macari Reviews

Speed Racer (2008)

Car-Fu is probably the lamest catch phrase coined by Joel Silver

[1/10 · 4 May 2008]

Joel Silver is on the biggest losing streak of churning out the worst Hollywood has to offer. Does he even care about pleasing the public anymore or is he so out of touch with reality that he thinks these types of movies work? Speed Racer is a hollow shell of a movie with no real story to tell of and the visuals cannot compensate for that. Sure, the special effects are different but after a while it becomes monotonous. This movie would have been better served had it been about an hour shorter because how much do we really care about the politics of big business has over racing in the fantasy world of Speed Racer? The kids certainly won't care and that is who this movie is targeted towards.

Annapolis (2006)

Justin Lin is a fraud and this movie proves it.

[1/10 · 26 January 2006]

I just got out of this worthless movie that was directed by the "boy wonder" of Hollywood who turns out to be a talentless hack. Obviously, the director has no idea how to get performances out of the talented cast. This proves that Better Luck Tomorrow was a fluke. This is an obvious remake of An Officer and a Gentleman. Unlike that movie, in Annapolis the characters in this movie were completely one dimensional and the scenes were shot like it was a made for TV movie or an after-school special. Let's see him destroy the franchise of Fast and the Furious with his silly Tokyo Drift (which is actually a remake of Initial D) that hopefully will be the last movie he ever directs.

House of Wax (2005)

Garbage, Garbage, Garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[1/10 · 3 May 2005]

I cannot understand how Dark Castle keeps on making movies when they all turn out to be crap. Do they even care if they make a decent movie? The first hour bored me to tears and it was only in the second hour did anything interesting happen. But, by then it was too little too late. This movie was just a cash grab attempt with no ambition to create a real movie. Ghost Ship was a masterpiece compared to this mess. How clever of them to think of making the town filled with wax figures. Boy, how creative! Way to "re-imagine" the film. Anyone could tell that this was going to be crap the minute you saw Paris and her wooden acting abilities. Even though the movie was a free preview screening, I still feel I was robbed of my time. The only way we can get them to stop is to stay away and don't contribute to the box office. Stay away!