Somewhat rushed retelling of the Dumas revenge story. Granted, there's a good deal of story to be gotten through, and the speed might be hoped to counteract the snags: the details of the tunneling in the Chateau d'If are not altogether credible (the dirt is disposed of in the chamber …
Classroom daydream of a teacher's revenge against his students for robbing him of his ideals. Kevin Reynolds, the idealist who directed Waterworld, deplores the situation in fancy, frilly camerawork suggestive of a wandering mind and of doodles in the margins. The title, by the way, is police code for homicide, …
Or "The Navel of the World." Or Easter Island -- prior to European exploration in the 18th Century. Hollywoodized ethnography, with National Geographic nudity, on the Long Ears (i.e., lobes stretched like cookie dough) and the Short Ears (natural look), the Birdman, the First Egg, the Cave of the White …
Joseph Fiennes glowers then gawks his way through Kevin Reynolds' sun-blanched, strangely passionless account of the events following the Passion of Christ. Fiennes is Clavius, a Roman centurion assigned to keeping the peace in Jerusalem, but the peace he really wants is that of “a day without death,” preferably in …
On the face of it, Kevin Costner as Robin Hood would seem to be as epical, as historical, as hysterical a case of miscasting as, say, Jeffrey Hunter as Jesus (King of Kings). He's soft. He's pudgy. His hair, longish, but with a nice clean edge on the Yuppie-style sideburns, …
Kevin Reynolds, the director of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Waterworld, tries to rescue the legendary lovers from the clutches of Wagner and deliver them to the shopping mall. Deliver them, more exactly, to mushy, muddled action scenes, to dull, gray, lightless photography, to moonfaced, crêpe-flat closeups, to a …
The premise of an inundated planet ("The polar icecaps have melted," an anonymous narrator brings us up to speed, without whys or whens) is centrally entrenched in the science-fictional subgenre of catastrophe and survival: the altered conditions on Earth, the necessary means of coping with them, maybe a trace of …