Jacob's Ladder

4/5 stars
jacob's ladder
tim robbins
Guest starring:Jason Alexander,
keanu Reeves, Vhing Rhames
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jacob's ladder is the brilliant moral based horror movie you've never seen, packed with great dialouge and an imusing story line to draw you in. Jacob Singer(robbins) is an old vietnam soilder haunted by the loss of his 5 year old son. in an attempt to forget the past he leaves his wife for a girl at the post office and soon takes a job their. Unfortunately his memories are the least of his worries. He continously hulucinates seeing insane freakshow mutants stalking him, a man who seems to be following them, and a bunch of friends who are slowly but surely dying. it may sound sketchy but Jacob stays fresh due to its utter randomness and its unrealiability on gore. and just as you think its just another lame horror flick with an underutalized gimmick the script gave way to a whole other layer of the story. the end(probably the reason you've never heard of this gem)feels rushed, its bland Twilight zone wannabe writing makes an absolute joke of everything else in the movie. but this cant ruin a great(if not way over looked)peice of film. See if you can spot Keanu Reeves's 5 second cameo!

The Terminal

1 1/2/5 stars
The Terminal
Tom Hanks, Catherine zeta Jones

BBBOOORRING!
in this movie tom habks is stranded in an airport for 9 months. From reading this you would think i would feel sorry for him but this movie takes about twice as long to finish. While the trailer promised an intricate and meaningful story the only meaning i can derive from this faiure is that steven Speilberb need 3 grand to buy a new ivory backscratcher. The story is such Victour Navorsky(Hanks) finds himself trapped in JFK airport... and thats about it. Sure catherine Zeta Jones has a Role(and acting so uneven halfway through the movie i wondered if she had an evil twin.) and victor once tries to find a job but its way to meaningless and vague to spark enthuseasm. When Victor finally leaves the Airport you dont even care seeing as how neither victor nor any of his pals ever go beyond their own wafer thin personalities. Besides everything from slow start to bitter unfulffilling ending is just plain boring. if your looking for a romantic interesting way to kill some time either: Buy pretty Woman, rent Maid in Manhattan, or watch the grass in your backyard grow.

Man On Fire

3/5 stars
Man on fire
Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Marc Anthony
More B-movies from the oscar winner
the story is old news: run down alchoholic meets little girl who teaches him to love again. but somehow the acting combined with an amazing camera can make it seem like the most fresh idea in exsistence. Denzel washington(Proving once again that he can give oscar worthy performances in less than oscar worthy movies.) and Dakota Fanning(the new young superstar.) are excelllent chemistry, as are the rest of the cast(except Marc Anthony but it overlookable due to his minor part and the fact that hes a singer not an actor.) ready to wrap us into the overwhelming mytho. quite personaly i think it would have been a better movie if they had kept it a drama and left out all the action movie crap, seeing as how thats what spawns most of the problems. first off the movie is way to gory for its own good, so much that it disturbs me,the one who can watch millions of holocast tapes without flinching. second this movie could stand to be about 30 minutes shorter, starting with the pointless 20 minute hospital scene packed with dream like camera as nuseating as it was bad. Finally what the deal with the ending? a movie crafted with suvh skill and emotion ends up feiling so bland and empty. but these problems cant ruin a perfectly good saturday night veiwing.

Out of Time

2/5 stars
Out of time
Denzel washington

Out of ideas

It now offical: writers are running out of fresh roles for ol' Denzel. of course there are always new milestones for one to break, but for every great acheivment comes a quick B-movie cash in like this. Denzel Washington plays a cop having an affair with an abused friend. soon she is fond dead and he is a prime suspect, que the aray of scared people, plot twist, and lots of shooting. Sadly Time gets all of these thing fabulously wrong. Denzel is the only worthe actor in this bunch, everyone else seems like they care as much as the audience(Which is to say not much at all.) and the one who does bring emotion to the table sounds like shes been runnig in a 5 mile marathon. (gasp, i, gasp, gasp, love you, gasp, Denzel.). the plot twists are insanely predictable and the one major one is unexpalined and feels rushed, and the action is way palyed down and out of place when the bullets fly. while this movie is insanely short(about 90 something minutes) but you'll still want it to end halfway through due to grueling pace and just plain bordeom. it wont ruin your faith in the big man or stop his ability to turn out dozens of movies a year and make millions of dollars but it may show that may of those movies wont be exactly oscar worthy.