Lima

Hands down, the best thriller of the 1990s. Andrew Davis, an otherwise mediocre director, must have been kissed by the muses for days while filming. Very well deserved six Oscar nominations.

A wonderful love story that caresses the soul, makes you laugh and moves you, and an acting masterclass by Pacino and Pfeiffer.

It's a very bizarre disgusting thing, which is brilliantly filmed and probably won't make you feel very well. There aren't many films like this. I applaud Paul Anderson for always pushing the envelope hard, regardless of audience reaction, and not giving a damn about disgusting the average viewer. I wonder what the original unedited version, which is 40 minutes longer, looked like. It must have been cool.

It is a pity that our film distributors did not think of putting this film in our cinemas. The beautiful landscape of Alaska would look great on the big screen. The scene when Hopkins and Baldwin fight the grizzly bear is really great and very realistic.

Things must be going downhill with Jeremy Irons for him to accept a role in such crap. And on top of that, he overacts so awfully it almost made me feel sick. A sad ending for a great star. And that dumb, overacting black guy, was even worse.

I love the intelligent humour of the Asterix comics, though it loses a lot with the movie adaptation, it’s still watchable. Interestingly, the animated Asterix movies didn't turn out very well, either. That smart humour from the comic books can’t be translated.

The opening scene with the plane crash is brilliant and some of the deaths are delightfully sophisticated, but the film doesn’t have much else to offer. As time went on, my initial enthusiasm wore off and the ending with the deadly electric cable is quite dodgy.

Hats off to Affleck and Damon and their smart and emotionally powerful script, the Oscar is very well deserved. During the scene where Robin Williams speaks to Damon on the park bench, I am always amazed at the power of Williams's monologue.

The excessively stylized sets have panache and give the film an impressive atmosphere. Gary Oldman can't disappoint, his ambivalent Dracula inspires both horror and pity, and he can lick knives in a sexy way. I think the film benefited from taking the legend in a different direction, i.e. making Dracula a creature who is both bloodthirsty and lovelorn. Unfortunately, Coppola’s adaptation has little in common with the book.

The film is not badly made at all, but the fact that Demi Moore attempts to style herself into the role of a badass warrior, especially in her full-contact fight during one sequence, really doesn't scare me. Moore was a co-producer and I feel Scott allowed her to get more involved than appropriate.