Enough (2002)

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“Enough” takes a serious and tragic topic like domestic abuse and exploits it, making idea of the crime something commercial with a very Hollywood narrative. I dare you to count the bruises and wounds inflicted on Lopez’s character and then add it to the years she suffered from the abuse, and it never quite adds up. Jennifer Lopez hams it up big time as protagonist and “heroine” Slim, attempting to depict the character as vulnerable, and even cuts her hair in a straight mop top to look like an average woman, when really it looks like a wig.

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Queen of the Damned (2002)

imagesOh, boy, is this ever a doozy! This movie is unlike it’s predecessor. As where it’s predecessor gained an advantage with depth, drama, horror, and intrigue, this lacked greatly. First off, the cast is wretched with incredibly bad unknowns strewn about throughout the movie; we get cheesy special effects often throughout the movie as the vampires seem more like comic book characters than actual vampires. Lestat who was once made intimidating by Tom Cruise is now an arrogant sex fiend who growls and hisses at everything making him seem more comical than scary.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

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The sequel to the 2001 blockbuster begins where the first one last left off as the hobbits Merry and Pippin have been taken hostage by an army of Orcs, Frodo and Samwise are on the track to Mount Doom to destroy the ring and the three warriors Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimley are tracking the orcs hoping to save the two captured hobbits. Frodo and Samwise are not alone, though. They have captured a fiend that has been tracking them for days; a fiend named Gollum; an ex-hobbit who became a creature from his obsession with the ring.

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Swimfan (2002)

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“Fatal Attraction”, as much as I dislike it, was very influential, and as all influential films do, has spawned up to, and over a hundred rip offs and wannabes including this pseudo modern take on the genre. As always, there’s nothing even remotely original to the material given in this, except for the comical ending which pretty much makes no sense. The characters in this film are all the same: there’s the main character, an average popular guy who has a lot to live for and foolishly squanders his life for a one night stand which means nothing to him, and a lot to the receiving partner, whom they know nothing about. Continue reading

Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)

movie_35784I was very fascinated by this when it came out back in early 2002, so when it finally came on, I was very anxious. What I got was a rather tender movie. This girl struggles with the dating scene and constantly experiences loser after loser in the first half with a hilarious sequence that shows her on many dates with these odd men, one of whom has her pay the entire bill for the dinner. Jessica Stein is a lonely girl who works at a newspaper. She’s constantly set-up by her mother with a lot of men, but the dates are never successful. Frustrated, she answers an alternative lifestyle personal ad in hopes of making friends with a girl.

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Glitter (2001)

I doubt even with another leading lady at the helm, “Glitter” could have risen above abysmal and become remotely watchable. It’s such a cliché and monotonous by the book tale of instant fame, that it barely deserved to be made in to a film. Writers Kate Lanier and John Wilder don’t give any new material or bring anything fresh to the table story-wise, yet simply dole out mindless cliché after cliché relentlessly. Mariah Carey’s woefully misguided “Glitter” is the story of Billie Frank and how as a young child she was left in an orphanage by her drug addicted mother. She and two other orphans form a friendship and a bond and Billie makes an oath that someday she’ll grow up and make it into a huge singing star.

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Joe Somebody (2001)

2001_joe_somebody_wallpaperJoe Scheffer is an honest workaday man who loves his daughter. One day while driving to work with his daughter Natalie he gets harshly humiliated by a bigger man in the parking lot. After feeling embarrassed, he decides to prove himself to his daughter and begins taking karate lessons with a washed up action star Chuck Scarett to seek revenge on the bully. But after a while, he begins to wonder if fighting is the best way to solve the problem and if being a man means fighting or just being an honest man to the people that matter in life. Comedies, family comedies especially are very lame if not predictable nowadays, so it was a treat watching an original one like this.

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