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...gang dressed as Elvis impersonators robs a Las Vegas casino, then falls out. Kevin Costner is the dangerously deranged leader. Kurt Russell is the guy whose niceness develops under the impress of bloody, quick-cut, morally weightless mayhem. The movie means to be chic and hip, a compendium of all the latest visual mannerisms. Mostly it demonstrates how quickly they deteriorate into distancing cliches. Courteney Cox is good as a sexy, hard-pressed single mom, but she alone can't redeem the prevailing stupidity...
...transgressive than the competition; its dialogue will not bring a blush to a parentally guiding grownup's cheek. Here, summer vacation is under high-tech threat from a rogue teacher--vocally characterized by a comically nasty James Woods--who is easily thwarted by the busy brats. It's a weightless, but not entirely feckless, way to pass a rainy afternoon when your kids are whiney and restless...
...original originality. Harris is on to something with his voodoo-chile spaciness, but the scriptwriters give him little to do or say, and his intriguing impersonation is wasted in tensionless scenes. Hendrix, in this movie, drifts through his life, and we're left wondering how a man so weightless could make music of such gravity...
...missing his original originality. Harris is onto something with his voodoo-chile spaciness, but the scriptwriters give him little to do or say, and his intriguing impersonation is wasted in tensionless scenes. Hendrix, in this movie, drifts through his life, and we're left wondering how a man so weightless could make music of such gravity...
...work of traditional box office tripe is Brian De Palma. Throughout his entire career, he has been a director with a distinct emphasis on visual style over substantiative content, and the truth remains with _M2M_. Even as the mother of all sandstorms rips space travellers apart and astronauts soar weightless through their ship before our very eyes, there's little done in these moments to further the story's cause. There is also the sense that we've seen this all before, and we have. It was called _2001: A Space Odyssey_ from which this work has ripped much...