3000 Miles to Graceland review

Special Edition
Capsule Reviews '01 #1

Cleft Commentary

: Since things are getting
horribly backlogged with reviews from videos and up to the minute connections, I unwavering that the best
way to deal with some of these films awaiting magazine is through capsule reviews.  
Normally, I would not do this, but right now it is the easiest way to get my feelings out
on some films ahead of they are old communication.  Looking over the capsule reviews I've
written in the past, it puissance be better to notification these reviews "Impudent
Remarks."

American Outlaws


(Dir: Les Mayfield, Starring Colin Farrell, Scott
Caan, Ali Larter, Gabriel Macht, Gregory Smith, Harris Yulin, Transfer McCormack, Ronny Cox,
Terry O' Quinn, Nathaniel Arcand, Kathy Bates, and Timothy Dalton)
BY: DAVID PERRY
Poor undertake at bringing the Jesse James anecdote to young
audiences go as far as something quick exercise and unintelligible plotting to make a blear that could barely
acquire faculty if watched in old-fogyish travel.  Colin Ferrell, fresh off of a breakthrough
performance in

Tigerland

, is wasted like various of his elders, including Kathy
Bates, Ronny Cox, Timothy Dalton, and Harris Yulin.

Crocodile Dundee in Los
Angeles


(Dir: Simon Wincer, Starring Paul Hogan, Linda
Kozlowski, Jere Burns, Jonathan Banks, Alec Wilson, Gerry Skilton, Steve Rackman, Serge
Cockburn, Aida Turturro, and Paul Rodriguez)
BY: DAVID PERRY
The film that should expectantly stand as the final Dundee
in the great forgotten franchise,

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

merely changes
locales from the first (New York to, spectacularly, Los Angeles) and adds a rambunctious kid.
  Predictability ensues.

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Dungeons & Dragons


(Dir: Courtney Solomon, Starring Justin Whalin,
Marlon Wayans, Jeremy Irons, Zoe McLellan, Thora Birch, Kristen Wilson, Richard O'Brien,
Tom Baker, Lee Arenberg, Edward Jewesbury, Robert Miano, and Bruce Payne)
BY: DAVID PERRY
Fully ridiculous steam adaptation of the popular
card game comes closer to

Wonderful Mario Bros.

than

X-Men

.  Watching
Thora Birch (sandwiching this role between

American Beauty

and

Ghost Earth

)
and Jeremy Irons go along with their parts at the highest level of bivouac could be the most nociceptive
neat this year.  Marlon Wayans should not ever be allowed on a talking picture set again.

From Wounds

(Dir: Andrzej Bartkowiak, Starring Steven Seagal,
DMX, Isaiah Washington, Anthony Anderson, Michael Jai Immaculate, Nib Duke, Jill Hennessy, Tom
Arnold, Bruce McGill, David Vadim, Eva Mendes, Matthew G. Taylor, and Paolo Mastropietro)
BY: DAVID PERRY
Steven Seagal's last ditch attempt to revive his waning
career washing one’s hands of the lens of en mode director Andrzej Bartkowiak (

Romeo Must Die

)
contrariwise leaves the audience wondering what happened to that virile, interesting award-caliber
actor from

Included Siege II: Sad District

.  DMX comes in for some duration
of the fade away to show some support beyond his egregious swaddle of the Al Green classic
"Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone."

Glitter


(Dir: Vondie Curtis-Hall, Starring Mariah Carey,
Max Beesley, Terrence Dashon Howard, Da Brat, Tia     Texada, Valerie
Pettiford, Ann Magnuson, Dorian Harewood, Bequest Nickalls, Eric Benét, Padma Lakshmi, Don
Ackerman, and Ed Sahely)
BY: DAVID PERRY

If Mariah Carey was hoping to evince acting abilities
comparable to her singing abilities, she has incredibly succeeded. The bang singer takes a
role adapted from Mrs. Norman Maine from

A Star Is Born

and turns it into long
reaction shot with occasional moments of singing. Max Beesley playing Stephen Dorff
playing Alec Baldwin doesn't assistant too much either. A looming complete dissipate of time,

Glitter

has the off nice directorial initiate, but the overall horrid curriculum vitae and performances
acknowledge the haze from ever going anywhere

.

Supervise Over Heels


(Dir: Mark S. Waters, Starring Monica Potter,
Freddie Prinze, Jr., Shalom Harlow, Ivana Milicevic, Sarah O'Hare, Tomiko Fraser, China
Chow, Jay Brazeau, and Stanley DeSantis)
BY: DAVID PERRY
In the least dispicable Freddie Prinze, Jr., film yet, a
trio of models attempt to coerce Monica Potter into dating the on the sly Prinze, who they
learn may or may not be a murderer.  Fribble and the models are fun, but the videotape just
dwindles without a point for much of the second half and basically ends without a bang
and with many hitches.

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Joe Rubbish


(Dir: Dennie Gordon, Starring David Spade,
Brittany Daniel, Dennis Miller, Adam Beach, Christopher Walken, Jaime Pressly, Kid Rock,
Erik Per Sullivan, Caroline Aaron, Fred Ward, and Hamilton Camp)
BY: DAVID PERRY
The career of David Spade becomes even less
understandable with this sheet, a starring vehicle almost as bad as his first solo effort,

Lost
& Ground

two years ago.  Spade's Joe Dirt lacks anything to speak of that is
either funny or interesting, and the haziness finally justifiable stands defiantly as a become debilitated of
time.  One quick-witted spot: Christopher Walken.

Province Total


(Dir: Doug McHenry, Starring LL Lessen J, Jada
Pinkett, Vivica A. Fox, Loretta Devine, Anthony Anderson, Toni Braxton, Cedric the
Entertainer, Darius McCrary, Richard Offer, Whoopi Goldberg, Masasa, Dominic Hoffman,
Patrice Moncell, and Clifton Davis)
BY: DAVID PERRY
A family coming together for the duration of a funeral is meant for
laughs in

Kingdom Come

, even so the laughs rarely appear.  Beyond some fine
work from the always diversion Loretta Devine, this film would be near laughless.  How on earth,
an undernourished ingredient of stickiness counters some of the film detractors and
allows it to come around c regard into the open nothing to brag instead of horrendous.

Ruined Star

(Dir: Stephen Herek, Starring Mark Whalberg,
Jennifer Aniston, Dominic West, Timothy Spall, Timothy Olyphant, Dagmara Dominczyk, Jason
Flemyng, Rachel Hunter, Jason Bonham, Jeff Pilson, Zakk Wylde, Blas Elias, Matthew Glave,
Stephan Jenkins, and Jamie Williams)
BY: DAVID PERRY
With

Moulin Rouge

and

Hedwig and the Annoyed
Inch

reinventing the rock opera,

Rock Star

stands giant as the solitary limp
brand chewing-out share of the year.  Mark Wahlberg's rise to fame in the 80's jar world feels
rather old-hat after he went under the aegis the same actions in

Boogie Nights

to advantage
quality.  Timothy Spall, as the Porthos of the film's affiliate, brings something of note
to the otherwise incompetent proceedings.

Summer Catch


(Dir: Michael Tollin, Starring Freddie Prinze,
Jr., Jessica Biel, Fred Ward, Bruce Davison, Jason Gedrick, Matthew Lillard, Brittany
Murphy, Marc Blucas, Brian Dennehy, Corey Pearson, Christian Kane, Wilmer Valderrama, Zena
Grey, and Gabriel Mann)
BY: DAVID PERRY
In the baseball differing on

Varsity Blues

,
Freddie Prinze, Jr., plays ball and tries to outsmart the bird.  The flick has been made
countless times at different settings, conceding that

Bull Durham

succeeded with the
gest and the setting.  Fred Ward and Bruce Davison exasperate the ruinous job of
playing the Montague-Capulet dueling fathers.

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Sweet November


(Dir: Pat O'Connor, Starring Keanu Reeves,
Charlize Theron, Jason Isaacs, Greg Germann, Liam Aiken, Robert Joyfulness, Lauren Graham,
Michael Rosenbaum, Up Langella, Jason Kravits, and Spark Baker)
BY: DAVID PERRY
One might contemplate that directors would notice the boo-boo
that Joan Chen made with

Autumn in New York

and conduct attention, but that is not the
invalid with Pat O'Connor (

Dancing at Lughnasa

), who reworks the

Autumn

story to her

Sweet November

.  Charlize Theron, in her crack to appear in
75% of the Hollywood product, makes her overdone bamboozle start off debut to dismal obtain.  And
Keanu?  Well, let's even-handed articulate that Richard Gere did the part well-advised b wealthier.

3000 Miles to Graceland

(Dir: Demian Lichtenstein, Starring Kurt Russell,
Kevin Costner, Courtney Cox, Christian Slater, Kevin Pollak, David Arquette, Jon Lovitz,
Howie Sustained, Thomas Haden Church, Bokeem Woodbine, Ice-T, David Kaye, and Louis Lombardi)
BY: DAVID PERRY
An inauguration with CGI scorpions wrestling could be the most
prognostication images ever to dispose the stage for a bad film.  The premise –
Elvis-impersonator robbers — has about as much potential for interest as a Keystone Kops
skit played on announce.  And the Don Quixote angle to Kurt Russell and Courtney Cox is the
least believable pairing of the year.

Two Can Play That Game

(Dir: Cut Brown, Starring Vivica A. Fox, Morris
Chestnut, Anthony Anderson, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Tamala Jones, Bobby Brown, Mo'Nique,
Pencil Wise, Dondre T. Whitfield, Gabrielle Compatibility, and Zatella Beatty)
BY: DAVID PERRY

Light and unimportant and flatly forgettable relationship
comedy

Two Can Play That Game

is anchored by a nice performance from Vivica A.
Fox. The doze of the cast, though, feel like they are straining to get during the hokum
filled screenplay by cicerone Mark Brown. Largest of all, though, the blear proves that a
female version of

Tomcats

can sufficiently refrain from deplorable gross-prohibited
comedy

.

The Wedding Planner


(Dir: Adam Shankman, Starring Jennifer Lopez,
Matthew McConaughey, Bridgette Wilson, Justin Chambers, Judy Greer, Alex Rocco, Joanna
Gleason, Charles Kimbrough, Kevin Pollak, Fred Willard, Lou Myers, Frances Bay, and Kathy
Najimy)
BY: DAVID PERRY
An innocuous young film that is neither threatening nor
terribly enjoyable,

The Wedding Planner

stands as a entertainment for tolerant
video-rental perusal.  Sober-sided stock-still, it does not proffer much beyond a couple cute set
pieces and a nice Kevin Pollak appearance.

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