Thriller Rated R
“…ultimately undone by a ridiculous final half hour in which Bacon turns into the Terminator.
Thriller Rated NR
The movies’ first whack at Jack Finney’s 1954 serialized novel remains the best. When alien life forms try to take over the planet by replacing us with automaton look-alikes – walking vegetables that literally grow in pods – it’s up to a small-town doctor (an increasingly hysterical Kevin McCarthy) to fight the power. Director Don
Thriller Rated PG
This second attempt at a Body Snatchers movie may feature the silliest protagonist in science-fiction history: Donald Sutherland’s over-zealous San Francisco health inspector (for his entrance, he triumphantly identifies rat droppings in a pot of soup.) Such silliness – as well as Philip Kaufman’s ostentatious direction – undermines the insidious chill of the story’s conceit:
Thriller Rated PG-13
"The movie’s many mishaps – the jarring transitions, the awkward edits, the fact that we never really know who Daniel Craig is supposed to be – only heighten the sense of dislocation."
“…a weird combination of Showgirls, Saw and – what with Lohan’s robotic hand – The Empire Strikes Back.
Realizing you can’t shoot at a virus, director Wolfgang Petersen transforms this initially chilling scientific thriller into a generic action flick. Army disease expert Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman) has enough on his hands while fighting a lethal African virus, but then he stumbles across a government conspiracy as well. Gunfights, helicopter chases and other predictable
This domestic thriller, about a couple (Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) who clone their 8-year-old boy after his death, could have gone in numerous intriguing directions, but it chooses the worst one of all of them. Almost a ghost story, almost a theological take on fate, Godsend instead goes for straight-out horror, with all the
Adrien Brody plays a Gulf War veteran who is accused of murdering a cop and sent to a mental institution for the criminally insane. He may be crazy, he may be innocent, he may, in fact, be dead. The Jacket offers all of these possibilities without following through on any of them. It wants to
If it wasn’t for the sleek, hilltop house in which the hostage situation of Hostage takes place, the movie would be a complete wash. As a thriller, Hostage disappoints, but it makes for a fairly gripping episode of HGTV’s “Dream Homes.” Bruce Willis plays a small-town sheriff negotiating the release of a kidnapped family who
Another ludicrous Ashley Judd thriller, and one that makes Double Jeopardy look like a model of logic. This time Judd plays a disturbed seductress who murders men because she was abandoned by her dad as a little girl. Ewan McGregor plays the high-tech detective who chases down Judd and who also happens to have lost
