This is old-fashioned fun until the climactic battle, which almost comes across like routine bone piling after all the flights of fancy.
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05/29/09
Army of Darkness (1992)
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Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 27
Rotten:8
Average Rating: 7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 57 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Through a magic spell, Ash, a modern-day discount-store employee, finds himself back in the middle ages. Given the key to return home by an alchemist, he bungles the incantation and, instead,... [More]
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie
Director: Sam Raimi
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Reviews for Army of Darkness
Top CriticRaimi and his camera never slow down, which is good because many of the gags don't stand up to scrutiny.
05/28/09
a director, Raimi's strength lies in his manic inventiveness %u2013 which is somewhat in abeyance here, as he tries injecting some traditional plot elements into the old formula.
03/09/09
Camp isn't just an undercurrent here--it's the grindhouse force that drives the movie, with Bruce Campbell clearly happy behind the wheel.
08/01/07
Raimi approaches this scenario as if someone had given him a deep pail of Magic Markers and told him to draw the ultimate comic book.
07/23/07
A bloody and fairly lifeless witch's brew of medievalism, Jonathan Swift and the Three Stooges.
08/14/06
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01/26/06
A masterpiece of lunacy and oddball creativity.
10/28/05
To watch the movie is to join its chaotic flow of hyperactive energy.
04/29/05
No review available.
01/07/05
Army of Darkness s’impose comme un film diablement amusant, un summum dans le genre et à seulement quelques échelons d’Evil Dead II
10/31/04
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08/30/04
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03/11/04
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03/04/04
[W]ickedly witty...
10/31/03
Die-hard horror buffs beware: 'Army' gives the genre a giant 'Three Stooges'-style slap to the face.
09/03/03
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08/01/03
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07/31/03
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