Denzel Washington plays real-life Harlem crime boss Frank Lucas and Russell Crowe plays the obsessive New York narcotics detective who pursued him through the 1970s.
The third film in the junior James Bond series takes a turn into private eye fantasy and then a dazzling (and often absurdly silly) trip into a virtual reality video game.
The second film in Robert Rodriguez’s junior James Bond fantasies takes them to a sweet mad scientist creating preposterous dream-creatures hatched with a childlike love of puns.
Robert Rodriguez brings a sense of whimsy to his family adventure of battling siblings (Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara) who discover their parents are retired international spies.
Robert Rodriguez pulls out all stylistic stops to translate the most graphic of graphic novels—Frank Miller’s Sin City tales,—from two-dimensional pages to free-floating big screen action.
Incoherent, absurd, confused, and strangely fascinating, this bizarre adventure is Grimm fairy tale, Gothic thriller, twisted film noir, wacked-out madhouse melodrama, modern video game, and cheesecake spectacle directed with pulp and fantasy imagery overkill.
