Mini-Review: A good art film for beginners. Fairly easy to follow narrative, charming characters, and very inventive use of color. However, in the last 10 or 15 minutes, the "COMMUNISM=BAD AND OPPRESSIVE" symbolism gets really heavy-handed. Fortunately, the first hour is a great example of early psychedelic experimentalist filmmaking.
Mini-Review: I hate to say it, but Roger Ebert is wrong. This is the worst of the series. The sense of self-awareness is almost entirely absent, making this a prime example of what the first movie made fun of. While Maria Bello is reasonably convincing as an action heroine type, she doesn't have Rachel Weisz's sense of humor. Their son, while supposedly 10 years older, is just as much of a brat as in the previous movie, but his advanced age makes him unbearable. Not worth your time.
Mini-Review: Mostly enjoyable, but it's missing the self-awareness that helped the first one stand out. And that CGI Scorpion King. Urrgh.
Mini-Review: Enjoyable enough, but needlessly convoluted. "Okay so this guy is the bad guy...no wait it's this guy...I thought that was the good guy...so he's the good guy...DAMMIT he's a bad guy too? Is anybody in this country on Langdon's side? Rrrrrgh, my brain hurts." Performances are okay, and a few pretty exciting moments, but mostly a fairly generic conspiracy flick w/ religious tones. All in all, certainly not a great movie, but not quite deserving of all the scorn it's received.
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