FilmCritic entries tagged "Kurt Wimmer"

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Salt

by Bill Gibron on Jul 22 2010
DVD Release Date: December 21, 2010
Salt

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Salt may be the first truly successful launch of a female secret agent franchise since Renny Harlin tried to turn his then-wife Geena Davis into a simmering CIA assassin with the under-appreciated The Long Kiss Goodnight. In Angelia Jolie's delightful...... more »
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Law Abiding Citizen

by Bill Gibron on Oct 17 2009
DVD Release Date: February 16, 2010
Law Abiding Citizen

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F. Gary Gray's no-frills thriller Law Abiding Citizen serves up a standard premise (crime victim seeks vigilante justice), one crackerjack performance (Gerard Butler as the aggrieved avenger), and some blood-soaked action. It's hardly going to rewrite the genre rulebook, but...... more »
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Ultraviolet

by Keith Breese on Mar 4 2006
DVD Release Date: June 27, 2006
Ultraviolet

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The look is called super-saturation or over-saturation. It's when the colors are all bled out, or excessively sharpened, and it's normally done to connote flashbacks or sentimentality. In Kurt Wimmer's Ultraviolet it is everything, every single sequence, every frame. It...... more »
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The Recruit

by Christopher Null on Jan 28 2003
DVD Release Date: May 27, 2003
The Recruit

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Rarely do I have any trouble coming up with a way to lead into a movie review. But The Recruit has really thrown me a puzzle. Do I say something about its slick Hollywood production values and typically over-the-top performance...... more »
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Equilibrium

by Sean O'Connell on Dec 4 2002
DVD Release Date: May 13, 2003
Equilibrium

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I'll be the first to admit that dismissing any film as a Matrix clone feels like a cop-out. The pioneering thriller powered through theaters three years ago, yet films continue to beg, borrow, and steal their stunt techniques and sleek...... more »
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The Thomas Crown Affair

by Christopher Null on Aug 2 1999
DVD Release Date: January 4, 2000
The Thomas Crown Affair

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Ah, the perils of being a billionaire these days. Million dollar mergers, on-site tailors, gourmet meals every night... and the thrill of stealing priceless works of art just to see if you can get away with it. If you can...... more »

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