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Some movies are great and some just stink, and then there are some that fall in the middle somewhere. Intermission would fall into this category. I wouldn't necessarily call it a good movie, but it's not bad either. I was impressed by the way director John Crowley was able to maintain a somewhat coherent storyline despite having so many interwoven characters. The problem with most ensemble pieces is that the characters tend to get lost in the mix. I was intrigued by the way Crowley was able to develop each character enough to make them interesting, even though I think he could have sacrificed a couple of the more minor characters to make some of the others richer. I thought the acting was very good, which is typical of European films, but be warned that you might want to use the subtitle option (unless you're Irish) because the Irish accents are so sharp, especially Colin Farrell, that it's often hard to understand what's being said. The fabric of the film itself involves many characters involved in separate story lines, that as the film plays out, slowly approach and tie into a more central story revolving around an attempted robbery. The multiple story lines are fairly engaging, and at times very funny with very witty dialogue, especially in relation to Sally the mustache girl. Intermission isn't a movie probably everyone will like, but I thought it was interesting and worthy of a rental.

This is the most disappointing movie in the history of film for me.

A 2 out of 10 is generous. I should give it a zero strictly based on the Bat Credit Card scene.

Every single individual whether it be producers, director, writer or actors (minus Chris O'Donnell) should be "Bat-Whipped" for this piece of junk. This is your typical "absolutely cannot fail" franchise in film getting raped by studio execs making critical content decisions about a film when they have no talent to do so. Batman is popular simply because of the comic book not because of that retarded TV show starring Adam West, but this movie is more fashioned after that campy trash. This was nothing but a slap in the face to every true fan of the Batman. The direction of Joel Schumacher was deplorable. The set designs looked cheap (the ice looked and acted like dried craft glue) and were visually painful, especially the overuse of the red neon hue in many scenes. The digital effects were OK but often over done. The production cost was extensive, and I wonder what percentage of the budget went to the salaries of Arnold, George, Uma and Alicia. I'm sure it was high. I know Arnold got $20 million, so the percentage had to be fairly high. Well, everyone one of them needed to give back large portions of their salaries because their performances were atrocious. Alicia Silverstone needs to give her entire salary back. Hers was probably one the worst performances ever in a major motion picture. Arnold can't act anyway so I wasn't really expecting much, but I was disappointed when I heard he was cast as Freeze because he in no way fits that character. Freeze was a scientist and when I look at Arnold my first thought is not "Scientist". Ben Kingsly or Patrick Stewart would have fit better. Uma, who is normally a credible actress, was too "drama queen" which made it hard to immerse yourself in scenes she was in. Clooney was totally miscast as Bruce Wayne/Batman. I mean it's hard not to laugh when Batman is shorter than Robin. George like Uma was too overly dramatic, especially in scenes with Alfred, which made it hard to take him seriously. Chris O'Donnell was really the only actor that seemed real. With all that, I would have to say the overwhelmingly worst part of this movie was the script. Akiva Goldsman should have been banned from Hollywood after this script. It was a completely brainless jumbled mess. The story, which was pitiful at best, gets completely lost in entirely too many characters. It was so frustrating seeing the origins of certain characters ripped too shreds as Goldsman attempted to jam them into the script. Batgirl, who should have never been in this film in the first place, was changed from Commissioner Gordon's daughter to Alfred's niece, which made absolutely no sense. In an attempt, to explain why Freeze was so muscular it was explained he was an Olympic gymnast. How freakin' stupid is that? Gymnasts by necessity need to be small in stature to perform well in gymnastics and Arnold is enormous. Goldsman's use of dialogue was highly irritating consisting of nothing but one juvenile one-liner after another after another after another. One other thing that really irritated me was the complete mishandling and waste of the character Bane. Bane is a much more complex and vicious villain in the comics, and this movie version with Bane reduces him to a mindless henchman. Bane deserves much more character development than he received in B&R. The same thing happened in Forever, when one of the most highly complex and interesting villains in the comics, Two-Face, got reduced to second billing. Note to Warner Bros. stop screwing with Batman he can sell himself, and stop trying to cram so many characters into the films, and understand nobody wants to see a Campy Caped Crusader.

I enjoyed Troy. I thought the story was elegantly translated to the big screen. The landscapes and battle scenes were visually stunning, and the CGI was done well enough that you really didn't notice it. The acting was good, especially Peter O'Toole and Brian Cox. I have not been overly impressed with Eric Bana's previous work, but I felt like he did a really good job as Hector. Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom were adequate. The main downside to this movie was that the dialogue was so ridiculously cheesy that it made it very hard to take the movie seriously (even my wife kept giving me the "gag me" sign), but this isn't enough of an excuse not to go see it. I would definitely recommend this movie, especially if you like big sweeping epic films with lots of action just try and take the dialogue as comic relief.

This was a very disappointing film. The mystery woven into this high dollar soft porno was very simplistic and not very creative. As a matter of fact, I watched this with eight friends and we pretty much had it figured out by the halfway point in the movie. Another major problem with the film was that it was too dingy and the characters were too ridiculously disturbed which made the film completely unbelievable. I remember after watching this that I had a strong need to go take a bath. Another major unsettling aspect of this film was the number of times you're exposed to Mark Ruffalo's "Willy". I really didn't need to see that.

This movie had some great action sequences, but in the end it was disappointing on several levels. First off, the plot (if you can call it that) was extremely weak. The dialogue was mindless and absolutely atrocious. It's one thing to toss in some swearing for emotional effect, but the amount of cursing in this movie was ridiculous (if this gets aired on network TV, they'll have to make it a silent movie). Each scene just seemed to be nothing more than a competition between Lawrence and Smith to see who could yell and cuss the loudest. The villain was a joke and his accent was so bad that his dialogue was nearly unintelligible. He sounded like he just had an injection of novocaine in his tongue. Honestly, this movie just gave me a headache.