Recent Movies on DVD Reviews: PRINCE CASPIAN, WANTED, and X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE
December 3rd, 2008
CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN
From the original review: “In the end, PRINCE CASPIAN, is undoubtedly an engaging, at times exciting film, but because in a larger sense none of what happens has any severe consequences, it makes it a film whose events are hard to recall. In fact, when walking out of the theatre you may feel a lot like Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy at the end of the film when they return to London from Narnia. You had a good time, but now you’re back in your normal world and what happened is behind you and with time the memory of what did occur will quietly fade away.”
Overall rating: B-
WANTED
From the original review: “There’s something to be said for good old-fashioned guns, bullets, cars, and hot babes converging into a flurry of visually kinetic, pulse-pounding over-the-top action violence. All the more so when it occurs with creative relish and borderline fetishism yet without a single trace of apology. That’s exactly what Timur Bekmambetov’s WANTED does, and it’s precisely why it’s so much superficial fun.
Overall rating: B+
X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE
From the original review: “There were many people – fans and non fans – who questioned the sense of making an X-FILES film six years after the show had whimpered to an end. Who would have suspected that the best argument against the idea would end up being the film itself?”
Overall rating: C













