Tag: Jessica Alba

  • Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (’07 review)

    Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (’07 review)

    1 outta 5 When I sat down to watch Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, I thought “Okay, Director Tim Story, try and wow me.”  This was a cynical response to having suffered through the original Fantastic Four movie.  However, shockingly, the opening of this sequel immediately wowed me.  The first shot involves a…

  • Fantastic Four (2005 review)

    Fantastic Four (2005 review)

    2 outta 5 Fantastic Four is a cookie-cutter superhero movie. Insert Origin Plot A, mix liberally with a climatic fight with supervillian Plot B, stir and serve. There’s hardly any superheroing done in the flick until the very end. Nothing is driving the movie, aside from a laundry list of explanations about superpowers, complaints about…

  • Trigger Warning

    Trigger Warning

    3 outta 5 As far as unhelpful titles go, Trigger Warning is kind of up there because it seems like a parody title. Instead, this is a fairly straightforward action flick. Also, there is a lot of (rather well done) knife battling in this film but inserting the word “trigger” in the title makes it…