Tag Archives: Ving Rhames

Mission: Impossible 2 - * * 1/2*

Posted on May 24, 2000 by Madeleine Williams

Another Impossible Mission, this time involving the hunt for a deadly virus. Tom Cruise will star, along with Ving Rhames, Thandie Newton, Brendan Gleeson, Dougray Scott, John Polson, Rade Serbedzija and Richard Roxburgh. Anthony Hopkins will play Cruise’s new boss. … Continue reading →

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Bringing Out the Dead - * * 1/2*

Posted on October 22, 1999 by Madeleine Williams

When it was announced that Martin Scorsese’s new film would be a Paul Schrader scripted tale of an unhinged man prowling the nighttime streets of New York City in an ambulance, it was easy to quickly dismiss his latest effort … Continue reading →

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Out of Sight - * * *

Posted on June 26, 1998 by Madeleine Williams

Elmore Leonard has quickly become one of Hollywood’s favorite authors. Out of four film adaptations in as many years, the witty and inventive Out of Sight gives Get Shorty a run for its money as the best Leonard adaptation around. … Continue reading →

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Con Air - * * 1/2*

Posted on June 6, 1997 by Madeleine Williams

Con Air introduces, then fails to exploit, the largest collection of onscreen villains since the Legion of Doom. Instead, we are treated to a run of the mill plane hijacking, and more explosions and climactic fights than I’d care to … Continue reading →

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Rosewood - * * *

Posted on February 21, 1997 by Madeleine Williams

Director John Singleton delivers a powerful, but overdone, depiction of a true life tragedy in Rosewood. The town of Rosewood, Florida, is a nearly all-black town in the 1920s. A drifter (Ving Rhames) wanders in one day, and is immediately … Continue reading →

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Dangerous Ground - * 1/2*

Posted on February 12, 1997 by Madeleine Williams

A sloppy screenplay ruins a potentially interesting story in Dangerous Ground. Ice Cube stars as Vusi, a South African radical, who as a boy was smuggled to America for his protection. Now, years later, he returns to his homeland to … Continue reading →

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Striptease - * 1/2*

Posted on June 28, 1996 by Madeleine Williams

This incomplete stripper comedy doesn’t have the goods. Demi Moore is Erin Grant, a single mother who is forced to work as a stripper in order to pay court costs to get custody of her young daughter away from her … Continue reading →

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Mission: Impossible - * * *

Posted on May 22, 1996 by Madeleine Williams

Improbable but highly entertaining suspense yarn. Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, the point man for a team of IMF (Impossible Mission Force) agents assigned to do highly confidential and dangerous covert operations. The only character returning from the television … Continue reading →

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