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Directed by Martin CampbellMGM/Columbia Pictures4 StarsThere seems to be a recent trend in cinema of going back to a character’s origins—some notable examples including “Batman Begins,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning,” and the upcoming “Hannibal Rising”—which has now gained popularity with the 007 franchise. Once you’ve incorporated invisible cars and ice mansions as crucial plot elements and cast Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist, it’s time...
...greatness can only be defined by its opposition, and if you don’t show up, what will we be defined by? Who was Batman without the Joker? The Allies without the Axis? Mel Gibson without Jews and alcohol? In this comic book world, you have been given the ultimate of superpowers: the ability to live again to die again. So go forth from your homes, you pale, sickly malcontents. Three hundred and five years of inferiority beg you to die again on Saturday...
...tradition of Batman Begins and the Star Wars pre-trilogy, they went back to square one and created a baby Bond. Casino Royale was Ian Fleming's first 007 novel, and Bond here is an agent on his first big case, a rough diamond who has not yet acquired his savoir faire or taste for the double entendre. The Craig Bond might know no French at all; he's not the suave, Oxbridgian 007 of legend but the strong, silent type, almost a thug for hire, and no smoother with a sardonic quip than John Kerry. Still, he fits...
...situation.”Bale gained attention for his intense training in recent roles. Before 2004’s “The Machinist,” he lost over 65 pounds, and in preparation for his starring role in last year’s blockbuster “Batman Begins,” he gained it all back in muscle weight.But “Harsh Times” demanded a more subtle approach. As Bale put it, “the mental preparation dictated the physical result.”“It really had to do with...
HOLY MOSES! Charlton Heston we get. But Val Kilmer as the leader of the Israelites? The ex-Batman portrays Moses in the musical version of The Ten Commandments, which comes out on DVD next month...