European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 02, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse \ career opportunities rated pm-13. A kind of failed first draft for Home alone. That s the most charitable description of this miserable nothing of a movie written by the prolific and usually at the very least professional John Hughes. Once again a resourceful misfit is left on his own and forced to outwit two humbling burglars. Only this time the misfit is a-21-year-old loser a Frank Whaley with a Rich fantasy life. His first night on the Job As custodian at a target store Whaley is locked in by himself but finds he has company the town Beauty Jennifer Connelly and the aforementioned bad Guys Dermot and Kieron Mulroney the Best thing about the movie is that its so Short. Otherwise done to let the Home alone analogy mislead you the kids at the show 1 saw barely laughed. And when one boy told his Mother he liked it. He sounded As if he were in algebra class hoping head Given the right answer a x. A i. Defending your life rated pm. Albert Brooks is in heaven and you will be too it you let Down your do. Tenses and surrender to the gentle whimsy of this appealing afterlife comedy Daniel Miller Brooks buys the farm on his birthday and ends up in judgment City a kind of postmortem Way station w Here it s decided it you lived your past life Well enough to pass ii to a higher level or if you a Best be passed Back to Earth for another try meryl Streep is infectiously Radiant As the. Love of Miller s afterlife and rip torn is hilarious As his. Over Hearty defense attorney. Though the film goes Flat every time Miller enters his courtroom to screen out lakes from his life. Judgment City itself is a stitch a part suburban office Park part Disney world. Brooks oilers a design for living after you re dead that Sas uniquely funny and goop ily. Romantic As lie . Flight of the intruder rated pg-13. Baloney worse its calculated baloney that appraises us target a audience and equates patriotism with simple minded Ness Pride in your country with trite . The film is so time warped its insulting world War ii movie set in Vietnam circa 1972. Brad Johnson who at least looks like Vintage 40s beefcake is the Hotshot Young Navy flyer who wants to bomb Hanoi. A Danny Glover the ships commander spends the movie trying to look responsible and worried. Willem Dafoe a a legendary Bombadier Back for his third tour of duty because-�?o1 love to fight is the movies one Bright spot an officer and a Lunatic the rest is predictable rehashed heroics meant to reassure armchair soldiers that life on a Navy aircraft Carrier in wartime is. Just a matter of wearing your dress Whites on deck. Playing Boyish pranks Down below and up alive executing High flying i Jinks in your Jet. You be seen it. Before. A a a a. A a a a a a a a a a a a a a. A a. A Quot it fax 2 the deadly Art of illusion rated pg-13,-a so so Sequetta the 1986 thriller that died unjustly at the Heaters and was reborn at the video stores. Australian actor Bryan Brown and ubiquitous actor Brian. Dennehy Are Back As the special effects Whiz and his detective pal. This time they re on a twisted Trail that. Includes corrupt police and some stolen priceless me. ,. Daikon. The idea of a Guy who solves crimes using his. Wits his blood bags and his Flash pots is an entertaining one and there a a wonderful sequence in which Brown plays Light Ami magic havoc in a supermarket thus.es-,. Caping the bad Guy but director Richard Franklin a. Psycho ii does no to do much with an essentially made for to script. The movie Isnit awful it s just not much. Rather like a to Pilot for the series the godfather part Iii rated Francis Ford Coppola did no to save the Best for last. But in a country notoriously Short on second acts ask Scott Fitzgerald lie s made a deeply Felt attempt to create a Danny Glover at front and Brad Johnson Are or the intruder a which starts on circuit june 15. Promo Una. The movie third act for americans first family of crime. The. Film in t in the same league As us predecessors but of its. A own terms it s a Rich albeit overlong blend of Ianuly. A a matters and brutal murders. Striving to Lake the family legit Michael Cor conc a Pacino works on a secret a Deal with the Vatican. Diane Keaton and Talia mine return As the aging Tlona sex Wile and sister. Newcott Lieis include Oscar nominee Andy Garcia the movie s rising a Star As Michael s sex ruthless Nephew and alas. Cop. Pula a inexperienced daughter Sulia As Michael s. Daughter. The film is superfluous but not shameful and. Given Garcia a dynamic performance Best viewed As a a flawed but fascinating transitional piece that could Lay. The groundwork for a godfather in. A. A guilty by suspicion rated pg-13, this sincere but deadening by didactic film about the i Hollywood blacklist is partially redeemed by Robert de Niros uni itching portrayal of a director caught up m the 1 Louse in Ari Merican activities committees Wildi Hunt when lie refuses a name names. Alter do Niros fall from Grace a rpm Zanuck s Golden boy to being barred from the Fox lot a the movie meanders around the inevitable session with the Hupac goons. The scene is a doozy thanks to de Niro. But its a Socko finale to a so so movie. The evocation of Early �?T50s Hollywood Isa the Best thing in the him lunch at the Brown Derby. And Howard Hawks on the phone George Wendt is pretty predictable As writer pal Patricia wet. Tig is As a Boozy actress and Annette Ben my is wasted a an do wife Martin Scorsese does the a smart thing cast As a Joseph Losey he director he gets out Early and spends the rest of in Lon Don. A. A a if looks could kill rated pg-13. The to caning of Quot a James Bond. Pretty boy Richard Grieco 21 jump Street and Bouker stars As a High school senior who goes on a Field trip to Paris with the French club and is mistaken for a top secret agent. The movie is a brain los. Sly amiable a pot of the 007 oeuvre with casinos and car chases Beautiful babes and big noisy stunts. But v aside from Urmac Pessary vulgarity and sexual innuendo ids pretty much scaled Down Loi the youth Market. Fight to 10-year-old hons will love the non Slop action and 10 to 12-year-old girls will love Grieco who suggests a computer com it comte of Judd Nelson and. Tony. Dan a. Anyone old enough to remember Roger -. Misc will gel kick out of l. Tala i Lunt hilarious As a Villa mess who wields a mean Bullwhip. A. The marrying Man bated a in this wheezy Neil. Simon vehicle Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger play Cali a to hic with a can to Jive Wii unit a lovers who get. Married and divorced several tunes in the course of this. A coarse period comedy late 40s. Caily. �?T5t so in nub. Bonaire Playboy engaged to the in cd on daughter of a. Powerful loll Wood Mogul. She a a lounge Singer who s also a Nib Slert a Moll. I he two end up at a machine gun wedding a the first of Many tips to the altar 1 he v movie might Vul had a Chance in it a been done As a Cohl. Hearted farce but it lacks the courage of of own leering. Convictions. Simon wants us to care about these two but any involvement with them is undercut by ail ugly. Smirking undercurrent of borscht Belt vulgarity. Bald win is so so but Basinger is a sad ease trying Trout Quot Baker boy Michelle pm Ciller she suggests the desperate sex object sensuality that Monroe brought to her later movies. A. The perfect weapon rated r. Belter Waichu your Back Steven Seagal. And you May As Well hang up your Black Belt Joan Claude Van Damme. Newcomer Jeff. Speak Ian is go pretty and can kick his Way through a _ by the numbers plot with real style 1 in plays a Kenpo karate expert out to avenge the murder of his Mentor Mako. And reconcile himself with his estranged Fanti by by bonding with his cop brother John Dye who seems to have been cloned from leftover Andrew me car Why tissue. The fights arc pretty much non Stop and the snap Ruck a pop soundtrack prone to overkill. But the action scenes Are Well exec used speak Mari is Lovely a to look at he wears ins baby Bluet. A shirt while beating up bad Guys and the Selling. T a s Korea town is atmospheric. As gets repeatedly sinew alled in his quest for yen glance you almost expect to hear someone say Quot forget it Jelf it s koreatown.�?T. A. These Are Short reviews from wire services and staff writer Chuck. Vinci of films coming on the Akes theater circuit in june and Early july. A save this Page we expect to run a set of reviews like this about once a month for you to save and consult when you want to. Know a a what a it about Quot \ a lengthy review of this weeks premiering movie is featured on Page 19. A _ a. And As usual on Page 18 mini reviews Tell ratings and stars for All movies on the cafes movie circuit. I v a a finally locations and times Lor. The movies can be found on pages 18 and 19.v
