R. L. Shaffer

R. L. Shaffer

Agrees with the Tomatometer 73% of the time.

Biography:
R.L. Shaffer is a critic at IGN.Com, DVDFuture.com, and a freelance writer. He's professionally studied film, film criticism, screenwriting and production for over 12 years. He's been a published film critic for 10 years.
Publications:
DVDFuture.com , IGN DVD
Total Reviews:
409

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1/10 —— Jersey Shore Shark Attack (2012) " Appallingly cheap on every conceivable level, Jersey Shore Shark Attack is like watching a bad porno without the satisfaction of seeing any actual sex." — IGN DVD
Posted Sep 10, 2012
2/10 13% Piranha 3DD (2012) " An absolutely awful sequel that flushes any potential this franchise might have otherwise had." — IGN DVD
Posted Sep 10, 2012
2/10 6% The Devil Inside (2012) " A terribly written, dubious slice of unscary found footage spiritual horror that ends with an ellipsis, not a period." — IGN DVD
Posted May 17, 2012
2/10 11% Creature (2011) " An awfully made, awfully acted, awfully plotted, and awfully boring more. In a word, Creature is awful." — IGN DVD
Posted Apr 1, 2012
2/10 29% The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (2011) " Mocks torture porn while being the worst form of it all at the same time, The Human Centipede II personifies what not to do with a sequel." — IGN DVD
Posted Feb 17, 2012
2/10 —— Cross (2011) " Poorly made on nearly every conceivable level, Cross is a genre-meshed mess." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
2/10 —— The Scorpion King 3: Battle For Redemption (2012) " A complete waste of time and talent, The Scorpion King 3 is a cheap, poorly made cash-grab with little action, little story and nothing interesting to offer." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
2/10 6% Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997) " I'll give it this - Mortal Kombat: Annihilation is hilarious. Sadly, not intentionally so." — IGN DVD
Posted May 16, 2011
2/10 23% Case 39 (2010) " Not only is Case 39 deplorable and morally off-center, the film is dull to boot." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 16, 2011
2/10 87% The Blair Witch Project (1999) " A brilliant marketing campaign, to be sure, but this Z-grade con of a film offers no payoff for audiences looking to be scared." — IGN DVD
Posted Oct 26, 2010
2/10 —— Wild Things: Foursome (2010) " Save yourself the time and money, watch a softcore skin flick on Cinemax and forget this film exists. " — IGN DVD
Posted Oct 16, 2010
2/10 —— The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It (2010) " A painful, unfunny, unoriginal, sloppy mess of a movie." — IGN DVD
Posted Oct 16, 2010
3/10 —— Freelancers (2012) " Freelancers is a dull, lifeless cop drama built on cliches, powered by throwaway supporting performances from Forest Whitaker and Robert De Niro." — IGN DVD
Posted Aug 22, 2012
3/10 9% Age of the Dragons (2011) " Watch the opening sequence, skip everything that else that follows." — IGN DVD
Posted Aug 6, 2012
3/10 43% Mother's Day (2012) " A sloppy, ugly, illogical story mixed with graphic torture, attempted rape and grisly violence. Mother's Day is a film only a mother could love." — IGN DVD
Posted May 3, 2012
3/10 26% Hop (2011) " Hop starts out cute, but slowly dissolves into a mundane, droll experience completely derivative of Alvin and the Chipmunks and numerous Christmas movies." — IGN DVD
Posted Mar 23, 2012
3/10 4% Abduction (2011) " Even subtracting Taylor Lautner's mechanical performance, Abduction is an illogical train wreck riddled with messy direction, bad editing, tired action and plot holes galore." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
3/10 25% Apollo 18 (2011) " Apollo 18 is a mercilessly dull movie that just doesn't make much sense. It's light on thrills, and the found-footage gimmick works against the tension." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
3/10 23% The Smurfs (2011) " The kids might enjoy it, but The Smurfs is nothing but an annoying, noisy commercial for Sony products. Save for Hank Azaria's amusing take on Gargamel, the film is fatty junk food." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
3/10 11% Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011) " Atlas Shrugged is a passionless experience that feels like a TV movie/miniseries. It's flat, poorly plotted, thinly performed and dull to its core" — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
3/10 20% Howling: Reborn (2011) " Like the other sequels, The Howling Reborn takes a great concept and completely flushes it down the toilet in order to exploit modern horror/werewolf trends." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
3/10 15% Skyline (2010) " Skyline might be a midnight B-movie, but it's also hopelessly inept and a grievous waste of time and talent with no ending whatsoever." — IGN DVD
Posted May 16, 2011
3/10 —— Alien vs. Ninja (2011) " AvN is occasionally campy fun, but it's mostly just dull and and disappointing, never living up to the potential of its terrific title." — IGN DVD
Posted Mar 23, 2011
3/10 —— Psych: 9 (2010) " With off-tempo editing, a jarring narrative and no likeable lead gluing the story together, the pieces of this film are no more enjoyable than staring at a puzzle that's yet to have been put together." — IGN DVD
Posted Mar 23, 2011
3/10 23% Chain Letter (2010) " A bland, sloppy, paint-by-numbers slasher that crams a half-baked anti-technology theme down your throat." — IGN DVD
Posted Feb 5, 2011
3/10 52% I'm Still Here (2010) " An ugly and disturbing deconstruction of self-destruction and emptiness." — IGN DVD
Posted Dec 4, 2010
3/10 6% The Last Airbender (2010) " The film is an unmitigated disaster, a putrid patchwork of the original series stitched together by wretched performances, bad creative decisions and a story that's all exposition, no depth." — IGN DVD
Posted Dec 4, 2010
3/10 0% Highlander II: The Quickening (Highlander 2) (1991) " Feels more like a brainstorm exercise than a feature length film." — IGN DVD
Posted Nov 6, 2010
3/10 —— Children of the Corn (2009) " Basically, [Donald P.] Borchers' adaptation of Children of the Corn is one-part nasty bickering, two-parts boring corn chase." — IGN DVD
Posted Oct 18, 2010
3/10 27% Extraordinary Measures (2010) " Extraordinary Measures strives to tug at our heartstrings, and educate us on a little publicized disease, but it ends up feeling like a drug itself - manufactured using artificial chemicals by technicians in a cold lab." — IGN DVD
Posted Oct 16, 2010
3/10 —— Bitten (2008) " This vampire comedy will drain you dry." — IGN DVD
Posted Oct 16, 2010
3/10 13% The Bounty Hunter (2010) " An expensive, low-rent, overlong, tired romantic action-comedy." — IGN DVD
Posted Oct 16, 2010
3/10 —— 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010) " Field of Screams will have its fans. It's certainly gory, crass, riddled with female nudity and off-the-wall antics. But the narrative never amounts to anything interesting. " — IGN DVD
Posted Oct 16, 2010
4/10 54% Dr Seuss' The Lorax (2012) " A mostly harmless, cute and cuddly pop-infused babysitter for the ADD generation, but a wretched adaptation of Seuss' classic work." — IGN DVD
Posted Aug 7, 2012
4/10 8% 11-11-11 (2011) " 11-11-11 has a few scary moments here and there, but it's mostly a flat, lifeless spiritual horror spin on The Number 23." — IGN DVD
Posted Apr 26, 2012
4/10 25% Killer Elite (2011) " Stale and bland, Killer Elite is an emotionless, assembly-line actioner with little to keep even the hardest of hardcore fans interested." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
4/10 44% Cowboys & Aliens (2011) " A mercilessly boring, wasted opportunity that forgets to have a sense of humor, charisma, or aliens." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
4/10 25% The Change-Up (2011) " A foul misfire that favors sex and gross-out gags over its somewhat affecting plot about married life and single life, and the sacrifices we all make for one or the other." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
4/10 58% Scream 4 (2011) " If you only watch Scream 4 once, it might prove satisfying. But the film fails to hold any value beyond its first screening, largely thanks to a sloppy script that feels like a rough draft." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
4/10 86% Batman: Year One (2011) " A stale adaptation of the classic Frank Miller comic. The film drowns in bad voice work and lacks the visual nuances found in the original story." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
4/10 58% Red State (2011) " A flat, talky, derivative "horror" film that's not very controversial despite how much it thinks it is." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
4/10 8% Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2011) " A pointless, very loose adaptation of the popular Italian comic that plays like a bad episode of Buffy." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
4/10 26% Your Highness (2011) " A surprisingly boring throwback to '80s fantasy, with a disgusting amount of potty humor, violence and foul language tossed in to generate the shallowest of laughs." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
4/10 —— Dinocroc vs. Supergator (2010) " Silly, dull, and poorly made, with not much versus action." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
4/10 70% Limitless (2011) " For a movie about hyper-intelligent human beings, Limitless is surprisingly sloppy and ultimately rather brainless." — IGN DVD
Posted Jan 29, 2012
4/10 —— Stag Night (2009) " More like "Attack of the (Rob) Zombies." A knockout cast is wasted in a tired, dumb horror movie with more embarrassing moments than real thrills." — IGN DVD
Posted Mar 23, 2011
4/10 10% Saw 3D (2010) " The Saw franchise ends with a blood-soaked whimper." — IGN DVD
Posted Feb 5, 2011
4/10 29% The Virginity Hit (2010) " A few moments of inspired comedic genius spread throughout a sophomoric, disturbingly irresponsible little comedy." — IGN DVD
Posted Feb 5, 2011
4/10 —— Mirrors 2 (2010) " A lousy horror film that retreads every scare from the first film with significantly less effectiveness." — IGN DVD
Posted Oct 26, 2010
4/10 12% Jonah Hex (2010) " The film is simply too brief, too befuddled and too delirious to do the comic book legend justice." — IGN DVD
Posted Oct 20, 2010
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