Opening This Week: Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son "Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son" is interminable and lazy in the extreme, a dirge of inspiration. It's also, it must be admitted, decidedly innocuous and pretty much harmless. Audiences who opt to see it will be given nothing to care about, little to laugh at, and even less to think about. I Am Number Four Stinks of a product-by-committee mentality. With innovation limited, "I Am Number Four" doesn't work as sci-fi or fantasy. With a romance involving two figures who are neither ingratiating nor particularly awake, the arbitrary love story flounders. Unknown "Unknown" is indistinctive and empty, forced to rely on multiple car chases, fist fights, and a literal ticking time bomb to cover up its lack of ideas. Director Jaume Collet-Serra and star Liam Neeson are too good for a project as hackneyed as this one is. |
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Friday, February 18, 2011
going to see a flick this weekend?
