ORBzine - Movie Reviews April 2002
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A Knight In Camelot
Whoopee Goldberg plays a scientist who accidentally time-travels
back to Camelot.
Yes, this is yet another terrible adaption of Mark Twain's
A Connecticut Yankee In The Court Of King Arthur,
this time filmed in Hungary.
King Arthur [Michael York] is a naive fool, with Camelot his ivory tower. For some reason he is supposed to be King of the Angles. Guinivere [ Amanda Donahoe ] and Merlin [Nigel Hawthorne - Demolition Man ] are cast in a somewhat villainous light, but there is no real overall villain to the film. Yes, there is a cliched eeeevil Knight of the Round Table who favours Prima Nocta, and a teenage squire who wants the man brought to justice. But beyond this soap-opera melodrama and some Whoopee slapstick there is very little to this film.
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Knight Rider 2010Futuristic Los Angeles, and evil Brion James [ Blade Runner, Enemy Mine ] is boss of a Virtual Reality company. His top executive is Hannah - a pre-Callisto Hudson Leick , who does not get to display her incredible screen presence and instead comes off as just another model-turned-actress. She does get a couple of good lines, but is otherwise wasted.Hannah is assigned to make a VR game based on a Han Solo wannabe, a smuggler who drives monster trucks across the desert. He is also Hannah's ex-lover, and the movie's protagonist. This leads on to the main part of the film - lots of Mad Max style car chases across a post-apocalyptic desert. The only link to the Knight Rider TV show is when one character becomes an AI that controls a fast car. Hmm.
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Urban Legend
A female student drives home from Pendleton University.
Her car runs out of fuel, she has a creepy encounter with creepy Brad Dourif [
Alien: Resurrection
], and finally meets the predictable slasher-movie ending.
The action then moves to her University, attended by Tara Reid, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayhart , frat-boys Joshua Jackson [Dawson's Creek] and Michael Rosenbaum [ Smallville ], and journalist Jared Leto. Professor Robert Englund [ Nightmare on Elm Street ] teaches a class about Urban Legends. Ms Witt soon works out that a serial killer is bumping off her friends in the manner of Urban Legends. Dean John Neville [ Fifth Element ] covers up the killings. This is basically just a clone of the film Scream . However, because it shares Scream's post-modern cynicism about the slasher-horror genre it is still superior to recent films such as Cherry Falls and Valentine .
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Inferno
The sun projects a coronal mass ejection,
which means that Earth has a terrible heatwave.
Luckily for Los Angeles, Doctor James Remar is in town.
Crooked mechanic Anthony LaPaglia [ Seven Days ] decides to make the most of the evacuated city. General Tucker Smallwood [ Space: Above & Beyond ] tries to keep everything under control.
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