SpencerBoltz (Level 13)

Pitch Perfect is a movie of moderately high peaks and treacherously low valleys. It has a lot in common with dance movies, Step Up being the main one that comes to mind. This is a movie about one of three a cappella groups at a college all doing their best ...

Once Bitten is a mostly forgettable movie that is most notable for staring future comic mega star Jim Carrey. It’s an 80’s ass movie, which is appropriate because it was released in the 80’s. It is full of synth-pop and rubber bracelets with Madonna hair as far as the eye ...

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is, just like its subtitle, an entirely forgettable action/adventure/comedy that doesn’t set out to do much of anything besides entertain. The film succeeds at its set goal with its sharp writing and a charismatic cast. Although forgettable, this is the perfect PG-13 family film ...

The Three Musketeers (2011) is an incredibly derivative film which takes just enough miss-steps to lose most of its enjoyable elements.Most people are probably at least familiar with the Three Musketeers and their famous axiom of “All for one, and one for all.” The movie just about assumes as much ...

Warrior, while being derivative of the entire Rocky franchise, is a breath of fresh air for a pretty lackluster year in movies. Its great acting and directing allows the film to rise above the comparisons to other movies, and provide a meaningful experience to movie fans. The film throws just ...

Shark Night 3D suffers from its concept, instead of trying to refine things; it attempts to write around its issues and fails because of this. Coupled with its PG-13 rating Shark Night is unable to provide a satisfying or even mildly scary flick. This movie is hard to recommend to ...

Many great dark crime dramas, such as Silence of the Lambs and Seven, achieve due to their tone and suspense. Taking Lives comes close to almost achieving in this regard; however, the movie stumbles and eventually falls over flat thanks to its awfully predictable “twist”. This movie aims very high ...

 Drive Angry is a complete train wreck of a movie, and on top of that, someone decided to drive a truck hauling hydrogen strait into the train causing a massive explosion only moments before a missile is fired at the spot, completely obliterating any evidence of the existence of a ...

    I am Number Four is a fairly cookie cutter story of High School romance combined with an outsider trying to fit in.   This stories hook of that outsider being an extra terrestrial doesn't do enough to save this movie from being a tired premise and kind of a bore to watch. ...

 Die Hard 2: Die harder is the follow up sequel to the 1988 action thriller, Die Hard.  We find John McClane arriving at the airport to pick up his wife who is still on a plane and will be landing shortly.  John sees some suspicious men sneaking into back rooms ...

 Saw 3D is a bloody mess, exactly the kind of mess you would expect from any saw movie.  The so called last in the series pulls out the stops and ramps up the violence. The seventh movie in this long running series follows Bobby (Sean Patrick Flanery).  Bobby has written ...

 Saw VI continues the new found tradition of focusing solely on the gore aspect of the series while trying to leave the plot on the side of the road to rot.  The sad part is, it is only mostly successful at this.Saw VI finds Det. Hoffman still carrying out the ...

 Saw V is an extremely average entry into a now average franchise.  The fan service is there, the quality however, isn’t quite.This entry of Saw continues the tradition of starting off with a gruesome trap.  This one is a little different though, it’s not a fair game to be sure ...

 Saw IV is the point where the series visibly took a turn.  It completely drops any notion of having interesting interactions for the sake of interaction, and replaces that with more traps.  In some ways it feels like Saw IV is the movie that the producers wanted for Saw III.  ...

 Saw III takes the saw series to the next level.  It ramps up the ridiculousness while simultaneously down playing the ingredient of the Saw Series that was so interesting in the first place.  Jigsaw is dieing.  He is getting ready to pass on the torch to the next generation of ...