Jake Busey

The Frighteners (1996)

The Frighteners (1996)
Rating: ★★
Dec 6, 2000Medium vs Ghostly Serial Killer Comedy
Before The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson flopped badly with this ghost comedy. Jackson allows his obsession with the effects technology to take over at the expense of much else and provides little that is funny
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Contact (1997)

Contact (1997)
Rating: ★★★½
May 25, 2009Communications from Space
Carl Sagan's novel about SETI is inflated into a big budget film determined to impress even though the story did not need it. Sagan's interesting debate about religion and science is emasculated so as not to offend any religious groups
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War of the Worlds (2005)

War of the Worlds (2005)
Rating: ★★½
Sep 9, 2012Alien Invasion/H.G. Wells Adaptation
Where the legend of The Asylum and their low-budget mockbusters began, this was a cheap modernised version of the H.G. Wells novel that was released a day before the Spielberg film. Despite cheap effects, this adheres closer to Wells than Spielberg did and is better written than most Asylum product
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Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)

Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
Rating: ★★
May 24, 2009Afterlife for Suicides
Oddball film set in an afterlife for suicides. You keep expecting the film to burst out into a vein of rich black comedy that never comes and you are left with a film that feels as though it is being eccentric for the sake of it.
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Cross (2011)

Cross (2011)
Rating: ★★
Jan 22, 2014Action Film/Mystical Artifacts
A copy of The Expendables (albeit with the addition of fantasy elements) that brings together a line-up of B-action movie actors as a team. While some of the actors shine, the feel is of a cheaper effort earnestly trying to copy its betters
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Nazis at the Center of the Earth (2012)

Nazis at the Center of the Earth (2012)
Rating: ★★★½
May 28, 2012Nazis Under the Polar Icecap/Hitler with a Robot Body/Mad Science
Hands down the best film ever produced by The Asylum. How could one not like an entertainingly madcap concoction that features mad scientists, zombie stormtroopers, Nazi UFOs and Adolf Hitler preserved as a head in a jar attached to a robot body?
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Sparks (2013)

Sparks (2013)
Rating: ★★
Sep 5, 2014Superhero Film
Low-budget superhero that co-opts the cod-film noir look from Sin City. Alas the film has an excessively sprawling and complicated plot, while the film noir style looks like no more than cheap pastiche reduced to cliche poses by well-meaning amateurs
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The Predator (2018)

The Predator (2018)
Rating: ★★½
Jan 26, 2019Alien Huntsman Comes to Earth
Shane Black, a writer-director with a reasonable cult following, makes the sixth Predator film (he also appeared as an actor in the original). Black shakes the series up, introduces a number of new ideas and makes an okay entry
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