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03/01/01
The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
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Reviews Counted:80
Fresh:35
Rotten:45
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: The Caveman's Valentine has an intriguing premise, but the film falls flat under the weight of its ambition.
Theatrical Release:Mar 2, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: Romulus Ledbetter (Samuel L. Jackson) is a schizophrenic homeless man who lives in a cave in a New York City park and believes that his nemesis is trying to control the world by projecting... [More]
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Tamara Tunie, Aunjanue Ellis, Colm Feore
Director: Kasi Lemmons
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Reviews for The Caveman's Valentine
At more than two hours, it's just a good (long) walk in the park.
03/02/01
This supernatural thriller will have you on the edge of your seat.
03/02/01
Loaded down with laughable caricatures and a plot as confused as its protagonist.
03/08/01
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12/06/05
It seems like the kind of art film that might have been dreamed up by a feverish high schooler.
03/01/01
Top CriticReally not much more than an urban Scooby Doo episode, only Shaggy is black and with far more facial hair.
12/08/02
There is something very appealing about Samuel L. Jackson as Romulus Ledbetter.
03/01/01
Maddeningly inconsistent.
03/16/01
Mood -- and of course Jackson's performance -- sustains the movie.
03/08/01
Top CriticAn inconsistent movie, but the good stuff is built on top of the bad stuff, so there's a sense that even the flat scenes need to be there.
03/08/01
Despite and sometimes because of its unevenness, the film conveys the delusions of daily existence with fierce poetry.
03/09/01
What began as an exciting twist on the detective genre turns into not much more than pedestrian murder mystery.
02/07/01
Drastically overplotted and filled with unnecessary characters, which strangles the story.
03/01/01
Mostly good fun.
03/08/01
Debut director Kasi Lemmons staged each scene with a fierce purity of excess, as if this elaborate joke is not only a career step but a vision.
03/09/01
The plot lines that follow are so convoluted and ludicrous that one just gives up piecing it all together.
03/09/01
Top CriticWorks as everything but a mystery, yet it is intriguing in a number of ways.
03/02/01
Top CriticA sophomore jinx for Lemmons, an overstuffed drama that fails to satisfy as a murder mystery or as a spiritual redemption saga of a homeless man, disappointingly played by Samuel Jackson (who was misdirected).
05/31/06
A satisfying bit of eeriness.
02/13/01
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