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10. Be Cool
The sequel to cool action-comedy Get Shorty, Be Cool seems full of promise. After all, it's based on another book by the original author Elmore Leonard, it has a genuinely workable premise, it's crammed with big names, and there's a decent director attached - by all rights, it shouldn't be that bad. It is though.
Sadly, John Travolta sullies the memory of the first, properly cool movie.
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The sequel to cool action-comedy Get Shorty, Be Cool seems full of promise. After all, it's based on another book by the original author Elmore Leonard, it has a genuinely workable premise, it's crammed with big names, and there's a decent director attached - by all rights, it shouldn't be that bad. It is though.
Sadly, John Travolta sullies the memory of the first, properly cool movie.
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9. The Pacifier
For a while, it seemed Vin Diesel could do no wrong. Then The Chronicles Of Riddick bombed and suggested audiences were tiring of his mean and moody persona. Clearly a change of direction was called for, resulting in this 'family caper' that sees Diesel undercutting his macho image as an undercover babysitter.
Halfway through, Vin Diesel winds up in a sewer, covered in faeces. It's an image that says everything you need to know about this shonky 'comedy' and its star's faltering career.
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For a while, it seemed Vin Diesel could do no wrong. Then The Chronicles Of Riddick bombed and suggested audiences were tiring of his mean and moody persona. Clearly a change of direction was called for, resulting in this 'family caper' that sees Diesel undercutting his macho image as an undercover babysitter.
Halfway through, Vin Diesel winds up in a sewer, covered in faeces. It's an image that says everything you need to know about this shonky 'comedy' and its star's faltering career.
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8. Revolver
We know exactly where it all went wrong for Guy Ritchie; the question is how and why? Back in 1997, he smashed his way onto cinema screens with Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, heralding the arrival of a major talent. Then came the dire Swept Away.
With Revolver, what briefly looked like a potential return to form has backfired in genuinely spectacular fashion - the movie is mind-bogglingly pretentious, making precious little sense most of the time. It's hard to think how Ritchie could have demolished his career more effectively.
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We know exactly where it all went wrong for Guy Ritchie; the question is how and why? Back in 1997, he smashed his way onto cinema screens with Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, heralding the arrival of a major talent. Then came the dire Swept Away.
With Revolver, what briefly looked like a potential return to form has backfired in genuinely spectacular fashion - the movie is mind-bogglingly pretentious, making precious little sense most of the time. It's hard to think how Ritchie could have demolished his career more effectively.
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7. Bewitched
In the spirit of Hollywood remakes, it was inevitable that the 1960s series 'Bewitched' would get a silver screen makeover. However, the attempt to modernize the old-school sexual politics of the original, with a self-reflexive 'show within a show' conceit, ultimately stumbles and falls.
Two-thirds in the jokes dry up, secondary characters are just abandoned, and the tone becomes hopelessly muddled. There may be special effects aplenty here, but precious little magic.
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In the spirit of Hollywood remakes, it was inevitable that the 1960s series 'Bewitched' would get a silver screen makeover. However, the attempt to modernize the old-school sexual politics of the original, with a self-reflexive 'show within a show' conceit, ultimately stumbles and falls.
Two-thirds in the jokes dry up, secondary characters are just abandoned, and the tone becomes hopelessly muddled. There may be special effects aplenty here, but precious little magic.
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6. Alexander
Colin Farrell sports bright yellow hair as the legendary hero in Oliver Stone's epic biopic, presented here as a man in thrall to his overbearing mother, played by Angelina Jolie.
Being draped in snakes further enhances the ridiculousness of Jolie's performance, which involves an accent that sounds like vintage Transylvanian. "In my womb I carried my avenger!" she hisses - sadly, Farrell fails to make us appreciate an iota of the warrior who conquered 20 000 miles of the known world in eight years.
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Colin Farrell sports bright yellow hair as the legendary hero in Oliver Stone's epic biopic, presented here as a man in thrall to his overbearing mother, played by Angelina Jolie.
Being draped in snakes further enhances the ridiculousness of Jolie's performance, which involves an accent that sounds like vintage Transylvanian. "In my womb I carried my avenger!" she hisses - sadly, Farrell fails to make us appreciate an iota of the warrior who conquered 20 000 miles of the known world in eight years.
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