JAGUAR-5 Reviews

Rambo (2008)

Same old plot with gorier killing scenes

[2/10 · 8 February 2008]

It definitely was not in the same level as First Blood but at least it was somewhat of an improvement over Rambo 3. What about the plot? He Sly waits all these years, turns down good parts and comes up with yet another "let's rescue the Americans from an Asian country?!! They could certainly have thought of some slightly more original or at least not done to death. There's really hard to comment on this one: on one hand they did well on what they were trying to accomplish which seems to be the clichéd story line with awesomely action packed battle scenes. On the other hand there is not much else to recommend this flick. You were waiting for a repeat of the old stuff then I wouldn't miss it, but if you had been hoping for even the smallest improvement then you can wait for DVD or at least the second run theater showing of it.

The Pink Panther (2006)

Hard as he might try Martin made J.C. look pathetic not funny.

[5/10 · 14 February 2006]

I admit that it was a substantial improvement on the god-awful "Son of Pink Panther", but Hollywood forcing another P.P. movie on us that's inexcusable. I'd always known that Martin would never be a Sellers, and went to see it with that in mind and too high of a hope, but even so choices he made like that stupid lisp or the accent he cannot make it work or scenes of low dramatic quality of him sitting depressed and looking pathetic (something you never find in the older ones) made this movie even less funny and generally enjoyable for me.

One of the comments mentioned that we need to face that Sellers is dead, and I definitely agree with that. But instead of just letting everyone of our comedians take a deadly stab at it, we should bury the tha character in a time capsule with our dearly departed actor until that day when we have genius that caliber with the right feel for the Det. J.C.

I recommend seeing "Curse of Pink Panther" over this one. It was done right in the Ibsen's of Sellers with Ted Wass not replacing him but tracing his steps.

Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

See this one in 3D or do yourself a favor and skip it altogether!

[3/10 · 1 April 1999]

I was one of the somewhat fortunate ones to see this in LACMA in 3D: it showed that how much time and attention did they put on technical aspects of the film, particularly the camera angles which makes this one probably the biggest accomplished 3D movie ever made (even better than that classic "Captain E.O.").

But on the other hand it also points to the fact that 3D was the only thing they cared about while shooting this film and they couldn't care less about the plot developement which was very jumpy, and the acting, specially by Udo Kier as Frankenstein was just rediculously idiotic and the dialogs delivered accordingly.

So in a nutshell it's 3D or never for this masterpiece!!!

Flesh (1968)

Paul Morrissey basically saved Andy Warhol productions form 24 hours of boredom on film!

[2/10 · 1 April 1999]

Although there is very little plot and whatever exists is just all improvisational, still it was a good start from a new director with no previous financial back up and also a smart move from Andy Warhol to make his cimematic productions more marketable and viewer-friendly. In any case this story of a street hustler relies too much on showing Joe buck naked (almost all the time!). And the creative use of a flashy editing really wears off after the hundredth time and the cutting off the dialog thing gets really annoying half-way. This would have been a much more entertaining or even dramatic if they made a documentary of the daily of an actual male prostitute or hustler, instead of letting the actors make up some nonesensical plot and dialog of their own.

Two of a Kind (1983)

This is a kind of movie that works only because of the chemistry between the two stars

[6/10 · 16 February 1999]

This movie is worth watching because it's easy to see how much fun John and Olivia are having working together. Plus there's Oliver Reed and some simple fun special affects; although the general plot-line is a very overused one.

Staying Alive (1983)

Stallone hasn't tried to write another musical drama since and we should be thankful about it!

[5/10 · 16 February 1999]

This film is a good example of wasting the talents of a number of good performers. First let's see what works here: a way above average soundtrack by the bee gees plus one good dance number (the song), performed by none other than Frank Stallone, and in addition a John Travolta that obviously has given his all to the movie but unfortunately all that can't save this rather empty story from the damages done by the script.

Hoffman (1970)

One of Peter Sellers' best performances in this rather obscure movie.

[8/10 · 4 February 1999]

Peter Sellers is in best form as an office worker who has always been obsessed with the office secretary, and just before she gets married he blackmails her to spend a week in his apartment letting her think the worst. But in the meantime, he starts to prove something very different to her about himself.

The Great McGonagall (1975)

A very unusual and inventive movie about the most famous bad verse poet.

[6/10 · 21 January 1999]

This movie uses the poems of William McGonagall in form of theater and fantasies to tell the story of this most famous bad verse poet who completely left his day job to become a poet and perform for Queen Victoria.

This movie is not for all tastes and definitely not a commercial type one, but if you can get into the subject and the style its hilarious!