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Recent reviews

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  Safe House 2012

  ★★★ Watched 29 Sep 2012

  Denzel Washington is always solid. But...I don't really like films where it's not clear which side in a gun fight are the good guys or the bad guys. That sorta happens a lot in this movie. The moral ambiguity of intelligence agencies is demonstrated a bit too literally here, and it crosses the line into predictable absurdity. Extreme Prejudice does a better job exploring these themes.

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  Iron Sky 2012

  ★★★ Watched 30 Sep 2012

  Finnish film, but it's mostly in English. It's like the lone Japanese dude still fighting WWII, except they're Nazis and they're on the moon instead of the jungle. A caricature of Sarah Palin is the US president. Damn, even the Finns are afraid to mock Obama.

Popular reviews

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  Return of the Jedi 1983

  ★★½ Added

  This is where George Lucas started to lose it. Recycling the Death Star wasn't too imaginative. The violence was toned down. The Ewoks. The dialog was clumsy. Acting and direction seemed lazy. I have a hard time watching this film all the way through.

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  Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 1999

  ½ Added

  For expectations, responsibility, and unlimited resources, the results of failure are sometimes less than zero. This is such a case.