The plot lines that follow are so convoluted and ludicrous that one just gives up piecing it all together.
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03/09/01
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
Top CriticDebut 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
Watching the film, it's easy to imagine how a novel might make the unlikely plot machinations less ludicrous.
03/09/01
Top CriticThe new film confirms that Lemmons and Jackson are a movie team made in heaven.
03/09/01
Top CriticDramatically speaking, The Caveman's Valentine is a dead end.
03/09/01
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
Mostly good fun.
03/08/01
Mood -- and of course Jackson's performance -- sustains the movie.
03/08/01
Top CriticHighly watchable, enlivened by Jackson's wildly intense turn as Romulus, and some good supporting performances.
03/08/01
Loaded down with laughable caricatures and a plot as confused as its protagonist.
03/08/01
A film with intriguing concepts and unclear representations of them.
03/08/01
There is pleasure in giving oneself up to the gusty swirls of the film's imagery, and especially to the handsome grandeur of its star.
03/08/01
Top CriticA work whose visual assurance is undercut by a script that's sometimes as ludicrous as it is ambitious.
03/08/01
Top CriticAn intricately woven tale.
03/08/01
Wastes a whole lot of talent on a conceit that would make Scooby-Doo blush.
03/06/01
The Caveman has lapses of logic, but fewer than you will find in George Dawes Green's improbable script.
03/05/01
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03/05/01
Jackson and director Kasi Lemmons deftly blend Romulus' internal and external worlds.
03/02/01
This supernatural thriller will have you on the edge of your seat.
03/02/01
A frustratingly uneven movie, delicate at one moment and bluntly obvious the next.
03/02/01
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