Tag: 2012
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Resident Evil: Retribution (’12 review)
3 outta 5 Resident Evil: Retribution is simultaneously extremely lazy and ambitious which is probably the most you can hope for in the number five instalment of a series that has had the same basic creative team driving it for over a decade. It’s sort of a “greatest hits” by rearranging and referencing several past…
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (’12 review)
4 outta 5 If you were a fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy you’d have to be rather jaded to walk out of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, part 1 of the prequel trilogy to Lord of the Rings, and think that it doesn’t fit perfectly well into the established series. Fans of…
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Prometheus (2012 review)
4 outta 5 There’s a scene in Prometheus, Director Ridley Scott’s kinda-prequel to Alien, that involves a character and a surgical procedure that is riveting. It recalls the shocking chest-burster scene in Alien and doesn’t quite reach that level but it gets close. That, in a nutshell, is what you would say Prometheus is. It’s…
