Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
“Bay simply ramps up the pace and explosion count from prior entries and layers on the Dinobots like so much icing on a shit cake.”
Author: Steve Birkett
Insomnia (2002)
“Insomnia isn’t perhaps the movie many hoped for following Memento; It’s a pretty low-key, minor effort compared to the complex, large-scale films Nolan would go on to make.”
The Bay-ification of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
“This film bears all the hallmarks of a perfectly serviceable ‘toon franchise being bled of all its charm by the same man still milking the Transformers for all they’re worth.”
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
“Director Doug Liman channels Harold Ramis, albeit taking things in a very different direction (less Andie MacDowell, more Alien MindControl).”
Predators (2010)
“The hunted are mostly one-dimensional, but the hunters are shown in all their glory and look fearsome as they track their prey.”
Godzilla (2014): A movie with an awesome Godzilla cameo
“Generally speaking, an audience should never be this aware of the filmmaking tricks of the trade being deployed to artificially amp up suspense.”
Dark City (1998): Exploring the soul through neo-noir sci-fi
“Dark City represents Proyas’s ‘difficult second album’ in many ways, with a detailed, introspective plot seemingly designed to ensure the masses would shrug.”
Immortals (2011): Of gods and man (of steel)
“This is the mythology-inspired sword and sandals movie genre, and it’s not that far removed from its cape-and-tights cousin.”
2012 (2009): A masterwork of idiotic disaster porn
“Oh, the places you’ll be dragged, dear viewer.”
RoboCop (2014): Half-man, half-machine, zero satire
“The new RoboCop is a starkly dramatic tale of a man-machine hybrid struggling to retain his humanity. This is actually a pretty interesting concept for a movie. But it doesn’t feel much like RoboCop.”
District 9 (2009)
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: no one does borderline psychotic military commanders quite like the South Africans.”
Red Dawn (2012)
“And if that sounds crazy, remember that they’re fighting an army from more than 6,000 miles away that just waltzed presumably millions of troops past the world’s most advanced military.”
Elysium (2013)
“The movie as a whole is like getting a gift card for Christmas: perfectly acceptable, but not requiring a whole lot of thought.”
Ender’s Game (2013)
“Unfortunately, Ender is the only one who ever becomes fleshed out in three-dimensional form, with the rest of the cast seemingly there only to justify his bloody-yet-brilliant existence. It’s like having a high performance sports car and only being able to race it against family minivans.”
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