Ladron Que Roba a Ladron
 2007  3.6 stars 98 mins Foreign (Spanish)   Rated: PG-13  until 01-Jul-2011

Reviewed on 29/Oct/08
The poster art implies a movie much slicker than the actual result, which is far more generic and fails to rise above its low-budget nature. The characters are under-developed, the tension is lacking, the cast seems plucked directly from the world of soap operas (apparently true, from reading the other reviews), and there are several giant plot-holes that took me completely out of the movie. It's kind of interesting seeing Julie Gonzalo (from Veronica Mars and Eli Stone) playing a Spanish language role, but not that interesting. She isn't really given that much to do with herself.

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Tombstone
 1993  4.1 stars 130 mins Action & Adventure   Rated: R

Reviewed on 12/Jan/05
I only just watched this movie for the first time, a good 12 years after it came out. I had been told by many of my friends that it was awesome, and especially that Val Kilmer was great in it. Kilmer is great, but pretty much everything else about this movie is high-gloss, cliched hollywood garbage. While I'm sure the art direction in the movie is very true to life, none of the actors (except for maybe Sam Elliott and Val Kilmer) *sound* like cowboys. It was also particularly distracting that this movie has an endless parade of actors in cameo roles. I felt like I counted a good 20 or 30 "name" actors in the movie, very few of whom actually brought any authenticity to the roles. Ironically enough, I felt like the science-fiction series Firefly was a better western than this was.

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Baise-Moi
 2000  2.7 stars 77 mins Foreign (French)   Rated: UR

Reviewed on 13/Jul/04
It's kind of funny that so many people say that this movie is so shocking. Yes, there is hardcore sex in the film, helpfully filmed close up so that we can see the details - but if that's what you're looking for, just download some off the internet. Yes, it's violent, but the movie was obviously made on a low budget and the "special effects" look like the sort that you make with corn syrup and food coloring. Really, then, if you're aren't automatically impressed by graphic sex and bloody violence, sometimes at the same time, you'll find that this movie is remarkably dull. And long, at all of 70 minutes. About 30 minutes too long. It helps that you never care about the characters and their vendetta never makes sense. If they're supposed to be advancing some sort of feminist agenda, I didn't get it - when they massacre everyone at the sex club, is that supposed to be some kind of statement... against sex or... exploitation or... what? (don't worry, i didn't ruin it.) If it's just supposed to be a narrative story, it doesn't work because the "anti-heroes" of the story are never likable, and even an anti-hero has to be likable... Well, that's another "shocking" french movie down... if you want to actually be shocked, just watch Irreversible. Doesn't mean it's good. Just... disturbing.

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