“If Brian De Palma were as good at rewriting as he is at visual style, [this movie] might have been a heck of a movie. He isn’t, and it isn’t. It’s the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.”
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Can you guess the critically panned movie starring Nicolas Cage based on its skewering review?
“It’s got videogame-from-hell F/X, plus jousting, plus Cage in tangled long hair he seems to have mistakenly put in the washing machine.”
- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly(Egon Endrenyi / Relativity Media)
“It’s the sort of steamroller seasonal entertainment calculated to make us average folks out here feel temporarily warm and happy about our averageness.”
- Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star(Jason Merritt / Getty Images)