Rich Cline

""Help me, Obi-wan Kenobi. You're my only hope." - Leia Organa "Into the mud, scum queen!" - Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr "

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Biography:
California-born journalist living in London since 1992, reviewing films for the BBC, various magazines and radio stations, Shadows on the Wall, Film Threat and others...
Favorites:
La Strada, Rear Window, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, Citizen Kane, The Stunt Man
Publications:
Contactmusic.com , Film Threat , FilmFocus , Rotten Tomatoes , Shadows on the Wall , This is London
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
4453
Total QuickRatings:
680
Location:
London, UK

Worst Reviewed Films

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1/5 7% New Year's Eve (2011) " The stories and filmmaking overdose on ill-conceived schmaltz." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Dec 8, 2011
1/5 5% Old Dogs (2009) " It's aggressively awful, and manages to push its worst gags so numbingly off the scale that we're left slack-jawed in disbelief" — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Apr 4, 2010
1/5 18% Dance Flick (2009) " This pastiche never manages to find an actual joke. We're left with a painfully convoluted non-plot trying to link together a series of lead-ins to never-realised punchlines." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Aug 20, 2009
1/5 2% Disaster Movie (2008) " Irrelevant, never-funny references to everything from Juno to American Gladiators" — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Sep 5, 2008
1/5 7% Bratz: The Movie (2007) " The filmmakers have gone below the lowest common denominator, aiming a teenage story at 8-year-old girls. It's clunky, condescending and insulting." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Aug 2, 2007
1/5 0% The All Together (2007) " A deeply unfunny comedy that hinges on ill-conceived plot points that all involve transport problems or bodily functions." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted May 5, 2007
1/5 27% Waist Deep (2006) " The cast just about escapes with its dignity after this derivative, predictable urban thriller." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Oct 28, 2006
1/5 6% Yours, Mine & Ours (2005) " This Cheaper-by-the-Dozening of the 1968 comedy is astoundingly unfunny." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Feb 23, 2006
1/5 64% Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) " staggeringly, unmissably bad" — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Aug 26, 2005
1/5 14% The Honeymooners (2005) " Alas, there's not a hint of creativity or wit here." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Aug 26, 2005
1/5 6% Son of the Mask (2005) " The film starts promisingly ... but our laughter stops the moment the special effects kick in." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Feb 10, 2005
1/5 23% Who's That Girl? (2003) " just awful" — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Feb 7, 2005
1/5 34% The Shadow (1994) " chaotic and dull" — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Nov 30, 2004
1/5 7% Surviving Christmas (2004) " The premise has potential, as does the casting, but the script is so mind-numbingly lazy that it insults its audience at every turn." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Nov 7, 2004
1/5 15% White Chicks (2004) " The Wayans brothers are gifted actors-filmmakers, so why is it that they continually make lazy, unchallenging movies?" — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Oct 19, 2004
1/5 —— Salsa (1988) Shadows on the Wall
Posted May 1, 2004
1/5 0% The Sex Lives of the Potato Men () " Neither sexy nor funny." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Mar 24, 2004
1/5 18% Judge Dredd (1995) Shadows on the Wall
Posted Feb 26, 2004
1/5 19% Ishtar (1987) Shadows on the Wall
Posted Feb 13, 2004
1/5 9% Blame It On Rio (1984) Shadows on the Wall
Posted Nov 15, 2003
1/5 48% Weekend at Bernie's (1989) Shadows on the Wall
Posted Nov 1, 2003
1/5 17% The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) " The more you think about the film, the more it falls to pieces. It's riddled with logistical and continuity errors that keep the audience continually uttering 'Huh?'" — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Aug 19, 2003
1/5 7% Gigli (2003) " It's seriously terrible, and it'll teach everyone involved to read the script before they agree to make a film." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Aug 19, 2003
1/5 11% National Security (2003) Shadows on the Wall
Posted Feb 27, 2003
1/5 27% The Pornographer (2001) " Only fans of the most pretentious, dull French cinema will even remotely like this film." — Film Threat
Posted Dec 24, 2002
1/5 7% Boat Trip (2003) " This abysmally unfunny 'romp' is so forced and strained that it's painful to watch." — Film Threat
Posted Dec 8, 2002
1/5 1% The Master of Disguise (2002) " I have to sit through it; it's my job. You don't." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Dec 5, 2002
1/5 7% Boat Trip (2003) " So forced and strained that it's painful to watch." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Oct 3, 2002
1/5 15% D-Tox (Eye See You) (2002) " After seeing this, I can understand why it has been gathering dust on a shelf somewhere for the past two years." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Jun 20, 2002
1/5 34% Resident Evil (2002) " Loud, grisly, action-packed and profoundly un-scary." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted May 2, 2002
1/5 3% Rollerball (2002) " How this otherwise talented crew managed to make a film that feels this amateurishly low-budget is anyone's guess." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Mar 31, 2002
1/5 47% The Princess Diaries (2001) " The film is so carelessly made that every surprise in the story is given away very early on--we know from the beginning exactly what will happen, and scenes are so badly staged that any comic or dramatic potential is lost." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Mar 14, 2002
1/5 15% Scary Movie 2 (2001) " It's just terrible, with long stretches in which the sea of writers don't even try to insert any humour, followed by an attempted joke that doesn't work on any level." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Jan 27, 2002
1/5 14% Pokemon the First Movie - Mewtwo vs. Mew (1999) " Would it have been too much to ask for just a tiny bit of interest for the grown-ups?" — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Dec 10, 2001
69% Hollywoodland (2006) " We want to understand Reeves and his life; corny sentiment around his death feels awkward and unnecessary." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Sep 21, 2006
33% Windtalkers (2002) " Woo simply seems lost in all the emotional claptrap, war movie cliches, cornball dialog and mumbo jumbo about bravery and patriotism." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Jun 10, 2002
7% Glitter (2001) " It's so badly botched that it's entertaining ... for all the wrong reasons." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Mar 14, 2002
1.5/5 28% G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) " By ignoring everything that made 2009's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra a hugely entertaining guilty pleasure, the all-new writers and director of this sequel have made one of the most abrasively annoying action movies in recent memory. " — Contactmusic.com
Posted Mar 29, 2013
1.5/5 0% Run For Your Wife () " British farces work on stage, but usually feel agonisingly stupid on screen. And this is a worst-case scenario, as playwright Cooney adapts his classic 1983 farce without even the slightest adjustment for the cinema." — Contactmusic.com
Posted Feb 15, 2013
1.5/5 26% Fun Size (2012) " You know you're in trouble when a madcap comedy is unable to even raise a smile. " — Contactmusic.com
Posted Nov 2, 2012
1.5/5 0% The Knot () " Clearly intent on being a British Hangover/Bridesmaids hybrid, this comedy romp doesn't contain a single laugh. It doesn't help that all of the characters are deeply unlikeable, or that the humour is literally centred in the toilet." — Contactmusic.com
Posted Oct 8, 2012
1.5/5 51% Savages (2012) " Oliver Stone takes a stab at returning to a nastier, more edgy filmmaking style, but simply can't escape his moralising ways" — Contactmusic.com
Posted Sep 25, 2012
1.5/5 51% Savages (2012) " The plot has promise, and the sharp, clever actors make the worst dialog sound almost snappy. But the script is a real problem" — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Sep 25, 2012
1.5/5 0% Mercenaries (2012) " Sadly misguided from the start, this violent war-zone adventure suffers from both a very low budget and a script that seems to have been written by someone who has never been outside Great Britain." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Jan 26, 2012
1.5/5 0% Reuniting The Rubins (2012) " A contrived script and clunky direction undermine this British film, which veers from silly comedy to harsh drama to dark tragedy." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Oct 20, 2011
1.5/5 16% Priest (2011) " The po-faced filmmaking and acting only highlights how unoriginal it is, from production design to music to action sequences" — Shadows on the Wall
Posted May 20, 2011
1.5/5 23% Sucker Punch (2011) " There are so many layers of fantasy in this eye-catching film that we never see any real humanity." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Mar 31, 2011
1.5/5 39% Due Date (2010) " This film purports to be a comedy and yet doesn't contain a single genuine laugh. Although there are a few very cheap ones." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Nov 4, 2010
1.5/5 12% Jonah Hex (2010) " There's the germ of a great idea in this premise, but it's flattened by sledgehammer direction that smashes any possibility out of each scene." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Aug 29, 2010
1.5/5 —— Megapiranha (2010) " Sadly, the funniest thing about this film is the cast list, because filmmaker Forsberg simply doesn't have a clue how to put them to any use at all. There's so much camp value that it's not even funny. But it's not even remotely funny." — Shadows on the Wall
Posted Jul 22, 2010
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