Epinions Recent Reviews for gmann6900

Mission Impossible is Movie Implausible

Mon, 8 May 2006 10:41:55 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - All the bells, whistles, and fast-paced editing aren’t enough to make the avid movie-goer overlook the fact that there is very little happening on screen, and what little is happening isn’t all that interesting. This latest installment of Mission...

Take the Lead: Take the Lead follows a cliched formula

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:43:38 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - Take the lead is a pleasant but predictable sojourn through the lives of some wayward urban youth. To say it’s all been done, and done much better is an understatement. It borrows from so many other films of this genre, it makes you feel as if...

Aeon Flux: Aeon Flux - A movie in search of a plot

Fri, 2 Dec 2005 19:42:16 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - Aeon Flux follows a familiar theme: Big brother is in control, and those who value freedom and democracy sabotage and rebel against its authority. It’s a formula followed successfully in series such as Star Wars and The matrix. While Aeon Flux is...

In The Mix - A recipe for Beefcake a la Fluff

Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:05:04 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - In The Mix, the new vehicle starring Usher though implausible, is hardly offensive. It’s a light piece of beef-cake fluff masquerading as a movie. Usher Raymond, much as he does in both his personal appearances and interviews, spends the...

Miracles - Another Idol contender makes good

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:08:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - He was another Idol contender during season three who didn’t make the cut. While I recognized at the time that he had some talent I wasn’t particularly impressed. I now understand why he hadn’t made an impression on me. He was out of his...

One Idol Who Gets My Vote - Latoya London

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:11:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - She was one of three Black female singers (Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia and Latoya London) voted into the bottom three in season three, and one of two unceremoniously dumped from American Idol, even though it appeared to most that she had one of the better...

An Unfinished Life is an Unsatisfying One

Mon, 5 Sep 2005 09:01:10 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - An unfinished life is an unfinished movie, which is ironic since its running time is close to two hours. In that time, the movie plods along with the speed of a one-legged dwarf with a club foot. The story is a very simple one:...

Four Brothers is a rousing ride!

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:19:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - Although it tries to be too many things all at the same time, Four Brothers succeed. It succeeds mainly because of the actors, Mark Wahlberg, who plays Bobby (The oldest, who has a tendency to act out of anger and on impulse.), Andre...

Hustle & Flow - Worth the price of a ticket

Sun, 7 Aug 2005 01:31:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - Hustle & Flow is a tightly woven tale of a broken down Memphis pimp, DJay, played by Terrence Dashon Howard. (Who can also be seen in F
our
Brothers) He gives a stirring Oscar worthy performance of a man...

The Interpreter loses a little in translation.

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:22:01 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - Sitting in the theater, nearly 20 minutes into viewing The Interpreter, I began to wonder if the extended length lately of all the commercials and trailers, which precede the features are dimming my movie experience, or if film makers are settling...

Beauty Shop needs a good trim

Fri, 1 Apr 2005 23:08:37 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - Beauty Shop is not the worst movie I have seen, but it is in no way the best. The movie, though pleasant, is plagued by improper pacing. The first 25 minutes are slow and laborious. The actors seem to be trying too hard to elicit laughter from the...

Guess Who?...Does it matter?

Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:43:12 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - Guess who, loosely based on the 1967 movie, Guess Who’s Coming to dinner, provides a pleasant diversion for a mid-morning romp. While this movie, with screenplay by David Ronn, is not as ambitious as the original, written by William (The...

Diary of a Mad Black Woman is an audience pleaser

Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:43:42 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - Diary of a Mad Black Woman, is the film version of Tyler Perry’s stage play of the same name. Tyler is an unconventional playwright, whose works are very familiar to urban audiences, who may not make the trek to Broadway, but are more than willing to...

Ray shines a brilliant light on an artists' soul

Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:36:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - There is no greater joy than watching an artist in performance of his art, whether he is a painter, a writer, or as in this case an actor. Jamie Foxx's performance of his art in Ray, the screen biopic of one of the most talented...

White Chicks should've never been hatched

Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:15:44 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - What can I say? This movie is so bad. It makes T
he
Lady killers seem like a Neil Simon masterpiece. Written by Keenen, Shawn & Marlon Wayans, along with Andrew McElfresh, Michael Anthony Snowden & Xavier Cook, it...

Classikhan -Chaka's flirtation with the world of jazz finally realized

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:41:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - It was inevitable, or should I say expected? Chaka Khan has been flirting with different types of music for the past 20 years or so, testing the waters; fighting with her record company to put on at least one or two songs that weren’t her usual...

Paid in Full is Worth The Price

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:50:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - Every once in a while you come across a video that is so good, you wonder how you missed it on the first go-round. Paid in Full is such a movie. This gritty drama, based on a true story about life on the streets, hustling drugs, is an accurate...

Hook'd Up - Hits Too Many Snags

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:25:08 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - There are two reasons why this movie may seem familiar: 1. It was originally released in 1998 under the title, ‘Personals’. 2. It has the look and feel of several movies, including Spike Lee’s ‘She’s Gotta Have...

The LadyKillers - Should have died upon conception

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:45:46 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - Can someone please tell me what was the point of this movie? This movie is so painfully unfunny; I would undertake a full day of dental work without Novocain, before I let myself undergo this torture again. Not one of the characters, with the exception...

Godsend is far from heavenly

Sat, 4 Sep 2004 19:24:07 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - There were once 4 actors whose movies I would attend without consulting word of mouth or critical review: Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Denzel Washington, and Robert Deniro. First there were 3 and now there is one. Denzel Washington sucker punched me with...

Redemption is a story of courage, and the human ability to change.

Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:07:08 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - Jamie Foxx gives an even and controlled performance as Stan “Tookie” Williams in the movie, Redemption, the true story of the leader and founder of the “crips” gang. Once you see this film, you will never look at Foxx in the same light...

Collateral lulls you in with sweeping overhead visuals, then stifles you with it's reality

Wed, 18 Aug 2004 03:37:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - With his previous movies - Born on the Fourth of July ( 1989), Far and Away ( 1992), Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and Vanilla Sky ( 2001), he played against type, and while a few were successful, he was never believable to a public which demanded he remain that...

Alero - I'ts not your father's Oldsmobile!

Fri, 4 Jul 2003 03:50:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - Unfortunately, the Oldsmobile Alero wasn’t very successful in competing with the Honda Accord, Toyot...

The Matrix Reloaded is a Load

Wed, 21 May 2003 03:34:50 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - I have to confess – While I didn’t get to see about 15 minutes of the film, as I fell asleep somewhere around the time that Jada Pinkett-Smith’s character (Niobe) was sent in to assist. For all the publicity surrounding her part in the movie,...

A Beautiful World has a bleak future.

Thu, 8 May 2003 03:12:29 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author gmann6900 - Perhaps it was an omen to us all when this album’s release date was changed for the fourth time. Usually when this is done, it is either for 1 of 2 reasons:

1. As a ploy to garner public buzz, and peak the interest of the record buying public...