Film Threat's Scores

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For 5,429 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 60% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Xanadu
Lowest review score: 0 The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Score distribution:
5429 movie reviews
    • 24 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Alan Ng
    Key, Leguizamo, Greer, and Haysbert actually look like their having a good time and investing their acting talent in this silly story without flinching. No one’s phoning it in. John Cena is just a little too cartoony in his straight-laced character and somehow manages to make “normal” feel over-the-top.
  1. A guilty pleasure diversion. Yeah, it is dumber than a bag of hair. But it is also fast, occasionally funny and genuinely entertaining in an old-fashion no-brainer manner.
  2. I didn't hate this film. I didn't find it to be a waste of time or brain waves. Given the reasons I saw the film, I suppose I'm 50% disappointed.
  3. Unless you are severely addicted to Johnny Depp, this film offers very little in the way of genuine entertainment value. Ultimately, “The Brave” should have been renamed “The Foolish.”
  4. Not that the lackluster love story will matter any to the Sandler faithful, who are there to see the star beat people up and work his regular joe mojo on snooty types; those viewers will certainly get their fill and then some.
  5. A chick flick in the purest sense--it's not about men or falling in love--and is quite funny.
  6. Death and comedy rarely mix, and this tedious and painfully un-funny effort by director Darren Stein is no exception.
  7. The original movie One Missed Call is based on was pretty tame, at least by Miike standards. And since it appears studios have no intention of halting this flood of abysmal rehashes, allow me to suggest that they at least have the stones not to pussyfoot around and give us a remake worthy of Hollywood, of America, and of an audience that lacks the willpower to stop buying tickets to half-assed crap.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A terrible rehash of better torture genre exploitation, with none of the charm.
  8. It’s Cangialosi’s writing and direction that result in a watered-down, emotionally manipulative experience.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    I never really expected something so utterly lame-brained. Though, the film is not as awful as I've heard, it's quite possibly the laziest script I've ever seen.
  9. When is a horror movie not a horror movie? When it’s a strained, by-the-numbers production that limps to an unlikely conclusion like Godsend.
  10. To be sure, The Love Guru is incredibly funny. Side-splitting laughter only stops when the movie does, so don't expect it to linger all the way to the parking lot.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Alan Ng
    I recommend Die In a Gunfight to any film fan that wants to see a different take on the mob love story. I think the romance takes a back seat to the violence when I think an equal footing would have made the film so much better.
  11. The cast is genuine in their emotions, the film depicts them that way, and the camera doesn’t feel compelled to go hand-held crazy--which is refreshing.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sure it’s brainless fun, but Formula 51 is a trip well worth taking.
  12. Gelfer may have missed the mark with this one, but she displays enough technical skill and empathy for her characters to deserve another shot.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    While it sounds interesting on paper, the follow through is less than entertaining... unless you like unintentional humor.
  13. If you’re looking for a compelling horror flick, don’t waste your time with Darkness Falls.
  14. Half Past Dead would’ve been a bad film without Seagal anyways, but he fails long before any of the other parts do.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 85 Reviewed by
      Alan Ng
    As a film, Reagan is about as perfect a biopic as you will get. The story flows quickly and feels cinematic for a man whose life plays out like a movie.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 55 Reviewed by
      Alan Ng
    Ultimately, Vanquish falls into the cliché of typical action films, where the focus is on the action, and the story is a way to string the action together
    • 22 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's such an insanely fun ride that most of its flaws are forgivable.
  15. Ghastly.
  16. If you want laughs, just about every other comedy playing right now is good for one giggle, which is more than you'll get here. Just don't waste your time or money on Out Cold.
  17. An abysmal failure.
  18. It’s a laughably bad, generic, and bloodless PG-13 waste of two hours, and that’s everything I fantasized it wouldn’t end up being.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    It's hard to remain interested in everyone when they're continually shuffled around. Half-baked storylines abound.
  19. It lacks humor. Unlike "Scream", this film is more of a horror-drama, with everybody taking themselves way too seriously.
  20. 8MM
    The biggest thing wrong with this mess is its whole attitude. The film tries to condemn all these shocking things, but if you're not shocked, just wait a couple of minutes and they'll try again.
  21. Godawful mess.
  22. When all is said and done, then, the only thing this juvenile and shameless "Star Wars" knock-off does is whet your appetite for the real deal.
  23. This is one of those "Crash"-style pictures with interwoven narrative strands. The problem here is that most of the strands wind up little more than loose ends.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This is easily the smallest-scale of the sequels, and it has the feeling of a massively shrunken budget.
  24. The primary problem with “Rabbit Test” was that it was based on a hoary one-joke concept – in this case, a man becomes pregnant. But Rivers had no clue how to take the concept and expand it into a flowing, coherent comedy script.
  25. Predictable and tiresome.
  26. Left me feeling empty inside. There’s no warmth and character from the original Dr. Seuss book, and there’s no substance or soul in the story elements.
  27. The plot itself is a disappointingly gory concatenation of two recently forgettable sci-fi thrillers; "Hardware" and "Event Horizon."
  28. If you have nothing more stimulating to do on a Friday night, Underclassman could provide the entertainment--not enlightenment--you seek.
  29. Veers between flaccid slapstick and mean-spirited vulgarity.
  30. Marceau's effervescence and graceful stature fill the screen wonderfully, even if its a stretch to see her go lip-to-lip with Spade.
  31. Sure, Dumb and Dumberer is dumb, dumber and dumberer than the original, but if you like that kind of banal, rustic and sophomoric humor (and I have to admit, I kinda do), it might be worth a buck or two at a discount theater.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Downloading Nancy is an excruciating experience.
  32. After almost twenty five years, the Halloween series has been reduced to a false alarm. ...the characters are so devoid of human feeling they accomplish the task of making us not wish they were dead, but just gone.
  33. Affleck may finally have found a use for his obnoxious personality, because Drew is amazingly annoying.
  34. Although it looks cool, appearances aren’t everything.
  35. Has no story, no redeeming characters that anyone could care about, and the actors are all on autopilot, completely soaked with their own vanity.
  36. It certainly didn't take long for Madonna to ruin husband Guy Ritchie's career.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    The sport of golf has seen its fair share of vulgar comedies over the last 30 years or so.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Alan Ng
    Whether you’re astonished or offended, Travolta gives a marvelous and unforgettable performance.
  37. One such feeble miscue that can't be saved by the star power of Joe Pesci and David Spade.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Similar to one of those smutty 80s comedies, Boat Trip is a Farrelly brothers like gross-out with a homophobic entwine.
  38. One small step for bad filmmaking and one giant leap for the increasing insignificance of the former Michael Corleone.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A ridiculous messy Z grade film that should have been released straight to video.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A wholly inept action experience that works at boring us to tears.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    If Director C.B. Harding's intention was to make one of the worst films in recent memory, congratulations are in order.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    It is just too bad that the film isn't called "Miniscule Movie" because that is a better description of this epic-less piece of garbage.
  39. Add another one to the scrap heap of trendy, nostalgic, 60's and 70's TV shows reduced to cinematic rubble by the inspiration starved minds in Hollywood.
  40. The title refers to your expected condition when you see this movie. Oh well. It'll be HUGE on video.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    I just don't understand why certain filmmakers rely on cliché plots and stereotypical characters when they make their debut. Nothing seems fresh or daring.
  41. I feel guilty and somehow unclean. And all I did was watch it.
  42. With a couple of plot twists and a few powerful performances, Deuces Wild is worth checking out -- but only on home video.
  43. A painfully awful film.
  44. Hardcore gorehounds will be disappointed by the lukewarm scares. Fans of throwback films will groan at the lack of tongue-in-cheek references. Anyone who’s seen a film will groan at the stupidity of it all.
  45. Run -- don’t walk -- from this film or you might end up watching a bad CGI character do a painful Dr. Evil impression.
  46. A movie so thoroughly cretinous the people who made it couldn't get even the punctuation in the title right.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    It's just a murky, dark mess where no one wins. Especially those of us watching it. Simply put: Darkness fails. It's about as chilling as an unplugged refrigerator.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It doesn’t serve up the belly laughter or lightheartedness expected of the genre, at least in the traditional sense. Nor is there a satisfying ending that would align it snugly into the dramatic grouping. What it does do is excel in outright mockery of a persistent cultural issue. Primarily, the ignorance of those immersed in affluence towards the plight of their suffering neighbors.
  47. Here’s a would-be horror film that contains not one ounce of professional pride in its making, not one shred of technical competence. This is one of the worst films of recent times.
  48. Pretenders pretends to be Bertolucci’s The Dreamers in its meshing of a saucy young love triangle with an impassioned ode to cinema of yore. Alas, Mr. Franco’s not quite there yet.
  49. Will surely end up as one of this year’s worst films.
  50. Like a slug that crawls across the screen for eighty minutes before dying of its own nausea.
  51. Just one of those films, a bottomless well of snark fodder that may come and go in theatres but will surely be spun innumerable times on DVD at parties in the years to come.
  52. Just when you think it could not get more ridiculous, Hall, Lanier, and Miss Mariah go that extra mile.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A mess on every narrative and technical level.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    City of Dreams is not perfect, but it is extremely well crafted, and as such, I highly recommend it.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Daddy Day Camp is a perfect family film for the blind and deaf.
  53. There's nothing but a convoluted overcast of story with a monsoon of bad dialogue.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    It's a movie that manages to grow more idiotic by the scene.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Classic B-movie mayhem meets French New Wave.
  54. Nihilistic and offensive, it leaves you with more than a sour taste – nausea, perhaps, or a need to bathe in Listerine.
  55. The title not only describes its main characters, but the lazy people behind the camera as well.
  56. Elapsed time before I walked out: 29 minutes Total laughs (in that period): 0
    • 9 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Tedious, derivative exercise, stolen from a dozen or so horror/action films.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    It’s rare that a movie makes me ill these days, and it’s rare that I can see a movie and hate the people behind it with such abhorrence, but Meet the Spartans rises to the challenge.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Hollywood is definitely at its worst here and not the type of Hollywood which would dare to greenlight this; just Hollywood being portrayed on film.
  57. Some moments are a bit corny, such as subliminal messages coming from a tape played backward. However, I find the spin that writer/director Daniel Farrands puts on one of the most gruesome murders in history, will make all who see The Haunting of Sharon Tate examine the Tate murders, and maybe our own lives differently.
  58. Thanks to a committed cast and an amusing screenplay that works more often than not. Reality Queen! proves to be a charming affair. Mix in the surprising amount of depth mined from the brilliant ending, and despite its issues, this mockumentary proves worth a watch.
  59. This movie wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. It's still not that good though.
  60. Perhaps the worst thing about the writer/director/star’s feature is that it basks in the excess it purports to condemn, confident that pounding the viewer into submission is the way to go, in addition to ending on a hypocritical note that defies everything that’s occurred up to that point.
  61. The whole movie feels like an overlong Kickstarter set up for a The Disaster Artist-like treatment. Honestly, that would provide a far more fascinating story than the pureed plot provided here.
    • 1 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    What it lacks in plot and character development, is more than made up for with charm, cleverness and extensive bloodletting.
  62. The resulting concoction is a cinematic elixir that disappoints, no matter how much hypnosis one is under.
  63. In the end, A Galaxy Far, Far Away shadows its parent films in that it's just good clean fun for the whole family.
  64. Moves at a smooth and steady pace, so much so that it’s hypnotic. The characters and performances in this film are also very calm, providing a soothing experience.
  65. Everything here is broad and very silly, but the offbeat foreign vibe keeps us intrigued, mostly because the film's sense of humor is so unusual and unexpected.
  66. If you want pure, undiluted, 100% guaranteed entertainment, Soap Girl is the film to enjoy. This film is a wonderful work of fun, with a marvelous ensemble cast who have more energy, sex-appeal and charm than any group to strut and vamp across the camera in recent memory.
  67. While its heart is in the right place and the cast gives powerful performances, Things Behind the Sun doesn't shed any new viewpoint or perspective on the subject matter.
  68. A gorgeous and poetic meditation on fate, honor and life in the Old West.
  69. About as exciting as meatloaf.

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