Genres: Action    Adventure    Thriller   

Starring: Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Anthony Zerbe, ...

This is the most underrated film in the series. It's ironic that the firstof the EON films not to draw its title directly from an Ian Fleming storyis also the closest in spirit to Fleming since "On Her Majesty's SecretService." Of course, the titles had long since become the ONLY connectionbetween Fleming's original stories and the movies -- the film plots andRoger Moore's portrayal bore almost n...

Genres: Action    Adventure    Thriller   

Starring: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius Harris, ...

'Live and Let Die' is the only film that matches Bond exclusivelyagainst African-American drug czars... It is the only other moviebesides 'Dr. No' with no briefing with Q, no meeting in M's office, andno musical score from the great John Barry... The motion picture beginswith one of the most arresting openings of any Bond film, the killingof three British agents: one in Harlem New York, one in New...

Genres: Action    Crime    Thriller   

Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitch Ryan, Tom Atkins, ...

The film opens with a panoramic aerial shot of Los Angeles, where abeautiful blonde girl in a penthouse apartment is lying, in a sexywhite satin nightgown, on a luxurious red sofa... Drugs comes intofocus on a table next to her... She rouses herself to sniff some white powder, steps out (completelyunbalanced) onto the balcony and stands on the railing, ready to plungepeacefully down... Mel Gibson ...

Genres: Action    Comedy    Crime    Thriller   

Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor, ...

"Lethal Weapon 2" is the type of sequel you don't screw with, for fearof getting seriously beat up if you do. Luckily the praise comes aseasily as the film is good -- and boy, is it good.If you haven't seen "Lethal Weapon" (1987), get off your computer, dropthat Cheez-It out of your hand, rush to your closest video outlet andbuy it. If you have seen it, then drop that Cheez-It out of you...

Genres: Action    Crime    Thriller   

Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Stuart Wilson, ...

Los Angeles police sergeant Roger Murtaugh and his partner, SergeantMartin Riggs, arrest Billy Phelps for trying to rob an armored truck,this being just 8 days until Murtaugh is scheduled to retire. In theinterrogation room, Billy is murdered by Lieutenant Jack Edward Travis,a vicious former cop who now sells guns that are stolen from evidencestorage facilities. The investigation of Travis teams R...

Genres: Drama    Romance    War   

Starring: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano, Sergio Bini Bustric, ...

I am surprised about the negative comments that some people made on thisweb-page. I can see how some people might not experience the same kind ofuplift or joy that most of us lived through when seeing the movie. Butthatsome viewers felt insulted and betrayed because the movie did not depict"reality" as it really was or is, is not fair.I must concur with my fellow proponents of the movie -- it wa...

Genres: Action    Drama    Thriller   

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Robert Patrick, Morris Chestnut, ...

It was thirteen years ago that Ron Howard's ode to firefighters hittheaters with 1991's Backdraft. This was before Howard went on todirect such popular fare as Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind. This wasbefore Kurt Russell figured that Captain Ron might a good idea, andmost importantly, this was before September 11, 2001.To say that our impression of firefighters changed that day sounds,well, awkward...

Genres: Comedy    Drama    Romance   

Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Garcia, Joe Petruzzi, Rodney Afif, Bruno Lucia, ...

I saw this movie at Cinema Paris at Fox Studios when I was in Sydney,Australia. Although the story has been done several times before, it isset amid a community of Italian immigrants in 1950's Australia, whichmakes it really unique.Giovanni Ribisi (Angelo) is the only actor I was familiar with beforethis movie, but I have to say Adam Garcia (Gino) and Amelia Warner(Rosetta) steal the show. And the...

Genres: Drama    Romance   

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Steven Weber, ...

If Mike Figgis never made another film, and Nick Cage and ElizabethShue retired after making Leaving Las Vegas, they would have done sowith impunity. Both actors are superb, and bring the excellentscreenplay to life with the help of some masterful dramaticcinematography.Cage plays a suicidal alcoholic who has come to Las Vegas to drinkhimself to death, and Shue plays the unexpected problem - a pro...

Genres: Animation    Adventure    Comedy    Family   

Starring: Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Timothy Dalton, Heather Locklear, ...

I have to admit having approached this movie with as much trepidationas anticipation. After all, Mel Blanc is gone, Chuck Jones is gone, andthe hallowed Looney Tunes franchise now resides in the hands of youngerplayers.Think about all the things that could have gone wrong. The voices mightnot be quite the same. The animation might be done on the cheap, like alot of modern "cartoons". The writers m...