One of Chaplin's best.

Producer!

Great soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y

Interesting that this has both Lorraine Bracco and Wendell Pierce. Any other notable HBO faces in here?

Surprisingly better than the trailers would have you believe. The spy stuff is a bit hackneyed, but it does the job as the back-story to a solid action film. I will watch the sequel, but please let it only be one.

This film represents the apex of the pre-CGI big budget action blockbuster. Every character is an archetype, every other line is a cheesy ready-made trailer soundbite. The situation is implausible not from any unbelievable specifics, just the stacking of them into a ridiculously intense rube goldberg action playground. Also has nice scenery for anyone whose gone on the Alcatraz tour.

Some decent performances, and definitely an interesting subject matter, but the way the story was told was just one dimensional. Bailee Madison is the standout.

A great idea and original plot wrapped in a tidy Hollywood package. There are many ways this particularly concept could have been written, but I don't fault it for its mainstream appeal. A more cerebral approach could have offered more on repeat viewings, but this is fantastically executed save for a few issues with the time scales and some of the action sequences that distracted me.

Let's you off easy with a shot of adrenaline

The story, the characters, the pacing are all perfect. It was flawless right until the last 5 minutes where things seemed to be rushed and the resolution was a bit too easy. I don't mind a light-hearted approach, but that was some heavy stuff that they brush off lightly.

I must see this based on the still alone.

Avoided both action and sci-fi cliché for the most part, but a muddled midsection spoil its higher aspirations.

As a Brazilian-American I'm a little torn. On one hand this film lacks context. The characters lack depth and context, leading to a caricatured viewpoint that may reinforce stereotypes. On the other hand, the characters and stories are just damn interesting even without deep exploration. Also, since I speak portuguese, the dialogue format could not have been more perfect. Is it Brasploitation? I'm not sure.

This one is begging for a rewatch. The pacing is impeccable and goes to work like an accelerating metronome. Early on you get a lot of mundane details and time for things to sink in, but once it hits its stride you just get completely lost. I want to watch this one on a pausable format and write everything down to see if I can make sense of it, because rumour has it that it does actually make sense.

What in all likelihood should have turned out to be a sub-par Murray vehicle with a gimmick instead, was somehow crafted into a really poignant–and hilarious–story as if the same day replaying itself scenario is so natural to Harold Ramis that it didn't even require any special imagination to come up with, just good old-fashioned story-telling of the type a time traveler might employ... hmmmm....

I didn't enjoy it as much as Manhattan, but it's certainly among Allen's best, and Keaton's performance is to be cherished.

I don't watch enough old films to really put this one in context, but my first impression of this classic was: amazing story-telling, great characters, and brutally realistic mob action. The dramatic intermission cut scene was cool too.

It's hard to separate the film from the feat, but why should we have to? This was an amazing human feat, and the film told the story very well. I'm glad they thought to get all that footage during the preparations.

I'm open to the idea that I just don't understand Japanese culture enough to get this one, but it felt like a fascinating premise and plot that dissolved into nothing. Not just unsatisfying, but totally pointless.

This may go down as my favorite Tarantino film. It doesn't rely on pop culture references or any particular editing gimmicks (Pulp Fiction). It's less formulaic than a lot of his films (Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Deathproof). Character development is minimal, but the dialogue, pacing, and overall plot don't suffer because of it. Overall just a great popcorn movie.

The only thing that makes this film worth watching is the style, which was very well done and I enjoyed it enough to sit through the rest of it which was pretty dull.

This is the perfect documentary of a difficult subject. Tyson speaks from the heart here with a candidness that is extremely rare in public life. I don't feel sorry for him—how many untold millions suffer similarly brutal life circumstances without recognition—but in my eyes Tyson reveals an admirable quality of self-reflection, emotional intelligence and raw humanity that far surpasses most of his associates.

Let's be honest, Raiders was a pretty good idea, the other 3 are just iterations on the theme. It's not high art, but I thought this one was just as entertaining as the first 3 minus the nostalgia factor.

I walked out of the theater the first time exhilarated, and I may have given it 5 stars at that moment. Went back a couple weeks and it completely fell flat. I think there's just too much going on here. No pacing. The volume is always on 10. Overall better than the average action movie, and the emphasis on physicality and real sets is appreciated, but definitely not living up to the hype.

I'm a sucker for the Terminator franchise, so I was really anticipating something of a reboot after the train wreck of T3. The exposition in the first half hour of the film had good pacing and set the right tone of loneliness and devastation, but then the plot just went off the deep end and never came back. Major disappointment.

I'm no film snob, I can watch a lot of repetitive hollywood schlock and enjoy it if it's well done. This film, however, was the most overrated piece of garbage I saw this decade.

Can't believe it took me so long to finally see this. As with all Wes Anderson films I find myself alternating between boredom and bemusement. The latter is not necessarily a bad thing as it allows the film to percolate in a way that a drama or straight comedy never could. Plot and pacing are sacrificed in favor of character and visual creativity. This is as perfect a first film as I've seen.

How did a film with such great cinematography, acting and subject matter fall so flat? I may need to watch this one again.

This film is nothing more or less than the perfection of the blockbuster. Sure the plot is predictable and the dialogue uninspired, but the acting is decent and the pacing is perfect. As a cinephile you'll see a lot of unrealized potential, but when a film costs 300 million it has to have mass appeal.