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20. The Interpreter
Nicole Kidman has often struggled with accents (nasal Southern twang in Cold Mountain, dodgy Russian lisp in Birthday Girl). In The Interpreter, she comes up with an odd hybrid drawl - part African French and Spanish according to the script - to play a UN interpreter who overhears a plot to assassinate an African head of state.
Fortunately for Kidman, her accent isn't the only thing that fails to convince in Sydney Pollack's dull throwback to paranoid thrillers. A dumb movie masquerading as smart but failing miserably.
Nicole Kidman in The Interpreter
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Nicole Kidman has often struggled with accents (nasal Southern twang in Cold Mountain, dodgy Russian lisp in Birthday Girl). In The Interpreter, she comes up with an odd hybrid drawl - part African French and Spanish according to the script - to play a UN interpreter who overhears a plot to assassinate an African head of state.
Fortunately for Kidman, her accent isn't the only thing that fails to convince in Sydney Pollack's dull throwback to paranoid thrillers. A dumb movie masquerading as smart but failing miserably.
Nicole Kidman in The Interpreter
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19. Elizabethtown
Hard to believe that this comes from the director who brought us Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire, because Elizabethtown is just a hollow failure, falling way short of Crowe's usual standards.
A meandering tale about a son's journey to reconnect with his father, it is awash with sentimentality. While this is chiefly due to the unwieldy writing and editing on show, the fact that Orlando Bloom emotes about as much as a plank of wood doesn't help. In short, a disappointing mess.
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Hard to believe that this comes from the director who brought us Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire, because Elizabethtown is just a hollow failure, falling way short of Crowe's usual standards.
A meandering tale about a son's journey to reconnect with his father, it is awash with sentimentality. While this is chiefly due to the unwieldy writing and editing on show, the fact that Orlando Bloom emotes about as much as a plank of wood doesn't help. In short, a disappointing mess.
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18. Kingdom Of Heaven
After breathing new life into the historical epic with Gladiator, Ridley Scott went and undid all his good work with this clunking, overblown attempt to portray the Crusades. While he may have pulled off a long, blonde wig and pointy ears with aplomb, Orlando Bloom fails to convince as a warrior knight.
Although the battle scenes are masterly, and directed with Scott's visual flair, the film fails to put you through the emotional wringer.
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After breathing new life into the historical epic with Gladiator, Ridley Scott went and undid all his good work with this clunking, overblown attempt to portray the Crusades. While he may have pulled off a long, blonde wig and pointy ears with aplomb, Orlando Bloom fails to convince as a warrior knight.
Although the battle scenes are masterly, and directed with Scott's visual flair, the film fails to put you through the emotional wringer.
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17. Green Street
Was it Elijah Wood's keenness to distance himself as far from the Shire and all things hobbity as possible that led him to the mean, green streets of East London?
Whatever the reason, he's certainly scored an own goal here, with this clumsy, laughable tale of football hooliganism, which appears to look benignly on groups of lads who kick seven shade of excrement out of other fans because it's about 'sticking by your mates and standing your ground.' Final score? Nil-Nil.
Elijah Wood on Green Street
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Was it Elijah Wood's keenness to distance himself as far from the Shire and all things hobbity as possible that led him to the mean, green streets of East London?
Whatever the reason, he's certainly scored an own goal here, with this clumsy, laughable tale of football hooliganism, which appears to look benignly on groups of lads who kick seven shade of excrement out of other fans because it's about 'sticking by your mates and standing your ground.' Final score? Nil-Nil.
Elijah Wood on Green Street
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16. Stealth
Stealth is one of those hypocritical Hollywood films that wears its conscience on its sleeve while simultaneously revelling in the pyrotechnics of destruction. "I don't think war should be some video game," we're told - but that's exactly what the film feels like, with its CG-backdrops and flight-simulator style antics.
Fetishising its futuristic hardware, at its worst, Stealth is a boys-own film trapped in adolescence.
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Stealth is one of those hypocritical Hollywood films that wears its conscience on its sleeve while simultaneously revelling in the pyrotechnics of destruction. "I don't think war should be some video game," we're told - but that's exactly what the film feels like, with its CG-backdrops and flight-simulator style antics.
Fetishising its futuristic hardware, at its worst, Stealth is a boys-own film trapped in adolescence.
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