影评2003
4~5 不容错过 / Two thumbs up 3~4 赞 / Good
2~3 有点意思 / Not bad 1~2 马马虎虎 / So-So 0~1 负效用 / Waste of time
Name |
Review |
Rate |
The Pianist |
The director dealt with every detail with great delicacy. Just one example, note the German officer arranged his uniform right after rising from his seat? |
5.0 |
Being John Malkovich |
Among the most creative movies, it’s a mind storm to the audience. |
4.9 |
The Hours |
Probably the best feminism movie ever made. The three actresses are excellent, so are its actors; the photography linkage between three stories are natural and pleasant; the language used in three ages are genuine; and the some of them are soul stirring. I treat it as an epic. |
4.8 |
The Shawshank Redemption |
The mutual mishap with Shawshank and Pulp Function was that they came in the same year with Forest Gump. |
4.8 |
Pulp Fiction |
The dialogue is the most intriguing part of this movie |
4.7 |
The Platoon |
Oliver Stone successfully showed the terrific expertise of US army as to kill civilians as well as to frame up fellow soldiers. When you see Willem DaFoe shot by own people and deserted to Vietnamese for slaughter, you start to understand what does “leave nobody behind” really mean. |
4.6 |
Sleepless Seattle |
After ten years, it’s still so attractive and touching a movie! |
4.5 |
Matrix Reloaded |
Besides its excellent action design and visual effect, One must adopt a philosophy layer of view to appreciate the whole story structure. For example, the self-called “architect” is in another sense what people trust as God. |
4.5 |
终极无间 |
Nowadays you need a DVD so that you could watch a movie several times before you are able to put together all the threads and understand the whole story. Generally, Infernal Affairs III bears a similar story style like The Others, in the way that the story was told from the other side. The main bug is: why didn’t Chen turned to Yang to restore his identity as a policeman in Infernal Affair. |
4.4 |
无间道 II |
Compared with its predecessor this episode is much better in the sense that the whole story is tight and consistent. The performance is excellent, especially those of 黄秋生, 曾志伟 and 吴振宇. |
4.3 |
Training Day |
Denzel Washington deserved his Academy Reward with his incredible performance in this movie. The contrast between he hug his pal and shoot him soon after is astounding. And there are so many details making this movie worthwhile of being watched again. One more question: is LAPD really so infamous? Remember LA Confidential and Blue Streak? |
4.2 |
Fanfan |
A distinctive French romance. You can feel something in common between this 1993 movie and the 2001 Amelie |
4.1 |
异度空间 |
A good ghost movie without any ghost. |
4.0 |
Four Feathers |
A must-see for people from nations once invaded by Britons. The spectacular battle in Sudan desert between armed-to-teeth brutal intruders and brave hearts for freedom can satisfy any soul thirsty for revenge. |
4.0 |
Chicago |
The music drama is marvelous. I just don’t understand why it was Catherine who received the Oscar. And finally both Grace and I find Rene Zellweger is too flat. |
3.9 |
Catch Me If You Can |
Seems he’s not good at disguising a doctor. |
3.9 |
回家过年 (Seventeen Years) |
Short story illustrates genuine human nature: in a two-single-parent-family, one daughter inadvertently killed the other thus was sent to prison for life. After 17 years behind the bars she was permitted to return home for new year’s eve, a traditional date for family reunion. How should she face her parents who lost respective daughters all at once and have live in darkness and hatred for 17 years? Finally every family member gave in to compromise each other, and that’s probably what family reunion actually means. |
3.8 |
Analyze This |
Excellent comedy with cunning slang. |
3.8 |
Johnny English |
Probably the best farce of the year. You can hardly watch any more amusing coronation elsewhere. But dun expect the story to be foolproof. |
3.7 |
Matrix Revolutions |
The One must speak good English, like the daughter but not the Indian father; old woman ought to die; high tech kills more efficiently; two great souls never merge; but why don’t the machine destroy Zion? |
3.7 |
无间道 |
A quite tight story as it is, it still bears several links that you need to deduce so as to make the whole thing flows. For example, you need to assume Liu and Liang plotted to broadcast in radio that the dead goon is an agent, and the goon was shot during the fight. It’s not at all told clearly. |
3.6 |
Lust och Fägring Stor (All Things Fair) |
Outstanding description of queer relations between a handsome boy in puberty, a lonely wife starving for sex and an artistic husband in career crises. The wave came when the husband got frightened at the news of nylon popularity; the boy comforted him by caressing his head and the wife waiting in the bedroom for the boy. |
3.6 |
Aladdin |
Very nice visual effect, and help me to know it’s Al-laddin |
3.5 |
Amelie |
Several points I still don’t understand: how does that toy travel around the world and how could Amelie observe couples who are at orgasm. And is this Hollywood or France style? |
3.5 |
Sommersby |
Classic movie, Excellent actress, Clumsy story. |
3.4 |
Enemy At the Gates |
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3.4 |
LOTR III: Return of the King |
Despite its stupid story and polarized characters, the language is concise and the special effect as well as New Zealand landscape is magnificent. |
3.3 |
天地英雄 |
The ending is regrettably slipshod |
3.3 |
Vanilla Sky |
Tom Cruise won’t get any actor prize since he wore a mask |
3.3 |
Analyze That |
Still quite funny although not as good as Analyze This |
3.2 |
大醉拳 |
This is one created during the peak time of Hong Kong movie industry. The action design is never surpassed, even compared with recent masterpiece like Matrix or Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon |
3.2 |
With Honor |
Nice advertisement for Harvard |
3.1 |
The Guru |
A quite nice combination of stupid Hollywood story and stupid Bollywood dance. |
3.1 |
Maverick |
A typical wild west comedy. Jodie Foster is charming |
3.0 |
Cube |
Besides its simple mathematics which is well enough to cheat US audience, this movie successfully showed human nature in a extremely distorted environment |
3.0 |
Final Destination II |
Although definitely a most stupid story that you can never save anyone from the death, it does attract you to sit through and watch how creatively people die in various accidents |
3.0 |
Down with Love |
The worry with Rene is that she seems to be trapped into a mould through her recent movies. |
2.9 |
The Italian Job (2003) |
First class storytelling |
2.9 |
A Walk to Remember |
The clamor in the beginning leads to a long walk towards peace and beauty |
2.9 |
英雄 (Hero) |
It’s sound for Hero to state the fact that super power sacrifices partial interest of some people to achieve the maximal benefit obtained from unification. I noticed there was noise from losers, especially HK, opposing it. But fact remains fact. It’s also a visual feast. |
2.8 |
向左转向右转 |
The stupid ending is a fly in the ointment that totally destroyed the implicit beauty of the story |
2.8 |
Gangs of New York |
Tedious story. Good cast. Excellent costume and makeup. |
2.8 |
Red Dragon |
Although proving a decreasing quality of its serial, Red Dragon is a nice thriller except for its superfluous ending which demonstrates a typical Hollywood stubborn ailment |
2.7 |
Alex & Emma |
It’s a glad to see Luke Wilson and Kate Hudson are growing up into mature actor and actress |
2.7 |
Ocean’s Eleven |
The interesting casting is that it “introduce Julia Roberts” |
2.7 |
Solaris |
Very good story. However, the movie itself is too tedious, no wonder it’s not successful as for box office |
2.6 |
About Schmidt |
I feel this movie obscure. |
2.6 |
Scared Silent |
It reflects the real world, although makes you very sad. The true life is just like that. |
2.6 |
Birthday Girl |
You can see how impotent this guy is: he’s always led by others. It’s interesting to watch how the couple criticized each other, especially the wife’s fight back, on their way to airport, and finally deserted the car out of no reason. The funniest scene came when the guy tried to threaten the Russian using a fake gun and was instantly recognized by him since he himself bought it. Laugh to death! |
2.5 |
Toy Story II |
Delightful cartoon |
2.5 |
The Sixth Sense |
The whole assumption lies in that the dead don’t see what they don’t want to see. |
2.4 |
Adaptation |
This movie starts from a footage in Being John Malkovich, whose screenwriter was assigned a new book called The Orchid Thief. He found there is no story in this book and he cannot do his job. Then his twin who newly became a Hollywood-style screenwriter taught him to add sex, drug and gun into the script. The two of them then start off to a trip which really unfold such stuff with the movie. The point is: you must keep in mind that this movie is telling you how this movie was concocted. |
2.4 |
Frida |
It’s like a biography of her husband instead of hers |
2.4 |
Confidence |
The same genre as Basic, and the abundance of loopholes: what if the con man got killed by king’s man without Rachel saving him? And the government agent framed up the king by the drug deal he’s not engaging? |
2.4 |
香港有个好莱坞 |
The story is too slim to support a movie trying to depict the society |
2.3 |
Far from Heaven |
The issue about her homosexual husband as well as her obscure relation with her gardener seriously weakened what the movie tried to convey to the audience. |
2.3 |
8 Mile |
8 Mile is a street in Detroit suburb where the low-income families stay. Eminem is a mold worker living with his mum and sister. His aging mum was abandoned by her young boyfriend and soon degraded to a hooker; his sister scared by the terrible fight constantly happening to this family; he himself drove his mum’s shabby car with black pals lingering around. |
2.3 |
A River Runs Through It |
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2.3 |
Basic |
The screenwriter tries to tell a story full of loopholes probably he himself cannot explain. For example, what if the doctor didn’t tell at that moment that Pike is white? And what if Osborn failed to shot Styles? |
2.2 |
Planes, Trains & Automobiles |
Their luck is too bad to believe |
2.2 |
Finding Nemo |
The ocean plants are all like plastic-made. |
2.2 |
Joy Ride |
A not-bad stupid thriller |
2.1 |
Final Destination |
It’s a failure of the first death. The mystery water shouldn’t automatically go back, like someone was controlling it |
2.1 |
The Pelican Brief |
Share the same feature of such topic: fine start and poor ending |
2.1 |
Boycott |
The problem with this movie is that you don’t know how all the obstacles suddenly got removed. Just because the activists gave themselves to the police? Doesn’t make any sense. |
2.0 |
What Lies Beneath |
With its fantastic combination of stars like Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer, the thriller doesn’t work as well. I just don’t like a thriller that has a real ghost. |
2.0 |
Bruce Almighty |
Cannot understand why this mediocre comedy could hit a box office record |
1.9 |
K-19, the Widow Maker |
Seems the main problems of K-19 accident are foolish operations management and poor crew morale. But remember: nobody says it’s a real story:-) |
1.9 |
地下铁 |
Any drama with god’s help is stupid |
1.8 |
A Bug’s Life |
The point is: quantity matters. Without this assumption, grasshoppers won’t leave ants survived |
1.8 |
In the Line of Fire |
Where is Clint Eastwood now? |
1.8 |
The In-Laws |
Another concocted farce with not a bit of credibility of real life. |
1.7 |
我是谁 |
It could be made much better |
1.7 |
Hollywood Homicide |
Cooperation between a house agent and yoga teacher |
1.7 |
The Fast & The Furious |
Abnormal ending for Hollywood movies |
1.6 |
Big Daddy |
Everything impossible can happen. For example, why his former girlfriend is still with the old guy? And shall we laugh at it when lovers stick to each other during hardship? |
1.6 |
American Outlaw |
Where was the government who was supposed to stop them? |
1.5 |
Kate & Leopold |
Does this mark the end of Meg Ryan as a once big star? |
1.5 |
新方世玉 |
A soap movie |
1.5 |
Little Vampire |
An interesting children’s movie |
1.4 |
The Salton Sea |
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1.4 |
The Postman |
The husband was doomed to die when he first appeared, which explains why I don’t like this kind of moulded story. |
1.4 |
Sinbad |
A mediocre cartoon |
1.3 |
Shallow Hal |
Make you remember Shrek. |
1.3 |
Instinct to Kill |
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1.3 |
How to lose a guy in 10 days |
You can lose a guy in 2 hours by taking him to this movie |
1.2 |
The Score |
Alas, Robert De Nero does have quite a few poor movies |
1.2 |
Willard |
Why such a disgusting movie about a loser and his ugly fellows makes good sales has been puzzling me ever since. |
1.1 |
Terminator III |
What’s worse than being old is that Arnold is as rigid as a real robot |
1.1 |
Flypaper |
Failed to link threads together |
1.0 |
Treasury Planet |
Fortunately I didn’t waste 8 bucks to watch it at cinema |
1.0 |
Dennis the Menace |
Obviously this is not the movie people like me should ever watch. Too simple sometimes naïve, isn’t it? |
1.0 |
The Metallion |
Jacky Chan’s movies are getting worse and worse |
0.9 |
Just Married |
What makes me feel embarrassed is that how I managed to sit through all this stupid movie |
0.9 |
Italian Job (1965) |
The job of this movie is to show you how to crash 10 cars in two hours |
0.8 |
Spy Game |
The screenwriter must treat audience as idiots: staff in SuZhou prison speak Cantonese; foreigners practice service in prison; two helicopters can sneak from Penghu to SuZhou, not to mention there is not at all US base there; and last but not least, they met no resistance from PLA. This is an insult to the audience’s intellgence. |
0.8 |
Maid in Manhattan |
A tediously concocted story that is doomed to be laughed at |
0.7 |
X-Men 2 |
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0.7 |
The Glass House |
The only good feature of The Glass House is the glass house |
0.6 |
Zoolander |
A farce with too stupid story |
0.6 |
Not Another Teen Movie |
Dunno what the director tries to tell the audience. Too many roles and as a result personalities of them are dim. |
0.5 |
Scary Movie |
Sick comedy |
0.5 |
DareDevil |
A clumsy imitation of SpiderMan |
0.4 |
Top Gun |
One more evidence that the good old days never existed |
0.4 |
MIB II |
Failed to find anything intriguing except for the finale rap |
0.4 |
All about Lily Chou-Chou |
BBS, pop music fan, crime, hooker, this movie should have been named as “all about current Japanese youth” I couldn’t help sleeping after watching it, yet the second day I feel obliged to watch it again, otherwise I dunno what’s the whole nonsense about. Grace said I must be crazy. She might be correct |
0.3 |
The Piano Teacher |
You need to play it at least at 2 times forward speed |
0.3 |
Die Another Day |
Another stupid 007 movie engaged in nothing but demonizing others. |
0.2 |
102 Dalmatians |
Even kids won’t like this movie! |
0.2 |
Dude, Where is my car? |
Doesn’t worth comment |
0.1 |
武士 |
When you see several exhausted Korean infantrymen again and again defeated Mongolian cavalry troops, you know it’s totally a performance of masturbation. Junk movie of 2003 |
0.0 |
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