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Highlander: Endgame (2000)
Glad it was a matinee
I thought disappointed by 2 and 3, but 4 just about takes the cake. They really should have stopped after the first one if they weren't even going to try. None of the sequels follows any logical pattern or the rules they set down. Scripts are all terrible, acting is poor, especially by Lambert, which is very disappointing. The movie was really just a slightly extended episode of the TV show, which started going down hill when Ritchie became an immortal. The movie barely ran over an hour and 15 minutes (Movie started at 5:10, had ridiculously long opening credits, we walked after a few minutes of credits at about 6:30). And as far as swordplay goes. Eh, I've seen better. What is with Duncan practicing and the sound of a sword rubbing against another sword??? He's moving it through the air. The most you might hear is a whoosh, but not metal on metal. And all the subplots and things with Connor. He went from a strong individual in the first movie to a self loathing suicidal loser in this one. Give me a break. All I can think is that both Christopher Lambert and Adrian Paul are hard up for cash to take this script.
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
A disappointment
I like Tom Cruise, I like John Woo (When I'm in the mood for mindless entertainment) but I just can't bring myself to really like MI2. The plot was weak, the action was terrible (I sat with friends after the moment and we dissected the action sequences. You could pick out exactly which John Woo movies the fight scenes came from. They're the same every time.) and it was hopelessly unintelligent. I expect far better out of anything that's going to claim the name Mission: Impossible. The first one was a good film, this one was just shot after shot of Tom Cruise trying to look good and John Woo trying to use as much slow motion and two fisted shooting as possible. Why was it that every time Tom went after someone, there was this need for him to do a flip before kicking them? I expected far better than this.
Wonderland (1997)
This is the worst piece of film I've ever seen
This is the worst piece of film I've ever seen. It is nothing more than a hack job of levittown. I grew up in Levittown, spent the better part of my life there and I go back to visit my family and friends as often as I can. Of those people that I know and love, and even those that I hate, not a single one of them is represented in this mockumentary. Not everyone in Levittown believes there are ghosts that come into their house to drink their juice or goes around having orgies. Not every child who grows up there turns into a delinquent or spends their life lamenting the fact that they grew up in Levittown. This pathetic excuse for a documentary does nothing to actually document Levittown as it is or as it was. It's no better or worse then anywhere else, but to watch this film, you would think it was an insane asylum. To call this film a documentary is a disservice to the genre and to the town.