Paul-Anderson Movie Reviews

This movie was funny! I would rate it afterthe movie Friday which is funny too. Malcom( Martin Lawrence) Was funny in this movie playing as Big Momma. The plot of the movie is to capture a criminal who robs banks and kills people. The robber's girlfriend Sherry(Nia Long) is accused of the robbery with her boyfriend. Sherry's grandmother who is big Momma has to go away. The special agents Malcom(Martin Lawrence) and his other sidekick must get to Sherry in order to capture Lester. Malcom dresses as Sherry's grandmother. They have the funniest times together in Big Momma's house.
It may not make sense but if you rent or buy the movie then you will understand how the movie is and how funny it is.

Matthias Hues did an exeptional job with this character and bringing Erik Gauss to life from the script pages. Lorezo Lamas did a fine job but could have shown more of his experience that he has aquired over the years. The martials arts was performed well and executed with percision. Technique was very well done. I found the plot to be suspensful and action packed. There were, in my opinion no lulls in the script. All in all, definately one of Matthias Hues' best movies to date.

Matthias Hues did an exeptional job with this character and bringing Erik Gauss to life from the script pages. Lorezo Lamas did a fine job but could have shown more of his experience that he has aquired over the years. The martials arts was performed well and executed with percision. Technique was very well done. I found the plot to be suspensful and action packed. There were, in my opinion no lulls in the script. All in all, definately one of Matthias Hues' best movies to date.

Matthias Hues did an exeptional job with this character and bringing Erik Gauss to life from the script pages. Lorezo Lamas did a fine job but could have shown more of his experience that he has aquired over the years. The martials arts was performed well and executed with percision. Technique was very well done. I found the plot to be suspensful and action packed. There were, in my opinion no lulls in the script. All in all, definately one of Matthias Hues' best movies to date.

This comedy will knock you down as you see all the seven little pieces of movies wich are all one of the seven deadly sins. Another movie from National lampoon, hilarious, but unfortunatly it is not well known, so very hard to get. If you can actually buy one, grab it and enjoy as it is not produced anymore! Have a great time!

What in the world is the point of all of these strange goings on? What is the point of the harmonium, the truck crashing down the street in the beginning, all of those weird rainbow colors flashing on the screen, and the banging clanking music? There is no point! It just shows you what happens when 1 person has too much control, and writes, directs and produces a flick. Please get an editor! I liked Hard Eight, but this movie just sucks..

I don't understand why movies like PUNCH DRUNK LOVE are not cherished more at award time. It's a character film. The end doesn't fizzle out. Sandler's character starts at point A and ends at point Z. He experiences a change - love has come into his life. He realizes he's a good person. He hated himself at the beginning.

There may not be a lot of special effects or big explosions (the signal in most American films that the ending of the film is coming), but PUNCH DRUNK LOVE is not like that. It's a small movie.

It's about Barry Egan and Lena Leonard, two weird souls who find each other and accept each other's weirdness. The "bad guys" are Utah phone sex thugs. A harmonium (a small piano-like organ) dropped in the street outside his office is a symbol of the changes that are in store for Barry Egan.

I liked PUNCH DRUNK LOVE a lot. Adam Sandler is very good in it. It's nice to see Emily Watson, who is very sweet as Lena.

Director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson has made three films that I like very much. I'm a fan.

Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) has got some monumental problems: a coven of nagging sisters, a temper capable of demolishing bathrooms or smashing plate glass windows whenever said sisters tease him (which is always) and a relentless gang of phone sex thugs who are blackmailing him.
On top of this (as if this wasn't enough) he's enchanted by a "Healthy Choice/American Airlines" promotion which offers 500 free air miles for every food item purchased. His shopping trip to the 99cents store to buy Healthy Choice pudding cups, with his assistant Lance (Luis Guzman) is a veritable psychedelic trip of kaleidoscopic colors and flashing lights.
Into this turmoil walks one Lena Leonard (a radiant Emily Watson) who offers up superwoman amounts of understanding and acceptance to Barry.
Lena literally arrives on the scene and into Barry's life brightly light from behind like an avenging angel ready to embrace Barry and all his troubles and to bring him salvation through the cleansing and redemptive powers of Love.
The director of "Punch Drunk Love," Paul Thomas Anderson has fashioned a film very much unlike his two previous films, "Magnolia" and "Boogie Nights" in that, with "PDL", Anderson has chosen to tell his story in a very compact hour and a half. His two previous films were double that length and were told in a Robert Altman-like structure of intersecting separate stories. "Punch Drunk Love" is linear in structure with a beginning, middle and an end.
Adam Sandler plays Barry straight without his trademark bratty-kid antics and ultimately Barry emerges as a hero in the classic sense: flawed but deserving of our respect.
"Punch Drunk Love" is a major success for all concerned: Anderson, Sandler and Emily Watson. That is comes as such a surprise only adds to it's shimmering and relentlessly cheery yet persuasively dark ambience.

What in the world is the point of all of these strange goings on? What is the point of the harmonium, the truck crashing down the street in the beginning, all of those weird rainbow colors flashing on the screen, and the banging clanking music? There is no point! It just shows you what happens when 1 person has too much control, and writes, directs and produces a flick. Please get an editor! I liked Hard Eight, but this movie just sucks..

I don't understand why movies like PUNCH DRUNK LOVE are not cherished more at award time. It's a character film. The end doesn't fizzle out. Sandler's character starts at point A and ends at point Z. He experiences a change - love has come into his life. He realizes he's a good person. He hated himself at the beginning.

There may not be a lot of special effects or big explosions (the signal in most American films that the ending of the film is coming), but PUNCH DRUNK LOVE is not like that. It's a small movie.

It's about Barry Egan and Lena Leonard, two weird souls who find each other and accept each other's weirdness. The "bad guys" are Utah phone sex thugs. A harmonium (a small piano-like organ) dropped in the street outside his office is a symbol of the changes that are in store for Barry Egan.

I liked PUNCH DRUNK LOVE a lot. Adam Sandler is very good in it. It's nice to see Emily Watson, who is very sweet as Lena.

Director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson has made three films that I like very much. I'm a fan.

Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) has got some monumental problems: a coven of nagging sisters, a temper capable of demolishing bathrooms or smashing plate glass windows whenever said sisters tease him (which is always) and a relentless gang of phone sex thugs who are blackmailing him.
On top of this (as if this wasn't enough) he's enchanted by a "Healthy Choice/American Airlines" promotion which offers 500 free air miles for every food item purchased. His shopping trip to the 99cents store to buy Healthy Choice pudding cups, with his assistant Lance (Luis Guzman) is a veritable psychedelic trip of kaleidoscopic colors and flashing lights.
Into this turmoil walks one Lena Leonard (a radiant Emily Watson) who offers up superwoman amounts of understanding and acceptance to Barry.
Lena literally arrives on the scene and into Barry's life brightly light from behind like an avenging angel ready to embrace Barry and all his troubles and to bring him salvation through the cleansing and redemptive powers of Love.
The director of "Punch Drunk Love," Paul Thomas Anderson has fashioned a film very much unlike his two previous films, "Magnolia" and "Boogie Nights" in that, with "PDL", Anderson has chosen to tell his story in a very compact hour and a half. His two previous films were double that length and were told in a Robert Altman-like structure of intersecting separate stories. "Punch Drunk Love" is linear in structure with a beginning, middle and an end.
Adam Sandler plays Barry straight without his trademark bratty-kid antics and ultimately Barry emerges as a hero in the classic sense: flawed but deserving of our respect.
"Punch Drunk Love" is a major success for all concerned: Anderson, Sandler and Emily Watson. That is comes as such a surprise only adds to it's shimmering and relentlessly cheery yet persuasively dark ambience.

One of the grossest, goriest movies I've ever seen. The plot was horrible. It just moved from one killing to the next. Blood and gore everywhere. Not worth the time I spent watching it. I kept waiting for something positive to happen, but ....

Sam Neill must have been out of his head to take this role... and I've got to wonder what  Laurence Fishburne was doing in this one, as well. Sam Neill's character in particular - yuck. What a freaking gore fest. This is like they took "Alien" (minus the alien) and "Hell Raiser" and put them in a blender. The space crew is very reminiscent of "Alien"... crew has a job to do they couldn't get out of, all in stasis for a flight to the orbit of Jupiter. They hear a distress beacon from "The Event Horizon," an experimental ship that disappeared 7 years earlier on it's maiden voyage of space-folding their way to the end of the universe.

En route to the ship, it's creator, Dr. Weir (Sam Neill) is already having very disturbing visions of his wife with her eyes gouged out. This is just an appetizer... the entire film features disgusting disembowelments, eye plucking, blood spattering, head exploding gore.

Sometimes the unseen is far more frightening than the seen... they would have been more successful without the gore in making it a more cerebral flick.

When the crew docks with the Event Horizon, things start going wrong from the get-go... folks are hearing things, seeing things, feeling things... and they're not seeing angels... they're seeing people on fire, children with leprosy... just gross, disturbing stuff. They hear the crew's last log entry which includes blood curdling screams and someone yelling, "save yourself from Hell!" in Latin. That would be the cue for most normal human beings to get back in their ship and go back to earth without looking back... but no, this crew stays and stays, trying to find out what happened.

They take a visit to the core of the ship that has a central drive that enables the space-folding (faster than light flight)... it looks like something from "Harry Potter." Lots of medieval looking gears and the sphere shaped room is full of pointy-sharp spikes... the minute you see it you know that at least one crew member is going to get accidentally impaled on one, and you're right -that's what happens.

When there are sudden power outages, Dr. Weir crawls through some of the guts of the ship to find a shorted circuit... this is one of those purposterous sci-fi scenes that's spoofed in "Galaxy Quest".... a ridiculously shaped room that goes on forever, for no reason.

There is some really good acting and there are some very believable scenes, but the film falls on its face.

There are many scenes in which characters pluck out their own eyeballs... not for those with weak constitutions, that's for sure.

Despite the few good concepts and scenes in this movie, I really can not think of one scene that makes sitting through this film worthwhile. It is a haunted-house gore-fest that happens to take place in a space ship - that's about it. The trailer led you to believe there was much more to this film... such are the beguiling ways of trailers. There are not enough special effects to make this film even worthwhile to those seeking eye-candy (pardon the ironic pun). This is not the worst film I've ever seen, but on the stink meter, I'd give it a rating of: rotting fish.

"Liberate me, ex infernis..." This was the message the rescue crew from Lewis & Clark heard from the Event Horizon as they went deeper into the bowels of this derelict spaceship. The plot and story is simply fantastic. The Event Horizon (name taken from a part of a black hole) was sent on a mission beyond the boundaries of the solar system using a gravity drive, a faster than light travel system devised by Prof. Weir (Sam Neill). The gravity drive bends space to make travelling from one point to another faster than light. Simply put, the gravity drive creates an artificial black hole. Somehow, something went wrong and the Event Horizon was lost as it entered it's own black hole and was gone for 7 years. Finally, the ship came back but it came back with something in it. The spaceship indeed went somewhere but it way way beyond the boundaries of known universe. And not it brought something unseeing, something invisible yet completely evil. The rescue crew boards the ship and finds no sign of the crew. Thus, the story begins. It's more of a mental, psychological horror rather than seeing an alien being. You dont see any monsters or aliens here. The monster turns out to be the whole spaceship.

The effects are good. Lawrence Fishburne will strike you as a hard core but fair captain of the rescue ship. Sam Neill did a good job portraying himself as a obsessed scientist eager to find where the Event Horizon has gone. There are tons and tons of scary scenes. Strangely, the scariest part was when Sam Neill was shaving with a razor, as he was scraping off the cream on his neck with his razor, he hears something and then BOOM!!!! Scared the life out of me!

Get this movie.

One of the grossest, goriest movies I've ever seen. The plot was horrible. It just moved from one killing to the next. Blood and gore everywhere. Not worth the time I spent watching it. I kept waiting for something positive to happen, but ....

Sam Neill must have been out of his head to take this role... and I've got to wonder what  Laurence Fishburne was doing in this one, as well. Sam Neill's character in particular - yuck. What a freaking gore fest. This is like they took "Alien" (minus the alien) and "Hell Raiser" and put them in a blender. The space crew is very reminiscent of "Alien"... crew has a job to do they couldn't get out of, all in stasis for a flight to the orbit of Jupiter. They hear a distress beacon from "The Event Horizon," an experimental ship that disappeared 7 years earlier on it's maiden voyage of space-folding their way to the end of the universe.

En route to the ship, it's creator, Dr. Weir (Sam Neill) is already having very disturbing visions of his wife with her eyes gouged out. This is just an appetizer... the entire film features disgusting disembowelments, eye plucking, blood spattering, head exploding gore.

Sometimes the unseen is far more frightening than the seen... they would have been more successful without the gore in making it a more cerebral flick.

When the crew docks with the Event Horizon, things start going wrong from the get-go... folks are hearing things, seeing things, feeling things... and they're not seeing angels... they're seeing people on fire, children with leprosy... just gross, disturbing stuff. They hear the crew's last log entry which includes blood curdling screams and someone yelling, "save yourself from Hell!" in Latin. That would be the cue for most normal human beings to get back in their ship and go back to earth without looking back... but no, this crew stays and stays, trying to find out what happened.

They take a visit to the core of the ship that has a central drive that enables the space-folding (faster than light flight)... it looks like something from "Harry Potter." Lots of medieval looking gears and the sphere shaped room is full of pointy-sharp spikes... the minute you see it you know that at least one crew member is going to get accidentally impaled on one, and you're right -that's what happens.

When there are sudden power outages, Dr. Weir crawls through some of the guts of the ship to find a shorted circuit... this is one of those purposterous sci-fi scenes that's spoofed in "Galaxy Quest".... a ridiculously shaped room that goes on forever, for no reason.

There is some really good acting and there are some very believable scenes, but the film falls on its face.

There are many scenes in which characters pluck out their own eyeballs... not for those with weak constitutions, that's for sure.

Despite the few good concepts and scenes in this movie, I really can not think of one scene that makes sitting through this film worthwhile. It is a haunted-house gore-fest that happens to take place in a space ship - that's about it. The trailer led you to believe there was much more to this film... such are the beguiling ways of trailers. There are not enough special effects to make this film even worthwhile to those seeking eye-candy (pardon the ironic pun). This is not the worst film I've ever seen, but on the stink meter, I'd give it a rating of: rotting fish.

"Liberate me, ex infernis..." This was the message the rescue crew from Lewis & Clark heard from the Event Horizon as they went deeper into the bowels of this derelict spaceship. The plot and story is simply fantastic. The Event Horizon (name taken from a part of a black hole) was sent on a mission beyond the boundaries of the solar system using a gravity drive, a faster than light travel system devised by Prof. Weir (Sam Neill). The gravity drive bends space to make travelling from one point to another faster than light. Simply put, the gravity drive creates an artificial black hole. Somehow, something went wrong and the Event Horizon was lost as it entered it's own black hole and was gone for 7 years. Finally, the ship came back but it came back with something in it. The spaceship indeed went somewhere but it way way beyond the boundaries of known universe. And not it brought something unseeing, something invisible yet completely evil. The rescue crew boards the ship and finds no sign of the crew. Thus, the story begins. It's more of a mental, psychological horror rather than seeing an alien being. You dont see any monsters or aliens here. The monster turns out to be the whole spaceship.

The effects are good. Lawrence Fishburne will strike you as a hard core but fair captain of the rescue ship. Sam Neill did a good job portraying himself as a obsessed scientist eager to find where the Event Horizon has gone. There are tons and tons of scary scenes. Strangely, the scariest part was when Sam Neill was shaving with a razor, as he was scraping off the cream on his neck with his razor, he hears something and then BOOM!!!! Scared the life out of me!

Get this movie.

You know, if anyone has ever read any of my other reviews, you'll realize that I've got a horrible pet peeve about movies that have a lot of potential and flop miserably. I don't think a movie has been made yet that exemplifies this more then Paul Anderson's 'Soldier.'

This movie REALLY could have been mind-blowing had it not been held back by Anderson's chronic lack of any imagination (see my other reviews of Paul Anderson's work). If this material was being molded by ANYBODY with any sense of vision or especially scope, this movie might have been as popular as the Matrix is now. 'Soldier' was CRYING to be done on a grand scale. How cool would it have been to have seen a huge 'Saving Private Ryan' meets 'Attack of the Clones'-type battle scene? Instead we get work that looks like it was done in a high school auditorium.

Look at things like the horribly dull set designs (not bad per se, but just no creativity), the poor lighting, the stereotyped lemming-civilian characters, and the clichéd villains. It's awful how phoned-in this movie just seemed.

The tragic part is that Kurt Russell was terrific in it and was just surrounded by people (actors and production crew alike) that just had no interest (or maybe ability) in trying to add flavor to the VAST RESOURCES they had at their disposal.

I actually cringe when I think about just how cool this could have been compared to the body of work that everyone seemed content to turn in.

I think this movie is one of the most overlooked of recent years. People may laugh, but I thought Kurt Russell was perfect in this--he gets my Oscar for that year. Too bad you never get nominated for a real action flick.

He says 80 words (not certain on that, but I counted them once!) but packs more into his performance than any of today's more acclaimed "actors". I've never seen an actor express so effectively with their eyes. So often I see a close up these days and either am not sure what emotion they are trying to show, or I know exactly what they are trying to display but can't help notice how poorly they are showing it.

Maybe part of it comes from the character, I'll admit. His emotions are buried due to his lifelong training, but he's seen some things that have tremendous emotional impact, so you are expecting there's something deep inside that wants to get out. And then Kurt shows it, and very effectively.

In summary, this is my favorite of the highly specific Terminator/Robocop/Ultimate Soldier sub-genre, and ends up being one of my very favorite action movies.

I just want to thank Kurt Russell for doing this movie. It's not often that A-list quality actors do movies like this. Sure, it had a fairly low budget, but that never got in the way. Every dollar is on the screen. I'm glad I bought it; I've already seen it two or three times and thoroughly enjoyed it. If you're searching for a plot heavy, dramatic, Oscar-caliber movie, then I would urge you to keep looking. If you're a guy (or gal) who is sometimes in the mood for a good, lean, military sci-fi flic, then I urge you to check this one out.