Reviews
Zapped Again! (1990)
El Stinko!!
Don't waste your precious time on this unless the video stores pays YOU money--and quite a lot to sit thru this TURKEY. Apparently Willie Aames and Scott Baio from the original decided not to make any bigger fools of themselves for a second time, so the viewer gets cheap-o lookalikes this time around to try and catch any appeal they might have had. And Linda Blair looks like she'll take any role dropped in her lap....sad. The videos all cost the same.....so don't waste your life with this deplorable waste of videotape.
Killing Zoe (1993)
A GREAT Movie!
Compared to the endless tiresome shoot-em-ups like the Schwarzeneggar--Stallone--Seagal type flicks, this movie shows style, class, and sensuality. A tense, edge-of-your-seat movie where for a change you DON'T know how it's going to end. The only flaw in the film is that it has a very low-budget quality with no real scenes outside in France, except at the very beginning at the airport. Everything else looks done in some studio with a few scenic shots tossed in, like a tv show that can't really go abroad and look authentic. But this movie is well worth renting--and beats 90% of the manufactured, formula plastic films next to it on the video shelf. An 8.5 out of 10.
Dark Planet (1997)
Ugh!! What a Waste of Time!!
The saddest part of this "movie" (if you can even call it that) is seeing the great talents of Michael York being completely wasted in this piece of trash. The special effects are mediocre dime-store at best, and the plot of 2 sides at war on earth teaming up for something never defined until the end is plodding and dull. The video shop should have paid ME to see this......
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
Mind Blowing!
For anyone old enough to have seen the original series, this movie truly blows the lid off of the whole TV show and pokes fun at the whole whole family and concept at every turn. They easily could have done a formula tv-ish movie and instead they make a complete parody that is screamingly funny. Not to mention that the fact that the cast are dead-ringers for the originals--in fact Jan is so _frighteningly_ like the original that it'll send shivers up your back. Four of the original cast also make cameos in the film (but you'll have to really look to find some of them), and the film blends the whole campy concept with the "retro" plastic nineties--a perfect joke on fashions of this decade. Very worth watching!
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
First half is riveting, the 2nd half falls on its face
This is really one of the most disjointed films ever made--the first half of the men going thru the Marine Boot Camp is truly the finest depiction ever made--the drill sgt. used to be a real one which really adds the authenticity. But when the movie shifts to Viet Nam, the whole movie falls flat--the whole audience is bored listless wondering what the point is. A few vague references to "the duality of man" are made but never explored, the characters are shallow and cardboard. The movie was taken from a short story, "The Short Timers", but if that story had a message it's completely lost in the movie. In short, see the first half which will hit you like a ton of bricks, then get ready to read the paper or just skip the whole 2nd half entirely.