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Genre: Action/Drama/Mystery
Released: 2011

Rating:

Abduction is easily one of the worst films of 2011. With horrible acting, laughable dialogue and an incoherent plot line, the film moves along with passable action sequences but lacks any substance.

The script was so bad that even some of the best actors working today, Sigourney Weaver and Alfred Molina, look terrible in the film. There were moments where Weaver was delivering dialogue as if she was reading cue cards on Saturday Night Live. I felt like I could see her eyes reading. It honestly felt like she wasn’t even in the same room with Taylor Lautner or other actors while delivering her dialogue. This is obviously the fault of the editor because it’s cut so poorly that her dialogue seems unnatural. For an actress who has been nominated for three Academy Awards, it was shocking to see this. Continue reading →

Genre: Comedy
Released: 2010

Rating:

Grown Ups is easily one of the worst films of the year. I’ve seen horror films with more comedy than this movie. When you are making a comedy, your goal should be to make the audience laugh, not bore them to tears. I could not wait for this movie to end and as it kept dragging on, my tolerance for the film was wearing more and more thin. If a joke does not work the first time, do not keep repeating it throughout the entire film (i.e. people falling in poop, a four year old kid being breast fed, an old woman’s bunion). I’m not really sure who I am directing this review at but at the moment I am just a little annoyed that I just sat in a hour and forty minute comedy that felt like it lasted for over three hours. There were more laughs in Gone with the Wind. The good joke to bad-joke ratio of this film is 5% to 95%. Read the full review