Hoooooooly.
Frostie is Jesus? Walk in with that in mind and you might enjoy it.
Hoooooooly.
Frostie is Jesus? Walk in with that in mind and you might enjoy it.
What if racism took conventions of the genre from Robocop?
I'm not going to say it was stellar, but I am going to say this film clearly anchors itself in contemporary features of film. From the blaring, "this means war" soundtrack to a proper, well written Good Cop Bad Cop, this has late eighties written all over it.
Willem DeFoe is absolutely cooking here, but not as much as Gene Hackman. Yondu is also in the movie, in case you…
This film is not a Mario movie.
It is so much more than that.
This film sits right next to Robocop and Terminator as an eighties sci-fi classic. A little late for the genre, it still calls to all of those tropes. Combine with a presumptive and horrifying Brooklyn-or-Bust flair, and you get a movie you need to see once -- even if you don't play video games.
"Cuisine Art." Hence the rating.
This film has two major issues:
The first is that the concept of the film, while completely functional (and progressive, mayhaps) for 2001, ages like milk.
The second is that Jason Alexander and Jack Black seem like they were casted to play the role the other actually plays. Jason Alexander's monologues and arguments are so valid that they actually attempt to convince me against the rhetorical message of the film. Jack Black being a comedic genius (I mean, have you…