Category: 2004 Movie Reviews

Van Helsing

Hugh Jackman runs around Prague, er Transylvania, hunting Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolf Man. I thought it was horrible! Dracula’s wives were beyond annoying. One of them said, “Too bad, so sad” which made me say, “Did she really just say ‘too bad, so sad’?” There were too many...

Wimbledon

Paul Bettany was a rising tennis star that has been going downhill and he’s about to retire after playing Wimbledon one more time. Kirsten Dunst is an up-and-coming tennis star who goes after him and improves his game in the process. I’m not a big romantic comedy fan. Well,...

Taxi

New York city cop loses his driver's license do to a few unfortunate accidents. In effort to be first on scene at a bank robbery he takes a taxi. The taxi so happens to belong to a female who aspires to be a Nascar driver. The bank robbery happens...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Jim Carrey finds out that his girlfriend has had their relationship erased from her memories, he decides to do the same. Of course, it doesn’t work out quite like he expected.  I wanted to see this movie because Being John Malkovich and Adaptation that were written by Charlie Kaufman were so...

Collateral

Tom Cruise plays a hitman that has to kill five key witnesses in a federal case in one night and he is holding Jamie Foxx hostage as his taxi cab driver for the mission. I have stated before that I do not like Michael Mann movies, yet I always...

Garden State

The main guy from Scrubs wrote, directed, and stars in a story about a man who comes back home to New Jersey from L.A. when his mom dies and is reminded how much he likes his home state. This movie was highly amusing. Largeman (his last name) is drugged...

Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

The princess must get married within 30 days or she will lose her control of her country. Holy crap I must have been insane to think this would be a good movie. I forced my sons to go… I think they will have mental problems now. I thought the...

The Village

A village of people live a simple life but are afraid of things that live in the woods surrounding their valley. I saw the reviews for this movie and everyone talks about a twist. I think if you go into watch the movie as just a movie instead of...

The Bourne Supremacy

He wanted to be left alone, but the CIA wouldn’t have it that way so now Matt Damon is going after them. Holy crap! This movie was awesome. It was a lot tenser and suspenseful than the first one. It was insane. People complained about the shaky camera, but...

The Butterfly Effect

Ashton Kutcher has blocked out some painful childhood memories. He discovers he is able to go back and forth in time and he tries to fix past wrongs, yet it always makes everything else extremely different. That damn tricky time travel. I thought this movie was pretty good, but...