An insurmountable amount of extras comes second only to New Line’s stunning visual and audio transfer of Peter Jackson’s exhilarating and exhausting epic.
The filtering aspect of a filmmaker’s strong personality has the redeeming power that committee-obedient, impersonal filmmakers can never hope to acquire.
Would that Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman were spectacularly awful, then it would have been at least a fun time at the movies.
Banal, belligerent, and brain-dead, it ultimately succeeds only at being far less than meets bare-minimum cinematic standards.
The disc’s extras are, umm, featherweight, but the film remains darling.
Happy Feet is a film of uncanny political resonance.
V for Vendetta, unlike the Alan Moore comic from which it’s adapted, is scarily flat.
It’s little wonder that Alan Moore has officially disowned the movie version of his dystopian comic series V for Vendetta.
Remember: the definitive, extended DVD edition of the film is a few months away.
I’ll say it again: Isn’t this more or less a teaser for the inevitable DVD package containing all three films?
Throughout, Peter Jackson’s majestic longshots and extreme close-ups will make you swoon.
Start as soon as possible or you’ll still be watching the extras here by the time The Return of the King hits theaters.
The film picks up exactly where Matrix Reloaded left off, and it’s considerably rough going for the film’s first half.
This is more or less a teaser for the inevitable DVD package containing all three films.
If you’re reading this, you know that the definitive, extended DVD edition of the film is still a few months away.
It seems odd that much of The Matrix Reloaded’s story is predicated on the issue of choice.
The film’s greatest strength is how Peter Jackson brings to life the haunting conflict between Gollum and Smeagol.
Peter Jackson emphasizes the territorial nature of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth by fascinatingly playing with lines of division.