant's light-hearted action comedy succeeds because it stays true to what it actually is: a kids' movie." — Total Film
Posted Mar 16, 2010
1/5 5% Old Dogs (2009) " It's a two-ton nuclear warhead of aggressive lameness, a hard, pounding rain of flop sweat and triteness and depression." — Total Film
Posted Mar 16, 2010
3/5 41% Armored (2009) " Armored's first half is an overwrought, eye-rolling bro-venture, but once the actual robbery takes place, the film ratchets up into a solid testosterone-soaked thriller." — Total Film
Posted Jan 22, 2010
3/5 5% Miss March (2009) " Pure eye-poking, boob-baring raunch that will tickle your inner idiot and wind up everyone else something rotten." — Total Film
Posted Sep 11, 2009
1/5 18% Dance Flick (2009) " Toothless and obvious, even its 'best' gag - a farting-ballerina set piece - was done more effectively, for free, on YouTube a year ago." — Total Film
Posted Aug 21, 2009
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