Film Threat's Scores

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For 5,427 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:
5427 movie reviews
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ultimately, Lee lets the men and their show speak for themselves as showmen, plain and simple.
  1. Not for me, and in spite of that, I found it really funny, smart and sweet. I enjoyed it.
    • 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.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The stories are small but the outcome of each means so much to the characters, you’ll find yourself drawn into their very real world.
  2. What starts out as a fairly conventional and effective stalker drama with a cyber-twist, soon gets too cute with its dreams within dreams set pieces and shifting realities. It’s kinda nifty at first, but Kon just keeps piling it on until you just roll your eyes, throw up your hands, and scream, “Enough!”
  3. The best thing about a movie like this is I never have to see it again.
  4. If you love KISS, you'll probably see this movie anyway. If you don't, there's no point.
  5. Over all, the short stories never gel together or create a unified whole.
  6. At least the studio hired enough likable scene-stealing actors and comedians to carry the bloated carcass of this film over the course of two hours.
  7. I completely dreaded sitting through this movie...Two-hour purgatory.
  8. If distinctly uneven CGI, minimal originality and overly convenient plot devices turn you off, this may not be your film.
  9. Mathew Broderick is likeable enough as the gizmo and gadget-toting cartoon hero in-the-flesh, but the plot, to which the FX wizardry is strung to, is in serious need of a tune up.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The film sets a quirky tone and sustains it until a very bizarre and contrived ending.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    From the final product, not only do I not think Jan De Bont has never seen the original Robert Wise film, I don’t think he’s every actually seen a horror film. Have you ever seen a single computer generated effect that scared you, more than just the unexpected sound of a door slamming behind you?
  10. Unfortunately for Epps, Diggs and Jones -- three capable actors -- the disjointed direction of the material robs them of any dimension and forces them to play tail-chassing caricatures.
  11. While we do get a bit of gore, the movie is really about this wacky bunch of people jumping on each other's nerves, kind of a zany hero's journey.
  12. This masterpiece started out at around three stars, but after the credits, it just got sillier and more lurid.
  13. Lee gives us cross-section of characters, almost none of whom escape the summer unchanged.
  14. Aside from the pesky problems of tone and lazy writing, the whole move is a little choppy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Easily the funniest and most charming film that has been or will be released in 1999 -- period.
  15. Hooter babes and the ubiquitous Steve Buscemi is a riot as the mercurial bum on the street.
  16. Tarzan is a blast for both kids and grownups like myself and gets my recommendation.
  17. In order to spare you the trauma of this cinematrocity, I'll go ahead and tell you how the film turns out. Who killed the General's Daughter? The filmmakers did.
  18. I can't rave about this film enough -- this is passionate filmmaking at its best. One of the best foreign films, heck, one of the best films I have seen this year -- go see it!
  19. The film is not without its problems, some inherent to Wilde's original play.
  20. The audience will respond better to ENTERTAINMENT than a club to the head.
  21. This soothing, elegantly-crafted film is such a marvelous piece of work.
  22. The fourth best virtual reality film of 1999. The best is "The Matrix". The second best is "eXistenZ". The third best, well, there's got to be something better than this.
  23. The acting is admirable and the film's hip, on-the-street feel is enticing, it's just too bad that this Irish "Goodfellas" hangs itself with a plot that's contrived and one dimensional.
  24. There's some darn poignant stuff going on here.... The problem is that the audience will try to connect everything to the explicit Eden analogy, and not everything will. The director wins points for enticing you to figure it out, though, and I did enjoy it.

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