"Auch wenn Final Destination einen Hauch von The Sixth Sense in das aus Scream bekannte allwissende Bewusstsein seiner selbst einbringt, erhebt dieser ganz und gar durchkonzeptionierte Thriller, in dem ein Jugendlicher nach dem anderen umgebracht wird, den Slasher-Film nicht gerade in spirituelle Höhen. Aufgrund der effektsicheren Inszenierung des Akte X-Veteranen James Wong, der zusammen mit seinem langjährigen kreativen Partner Glenn M ..."
"Depp and Theron star as courageous NASA astronaut Spencer Armcoast and his beautiful, schoolteacher wife Jillian - a seemingly perfect couple whose lives are momentarily shattered when Spencer's mission mysteriously loses contact with Earth for 2 minutes. But neither Spencer nor Jillian know that those 120 seconds of terror will ultimately threaten their sanity, their future and their lives in this heart-stopping psychological thriller."
"Sie können Edward Norton wahrscheinlich kein größeres Kompliment machen, als ihm zu erzählen, dass seine schauspielerische Leistung in American History X (für die er eine Oscar-Nominierung bekam) Sie fast davon überzeugt hat, dass in der Theorie der "Überlegenheit der weißen Rasse" ein Funke Logik steckt. Diese Aussage schockiert Sie nicht? Das sollte sie aber. Norton lebt seine Rolle als rechtsradikaler Skinhead dermaßen, dass dessen g ..."
"If you're a fan of brooding comic-book antiheroes, got a nihilistic jolt from The Crow (1994), and share director Alex Proyas's highly developed preoccupation for style over substance, you might be tempted to call Dark City an instant classic of visual imagination. It's one of those films that exists in a world purely of its own making, setting its own rules and playing by them fairly, so that even its derivative elements (and there ..."
"You're better off having been born after, say, 1965, if you really want to enjoy this corny romantic comedy and its abundant references to the MTV culture of the mid-1980s--and even then the odds are only 50-50 that you'll have a shamelessly good time. But a lot of people beat those odds, because The Wedding Singer was a surprise box-office hit when released in early 1998, and it resulted in Saturday Night Live graduate Adam Sandler's s ..."
"Sind Sie ein Fan düsterer Comics und ihrer Anti-Helden? Hat Ihnen der Film The Crow - Die Krähe jenen Nihilismus vermittelt, den sie zuvor vergeblich in anderen Filmen gesucht haben? Und teilen Sie die Vorliebe von The-Crow-Regisseur Alex Proyas für den Sieg des Stils über den Inhalt? Dann werden Sie Dark City lieben. Dark City ist einer jener Filme, die ihre eigenen Welten erschaffen, in denen eigene Regeln losgelöst von der Realität ..."
"Um diese seichte Liebeskomödie mit ihren zahlreichen Anspielungen auf die MTV-Kultur Mitte der 80er Jahre richtig genießen zu können, sollten Sie nicht vor, sagen wir mal, 1965 geboren worden sein. Und selbst dann stehen die Chancen, dass Sie sich köstlich amüsieren werden, vielleicht etwa 50 zu 50. Dies scheint einer ganzen Menge Leute den Film aber nicht vermiest zu haben, denn Eine Hochzeit zum Verlieben erwies sich Anfang 1998 als Ü ..."
"You're better off having been born after, say, 1965, if you really want to enjoy this corny romantic comedy and its abundant references to the MTV culture of the mid-1980s--and even then the odds are only 50-50 that you'll have a shamelessly good time. But a lot of people beat those odds, because The Wedding Singer was a surprise box-office hit when released in early 1998, and it resulted in Saturday Night Live graduate Adam Sandler's s ..."
"Unconditional Love (DVD)Academy Award winner Kathy Bates stars with Rupert Everett in this comic thriller about Grace Beasley and Dirk Simpson a Midwestern woman who has just lost the two most important men in her life, and the long-secret lover of the pop star Grace has idolized for years. Two completely different people forced together by their desire to find a killer.and their shared quest for Unconditional Love.When Grace Beasley's ..."
"Knockaround Guys ist ein Gangstermovie, der von seiner großartigen Besetzung lebt. Im Mittelpunkt steht Matty (Barry Pepper, Der Soldat James Ryan, Battlefield Earth - Kampf um die Erde), der unter den skeptischen Blicken seines Vaters, Gangsterboss Benny Chains (Dennis Hopper, Blue Velvet, Speed), seine ersten Schritte im kriminellen Milieu macht. Wenn Matty und seine Gang, Raubein Vin Diesel (The Fast and the Furious, XXX - Triple X) ..."
"Despite the success of My Best Friend's Wedding, Aussie director P.J. Hogan certainly hasn't gone Hollywood. Unconditional Love, co-written with his wife and fellow filmmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse, is a deeply eccentric concoction that ranges from campy comedy to murder mystery. If the whole thing doesn't really come off, it does have much that is funny, giddy, or simply weirder than all-get-out. Kathy Bates enjoys herself as a discarded wi ..."
"In Little Nicky, Adam Sandler plays the sweetest of three sons of Satan (Harvey Keitel), who's got to go to Earth and retrieve his nasty, power-hungry brothers lest they take over Hell and make it a thoroughly evil place. As with Sandler's other films, this weird premise (based oh-so-loosely on King Lear) is just an excuse to trot out a hodgepodge of comic bits and cameo performances. Admittedly, a lot of the jokes don't work (there was ..."
"While hardly a spiritual upgrade of the slasher film, this high-concept teen body-count thriller drops hints of The Sixth Sense into the smart-aleck sensibility of Scream. Helmed by X-Files veteran James Wong, who cowrote the screenplay with longtime creative partner Glen Morgan, Final Destination is an often entertaining thriller marked by an unsettling sense of unease and scenes of eerie imagery. It suffers, however, from a schizophre ..."
"In Little Nicky, Adam Sandler plays the sweetest of three sons of Satan (Harvey Keitel), who's got to go to Earth and retrieve his nasty, power-hungry brothers lest they take over Hell and make it a thoroughly evil place. As with Sandler's other films, this weird premise (based oh-so-loosely on King Lear) is just an excuse to trot out a hodgepodge of comic bits and cameo performances. Admittedly, a lot of the jokes don't work (there was ..."
"In Little Nicky, Adam Sandler plays the sweetest of three sons of Satan (Harvey Keitel), who's got to go to Earth and retrieve his nasty, power-hungry brothers lest they take over Hell and make it a thoroughly evil place. As with Sandler's other films, this weird premise (based oh-so-loosely on King Lear) is just an excuse to trot out a hodgepodge of comic bits and cameo performances. Admittedly, a lot of the jokes don't work (there was ..."
"It's hard to call Detroit Rock City a "coming of age" movie--since it's hard to argue that any of the characters do any genuine growing up. But even though it's about four young metalheads trying to get to a KISS concert, the movie actually has more in common with sincere portraits of adolescence than it does with raucous teen comedies. The four heroes are members of a teen metal band called Mystery (the s is written in the same font ..."
"Die Ausgangssituation dieses optisch ansprechenden, aber furchtbar harmlosen Thrillers ist sehr interessant und schaurig, doch leider nicht gut ausgearbeitet: Eine hübsche junge Frau hat einen hübschen jungen Astronautenehemann, doch der ist seit seiner jüngsten Weltall-Mission etwas... komisch. Vor diesem schicksalhaften Ausflug ins All waren Spencer (Johnny Depp, Die neun Pforten, Sleepy Hollow) und Jillian (Charlize Theron, Mein groß ..."
"It's hard to call Detroit Rock City a "coming of age" movie--since it's hard to argue that any of the characters do any genuine growing up. But even though it's about four young metalheads trying to get to a KISS concert, the movie actually has more in common with sincere portraits of adolescence than it does with raucous teen comedies. The four heroes are members of a teen metal band called Mystery (the s is written in the same font ..."
"Spencer Armacost (Johnny Depp) is a NASA astronaut and his wife Jillian (Charlize Theron) is a teacher. While he and Alex Streck (Nick Cassavetes) are walking in space on a mission there is an explosion that knocks out their communication with the command center. They land but when their spouses arrive to see them they are in the hospital; both asleep until they recover. Armacost eventually wakes up without problems, but Streck has a me ..."