MaryAnn Johanson, Apr 27, 2007
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It is a sorry slate of films staring out at us from the multiplex schedule board this weekend. Honestly, just stay home. Or go see Hot Fuzz -- it's expanding to almost 1,300 venues, so if you couldn't find it near you last weekend, you've got a better chance now. Or see it again: I can tell you from experience that it gets funnier each time you see it.
Don't say I didn't warn you if you attempt one of the new wide releases. You could try Next if you're the kind of person who doesn't mind investing 90 minutes in a movie only to have the rug pulled out from under you in the last five minutes. You'll wish you could have seen into the future, like Nic Cage's character, so you could have saved yourself the bother, and the money. Seriously, I've never seen a movie cheat so badly as this one does in its last moments. You'll want to throw something at the screen.
The Condemned is a movie produced by the same people who bring us "professional" wrestling. 'Nuff said. (Some of the promotion of the film has been clever ... far cleverer than the film itself, I'm sure. What? No, of course I didn't see it.)
The Invisible -- the "He Is Dead People" movie -- and Kickin' It Old Skool, the -- *shudder* -- Jamie Kennedy/breakdancing movie, did not screen for critics. And we know what that means.
But apart from Hot Fuzz, you might find some worthy indies coming your way all of a sudden. The charming and suprisingly subversive Year of the Dog is up to 131 screens, and the arthouse action flick Black Book is up to 99. And what's this? Zodiac, for some inexplicable reason, is back up to 177 screens. If you missed one of the very best films of the year so far when it was first released, catch it now, and leave Nicolas Cage and his pathetic cheating psychic movie alone.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-MaryAnn Johanson (email me)reviews, reviews, reviews! at FlickFilosopher.com
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