X-Men 2–sorry, X2–is one of the worst movies I’ve ever sat through, if not the worst.
Singer does a lousy job on X2. It looks like it was filmed in Canada on a restricted budget; it looks goofy and cheap. The story is idiotic and the script is terrible. There’s no good split between the characters in […]
Entries Tagged as 'Bryan Singer'
X2 (2003, Bryan Singer)
May 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Brian Cox· Bryan Singer· Dan Harris· Hugh Jackman· Michael Dougherty· Zak Penn· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Valkyrie (2008, Bryan Singer)
December 30th, 2008 · No Comments
For Valkyrie to work, Bryan Singer needs to get–give or take–five minutes when the viewer isn’t entirely sure Adolf Hitler wasn’t assassinated. The entire premise of watching a film, a historically-based film, where the conclusion is well-known and suspending disbelief… he needs five minutes. Maybe the trick is casting Tom Cruise as a German. By […]
Tagged: Bill Nighy· Bryan Singer· Christopher McQuarrie· Kenneth Branagh· Michael Sheen· Nathan Alexander· Tom Cruise· Tom Wilkinson· United Artists· ★★½
X-Men (2000, Bryan Singer)
August 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
My wife wanted me to mention the only reason we watched X-Men was because she wanted to see Hugh Jackman with his shirt off… I watched it to insure she didn’t have a cardiac arrest.
Back in the old days, before IMDb edited their trivia section, the X-Men trivia featured defenses of some of the terrible […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Bryan Singer· David Hayter· Hugh Jackman· Tom DeSanto· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Usual Suspects (1995, Bryan Singer)
June 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Seeing as how The Usual Suspects popularized the major twist ending–that contrivance having now plagued American cinema for the last dozen years–it’s interesting to see it again. I haven’t seen the film in years (probably ten, at least nine), but I remember the last time I watched it, I thought about what was true and […]
Tagged: Benicio Del Toro· Bryan Singer· Chazz Palminteri· Christopher McQuarrie· Dan Hedaya· Gabriel Byrne· Gramercy Pictures· Pete Postlethwaite· ★★★★
Superman Returns (2006, Bryan Singer)
June 28th, 2006 · No Comments
My expectations for Superman Returns were incredibly high (especially since everything Bryan Singer’s done since The Usual Suspects with the exception of the “House” pilot has been dreck). Three stars. I don’t bother putting star ratings on The Stop Button, since whenever I see them in reviews, I look at them and then at not […]
Tagged: Bryan Singer· Dan Harris· Eva Marie Saint· Frank Langella· Jerry Siegel· Joe Shuster· Michael Dougherty· Parker Posey· Warner Bros.· ★★½



