It's a completely botched effort -- botched in its direction, its writing and editing.

Cocktail is unbelievable - a picture that sets itself up as a gritty, authentic character study but is laughable, false and stupid in all its details. The only connection to reality here is that there are actually such things as bartenders. [29 Jul 1988, p.E1]

That lack of concern for the way people actually interact renders the film useless as entertainment, or as a conversion tool.

This utterly tasteless crime film about Tokyo’s top madam, a drug dealer and a serial killer is one of the worst films of the year.

A discordant comedy that gives bad taste a bad name.

At times, it actually hurts to watch.

Piles cliched character upon cliched character, and then doesn't give any of them very much to do.

This is a sloppy hash of a movie, poorly directed and plotted in a way that looks as if it were improvised on the spot.

Its dazzling special effects make its combatants flip and fly, spin and soar, all the while punching and kicking each other like jackhammers, only to leave viewers utterly unmoved.

A lame pastiche of Hollywood romances.

Big, opulent and frequently wretched, Pinocchio is so bad that its American distributor, Miramax, opened it on Christmas Day with scant advertising and no advance press screening.

Ugly. ..and unpleasant -- and clueless on a grand scale.

This sixth installment, by far the worst in the series, is bland and deadening.

Is it worth seeing once? Sure.

Spending an hour and a half inside a uterus might be more entertaining than this tiresome sequel.

So mind-blowingly horrible that it teeters on the edge of cinematic immortality.

A stupid comedy with toddlers talking like hip '90s grown-ups.

Gives stupid, vulgar comedy a bad name.

A movie so filled with contemptible, ugly and unfunny characters that it is physically difficult to watch.

It's impossible to imagine why Lions Gate, the indie distributor that released "Monster's Ball," would bother with this garbage.

Bare-bones vanity project.

Shore possesses only two talents -- his ability to assume yoga-like positions and fondle his own behind, and his mystifying knack for getting starring roles in bad movies.

Douglas does his best acting while watching and reacting to what he sees on screen. If this ends up being his cinematic swan song, it will not have been a bad way to go.

There is an affecting story within first-time filmmaker Fay Ann Lee's Falling for Grace, but it is merely a subplot, one among too many that decorate this thin, unsatisfying romantic comedy-drama.

Turns into a pedestrian slice 'n' dice feature.

Of mild interest as a curiosity, but not as entertainment.

A solid network effort about heroism in a most immoral world.

Light entertainment that doesn't quite work. The film has too many scenes that meander, and the picture's offhandedness begins to seem less like clumsy charm and more like pointless vamping.