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Tag Archives: Ving Rhames
Mission: Impossible 2 -
Another Impossible Mission, this time involving the hunt for a deadly virus. Tom Cruise will star, along with Ving Rhames, Thandie Newton, Brendan Gleeson, Dougray Scott, John Polson, Rade Serbedzija and Richard Roxburgh. Anthony Hopkins will play Cruise’s new boss. … Continue reading
Posted in 2000, Movie Reviews
Tagged Action, Anthony Hopkins, Brendan Gleeson, John Woo, Thandie Newton, Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames
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Bringing Out the Dead -
When it was announced that Martin Scorsese’s new film would be a Paul Schrader scripted tale of an unhinged man prowling the nighttime streets of New York City in an ambulance, it was easy to quickly dismiss his latest effort … Continue reading
Posted in 1999, Movie Reviews
Tagged John Goodman, Martin Scorsese, Nicolas Cage, Tom Sizemore, Ving Rhames
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Out of Sight -
Elmore Leonard has quickly become one of Hollywood’s favorite authors. Out of four film adaptations in as many years, the witty and inventive Out of Sight gives Get Shorty a run for its money as the best Leonard adaptation around. … Continue reading
Posted in 1998, Movie Reviews
Tagged Albert Brooks, Dennis Farina, Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Steve Zahn, Steven Soderbergh, Ving Rhames
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Con Air -
Con Air introduces, then fails to exploit, the largest collection of onscreen villains since the Legion of Doom. Instead, we are treated to a run of the mill plane hijacking, and more explosions and climactic fights than I’d care to … Continue reading
Posted in 1997, Movie Reviews
Tagged Action, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames
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Rosewood -
Director John Singleton delivers a powerful, but overdone, depiction of a true life tragedy in Rosewood. The town of Rosewood, Florida, is a nearly all-black town in the 1920s. A drifter (Ving Rhames) wanders in one day, and is immediately … Continue reading
Dangerous Ground -
A sloppy screenplay ruins a potentially interesting story in Dangerous Ground. Ice Cube stars as Vusi, a South African radical, who as a boy was smuggled to America for his protection. Now, years later, he returns to his homeland to … Continue reading
Posted in 1997, Movie Reviews
Tagged Action, Elizabeth Hurley, Ice Cube, Ving Rhames
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Striptease -
This incomplete stripper comedy doesn’t have the goods. Demi Moore is Erin Grant, a single mother who is forced to work as a stripper in order to pay court costs to get custody of her young daughter away from her … Continue reading
Posted in 1996, Movie Reviews
Tagged Armand Assante, Burt Reynolds, Comedy, Demi Moore, Robert Patrick, Ving Rhames
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Mission: Impossible -
Improbable but highly entertaining suspense yarn. Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, the point man for a team of IMF (Impossible Mission Force) agents assigned to do highly confidential and dangerous covert operations. The only character returning from the television … Continue reading
Posted in 1996, Movie Reviews
Tagged Action, Brian DePalma, Jean Reno, Jon Voight, Kristen Scott Thomas, Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames
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