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The first two thirds of this movie is pretty good, with the mob violence elements set against the works of Dante being entertaining and interesting. Unfortunately, the movie sucks when it pivots into the romance aspects, and that swallows up more and more of the movie. Also unfortunately, it involves ...

Denoument runs a little long, even without there being three different endings. The cut that's available for free on Youtube right now plays them all in sequence, which is fun, but the "trick" of having three different endings did its work during the original theatrical release, and is not really ...

There's a subplot in this movie where a pair of married archeologists arrive and having an end to their marriage because the husband is gay. It's an odd choice that I think is probably explained by the fact that this movie is adapted from a book, where this subplot has ...

This was my third time watching this movie, with the first being in 2011 and the second in 2020. It's one of the most accurate pandemic movies, which is startling given that it was made a decade before COVID, though when I look closely I can see a lot of ...

It's funny, but there are definitely parts that haven't aged well, particularly all the reference humor that got lost to time, or for a Millennial like myself, is something that's known only as a reference to a reference, leaving me saying "yeah, I get it" but not laughing. There are ...

I only watched this because the logline made it sound like it would be a roaring rampage against the S.W.A.T. team, and it is that, in a sense, but as written by someone who loves cops and wants to show that love on the screen, but also sucks at making ...