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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Steaming pile of Sith ** SPOILERS **
**SPOILERS** For me the Revenge of the Sith had no heart. Within it, was supposed to be a love story and it was SOOOO weak in trying to show any kind of real feelings between anybody in the movie. Yes, he's going to the dark side to save her . . . but he looks more fascinated by that prospect than anything.
And we know that Darth Vader is bad, and we already know he's killed the separatists, and disposed of everyone meaningful except Yoda and Jimmy Smits in a Michael Corleone Godfather, death vendetta-like sequence . . . but considering that every potty-trained kid in the country is so fascinated by the biggest movie of their little lives . . . do we have to see Lord Vader dispose of all the little kid Jedi?? And then watch him burn to a crisp? I checked completely out at that point, and I was really never there. I stopped caring about the movie.
Even the way that Natalie Portman dies . . . "it seems she's lost the will to live". WHAT??? She's having kids?? Can't you give her some Prozac for that?
And finally, I really didn't want Grievous to be a droided, phlegmball-hacking evil drone, I wanted him to be an evil Darth Vader-like mutant man. I can't remember where he came from though, and his legacy from the first couple of prequels. Maybe that's just me, but there was nothing exciting about the fights between Grievous and Obi-wan, how can a droid really care about his life, and have a will to live, if he's been created and somehow pieced together?
Maybe though, I was never really that big of a Star Wars fan to begin with. Maybe that's the problem. I don't know. Maybe if you were driven to see how this thing all started, or ended, it's a better movie. I've heard people say good things. "Questions answered", that kind of thing. To them I say, so what? The movie stunk.
No Good Deed (2002)
Made no sense . . .
The best part of this movie, is Milla's backside.
The movie starts with a premise that Samuel's character is out looking for a runaway girl. That disappears. Then, the antagonist gang takes him hostage, well, sort of. No real reason to do this, other than that they think they've been discovered. But, from there, it's all lost. Samuel L. Jackson is the protagonist, but he's tied to a chair for 2/3's of the movie!
Then there's the absurd robbery by an apparently blind man (in clear glasses, so you can see his eyes move and react), and his cohort, and evil little blonde-haired troll, who's NEVER accosted, not once, while walking directly into the power room of the bank. He's able to amazingly hack into the bank's computers, and shut the power off to the whole building. Somehow, I think that ALL transactions would be off, regardless of the circumstances at that point - but maybe that's just me. Then, there's the wimpy banker that just HAS to get his rocks off BEFORE they flee the country, and the little wa***r troll that's too stupid to realize that he shouldn't kill the only man who knows the all-important "password", and the account information is stored on a 3.5 inch disk, right (dated technology there, why not on a reel tape?). They whiz through banks at a breakneck pace, withdrawing large sums of money, without so much as a batting of the eye. I'm not even going to get into Samuel and Milla's musical interlude while she has him untied. Mr. officer, I think, might have had a trick up his sleeve to elude her and get out of the house at that point.
Bad movie, bad plot, bad characters, the kind of movie that's 97 minutes long and you'd swear you've been watching it for 4 hours. Terrible.