michael's movie reviews
2006
These are the movies I reviewed in 2006.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
reviewed 2006.12.04
This is a heart-breaking story of an itinerant worker who dies in the US...
reviewed 2006.11.28
This is a movie about a retired founder of a software company* who's single once again after his girlfriend leaves...
reviewed 2006.11.18
This is an animated flick about a robot who lives in Robot City and wants to be an inventor to make ...
reviewed 2006.11.03
This is a movie about four adopted brothers who re-unite to bury their mother who was gunned down in a robbery...
reviewed 2006.10.17
This is a sci-fi flick that shifts gears half way through...
reviewed 2006.10.02
This is an irritating movie with an irritating lead...
reviewed 2006.09.23
This is a story about a group of spelunkers who enter a cave system where they are beset by some kind of subterranean race...
reviewed 2006.09.17
This is a polished and high-speed spy thriller about a husband and wife who are both secretly - and unknown to each other - assassins...
reviewed 2006.09.03
This is a stop-motion animated musical from Tim Burton, and boy does it show...
reviewed 2006.08.19
This is an unlikely movie about a guy who somehow remains a virgin until the age of forty...
reviewed 2006.07.12
We watched this silly re-telling of "King Kong" by Peter Jackson and featuring Jack Black...
reviewed 2006.06.18
This is the story of two charlatans peddling meaningless fixes to small towns after having ginned up some kind of local threat to those towns...
reviewed 2006.05.22
This is a movie about two fellows from different backgrounds who hire on as shepherds, tending a flock that's grazing in a high-altitude summer pasture...
reviewed 2006.04.01
Kick kick kick, screech, one-liner blam blam blam! One-liner, body-blow, great fall.Bonus for the most annoying Heavies in movie history...
reviewed 2006.02.25
This is an interesting flick about a man who's kidnapped and held in a room for twenty years. Over the years, his only contact with other people is when they come to replace his mattress every couple of years. Then they wheel in a TV, and he's let in on how much he's missed. Then, quite suddenly, he's allowed to break free. The purpose of his release eventually becomes apparent, but only a..
reviewed 2006.01.05
This is an extremely violent gangster flick that starts with a fellow in a small town who's making a living with a greasy spoon. He's got a loving (and smoking hot) wife and all is well. Then two thugs arrive in town, and violence breaks out leaving the intruders dead. Our hero, maybe an ex-mafia killer, comes out on top but in doing so he makes the news...
reviewed 2006.01.02
This is a worthy successor to the Bourne Identity, which is a rare enough thing for any sequel, but all the more so given that this one was written without the participation of the late author of the original story.It picks up the story of the refugee couple that was doing all of the running in the first story, and throws into the mix new layers of corruption and CIA machinations...