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Transformers

by Erik Hinton

[26.Oct.07] :. Consider the patience and time it takes to build a ship in a bottle. Now imagine a fully functional Spanish Armada in a snow globe.

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Transformers (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Jul.07] :. The point here is excess. For 144 minutes, the film pummels and pounds, delivering explosions, combat troops, speeding vehicles, computer codes, giant robots -- and more explosions.

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Transformers (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[3.Jul.07] :. Without the weight of an already formed franchise to pull it down, this filmic funhouse is allowed to spin wildly out of control. We simply sit back and enjoy the operatic ride.

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The Island (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jul.05] :. Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson run around in an efficiently digitized near-future scary-scape, occasionally propelled by ethical questions about cloning.

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Bad Boys II (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Dec.03] :. In almost every way, Bad Boys II is larger, louder, and longer than the original. It is also more of the same.

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Bad Boys II (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Jul.03] :. For this invasion, they need extra firepower and get it, including useful high tech surveillance courtesy of the CIA: this is Bad Boys II's most outrageous fantasy, that this agency has its act together.

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Pearl Harbor (2001)

by Mike Ward

Pearl Harbor's endorsement of military ideals and barely submerged nostalgia for the war's anti-Japanese racism only abates for a half hour of stunningly rendered shoot-em-up as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and its surrounding airfields takes place.