Change Your Image
tomhill1
Reviews
Virus (1999)
A sad use of talent
An excellent cast, badly misused in a shop-worn plot. It could've been an episode of Star Trek except that it lacked the creativity and the humor of the series. The characters were neither believable nor sympathetic. At the very least a movie about a group of people trapped in a small area and pursued by aliens should be scary -- at least a little scary. This movie was not.
Misbegotten (1997)
Oh, give me a break! Not another stalker ripoff!
You see there's this sociopath (isn't there always) who donates his sperm to this couple who're having trouble having a baby. He does this so he can become a daddy (like, since he's already killed a bunch of people, normal sex - or even rape - is way out of the question, right). Then he stalks the soon to be Mommy so he can eventually rock the baby's cradle and take family home movies.
Makes sense, right?
Although this plot was really awful, the movie had one redeeming quality: Dillon's portrayal of the stalker. In the beginning he was charming and completely likable as the true sociopath must surely be in order to gain the trust of his eventual victims. His performance made the whole mess just barely watchable.
Psycho (1998)
Close . . . but not quite
A faithful re-creation of the Hitchcock classic but Vaughn's performance lacked the tension of the Perkins portrayal of Bates. Macy was outstanding as the P.I. and the scene where he questioned Bates was outstanding; smooth and snappy.